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Eurovision Song Contest 2011
"Feel Your Heart Beat!"
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Dates
Semi-final 1 date 10 May 2011
Semi-final 2 date 12 May 2011
Final date 14 May 2011
Host
Venue Esprit Arena
Düsseldorf, Germany[1]
Presenter(s) Anke Engelke, Judith Rakers and Stefan Raab
Executive supervisor Jon Ola Sand
Host broadcaster
Opening act Final: Stefan Raab performing "Satellite" with Lena Meyer-Landrut
Interval act
  • Semi-final 1: Cold Steel Drummers
  • Semi-final 2: Flying Steps – "Flying Bach"
  • Final: Jan Delay performing "Oh Jonny" and "Klar"
Participants
Number of entries 43
Debuting countries None
Returning countries
Withdrawing countries None
Participation map
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Vote
Voting system Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nul points None
Winning song  Azerbaijan
"Running Scared"
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The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 was the 56th annual Eurovision Song Contest and was won by Ell/Nikki performing "Running Scared" for Azerbaijan. The event took place in the Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany, following Germany's win in the previous year. The two semi-finals took place on 10 May and 12 May 2011, while the final took place on the evening of 14 May 2011.[2]

Forty-three countries participated in the contest,[3] with those returning including Austria, which last participated in 2007; Hungary, which last competed in 2009; and San Marino, which last participated in 2008. Italy also returned to the Contest, marking its first participation since 1997. No country has withdrawn.

The runner up was Italy, and Sweden finished in third place. Italy (2nd) and Germany (10th) were the only members of the "Big Five" to make it into the top 10, with the United Kingdom close behind at 11th place. However, out of the 25 countries who made it into the final, the remaining two of the "Big Five", France and Spain, failed to make it into the top half of the leader board coming 15th (82 points) and 23rd (50 points) respectively.

Contents

Location[edit]

Locations of the eight candidate cities

Bidding phase[edit]

23 cities had ordered the terms of tender for the event by NDR.[4] Eight of these cities continued to show interest in hosting the event including Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover, Gelsenkirchen,[5] Düsseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt and Munich.[6] It was announced on 21 August 2010 by NDR that four of those cities had officially applied to host the 2011 Contest: Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover, and Düsseldorf.[7] Plans on where the contest could be held in each applicant city included:[8]

City Venue
Berlin Large tent on the field near the hangars of the former Tempelhof Airport
Düsseldorf Esprit Arena
Hamburg Hamburg Exhibition Centre
Hanover Hanover Exhibition Centre

Media reports regarding host city[edit]

Berlin

Concerns were raised about Berlin's bid concept which consisted of an inflatable tent to be built on Tempelhof's hangar area. Decision makers at NDR reportedly doubted the venue's ability to provide advantageous acoustic conditions. Berlin's speaker Richard Meng neither confirmed nor denied that because "secrecy about the bid concepts were promised to the NDR", Meng commented.[9]

Düsseldorf

On 24 September 2010, it was announced that Fortuna Düsseldorf football club had applied to the Deutsche Fußball Liga for permission to move its home matches to the Paul-Janes-Stadion if the Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf was awarded the 2011 Song Contest. This message already indicated that talks with Düsseldorf to host the song contest in the Esprit Arena were at an advanced stage at that moment.[10] Fortuna Düsseldorf football club later announced on its website on 6 October 2010 that the club had obtained permission to move their games if necessary.[11]

The Neue Ruhr Zeitung newspaper, which is part of the WAZ Media Group, reported on 12 December 2010 that Fortuna Düsseldorf were to be moved to the Paul-Janes-Stadion due to the contest. Fortuna Düsseldorf's training venue next to the Esprit Arena will be equipped with mobile stands from a Swiss event construction specialist, Nussli Group, creating 20,000 extra seats.[12] This decision was made because the Arena Sportpark Düsseldorf holds better logistic qualifications. This is expected to cost approximately €1.5 million.[13]

Hamburg

On 2 October 2010 the Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper announced that Hamburg would be unable to host the 2011 Song Contest, because the city could no longer fulfil the required financial conditions.[14]

Esprit Arena Düsseldorf[edit]

For more details on the host city, see Düsseldorf.
The Esprit Arena, the 2011 venue.

The Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf was announced by German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) as the venue for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest on 12 October 2010.[15][16] This was the first Eurovision Song Contest held in Germany since German reunification, with West Germany having previously hosted the contest in 1957[17] and 1983.[18] Germany is also the first member of the "Big Five" to host the Contest since the implementation of the rule in 2000 which permits the five largest contributors to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) – Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain and Italy – to qualify automatically for the final alongside the previous year's winner.

The newspaper Der Westen announced that construction and dismantling work within the Esprit Arena will allow the stadium to be rented for a period of six weeks.[19] The stadium can accommodate 24,000 spectators for the Eurovision Song Contest.[20] Düsseldorf will offer 23,000 hotel beds and 2,000 additional beds in the Düsseldorf surroundings and on ships on the River Rhine. Düsseldorf Airport is nearby and an athletics arena near the Esprit Arena is reportedly planned to be used as press centre for 1,500 journalists. Advert banners will be removed from the arena, and lodgers and business-seat-owners who have an annual ticket for the football matches of Fortuna Düsseldorf will be compensated. Initially it was reported that Paul-Janes-Stadion would be upgraded to 2nd Bundesliga requirements.[21] Instead, a mobile arena was build next to Esprit Arena for €3 million, with a capacity of around 20,000. It was used for three second division games.[22]

Format[edit]

The four countries that are part of the Big Four, along with the host of the contest, automatically qualify for a place in the final. For the 2011 Contest, Germany is both a "Big Four" country and the host, resulting in a vacant spot in the final. At a Reference Group meeting in Belgrade it was decided that the existing rules will remain in place, and that the number of participants in the final will simply be lowered from twenty-five to twenty-four.[23] On 31 December 2010, the official participation list was published by the EBU, which states that with the return of Italy to the contest, this nation will become a member of the "Big Five" thus permitting them automatic qualification into the finals, alongside Germany (host), France, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and therefore restores the number of participants for the final to twenty-five nations.[24]

On 30 August 2010 it was announced that Svante Stockselius, Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest, will leave his position on 31 December 2010.[25] On 26 November 2010, EBU reported that Jon Ola Sand will be the new Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision Song Contest.[26]

Semi-final allocation draw[edit]

The draw to determine the semi-final running orders was held on Monday 17 January 2011. The participating countries excluding the automatic finalists (France, Germany, Italy, Spain & the United Kingdom) were split into six pots, based upon how those countries have been voting. From these pots, half (or as close to half as is possible) competed in the first Semi Final on 10 May 2011. The other half in that particular pot will compete in the second Semi Final on 12 May 2011. This draw also doubled up as an approximate running order, in order for the delegations from the countries to know when their rehearsals commenced. The draw also determined in which Semi Final the automatic finalists voted in.[27]

Israeli broadcaster IBA requested to take part in the second semi-final due to the Israeli Memorial Day, which was held during the first semi-final. German broadcaster NDR also requested that they be allowed to vote in the second semi-final for scheduling reasons.[27]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Pot 5 Pot 6

Graphic design[edit]

Ell/Nikki of Azerbaijan, during the ESC 2011

The design of the contest was built around the motto "Feel your heart beat" with the logo and on-screen graphics designed by Turquoise Branding.[28] The postcard introducing each performance included the logo in the colours of the performing country (e.g. the United Kingdom in red, white and blue), then a German place was shown in a toy-like view using tilt-shift photography and a story happened there, whose main characters were people coming from that country. The contest's motto 'Feel your heart beat', would then be shown or said in the country's national or native language.[29] For example, in the first postcard shown (Poland's) one of the characters drops a piece of paper. The camera then pans down to the paper, to show the Polish phrase "Poczuj bicie serca" handwritten on it. In the second postcard shown (Norway's), a man climbs to the top of a mountain and yells the Norwegian phrase "Kjenn ditt hjerte slå.". Then, the heart appeared once again and the stage and the crowd could be seen, with little light, heartbeat sounds, and pink lights pulsating in rhythm with the heartbeat, before the performance started. The main colours of the letterboxes were black and pink. The scoreboard showed a spokesperson from the country giving their votes on the right, while showing a table of results on the left. The large points (8, 10 and 12) were highlighted in pink, whilst the lower points, (1-7) were in purple.[30] This scoreboard design was used the following year, with minor changes such as the large points appearing progressively larger in size compared to the lower points and the highlighted colours changed to match with the Eurovision Song Contest 2012's theme, "Light your fire!"[31]

National host broadcaster[edit]

Anke Engelke, Judith Rakers and Stefan Raab hosted the 2011 edition.

ARD, which is the European Broadcasting Union member to broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest in Germany is a joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. The ARD has 10 members. The venues that were in consideration are located in the areas of three different members: Berlin is located within the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) member area, Hamburg and Hanover within the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) area and Düsseldorf within the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) broadcasting area. While NDR has been responsible for the transmission of the Eurovision Song Contest in recent years when the final took place in other countries, the financial scope of the three broadcasters seemed to have become a decisive factor in the application procedure for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. The Tagesspiegel reported on 7 October that the costs for hosting this event resulted in a tense discussion about necessary savings on other programme contents made by the three broadcasters. The press alleged that RBB's weak financial state was the biggest hurdle for Berlin staging the contest.[32]

Hosts[edit]

NDR revealed the presenters of contest on 16 December 2010; Anke Engelke, Judith Rakers, and Stefan Raab. It was the third time three people have hosted the contest after 1999 and 2010.[33]

Event concept and ticket sale[edit]

On 13 October 2010 Thomas Schreiber, coordinator at ARD outlined details of Düsseldorf's event concept. The Esprit Arena was to be split in two parts separated from each other. On one side of the stadium the stage will be installed while the other side will function as background dressing rooms for the artist delegations. An athletics arena next to the Esprit Arena will serve as the press centre for the event. The Esprit Arena offers comfortable seats relatively near to the stage that created rather an indoor event arena atmosphere than a football-stadium ambiance. There were plans to open also the dress rehearsals for the public.[34] Altogether, tickets are going to be sold for seven shows (the final, two semi-finals and four dress rehearsals).[35]

He also said in that interview that tickets for the event were likely to go on sale "within the next four weeks" (by mid-November 2010). NDR had already opened a preregistration e-mail-newsletter on its website for all people interested in tickets for the event.[36]

Ticket sales was announced to start on 12 December 2010 at 12:12 CET on the website www.dticket.de, which was the only authorised seller of tickets for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011.[37] However matter of factly the ticket page was open for sales about two hour earlier, which was announced just minutes before opening by an email newsletter send to preregistered buyers only, giving them a slight benefit in acquiring tickets. The final 32,000 tickets that were put on sale on 12 December sold out within less than six hours. Once camera positions had been determined, a few thousand tickets more were put on sale.

Tickets for the semi-finals were put on sale in mid-January, when it was known which countries would take part in each semi-final.[38]

Participating countries[edit]

Further information: List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest
  Countries in the first semi-final
  Countries voting in the first semi-final
  Countries in the second semi-final
  Countries voting in the second semi-final

On 31 December 2010, the EBU confirmed that 43 countries would compete in the 2011 Contest.[3][24] The 2011 edition saw the returns of Austria, which had last participated in 2007, Italy, which had last participated in 1997, San Marino, which had only taken part in 2008, and Hungary, which had last participated in 2009.[24] Montenegro had applied to take part in the contest on 4 December, but decided against participation and withdrew its name on 23 December, two days before the 25 December no strings attached deadline.[39]

Slovakia initially withdrew from the 2011 Contest due to financial reasons, despite holding a public poll on the Slovenská televízia (STV) website on their Eurovision participation which received an 87.5% positive vote. STV announced that they planned to return in the 2012 Contest.[40][41] However, Slovakia's application remained on the provisional list, leading to Slovakia's continued participation in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest.[24] STV later announced in January 2011 that Slovakia would in fact, withdraw from the contest due to financial reasons and organisational changes.[42] However the country was listed by the EBU as one of the semi-finalist countries in the semi-final allocation draw on 17 January, and STV later confirmed they would continue their participation in order to avoid receiving a fine for late withdrawal.[27][43] Thus, in this edition, no country withdrew.

At a meeting in Belgrade on 28 August 2010, the EBU decided that each country had to choose its artist and song before 14 March 2011. On 15 March 2011, the draw for the running order took place in the host city.[44] The semi-final allocation draw took place on 17 January in Düsseldorf.[24]

Returning artists[edit]

Israeli backing vocalists, at Eurovision 2011

Several artists made their return to the Eurovision Song Contest, including Dino Merlin[45] who represented Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999. Gunnar Ólason (part of Sjonni's Friends)[46] for Iceland last represented the Scandinavian nation in 2001 as part of Two Tricky.[47] Moldova's 2005 entrant Zdob şi Zdub[48] also return.

Along with those artists, a couple of previous Eurovision winners also returned to the contest. Dana International who won for Israel in 1998; and Lena[2] who won for Germany in 2010 and brought the contest to Düsseldorf. Stefan Raab who represented Germany in 2000 and appeared as a conductor and backing artist for other German entries, hosted the contest. This was the first time since 1958 and only the second time in the history of the contest that two former winners returned on the same year.

Results[edit]

Semi-finals[edit]

Semi-final 1[edit]

The full split jury/televoting results were announced by the EBU in May 2011.[49]

  • The first semi-final took place in Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf on 10 May 2011.
  • The ten countries in this semi-final with the highest scoring points, according to a combination of televotes and jury votes from each voting country, qualified for the final.[50]
  • Spain and the United Kingdom voted in this Semi Final.
Draw Country[24] Language[51] Artist[52] Song[52] English translation Place[53] Points[53]
01  Poland Polish Magdalena Tul "Jestem" I am 19 18
02  Norway English, Swahili Stella Mwangi "Haba Haba" Little by little[54] 17 30
03  Albania English, Albanian Aurela Gaçe "Feel the Passion" — 14 47
04  Armenia English Emmy "Boom Boom" — 12 54
05  Turkey English Yüksek Sadakat "Live It Up" — 13 47
06  Serbia Serbian Nina "Čaroban" (Чаробан) Magical 8 67
07  Russia English, Russian Alexej Vorobjov "Get You" — 9 64
08  Switzerland English Anna Rossinelli "In Love for a While" — 10 55
09  Georgia English Eldrine "One More Day" — 6 74
10  Finland English Paradise Oskar "Da Da Dam" — 3 103
11  Malta English Glen Vella "One Life" — 11 54
12  San Marino English Senit "Stand By" — 16 34
13  Croatia English Daria "Celebrate" — 15 41
14  Iceland English Sjonni's Friends "Coming Home" — 4 100
15  Hungary English, Hungarian Kati Wolf "What About My Dreams?" — 7 72
16  Portugal Portuguese Homens da Luta "A luta é alegria" The struggle is joy 18 22
17  Lithuania English1 Evelina Sašenko "C'est ma vie" It's my life 5 81
18  Azerbaijan English Ell/Nikki "Running Scared" — 2 122
19  Greece English, Greek Loukas Giorkas feat.
Stereo Mike		 "Watch My Dance" — 1 133
1.^ Includes two phrases in French.

Semi-final 2[edit]

The full split jury/televoting results were announced by the EBU in May 2011.[49]

  • The second semi-final took place in Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf on 12 May 2011.
  • The ten countries in this semi-final with the highest scoring points, according to a combination of televotes and jury votes from each voting country, qualified for the final.[50]
  • France, Germany and Italy voted in this Semi Final.
Draw Country[24] Language[51] Artist[52] Song[52] English translation Place[55] Points[55]
01  Bosnia and Herzegovina English, Bosnian Dino Merlin "Love in Rewind" — 5 109
02  Austria English Nadine Beiler "The Secret Is Love" — 7 69
03  Netherlands English 3JS "Never Alone" — 19 13
04  Belgium English Witloof Bay "With Love Baby" — 11 53
05  Slovakia English TWiiNS "I'm Still Alive" — 13 48
06  Ukraine English Mika Newton "Angel" — 6 81
07  Moldova English Zdob şi Zdub "So Lucky" — 10 54
08  Sweden English Eric Saade "Popular" — 1 155
09  Cyprus Greek Christos Mylordos "San aggelos s'agapisa"
(Σαν άγγελος σ'αγάπησα)		 I loved you like an angel 18 16
10  Bulgaria Bulgarian Poli Genova "Na inat" (На инат) For spite 12 48
11  Macedonia Macedonian, English2 Vlatko Ilievski "Rusinka" (Русинкa) Russian girl 16 36
12  Israel Hebrew, English Dana International "Ding Dong" — 15 38
13  Slovenia English Maja Keuc "No One" — 3 112
14  Romania English Hotel FM "Change" — 4 111
15  Estonia English Getter Jaani "Rockefeller Street" — 9 60
16  Belarus English Anastasia Vinnikova "I Love Belarus" — 14 45
17  Latvia English Musiqq "Angel in Disguise" — 17 25
18  Denmark English A Friend in London "New Tomorrow" — 2 135
19  Ireland English Jedward "Lipstick" — 8 68
2.^ Includes two words in Russian.

Final[edit]

  • The final took place on 14 May 2011.
  • Only the "Big Five" countries automatically qualified for the final.
  • From the two semi-finals on 10 and 12 May 2011, twenty countries qualified for the final. A total of twenty-five countries competed in the final.[44]
  • The voting system used was the same as in the 2010 contest, with a combination of televotes and jury votes selecting the winner. Viewers were able to vote during the performances; the voting window ended 15 minutes after the conclusion of the songs.[50]
  • Background music for the show included "Wonderful" by Gary Go.
Draw Country[24] Language[51] Artist[52] Song[52] English translation Place[56] Points[56]
01  Finland English Paradise Oskar "Da Da Dam" — 21 57
02  Bosnia and Herzegovina English, Bosnian Dino Merlin "Love in Rewind" — 6 125
03  Denmark English A Friend in London "New Tomorrow" — 5 134
04  Lithuania English3 Evelina Sašenko "C'est ma vie" It's my life 19 63
05  Hungary English, Hungarian Kati Wolf "What About My Dreams?" — 22 53
06  Ireland English Jedward "Lipstick" — 8 119
07  Sweden English Eric Saade "Popular" — 3 185
08  Estonia English Getter Jaani "Rockefeller Street" — 24 44
09  Greece English, Greek Loukas Giorkas feat.
Stereo Mike		 "Watch My Dance" — 7 120
10  Russia English, Russian Alexej Vorobjov "Get You" — 16 77
11  France Corsican Amaury Vassili "Sognu" Dream 15 82
12  Italy Italian, English Raphael Gualazzi "Madness of Love" 2 189
13  Switzerland English Anna Rossinelli "In Love for a While" — 25 19
14  United Kingdom English Blue "I Can" — 11 100
15  Moldova English Zdob şi Zdub "So Lucky" — 12 97
16  Germany English Lena "Taken by a Stranger" — 10 107
17  Romania English Hotel FM "Change" — 17 77
18  Austria English Nadine Beiler "The Secret Is Love" — 18 64
19  Azerbaijan English Ell & Nikki "Running Scared" — 1 221
20  Slovenia English Maja Keuc "No One" — 13 96
21  Iceland English Sjonni's Friends "Coming Home" — 20 61
22  Spain Spanish Lucía Pérez "Que me quiten lo bailao" They can't take away
the fun from me4		 23 50
23  Ukraine English Mika Newton "Angel" — 4 159
24  Serbia Serbian Nina "Čaroban" (Чаробан) Magical 14 85
25  Georgia English Eldrine "One More Day" — 9 110
3.^ Includes two phrases in French.
4.^ Spanish idiom which literally means: "Let them take away from me what I've danced".

Scoreboard[edit]

The split jury/televoting results were announced by the EBU in May 2011. As in 2010, only the split totals received by each country were given, not the full breakdown,[49] although the BBC did reveal the exact details for the United Kingdom vote on 26 May 2011.[57]

Semi-final 1[edit]

Voting Results
Total Score Poland Norway Albania Armenia Turkey Serbia Russia Switzerland Georgia Finland Malta San Marino Croatia Iceland Hungary Portugal Lithuania Azerbaijan Greece Spain United Kingdom
Contestants Poland 18 3 4 4 2 5
Norway 30 1 1 1 2 8 4 10 2 1
Albania 47 8 6 8 7 4 2 12
Armenia 54 2 7 8 8 7 7 4 8 3
Turkey 47 12 2 5 3 2 10 12 1
Serbia 67 6 7 2 4 12 7 3 3 12 5 1 3 2
Russia 64 4 3 12 3 6 5 3 1 5 3 3 3 5 5 3
Switzerland 55 3 6 3 2 6 2 6 8 5 6 6 2
Georgia 74 5 8 10 4 5 1 8 2 1 12 8 10
Finland 103 10 12 6 1 3 12 10 3 12 6 8 7 3 4 6
Malta 54 2 6 7 2 5 6 12 4 2 1 7
San Marino 34 8 5 5 1 6 1 6 2
Croatia 41 7 12 1 12 4 1 4
Iceland 100 4 10 2 8 3 8 10 12 10 8 6 12 7
Hungary 72 5 6 10 12 1 6 7 5 10 10
Portugal 22 4 4 2 1 8 3
Lithuania 81 12 8 4 1 7 3 10 2 2 5 6 4 5 12
Azerbaijan 122 8 5 12 10 1 12 5 10 5 10 8 7 7 10 7 1 4
Greece 133 7 1 10 10 4 7 6 7 7 4 5 6 8 10 12 4 10 7 8

Semi-final 2[edit]

Voting Results
Total Score Bosnia and Herzegovina Austria Netherlands Belgium Slovakia Ukraine Moldova Sweden Cyprus Bulgaria Macedonia Israel Slovenia Romania Estonia Belarus Latvia Denmark Ireland France Germany Italy
Contestants Bosnia and Herzegovina 109 12 10 4 12 4 8 12 12 5 2 7 10 7 4
Austria 69 7 3 5 1 4 4 10 1 7 2 5 2 1 12 5
Netherlands 13 8 5
Belgium 53 8 1 6 6 2 6 2 2 8 1 3 6 2
Slovakia 48 6 3 3 12 7 3 3 3 3 5
Ukraine 81 4 10 8 3 5 3 6 8 6 2 7 12 1 6
Moldova 54 4 2 5 4 12 10 1 4 5 7
Sweden 155 5 10 12 12 7 5 3 12 2 12 5 7 12 8 7 12 8 12 1 3
Cyprus 16 6 2 8
Bulgaria 48 2 2 1 5 1 10 1 4 4 1 3 4 10
Macedonia 36 10 7 1 3 8 7
Israel 38 5 2 5 1 7 4 6 7 1
Slovenia 112 12 8 8 8 4 7 8 10 6 10 5 4 8 6 5 3
Romania 111 6 4 10 6 12 7 8 1 4 7 6 5 6 3 8 6 12
Estonia 60 5 6 8 6 4 5 1 8 3 10 4
Belarus 45 2 1 10 10 3 8 1 4 6
Latvia 25 4 2 8 2 2 7
Denmark 135 1 7 7 7 3 3 2 12 6 12 10 10 5 10 4 12 12 2 10
Ireland 68 3 1 5 2 2 10 7 1 6 3 10 10 8

Final[edit]

Voting Results[58]
Total Score Finland Bosnia and Herzegovina Denmark Lithuania Hungary Ireland Sweden Estonia Greece Russia France Italy Switzerland United Kingdom Moldova Germany Romania Austria Azerbaijan Slovenia Iceland Spain Ukraine Serbia Georgia Poland Norway Albania Armenia Turkey Malta San Marino Croatia Portugal Netherlands Belgium Slovakia Cyprus Bulgaria Macedonia Israel Belarus Latvia
Contestants Finland 57 5 1 3 7 7 5 2 10 5 12
Bosnia and Herzegovina 125 8 3 5 4 12 7 12 12 12 4 7 10 7 8 2 12
Denmark 134 12 10 10 7 5 6 8 12 3 7 5 4 12 6 3 7 10 1 6
Lithuania 63 10 2 6 1 1 7 12 12 3 2 7
Hungary 53 12 5 2 7 2 2 5 6 4 8
Ireland 119 10 2 12 12 12 8 4 4 7 1 8 6 5 7 8 3 10
Sweden 185 6 5 10 10 4 12 6 1 10 3 3 3 3 4 7 5 1 1 1 10 4 4 6 6 4 10 4 10 10 6 12 4
Estonia 44 7 2 7 7 6 2 2 2 5 4
Greece 120 8 8 2 2 1 10 8 8 6 3 6 10 7 8 8 12 10 3
Russia 77 6 3 5 1 5 5 4 1 8 4 4 4 8 2 4 8 5
France 82 4 4 12 3 1 2 10 5 2 2 5 1 3 6 2 12 7 1
Italy 189 3 6 10 4 5 6 10 8 4 7 3 6 6 1 3 3 12 2 7 10 12 6 10 12 10 6 1 1 3 12
Switzerland 19 10 5 4
United Kingdom 100 3 3 6 2 4 1 10 4 5 1 2 3 1 6 2 6 7 2 3 4 12 5 1 2 5
Moldova 97 4 8 7 4 8 8 4 12 5 7 7 5 5 1 5 7
Germany 107 3 8 2 6 4 3 6 8 10 7 6 3 4 5 3 1 7 5 8 8
Romania 77 4 1 1 1 12 12 1 6 8 5 4 10 6 6
Austria 64 1 7 1 2 4 7 2 12 5 3 3 1 2 3 1 3 5 2
Azerbaijan 221 5 8 8 7 3 8 5 12 6 1 10 10 8 8 10 8 8 8 12 12 10 10 8 6 3 7 8 4 6 2
Slovenia 96 12 7 6 2 2 5 1 4 3 10 2 3 1 12 1 2 1 6 10 3 3
Iceland 61 8 1 6 12 1 5 10 4 2 8 4
Spain 50 4 12 3 1 5 2 5 12 2 4
Ukraine 159 2 7 10 7 8 2 12 6 6 10 2 3 12 7 4 5 7 12 5 8 7 7 10
Serbia 85 2 10 5 3 6 7 10 4 6 6 1 1 5 8 3 8
Georgia 110 12 5 3 8 6 7 10 12 7 10 8 7 1 2 12
The table is horizontally and vertically ordered by appearance in the final, then horizontally by appearance in the semi-finals.

12 points[edit]

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the final:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
5 Bosnia and Herzegovina Austria, Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland
4 Italy Albania, Latvia, San Marino, Spain
3 Azerbaijan Malta, Russia, Turkey
Denmark Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands
Georgia Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine
Ireland Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom
Ukraine Armenia, Azerbaijan, Slovakia
2 France Belgium, Greece
Lithuania Georgia, Poland
Romania Italy, Moldova
Slovenia Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Spain France, Portugal
Sweden Estonia, Israel
1 Austria Germany
Finland Norway
Greece Cyprus
Hungary Finland
Iceland Hungary
Moldova Romania
United Kingdom Bulgaria

Other awards[edit]

Marcel Bezençon Awards[edit]

Further information: Marcel Bezençon Awards

The Marcel Bezençon Awards were first handed out during the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 in Tallinn, Estonia honoring the best competing songs in the final. Founded by Christer Björkman (Sweden's representative in the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest and current Head of Delegation for Sweden) and Richard Herrey (member of the Herreys, Eurovision Song Contest 1984 winner from Sweden), the awards are named after the creator of the annual competition, Marcel Bezençon.[59] The awards are divided into three categories; Press Award; Artistic Award; and Composer Award.[60]

Category Country Song Performer(s) Composer(s)
Artists Award  Ireland "Lipstick" Jedward Dan Priddy, Lars Halvor Jensen, Martin M. Larsson
Composer Award  France "Sognu" Amaury Vassili Daniel Moyne, Quentin Bachelet, Jean-Pierre Marcellesi, and Julie Miller
Press Award  Finland "Da Da Dam" Paradise Oskar Axel Ehnström

OGAE[edit]

Further information: OGAE

Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l'Eurovision (more commonly known as OGAE) is an international organisation that was founded in 1984 in Savonlinna, Finland by Jari-Pekka Koikkalainen.[61] The organisation consists of a network of 40 Eurovision Song Contest fan clubs across Europe and beyond, and is a non-governmental, non-political, and non-profitable company.[62] In what has become an annual tradition for the OGAE fan clubs, a voting poll was opened allowing members from the respective clubs to vote for their favourite songs of the 2011 contest. Below is the top five overall results, after all the votes had been cast.[63]

Country Song Performer(s) OGAE result
 Hungary "What About My Dreams?" Kati Wolf 277
 France "Sognu" Amaury Vassili 270
 United Kingdom "I Can" Blue 253
 Sweden "Popular" Eric Saade 238
 Estonia "Rockefeller Street" Getter Jaani 183

International broadcasts and voting[edit]

Unlike previous years, the voting order was not drawn with the order of presentation of songs. Rather, the voting order was calculated just before the event, to reduce the likelihood of there being an outright winner from the start. Each national broadcaster also sent a commentator to the contest, in order to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language.

Voting and spokespersons[edit]

  1.  Russia – Dima Bilan[64]
    (Russian representative in the 2006 and winner of the 2008 Contest)
  2.  Bulgaria – Maria Ilieva
  3.  Netherlands – Mandy Huydts[65] (Singer for the Netherlands in 1986 as part of Frizzle Sizzle)
  4.  Italy – Raffaella Carrà[66]
  5.  Cyprus – Loukas Hamatsos[67]
  6.  Ukraine – Ruslana[68]
    (Winner of the 2004 Contest)
  7.  Finland – Susan Aho[69]
    (Finnish representative in the 2010 Contest as part of Kuunkuiskaajat)
  8.  Norway – Nadia Hasnaoui
    (Co-Presenter of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 and the Eurovision Song Contest 2010)
  9.  Armenia – Lusine Tovmasyan
  10.  Macedonia – Kristina Taleska[70]
  11.  Iceland – Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir
  12.  Slovakia – Mária Pietrová
  13.  United Kingdom – Alex Jones[71]
  14.  Denmark – Lise Rønne[72]
  15.  Austria – Kati Bellowitsch[73]
  16.  Poland – Odeta Moro-Figurska
  17.  Sweden – Danny Saucedo[74]
    (Swedish representative in the Eurovision Dance Contest 2008)
  18.  San Marino – Nicola Della Valle
    (Sammarinese representative in the 2008 Contest as part of Miodio)
  19.  Germany – Ina Müller[75]
  20.  Azerbaijan – Safura Alizadeh[76]
    (Azeri representative in the 2010 Contest)
  21.  Slovenia – Klemen Slakonja[77]
  22.  Turkey – Ömer Önder
  23.  Switzerland – Cécile Bähler[78]
  24.  Greece – Lena Aroni[79]
  25.  Georgia – Sofia Nizharadze[80]
    (Georgian representative in the 2010 Contest)
  26.  France – Cyril Féraud[81]
  27.  Serbia – Dušica Spasić[82]
  28.  Croatia – Nevena Rendeli[70]
  29.  Belarus – Leila Ismailova
    (Co-Presenter of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010)[83]
  30.  Romania – Malvina Cservenschi[68]
  31.  Albania - Leon Menkshi
  32.  Malta – Kelly Schembri[84]
  33.  Portugal – Joana Teles[85]
  34.  Hungary – Éva Novodomszky[86]
  35.  Lithuania – Giedrius Masalskis
  36.  Bosnia and Herzegovina – Ivana Vidmar[70]
  37.  Ireland – Derek Mooney
  38.  Spain – Elena S. Sánchez[87]
  39.  Israel – Ofer Nachshon[88]
  40.  Estonia – Piret Järvis from Vanilla Ninja[89]
  41.  Moldova – Geta Burlacu[64]
    (Moldovan representative in the 2008 Contest)
  42.  Belgium – Maureen Louys[90]
  43.  Latvia – Aisha[91]
    (Latvian representative in the 2010 Contest)

Commentators[edit]

Broadcasting[edit]

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