Eurovision Song Contest 2001
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| Date | 12 May 2001 |
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| Presenter | Natasja Crone Back, Søren Pilmark |
| Host Broadcaster | DR |
| Venue | Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Winning Song | Everybody (Estonia) |
| Voting system | Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs |
| Number of Songs | 23 |
| Countries Making Debut | None |
| Nul points | None |
| Interval Act | Aqua & Safri Duo |
The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was the 46th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 12, 2001 in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. The presenters were Natasja Crone Back and Søren Pilmark. The contest was won by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL who were representing Estonia with the song Everybody. Dave Benton, from Aruba, is the only black person to have ever won the Eurovision Song Contest. The Danish national broadcaster faced some problems whilst organizing the contest such as the lack of funds and the search for a suitable venue. The event was eventually located in the soccer stadium Parken, which was the biggest ever to host a Eurovision Song Contest. It held 38,000 people, and most of them could not see the stage. For many entries, the hall appeared to be too big.
All of the countries participating in this year’s Eurovision had to use televoting as it became compulsory from now on. The jury backup votes were only used for some countries because of either technical problems with their televotes or a weak fixed-telephone infrastructure. There was also a rule change concerning the qualification of countries from 2002. Along with the ‘Big 4’, the top 15 placed countries this year would qualify for next years competition. The other spots for 2002 would be filled by countries that were excluded from the 2001 contest because of their low point average for the years 1996-2000.
Big favourites in this contest were France, Greece and Slovenia. Also the latino singers from Malta and Spain were expected to do very well. The Swedish song ran into controversy, as it sounded very much like the 1996 Belgian entry Liefde is een kaartspel. When the voting came it was a two-horse race, with only Estonia and Denmark in contention. Estonia ended up the unexpected winners.
The hosts provided their entire commentary in rhyming couplets which were full of jokes, attracting criticism from many people, especially the UK TV commentator Terry Wogan. His constant caustic comments about the hosts - who he repeatedly referred to as 'Doctor Death and the Tooth Fairy' - so offended the Danes that the BBC was obliged to issue an apology.
For the interval act, the Danish-Norwegian band Aqua performed, while people were voting, with a medley of their singles. Safri Duo performed the drums in the medley.
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[edit] Results
| Draw | Country | Language | Artist(s) | Song | Translation | Place | Points |
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| 1 |  Netherlands |
English | Michelle | Out On My Own | - | 18 | 16 |
| 2 |  Iceland |
English | Two Tricky | Angel | - | 22 | 3 |
| 3 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Bosnian, English | Nino Pršeš | Hano | Hannah | 14 | 29 |
| 4 |  Norway |
English | Haldor Lægreid | On My Own | - | 22 | 3 |
| 5 |  Israel |
Hebrew | Tal Sondak | Ein Davar | Never mind | 16 | 25 |
| 6 |  Russia |
English | Mumiy Troll | Lady Alpine Blue | - | 12 | 37 |
| 7 |  Sweden |
English | Friends | Listen to Your Heartbeat | - | 5 | 100 |
| 8 |  Lithuania |
English,Lithuanian | SKAMP | U Got Style | - | 13 | 35 |
| 9 |  Latvia |
English | Arnis Mednis | Too Much | - | 18 | 16 |
| 10 |  Croatia |
English | Vanna | Strings of My Heart | - | 10 | 42 |
| 11 |  Portugal |
Portuguese | MTM | Só sei ser feliz assim | Only can be happy this way | 17 | 18 |
| 12 |  Ireland |
English | Gary O'Shaughnessy | Without Your Love | - | 21 | 6 |
| 13 |  Spain |
Spanish | David Civera | Dile que la quiero | Tell her that I love her | 6 | 76 |
| 14 |  France |
English, French | Natasha St-Pier | Je n'ai que mon âme | I only have my soul | 4 | 142 |
| 15 |  Turkey |
English,Turkish | Sedat Yüce | Sevgiliye Son | The end of love | 11 | 41 |
| 16 |  United Kingdom |
English | Lindsay Dracass | No Dream Impossible | - | 15 | 28 |
| 17 |  Slovenia |
English | Nuša Derenda | Energy | - | 7 | 70 |
| 18 |  Poland |
English | Andrzej 'Piasek' Piaseczny | 2 Long | - | 20 | 11 |
| 19 |  Germany |
English,German | Michelle | Wer Liebe lebt | The one who lives love | 8 | 66 |
| 20 |  Estonia |
English | Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL | Everybody | - | 1 | 198 |
| 21 |  Malta |
English | Fabrizio Faniello | Another Summer Night | - | 9 | 48 |
| 22 |  Greece |
English, Greek | Antique | Die For You | - | 3 | 147 |
| 23 |  Denmark |
English | Rollo & King | Never ever let you go | - | 2 | 177 |
[edit] Voting structure
The majority of participating countries held a televote, where the top ten most voted for songs were awarded the 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. Bosnia & Herzegovina, Turkey and Russia used juries, while Croatia, Malta and Greece used 50-50 votes compiled from both televoting and jury votes.
[edit] Score Sheet
| NL | IS | BA | NO | IL | RU | SE | LT | LV | HR | PT | IE | ES | FR | TR | UK | SI | PL | DE | EE | MT | GR | DK | ||||
| Netherlands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Iceland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| Bosnia-Herzeg. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | ||||
| Norway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Israel | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Russia | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Sweden | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 10 | ||||
| Lithuania | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Latvia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Croatia | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| Portugal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Ireland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Spain | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| France | 8 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Turkey | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 3 | ||||
| United Kingdom | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Slovenia | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Poland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Germany | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| Estonia | 12 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 8 | ||||
| Malta | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 12 | ||||
| Greece | 6 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 5 | ||||
| Denmark | 10 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 6 | ||||
| The table is ordered by appearance. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
[edit] Map
- Green = Participating countries
- Yellow = Countries who have participated in the past but don't this year
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