Monaco at the Eurovision Song Contest
- Broadcasting company
- First participation
- 1959
- Last participation so far
- 2006
- Number of participations
- 24 (as of 2006)
- Highest ranking
- 1 ( 1971 )
- Highest Score
- 128 (1971)
- Lowest Score
- 0 ( 1966 )
- Points average (since first post)
- 32.67 (as of 2006)
- Average points per voting country in the 12-point system
- 1.89 (as of 2006)
This article deals with the history of Monaco as a participant in the Eurovision Song Contest .
Regularity of participation and successes in competition
Monaco first took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1959. However, the debut was not very successful. Jacques Pills came last with one point. The country was all the more successful in 1960 when it reached third place. In 1961, on the other hand, it only reached 10th place out of 16, making it only average. In 1962 the result was even better, as the Monegasque contribution reached second place. In 1963, the Monegasque contribution was a complete success and reached number 5. In 1964, the third place was achieved for the second time. In 1965, however, the country ended up exactly in the middle of the field and only reached 9th place out of 18. 1966 then followed a shared last place with Italy and zero points. The years after that were all the more successful.
In 1967 the country reached 5th place again. In 1968, however, it was only 7th out of 17. In 1969 the Monegasque contribution reached 6th place. In 1980 the result was again only an average of 8th out of 12. The country was all the more successful in 1971. Séverine won with their song Un banc, un arbre, une rue the victory for the small country and with 128 points the highest score for the country to date. In 1972, when Great Britain held the Song Contest instead of Monaco, only the third from last place was achieved. In 1973, a good result was achieved again with place 8 out of 17. In 1974, the country just missed a place in the top three and took fourth place. In 1975, however, the Monegasque contribution only reached 13th place from 19.1976 Mary Cristy then took third place for Monaco in the competition. In 1977 and 1978 the Monegasque entries reached 4th place again. 1979 followed with 16th place out of 19th, the worst result since 1972. In 1980 the country withdrew from the song contest out of disinterest and only returned 24 years later.
However, the return in 2004 was not very successful. Maryon only reached 19th place out of 22 and was eliminated in the semifinals. Also the contribution 2005 could only reach the penultimate place in the semi-finals and thus did not reach the final either. Séverine Ferrer 2006 also failed to reach the final, which meant that Monaco had three consecutive poor results. After these failures, the country withdrew from the competition in 2007. The reason given by Monegasque television was the poor chances of success and the imbalance of the rating system. Since then Monaco has not participated in the Song Contest.
A total of 14 of the 24 entries ended up in the left half of the table. In addition, the country missed the final three times and has never qualified for the final since the semifinals were introduced. In addition, the country has come in last twice so far. Nevertheless, the country has won the competition once and has reached 3rd place three times, making Monaco one of the average successful countries in the competition.
List of posts
Color legend: - 1st place. - 2nd place. - 3rd place. - Equal points with last place. - Eliminated in the semifinals / in the qualification / in the Eastern European preliminary decision. - no participation / not qualified.
year | Interpreter | Title Music (M) and Text (T) |
language | translation | final | Semi-final / qualification |
National preliminary decision |
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space | Points | space | Points | ||||||
1959 | Jacques Pills |
Mon ami Pierrot M: Florence Veran; T: Raymond Bravard |
French | My friend Pierrot | 11/11 | 1 | Direct participation | internal selection | |
1960 | François Deguelt |
Ce soir-là M: Hubert Giraud; T: Pierre Dorsey |
French | On that evening | 3/13 | 15th | internal selection | ||
1961 | Colette Deréal |
Allons, allons les enfants M: Hubert Giraud; T: Pierre Delanoë |
French | Up, up, children | 10/16 | 6th | internal selection | ||
1962 | François Deguelt |
Dis rien M: Henri Salvador; T: René Rouzaud |
French | Don't say anything | 2/16 | 13 | internal selection | ||
1963 | Françoise Hardy |
L'amour s'en va M / T: Françoise Hardy |
French | Love passes | 5/16 | 25th | internal selection | ||
1964 | Romuald |
Où sont-elles passées? M: Francis Lai; T: Pierre Barouh |
French | Where did you go? | 3/16 | 15th | internal selection | ||
1965 | Marjorie Noël |
Va dire à l'amour M: Raymond Bernard; T: Jacques Mareuil |
French | Go tell love | 9/18 | 7th | internal selection | ||
1966 | Tereza |
Bien plus fort M: Gérard Bourgeois; T: Jean-Max Rivière |
French | Much stronger | 17/18 | 0 | internal selection | ||
1967 | Minouche Barelli |
Boum Badaboum M / T: Serge Gainsbourg |
French | Boom-badabumm | 5/17 | 10 | internal selection | ||
1968 | Line & Willy |
A chacun sa chanson M: Jean-Claude Oliver; T: Rolande Valade |
French | Each his own song | 7/17 | 8th | internal selection | ||
1969 | Jean-Jacques |
Maman, maman M / T: Jo Perrier |
French | Mom mom | 6/16 | 11 | internal selection | ||
1970 | Dominique Dussault |
Marlène M: Eddie Barclay, Jimmy Walter; T: Henri Dijan |
French | Marlene Dietrich) | 8/12 | 5 | internal selection | ||
1971 | Severine |
Un banc, un arbre, une rue M: Jean-Pierre Bourtayre; T: Yves Dessca |
French | A bench, a tree, a road | 1 /18 | 128 | internal selection | ||
1972 |
Anne-Marie Godart & Peter McLane |
Comme on s'aime M: Raymond Bernard; T: Jean Drejac |
French | How we love each other | 16/18 | 65 | internal selection | ||
1973 | Marie |
Un train qui part M: Bernard Liamis; T: Boris Bergman |
French | A train that is leaving | 8/17 | 85 | internal selection | ||
1974 | Romuald |
Celui qui reste et celui qui s'en va M: Jean-Pierre Bourtayre; T: Michel Jourdan |
French | The one who leaves and the one who stays | 4/17 | 14th | internal selection | ||
1975 | Sophie |
Une chanson c'est un lettre M: André Popp; T: Boris Bergman |
French | A song is a letter | 13/19 | 22nd | internal selection | ||
1976 | Mary Cristy |
Toi, la musique et moi M: Georges Costa; T: Gilbert Sinoué |
French | You, the music and me | 3/18 | 93 | internal selection | ||
1977 | Michèle Torr |
Une petite Française M: Paul de Senneville, Olivier Toussaint; T: Jean Albertini |
French | A little French woman | 4/18 | 96 | internal selection | ||
1978 |
Caline & Olivier Toussaint |
Dans les jardins de Monaco M: Paul de Senneville, Olivier Toussaint; T: Jean Albertini, Didier Barbelivien |
French | In Monaco's gardens | 4/20 | 107 | internal selection | ||
1979 | Laurent Vaguener |
Notre vie c'est la musique M: Paul de Senneville, Jean Baudlot; T: Jean Albertini, Didier Barbelivien |
French | Our life is music | 16/19 | 12 | internal selection | ||
1980 to 2003 |
No participation | ||||||||
2004 | Maryon |
Notre planète M: Philippe Bosco; T: Patrick Sassier |
French | Our planet | Eliminated | 19/22 | 10 | internal selection | |
2005 | Lise Darly |
Tout de moi M / T: Philippe Bosco |
French | All of me | Eliminated | 24/25 | 22nd | internal selection | |
2006 | Severine Ferrer |
La Coco-Dance M / T: J. Woodfeel, Iren Bo |
French, Tahitian | The coco dance | Eliminated | 21/24 | 14th | internal selection | |
since 2007 |
No participation |
National preliminary decision
Besides Morocco, Monaco is the only country that has ever taken part in the Song Contest and never held a national preliminary decision. Thus, all the contributions from Monegasque television were selected internally.
languages
Monaco remained true to its national language, French, even in years when there was no official language regulation (1973 to 1976 and since 1999). All contributions were partly sung in French, most of them entirely. Only in 1970 were the song Marlène - which was about Marlene Dietrich - a few words in English and German. The last post in 2006 contained a few words in Tahitian. Versions of many songs have been recorded in other languages, mainly German, English, Spanish and Italian.
Attendees
Hardly any of the Monegasque representatives came from the principality with around 30,000 inhabitants, most of them came from France , Tereza from what was then Yugoslavia . The well-known exception is the Monegasque singer Maryon. The only winner singer Séverine comes from France. She later said she had never been to Monaco before the competition and was never invited by the TV station after her victory.
Scoring
The following countries received the most points from or gave the most points to Monaco (as of 2006):
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Award of the highest rating
Since 1975, Monaco has given top marks to six different countries, two of them France and two of the United Kingdom.
Sustaining land | ||
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year | country | space |
1975 | United Kingdom | 2 |
1976 | France | 2 |
1977 | United Kingdom | 2 |
1978 | Belgium | 2 |
1979 | Germany | 4th |
1980 to 2003 |
No participation | |
2004 | France | 15th |
2005 | Israel | 4th |
2006 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3 |
since 2007 | No participation |
various
- In 1963, Françoise Hardy was the first woman in the competition to present a contribution she composed and wrote.
- Besides Monaco, both Romuald and Michèle Torr represented the small state of Luxembourg. Both performers are originally from France.
- Monaco is the only country that won the competition but never held it. Since Monaco saw no way to host the Eurovision Song Contest in 1972, the host role was given to the BBC and Great Britain.
- Monaco was the first winner to score over 100 points.
literature
- Jan Feddersen: A song can be a bridge . Hoffmann and Campe, 2002
- Eurovision Song Contest Athens 2006: The official Fanbook
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eurovision Song Contest Helsinki 2007 - Exclusive: Monaco - it's not the money! ( Memento from January 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Text Marlene
- ^ Text La coco-dance
- ↑ List of the participation of Monaco