Eurovision Song Contest 2002

Eurovision Song Contest 2002
Eurovision Song Contest 2002
"A Modern Fairytale"
Dates
Final	25 May 2002
Host
Venue	Saku Suurhall, Tallinn, Estonia
Presenter(s)	Annely Peebo,; Marko Matvere
Directed by	Marius Bratten
Host broadcaster	ETV
Website	eurovision.tv/event/tallinn-2002
Participants
Number of entries	24
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Austria; Belgium; Cyprus; Finland; FYR Macedonia; Romania; Switzerland
Non-returning countries	Iceland; Ireland; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal
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Vote
Voting system	Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite countries
Winning song	Latvia; "I Wanna"

The Eurovision Song Contest 2002 was the 47th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 25 May 2002 in the Saku Suurhall Arena in Tallinn, Estonia. The presenters were Annely Peebo and Marko Matvere. Latvia won the contest for the first time, with Marie N and the song "I Wanna". Estonia was the first country from the former Eastern bloc to organize the Eurovision Song Contest. There had been worries about whether Estonia would have enough funds to stage the competitions, but they were put to rest when a combination of fundraising activities and the Estonian Government enabled them to host a satisfying event. The theme created around this year's contest was 'a modern fairytale', which was evident in the postcards aired between the songs.

This edition was originally scheduled to have 22 competitors; the top 15 from the previous year's contest, plus the seven countries that had been excluded from the 2001 event due to their low five-year point average. However, the European Broadcasting Union increased the number of participants to 24, granting Israel and Portugal the opportunity to enter. Portugal declined and was replaced by eventual winner Latvia.

This year's contest proved the unpredictability of Eurovision, as few could have guessed beforehand that the contest would turn into a two horse race between Malta and Latvia. The United Kingdom returned to their success with Jessica Garlick's entry 'Come Back', which made it into joint third position with Estonia. France continued their good results from the previous year, when Sandrine François came 5th. There were many rhythms and sounds in this year's songs that made them unique. The stage acts became more elaborate with the winner Latvia pulling a strip routine while the Greek entrants dressed up and moved like robots. Germany sent singer Corinna May who had been blind from birth. Slovenia entered three men dressed as female flight attendants.

Italy and Luxembourg continued to refuse to participate in the event.

The official EBU compilation CD was released with the songs in the order in which they were performed at the contest.

Individual Entries

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Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	Translation	Place	Points
1	Cyprus	English	One	"Gimme"	-	6	85
2	United Kingdom	English	Jessica Garlick	"Come Back"	-	3	111
3	Austria	English	Manuel Ortega	"Say A Word"	-	18	26
4	Greece	English	Michalis Rakintzis	"S.A.G.A.P.O."	I L.O.V.E Y.O.U	17	27
5	Spain	Spanish	Rosa	"Europe's Living A Celebration"	-	7	81
6	Croatia	English	Vesna Pisarović	"Everything I Want"	-	11	44
7	Russia	English	Prime Minister	"Northern Girl"	-	10	55
8	Estonia	English	Sahlene	"Runaway"	-	3	111
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10	Israel	Hebrew, English	Sarit Hadad	"Nadlik Beyakhad Ner (Light A Candle)" (נדליק ביחד נר)	-	12	37
11	Switzerland	French	Francine Jordi	"Dans le jardin de mon âme"	In the Garden of My Soul	22	15
12	Sweden	English	Afro-dite	"Never Let It Go"	-	8	72
13	Finland	English	Laura Voutilainen	"Addicted To You"	-	20	24
14	Denmark	English	Malene	"Tell Me Who You Are"	-	24	7
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Serbian, English	Maja Tatić	"Na jastuku za dvoje"	On a Pillow For Two	13	33
16	Belgium	English	Sergio & The Ladies	"Sister"	-	13	33
17	France	French	Sandrine François	"Il faut du temps"	It Takes Time	5	104
18	Germany	English	Corinna May	"I Can't Live Without Music"	-	21	17
19	Turkey	Turkish, English	Buket Bengisu & Group Safir	"Leylaklar Soldu Kalbinde"	Lilacs Faded In Your Heart	16	29
20	Malta	English	Ira Losco	"7th Wonder"	-	2	164
21	Romania	English	Monica Anghel & Marcel Pavel	"Tell Me Why"	-	9	71
22	Slovenia	Slovene	Sestre	"Samo ljubezen"	Only Love	13	33
23	Latvia	English	Marie N	"I Wanna"	-	1	176
24	Lithuania	English	Aivaras	"Happy You"	-	23	12

Voting structure

The majority of participating countries organized a televote where the top 10 songs received the points, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12, but Romania, Russia, Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina used juries, while Cyprus, Greece, Croatia and Malta used a 50-50 mix of both televoting and jury votes. This year caused the end of jury voting due to the juries in use being found guilty of swapping votes between each other. source

Score sheet

Voting procedure used: Red: Televote. Blue: Jury. Purple: 50:50
Cyprus		3	0	12	6	10	6	4	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	3	0	0	0	12	8	4	8	4
United Kingdom	0		12	7	0	0	0	6	4	5	6	2	8	6	7	6	1	8	2	10	0	8	5	8
Austria	1	0		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0
Greece	12	0	0		0	1	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0
Spain	7	2	0	4		6	0	0	0	6	12	7	0	0	6	12	12	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
Croatia	6	0	6	5	0		0	0	5	0	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	12	0	0
Russia	5	0	0	2	0	0		10	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	10	0	10	6
Estonia	0	7	3	0	0	5	3		6	2	0	12	10	8	10	4	0	4	8	2	2	6	12	7
FYR Macedonia	3	0	0	0	0	4	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	12	0	0	0
Israel	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	0	5	1	0	2	10	5	0	0	5	0	3	0
Switzerland	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	3	1	1	0
Sweden	0	1	4	1	0	0	0	8	0	3	0		7	10	12	1	0	0	4	0	0	7	4	10
Finland	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	10		3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1
Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	0	7	0	3	7	0	0	3	0	0	6	0	2		0	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0
Belgium	0	4	0	0	1	0	7	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	0		2	0	10	0	0	0	0	2
France	0	10	0	3	8	0	0	3	0	7	10	8	12	5	8	10		6	0	0	4	3	2	5
Germany	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0		3	4	1	0	0	0
Turkey	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0		0	7	0	0	0
Malta	10	12	8	6	10	12	5	7	10	10	4	4	2	12	4	7	6	10	5		0	10	7	3
Romania	8	0	0	8	5	0	12	0	12	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	7	6		0	0	0
Slovenia	0	6	2	0	7	8	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	0		0	0
Latvia	4	8	10	10	12	2	10	12	7	12	8	5	6	7	5	8	8	12	6	7	0	5		12
Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
The table is ordered by appearance.

12 points

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

N.	To	From
5	Latvia	Estonia, Germany, Israel, Lithuania, Spain
3	Malta	Croatia, Denmark, United Kingdom
3	Spain	Belgium, France, Switzerland
2	Cyprus	Greece, Malta
	Estonia	Latvia, Sweden
	Romania	FYR Macedonia, Russia
1	Austria	Turkey
	Croatia	Slovenia
	France	Finland
	FYR Macedonia	Romania
	Greece	Cyprus
	Sweden	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	United Kingdom	Austria

Spokespersons

Austria - Dodo Roscic
Belgium - Geena Lisa Peeters
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Segmedina Srna
Croatia - Duško Čurlić
Cyprus - Melani Steliou
Denmark - Signe Svendsen
Estonia - Elektra ^{[disambiguation needed]}
Finland - Marion Rung
France - Marie Myriam
FYR Macedonia - Biljana Debarlieva
Germany - Axel Bulthaupt
Greece - Alexis Kostalas
Israel - Michal Zoharetz
Latvia - Eriks Niedra
Lithuania - Loreta Tarozaite
Malta - Yvette Portelli
Romania - Leonard Miron
Russia - Arina Sharapova
Slovenia - Nuša Derenda
Spain - Anne Igartiburu
Sweden - Kristin Kaspersen
Switzerland - Diana Jörg
Turkey - Meltem Ersan Yazgan
United Kingdom - Colin Berry

Map

Participating countries
Countries who have participated in the past but did not this year

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