For all those people who are interested in the Eurovision Song
Contest, here are the details for 2000.
Links to other Pages. More Links at bottom of
page.
Well done to Charlotte Nilsson singing Take
Me To Your Heaven for Sweden
in the 1999 contest.
This meant that the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was held in
the "Stockholm Globen Arena" or another name for it
'The Globe' in Stockholm, Swedenon the 13th of
May 2000 at 20:00 GMT (21:00 CET).
The presenters will be Anders Lundin and Kattis
Ahlström.
The draw for the 2000 contest was made on 21 November 1999 at
17:15 GMT and here are the draw order.
Pre Internet Voting for the 2000
contest. Top 5 Results as shown below.
Out of 1,211 votes, 699 were invalid, due to incorrect email
address or vote more than once for the same country.
FYROM (Former Yugoslavia
Republic of Macedonia)
100% Te Ljubam (I Love You 100%)
XXL
Macedonian
165
United Kingdom
Don't Play That Song Again
Nikki French
English
101
Estonia
Once in a Lifetime
Eda Ines
English
93
Bookmakers
Favourite
Malta
Desire
Claudette Pace
English/Maltese
78
Netherlands
No Goodbyes
Linda Wagenmakers
English
74
Looking at the pre internet voting against the
actual results, FYR Macedonia was well out, so is the United
Kingdom entry. Estonia was the best bet for the top 5.
After Internet Voting for the 2000
contest. Top 5 Results as shown below.
Out of 705 votes, 159 were invalid, due to incorrect email
address or vote more than once for the same country.
Russia
Solo
Alsou
English
82
Latvia
My Star
BrainStorm
English
76
Estonia
Once in a Lifetime
Eda Ines
English
52
Bookmakers
Favourite
Denmark
Fly On The Wings of Love
Olsen Brothers
English
45
Iceland
Tell Me
Einer Agust vioisson &
Telma Agustsdottir
English
41
Looking at the after internet voting against
the actual results, voters perfer Russia and strangly Latvia.
Estonia should come a lot higher that they did.
Here are the list of songs, UK Betting
Odds and Internet Poll
Before contest voting between 10 March to 8 May 2000
After contest voting between 14 May to 4 June 2000.
Italy cannot enter the Eurovision Song
Contest 2000 contest as they did not broadcast the 1999 contest. Hungary,
Slovakia and Greece has withdrawn from Eurovision Song
Contest 2000 because of the cost but were offered the chance..
All other countries are also forbidden entry to the 2000 contest.
Luxembourg and Yugoslavia are
no longer members of the EBU hence they cannot enter any more
contest
As like 1999, the songs can be sung in any language. I assume
that English will be used the most.
Tickets went on Sale on 22 November 1999, however, rumours has
it that they have sold out already! It is only 23 November 1999!
So far, at least 17 countries qualify for the 2001 contest,
including United Kingdom, Ireland, Israel, Finland, France,
Germany, Spain, Bosnia. Full list will appear here soon.
Update 1999 contest.
There has been problems with the Croatian song in 1999 with
"Marija Magdalena", due to the backing tracks used in
the contest. There seems to be a male voice in the backing track,
but there wasn't a male singer on stage. This has mean that
Croatia has their points reduced by 33%. This means that their
new score is now 78 or 79 points. The Croatia song can stay at 4th
place, however, this will affect their average score for future
contest.
Details are appearing here. If anyone has any bit of
information about the 2000 contest, please get in touch. Email
address is at the bottom of this page.
Acknowledgement
Many thanks to the following people regarding information
about the 2000 contest.
Christoph from Belgium, Noam and Nirgolan from Israel, Peter
Hagander from Sweden for the correct translation of the Globe
Arena.
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