Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

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Cyprus was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004 with the song "Stronger Every Minute", written by Mike Connaris, and performed by Lisa Andreas. The Cypriot participating broadcaster, the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC), selected its entry through a 10-song national final on 17 February 2004. While originally containing some lyrics in Greek, Andreas performed an English-only version of the song at the contest. Songwriter Connaris had twice written a runner up in Eurovision selection process for the United Kingdom.

To promote the entry, a music video was filmed in the United Kingdom and released prior to the contest. Cyprus was drawn to compete 14th in the contest's semi-final, held on 12 May 2004 and placed fifth, qualifying for the 15 May final. At the final, the nation's entry was performed 21st on the night and placed fifth out of the 24 competing entries with 170 points.

Background

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As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, CyBC organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. In years past, the broadcaster has used a variety of methods to select its entry, including internal selections; however, for the 2004 contest, CyBC opted for a national final.[2]

Before Eurovision

National final

CyBC announced on 15 October 2003 that it would hold a national final to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. Artists and composers were able to submit their entries to the broadcaster through 2 January 2004; all artists and composers were required to have Cypriot nationality.[2] At the conclusion of the deadline, CyBC had received 62 entries, ten of which were announced on 7 February 2004, as the participants for the national final.[3][4] All competing entries were English-language songs.[5]

The national final took place on 17 February 2004 at the Pavilion Night Club in Nicosia, hosted by Loukas Hamatsos.[6][7] "Stronger Every Minute", a power ballad performed by Lisa Andreas, was selected by a combination of votes from public televoting (60%) and a seven-member jury panel (40%).[8][9] The members of the jury were singer and television presenter Dafni Bokota, music producer Glykeria Andreou, Mamas Hatziantonis of CyBC Radio 3, Vaso Komninou of Politis, Artemis Georgiou of Radio Proto, choreographer Annita Hatjieftychiou and director Stathis Piperidis.[10] In addition to the performances of the competing songs, the show featured guest performances by Stelios Constantas (who represented Template:Esccnty), Mariada Pieridi, David D'Or (who would represent Template:Esccnty), and Linas and Simona (who would represent Template:Esccnty).[6][7]

Final – 17 February 2004[4][11]
Draw Artist Song Songwriter(s) Points Place
1 Mary Harki "Burning Fire" Michalis Rousos 58 6
2 Mirto Meletiou "I Need Love" Paris Meletiou, Chrisanthos Chrisanthou 90 3
3 George Platon "Millionaire" George Platon 10 10
4 Eleni Skarpari "Come to Me" Michalis Pittas, Eleni Skarpari, Andreas Skarpari 68 5
5 Scorpion "Tell Me" Lia Ioannidi 26 9
6 Lefki Stilianou "Vision of Dreams" Lefki Stylianou, Andreas Paraskeva 28 8
7 Stefanos Georgiadis "Cold" Konstantinos Kountouros 36 7
8 United "Me" Aristos Moschovakis, Peter Andre 76 4
9 Georgia Panayiotou "Analyze Your Love" Nikos Evangelou, Vangelis Evangelou 92 2
10 Lisa Andreas "Stronger Every Minute" Mike Connaris 96 1

Promotion

About a month after the song's selection, a music video for it was filmed in the United Kingdom and released on 20 March 2004 to serve as promotion.[12] The music video saw Andreas singing alone, her head in focus and in black and white before changing to color about a third of the way through the video.

At Eurovision

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Lisa Andreas in the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 took place at Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey, and consisted of a semi-final on 12 May and the final on 15 May 2004.[13] This contest marked the first use of the semi-final round, which was introduced to accommodate the influx of nations that wanted to compete in the contest.[14][15] According to the Eurovision rules, all participating countries, except the host nation and the "Big Four", consisting of Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty and the Template:Esccnty, were required to qualify from the semi-final to compete for the final, although the top 10 countries from the semi-final progress to the final.[16][17] As Cyprus had not finished in the top 10 at the Template:Escyr the previous year, its song had to compete in the semi-final. Cyprus was assigned to compete in the semi-final in position 14 in the running order, following Template:Esccnty and preceding Template:Esccnty.[18][19]

The Cypriot performance saw Andreas on stage alone with no backing vocalists or dancers.[20] The nation qualified to the final,[15] placing fifth in the semi-final with 149 points.[21] The day of the final, Andreas took part in additional dress rehearsals, including one where she sang a verse of the song in Greek to much fanfare.[22] In the final, Andreas performed 21st, following the Template:Esccnty and preceding Template:Esccnty; at the close of voting, the Cypriot entry had placed fifth, scoring 170 points.[23] This placement allowed Cyprus to automatically qualify for the final of the Template:Escyr.[24]

Voting

Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Cyprus in the semi-final and final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004, as well as by the nation on both occasions. Voting during the two shows involved each country awarding a set of points from 1–8, 10 and 12 based on results from their respective public televote.[25] In the semi-final, Cyprus placed fifth with a total of 149 points, including the top 12 points from Greece and Monaco. In the final, the nation's 170 points included 12 points from Greece. Of the 35 other countries competing, all but three awarded points to "Stronger Every Minute".[9] For both the semi-final and final, Cyprus awarded its 12 points to Greece.[26][27] CyBC appointed Hamatsos as its spokesperson to present the results of the Cypriot vote during the final, a role he also performed at the previous year's contest.[6][28] Additionally, "Stronger Every Minute" won Connaris a Marcel Bezençon Award in the composer category, as determined by a jury of participating composers who identified it as the "most original composition".[29]

Points awarded to Cyprus

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Points awarded by Cyprus

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