Eurovision Song Contest 2001

Eurovision Song Contest 2001
Dates
Final	12 May 2001
Host
Venue	Parken Stadium Copenhagen, Denmark
Presenter(s)	Natasja Crone Back Søren Pilmark
Executive supervisor	Christine Marchal-Ortiz
Host broadcaster	Danmarks Radio (DR)
Opening act	"Fly on the Wings of Love" and "Walk Right Back" performed by the Olsen Brothers
Interval act	Medley of Aqua hits performed by Aqua feat. Safri Duo
Participants
Number of entries	23
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Greece  Lithuania  Poland  Portugal  Slovenia
Withdrawing countries	Austria  Belgium  Cyprus  Finland  Macedonia  Romania   Switzerland
Participation map      Participating countries     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2001
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs.
Nul points	None
Winning song	Estonia "Everybody"
Eurovision Song Contest
◄2000 • 2001 • 2002►

The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was the 46th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. The contest took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, following the Olsen Brothers' win at the 2000 contest in Stockholm, Sweden with the song "Fly on the Wings of Love". The hosting marked only the second time the contest was held on Danish soil, after the 1964 contest - 37 years earlier. 23 countries took part in the contest, which was held on 12 May 2001. The host venue was the Parken Stadium - the largest venue to ever host the contest (as of 2016). A total of 35,000 spectators saw the show live from within the stadium, breaking the record of 16,000 held by the previous year's hosts Sweden.^[1]

The show was opened by the Olsen Brothers, with a snippet from their winning song "Fly on the Wings of Love", followed by their latest single "Walk Right Back", which was already a smash hit in Denmark at the time. The presenters were Danish journalist and TV-show presenter Natasja Crone Back and the famous Danish actor Søren Pilmark who spoke most of their announcements in rhyming couplets.

France, Greece and Slovenia were the heavy favourites to win the contest; however, as the voting progressed it became a two-horse race between Estonia and the host country Denmark.^[2]

The contest was won by Estonia, represented by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL with the song "Everybody", which scored a total of 198 points. The host nation, Denmark, finished in 2nd place with 177 points - beaten by 21 points. Coming 3rd were Greece with 147 points - giving the country their best result up till this point. France came 4th with 142 points, and in 5th place were Sweden with 100 points.

Dave Benton, who was born and raised in Aruba, was the first black person and, at the age of 50 years and 101 days, the oldest contestant at the time to win the contest.^[1]

Location

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen - host venue of the 2001 contest.

Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark was the host city for the 46th edition of Eurovision. The venue choice for the contest was Parken Stadium, a football stadium in the Indre Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from 1990–1992.

Format

The logo of the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest was made out of four circles, placed in the shape of a heart. The four circles were also present in the stage design, with the light construction was made of the same four rings.^[2]

The Danish national broadcaster faced some problems whilst organising the contest such as the lack of funds and the search for a suitable venue. The event was eventually located in the football stadium Parken, after the company running the stadium agreed to add a retractable roof to the building. This solution made it the biggest venue ever to host a Eurovision Song Contest, but the scale of it wasn't entirely a success: many of the 38,000 people in the audience could not see the stage, and for many entries the hall appeared to be too big.^[2]

Changes occurred in the qualification process for the 2002 Contest: along with the "Big 4" countries, the top 15 placed countries would qualify for next year's 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.^[2]

Incidents

Controversy was again rife in the contest: the United Kingdom TV commentator Terry Wogan repeatedly made critical comments about the hosts and dubbed them "Doctor Death and the Tooth Fairy/The Little Mermaid" after providing their entire commentary in rhyming couplets.^[3] The Danes were so offended that the BBC was obliged to issue an apology on Wogan's comments.^[3] Controversy also surrounded the Swedish song, "Listen To Your Heartbeat", which was repeatedly accused as a plagiarism of the Belgian entry for the 1996 Contest, "Liefde is een kaartspel".^[4] Eventually the EBU decided for the matter to be settled in court, with the song allowed to compete as long as the courts did not declare the song as plagiarism.^[2][5] At first this was denied by the Swedish songwriters, one of whom was Thomas G:son, but after the Belgian songwriters and the author's organisation SABAM pressed for legal action, a cash settlement was agreed.^[6][7]

During the voting the Danish band Aqua performed with a medley of their singles, with percussion ensemble Safri Duo performing in the medley.^[2] Although enjoyable, people complained about it being a little bit "rude" as there was some swearing during the performance, both at the beginning and end of "Barbie Girl".

Participating countries

Due to the EBU's relegation rule of the lowest ranked countries from the contest had to miss the follow year's contest, meant several countries had to withdraw, while relegated countries from the 1999 contest were able to return this year. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, and Slovenia returned, while Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Macedonia, Romania, and Switzerland, the seven countries with the lowest average result in the past five contests, were relegated. This brought the total number of participating countries to twenty-three.^[1]

Returning artists

Tanel Padar was a backing vocalist for Ines in 2000.

Results

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Language[8]	Place	Points
01	Netherlands	Michelle	"Out On My Own"	English	18	16
02	Iceland	Two Tricky	"Angel"	English	22	3
03	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Nino Pršeš	"Hano"	Bosnian, English	14	29
04	Norway	Haldor Lægreid	"On My Own"	English	22	3
05	Israel	Tal Sondak	"En Davar" (אין דבר)	Hebrew	16	25
06	Russia	Mumiy Troll	"Lady Alpine Blue"	English	12	37
07	Sweden	Friends	"Listen to Your Heartbeat"	English	5	100
08	Lithuania	SKAMP	"You Got Style"	English, Lithuanian	13	35
09	Latvia	Arnis Mednis	"Too Much"	English	18	16
10	Croatia	Vanna	"Strings of My Heart"	English	10	42
11	Portugal	MTM	"Só sei ser feliz assim"	Portuguese	17	18
12	Ireland	Gary O'Shaughnessy	"Without Your Love"	English	21	6
13	Spain	David Civera	"Dile que la quiero"	Spanish	6	76
14	France	Natasha St-Pier	"Je n'ai que mon âme"	French, English	4	142
15	Turkey	Sedat Yüce	"Sevgiliye Son"	Turkish, English	11	41
16	United Kingdom	Lindsay Dracass	"No Dream Impossible"	English	15	28
17	Slovenia	Nuša Derenda	"Energy"	English	7	70
18	Poland	Piasek	"2 Long"	English	20	11
19	Germany	Michelle	"Wer Liebe lebt"	German, English	8	66
20	Estonia	Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL	"Everybody"	English	1	198
21	Malta	Fabrizio Faniello	"Another Summer Night"	English	9	48
22	Greece	Antique	"Die for You"	Greek, English	3	147
23	Denmark	Rollo & King	"Never Ever Let You Go"	English	2	177

Scoreboard

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. This year the EBU introduced for the first time a mix of voting systems (50% televoting and 50% jury) for those countries that didn't want to use 100% televoting. Only three votes were allowed per household.^[9] According to the EBU rules (published on 05/10/00), every broadcaster was free to make a choice between the full televoting system and the mixed 50-50 system. In exceptional circumstances, where televoting was not possible at all, only a jury was used: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Turkey and Russia. Only a few countries are confirmed to have used the mixed voting system: Croatia, Greece and Malta.

Voting procedure used: Red: Televote. Blue: Jury. Purple: 50/50		Voters
	Netherlands	16					5	1					6						4
	Iceland	3				1																			2
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	29							4			10							7				1		7
	Norway	3											3
	Israel	25			6											10	7							2
	Russia	37		5			3			10	8											4	2	5
	Sweden	100		7	3	2	8	2		2	6	4	5	8	5	2	8	8		5		7	8		10
	Lithuania	35	5	1	2		4	10	1		5			1				4	2
	Latvia	16								8												8
	Croatia	42			7												10		5		3		10	7
	Portugal	18													6	12
	Ireland	6											1					5
	Spain	76	7	2	5	4	12		5		4		7	3		5	6	3	1	1		3		8
	France	142	8	4	12	7	2	12	6	7	7	6	12	7	3		1	6	6	10	6	10		4	6
	Turkey	41	3									7				7					7		4	10	3
	United Kingdom	28	2					3		3	3	3	2	4	1					2	2		3
	Slovenia	70	4	6	10	6	1	4	7	4		8		2	2	1				6	4	5
	Poland	11							2										3		5				1
	Germany	66	1			3		8			1	1	10	6	10	6	3	2		4		1	5	1	4
	Estonia	198	12	10	4	10	6	6	8	12	12	2		10	8	8	12	12	12	12	10		12	12	8
	Malta	48		3	1	5		7	3	1					4		2	1		3	1	2		3	12
	Greece	147	6	8	8	8	10	5	12	5	2	5	4	5	12	3	5	7	8	8	8	6	7		5
	Denmark	177	10	12		12	7		10	6	10	12	8	12	7	4	4	10	10	7	12	12	6	6

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N.	Contestant	Voting nation
9	Estonia	Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom
6	Denmark	Iceland, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Norway
3	France	Bosnia & Herzegovina, Portugal, Russia
2	Greece	Spain, Sweden
1	Spain	Israel
	Malta	Denmark
	Portugal	France

International broadcasts and voting

The table below shows the order in which votes were cast during the 2001 contest along with the spokesperson who was responsible for announcing the votes for their respective country. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language. Details of the commentators and the broadcasting station for which they represented are also included in the table below.^[1]

Voting order	Country	Spokespersons	Commentator	Broadcaster
01	Netherlands	Marlayne (representative for Netherlands in 1999)	Willem van Beusekom	Nederland 2[10]
Hijlco Span			Nederlands Radio 2
02	Iceland	Eva María Jónsdóttir	Gísli Marteinn Baldursson	Sjónvarpið[11]
03	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Segmedina Srna	Ismeta Dervoz-Krvavac	BHT1
04	Norway	Roald Øyen	Jostein Pedersen	NRK1[12]
05	Israel	Yoav Ginai[13]	No commentator	IBA
Daniel Pe'er			Reshet Gimel
06	Russia	Larisa Verbitskaya	Alexandr Anatolievich & Konstantin Mikhailov	Public Russian Television
Vadim Dolgachev			Voice of Russia
07	Sweden	Josefine Sundström[14]	Henrik Olsson	SVT1[14]
Carolina Norén			SR P3[15]
08	Lithuania	Loreta Tarozaitė[16]	Darius Užkuraitis	LTV
09	Latvia	Renārs Kaupers (representative for Latvia in 2000 as part of Brainstorm, co-presenter in 2003)	Kārlis Streips	Latvijas Televīzija
10	Croatia	Danijela Trbović[17]	Ante Batinović	HRT 1[18]
Draginja Balaš			HR 2
11	Portugal	Margarida Mercês de Mello[19]	Eládio Clímaco	RTP1[19]
12	Ireland	Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh	Marty Whelan	RTÉ One[20]
Brendan Balfe			RTÉ Radio 1
13	Spain	Jennifer Rope	José Luis Uribarri	TVE1[21]
14	France	Corinne Hermès[22] (winner for Luxembourg in 1983)	Marc-Olivier Fogiel & Dave	France 3[23]
Olivier Chiabodo			France Bleu
15	Turkey	Meltem Ersan Yazgan	Ömer Önder	TRT 1
Ümit Tunçağ			TRT Radyo 3
16	United Kingdom	Colin Berry	Terry Wogan	BBC One
Ken Bruce			BBC Radio 2
17	Slovenia	Mojca Mavec	Andrea F	SLO1
18	Poland	Maciej Orłoś	Artur Orzech	TVP1[24]
19	Germany	Axel Bulthaupt	Peter Urban	Das Erste[25]
Thomas Mohr			Deutschlandfunk/NDR 2[26]
20	Estonia	Ilomai Küttim "Elektra"	Marko Reikop	Eesti Televisioon[27]
Vello Rand			ERR Raadio 2
21	Malta	Marbeck Spiteri[28]	Alfred Borg	PBS
22	Greece	Alexis Kostalas[29]	Dafni Bokota	ET1[30]
Giorgos Mitropoulos			ERA1
23	Denmark	Gry Johansen[31] (representative for Denmark in 1983)	Hans Otto Bisgaard & Hilda Heick	DR1[31]
-	Australia^1	(non-participating country)	Terry Wogan Effie	SBS
-	Austria	(non-participating country)	Andi Knoll	ORF1
Stermann & Grissemann			FM4[32]
-	Belgium	(non-participating country)	André Vermeulen & Anja Daems	VRT TV1[33]
Jean-Pierre Hautier			RTBF La Une[23]
Julien Put & Michel Follet			VRT Radio 2
Laurent Daube & Éric Russon			RTBF La Première
-	Belarus	(non-participating country)	Alex Krugliyakov	BT
-	Cyprus	(non-participating country)	Evi Papamichail	RIK 1[34]
-	Finland	(non-participating country)	Jani Juntunen & Asko Murtomäki	YLE TV1[35]
-	Macedonia	(non-participating country)	Milanka Rašik	MTV 2
-	Romania	(non-participating country)	Andreea Marin & Leonard Miron	TVR2
-	Switzerland	(non-participating country)	Sandra Studer	SF2
Phil Mundwiller			TSR 1
Jonathan Tedesco			TSI 1
-	Yugoslavia^2	(non-participating country)	Unknown	YU Info[36]
-	United States	(non-participating country)	Fernando Arau, Fernando Fiore	Univision

1.^ Although Australia is not itself eligible to enter, the event was broadcast on SBS. As is the case each year, it did not however broadcast it live due to the difference in Australian time zones. This year, the broadcast contained a locally produced addition of a studio audience of young representatives from the competing countries. However, a number of complaints saw the United Kingdom's broadcast, including commentary from Terry Wogan, shown a few weeks later.^[37]

2.^ After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was last participated in 1992. YU Info channel broadcast the show, although Yugoslavia did not participate.

Official album

Eurovision Song Contest: Copenhagen 2001
Compilation album by Eurovision Song Contest
Released	5 May 2001
Genre	Pop
Length	70:09
Label	EMI / CMC
Eurovision Song Contest chronology
Eurovision Song Contest: Stockholm 2000 (2000) Eurovision Song Contest: Copenhagen 2001 (2001) Eurovision Song Contest: Tallinn 2002 (2002)

Eurovision Song Contest: Copenhagen 2001 was the official compilation album of the 2001 Contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by EMI Records and CMC International on 5 May 2001. The album featured all 23 songs that entered in the 2001 contest.^[38]

Track listing
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Out On My Own" (Netherlands)	Michelle Courtens	3:21
2.	"Angel" (Iceland)	Two Tricky	3:06
3.	"Hano" (Bosnia and Herzegovina)	Nino Pršeš	3:00
4.	"On My Own" (Norway)	Haldor Lægreid	3:04
5.	"En Davar" (Israel)	Tal Sondak	3:03
6.	"Lady Alpine Blue" (Russia)	Mumiy Troll	3:00
7.	"Listen To Your Heartbeat" (Sweden)	Friends	3:04
8.	"You Got Style" (Lithuania)	SKAMP	2:58
9.	"Too Much" (Latvia)	Arnis Mednis	2:52
10.	"Strings of My Heart" (Croatia)	Vanna	2:58
11.	"Só sei ser feliz assim" (Portugal)	MTM	3:02
12.	"Without Your Love" (Ireland)	Gary O'Shaughnessy	3:00
13.	"Dile que la quiero" (Spain)	David Civera	2:56
14.	"Je n'ai que mon âme" (France)	Natasha St-Pier	2:50
15.	"Sevgiliye Son" (Turkey)	Sedat Yüce	3:00
16.	"No Dream Impossible" (United Kingdom)	Lindsay Dracass	3:02
17.	"Energy" (Slovenia)	Nuša Derenda	2:58
18.	"2 Long" (Poland)	Piasek	3:03
19.	"To Live For Love" (Germany)	Michelle	4:06
20.	"Everybody" (Estonia)	Tanel Padar, Dave Benton, 2XL	2:56
21.	"Another Summer Night" (Malta)	Fabrizio Faniello	2:54
22.	"Die for You" (Greece)	Antique	2:56
23.	"Never Ever Let You Go" (Denmark)	Rollo & King	3:00
Total length:			70:09

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External links

• Official website

Coordinates: 55°42′08.89″N 12°34′19.93″E / 55.7024694°N 12.5722028°E