Eurovision Song Contest 2006
On Thursday 18th and Saturday 20th May 2006 the 51st Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Olympic Indoor Arena in Athens (Greece), hosted by Maria Menounos and Sakis Rouvas.
The format of the contest is a preliminary qualifying round and the grand final. 14 participants have directly qualified for the grand final. They are the host nation (and 2005 contest winner) Greece, the 4 main European Broadcasting Union members United Kingdom, Germany, France and Spain, along with the 9 highest ranked countries of the 2005 contest results: Malta, Romania, Israel, Latvia, Moldova, Switzerland, Norway, Denmark and Croatia (Serbia & Montenegro withdrew). The remainder 10 participants are in the qualifying round.
QUALIFYING ROUND (Thursday 18 May 2006).
The 23 participants in this qualifying round are:
- participants returning from exclusion Poland, Slovenia, Belarus, Ireland, Netherlands, Iceland, Portugal, Finland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Belgium, Andorra, Monaco and Lithuania. Austria did not enter.
- lowest-ranked countries from the 2005 ESC results Turkey, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Russia, Albania, Macedonia, Cyprus, Ukraine and Sweden. Hungary did not enter.
- debut country Armenia.
The points score of the top 10 participants remain undisclosed until after the grand final. The participants proceding to the grand final are marked in red.
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Armenia Bulgaria Slovenia Andorra Belarus Albania Belgium Ireland Cyprus Monaco Macedonia Poland Russia Turkey Ukraine Finland Netherlands Lithuania Portugal Sweden Estonia Bosnia-Herzegovina Iceland |
Andre - Without Your Love Mariana Popova - Let Me Cry Anzej Dezan - Mr Nobody Jenny - Sense Tu Polina Smolava - Ma Luiz Ejilli - Zjarr E Ftohte Kate Ryan - Je t'adore Brian Kennedy - Every Song is a Cry for Love Annette Artani - Why Angels Cry Severine Ferrer - La Coco-Dance Elena Risteska - Ninanajna Ich Troje - Follow My Heart Dima Bilan - Never Let You Go Sibel Tuzun - Superstar Tina Karol - Show Me Your Love Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah Treble - Amambanda LT United - We Are the Winners Nonstop - Coisas De Nada Carola - Invincible Sandra Oxenryd - Through My Window Hari Varesanovic - Lejla Silvia Night - Congratulations |
6 17 16 23 22 14 12 9 15 21 10 11 3 8 7 1 20 5 19 4 18 2 13 |
150 36 49 8 10 58 69 79 57 14 76 70 217 91 146 292 22 163 26 214 28 267 62 |
GRAND FINAL (Saturday 20 May 2006).
By means of televoting 12 points will be allocated to the song gaining the most votes, 10 points to the song gaining the second highest number of votes, 8 points to the song gaining the third highest number of votes, 7 points to the next, and so on until 1 point to the song gaining the tenth highest number of votes. Each country also has a stand-by jury in place. The national jury's outcome will be applied if the telecommunications penetration rate is less than 80%. Also in case of any tie for any of the first ten positions, the order of the tying songs shall be ascertained by a show of hands by the jury members. If there is still a tie after show of hands, the final vote shall be decided by the vote of the youngest member of the jury.
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Switzerland Ukraine France Croatia Ireland Sweden Turkey Armenia |
Six4One - If We All Give a Little Tina Karol - Show Me Your Love Virginie Pouchin - Il Etait Temps Severina - Moja Stikla Brian Kennedy - Every Song is a Cry for Love Carola - Invincible Sibel Tuzun - Superstar Andre - Without Your Love |
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total |
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22 |
4 |
30 |
36 |
18 |
1 |
36 |
26 |
248 |
56 |
172 |
229 |
162 |
25 |
128 |
292 |
145 |
5 |
56 |
93 |
170 |
91 |
129 |
AD = Andorra
AL = Albania
BY = Belarus
BE = Belgium
BG = Bulgaria
CY = Cyprus
EE = Estonia
IS = Iceland
MC = Monaco
NL = Netherlands
PL = Poland
PT = Portugal
SI = Slovenia
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