Eurovision Song Contest 1995

40th Eurovision Song Contest
date	May 13, 1995
Host country	Ireland
venue	Point Theater , Dublin
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Mary Kennedy
Pause filler	Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin : Lumen
participating countries	23
winner	Norway
Withdrawn participants	Luxembourg
Voting rule	In each country a jury awards 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 points and 1 point to the ten best songs.
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The 40th Eurovision Song Contest took place on May 13, 1995 at the Point Theater in Dublin . After three Irish victories in a row, Norway won with Nocturne.

particularities

Performers of the winning title, the band Secret Garden , in 2008

For Germany, the producer and musician couple Glen & Cheyenne Stone took part, who as Stone & Stone had a Top 40 success in Germany in the summer of 1993 with I Wish You Were Here . They entered with the self-composed and self-produced title Verliebt in Dich (the first title of the religious couple in German), received only one point from Malta and landed in 23rd and last place. Austria came 13th with Stella Jones and The World Turns Wrong. Switzerland did not take part and was therefore absent for the first time in the history of the competition.

Macedonia had chosen the singer Karolina Gočeva with the song Me sakas for the competition , but withdrew her participation because the Macedonian television could not finance her. In addition, the singer had only reached the age of fifteen shortly before the competition and was therefore almost a year below the age limit, so that permission to start would not have been certain.

Attendees

participating countries

Countries that had participated in a previous ESC but not in 1995

This year the number of participants was limited to 24, so that not six but seven countries had to take a compulsory break for one year. This time it hit Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland and Slovakia. After the compulsory one-year break, however, Belgium, Denmark, Israel, Slovenia and Turkey were allowed to start again. Since Luxembourg was suspended in 1994, it has not participated since 1993. Thus 23 countries took part this year.

The following performers returned to the competition:

country	Interpreter	Previous year of participation
Turkey	Arzu Ece	1989 (as a member of the Pan group )

Voting procedure

In each country there was a jury that initially determined the ten best songs internally. Then the individual juries awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 points and 1 point to these ten best songs.

Placements

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points
01.	05	Norway	Secret Garden	Nocturne M: Rolf Løvland; T: Petter Skavland	Norwegian	-	148
02.	09	Spain	Anabel Conde	Vuelve conmigo M / T: José María Purón	Spanish	come back to me	119
03.	18th	Sweden	Jan Johansen	Se på mig M: Håkan Almqvist, Bobby Ljunggren; T: Ingela 'Pling' Forsman	Swedish	look at me	100
04th	12	France	Nathalie Santamaria	Il me donne rendez-vous M: Francois Bernheim; T: Didier Barbelivien	French	He's meeting me	094
05.	19th	Denmark	Aud Wilken	Fra Mols til Skagen M: Lise Cabble , Mette Mathiesen; T: Lise Cabble	Danish	From Mols to Skagen	092
06th	11	Croatia	Magazine & Lidija	Nostalgija M: Tonči Huljić; T: Vjekoslava Huljić	Croatian	nostalgia	091
07th	20th	Slovenia	Darja Švajger	Prisluhni mi M: Primož Peterca, Sašo Fajon; T: Primož Peterca	Slovenian	listen to me	084
08th.	21st	Israel	Liora ליאורה	Amen (andאמן) M: Moshe Datz; T: Hamutal Ben Zeev	Hebrew	That's how it should be	081
09.	17th	Cyprus	Alexandros Panayi Αλέξανδρος Παναγής	Sti fotiá (Στη φωτιά) M / T: Alexandros Panayi	Greek	In the fire	079
10.	15th	United Kingdom	Love City Groove	Love City Groove M / T: Paul Hardy, Jay Williams, Tatsiana Mais, Stephen Rudden	English	The rhythm of the city of love	076
10.	22nd	Malta	Mike Spiteri	Keep Me in Mind M: Ray Agius; T: Alfred C. Sant	English 1	Keep me in mind	076
12.	23	Greece	Elina Konstantopoulou Ελίνα Κωνσταντοπούλου	Poia prosefchí (Ποια προσευχή) M: Nikos Terzis; T: Antonis Pappas	Greek a.	What prayer?	068
13.	08th	Austria	Stella Jones	The world is turning upside down M / T: Mischa Krausz	German	-	067
14th	02	Ireland	Eddie Friel	Dreamin ' M / T: Richard Abbot, Barry Woods	English	dream	044
15th	07th	Iceland	Bo Halldórsson	Núna M: Ed Welch, Björgvin 'Bo' Halldórsson ; T: Jón Örn Marinósson	Icelandic	Now	031
16.	10	Turkey	Arzu Ece	Sev M: Melih Kibar; T: Zeynep Talu Kurşuncu	Turkish	love	021st
17th	06th	Russia	Filipp Kirkorow Филипп Киркоров	Kolybelnaja dlja wulkana (Колыбельная для вулкана) M: Ilya Bershadskiy; T: Ilya Resnik	Russian	Lullaby for a volcano	017th
18th	01	Poland	Justyna	Sama M: Mateusz Pospieszalski, Wojciech Waglewski; T: Wojciech Waglewski	Polish	Lonely	015th
19th	04th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Before that, Popović	Dvadeset prvi vijek M: Sinan Alimanović, Zlatan Fazlić; T: Zlatan Fazlić	Bosnian	The 21st century	014th
20th	14th	Belgium	Frédéric Etherlinck	La voix est libre M / T: Pierre Theunis	French	The voice is free	008th
21st	16	Portugal	To Cruz	Baunilha e chocolate M: António Vitorino d'Almeida; T: António Vitorino d'Almeida, Rosa Lobato de Faria	Portuguese	Vanilla and chocolate	005
22nd	13	Hungary	Csaba Szigeti	Új név egy régi ház falán M: Ferenc Balázs; T: Attila Horváth	Hungarian	A new name on the wall of an old house	003
23.	03	Germany	Stone & Stone	In love with you M / T: Cheyenne Stone	German	-	001

¹ English is the official language of Malta alongside Maltese, which is why Malta was able to compete with English-language songs when songs in their own national language were required.

^a.in a few words in ancient Greek

The fact that more countries wanted to participate in 1996 meant that the qualification mode carried out in the previous two years was suspended and an entire qualifying round was carried out.

Scoring

Sustaining land		Forgiving country
country	Total	POLE	IRL	GER	BIH	NOR	RUS	ISL	AUT	ESP	DOOR	CRO	FRA	HUN	BEL	GBR	POR	CYP	SWE	DNK	SVN	ISR	MLT	GRE
Poland	015th	-				4th		6th						1			1							3
Ireland	044		-	1	5	1	5	3		3	5		1						10	1	5			4th
Germany	001			-																			1
Bosnia and Herzegovina	014th				-						3	8th								3
Norway	148	12	10	10	1	-	12	12		4th	12		10	6th	5	4th	12	7th		2	7th	10	6th	12
Russia	017th					10	-					6th						1
Iceland	031		6th			2	3	-	4th				2						6th	8th
Austria	067	2				3			-	6th	4th		8th	4th	10	5	2		4th	10		2		7th
Spain	119	8th	2	7th	8th			5		-	8th	10	7th	2	12	8th	7th	10				12	8th	6th
Turkey	021st									2	-	5			1	2					3	1	7th
Croatia	091		3	2	10	7th		10		12	7th	-					4th	5			12	4th	12	5
France	094	7th	5	6th		6th		8th	10		2	3	-	10	6th	1		2	3	6th	8th	7th		2
Hungary	003						2			1				-
Belgium	008th								1	7th					-
United Kingdom	076	5	1	4th	4th		1		12				12	7th	7th	-	10		5	7th		5
Portugal	005												4th				-							1
Cyprus	079	1		5		5	4th	2		5		1		12	8th	3		-	8th	5	4th	6th	4th	8th
Sweden	100	10	12	12	2	8th	6th	4th	8th		1		3			6th	8th	4th	-	12	1		3
Denmark	092	3	7th	8th	3	12	10	7th	7th		6th			3	3		6th		12	-	6th
Slovenia	084	4th	8th	2	6th		7th	1	3			2		8th		10	5	3	7th		-	3	2	10
Israel	081			6th	7th		8th		6th			4th		5	4th	12		8th	2		10	-	5
Malta	076		4th	3	12				2	10	10	12	6th			7th		6th	1	4th			-
Greece	068	6th							5	8th		7th	5		2		3	12			2	8th	10	-

* The table is arranged vertically according to the order of appearance, horizontally according to the chronological scoring.

Statistics of the twelve-point allocation

number	country	received from
6th	Norway	Greece, Iceland, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Turkey
3	Croatia	Malta, Slovenia, Spain
	Sweden	Denmark, Germany, Ireland
2	Denmark	Norway, Sweden
	Malta	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
	Spain	Belgium, Israel
	United Kingdom	France, Austria
1	Greece	Cyprus
	Israel	United Kingdom
	Cyprus	Hungary

Points speaker

No.	country	Points speaker
01	Poland	Jan Chojnacki
02	Ireland	Eileen Dunne
03	Germany	Carmen Nebel
04th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Diana Grković-Foretić
05	Norway	Sverre Christophersen
06th	Russia	Marina Danielian
07th	Iceland	Áslaug Dóra Eyjólfsdóttir
08th	Austria	Tilia Herald
09	Spain	Belén Fernández de Henestrosa
010	Turkey	Ömer Önder
011	Croatia	Daniela Trbović
012	France	Thierry Beccaro
0 13	Hungary	Katalin Bogyay
0 14th	Belgium	Marie-Françoise Renson "Soda"
0 15th	United Kingdom	Colin Berry
0 16	Portugal	Serenella Andrade
0 17th	Cyprus	Andreas Iakovidis
0 18th	Sweden	Bjorn Hedman
0 19th	Denmark	Bent Henius
0 20th	Slovenia	Miša Molk
0 21st	Israel	Daniel Pe'er
0 22nd	Malta	Stephanie Farrugia
0 23	Greece	Fotini Giannoulatou

See also

• List of winners and events of the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

• Eurovision.tv
• Eurovision.de
• diggiloo.net