Eurovision Song Contest 2015

60th Eurovision Song Contest
motto	Building Bridges (German: "Build bridges")
date	May 19, 2015 (semi-final 1) May 21, 2015 (semi-final 2) May 23, 2015 (final)
Host country	Austria
venue	Wiener Stadthalle , Vienna
Broadcasting television station
Moderation	Arabella Kiesbauer , Mirjam Weichselbraun , Alice Tumler , Conchita Wurst (Green Room)
Opening act	First semifinals: Conchita Wurst: Rise Like a Phoenix (Music / Text: Charly Mason, Joey Patulka, Ali Zuckowski , Julian Maas) Final: Lidia Baich : Merci, Chérie (Music: Udo Jürgens ; Text: Udo Jürgens , Thomas Hörbiger ) ; Conchita Wurst , Superar-Chor, Left Boy u. Vienna Boys' Choir : Building Bridges (Music: David Bronner , Dorothee Freiberger, Kurt Pongratz; Text: David Malin) Accompaniment: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Conductor: Peter Pejtsik)
Pause filler	Finale: drum medley of classical symphonies (played by Martin Grubinger ); Conchita Wurst: You Are Unstoppable (Music / Text: Richard Andersson, Dag Lundberg, Niclas Lif, Johannes Henriksson) , Firestorm (Music / Text: Aleena Gibson, Sebastian Arman , Joacim Persson)
participating countries	40
winner	Sweden
First time participation	Australia
Returning participants	Serbia Czech Republic Cyprus
Withdrawn participants	Ukraine
Voting rule	Each country assigns 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point (s) to ten songs. The voting consists of 50% jury and 50% televoting votes.
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The 60th Eurovision Song Contest took place from May 19 to 23, 2015 in the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna . So was the Austrian capital after 1967 for the second time host the Euro Vision Song Contest after Conchita Wurst with the song Rise Like a Phoenix the Euro Vision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen ( Denmark had won). The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) organized the competition. The theme of the competition was Building Bridges ( English for building bridges ).

The competition for Sweden was the song Heroes, performed by Måns Zelmerlöw and written by Linnea Deb, Joy Deb and Anton Hård af Segerstad, with a total of 365 points, ahead of Russia with 303 points and Italy with 292 points. For the first time in the history of the competition, not only the winner, but the two first-placed winners scored over 300 points. For the first time since the introduction of the combined rating in 2009 , the top entry in televoting (Italy) did not win. Sweden won the competition for the sixth time and moved up to second place in competition history behind Ireland, which has won seven times so far.

On the occasion of its 60th anniversary, Australia received an invitation to participate from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), as the event is very popular there and has been broadcast for 30 years. A total of 27 countries competed in the final, more than ever before.

Austria and Germany - as host country or one of the five big donors and both seeded in the final without taking part in the semi-finals - remained without points. Austria was placed ahead of Germany, because in the event of a tie, further factors are used to determine the order, in this case the starting order. For Germany it was the third and for the host country Austria the fourth participation without points.

For the first time since the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, a country remained in the final without points and for the first time since the Eurovision Song Contest in 1997 two countries received no points simultaneously. In addition, it was the first case in the history of the ESC that the host country remained without points.

venue

Graz innsbruck Vienna catfish Klagenfurt Oberwart

Applicant cities: Successful application Unsuccessful application

The 60th Eurovision Song Contest took place in Austria as the Austrian participant Conchita Wurst won the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen , Denmark .

Numerous cities had expressed their interest in hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. In advance, there was speculation that the city of Salzburg would be interested in the event, which the city rejected.

At a first meeting on Monday, May 19, 2014, the ORF and the EBU agreed to only hold the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in closed halls without daylight. On May 29, 2014, the ORF published the following criteria for the hall: a minimum capacity of 10,000 spectators, it must be available six weeks before the competition, a minimum ceiling height of 15 m and an appropriate press center for around 1500 reporters in the Have proximity and provide space for the sponsors and their approximately 1000 guests. The application deadline for the venue for the Eurovision Song Contest ended on June 13, 2014.

On June 21, 2014, ORF announced that it would hold the Eurovision Song Contest either in the Wiener Stadthalle , in the Stadthalle Graz or in the Olympiahalle Innsbruck . This meant that the temporary venues in Vienna, the Vienna-Schwechat airport , the event site at Schwarzlsee in Unterpremstätten in Styria , the Oberwart exhibition center , the Wörthersee stadium in Klagenfurt and the exhibition center in Wels were out of the running.

city	venue	capacity	Remarks
Graz	City Hall Graz	11,030	The venue for the 2010 European Handball Championship
innsbruck	Olympiaworld Innsbruck	14,000	Venue of the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 and 1976
Vienna	Wiener Stadthalle , Hall D.	16,000	-

The final decision for Vienna was made on August 6, 2014.

The Wiener Stadthalle offered a total of 13,500 spectators and has already distinguished itself in the past as a venue for numerous television programs and concerts.

City of Vienna costs

After being named the venue, the City of Vienna set up a cost calculation plan that includes the costs that the City itself bears. Accordingly, the city is contributing around 17.1 million euros. The provision of the town hall alone costs around 8.89 million euros. This will be kept open from April 6 to May 31, 2015. The rest of the money is divided between accommodation for journalists , advertising and funds for information on local public transport .

Use	Costs (in millions of euros)
Provision of the town hall (including emergency power and adaptation measures)	8.890
Provision of the town hall	0.750
Eurovision Village	0.150
Tourism campaign	0.850
Marketing budget	6.374
Transportation	0.070
Total	17.084

Live shows and tickets

There were two other audience shows before each live TV show. The day before the found jury shows take place, after which the national juries their voting duties. They were recorded and should have been used if the live TV show had a broadcast failure. The afternoon family shows were the final runs before the live TV show. Their name comes from the fact that they are particularly suitable for families with children who want to see the show live but do not want to stay up late into the night.

show	Semi-final 1	Semi-final 2	final
Jury show	Mon. May 18, 9 p.m.	Wed. May 20, 9 p.m.	Fri May 22, 9 p.m.
Family show	Tuesday, May 19, 3 p.m.	Thursday May 21, 3 p.m.	Sat May 23, 1 p.m.
Tv show	Tuesday, May 19, 9 p.m.	Thursday May 21, 9 p.m.	Sat May 23, 9 p.m.

From December 15, 2014 to February 27, 2015, as well as last-minute campaigns against the black market until May 13, 2015, tickets were sold for the ESC 2015. For each of the shows that took place, there were seats in a total of 6 categories in the categories of seats A to D, gold and standing room of 14 euros for seats with restricted visibility. Family show and category D, as well as up to 390 euros for the gold category in the final. They were sold online and by telephone via Oeticket , but also exclusively for Austrian delivery addresses online, by telephone and directly on site at the Wiener Stadthalle. Ticket sales were divided into three tranches. However, the correct number was only obtained after the camera position, the greenroom structure and the design of the stage had been specified.

format

Stage of the Eurovision Village on the Town Hall Square

motto

The ORF looked for the right motto in a selection process . The slogan Building Bridges emerged as the winner from more than one hundred submissions . This motto was deliberately chosen because Austria has often acted as a bridge between East and West in history and the idea of ​​tolerance from Conchita Wurst is to be continued. Against the backdrop of the Eurovision Song Contest , music serves to connect countries, cultures and languages.

logo

The logo was introduced on November 25, 2014. It is a luminous sphere which bears the official name "The Sphere" (in German: "The Sphere"). The logo should represent the unifying and diversity of the event .

"Postcards"

This year's idea for the small clips that will present the country before their performance was officially announced on March 10, 2015. This year the motto Building Bridges is to be implemented.

Each clip begins with images from the artist's home country. Then they will receive a package at their door containing an invitation to Austria and an item. As soon as they look up from this package, the artists are transferred to a place in Austria, where they can experience a typical local activity from the fields of culture , sport , business and tradition to modern times with the object .

The clips end with a freeze by the respective artist on a song contest poster near a Vienna landmark.

Official album

The official album with all 40 songs on the show was released in German-speaking countries as follows:

• April 10, 2015 - iTunes and Google Play Store release
• April 17, 2015 - Publication on all other digital platforms
• April 20, 2015 - Released as a physical CD

In addition, the opening song Building Bridges was released digitally as a single on May 18, 2015 .

The official DVD , which contains the recordings of the three live shows as well as bonus material, was released on June 22, 2015.

Stage design

On December 27, 2014 it was announced that the stage design will be designed by Florian Wieder .

ORF television director Kathrin Zechner said that the stage "represents the bridge from the past to the present and the future and is a symbol for the message of mutual respect that we want to convey".

Again she was responsible for the stage design of the Eurovision Song Contests 2011 and 2012 .

The stage design was officially released on January 20, 2015. The stage consists of 1288 individual columns and measures 44 meters in width, 14.3 meters in height and up to 22 meters in depth. The LED pillars can produce a variety of lighting effects, as can the stage floor with a diameter of 11 meters. In the background there is another LED wall 22 meters wide and 8.5 meters high.

60th anniversary

To mark its 60th anniversary, the BBC organized the Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits event on March 31, 2015 in London's Hammersmith Apollo . The show was moderated by Graham Norton and Petra Mede . The event was recorded and will be broadcast in different countries until the contest. In Germany , the recording was shown on NDR television and MDR television on Saturday, May 16, 2015 at the same time from 11:15 p.m., Peter Urban commented. The broadcast was repeated on Friday, May 22, 2015 at 8:15 p.m. on Einsfestival .

The following artists appeared:

• Anne-Marie David (winner 1973 , participant 1979 )	• Brotherhood of Man (Winner 1976 )
• Johnny Logan (winner 1980 and 1987 )	• Nicole (winner 1982 )
• Herrey’s (winner 1984 )	• Bobbysocks ( 1985 winner )
• Riverdance (Intervallact 1994 )	• Dana International (winner 1998 , participant 2011 )
• Olsen Brothers (Winner 2000 )	• Natasha Saint-Pier (participant 2001 )
• Rosa López (participant 2002 )	• Lordi (winner 2006 )
• Dima Bilan (participant 2006, winner 2008 )	• Loreen (winner 2012 )
• Emmelie de Forest (winner 2013 )	• Conchita Wurst (winner 2014 )

Management and host

On December 19, 2014 it was officially announced that Alice Tumler , Arabella Kiesbauer and Mirjam Weichselbraun will moderate this year's competition. It was the first time in the history of the Song Contest that these three women were moderating. Conchita Wurst moderated in the Green Room .

The current Austrian ESC commentator Andi Knoll and the current Austrian points spokesperson Kati Bellowitsch moderated the semi-final draw and will moderate the opening ceremony and the ESC live shows. Riem Higazi and Kati Bellowitsch will take turns leading the press conferences.

ORF head of entertainment Edgar Böhm has been the executive producer since May / early June 2014.

Attendees

countries

Countries that took part in the final in 2015

Countries that were eliminated in the semifinals in 2015

Countries that have participated in the past but not in 2015

On July 10, 2014, the EBU announced that it would move the application period from mid-December to mid-October. The EBU and ORF thought that due to the 60th anniversary it was necessary to select an early date in order to get the best result for a big anniversary show in May of the following year. The official application period ended on September 15, 2014, the grace period for undecided countries on October 10, 2014. The list of all participants was published by the EBU on December 23, 2014. Serbia and Cyprus returned to the competition after a one-year break , and the Czech Republic after a five-year break. Meanwhile, Ukraine stayed away from the event due to financial reasons and the current situation in the country . In addition, the songs of all participants had to be determined by March 16, 2015, for the meeting of the heads of delegation.

Even Australia joined for the first time in the competition. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the competition, the country received an invitation from the EBU and was allowed to take part directly in the final. If Australia had actually won the contest, a European country would have been the venue for the next year.

According to this, 40 countries took part in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest.

Other countries

On April 29, 2015 it was announced that delegations from Kosovo , Kazakhstan , Tunisia and Morocco would be in Vienna and observe the ESC.

Kazakhstan has been broadcasting the Eurovision Song Contest live since 2010 and has been applying for the ESC since 2008, but it always failed due to the lack of EBU membership. EBU member Tunisia wanted to take part in the competition in 1977 but eventually withdrew. EBU member Morocco took part once in 1980, was penultimate and has not participated since then.

Recurring performers

After Amber won the Maltese preliminary round , she represented Malta at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. In 2012 she supported Kurt Calleja as a background singer at his performance, and the Belarusian Uzari , in 2011, accompanied Anastassija Winnikawa as a background singer. Raay , one half of the Slovenian duo Maraaya, was the background singer for Tinkara Kovač in 2014 .

The participant from San Marino , Michele Perniola , already took part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2013 and reached the tenth place. Anita Simoncini took 2014 as a member of The Peppermints , which were fifteenth, at JESC part. After Nevena Božović and the Tolmachevy Sisters, the two are the third participants in history to take part in both competitions.

Inga Arschakjan that Armenia already in 2009 together with her sister Anusch the ESC in Moscow had represented, returns as a member of Genealogy 2015 competition back.

Elnur Hüseynov , who represented Azerbaijan at the debut in 2008 together with Samir Cavadzadə , returned to the competition in 2015.

country	Interpreter	Previous year of participation
Armenia	Inga Arshakjan (member of Genealogy )	2009 (together with Anusch Arshakyan)
Azerbaijan	Elnur Hüseynov	2008 (with Samir Cavadzadə )
Malta	Amber	2012 (backing vocals by Kurt Calleja )
Slovenia	Raay (member of Maaraya)	2014 (backing vocals by Tinkara Kovač )
Belarus	Uzari	2011 (backing vocals by Anastassija Winnikawa )

Semifinals

draw

Participants in the 1st semi-final

Countries entitled to vote in the 1st semi-final

Participants in the 2nd semi-final

Countries entitled to vote in the 2nd semi-final

Eligible country in both semi-finals

The semi-final draw took place on January 26, 2015 in the Vienna City Hall and was moderated by Kati Bellowitsch and Andi Knoll .

It was also determined in which semifinals hosts Austria and the so-called Big Five countries are entitled to vote. Due to a request from ARD , Germany was assigned voting rights in the second semi-final without a draw. The others were drawn.

Based on the voting pattern of the past eleven years, the 33 countries in the semi-finals were divided into five pots. The German company Digame came to the following distribution:

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Albania  Malta  Macedonia  Montenegro  Switzerland  Serbia  Slovenia	Denmark  Estonia  Finland  Iceland  Latvia  Norway  Sweden	Armenia  Azerbaijan  Georgia  Israel  Lithuania  Russia  Belarus	Belgium  Greece  Ireland  Netherlands  San Marino  Cyprus	Moldova  Poland  Portugal  Romania  Czech Republic  Hungary

First semi-final

The first semi-final took place on May 19, 2015 at 9:00 p.m. ( CEST ). The top ten countries qualified for the final. They are highlighted in light green here.

In Georgia, technical problems occurred with televoting, as a result of which only the jury votes were counted.

 Australia , France , Austria , Spain and the countries participating in the first semi-final were entitled to vote in this semi-final.    

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points
1.	12	Russia	Polina Gagarina Полина Гагарина	A Million Voices M / T: Gabriel Alares, Joakim Björnberg, Katrina Noorbergen , Leonid Gutkin, Vladimir Matetsky	English	A million votes	182
2.	03	Belgium	Loïc Nottet	Rhythm Inside M: Loïc Nottet ; T: Beverly Jo Scott	English	Rhythm within	149
3.	07th	Estonia	Elina Born & Stig Rästa	Goodbye to Yesterday M / T: Stig Rästa	English	Goodbye to yesterday	105
4th	16	Georgia	Nina Sublatti ნინა სუბლატი	Warrior M: Nina Sublatti , Thomas G: son ; T: Nina Sublatti	English	Warrior	098
5.	15th	Romania	Voltaj	De la capăt - All Over Again M: Călin Gavril Goia , Gabriel Constantin , Adrian Cristescu , Silviu-Marian Păduraru, Victor-Răzvan Alstani; T: Călin Gavril Goia , Gabriel Constantin , Adrian Cristescu , Silviu-Marian Păduraru, Victor-Răzvan Alstani, Monica-Ana Stevens, Andrei-Mădălin Leonte	Romanian , English	From the beginning - same again	089
6th	06th	Greece	Maria Elena Kyriakou Μαρία Έλενα Κυριάκου	One Last Breath M: Efthivoulos Theocharous, Maria Elena Kyriakou ; T: Vangelis Konstantinidis, Evelina Tziora,	English	One last breath	081
7th	02	Armenia	Genealogy	Face the Shadow M: Poor Martirosyan; T: Inna Mkrtchyan	English	Face the shadow	077
8th.	10	Hungary	Boggie	Wars for Nothing M: Áron Sebestyén, Boglárka Csemer ; T: Sára Hélène Bori	English	Get for nothing	067
9.	09	Serbia	Boyana Stamenov Бојана Стаменов	Beauty Never Lies M: Vladimir Graić; T: Charlie Mason	English	Beauty never lies	063
10.	14th	Albania	Elhaida Dani	I'm Alive M: Arber Elshani, Kristijan Lekaj (Zzap'n'Chriss); T: Sokol Marsi	English	I live	062
11.	01	Moldova	Eduard Romanyuta Едуард Романюта	I Want Your Love M / T: Erik Lewander, Hayley Aitken, Tom Andrews	English	I want your love	041
12.	11	Belarus	Uzari et al. Maimuna Юзари и Маймуна	Time M: Juryj Wiktarawitsch Naurozki; T: Geryiana, Maimuna Amadou Murashko	English	time	039
13.	13	Denmark	Anti social media	The Way You Are M / T: Mikkel Remee Sigvardt , Chief 1	English	The way you are	033
14th	04th	Netherlands	Trijntje Oosterhuis	Walk Along M: Tobias Karlsson; T: Anouk Teeuwe	English	Go along	033
15th	08th	Macedonia	Daniel Kajmakoski Даниел Кајмакоски	Autumn Leaves M: Joacim Persson, Robert Bilbilov; T: Joacim Persson	English	Fall foliage	028
16.	05	Finland	Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät	Aina mun pitää M / T: Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät	Finnish	I always have to	013

First semi-final score table

Voting results
Start number	country	space	Ø jury seat	Ø Tele seat	Points	AL	AT THE	AU	BE	DK	EE	FI	FR	GE	GR	MK	MD	NL	AT	RO	RU	RS	IT	HU	BY	Voting
01	Moldova	11.	10.27	9.61	041	2	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	-	5		-	-	8th	-	5	-	-	5	07th
02	Armenia	07th	10.27	7.72	077	5		-	12	-	-	-	5	8th	7th	7th	4th	5	-	1	12	-	4th	-	7th	12
03	Belgium	02.	4.22	4.72	149	6th	1	8th		12	10	12	12	5	6th	6th	5	12	6th	7th	8th	7th	10	10	6th	19th
04th	Netherlands	14th	7.83	11.27	033	1	-	-	6th	7th	5	3	2	2	-	1	-		-	3	-	-	3	-	-	10
05	Finland	16.	14.56	8.27	013	-	-	-	-	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4th	-	2	1	05
06th	Greece	06th	6.22	8.16	081	12	8th	6th	3	-	1	2	3	4th		4th	3	6th	4th	6th	5	6th	2	3	3	18th
07th	Estonia	03.	8.83	4.00	105	-	4th	5	5	8th		8th	4th	3	4th	2	2	8th	10	2	10	2	12	8th	8th	18th
08th	Macedonia	15th	11.33	12.67	028	10	-	3	-	-	2	-	-	-	-		1	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	-	05
09	Serbia	09.	10.11	6.83	063	-	5	12	-	1	-	4th	1	-	2	12	-	7th	7th	-	4th		-	4th	4th	12
10	Hungary	08th.	8.38	8.94	067	3	-	2	4th	4th	12	7th	6th	-	-	-	-	4th	5	10	2	8th	-		-	12
11	Belarus	12.	8.67	12.38	039	-	7th	-	-	3	-	-	-	12	3	-	8th	-	-	-	6th	-	-	-		06th
12	Russia	01.	3.16	3.44	182	7th	10	10	8th	10	8th	10	10	7th	12	8th	7th	10	12	12		10	7th	12	12	19th
13	Denmark	13.	8.89	10.67	033	-	2	4th	1		7th	1	-	-	1	-	-	3	1	5	-	-	1	7th	-	11
14th	Albania	10.	8.94	9.05	062		-	-	10	-	-	-	7th	6th	10	10	6th	-	3	-	3	-	6th	1	-	10
15th	Romania	05.	8.16	6.11	089	8th	3	1	7th	6th	3	6th	8th	1	5	-	12	2	8th		1	3	8th	5	2	18th
16	Georgia	04th	7.00	6.33	098	4th	12	7th	2	5	6th	5	-		8th	3	10	1	2	4th	7th	1	5	6th	10	18th

Statistics of the twelve-point allocation (first semi-final)

Countries in bold have reached the final.

number	country	received from
5	Russia	Greece, Romania, Austria, Hungary, Belarus
4th	Belgium	Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands
2	Armenia	Belgium, Russia
	Serbia	Australia, Macedonia
1	Estonia	Spain
	Georgia	Armenia
	Greece	Albania
	Macedonia	Serbia
	Romania	Moldova
	Hungary	Estonia
	Belarus	Georgia

Second semi-final

The second semi-final took place on May 21, 2015 at 9:00 p.m. ( CEST ). The top ten countries qualified for the final. They are highlighted in light green here.

In Azerbaijan, Montenegro and San Marino there were technical problems with televoting, which meant that only the jury votes were counted.

 Australia , Germany , Italy , the United Kingdom and the countries participating in the second semifinal were entitled to vote in that semifinals.    

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points
1.	13	Sweden	Måns Zelmerlöw	Heroes M / T: Linnea Deb, Joy Deb, Anton Hård af Segerstad	English	Heroes	217
2.	10	Latvia	Aminata	Love Injected M / T: Aminata Savadogo	English	Injected love	155
3.	09	Israel	Nadav Guedj נדב גדג '	Golden Boy M / T: Doron Medal	English	Golden boy	151
4th	06th	Norway	Mørland & Debrah Scarlett	A Monster Like Me M / T: Kjetil Mørland	English	A monster like me	123
5.	16	Slovenia	Maraaya	Here For You M: Raay , Marjetka Vovk ; T: Charlie Mason, Raay	English	Here for you	092
6th	15th	Cyprus	John Karayiannis Γιάννης Καραγιάννης	One Thing I Should Have Done M / T: Mike Connaris	English	One thing I should have done	087
7th	01	Lithuania	Monika Linkytė u. Vaidas Baumila	This Time M: Vytautas Bikus; T Monika Liubinaitė	English	This time	067
8th.	17th	Poland	Monika Kuszyńska	In the Name of Love M: Jakub "Kuba" Raczyński; T: Monika Kuszyńska	English	In the name of love	057
9.	04th	Montenegro	Knez Кнез	Adio M: Željko Joksimović ; T: Marina Tucaković, Dejan Ivanović	Montenegrin	farewell	057
10.	11	Azerbaijan	Elnur Huseynov	Hour of the Wolf M: Nicolas Rebscher, Nicklas Lif, Lina Hansson; T: Nicolas Rebscher, Nicklas Lif, Lina Hansson, Sandra Bjurman	English	Hour of the wolf	053
11.	05	Malta	Amber	Warrior M: Elton Zarb; T: Matt "Muxu" Mercieca	English	Warrior	043
12.	02	Ireland	Molly Sterling	Playing with Numbers M / T: Greg French, Molly Sterling	English	Playing with numbers	035
13.	08th	Czech Republic	Marta Jandová u. Václav Noid Bárta	Hope Never Dies M: Václav Noid Bárta ; T: Tereza Šoralová	English	hope never dies	033
14th	07th	Portugal	Leonor Andrade	Há um mar que nos separa M / T: Miguel Gameiro	Portuguese	There is a sea that divides us	019th
15th	12	Iceland	María Ólafs	Unbroken M: Ásgeir Orri Ásgeirsson, Pálmi Ragnar Ásgeirsson, Sæþór Kristjánsson; T: Ásgeir Orri Ásgeirsson, Pálmi Ragnar Ásgeirsson, Sæþór Kristjánsson, María Ólafsdóttir	English	Unbroken	014th
16.	03	San Marino	Anita Simoncini et al. Michele Perniola	Chain of Lights M: Ralph Siegel ; T: John O'Flynn	English	fairy lights	011
17th	14th	Switzerland	Mélanie René	Time to Shine M / T: Mélanie René	English	Time to shine	004th

Second semi-final scoreboard

Voting results
Start number	country	space	Ø jury seat	Ø Tele seat	Points	AZ	AU	DE	IE	IS	IL	IT	LV	LT	MT	ME	NO	PL	PT	SM	SE	CH	SI	CZ	GB	CY	Voting
01	Lithuania	07th	8.70	5.40	067	7th	4th	-	7th	4th	4th	-	10		4th	-	10	-	-	3	-	3	-	1	3	7th	13
02	Ireland	12.	7.10	10.85	035	2	-	2		-	-	-	4th	2	-	2	-	-	-	5	3	-	1	5	8th	1	11
03	San Marino	16.	14.75	12.50	011	-	-	-	-	-	-	6th	-	-	-	5	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-	02
04th	Montenegro	09.	9.95	8.40	057	10	-	-	-	-	7th	4th	2	-	-		3	-	5	-	7th	1	10	6th	-	2	11
05	Malta	11.	7.20	10.85	043	-	3	-	3	-	10	1	-	-		10	-	-	-	7th	-	-	-	4th	5	-	08th
06th	Norway	04th	4.65	5.00	123	-	8th	7th	4th	10	1	2	7th	8th	5	6th		6th	8th	8th	12	10	6th	7th	2	6th	19th
07th	Portugal	14th	11.25	10.40	019th	3	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4th	-	-		-	-	6th	4th	-	1	-	06th
08th	Czech Republic	13.	10.50	7.40	033		-	4th	1	-	8th	-	1	-	1	1	-	8th	1	4th	1	-	3		-	-	11
09	Israel	03.	5.70	2.80	151	8th	7th	8th	8th	8th		12	3	4th	10	3	8th	10	10	6th	10	7th	5	2	12	10	20th
10	Latvia	02.	3.95	4.45	155	6th	10	10	12	7th	2	8th		12	7th	-	7th	7th	7th	10	8th	8th	8th	8th	10	8th	19th
11	Azerbaijan	10.	8.15	9.65	053		2	-	-	2	3	-	-	6th	8th	7th	-	3	3	-	4th	-	-	10	-	5	11
12	Iceland	15th	12.40	9.90	014th	5	-	-	2		-	-	-	1	-	-	2	2	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	06th
13	Sweden	01.	2.00	1.75	217	4th	12	12	10	12	12	10	12	10	12	8th	12	12	12	12		12	12	12	7th	12	20th
14th	Switzerland	17th	11.90	10.95	004th	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	04th
15th	Cyprus	06th	7.85	5.45	087	-	6th	5	6th	5	5	7th	6th	3	2	-	6th	4th	6th	2	6th	5	7th	-	6th		18th
16	Slovenia	05.	7.30	5.90	092	12	5	6th	-	6th	6th	3	8th	7th	3	12	4th	5	4th	1	-	4th		3	-	3	18th
17th	Poland	08th.	11.95	4.15	057	-	1	3	5	3	-	5	5	5	6th	-	5		2	-	5	2	2	-	4th	4th	15th

Statistics of the twelve-point allocation (second semi-final)

Countries in bold have reached the final.

number	country	received from
14th	Sweden	Australia, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Switzerland, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Cyprus
02	Israel	Italy, United Kingdom
	Latvia	Ireland, Lithuania
	Slovenia	Azerbaijan, Montenegro
01	Norway	Sweden

final

The final took place on May 23, 2015 at 9:00 p.m. ( CEST ).

 Estonia , Lithuania , Belgium and Georgia returned to the finals after two years, Albania , Cyprus and Serbia after three years, Israel after five years and Latvia after seven years. Albania, Israel, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Belgium and Georgia were eliminated in the semifinals in the respective periods mentioned. Cyprus and Serbia each eliminated once and suspended once. Australia took part in the final for the first time in 2015.          

The countries of the Big Five (Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy), Australia and the host country Austria qualified directly for the final. There were also ten countries from each of the two semi-finals, so that 27 countries competed in the final, more than ever before.

The finale began with a single player in which the Vienna Philharmonic presented music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven . Afterwards, people from all Austrian federal states were shown who form the official logo of the event "The Sphere". The opening ceremony ended in the Wiener Stadthalle, where part of the song Merci, Chérie of the first winner for Austria, Udo Jürgens , could be heard. It was played on the violin by Lidia Baich .

Last year's winner Conchita Wurst then sang the official anthem of the competition (music: David Bronner , Dorothee Freiberger, Kurt Pongratz; text: David Malin), Building Bridges, together with the rapper Left Boy , the Vienna Boys' Choir and the multinational “Superar” choir . They were accompanied by the ORF radio symphony orchestra. The highlight of the opening was the walk of the finalists over the Magic Bridge through the audience onto the show stage.

During the televoting, the drummer Martin Grubinger performed and presented a nine-minute drum medley of classical symphonies ( 2nd symphony (Mahler) , 8th symphony (Bruckner) and 3rd symphony (Mahler) ), which were interpreted in a modern way.

Results list

space	Start number	country	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Points	image
01.	10	Sweden	Måns Zelmerlöw	Heroes M / T: Linnea Deb, Joy Deb, Anton Hård af Segerstad	English	Heroes	365
02.	25th	Russia	Polina Gagarina	A Million Voices M / T: Gabriel Alares, Joakim Björnberg, Katrina Noorbergen, Leonid Gutkin, Wladimir Matezki	English	A million votes	303
03.	27	Italy	Il Volo	Grande amore M / T: Francesco Boccia, Ciro Esposito	Italian	Great love	292
04th	13	Belgium	Loïc Nottet	Rhythm Inside M: Loïc Nottet ; T: Beverly Jo Scott	English	Rhythm within	217
05.	12	Australia	Guy Sebastian	Tonight Again M / T: Guy Sebastian , David Ryan Harris, Louis Schoorl	English	Tonight again	196
06th	19th	Latvia	Aminata	Love Injected M / T: Aminata Savadogo	English	Injected love	186
07th	4th	Estonia	Elina Born & Stig Rästa	Goodbye to Yesterday M / T: Stig Rästa	English	Goodbye to yesterday	106
08th.	9	Norway	Mørland & Debrah Scarlett	A Monster Like Me M / T: Kjetil Mørland	English	A monster like me	102
09.	3	Israel	Nadav Guedj נדב גדג '	Golden Boy M / T: Doron Medal	English	Golden boy	097
10.	8th	Serbia	Boyana Stamenov	Beauty Never Lies M: Vladimir Graić; T: Charlie Mason	English	Beauty never lies	053
11.	23	Georgia	Nina Sublatti ნინა სუბლატი	Warrior M: Nina Sublatti , Thomas G: son ; T: Nina Sublatti	English	Warrior	051
12.	24	Azerbaijan	Elnur Huseynov	Hour of the Wolf M: Nicolas Rebscher, Nicklas Lif, Lina Hansson; T: Sandra Bjurman, Nicolas Rebscher, Nicklas Lif, Lina Hansson	English	Hour of the wolf	049
13.	16	Montenegro	Knez	Adio M: Željko Joksimović ; T: Marina Tucaković, Dejan Ivanović	Montenegrin	farewell	044
14th	1	Slovenia	Maraaya	Here For You M: Raay , Marjetka Vovk ; T: Charlie Mason, Raay	English	Here for you	039
15th	20th	Romania	Voltaj	De la capăt - All Over Again M: Călin Gavril Goia , Gabriel Constantin , Adrian Cristescu , Silviu-Marian Păduraru, Victor-Răzvan Alstani; T: Călin Gavril Goia , Gabriel Constantin , Adrian Cristescu , Silviu-Marian Păduraru, Victor-Răzvan Alstani, Monica-Ana Stevens, Andrei-Mădălin Leonte	Romanian , English	From the beginning - same again	035
16.	6th	Armenia	Genealogy	Face the Shadow M: Poor Martirosyan; T: Inna Mkrtchyan	English	Face the shadow	034
17th	26th	Albania	Elhaida Dani	I'm Alive M: Arber Elshani, Kristijan Lekaj (Zzap'n'Chriss); T: Sokol Marsi	English	I live	034
18th	7th	Lithuania	Monika Linkytė u. Vaidas Baumila	This Time M: Vytautas Bikus; T: Monika Liubinaitė	English	This time	030th
19th	15th	Greece	Maria Elena Kyriakou Μαρία Έλενα Κυριάκου	One Last Breath M: Efthivoulos Theocharous, Maria Elena Kyriakou ; T: Vangelis Konstantinidis, Evelina Tziora	English	One last breath	023
20th	22nd	Hungary	Boggie	Wars for Nothing M: Áron Sebestyén, Boglárka Csemer ; T: Sára Hélène Bori	English	Get for nothing	019th
21st	21st	Spain	Edurne	Amanecer M: Tony Sánchez-Olsson, Peter Boström, Thomas G: son ; T: Tony Sánchez-Olsson	Spanish	dusk	015th
22nd	11	Cyprus	John Karayiannis Γιάννης Καραγιάννης	One Thing I Should Have Done M / T: Mike Connaris	English	One thing I should have done	011
23.	18th	Poland	Monika Kuszyńska	In the Name of Love M: Jakub Raczyński; T: Monika Kuszyńska	English	In the name of love	010
24.	5	United Kingdom	Electro Velvet	Still In Love With You M / T: David Mindel, Adrian Bax White	English	Still in love with You	005
25th	2	France	Lisa Angell	N'oubliez pas M: Michel Illouz, Robert Goldman ; T: Robert Goldman , Laure Izon	French	do not forget	004th
126 1	14th	Austria	The Makemakes	I Am Yours M / T: Jimmy Harry, The Makemakes	English	I belong to you	000
127 1	17th	Germany	Ann Sophie	Black Smoke M / T: Michael Harwood, Ella McMahon, Tonino Speciale	English	Black smoke	000

¹ In the event of a tie, Austria was placed ahead of Germany according to the published rules due to the lower start number.

Scoreboard final

country	total
		ME	MT	FI	GR	PT	RO	BY	AL	MD	AZ	LV	RS	EE	DK	CH	BE	FR	AT THE	IE	SE	DE	AU	CZ	IT	AT	MK	SI	HU	GB	GE	LT	NL	PL	IL	RU	SM	IT	IS	CY	NO	Voting
Slovenia	039	4th		1							3	3	5								1						8th					4th		1	6th				2		1	12
France	004th																		3																		1					02
Israel	097	3	5	3		7th	1	2	5		7th	1	6th			3					4th	5	2		1	2				5	1		5	4th			2	8th	5	6th	4th	25th
Estonia	106	1	3	10		1		7th	4th		4th	6th	2		6th		2				3	2	3		3	6th	2		7th		2	8th	4th	2	3	7th		2	1	2	3	28
United Kingdom	005		1																	1																	3					02
Armenia	034				1			4th									3	3						2			3				12					6th						08th
Lithuania	030th											7th		2	1					7th										4th	3										6th	07th
Serbia	53	12							2							5							5	3		3	10	6th		1			1		2			3				12
Norway	102		2	4th		6th	6th					2		4th	3	10				4th	7th	4th	4th		2	4th		4th	4th			5	3	3			6th	5	10			22nd
Sweden	365	5	10	12	4th	8th	8th	10	7th	8th	6th	12	8th	10	12	12	12	8th	7th	10		10	12	10	8th	7th	5	12	10	12	7th	10	10	12	10	8th	7th	12	12	10	12	39
Cyprus	011				10																							1														02
Australia	196		6th	5	5		2	6th	3	4th		5	3	5	8th	8th	4th	2	1	5	12	7th			7th	12		2	8th	10		3	8th	8th	7th	4th	8th	6th	8th	4th	10	33
Belgium	217			7th	7th	5	7th	8th	1	6th		4th	4th	7th	7th	2		12	4th	2	10	8th	6th	6th	6th	5	1	3	12	3	6th	7th	12	5	4th	10	5	7th	4th	7th	7th	36
Austria	000																																									00
Greece	023								10										5																					8th		3
Montenegro	044								6th		2		12						8th		2						4th	10														07th
Germany	000																																									00
Poland	010																	4th		3										2								1				4th
Latvia	186		4th	6th	3	2	5	5		2	5		1	6th	4th	4th	7th	7th	2	12	5	6th	7th	5	4th	1		7th	5	7th	4th	12	2	10		2	12	4th	7th	3	8th	35
Romania	035					4th				12					2		5								5				1						5					1		08th
Spain	015th	2				3				1	1					1		5																	1	1						08th
Hungary	019th						4th							8th				1				1		1													4th					06th
Georgia	051				2			3		5	10			1			1		10				1	4th					3			6th				5						12
Azerbaijan	049	8th	8th				3			3														12							10	2				3						08th
Russia	303	7th	7th	8th	8th	10	10	12	8th	10	12	10	10	12	10	7th	10	10	12	8th	6th	12	10	8th	10	8th	6th	5	6th	6th	5		6th	6th	8th			10	3	5	2	37
Albania	034	10			6th												6th										12															04th
Italy	292	6th	12	2	12	12	12	1	12	7th	8th	8th	7th	3	5	6th	8th	6th	6th	6th	8th	3	8th	7th	12	10	7th	8th	2	8th	8th	1	7th	7th	12	12	10		6th	12	5	39
The lines are arranged according to the order in which they appear. The columns are arranged in the order in which the points were awarded (with the exception of Portugal, Estonia and Georgia).

The lowest (red background) and highest (green background) total values ​​are marked in the table.

• The fewest jury points: Poland - 2nd 
• The fewest televoting points: Austria - 0 
• The fewest overall votes: Germany and Austria - 0  
• The fewest total points: Germany and Austria - 0  
• Most jury points: Sweden - 363 
• Most televoting points: Italy - 366 
• Most overall votes: Sweden and Italy - 39  
• Most total points: Sweden - 365 

The order in which the countries announced their points was determined on the basis of the jury results from the jury show the day before in such a way that as much tension as possible was generated.

In the beginning, Italy briefly switched leadership back and forth with Russia. With Belarus' voting (6th announcement), Russia temporarily took the lead. Only with the ranking of the United Kingdom (27th announcement) did Sweden take the lead and stayed there until the end. With the points from Cyprus (36th announcement), Sweden was the winner.

During the scoring, there were technical difficulties with the transmission in Portugal, Estonia and Georgia (which were intended as 5th, 13th and 30th scoring respectively). They were therefore initially skipped and made up at the end of the other announcements.

Shortly after the end of the event, the juries of Macedonia and Montenegro were subsequently disqualified. For both countries, only televoting positions were taken into account.

Statistics of the twelve-point award (final)

Map of the scoring for the winning title from Sweden by country

number	country	received from
12	Sweden	Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Switzerland, Slovenia, United Kingdom
9	Italy	Albania, Greece, Israel, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Cyprus
5	Russia	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Germany, Estonia, Belarus
3	Belgium	France, Netherlands, Hungary
	Latvia	Ireland, Lithuania, San Marino
2	Australia	Austria, Sweden
1	Albania	Macedonia
	Armenia	Georgia
	Azerbaijan	Czech Republic
	Montenegro	Serbia
	Romania	Moldova
	Serbia	Montenegro

Split results between jury and televoting

The following results would have been obtained from a pure jury or audience vote:

final
space	Televoting (including jury voting in San Marino)	Points	Jury (including televoting in Monte Negro and Macedonia)	Points
01	Italy	366	Sweden	363
02	Russia	286	Latvia	249
03	Sweden	279	Russia	247
04th	Belgium	195	Australia	224
05	Estonia	144	Belgium	187
06th	Australia	132	Italy	184
07th	Israel	104	Norway	163
08th	Latvia	100	Israel	080
09	Albania	093	Cyprus	063
10	Serbia	086	Georgia	062
11	Armenia	077	Estonia	056
12	Romania	069	Montenegro	048
13	Georgia	051	Slovenia	048
14th	Azerbaijan	048	Azerbaijan	048
15th	Poland	047	Austria	040
16	Lithuania	044	Serbia	034
17th	Norway	043	Lithuania	031
18th	Montenegro	034	Hungary	029
19th	Slovenia	027	Greece	029
20th	Spain	026th	Albania	026th
21st	Greece	024	Germany	024
22nd	Hungary	021st	France	024
23	Cyprus	008th	Romania	021st
24	United Kingdom	007th	Armenia	018th
25th	Germany	005	United Kingdom	012
26th	France	004th	Spain	008th
27	Austria	000	Poland	002

2015 was the first year since the introduction of the 50/50 voting process in 2009, in which the televoting and overall winners did not agree.

Points speaker

People with a connection to the Eurovision Song Contest were preferred as point speakers. Since the lines to Portugal, Estonia and Georgia broke off during the vote, these votes were called again after the Norwegian point allocation.

Start number	country	Points speaker	Known as
01	Montenegro	Andrea Demirović	Participant at the ESC 2009
02	Malta	Julie Zahra	Participant at the ESC 2004
03	Finland	Krista Siegfrids	Participant at the ESC 2013
04th	Greece	Elena Paparizou	Participant in the ESC 2001 and winner of the ESC 2005
05	Portugal	Suzy	Participant at the ESC 2014
06th	Romania	Sonia Argint Ionescu	-
07th	Belarus	Teo	Participant at the ESC 2014
08th	Albania	Andri Xhahu	-
09	Moldova	Olivia Fortuna	-
10	Azerbaijan	Tural Asadou	-
11	Latvia	Markus Riva	Participant in the Latvian preliminary round "Supernova 2015" and "Dziesma 2014"
12	Serbia	Maja Nikolić	Moderator of the Serbian preliminary decision "Odbrojavanje za Beč"
13	Estonia	Tanja	Participant at the ESC 2014
14th	Denmark	Basim	Participant at the ESC 2014
15th	Switzerland	Laetitia Guarino	-
16	Belgium	Walid	-
17th	France	Virginie Guilhaume	-
18th	Armenia	Lilit Muradyan	-
19th	Ireland	Nicky Byrne	Participant at the ESC 2016
20th	Sweden	Mariette Hansson	Participant in the Swedish preliminary round " Melodifestivalen 2015 "
21st	Germany	Barbara Schöneberger	Moderator of the German preliminary decision " Our Song for Austria "
22nd	Australia	Lee Lin Chin	-
23	Czech Republic	Daniela Písařovicová	-
24	Spain	Lara Siscar	-
25th	Austria	Kati Bellowitsch	-
26th	Macedonia	Marko Mark	-
27	Slovenia	Tinkara Kovač	Participant at the ESC 2014
28	Hungary	Csilla tartare	Moderator of the Hungarian preliminary decision "A Dal 2015"
29	United Kingdom	Nigella Lawson	-
30th	Georgia	Natia Bunturi	-
31	Lithuania	Ugnė Galadauskaitė	-
32	Netherlands	Edsilia Rombley	Participant in the ESC 1998 and ESC 2007
33	Poland	Ola Ciupa	One of the performers at the Polish entry of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014
34	Israel	Ofer Nachshon	Moderator of the Israeli ESC preliminary decision Kdam Eurovision
35	Russia	Dimitri Shepelev	Moderator of the green room at the ESC 2009
36	San Marino	Valentina Monetta	Participant in the ESC 2012 , 2013 and 2014
37	Italy	Federico Russo	Moderator of The Voice of Italy
38	Iceland	Sigríður Halldórsdóttir	-
39	Cyprus	Loukas Hamatsos
40	Norway	Margrethe Røed	Moderator of the former Norwegian JESC preliminary decision "mgp junior"

Marcel Bezençon Prize

This year's winners of the Marcel Bezençon Prize , which has been awarded since 2002, are:

• Press award for the best song: Italy - Grande Amore - Il Volo 
• Artist award for the best artist: Sweden - Måns Zelmerlöw - Heroes 
• Composer Prize for the best composition / text: Norway - Kjetil Mørland - A Monster Like Me 

Discussion about the rating system

Of the seven countries Australia , Germany , France , Italy , Austria , Spain and the United Kingdom that did not make it to the semi-finals, four finished in the last four places. The affected countries reacted with analyzes of the poor performance and considered further measures, such as withdrawing from the competition.        

In an interview with NDR, Thomas Schreiber discussed - both immediately after the event on television alongside Ann Sophie and later with Jan Feddersen - that differing evaluations by the jury and audience of a country cancel each other out and, in combination, result in a placement outside the points being able to lead. For example, the German contribution in Albania's televoting was in 7th place, but in the jury it was 16, which resulted in 12th place. Conversely, the juries in Finland also rated this entry 7th, in Belgium and Israel even 5th, but the televotings (19, 19 and 21) turned the combined results to places outside the points (11, 12 and 13). Overall, the German contribution received good midfield positions in 20, i.e. more than half of the 39 country ratings with rank 17 or higher, eight of them with rank 11 or 12 just outside the points, just not. Peter Urban rated these facts as "a lot of bad luck". Despite the surprising disappointment in the end, neither saw any reason to question the system of combined ratings.

In a very similar way, Austria's contribution achieved middle places from 11 to 19 in 20 of the 39 country ratings. Although some juries rated the contribution very high, for example in Georgia and Latvia in 3rd place and in Belgium in 6th place, the weak televoting ( 25, 21, 26) as in Germany, ultimately only for combined places 13, 11 and 17 and thus zero points.

As early as 2010, in the year after the introduction of the current jury-televoting mixed evaluation, the EBU had published a table with fictitious points from pure jury or audience votes, from which the partly - according to the EBU - "significantly different point levels of juries and Televoters ”emerge. In contrast to the evaluation of the contributions from Germany and Austria in 2015, in which the mixed evaluation led to a significant devaluation overall, the combined evaluations in 2010 were regularly between the pure jury and televoting results, even if there were major deviations.

See also : "Split results of jury and televoting .28Finale.29" in the article Eurovision Song Contest 2010

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country	Reason and remarks	last participation
Andorra	The Andorran broadcaster Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra (RTVA) has confirmed that Andorra will not return to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015 either.	2009
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Although participation was first confirmed, Bosnian television BHRT decided not to return due to financial problems.	2012
Bulgaria	On December 19, 2014, the Bulgarian television station BNT confirmed that the funds required for participation had not been approved by the state. The deadline for the confirmation of participation had actually expired in October; The EBU Bulgaria had granted an additional cooling off period in order to be able to arrange a return to the ESC.	2013
Croatia	Croatian broadcaster HRT announced that Croatia would not return to the ESC in 2015 for financial reasons and poor results in the past.	2013
Lebanon	Lebanese TV station Télé Leban has confirmed that Lebanon will not debut in the Eurovision Song Contest. The Lebanese television broadcaster did not give a reason.	-
Liechtenstein	The head of the Liechtenstein television broadcaster 1 FL TV said in an interview that Liechtenstein would not take part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015. However, one is considering joining the EBU the following year and debuting at the Eurovision Song Contest.	-
Luxembourg	In 2015, Luxembourg and thus the broadcaster RTL will not return to the song contest. However, Maggy Nagel, Luxembourg's Minister of Culture, said it was time for Luxembourg to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest again. On October 28, 2014, Nagel again stated that there were no plans to return in the next few years. The country last participated in 1993 and has since been suspended for financial reasons.	1993
Morocco	On October 31, 2014, SNRT confirmed that Morocco would not return to the Eurovision Song Contest.	1980
Monaco	Contrary to rumors about a return to the ESC, the Monegasque television TMC Monte Carlo (TMC) has confirmed that Monaco will not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015 either.	2006
Slovakia	The Slovak television RTVS confirmed on May 23, 2014 that it will not return to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015.	2012
Turkey	On August 25, 2014, Yağmur Tüzün from TRT confirmed that Turkey would not participate in the ESC in 2015 for the third time in a row.	2012
Ukraine	The Ukrainian state television network NTU has confirmed that Ukraine will not compete in 2015 due to financial difficulties. Despite the presence of sponsors, they finally decided not to participate. One of the reasons given was the current crisis in the country .	2014

Others

Two traffic light women as part of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna

• On the occasion of the Eurovision Song Contest, the City of Vienna had the Ampelmännchen changed to traffic light pairs at 49 locations throughout Vienna, including same-sex couples. Because of the supposedly enormous popularity on the part of the tourists, but also because of an alleged advertising value, the traffic light pairs are to remain in their current form after the song contest on the initiative of Transport Councilor Maria Vassilakou (Greens).
•  Albania : The actual winning song of the Albanian preliminary decision (Festivali i Këngës 53) Diell was replaced by the song I'm Alive . The reason given by the interpreter Elhaida Dani was that the original song had been withdrawn by the composer's team and was no longer available for performance at the Eurovision Song Contest.
•  Armenia : The Genealogy group was the first group in the history of the competition whose members came from five different continents. The members were from Ethiopia, France, Japan, the United States, Australia and Armenia, among others. In addition, the title of the song was changed from Don't Deny to Face the Shadow .
•  Australia : Australia made its unofficial debut in 2014 with Jessica Mauboy as a break filler. On February 10, 2015, ORF and EBU confirmed that Australia would compete in the 2015 Song Contest. The country qualified directly for the final. If Australia had won the Song Contest, the subsequent competition would still have been held in Europe. However, in this case Australia would also have qualified for the 2016 competition.
•  Germany : The German preliminary decision, Our Song for Austria , actually won Andreas Kümmert with Heart of Stone . In the televoting he got more than two-thirds of the votes, but he refused to participate, so Ann Sophie moved up with the song Black Smoke .
•  Finland : The Finnish entry Aina mun pitää was the shortest entry in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest at 1:27 minutes.
•  Georgia and Malta : The Georgian (by Nina Sublatti ) and Maltese (by Amber ) contributions had the same title as Warrior . 
•  Georgia : During Nina Sublatti's appearance in the finale, the fog machine did not work properly, so Sublatti disappeared into the fog for a short time. Sublatti was angry on Facebook and some fans accused the organizers of sabotaging the performance; they also assumed that Georgia would have placed better without this mistake.
•  Greece and Cyprus : For the first time since 1997 , neither Greece nor Cyprus gave the other country 12 points. 
•  Iceland : Hera Björk , the Icelandic participant in the ESC 2010 , who reached 19th place in Oslo , supported María Ólafs as a background singer in 2015 .
•  Israel : With the song Golden Boy , an Israeli contribution to the Song Contest was only performed in English for the first time.
•  Montenegro : Željko Joksimović , who represented Serbia and Montenegro and Serbia , and who has already composed contributions for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, returned to the ESC as composer and lyricist of the Montenegrin contribution Adio . In addition, with this Knez set a new record for Montenegro. He was 13th place in the final with 44 points and trumped Sergej Ćetković , who reached 19th place in Copenhagen in 2014 .
•  Netherlands : The representative of the Netherlands at ESC 2013, Anouk , is the songwriter of the Dutch contribution Walk Along .
•  Russia : For the first time ever, the runner-up, in 2015 Russia with Polina Gagarina , got over 300 points in the final in addition to first place.
•  San Marino : Michele Perniola and Anita Simoncini were the youngest duo to date on the ESC stage. Together they were 32 years old (16 each), with which they undercut the youngest duo Gili & Galit , who participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 for Israel, by one year. Ralph Siegel was involved in the Eurovision Song Contest as a composer for the 24th time.
•  Serbia : For the first time in the history of Serbia at the contest, the entry was presented in English. So Bojana Stamenov sang the title Beauty Never Lies instead of the original title Ceo Svet Je Moj . She also published her song in Spanish, French and German.
•  Czech Republic : The Czech duet Marta Jandová / Václav Noid Bárta achieved a top ranking for their home country this year. They finished 13th in the semifinals, which trumps Tereza Kerndlová's 18th place in 2008.
• At the end of December 2014, a tram with the logo and inscription of the 60th Eurovision Song Contest 2015 was officially presented. It will be used regularly as a line vehicle until the end of May. It was also presented to a global television audience (50 million viewers in 92 countries) at the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2015 .
• In January 2015, a countdown tower was put into operation at Vienna's Rathausplatz , which indicated the remaining time until the final on May 23rd. The tower has a height of eight meters, a floor space of 3 × 3 meters and an LED video area of ​​23.6 square meters.
• The ORF transferred from 18 to 23 May 2015 at 20:15 a show entitled ESC live from a glass studio at the Vienna Stadthalle. With this show they wanted to bring the song contest closer to the audience. Among other things, Andi Knoll conducted interviews with the performers there and Kati Bellowitsch reported from the Euro-Club and -Village . Backstage videos were also shown.
• The Host City Insignia Exchange Ceremony took place on January 26, 2015 - a ceremonial act carried out for the eighth time in which representatives of a previous host country handed over the Host City Keys to the current host country, this year Denmark to Austria and Copenhagen to Vienna . This symbolically confirms that the Austrian capital is officially the venue for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. The semi-final allocations of the individual countries were then drawn.
• The delegation meeting of the European Broadcasting Union took place on March 16 and 17, 2015. During this process, some details were set, such as the dates of the two semifinals and the 2016 final. It was also determined that The Makemakes will have 14th place in the 2015 final. Furthermore, the EBU confirmed that all contributions were presented punctually and were presented to the public, with the exception of Montenegro . May 17, 2015 was confirmed as the day of the welcome reception in the Vienna City Hall. Andi Knoll and Kati Bellowitsch took over the moderation.
• Around 200 million people worldwide followed the three live programs on television.
• With a length of around four hours, the final was the longest in the history of the ESC to date.

National preliminary decisions

National preliminary decisions in German-speaking countries

Belgium

In Belgium, the selection of the song was made by an internal decision of the broadcaster RTBF .

Germany

→ Main article : Our song for Austria

The broadcast Our Song for Austria took place on March 5, 2015 at 8:15 p.m. in the TUI-Arena in Hanover and was broadcast by Das Erste .

Austria

→ Main article : Eurovision Song Contest - Who sings for Austria? (2015)

The final of the program Eurovision Song Contest - Who sings for Austria? took place on March 13, 2015 in Vienna and was broadcast by ORF .

Switzerland

On July 18, 2014, the Swiss Radio and Television (SRF) announced that the final of their preliminary decision will take place on January 31, 2015 in the Bodensee-Arena in Kreuzlingen . It was also announced that six participants will compete against each other in the final to represent Switzerland in Austria in 2015, for which they could apply between September 29 and October 27, 2014 by uploading their song on the SRF video platform . The national preliminary decision was organized by the Swiss television broadcasters SRF, RTR , RTS and RSI .

In a jury and internet vote, as well as in an internal selection of various Swiss television stations, 18 candidates were selected who came to the second phase of the preliminary decision. In this phase, the candidates sang in front of a jury and they chose six singers or bands to make it into the final show. Three representatives are selected by RTR / SRF, two representatives from RTS and one from RSI each.

In the finale, the finalists each presented their own song, while on their second appearance they presented a cover of a previously selected song. The representative for Switzerland was selected 50% by jury evaluation and 50% by tele-voting.

The following is the result of the Swiss preliminary decision:

space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	Cover	Channel
01.	05	Mélanie René	Time to Shine M / T: Mélanie René	Chandelier (original artist : Sia )	RTS
02.	02	Timebelle	Singing About Love M / T: Mihai Alexandru, Andrada Ioana	Rude Boy (Original artist: Rihanna )	SRF
03.	03	Licia Chery	Fly M / T: Léticia Andris	All About That Bass (Original artist : Meghan Trainor )	RTS
04th	04th	Andy McSean	Hey Now M / T: Andy Stadelmann	Chasing Cars (Original Artist: Snow Patrol )	SRF
05.	06th	Tiziana	Only Human M / T: Jesse Singer, Nick Banns, Chris Soper, Will Knox, Shayna Zaid	The Power of Love (Original Artist: Frankie Goes to Hollywood )	SRF
06th	01	Deborah Bough	Take Me Back to 23 M / T: Deborah Bough	Shake It Off (Original artist: Taylor Swift )	RSI

National preliminary decisions in all participating countries

The following table shows the mode in which the participating countries have chosen their interpreters. A total of 27 countries have decided on a national preliminary decision and 13 on an internal selection.

country	National preliminary decision
Albania	Festivali i Këngës 53 (performer), internal selection (song)
Armenia	internal selection
Azerbaijan	internal selection
Australia	internal selection
Belgium	internal selection
Denmark	Dansk Melodi Grand Prix
Germany	Our song for Austria
Estonia	Eesti Laul 2015
Finland	Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK)
France	internal selection
Georgia	Erovnuli Shesarcevi bankruptcy 2015
Greece	Eurosong - A NERIT & MAD Show 2015
Ireland	Eurosong - The Late Late Show
Iceland	Söngvakeppnin 2015
Israel	HaKokhav HaBa (הַכּוֹכָב הַבָּא)
Italy	Sanremo Festival 2015
Latvia	Supernova 2015
Lithuania	“Eurovizijos” dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka
Malta	Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Macedonia	Skopje Festival 2014
Moldova	O melody Pentru Europe
Montenegro	internal selection
Netherlands	internal selection
Norway	Melodi Grand Prix 2015
Austria	Eurovision Song Contest - Who sings for Austria? (2015)
Poland	internal selection
Portugal	Festival da Canção 2015
Romania	Selecția Nationăla 2015
Russia	internal selection
San Marino	internal selection
Sweden	Melodifestivalen 2015
Switzerland	The big decision show 2015
Serbia	Odbrojavanje za Beč
Slovenia	EMA 2015
Spain	internal selection
Czech Republic	internal selection
Hungary	A Dal 2015
United Kingdom	internal selection
Belarus	Eurofest 2015
Cyprus	Eurovision Song Project

transmission

Germany

The first and second semifinals were broadcast simultaneously by three channels for the first time, for the first time also on Einsfestival and on the two channels that broadcast last year, Phoenix and EinsPlus , here with sign language .

Broadcasts on German television

date	broadcast	Time	TV channel	Moderation / comment	spectator		Market share
					total	14 to 49 years	total	14 to 49 years
19th May 2015	First semi-final	9:00 p.m.	(Sign language)	Commentator: Peter Urban	0.56 million	0.11 million	1.4%	1.1%
May 21, 2015	Second semi-final	9:00 p.m.			0.71 million			2.5%
May 23, 2015	Countdown to Vienna	8:15 pm	(Sign language)	Moderation: Barbara Schöneberger	4.45 million	2.07 million	16.6%
	final	9:00 p.m.		Commentator: Peter Urban Points spokesperson: Barbara Schöneberger	8.11 million	3.81 million	34%	40.7%
	Grand Prix Party	1:00 a.m.		Moderation: Barbara Schöneberger	2.10 million	1.02 million	25.4%

The German jury consisted of Leslie Clio , Mark Forster , Swen Meyer , Ferris MC and jury president Johannes Strate .

Austria

The semi-finals and the final were broadcast on ORF one .

Broadcasts on Austrian television

date	broadcast	Time	TV channel	Moderation / comment	spectator		Market share
					total	14 to 49 years	total	14 to 49 years
19th May 2015	First semi-final	9:00 p.m.		Commentator: Andi Knoll	0.803 million		30%
May 21, 2015	Second semi-final	9:00 p.m.			0.896 million		34%
May 23, 2015	final	9:00 p.m.		Commentator: Andi Knoll Points spokesperson: Kati Bellowitsch	1.645 million		71%

The Austrian jury included Manuel Ortega (Austrian representative from 2002), Christian Deix, Vanessa Legenstein, Franziska Trost and, as chairman, Gary Lux , who represented Austria in 1985 and 1987.

Switzerland

In the German-speaking part of Switzerland, the first and second semi-finals were broadcast on SRF Two and the final on SRF 1 and Radio SRF 3 . As an alternative, the satirical radio commentary by Peter Schneider and Gabriel Vetter could also be heard on television via two-channel sound . In the French-speaking part of Switzerland, only the second semi-final was broadcast on RTS deux and the final on RTS un . In the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, only the second semi-final was broadcast on RSI LA 2 and the final on RSI LA 1 . The final broadcast was broadcast online for the first time in a live stream with sign language.

Broadcasts on Swiss television

date	broadcast	Time	TV channel	Moderation / comment	language
19th May 2015	1st semifinals	9:00 p.m.		Commentator: Sven Epiney	German
May 21, 2015	2nd semifinals	9:00 p.m.		Commentator: Sven Epiney	German
		9:00 p.m.		Commentary: Jean-Marc Richard, Nicolas Tanner	French
		9:00 p.m.		Commentary: Clarissa Tami, Paolo Meneguzzi	Italian
May 23, 2015	Countdown - 12 points for Aeschbacher	8:10 pm		Moderator: Kurt Aeschbacher	German
	final	9:00 p.m.		Commentator 1: Sven Epiney Commentator 2: Peter Schneider , Gabriel Vetter
		9:00 p.m.		Comment: Jean-Marc Richard, Nicolas Tanner Points spokeswoman: Laetitia Guarino	French
		9:00 p.m.		Commentary: Clarissa Tami, Paolo Meneguzzi	Italian

The Swiss jury included Georg Schlunegger (chairman), Simon Moser, Andrea Pärli, Rafaela Spitzli and Gabriel Broggini. The latter represented Switzerland in 2012 as a member of the Sinplus band .

International broadcast

International television broadcast

country	Commentator / moderator	Sender semifinals	Channel finale
participating countries
Albania	Andri Xhahu	RTSH	RTSH
Armenia	Aram Mp3 u. Erik Antaranyan (1st semi-final)	ARMTV	-
	Vahe Khanamiryan et al. Hermine Stepanyan (2nd semifinals)	ARMTV	-
	Avet Barseghyan et al. Arevik Udumyan	-	ARMTV
Azerbaijan	Kamran Guliyev	İTV	İTV
Australia	Julia Zemiro u. Sam Pang	SBS One	SBS One
Belgium	Peter van de Veire et al. Eva Daeleman ( Dutch )	Eén	Eén
	Jean-Louis Lahaye et al. Maureen Louys ( French )	La Une	La Une
Denmark	Ole Tøpholm	DR1	DR1
Estonia	Marko Reikop	ETV	ETV
Finland	Aino Töllinen u. Cristal Snow ( Finnish )	Yle TV2	Yle TV2
	Eva Frantz et al. Johan Lindroos ( Swedish )	Yle TV2	Yle TV2
France	Mareva Galanter u. Jérémy Parayre	France Ô	-
	Stéphane Bern u. Marianne James	-	France 2
Georgia	Lado Tatishvili et al. Tamuna Museridze	GPB First Channel	GPB First Channel
Greece	Maria Kozakou u. Giorgos Kapoutzidis	NERIT 1 / NERIT HD	NERIT 1 / NERIT HD
Ireland	Marty Whelan	RTÉ Two	RTÉ One
Iceland	Felix Bergsson	RÚV / Rás 2	RÚV / Rás 2
Israel	Hebrew and Arabic subtitles	Channel 1 / Channel 33	Channel 1 / Channel 33
Italy	Marco Ardemagni u. Filippo Solibello	Rai 4	-
	Federico Russo et al. Valentina Correani	-	Rai 2 / Rai HD
Latvia	Valters Frīdenbergs u. Toms Grēviņš	LTV1	LTV1
Lithuania	Darius Užkuraitis	LRT televizija	LRT televizija
Macedonia	Karolina Petkovska ( Macedonian )	MRT 1 / MRT Sat	MRT 1 / MRT Sat
	NN ( Albanian )	MRI 2	MRI 2
Moldova	Daniela Babici	Moldova 1	Moldova 1
Montenegro	Dražen Bauković u. Tamara Ivanković	TVCG 2 (1st semi-final) / TVCG 1 (2nd semi-final)	TVCG 1
Netherlands	Cornald Maas et al. Jan Smit	NPO 1 / BVN	NPO 1 / BVN
Norway	Olav Viksmo Slettan	NRK1	NRK1
	Ronny Brede Aase, Silje Riding Nordnes u. Markus Ekrem Neby	-	NRK3
Poland	Artur Orzech	TVP1 / TVP Polonia / TVP HD / TVP Rozrywka (one day later)	TVP1 / TVP Polonia / TVP HD / TVP Rozrywka (one day later)
Portugal	Hélder Reis	RTP1	RTP1
Romania	Bogdan Stănescu	TVR 1 / TVRi / TVR HD	TVR 1 / TVRi / TVR HD
Russia	Jana Tschurikowa u. Yuriy Aksyuta	Pervy canal (Первый канал)	Pervy canal (Первый канал)
San Marino	Lia Fiorio et al. Gigi Restivo	SMtv San Marino	SMtv San Marino
Sweden	Sanna Nielsen et al. Edward af Sillén	SVT 1	SVT 1
Serbia	Duška Vučinić	RTS 1 (1st semifinals) / RTS 2 (2nd semifinals) / RTS HD / RTS SAT	RTS 1 / RTS HD / RTS SAT
Slovenia	Andrej Hofer	RTV SLO2 (1st semi-final) / RTV SLO1 (2nd semi-final)	RTV SLO1
Spain	José Maria Iñigo u. Julia Varela	La 2	La 1
Czech Republic	Aleš Háma	ČT art	ČT1
Hungary	Gábor Gundel Takács	Duna TV	Duna TV
United Kingdom	Scott Mills et al. Mel Giedroyc	BBC Three	-
	Graham Norton	-	BBC One
Belarus	Evgeny Perlin	Belarus-1 / Bearus-24	Belarus-1 / Belarus-24
Cyprus	Melina Karageorgiou	RIK 1 / RIK SAT / RIK HD / Trito Programma	RIK 1 / RIK SAT / RIK HD / Trito Programma
Countries not participating
Andorra	José María Íñigo u. Julia Varela	La 2	La 1
	Stéphane Bernand u. Marianne James	-	France 2
Bulgaria	NN	-	BNT
Canada	Tommy D et al. Adam Homorazzi	OUTtv	OUTtv
New Zealand	-	BBC UKTV	BBC UKTV
Ukraine	Timur Miroschnytschenko  and Tetiana Terekhova	Perschyj Nazionalnyj	Perschyj Nazionalnyj
People's Republic of China	Liang Qiaobo et al. Wu Zhoutong	Hunan TV	Hunan TV

International radio broadcast

country	Commentator / moderator	Sender semifinals	Channel finale
Estonia	Mart Juur et al. Andrus Kivirahk	Raadio 2 (1st semi-final)	Raadio 2
Finland	Aino Töllinen ( Finnish )	Yle Radio Suomi	Yle Radio Suomi
	Eva Frantz et al. Johan Lindroos ( Swedish )	Yle Radio Vega	Yle Radio Vega
Ireland	Shay Byrne et al. Zbyszek Zalinski	RTÉ Radio 1 (2nd semi-final)	RTÉ Radio 1
Israel	Kobi Menorah a. Yuval Caspin (1st semi-final)	88 FM	-
	Kobi Menorah a. Tal Argaman (2nd semi-final)	88 FM	-
	Kobi menorah	-	88 FM
Italy	Marco Ardemagni u. Filippo Solibello	Rai Radio 2	Rai Radio 2
Macedonia	Karolina Petkovska	Radio Skopje	Radio Skopje
Moldova	NN	Radio Moldova Actualități / Radio Moldova Muzical / Radio Moldova Tineret	Radio Moldova Actualități / Radio Moldova Muzical / Radio Moldova Tineret
Norway	Per Sundnes	-	NRK P1
San Marino	NN	Radio San Marino	Radio San Marino
Ukraine	NN	Ukrainian Radio ( Ukrainian Radio )	Ukrainian Radio ( Ukrainian Radio )
United Kingdom	Ana Matronic	BBC Radio 2 Eurovision	-
	Ken Bruce	-	BBC Radio 2 / BBC Radio 2 Eurovision

Awards

• Austrian Event Award in gold
• Austrian Green Event Award special prize

See also

• List of winners and events of the Eurovision Song Contest
• Eurovision Song Contest

Web links

Commons : Eurovision Song Contest 2015  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Photo gallery: That was the Eurovision Song Contest 2015  - message

• ESC-2015-grand_final-full_results.xls. List of all votes in the "Grand Final" as an Excel table on www.eurovision.tv (330 KB, 1055 lines)
• PUBLIC RULES OF THE 60TH EUROVISION SONG CONTEST. Rules as a PDF document on www.eurovision.tv (450 KB)
• Eurovision Song Contest Vienna 2015 at Eurovision (English)
• Eurovision Song Contest Vienna 2015 at the organizer ORF
• Eurovision Song Contest Vienna 2015 on ARD

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Vienna 2015 slogan revealed , eurovision.tv
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5. ↑ ^{a b} Public rules of the 60th Eurovision Song Contest. (PDF, 447 kB) ( English ) Public rules of the 60th Eurovision Song Contest. (No longer available online.) Eurovision (eurovision.tv), p. 5 , archived from the original on April 30, 2015 ; accessed on May 15, 2015 . 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. Section 1.4 "Procedure in case of a tie in the semi-finals or in the final"   
6. ↑ Oikotimes.com: Eurovision 2015: Dates confirmed, host city soon ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from July 23, 2014  
7. ^ Kurier.at: Difficult location search for Song Contest from May 12, 2014
8. ↑ Vienna.at: Finding the Euro Vision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna's Stadthalle? from May 11, 2014
9. ↑ News.at: Song Contest 2015: Where should the event take place? from May 12, 2014
10. ↑ Rosenheim24.de: ESC 2015 will probably not take place in Salzburg on May 13, 2014
11. ↑ Kurier.at: ESC 2015 will not be an open-air event on May 20, 2014
12. ↑ Castingshow-news.de: ESC 2015 - Possible locations from June 9, 2014
13. ↑ Vienna.at: An overview of possible locations for the Eurovision Song Contest 2015.
14. ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt.at: Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Graz or Innsbruck ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) from June 21, 2014
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18. ^ City of Vienna increases marketing budget, September 3, 2014
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20. ↑ Ticket sales start on Monday. In: wien.orf.at. December 11, 2014, accessed December 11, 2014 . 
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22. ↑ Eurovision theme artwork is presented. In: escunited.com. November 25, 2014, accessed November 25, 2014 . 
23. ↑ How will Eurovision 2015 introduce the entries?
24. ↑ Pre-order the Eurovision digital album now!
25. ↑ Building Bridges in the iTunes Store
26. ↑ The song contest stage will build a bridge ( memento of the original from December 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , kurier.at 
27. ↑ How will Eurovision 2015 stage look like? See it for yourself! , eurovision.tv
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29. ↑ Eurovision's Greatest Hits: Riverdance To Perform  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , eurovoix.com  
30. ↑ diepresse.com - Weichselbraun, Tumler and Kiesbauer moderate the 2015 Song Contest . Article dated December 19, 2014, accessed December 19, 2014.
31. ↑ ^{a b} Eurovision 2015: Kati Bellowitsch and Andi Knoll; pivotal roles in the contest from January 24, 2015
32. ↑ Song Contest 2015 - Edgar Böhm: EBU happy about the ORF team on tt.com, June 6, 2014 (literally: "recently")
33. ↑ Oikotimes.com: The application deadline has been brought forward. ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
34. ↑ Eurovision 2015: 39 countries represented in Vienna , Eurovision.tv
35. ↑ The timetable for the 2015 Song Contest. In: wien.orf.at. January 3, 2015, accessed January 3, 2015 . 
36. ↑ http://wiwibloggs.com/2015/04/30/new-delegations-morocco-kazahstan-kosovo-tunisia-2016/92708/
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38. ↑ Euro Vision 2015: Host Insignia ceremony and semi-final allocation draw on January 26, January 26, 2015 (English)
39. ↑ ^{a b} Nina Sublatti - A "Warrior" for feminism and honesty , eurovision.tv
40. ↑ Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Semi-Final (1) - Scoreboard. In: Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union , May 19, 2014, accessed May 24, 2015 . 
41. ↑ Amber celebrates female warriors on international Women's Day , WIWIBLOGGS.com
42. ↑ Eurovision Song Contest 2014 Semi-Final (2) - Scoreboard. In: Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union , May 21, 2015, accessed May 24, 2015 . 
43. ↑ Sensation: Australia competes in Vienna . ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. In: ORF.at , accessed on February 10, 2015. 
44. ↑ Opening greetings from all over Austria .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: orf.at .  
45. ↑ Finalshow bridges the gap from classical to pop  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , songcontest.orf.at  
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52. ↑ Finland: Krista Siegfrids Will Announce The Finnish Vote
53. ↑ Helena Paparizou to be Greek spokesperson
54. ^ Portugal: Suzy Is This Years Spokesperson , eurovoix.com
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56. ↑ Andri Xhahu: “Elhaida Dani është një potencial. Fitorja! Gjithçka është e mundur… ” , INFOMEDIA ALBANIA
57. ^ Estonia: Tanja To Announce The Results , Eurovoix.com
58. ↑ Denmark: Basim to announce Danish points on May23 , WIWIBLOGGS.com
59. ↑ ESC 2015: Laetitia Guarino is Switzerland's point fee , SRF.ch
60. ^ France: Virginie Guilhaume To Announce The Points
61. ↑ Sweden: Mariette to be spokesperson at Eurovision 2015 , Wiwibloggs.com
62. ↑ Deutsche Punktefee 2015: Barbara succeeds Helene
63. ↑ Lee Lin Chin revealed as Eurovision spokesperson for Australia! , Wiwibloggs.com 
64. ↑ Lara Siscar dará los votos de España en Eurovisión , ecoteuve.eleconomista.es (Spanish)
65. ↑ Andi Knoll and Kati Bellowitsch at the "Eurovision Song Contest"
66. ↑ United Kingdom: Nigella Lawson to announce British points , Wiwibloggs.com
67. ↑ Georgia: Natia Bunturi will announce the Georgian votes!
68. ↑ Lietuvių balsus "Eurovizijos" finalininkams skelbs Ugnė Galadauskaitė: pakeitė Igną Krupavičių , 15min.lt (Lithuanian)
69. ^ Netherlands: Edsilia Rombley to Present Dutch points , Wiwibloggs.com
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80. ↑ Bosnia and Herzegovina wants not return to Eurovision 2015
81. ↑ Bulgaria: BNT will not participate in Eurovision 2015 (English)
82. ↑ Croatia: HRT will not participate Eurovision 2015 , esctoday.com
83. ↑ Lebanon: Télé Liban will not participate in Eurovision 2015 , esctoday.com
84. ^ Liechtenstein: 1 FL TV will not debut eurovision 2015
85. ↑ Luxembourg: RTL does not want to return to Eurovision in 2015
86. ↑ Luxembourg culture minister agrees to the country's return ( Memento of the original of October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (English) 
87. ↑ Luxembourg is not planning a eurovision return (English)
88. ↑ Morocco: SNRT will not return to Eurovision in 2015 (English)
89. ↑ Esctoday.com: Monaco: TMC will not return to Eurovision in 2015 from June 20, 2014 (Catalan)
90. ↑ Eurovoix.com: Slovakia: No Return in 2015 from May 26, 2014 (English)
91. ↑ Eurofire Blog: Turkey: Official Statement on Vienna 2015 ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. from August 25, 2014 (German)  
92. ↑ Ukraine withdraws ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
93. ↑ Ukraine cancels ESC 2015
94. ↑ Mika Newton Producer: I will pay for and arrange Ukraine's Eurovision participation , wiwibloggs.com
95. ↑ Vassilakou: Vienna traffic light couple stay
96. ↑ What are Australia's plans for Vienna? ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
97. ↑ Australia at Eurovision 2015: ORF confirms participation from the Aussies , Wiwibloggs.com
98. ↑ San Marino sends the youngest ESC duo , eurovision.de
99. ↑ Australia competes in Vienna ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , songcontest.orf.at 
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102. ^ Vienna officially becomes Host City , Eurovision.tv
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114. ↑ ^{a b c} List of all this year's ESC jurors  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the EBU (PDF file)  
115. ↑ Knoll and Bellowitsch in constant use ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
116. ↑ Top 5 most viewed programs ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , mediaresearch.orf.at  
117. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
118. ^ "Eurovision Song Contest" 2015 - The Countdown, April 23, 2015 Information from SRF on the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest
119. ↑ ОТВ не будет транслировать «Евровидение-2015» из-за пожара
120. ^ Belgium: Commentators for VRT revealed today , esctoday.com
121. ↑ Eurovisiooni lauluvõistlus 2015 , kava.ee (Estonian)
122. ↑ Euroviisukommentaattoreina Yle TV2: lla Aino Töllinen ja Cristal Snow , yle.fi (Finnish)
123. ↑ First Channel of GPB will air the 2015 ESC Live ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , eurovision-georgia.ge 
124. ↑ Marty Whelan insists: 'We could win the Eurovision this year' ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , GOSS.ie 
125. ↑ Felix Bergsson kynnir Eurovision , VISIR.is (Icelandic)
126. ↑ Eurovision 2015 in Vienna on Kanal Eins ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , iba.org.il (Hebrew)  
127. ↑ Eirovīziju komentēs Grēviņš un Frīdenbergs , SKATIES.lv (Latvian)
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129. ↑ Даниел ја носи Америка Евровизија 2015 ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , novamakedonija.com.mk 
130. ^ Farewell Party cu Eduard Romanyuta , trm.md
131. ↑ The Netherlands: AvroTros in search for candidate 2015 , esctoday.com
132. ↑ Hélder Reis será o comentador português da Eurovisão , media.rtp.pt
133. ↑ Comunicat de presă - Eurovision 2015 , AGERPRES.ro
134. ↑ San Marino RTV, al commento ancora Lia Fiorio e Gigi Restivo , eurofestivalnews.com
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136. ↑ - Susret Srbije i Austrije u Beogradu ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (Serbian) 
137. ↑ Evrovizijsko obarvan program Televizije Slovenija , RTV SLO.si
138. ↑ Julia Varela acompañará a José María Íñigo como comentarista de TVE para Eurovisión 2015 , rtve.es
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140. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
141. ↑ Eurovision: Με συμμετοχή της Ελλάδας ο 1ος ημιτελικός , RIK news.com.cy
142. ↑ CANALES TDT ANDORRA , TDT1.com
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144. ↑ Canada: OUTtv To Broadcast Eurovision 2015 , EUROVOIX.com
145. ^ New Zealand: Will Broadcast Eurovision 2015 Live , eurovoix.com
146. ↑ China: Live broadcast at four in the morning ( memento of the original from May 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , EUROFIRE 
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