EUROVISION SONG CONTEST 2001

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 football stadium Parken, after the company running the stadium agreed on adding 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 succes: 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.
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/The Little Mermaid' — 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.
It was the first time in 36 years, that Denmark hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, thanks to the Olsen Brothers win the previous year in Stockholm.
Of the countries that couldn't participate,Republic of Macedonia just missed out on qualifying for the 2001 contest but Skopje 2001 went ahead regardless and Andrijana Janevska emerged as winner with the nice ballad called Nostalgija.

The presenters, Søren Pilmark and Natasja Crone Back.

Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL performing ''Everybody'' for Estonia.

The stage design for Eurovision 2001.

Contents

Interval Act Problems

Results

Voting structure

Score Sheet

Spokespersons

Map

Interval Act Problems

The first song, "Around the World", went off without a hitch, but the air turned distinctly on the blue side when the lead singer, introducing "Barbie Girl", announced "Fuck off, Ken" and raised two fingers to the audience, and followed that with "Get a life will you?" Despite that, the performance continued. The song concluded with another set of insults, followed by "Turn Back Time", "Pepper Girl", "Lollipop (Candyman)", and "Doctor Jones". Accompanying the band were Safri Duo, who then joined in with "The Bongo Song" and concluded with "Cartoon Heroes". Despite the swearing and questionable gestures there is no indication that the EBU punished the broadcasters. It should be noted that in 2003, the EBU threatened to pull T.A.T.u.'s performance off the air following suggestions they perform a lesbian kiss / simulated sex act.

Results

'Draw'	'Country'	'Language'	'Artist(s)'	'Song'	'Translation'	'Place'	'Points'
1		English	Michelle	Out On My Own	-	18	16
2		English	Two Tricky	Angel	-	22	3
3		Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English	Nino Pršeš	Hano	Hannah	14	29
4		English	Haldor Lægreid	On My Own	-	22	3
5		Hebrew	Tal Sondak	Ein Davar	Never mind	16	25
6		English	Mumiy Troll	Lady Alpine Blue	-	12	37
7		English	Friends	Listen to Your Heartbeat	-	5	100
8		English,Lithuanian	SKAMP	U Got Style	-	13	35
9		English	Arnis Mednis	Too Much	-	18	16
10		English	Vanna	Strings of My Heart	-	10	42
11		Portuguese	MTM	Só sei ser feliz assim	Only can be happy this way	17	18
12		English	Gary O'Shaughnessy	Without Your Love	-	21	6
13		Spanish	David Civera	Dile que la quiero	Tell her that I love her	6	76
14		English, French	Natasha St-Pier	Je n'ai que mon âme	I only have my soul	4	142
15		English,Turkish	Sedat Yüce	Son Defa	The end of love	11	41
16		English	Lindsay Dracass	No Dream Impossible	-	15	28
17		English	Nuša Derenda	Energy	-	7	70
18		English	Piasek	2 Long	-	20	11
19		English,German	Michelle	Wer Liebe lebt	The one who lives love	8	66
'20'	''	'English'	'Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL'	'Everybody'	'-'	'1'	'198'
21		English	Fabrizio Faniello	Another Summer Night	-	9	48
22		English, Greek	Antique	Die For You	-	3	147
23		English	Rollo & King	Never ever let you go	-	2	177

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, Greece and Russia used juries, while Croatia and Malta used 50-50 votes compiled from both televoting and jury votes.

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		1	6	6	10	6	10	0	4	6
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.

Spokespersons

★ Bosnia & Herzegovina - Segmedina Srna

★ Germany - Axel Bulthaupt

★ Denmark - Gry Johansen

★ Estonia - Elektra

★ Spain - Jennifer Rope

★ France - Corinne Hermes

★ United Kingdom - Colin Berry

★ Greece - Alexis Kostalas

★ Croatia - Danijela Trbovic

★ Iceland - Eva María Jónsdóttir

★ Israel - Yoav Ginai

★ Ireland - Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh

★ Lithuania - Loreta Tarozaite

★ Latvia - Renars Kaupers

★ Malta - Claire Fabri

★ Netherlands - Marlayne

★ Norway - Roald Øyen

★ Poland - Maciej Orlos

★ Portugal - Margarida Mercês de Mello

★ Russia - Larisa Verbitskaya

★ Sweden - Josefine Sundström

★ Slovenia - Mojca Mavec

★ Turkey - Meltem Ersan Yazgan

Map

★ Green = Participating countries

★ Yellow = Countries who have participated in the past but don't this year