Eurovision Song Contest 1999

44th Eurovision Song Contest
date	May 29, 1999
Host country	Israel
venue	Usshishkin Hall in the International Convention Center , Jerusalem
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Yigal Ravid , Dafna Dekel and Sigal Shachmon
Pause filler	Dana International : Free
participating countries	23
winner	Sweden
Returning participants	Lithuania
Withdrawn participants	Russia , Hungary
Voting rule	The audience decided by TED how the country awards 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 points and 1 point to the ten best songs. In some countries, juries were also used because of the poor telephone network.
◄ ESC 1998 • ESC 2000 ►

The 44th Eurovision Song Contest took place on May 29, 1999 in the Usshishkin Hall in the International Convention Center in Jerusalem . After Norwegian television complained when the ESC was being held in 1996 that there were problems finding sponsors, the “Big 4 rule” was introduced; this means that Germany , France , the UK and Spain can take part in any competition, regardless of how they did in the previous year. France was the first to benefit from it - otherwise it would not have been allowed to take part in 1999. But also this year one of these countries was able to use this rule, namely Spain. They were allowed to participate in 2000, although they were last.

particularities

Artist of the winning title, Charlotte Nilsson , in 2008

For the first time since 1976, the participating countries were again allowed to sing in the language of their choice - primarily English; up to and including 1998, each country had to compete in the official language (s). This freedom of language has been in effect since then and has decimated the proportion of contributions in the national language.

For Germany, the group Sürpriz with the title Reise nach Jerusalem - Kudüs'e seyahat took part, which landed in third place. The singer Corinna May had won the German preliminary decision with the title Listen to the children . Since the title had already been published in English, she was disqualified.

Bobbie Singer took tenth place in Austria with Reflection . The winning song was the Swedish post by Charlotte Nilsson with Take Me to Your Heaven , but how the Icelandic title All Out of Luck of Selma in Germany and Austria terms of points little support found. Lithuania was represented again after the unsuccessful premiere in 1994, but only came in 20th place. Bosnia-Herzegovina reached the top ten for the first time with seventh place and a title sung in French and Bosnian, but had to sit out in 2000 due to the very poor results since 1995, which is still a record in times of relegation.

For the first time there were three presenters, including Dafna Dekel , who had already competed as an interpreter for Israel at the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest . The five-year average was used to qualify the participants for the year 2000, which means that Cyprus also qualified with its penultimate place.

At the end, after winning the title, all performers sang the winning title of the 1979 competition Hallelujah as a message of peace to the people of the Yugoslav wars .

This year the Barbara Dex Award , initiated by a fan site, was presented for the third time. The “worst” outfit of the competition is to be awarded with this price, which should not be taken very seriously. This year's winner was Lydia from Spain.

participating countries

Countries that had participated in a previous ESC but not in 1999

Attendees

Bosnia-Herzegovina , Denmark , Iceland , Lithuania and Austria were there again. Finland , Greece , Macedonia , Romania , Switzerland and Slovakia had to take a compulsory break. Russia was not allowed to take part in the competition in 1998 and was not allowed to start this year either, because last year's event was not televised, as stated in the EBU regulations. It should be mentioned here that Switzerland participated in the German preliminary decision with one song.

The following performers returned to the competition:

country	Interpreter	Previous year of participation
Croatia	Doris Dragović	1986 (for Yugoslavia )
Slovenia	Darja Švajger	1995

Voting procedure

In the individual countries, the ten best songs were voted for by the audience by televoting. Then the individual countries awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 points and 1 point to these ten best songs. Only Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ireland, Lithuania and Turkey used juries.

Placements

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points
01.	15th	Sweden	Charlotte Nilsson	Take Me to Your Heaven M: Lars “Dille” Diedricson; T: Marcos Ubeda	English	Take me to your heaven	163
02.	13	Iceland	Selma Björnsdóttir	All Out of Luck M: Þorvaldur Bjarni Þorvaldsson, Sveinbjörn I. Baldvinsson, Selma Björnsdóttir ; T: Þorvaldur Bjarni Þorvaldsson	English	Abandoned by happiness	146
03.	21st	Germany	Surpriz	Trip to Jerusalem - Kudüs'e seyahat M: Ralph Siegel ; T: Cihan “Chicco” Özden, Deniz Filizmen, Bernd opinion	German , Turkish , English a.	-	140
04th	04th	Croatia	Doris Dragović	Marija Magdalena M: Tonči Huljić; T: Vjekoslava Huljić	Croatian	Mary Magdalene	118
05.	19th	Israel	Eden עדן	Yom huledet (Happy Birthday) (יום הולדת(Happy Birthday)) M / T: Jackie Oved, Ya'akov Lamai, Gabriel Butler, Moshe Datz	Hebrew , English	Happy Birthday	093
06th	23	Estonia	Evelin Samuel & Camille	Diamond of Night M: Priit Pajusaar , Glen Pilvre; T: Maian-Anna Kärmas	English	Diamond of the night	090
07th	22nd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Dino & Beatrice	Putnici M / T: Edin 'Dino' Dervišhalidović	Bosnian , French	traveler	086
08th.	09	Denmark	Michael Teschl & Trine Jepsen	This Time I Mean It M / T: Ebbe Ravn	English	I'm serious this time	071
08th.	11	Netherlands	Marlayne	One Good Reason M / T: Tjeerd van Zanen, Alan Michael	English	A good reason	071
10.	18th	Austria	Bobbie Singer	Reflection M / T: Dave Moskin	English	reflection	065
11.	06th	Slovenia	Darja Švajger	For a Thousand Years M: Sašo Fajon; T: Primož Peterca	English	For a thousand years	050
12.	02	Belgium	Vanessa Chinitor	Like the Wind M / T: Ilia Beyers, Emma Philippa Hjälmås, Wim Claes, John Terra	English	Like the wind	038
12.	05	United Kingdom	Precious	Say It Again M / T: Paul Varney	English	Say it again	038
14th	08th	Norway	Van Eijk	Living My Life without You M / T: Stig André Van Eijk, SEM	English	Live my life without you	035
15th	20th	Malta	Times Three	Believe 'n Peace M: Christopher Scicluna; T: Moira Stafrace	English	Believe in peace	032
16.	07th	Turkey	Tuğba Önal & Grup Mistik	Dön artık M: Erdinç Tunç; T: Canan Tunç	Turkish	come back	021st
17th	17th	Ireland	The Mullans	When You Need Me M / T: Bronagh Mullan	English	When you need me	018th
18th	12	Poland	Mieczysław Szcześniak	Przytul mnie mocno M: Seweryn Krajewski; T: Wojciech Ziembicki	Polish	Hold me tight	017th
19th	10	France	Nayah	Je veux thunder ma voix M: Pascal Graczyk, René Colombies; T: Gilles Arcens, Luigi Rutigliano	French	I want to give my vote	014th
20th	01	Lithuania	Aistė Smilgevičiūtė	Strazdas M: Linaš Rimša; T: Sigitas Geda	Schemeitic	throttle	013
21st	16	Portugal	Rui Bandeira	Como tudo começou M: Jorge do Carmo; T: Tó Andrade	Portuguese	How it all started	012
22nd	14th	Cyprus	Marlain Angelidou Μαρλέν Αγγελίδου	Tha'ne erotas (Θα 'ναι έρωτας) M: Yiorgos Kallis ; T: Andreas Karanicolas	Greek	It will be love	002
23.	03	Spain	Lydia	No quiero escuchar M: Fernando Rodríguez Fernández, Alejandro Piqueras Ramírez; T: Carlos López González, Adolfo Carmona Zamarreño, Fernando Rodríguez Fernández, Alejandro Piqueras Ramírez	Spanish	I don't want to hear	001

^a. in a few words in Hebrew

The countries marked in red had to suspend in the following year 2000 because of their poor five-year point average.

Scoreboard

country	Points	LT	BE	IT	MR	UK	SI	TR	NO	DK	FR	NL	PL	IS	CY	SE	PT	IL	AT	IL	MT	DE	BA	EE	Voting
Lithuania	013		-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	3	1	-	-	2	05
Belgium	038	-		-	4th	-	-	-	-	-	2	10	2	-	-	-	-	10	-	5	-	-	-	5	07th
Spain	001	-	-		1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
Croatia	118	6th	5	12		-	12	8th	-	-	7th	1	7th	4th	2	1	6th	6th	8th	7th	5	10	8th	3	19th
United Kingdom	038	5		4th	5		2	4th	-	1	-	-	-	-	4th	-	-	-	-	4th	8th	-	1	-	10
Slovenia	050	10	2	2	12	-		-	-	-	1	6th	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-	5	-	08th
Turkey	021st	-	-	-	-	-	-		4th	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	03
Norway	035	-	-	-	7th	-	-	-		6th	-	-	-	7th	7th	5		3	-	-	-	-	-	-	06th
Denmark	071	-	-	5	-	5	5	-	-		-	-	1	12	8th	8th	3	7th	5	2	4th	-	-	6th	13
France	014th	2	-	-	-	-	-	2	8th	-		-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	04th
Netherlands	071	4th	12	3	-	8th	3	5	-	7th	-		-	6th	-	4th	2	1	4th	6th	2	-	4th	-	15th
Poland	017th	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4th	6th	-	03
Iceland	146	8th	8th	10	-	10	-	10	10	12	-	7th	4th		12	12	4th	4th	2	10	10	3	-	10	18th
Cyprus	002	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
Sweden	163	3	7th	6th	-	12	7th	6th	12	10	3	8th	6th	10	6th		10	5	6th	8th	12	2	12	12	21st
Portugal	012	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	01
Ireland	018th	12	-	-	-	4th	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-	04th
Austria	065	-	6th	-		7th	4th	-	6th	3	-	2	3	8th	1	7th	5	-		-	-	5	-	8th	13
Israel	093	-	3	8th	8th	-	1	3	2	2	10	4th	10	1	10	3	8th	-	1		6th	7th	2	4th	19th
Malta	032	-	-	-	6th	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	1	-	7th	-		1	7th	1	08th
Germany	140	-	10	7th	3	1	6th	12	3	5	8th	12	12	5	-	2	12	-	10	12	3		10	7th	19th
Bosnia and Herzegovina	086	-	1	-	10	-	10	7th	7th	8th	6th	3	5	3	-	6th	-	-	12	-	-	8th		-	13
Estonia	090	1	4th	1	-	3	8th	-	5	4th	4th	5	8th	2	-	10	7th	8th	3	1	7th	6th	3		19th

* 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
5	Germany	Israel, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Turkey
	Sweden	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Malta, Norway, United Kingdom
3	Iceland	Denmark, Sweden, Cyprus
2	Croatia	Slovenia, Spain
	Slovenia	Ireland, Croatia
1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Austria
	Denmark	Iceland
	Ireland	Lithuania
	Netherlands	Belgium
	Portugal	France
	Turkey	Germany

See also

• List of winners and events of the Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

Commons : Eurovision Song Contest 1999  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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