Andorra at the Eurovision Song Contest

Balance sheet

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Broadcasting company

First participation

2004

Last participation so far

2009

Number of participations

6 (as of 2009)

Highest ranking

12 ( 2007 SF )

Highest Score

80 ( 2007 SF )

Lowest Score

8 ( 2006 HF , 2009 SF )

Points average (since first post)

25.17 (as of 2009)

Average points per voting country in the 12-point system

0.65 (as of 2009)

This article looks at the history of Andorra as a participant in the Eurovision Song Contest .

Regularity of participation and successes in competition

In 2007, Anonymous achieved the best ranking in the country to date

Andorra first took part in the competition in 2004. However, the debut was not very successful. The song Jugarem a estimar-nos only landed 18th out of 22 contributions in the semi-finals. In 2005, the country only came third from last. In 2006, Jenny came last in the semi-finals, which is the worst placement in the country. In 2007 Andorra only narrowly failed to qualify for the final with 12th place for the first time, which is still the best placement in the country to this day. With 15th and 16th place, the country only reached the bottom of the semi-finals in 2008 and 2009. With the exception of 2007, Andorra was always in the top five. In 2010 the country withdrew from the competition for financial reasons. At the end of 2011, the Andorran broadcaster Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra (RTVA) also announced that it wanted to leave the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which would mean that the country would have lost its eligibility to participate. However, this plan was not pursued after a meeting in 2012 between EBU Director General Ingrid Deltenre and Andorran Prime Minister Antoni Martí Petit . RTVA therefore remains a member of the EBU and is therefore fundamentally able to participate. On May 19, 2018, RTVA announced that it would continue to rule out a return in the future. The reason for not taking part is still the high cost.

Overall, Andorra has never reached the final, which makes them the only country in the competition that has never participated in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. With a last place and otherwise only worse placements, Andorra is one of the most unsuccessful countries in the competition.

List of posts

Color legend: - 1st place. - 2nd place. - 3rd place. - Equal points with last place. - Eliminated in the semifinals / in the qualification / in the Eastern European preliminary decision. - no participation / not qualified.     

year	Interpreter	Title Music (M) and Text (T)	language	translation	final		Semi-final / qualification		National preliminary decision
					space	Points	space	Points
2004	Marta Roure	Jugarem a estimar-nos M / T: Jofre Bardagí	Catalan	We'll play that we love each other	Eliminated		18/22	12	12 punts
2005	Marian van de Wal	La mirada interior M: Rafael Artesero Herrero; T: Rafael Artesero Herrero, Rafael Fernández, Daniel Aragay	Catalan	The look inside	Eliminated		23/25	27	Desitja'm sort
2006	Jenny	Sense tu M / T: Rafael Artesero Herrero, Joan Antoni Rechi	Catalan	Without you	Eliminated		23/23	8th	internal selection
2007	Anonymous	Salvem el món M / T: Niki Francesca, Alejandro Martínez, Guillem Gallego	Catalan, English	Let's save the world	Eliminated		12/28	80	internal selection
2008	Gisela	Casanova M / T: Jordi Cubino	English, Catalan	Casanova	Eliminated		15/19	16	internal selection
2009	Susanne Georgi	La Teva Decisió (Get A Life) M: Susanne Georgi , Rune Braager, Lene Dissing, Pernille Georgi, Marcus Winter-John; T: Susanne Georgi , Rune Braager, Lene Dissing, Pernille Georgi, Marcus Winter-John, Josep Roca	Catalan, English	Your decision	Eliminated		15/18	8th	Passaport a Moscou
since 2010	No participation

National preliminary decisions

The first Andorran contribution was selected from a total of 12 songs in a nine-round preliminary decision called 12 punts in 2004: In the first six weeks, the singers Bis a Bis and Marta Roure, who had previously been selected internally, each presented a title, each of which was the best qualified for the semi-finals. In the two semifinals, three of the six titles were presented, one by Marta Roure and one by Bis a Bis and the third of the two together; the best title made it to the final, in which the two songs were sung by both. Marta Roure was chosen as the winner in a separate vote. In 2005 the interpreter was determined internally by a jury and then her song was selected from three proposals in a public preliminary decision called Desitja'm Sort . In 2006 the interpreter and the song were selected internally and presented in the program Alguna cosa batega , also in 2007. In 2008, the television station decided on an internal qualification, the singer and the song title were announced in December 2007, and an excerpt of the song was published in Internet published.

After the persistently poor results, RTVA decided to make a preliminary decision again in 2009. It was entitled Passaport a Moscou . Three titles competed against each other, and a mixture of jury and televoting determined the winner.

languages

The first three contributions from Andorra were presented entirely in Catalan . This language has never been used on the song contest stage before, although the Spanish contribution was originally intended to be sung in Catalan in 1968, which was not allowed under Francisco Franco's regime. In 2007 the singing was mixed in English and Catalan. In 2008, the contribution Casanova was sung almost exclusively in English for the first time , only six words were in Catalan. In 2009 Susanne Georgi sang the stanzas of La teva decisió in Catalan, the refrain was in English. In the original version of the song this was different, the stanzas were Catalan, only the last lines of the chorus were English.

Scoring

The following countries received the most points from or awarded the most points to Andorra (as of 2009):

Most of the points awarded in the final space country Points 1  Spain 60 2  Ukraine 33 3  France 26th 4th  Finland 21st  Greece 21st

Most of the points awarded space country Points 1  Portugal 64 2  Spain 60 3  Ukraine 49  Finland 49 5  Israel 45

Most total obtained points space country Points 1  Spain 54 2  Portugal 10 3  Estonia 8th 4th  Czech Republic 7th  Poland 7th  Netherlands 7th

Award of the highest rating (final)

Since its debut in 2004, Andorra has awarded the maximum number of points to two countries, five of which to Spain.

	Sustaining land
year	country	space
2004	Spain	10
2005	Spain	21st
2006	Spain	21st
2007	Ukraine	2
2008	Spain	16
2009	Spain	24
since 2010	No participation

various

• The coordination ratio between Andorra and its neighboring country Spain is exceptional. In 2004 and 2006, Andorra only received points from Spain (twelve and eight respectively). In return, Andorra gave Spain its highest rating every year with the exception of 2007 in the final. In 2007 an expert jury determined the result instead of televoting , and Spain received no points. On average, Andorra both awarded and received the most points to Spain (10 and 10.8)

Impressions

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  Marta Roure 2004

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  Gisela 2008

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Esctoday.com: Definetly, No Andorra in Oslo ( Memento of 14 December 2009 at the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Victor Hondal: Andorra: No Plans for a 2,011 Participation ( English ) In: ESCToday . May 30, 2010. Archived from the original on September 23, 2010. Retrieved on November 10, 2010.
3. ↑ Victor Hondal: Andorra to stay in EBU, no Eurovision return planned ( English ) In: ESCToday . June 20, 2012. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
4. ↑ 72 Active Members in 56 Countries ( English ) European Broadcasting Union . Archived from the original on May 11, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 6, 2014. 
5. ^ Neil Farren: Andorra: No Participation in Eurovision Events for the Foreseeable Future. In: eurovoix.com. May 19, 2018, accessed May 19, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Written by: Gisela officially presented as Andorra's entrant . Admin.esctoday.com. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
7. ↑ Written by: Andorra: audio snippet of Casanova online! . Admin.esctoday.com. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
8. ↑ Casanova - lyrics - Diggiloo Thrush . Diggiloo.net. March 21, 2010. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
9. ↑ La teva decisió (La teva decisió (Get a life)) - lyrics - Diggiloo Thrush . Diggiloo.net. March 21, 2010. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
10. ↑ Diggiloo Thrush - Scoreboard 2004 . Diggiloo.net. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
11. ↑ Diggiloo Thrush - Scoreboard 2006 . Diggiloo.net. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
12. ^ Diggiloo Thrush - Andorra . Diggiloo.net. Retrieved September 26, 2010.