Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest

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Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Member station İTV
National selection events Land of Fire (2008-2010)
Milli Secim Turu (2011-)
Appearances
Appearances 6
First appearance 2008
Best result 1st: 2011
Worst result 8th: 2008
External links
Eurovision Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan's page at Eurovision.tv

Azerbaijan made its debut at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2008, after İctimai Televiziya (İTV) became an active member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). İTV had broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest in previous years, purchasing broadcasting rights from the EBU.

Azerbaijan is the last country in the Caucasus to participate: Armenia was the first one, in 2006, followed by Georgia in 2007.

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History [edit]

Elnur & Samir Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade
Aysel & Arash Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow
Safura Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Oslo
Ell & Nikki celebrating Eurovision Song Contest 2011 victory in Düsseldorf
Farid Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö

Azerbaijan's first try at Eurovision proved to be successful as the country qualified for the final from the first semi-final and came 8th with 132 points in the final evening.

Previously, another broadcaster, AzTV, wanted to participate in 2007, but EBU rules did not allow this as AzTV was not an active member of the EBU. AzTV was denied active EBU membership on 18 June 2007, as it was considered too connected to the Azerbaijani government.[1] On 5 July, İTV became a full EBU member,[2] and on October 15 it was given permission to take part by the EBU.[3]

Azerbaijan's first Eurovision performance by Elnur and Samir made it in the top ten placed at number 8 with 132 points. In 2009 Azerbaijan achieved an improvement on their 2008 debut, coming third and receiving 207 points with the song "Always", performed by duo AySel & Arash.

On 14 May 2011, Azerbaijan won the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with Running Scared song by Ell & Nikki.[4][5]

Since the introduction of the semi-finals, Azerbaijan is one of the only two countries to place within the top 10 every year that they have competed.

Contestants [edit]

Year Artist Language Title Final Points Semi Points
2008 Elnur & Samir English "Day After Day" 8 132 6 96
2009 Aysel & Arash English "Always" 3 207 2 180
2010 Safura English "Drip Drop" 5 145 2 113
2011 Ell & Nikki English "Running Scared" 1 221 2 122
2012 Sabina Babayeva English "When the Music Dies" 4 150 X X
2013 Farid Mammadov English "Hold Me" 2 234 1 139
  • XX on the semi-finals denotes auto-qualification. This could be the result of the following reason; if a country had won the previous year, they did not have to compete in the semi-finals the following year.
  • XX on the finals denotes an unsuccessful attempt at qualifying to the final.

Voting history (2008–2013) [edit]

Azerbaijan has given the most points to... (finals only)

Rank Country Points
1  Ukraine 57
2  Turkey 48
3  Georgia 32
4  Russia 31
5  Romania 28

Azerbaijan has received the most points from... (finals only)

Rank Country Points
1  Ukraine 64
2  Turkey 60
3  Russia 59
4  Malta 49
5  Belarus 47

Azerbaijan has given the most points to... (with semi-finals)

Rank Country Points
1  Ukraine 75
2  Turkey 72
3  Greece 64
4  Georgia 60
5  Russia 52

Azerbaijan has received the most points from... (with semi-finals)

Rank Country Points
1  Ukraine 76
2  Turkey 72
3  Russia 71
4  Moldova 65
5  Poland 59

Hostings [edit]

Year Location Venue Presenters
2012 Azerbaijan Baku Baku Crystal Hall Leyla Aliyeva, Eldar Gasimov and Nargiz Birk-Petersen

Marcel Bezençon Awards [edit]

Press Award

Year Song Performer Final Result Points Host city
2012 "When the Music Dies" Sabina Babayeva 4th 150 Baku

Artistic Award

Voted by commentators

Year Performer Song Final Result Points Host city
2013 Farid Mammadov "Hold Me" 2nd 234 Malmö

Commentators and spokespersons [edit]

Year(s) Television commentator Dual Television commentator Spokesperson
2008 Husniyya Maharramova Isa Melikov Leyla Aliyeva[6]
2009 Leyla Aliyeva Husniyya Maharramova[7]
2010 Husniyya Maharramova No Dual Commentator Tamilla Shirinova
2011 Leyla Aliyeva Safura Alizadeh[8][9]
2012 Konul Arifgizi Saleh Bagirov
2013 TBA No dual commentator Tamilla Shirinova

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Kuipers, Michael (2007-06-18). "Azerbaijan not joining after all". ESCToday. Archived from the original on 20 June 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-18. 
  2. ^ News Eurovision Finland 2007 Новости Евровидения 2007 Финляндия
  3. ^ Eurovision Song Contest | Belgrade (Serbia) 2008 - Articles
  4. ^ "Azerbaijan's Eurovision rebirth". AFP. 16 May 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2011. 
  5. ^ Sperling, Daniel. "Azerbaijan win Eurovision Song Contest 2011". Retrieved 16 May 2011. 
  6. ^ Floras, Stella (7 May 2008). "Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan: Elnur, Samir & Ruslana in Istanbul". ”ESCToday.com. Retrieved 22 June 2012. 
  7. ^ Montebello, Edward (8 February 2011). "Malta: Azerbaijani TV host is a jury member". ”ESCToday.com. Retrieved 22 June 2012. 
  8. ^ Schacht, Andreas (14 May 2011). "The 2011 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final!". ”Eurovision.tv. Retrieved 22 June 2012. 
  9. ^ Roxburgh, Gordon (26 May 2011). "Running order for the voting tonight". ”Eurovision.tv. Retrieved 22 June 2012. 

External links [edit]

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest
(Note: Entries scored out are when Azerbaijan did not compete)
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