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Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Live reports from Kiev - here
Calendar of the events - here
Music files are available in mp3 format at Euro-tnt, Eurosong.net, hoteyes.net, OnEurope sites and in real audio format (plus videos of performances at national selections) at - All Kinds of Everything site. If you're searching for mp3s of national selection entries- we recomend you to use Soulseek software. For previews videos try hoteyes.net, All Kinds of Everything and eurovision.tv
| № | Country | Performer | National Final | ||
| Participants of the Final (In order of performance) | |||||
| 1 | Hungary |  |
NOX | "Forogj
vilag" (Spin, World) (Harmath Szabolcs - Valla Attila) |
National final is due to be held in March |
| 2 | United Kingdom |  |
Javine | "Touch My
Fire" (Javine Hilton & John Themis) |
Format of the British preselection remain unchanged and it will take place in the end of February - beginning of March. |
| 3 | Malta |  |
Chiara | "Angel" (Chiara Sirakusa) |
Maltese final of 22 entries is scheduled for February 18th and 19th |
| 4 | Romania |  |
Luminita Anghel & Sistem | "Let Me
Try" (Cristian Faur) |
Romanian National Final is supposed to be held on 5th of March. 12 singers will participate, with no semifinals. |
| 5 | Norway |  |
Wig Wam | "In My
Dreams" (Teeny) |
In Norway participants and composers will be invited by special jury. Final is scheduled on March, 5th. |
| 6 | Turkey |  |
Gulseren | "Rimi rimi
ley" (Erdinc Tunc - Goksan Arman ) |
Turkey is returning back to National Final concept due to be held on 11th of February |
| 7 | Moldova |  |
Zdob Si Zdub | "Bunica Bate
Doba" (Grandma hits the drum) (Mihai Gincu - Roman Yagupov) |
Representative will be chosen in open competition with national final on February 26th. |
| 8 | Albania |  |
Ledina Celo | "Tomorrow I
Go" "Neser shkoj" (Adrian Hila - Pandi Laco, Sidorela Risto) |
Albanian national selectionl was held on 16-18th of December in Tirana with 2 semifinals and final of 18 singers each. |
| 9 | Cyprus |  |
Constantinos Christoforou | "Ela
Ela" (Come Baby, Come) (Constantinos Christoforou) |
Will perform 4 songs at the preselection event on February 1st. |
| 10 | Spain |  |
Son de sol | "Brujeria" (Witchcraft) (Alfredo Panebianco) |
Spain has announced final on 4th of March |
| 11 | Israel |  |
Shiri Maymon | "Hasheket
Shenish'ar" (The silence that remains) (Pini Aronbayev - Eyal Shachar, Pini Aronbayev) |
Israel is returning to KDAM-Eurovision with final on 2nd of March. |
| 12 | Serbia and Montenegro |  |
No Name | "Zauvijek
Moja" (Forever mine) (Slaven Knezovic - Milan Peric) |
Serbia and Montenegro once again are set to hold joint preselection on 4th of March 2005. Serbian entries will be 14 best songs from Beovizja contest to be held on February 18-19th. 10 songs from Montenegro will be chosen on 2nd of March. |
| 13 | Denmark |  |
Jakob Sveistrup | "Talking
To You" ("Taender Pa Dig") (Jacob Launbjerg, Andreas Morck) |
National Final is set for 12th of February, 2005, 10 songs will participate. Rule that requested all songs to be performed in Danish at preselection was terminated. |
| 14 | Sweden |  |
Martin Stenmarck | "Las
Vegas" (Niklas Edberger, Tim Larsson, Johan Fransson - Tobias Lundgren) |
Sweden have announced dates - semifinals on Feb 12 in Goteborg, Feb 19, Linkoping, Feb 26 - Skelleftea, Mar 5 - Vaxjo, 2nd chance - Mar 6, final - Mar 12 - Stockholm |
| 15 | F.Y.R. Macedonia |  |
Martin Vucic | "Make My
Day" ("Ti Si Son") (Dragan Vucic - Ognen Nedelkovski, Branka Kostic) |
Macedonian selection will be made in 3 rounds. During first round 16 professionals will name 8 performers each and from that list top scoring 6 go to the second round. During second round viewers will be able to select 2 best performers. In the final round both performers will sing 4 songs each and the best one will be selected. Final is scheduled for 19th of February. |
| 16 | Ukraine |  |
Greenjolly | "Razom nas
bogato" (Together we are many) (Roman Kalin, Roman Kostyuk) |
Preselection is made of 15 semifinals of 5 songs each, winner of each semi (which will run every week starting in November) will go to the final which is scheduled for 27th of February. |
| 17 | Germany |  |
Gracia | "Run
& Hide" (David Brandes, Jane Tempest - John O'Flynn) |
Final is scheduled for March 12th. |
| 18 | Croatia |  |
Boris Novkovic feat. Lado Members | "Vukovi umiru
sami" (Wolves die alone) (Franjo Valentic - Boris Novkovic) |
In Croatia national preselection once again will be held with Dora festival scheduled for March 6th with 2 semifinals. |
| 19 | Greece |  |
Helena Paparizou | "My Number
One" (Christos Dantis - Christos Dantis & Natalia Germanou) |
Internal selection. |
| 20 | Russia |  |
Natalia Podolskaya | "Nobody Hurt
No One" (V.Drobysh/ M.C.Applegate, J.P.Chase) |
Televised national final, 3 semifinals |
| 21 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |  |
Feminnem | "Call
Me" ("Zovi") (Andrej Babic) |
Bosnia will again have national final scheduled for 6th of March. |
| 22 | Switzerland |  |
Vanilla Ninja | "Cool
Vibes" (David Brandes) |
Internal preselection - only respected artist who have song charted in top50, video and at least one CD were be allowed to take part in Swiss final. It will be completed in 2 stages, 1st - selection of the performer and then selection of his entry. |
| 23 | Latvia |  |
Walters and Kazha | "The War Is
Not Over" (Martins Freimanis) |
Latvian preselection will include 2 semifinals of 10 songs each - on 29th of January and 5th of February, and final of 10 songs on 26th of February. Foreign songwriters are allowed to participate. |
| 24 | France |  |
Ortal | "Chacun pense
a soi" (Everyone thinks of himself) (Ortal) |
France will be having National Final of 5 participants on 14-15th of March. |
| Participants of the semifinal of the contest (In order of performance) | |||||
| 1 | Austria |  |
Global Kryner | "Y Asi" (Like that) (Christof Spork, Edi Kohldorfer- Christof Spork) |
Final of Austrian preselection is set on 25th of February, 5 artists will compete with 10 songs. |
| 2 | Lithuania |  |
Laura and The Lovers | "Little By
Little" (Bobby Ljungren - Billy Butt (R. Young - B. Nielsen)) |
Despite of heavy critics Lithuania has decided to continue using semifinals, final is preliminary set for February 26th. |
| 3 | Portugal |   |
2B (Rui Drumond & Luciana) | "Amar" (To love) (Jose da Ponte, Alexandre Honrado, Ernesto Leite) |
Internal selection. |
| 4 | Moldova | |
Zdob Si Zdub | "Bunica Bate
Doba" (Grandma hits the drum) (Mihai Gincu - Roman Yagupov) |
Representative will be chosen in open competition with national final on February 26th. |
| 5 | Latvia | |
Walters and Kazha | "The War Is
Not Over" (Martins Freimanis) |
Latvian preselection will include 2 semifinals of 10 songs each - on 29th of January and 5th of February, and final of 10 songs on 26th of February. Foreign songwriters are allowed to participate. |
| 6 | Monaco |  |
Lise Darly | "Tout de
moi" (All of me) (Philippe Bosco) |
Internal preselection - result in January |
| 7 | Israel | |
Shiri Maymon | "Hasheket
Shenish'ar" (The silence that remains) (Pini Aronbayev - Eyal Shachar, Pini Aronbayev) |
Israel is returning to KDAM-Eurovision with final on 2nd of March. |
| 8 | Belarus |  |
Anzhelika Agurbash | "Love Me
Tonight" (Nikos Terzis - Nektarios Tyrakis) |
Preselection will be run in 2 stages - TV show of 15 contestants with 3 winners selected by televoting in December and then Professional Jury selecting in January winning song of 3. |
| 9 | Netherlands |  |
Glennis Grace | "My
Impossible Dream" (Robert D. Fisher - Bruce Smith) |
Semifinals of 6 songs each are scheduled for 20th and 27th of January, 3rd and 10th of February. 3 best songs from each qualify to the final to take place on 13th of February. |
| 10 | Iceland |  |
Selma Bjornsdottir | "If I had
Your Love" (Thorvaldur Bjarni Thorvaldsson, Vignir Snaer Vigfusson - Selma, Linda Thompson) |
Iceland will not run preselection, and the entry will again be selected internally. |
| 11 | Belgium |  |
Nuno Resende | "Le Grand
Soir" (The big night) (Alec Mansion, Frederic Zeitoun) |
Belgium will select winner in National Final of 2 entries to be held on 20th of March. |
| 12 | Estonia |  |
Suntribe | "Let's Get
Loud" (Sven Lohmus) |
Estonian final was scheduled for February 5th. Submission period extents to December 6th. 10 finalists will be chosen. |
| 13 | Norway | |
Wig Wam | "In My
Dreams" (Teeny) |
In Norway participants and composers will be invited by special jury. Final is scheduled on March, 5th. |
| 14 | Romania | |
Luminita Anghel & Sistem | "Let Me
Try" (Cristian Faur) |
Romanian National Final is supposed to be held on 5th of March. 12 singers will participate, with no semifinals. |
| 15 | Hungary | |
NOX | "Forogj
vilag" (Spin, World) (Harmath Szabolcs - Valla Attila) |
National final is due to be held in March |
| 16 | Finland |  |
Geir Ronning | "Why?" (Mika Toivanen - Steven Stewart) |
4 semifinals will be held on 14th and 21st of January and on 4th and 11th of February, each of 8 songs. 3 top songs from each semi will qualify to the final on February, 19. Final will also include 2 stages, top 6 acts will qualify to the 2nd stage. |
| 17 | F.Y.R. Macedonia | |
Martin Vucic | "Make My
Day" ("Ti Si Son") (Dragan Vucic - Ognen Nedelkovski, Branka Kostic) |
Macedonian selection will be made in 3 rounds. During first round 16 professionals will name 8 performers each and from that list top scoring 6 go to the second round. During second round viewers will be able to select 2 best performers. In the final round both performers will sing 4 songs each and the best one will be selected. Final is scheduled for 19th of February. |
| 18 | Andorra |  |
Marian van de Wal | "La Mirada
Interior" (A look inside yourself) (Rafah Tanit, Daniel Aragay & Rafa Fernandez) |
Casting will be held and 36 best performers in it will get chance to be voted on by the public. Top 3 performers will participate in final, and song song will be selected in special show in February. |
| 19 | Switzerland | |
Vanilla Ninja | "Cool
Vibes" (David Brandes) |
Internal preselection - only respected artist who have song charted in top50, video and at least one CD were be allowed to take part in Swiss final. It will be completed in 2 stages, 1st - selection of the performer and then selection of his entry. |
| 20 | Croatia | |
Boris Novkovic feat. Lado Members | "Vukovi umiru
sami" (Wolves die alone) (Franjo Valentic - Boris Novkovic) |
In Croatia national preselection once again will be held with Dora festival scheduled for March 6th with 2 semifinals. |
| 21 | Bulgaria |  |
Kaffe | "Lorrain" (Veselin Ivanov - Orlin Pavlov, Veselin Ivanov) |
Bulgarian preselection will be made in 2 rounds - in semifinal 24 songs will be judged by jury and 12 of them will proceed to the final where televoters will select the winner. |
| 22 | Ireland |  |
Donna & Joe | "Love?" (Karl Broderick) |
Irish selection will once again be made in You're A Star format. Auditions will be held in September-October, with contest first aired on November, 14 and lasting for 17 weeks. |
| 23 | Slovenia |  |
Omar Naber | "Stop" (Omar Naber - Omar Naber, Ursa Vlasic) |
Slovenia will not hold semifinals this year, and result will be decided by televoting. Final is scheduled for February, 13th |
| 24 | Denmark | |
Jakob Sveistrup | "Talking
To You" ("Taender Pa Dig") (Jacob Launbjerg, Andreas Morck) |
National Final is set for 12th of February, 2005, 10 songs will participate. Rule that requested all songs to be performed in Danish at preselection was terminated. |
| 25 | Poland |  |
Ivan & Delfin | "Czarna
dziewczyna" (Black-haired girl) (Lukasz Lazer - Ivan Komarenko, Pawel Radziszewski) |
Poland will not be holding national final this year, but will select singer and song internally. |
So following countries have
reserved place in final 2005 : |
| Lebanon (withdrew from the contest) |
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Aline Lahoud | "Quand tout
s'enfuit" (When everything passes) (Jad Rabbani - Romeo Lahoud) |