Eurovision Song Contest - Who sings for Austria? (2016)

Eurovision Song Contest - Who sings for Austria?
Preliminary decision data
country	Austria
Broadcasting station
Producing broadcaster
place	ORF studios, Vienna
date	February 12, 2016
Time	8:15 pm
Duration	approx. 170 (Who sings for Austria? - approx. 130 minutes; Who sings for Austria? - The decision - approx. 40 minutes) minutes
Number of participants	10
Number of contributions	10
poll	50% jury voting, 50% televoting
Pause filler	Conchita Wurst
Moderation
Andi Knoll and Alice Tumler

Under the title Eurovision Song Contest - Who sings for Austria? the Austrian preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 took place in Stockholm ( Sweden ). In a single live show on February 12, 2016, the Austrian representative was selected from ten artists and groups. Half of the vote was carried out by the television audience via televoting and half by an expert jury. The show was moderated by Andi Knoll and Alice Tumler .

mode

The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) organized as last year a preliminary decision under the name Euro Vision Song Contest - Who sings for Austria? . Unlike last year, there was only one broadcast in which ten performers compete against each other with a song. The Austrian contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 was sought in a total of two decision-making rounds. The program was produced in the ORF studios of the Austrian capital Vienna and moderated by the moderator duo Andi Knoll and Alice Tumler , both of whom were directly involved in last year's ESC in Vienna. Andi Knoll as a commentator for ORF and Alice Tumler as one of the three presenters.

broadcast	Send date	Channel	Performers	spectator	Market share
Who sings for Austria?	Friday, February 12, 2016, 8:15 p.m.		10	0.393 million	15%
Who sings for Austria? - The decision	Friday, February 12, 2016, 10:25 p.m.		02	0.515 million	28%

Attendees

First round

In the first round, all ten candidates presented their song. Each jury member awarded up to ten points after each appearance. After all candidates have been evaluated, a ranking list was created. The interpreter with the most jury points received ten points. The one with the fewest jury votes received two points in the overall ranking (due to the tie between Zoe and Sankil Jones, seven jury points were awarded twice).

The audience vote was based on the same principle: the interpreter who was able to collect the most audience votes received ten points and the interpreter with the least one point.

After the audience vote, the points from the jury and audience votes were added and the two first-placed performers, Zoe and Elly V, moved into the final round. If there had been a tie between two performers, the number of audience votes would have decided.

The ten participants in the first round were:

space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	jury
					be right	Points
1./2.	04th	Elly V	I'll Be Around (Bounce) M: Eleonora Vardanian , Alexander Kahr ; T: Robert Pfluger	English	37	10
	10	ZOË	Loin d'ici M / T: Christof Straub , Zoë Straub	French	28	07th
3.	09	Bella Wagner	Weapons Down M: Masta Huda , Hovannes Djibian; T: Bella Wagner	English	36	09
	01	Vincent Bueno	All We Need Is That Love M: Philipp Van Het Veld; T: Vincent Bueno	English	25th	06th
	02	LiZZA	Psycho M: Anja Steinlechner Hubalek, Peter Wennerberg, Emil Vaker; T: Anja Steinlechner Hubalek	English	32	08th
	03	Orry Jackson	Pieces in A Puzzle M / T: Anna Molander, Hubert Molander	English	19th	05
	05	Lia Weller	Runaway M: Lukas Hillebrand ; T: Lia Weller, Noa Ben-Gur	English	18th	04th
	06th	Farina Miss & Celine Roscheck	Sky is the Limit M: Peter Kreuzer; T: Farina Miss	English	10	02
	07th	AzRaH (Wildcard)	The One M / T: Azra Halilovic	English	16	03
	08th	Sankil Jones	One More Sound M: Philipp Van Het Veld, Sankil Jones, Christian Satter; T: Sankil Jones	English	28	07th

Zoë Straub already took part in the 2015 preliminary round.

Nine candidates were pre-selected by an expert jury, the jury consisted of the Ö3 moderator and musician Eberhard Forcher and editor-in-chief Stefan Zechner.

Who sings for Austria? - The decision

The winner of the Austrian preliminary decision: Zoë Straub

In the final round, Zoe and Elly V, the two finalists, presented their song a second time. Only the audience decided here. ZOË received the most votes, which is why she is allowed to travel to Stockholm for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest.

In the finale, Conchita Wurst performed a new version of her song That's What I Am , which she sang in the Austrian preliminary round of Austria rocks the song contest in 2012 .

space	Start number	Interpreter	language	song
1.	2	ZOË	French	Loin d'ici M / T: Christof Straub , Zoë Straub
2.	1	Elly V	English	I'll Be Around (Bounce) M: Eleonora Vardanian , Alexander Kahr; T: Robert Pfluger

Wildcard

Elly V

The tenth place for the show was awarded by Facebook fans, the candidate with the most likes should also take part in the preliminary round. Local artists and groups were able to present themselves on Facebook until the end of 2015. These became Laura Kamhuber, Ola Egbowon, AzRaH, Sara Koell and David Siedl feat. Madelene & Mc Vio selected for choice by Facebook users. This resulted in irregularities in the form of a sudden disproportionate increase and an equally sudden drop in likes of incomprehensible origin. Obviously manipulated likes were removed from the rating. As the tenth candidate, the singer Azrah was finally announced on January 15, 2016.

Applicants for the wildcard

Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)
AzRaH	The One M / T: Azra Halilović
David Siedl feat. Madelene & MC Vio	Wah Wah Whine M / T: David Siedl, MC Vio
Laura Kamhuber	Stay Tonight M / T: Ylva Persson, Linda Persson
Ola Egbowon	Addicted M / T: Ola Egbowon
Sara Koell	Closer To The Sun M / T: Philipp van het Veld, Sara Koell
The Tract feat. Florian Kresser	One Voice M / T: The Tract, Florian Kresser

jury

Jury, moderators and winner

The jury for the live broadcast consisted of Conchita Wurst , Edita Malovčić and Julie Frost . A fourth vote was given to representatives of the Austrian media, who gave a joint rating. The media representatives were Stefan Weinberger ( Kronen Zeitung ), Astrid Hofer ( Austria ), Anna Gasteiger ( Kurier ), Christiane Fasching ( Tiroler Tageszeitung ), Martin Fichter-Wöß ( APA ), Marco Schreuder ( derStandard.at ), Roland Bonimair ( TV- Media ) and Christian Ude ( Kleine Zeitung ). The jury speaker was Christian Ude.

Web links

Commons : ESC 2016 Wer singt für Österreich Finale 2016-02-12  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• songcontest.orf.at ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ derStandard.at - ORF selects song contest candidates in a single show . Article of November 17, 2015, accessed on January 28, 2016.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} [1]
3. ↑ Who sings for Austria?
4. ↑ Tonight: Who Sings For Austria 2016 in Austria
5. ↑ derStandard.at - ESC: Candidates of the Austrian preliminary decision . Article from January 12, 2016, accessed on January 28, 2016.
6. ↑ orf.at - Azrah receives the wildcard . Article from January 15, 2016, accessed on January 28, 2016.
7. ↑ Conchita & Co in the jury . Article dated February 9, 2016, accessed February 9, 2016.