Eurovision Song Contest 2001 Details Page


For all those people who are interested in the Eurovision Song Contest, here are the details for 2001.

Links to other Pages. More Links at bottom of page.

Well done to the Estonia singing Everybody by Tanel Padar & Dave Benton in the 2001 contest.

The date for the 2001 contest was on Saturday 12 May 2001 and was held at Copenhagen at the Parken Stadium, a very big football stadium with a roof!. The presenters are Natasja Crone Back (Presenter of the dansk melodi grand prix 2000) and Søren Pilmark.

For 2001 results, please click here.

For UK and Ireland Selection Details, please click here.

For the 2001 official rules (PDF Format), please click here.

For 2001 song lyrics, please click here.

Tickets went on sale on Monday 27th November 2000 at 10am (CET), 9am(UK). 35,000 tickets were available. All tickets were SOLD OUT in One Day, well in 55 minutes!


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There will be 23 countries in the 2001 contest. The date for the draw was held on 20 November 2000 in Copenhagen.

Pre Internet Voting for the 2001 contest. Top 5 Results as shown below.
13 March - 12 May 2001
Out of 2,584 possible votes

Greece Die For You Antique Greek and English 600 (22%) Bookmakers
Favourite
France Je N'ai Qu'une âme Natasha Saint-Pierre French 270 (10%)
Croatia Strune Ljubavi Vanna English 255 (9%)
Bosnia Herzegovina Hano Nino Pršeš Bosnian 220 (8%)
Malta Another Summer Night Fabrizio Faniello English 206 (8%)

Looking at the pre internet voting against the actual results, Greece ended up in 3rd place, France came 4th place, Croatia came 10th place, Bosnia Herzegovina came 14th place and Malta came 9th place.

Pre Internet Voting for the 2001 contest. Top 5 Results as shown below.
13 May - 17 June 2001
Out of 719 possible votes

Greece Die For You Antique Greek and English 250 (34%) Bookmakers
Favourite
France Je N'ai Qu'une âme Natasha Saint-Pierre French 118 (16%)
Estonia Everybody Tanel Padar & Dave Benton English 74 (10%) WINNER
Denmark Never Ever Let You Go Rollo & King English 36 (5%)
Solvenia Energy Nusa Derenda English 34 (5%)

Looking at the post internet voting against the actual results, Greece ended up in 3rd place, France came 4th place, Estonia won, Denmark came 2nd place and Solvenia came 7th place.

Here were the running order.

Draw Order Country Date of Final Song Artist Language Betting Odds Internet
Poll

27 April

12 May

Before After
1 Netherlands 3 March 2001 Out On My Own Michelle English 20/1 33/1 67 10
2 Iceland 17 February 2001 Angel Two Tricky English 14/1 14/1 88 14
3 Bosnia Herzegovina 10 March 2001 Hano
(Hannah)
Nino Pršeš Bosnian 66/1 100/1 220 6
4 Norway 24 February 2001 On My Own Haldor Lægreid English 18/1 33/1 20 6
5 Israel 28 December 2000 Ein Davar
(Never Mind)
Tal Sundak Hebrew 20/1 50/1 28 6
6 Russia Date Unknown Lady Alpine Blue Mumiy Troll English 20/1 20/1 20 18
7 Sweden 23 February 2001 Lyssna Till Ditt Hjärta
(Listen to your heartbeat)
Friends English 5/2 9/4 130 21
8 Lithuania 9 March 2001 You Got Style Skamp English 20/1 50/1 24 11
9 Latvia 24 February 2001 Too Much Arnis Mednis English 33/1 66/1 11 12
10 Croatia 4 March 2001 Strune Ljubavi
(The Strings of My Heart)
Vanna English 20/1 33/1 255 9
11 Portugal 7 March 2001 Eu Só Sei
(I Only Know How To Be Happy This Way)
MTM Portuguese 50/1 66/1 16 5
12 Ireland 25 February 2001 Without Your Love Gary O'Shaughnessy English 18/1 12/1 28 4
13 Spain 23 February 2001 Dile Que La Quiero
(Tell her that I love her)
David Civera Spanish 18/1 12/1 45 21
14 France No Final Je N'ai Qu'une âme
(I've only got my soul)
Natasha Saint-Pierre French 5/1 9/2 270 118
15 Turkey 23 February 2001 Sevgiliye Son
(End to the Lover)
Sedat Yüce Turkish 66/1 66/1 36 6
16 United Kingdom 11 March 2001 No Dream Impossible Lindsay Dracass English 7/1 9/1 195 21
17 Slovenia 23-24 February 2001 Energy Nusa Derenda English 13/2 7/1 187 34
18 Poland No Final Z Kims Takim
(Too Long)
Andrzej 'Piasek' Piaseczny English 12/1 40/1 13 5
19 Germany 2 March 2001 Wer Liebe Lebt
(Where Love Lives)
Michelle German 16/1 20/1 35 9
20 Estonia 3 February 2001 Everybody Tanel Padar & Dave Benton English 28/1 25/1 50 74
21 Malta 2-3 February 2001 Another Summer Night Fabrizio Faniello English 11/1 9/1 206 23
22 Greece 6 March 2001 Die For You Antique Greek and English 10/1 2/1 600 250
23 Denmark 17 February 2001 Det står et billede af dig på mit bord
(Never Ever Let You Go)
Rollo & King English 8/1 6/1 40 36

The presenters will be Natasja Crone Back and Søren Pilmark

Thanks for Julien Ricca, Noam from Israel, Erika Olsson from Sweden, alfonsu from Spain, Jesper Bexkens from the Netherlands and Alex Latham from the UK for the above info.

All songs must be decided by 11 March.

Here is the situation regarding the varies of Countries before the full country list were known.

2000 Winner Denmark
Automatic Qualification regardless of score France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom,
Automatic Qualification due to disqualification from 2000 Bosnia Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia
Automatic Qualification if interested Greece
Qualified for 2001 Israel, Netherlands, Estionia, Malta, Norway, Russia, Iceland, Croatia, Sweden, Latvia, Turkey, Ireland
Disqualified from 2001 Romania, Belgium, Cyprus, Switzerland, FYR Macedonia, Finland, Austria
Did not broadcast 2000 contest, hence automatic disqualification Hungary, Slovakia
No Longer Interested in taking part. Italy
No Longer EBU members Luxembourg, Yugoslavia
Active Members of the EBU. Can enter if they wish Tunisia, Albania, Algeria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Monaco, Morocco, San Marino, Syria, Vatican State, Ukraine

For 2001 results, please click here.

For UK and Ireland Selection Details, please click here.

For 2001 song lyrics, please click here.


The full jury score sheet can be downloaded from here, including the entries. Please click here for details.


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