Eurovision Song Contest 1996

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Eurovision Song Contest 1996
ESC 1996 logo.svg
Dates
Final date 18 May 1996
Host
Venue Oslo Spektrum
Oslo, Norway
Presenter(s) Ingvild Bryn
Morten Harket
Conductor Frode Thingnæs
Director Pål Veiglum
Host broadcaster Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK)
Opening act Morten Harket performing "Heaven's Not For Saints"
Interval act "Beacon Burning" video and dance act
Participants
Number of entries 23
Debuting countries None
Returning countries  Estonia
 Finland
 Netherlands
 Slovakia
 Switzerland
Withdrawing countries  Denmark
 Germany
 Hungary
 Israel
 Russia
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  Ireland
"The Voice"
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 18 May 1996 in Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway. The presenters were Ingvild Bryn and Morten Harket. Harket, lead singer of a-ha, opened the show with a performance of his single "Heaven's Not for Saints". Eimear Quinn of Ireland was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, "The Voice". The song was written by Brendan Graham, who also composed the 1994 winner "Rock 'n' Roll Kids". It was also a record seventh win for Ireland.

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Format [edit]

The European Broadcasting Union continued to experiment in their efforts to find a broadly acceptable method of whittling down the large number of potential participating countries to a more realistic figure. This year, they reverted to the pre-qualifying round that had been used for the 1993 contest, but this time with just one country exempt from the process - the host Norway. The pre-qualifier was an oddity in that it was not broadcast in any form, and did not even entail any live performance of the entries. Instead, the traditional set of national juries simply listened to the studio recordings of each song, through audio tapes, and awarded points accordingly. All that was subsequently revealed of their deliberations was which countries had qualified, with the precise scores and placings remaining under wraps (although they were leaked some time later).

It rapidly became evident that this system was no more sustainable than any other the EBU had tried, as it meant that several countries had gone through their traditional full-blown national selection procedure to come up with an entry, only to suffer the anti-climax of having their challenge quietly extinguished without even having had the opportunity of presenting the song to an international audience. As a leading financial contributor to the contest, Germany were particularly aggrieved that their entry, the techno song "Planet of Blue" performed by Leon, was one of the seven cast aside. It was the only year in the history of the ESC in which Germany did not participate in the final.

The 1996 contest also featured two novelties — which similarly failed to become a tradition — firstly a short 'good luck message' for each entry, recorded by a political leader or official from their country. The seniority of the figure who delivered the message varied wildly from country to country, ranging from Presidents and Prime Ministers on one end of the spectrum to junior ministers or ambassadors on the other, but a few very significant European political figures did appear, including long-serving Swedish premier Göran Persson and President Alija Izetbegović of Bosnia and Herzegovina. But of course the only good luck wish that was fully rewarded in the end was that of Irish Taoiseach John Bruton, who introduced the song that took his country to a fourth win in five years.

Secondly, the voting section was conducted using "blue screen" virtual reality technology provided by Silicon Graphics. The host Ingvild Bryn introduced the viewers to the 'blue room', upon which a 3D scoreboard, views of the green room, the jury spokespersons and country graphics appeared. The only physical aspects were Ingvild herself and two podiums.

Individual Entries [edit]

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(Note: All information are in order of performance)


Results [edit]

Draw Country Language[1] Artist Song English translation Place[2] Points[2]
01  Turkey Turkish Şebnem Paker "Beşinci Mevsim" The fifth season 12 57
02  United Kingdom English Gina G "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" — 8 77
03  Spain Spanish Antonio Carbonell "¡Ay, qué deseo!" Oh, what desire! 20 17
04  Portugal Portuguese Lúcia Moniz "O meu coração não tem cor" My heart has no colour 6 92
05  Cyprus Greek Constantinos "Mono Yia Mas" (Μόνο Για Μας) Only for us 9 72
06  Malta English Miriam Christine "In a Woman's Heart" — 10 68
07  Croatia Croatian Maja Blagdan "Sveta ljubav" Holy love 4 98
08  Austria Vorarlbergish George Nussbaumer "Weil's dr guat got" Because you feel good 10 68
09  Switzerland French Kathy Leander "Mon cœur l'aime" My heart loves him 16 22
10  Greece Greek Mariana Efstratiou "Emeis Forame to Himona Anixiatika"
(Εμείς Φοράμε το Χειμώνα Ανοιξιάτικα)		 We wear spring clothes
in winter time		 14 36
11  Estonia Estonian Maarja-Liis Ilus & Ivo Linna "Kaelakee hääl" Sound of necklace 5 94
12  Norway Norwegian Elisabeth Andreassen "I evighet" For eternity 2 114
13  France Breton Dan Ar Braz &
L'Héritage des Celtes		 "Diwanit Bugale" May you blossom, children 19 18
14  Slovenia Slovene Regina "Dan najlepših sanj" The day of the
most beautiful dream		 21 16
15  Netherlands Dutch Maxine & Franklin Brown "De eerste keer" The first time 7 78
16  Belgium Dutch Lisa del Bo "Liefde is een kaartspel" Love is a cardgame 16 22
17  Ireland English Eimear Quinn "The Voice" — 1 162
18  Finland Finnish Jasmine "Niin kaunis on taivas" So beautiful is the sky 23 9
19  Iceland Icelandic Anna Mjöll "Sjúbídú" Shoobe-doo 13 51
20  Poland Polish Kasia Kowalska "Chcę znać swój grzech..." I want to know my sin 15 31
21  Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Amila Glamočak "Za našu ljubav" For our love 22 13
22  Slovakia Slovak Marcel Palonder "Kým nás máš" While you have us 18 19
23  Sweden Swedish One More Time "Den vilda" The wild one 3 100

Pre-qualifying round [edit]

Shaded countries were eliminated from the competition[3]

Country Language[1] Artist Song English translation Place[2] Points[2]
 Austria Vorarlbergish George Nussbaumer "Weil's dr guat got" Because you feel good 6 80
 Belgium Dutch Lisa Del Bo "Liefde is een kaartspel" Love is a cardgame 12 45
 Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian Amila Glamočak "Za našu ljubav" For our love 21 29
 Croatia Croatian Maja Blagdan "Sveta ljubav" Divine love 19 30
 Cyprus Greek Constantinos "Mono Yia Mas" (Μόνο Για Μας) Only for us 15 42
 Denmark Danish Dorthe Andersen & Martin Loft "Kun med dig" Only with you 25 22
 Estonia Estonian Maarja-Liis Ilus & Ivo Linna "Kaelakee hääl" Sound of necklace 5 106
 Finland Finnish Jasmine "Niin kaunis on taivas" So beautiful is the sky 22 28
 France Breton Dan Ar Braz & L'Héritage des Celtes "Diwanit Bugale" May you blossom, children 11 55
 Germany German Leon "Planet of Blue" — 24 24
 Greece Greek Mariana Efstratiou "Emeis Forame to Himona Anixiatika"
(Εμείς Φοράμε το Χειμώνα Ανοιξιάτικα)		 We wear spring clothes
in winter time		 12 45
 Hungary Hungarian Gjon Delhusa "Fortuna" — 23 26
 Iceland Icelandic Anna Mjöll "Sjúbídú" Shoobe-doo 10 59
 Ireland English Eimear Quinn "The Voice" — 2 198
 Israel Hebrew Galit Bell "Shalom Olam" (שלום עולם) Hello/peace world 28 12
 Macedonia Macedonian Kaliopi "Samo ti" (Само ти) Only you 26 14
 Malta English Miriam Christine "In A Woman's Heart" — 4 138
 Netherlands Dutch Maxine & Franklin Brown "De eerste keer" The first time 9 63
 Poland Polish Kasia Kowalska "Chcę znać swój grzech..." I want to know my sin 15 42
 Portugal Portuguese Lúcia Moniz "O meu coração não tem cor" My heart has no colour 18 32
 Romania Romanian Monica Anghel & Sincron "Rugă pentru pacea lumii" Prayer for world peace 29 11
 Russia Russian Andrej Kosinskij "Ja eto ja" (Я это я) I am what I am 26 14
 Slovakia Slovak Marcel Palonder "Kým nás máš" While you have us 17 36
 Slovenia Slovene Regina "Dan najlepših sanj" The day of the
most beautiful dream		 19 30
 Spain Spanish Antonio Carbonell "¡Ay, qué deseo!" Oh, what desire! 14 43
 Sweden Swedish One More Time "Den vilda" The wild one 1 227
 Switzerland French Kathy Leander "Mon coeur l'aime" My heart loves him 8 67
 Turkey Turkish Şebnem Paker "Beşinci Mevsim" The fifth season 7 69
 United Kingdom English Gina G "Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit" — 3 153

Voting structure [edit]

Each country had a jury that awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs. One year later, televoting would be introduced in only some countries, such as Sweden and the United Kingdom. When Belén Fernández de Henestrosa, the Spanish spokesperson, announced the votes of the Spanish jury, she awarded six points to "Holland" (the Netherlands), which host Ingvild Byrn misheard as "Poland." The official results table corrected this error, and the Netherlands' seventh place result was restored at the expense of the United Kingdom, who ultimately finished eighth.[2] Norway's entry, "I evighet", is notable for being the only runner-up not to receive a single "12 points" score in a Eurovision final since the current voting method was introduced in 1975.

Score sheet [edit]

Juries
Total Score Turkey United Kingdom Spain Portugal Cyprus Malta Croatia Austria Switzerland Greece Estonia Norway France Slovenia Netherlands Belgium Ireland Finland Iceland Poland Bosnia and Herzegovina Slovakia Sweden
Contestants Turkey 57 6 8 10 1 6 4 7 5 5 5
United Kingdom 77 3 12 1 6 7 3 4 2 8 12 3 4 6 6
Spain 17 2 5 4 6
Portugal 92 5 2 12 10 1 10 5 12 5 6 6 3 10 1 4
Cyprus 72 12 7 3 2 8 2 5 12 2 1 6 10 2
Malta 68 10 10 12 8 1 4 6 12 5
Croatia 98 8 4 5 10 8 7 1 1 6 7 3 5 4 6 5 2 10 5 1
Austria 68 4 5 12 2 7 12 1 8 8 6 3
Switzerland 22 3 2 4 2 4 4 3
Greece 36 7 10 1 2 3 1 1 8 3
Estonia 94 10 4 7 5 8 1 8 3 2 12 12 10 12
Norway 114 2 8 2 3 5 8 7 5 7 10 10 8 7 7 8 4 3 10
France 18 1 1 3 4 7 2
Slovenia 16 1 6 1 8
Netherlands 78 1 6 7 5 12 3 4 10 5 1 5 2 7 2 8
Belgium 22 5 12 2 1 2
Ireland 162 12 8 6 4 7 12 10 12 10 6 12 12 3 10 12 12 7 7
Finland 9 2 7
Iceland 51 3 6 6 3 8 5 6 10 3 1
Poland 31 7 4 4 7 7 2
Bosnia and Herzegovina 13 6 3 3 1
Slovakia 19 2 8 4 5
Sweden 100 4 10 8 10 6 3 7 8 10 12 8 6 4 4

12 points [edit]

Below is a summary of all 12 point in the final:[2]

N. Recipient nation Voting nation
7 Ireland Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey
3 Estonia Finland, Iceland, Sweden
2 Austria France, Malta
Cyprus Greece, United Kingdom
Malta Croatia, Slovakia
Portugal Cyprus, Norway
United Kingdom Belgium, Portugal
1 Belgium Spain
Netherlands Austria
Sweden Ireland

Returning artists [edit]

Artist Country Previous Year(s)
Mariana Efstratiou  Greece 1989
Elisabeth Andreassen  Norway 1982 (for Sweden, part of Chips)
1985 (part of Bobbysocks!, winner), 1994

Good luck wishes [edit]

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In 1996 all contestants were wished good luck by a politician from their own country. Those wishes were shown right before their performance. This was the only year in Eurovision they did anything like this.

These are the people who wished their country's participant good luck:

Commentators [edit]

Television [edit]

Radio [edit]

Spokespersons [edit]

National jury members [edit]

References [edit]

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  2. ^ a b c d e f "Eurovision Song Contest 1996 History". EBU. Retrieved 24 July 2012. 
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