Of which, Russia decided not to enter. From the year 2000 onwards, the four largest contributing to the Eurovision Song Contest, Germany, United Kingdom, France and Spain will be allow to enter the contest in any year, regarding to how many points each country will gain. New for 1999. Each country will be allow to sing in any language as they like. It looks like about half of the countries will be singing in English.
Countries stands more chances to winning if it was sung in English.
See below to see what language each country will be singing. On 17 November 1998, the drawing was broadcasted live on Jerusalem's Manny Pe'er show - a popular weekly talk show. The results of the drawing is as follows. All entries and songs for the 1999 contest are shown below. English translation where available are in brackets.