Eurovision Song Contest 2004

The **Eurovision Song Contest 2004** was the 49th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. The semi-final took place on the 12 May and the grand final on 15 May 2004. The contest was held in Istanbul, Turkey, following their win at the 2003 contest with the song "Everyway That I Can" by Sertab Erener.

36 countries took part in the contest, with Albania, Andorra, Belarus & Serbia and Montenegro taking part for the first time ever, while Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Macedonia, Monaco and Switzerland returned after their relegation in 2003.

The winner was Ukraine with the song "Wild Dances", performed by Ruslana.

## Location

Istanbul is the largest city of Turkey. The venue was the Abdi İpekçi Arena.

## Participants

|scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Broadcaster|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Language|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|RTSH|Anjeza Shahini|"The Image of You"|English|||||||
|RTVA|Marta Roure|""|Catalan|||||||
|ORF|Tie Break|""|German|||||||
|BTRC|Aleksandra and Konstantin|"My Galileo"|English|||||||
|VRT|Xandee|"1 Life"|English|||||||
|PBSBiH|Deen|"In the Disco"|English|||||||
|HRT|Ivan Mikulić|"You Are the Only One"|English|||||||
|CyBC|Lisa Andreas|"Stronger Every Minute"|English|||||||
|DR|Tomas Thordarson|"Shame on You"|English|||||||
|ETV|Neiokõsõ|""|Võro|||||||
|YLE|Jari Sillanpää|"Takes 2 to Tango"|English|||||||
||Jonatan Cerrada|""|French, Spanish|||||||
|NDR|Max|"Can't Wait Until Tonight"|English, Turkish|||||||
|ERT|Sakis Rouvas|"Shake It"|English|||||||
|RÚV|Jónsi|"Heaven"|English|||||||
|RTÉ|Chris Doran|"If My World Stopped Turning"|English|||||||
|IBA|David D'Or|"" <small>()</small>|Hebrew, English|||||||
|LTV|Fomins and Kleins|""|Latvian|||||||
|LRT|Linas and Simona|"What's Happened to Your Love"|English|||||||
|MRT|Toše Proeski|"Life"|English|||||||
|PBS|Julie and Ludwig|"On Again... Off Again"|English|||||||
|TMC|Maryon|""|French|||||||
|NOS|Re-union|"Without You"|English|||||||
|NRK|Knut Anders Sørum|"High"|English|||||||
|TVP|Blue Café|"Love Song"|English, Spanish|||||||
|RTP|Sofia Vitória|""|Portuguese|||||||
|TVR|Sanda|"I Admit"|English|||||||
|C1R|Yulia Savicheva|"Believe Me"|English|||||||
|UJRT|Željko Joksimović and|"" <small>()</small>|Serbian|||||||
|RTVSLO|Platin|"Stay Forever"|English|||||||
|TVE|Ramón|""|Spanish|||||||
|SVT|Lena Philipsson|"It Hurts"|English|||||||
|SRG SSR|Piero and the MusicStars|"Celebrate"|English|||||||
|TRT|Athena|"For Real"|English|||||||
|NTU|Ruslana|"Wild Dances"|English, Ukrainian|||||||
|BBC|James Fox|"Hold On to Our Love"|English|||||||

### Semi-final

The semi-final was held on 12 May 2005 at 21:00 (CET).
|scope="col"||scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Points|scope="col"|Place|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|||"Takes 2 to Tango"|51|14||||||||
||Aleksandra and Konstantin|"My Galileo"|10|19||||||||
||Piero and the MusicStars|"Celebrate"|0|22||||||||
||Fomins and Kleins|""|23|17||||||||
|||""|57|11||||||||
|||""|12|18||||||||
||Sofia Vitória|""|38|15||||||||
||Julie and Ludwig|"On Again... Off Again"|74|8||||||||
||Maryon|""|10|19||||||||
|||"Shake It"|238|3||||||||
||Ruslana|"Wild Dances"|256|2||||||||
||Linas and Simona|"What's Happened to Your Love"|26|16||||||||
|||"The Image of You"|167|4||||||||
|||"Stronger Every Minute"|149|5||||||||
|||"Life"|71|10||||||||
||Platin|"Stay Forever"|5|21||||||||
||Neiokõsõ|""|57|11||||||||
|||"You Are the Only One"|72|9||||||||
|||"Shame on You"|56|13||||||||
||and Ad-Hoc Orchestra|""|263|1||||||||
||Deen|"In the Disco"|133|7||||||||
||Re-union|"Without You"|146|6||||||||

### Final

The final was held on 15 May 2005 at 21:00 (CET)
|scope="col"||scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Points|scope="col"|Place|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Ramón|""|87|10||||||||
||Tie Break|""|9|21||||||||
|||"High"|3|24||||||||
|||""|40|15||||||||
||and Ad-Hoc Orchestra|""|263|2||||||||
||Julie and Ludwig|"On Again... Off Again"|50|12||||||||
||Re-union|"Without You"|11|20||||||||
||Max|"Can't Wait Until Tonight"|93|8||||||||
|||"The Image of You"|106|7||||||||
||Ruslana|"Wild Dances"|280|1||||||||
|||"You Are the Only One"|50|12||||||||
||Deen|"In the Disco"|91|9||||||||
||Xandee|"1 Life"|7|22||||||||
|||"Believe Me"|67|11||||||||
|||"Life"|47|14||||||||
|||"Shake It"|252|3||||||||
||Jónsi|"Heaven"|16|19||||||||
|||"If My World Stopped Turning"|7|22||||||||
||Blue Café|"Love Song"|27|17||||||||
|||"Hold On to Our Love"|29|16||||||||
|||"Stronger Every Minute"|170|5||||||||
||Athena|"For Real"|195|4||||||||
||Sanda|"I Admit"|18|18||||||||
|||"It Hurts"|170|5||||||||

## Official album

***Eurovision Song Contest: Istanbul 2004*** was the official compilation album of the 2004 contest.

## Infobox (eurovision)

- **name**: Eurovision Song Contest
- **year**: 2004
- **theme**: _Under the Same Sky_
- **logo**: File:EuroTurkey2015.svg
- **venue**: Abdi İpekçi Arena
Istanbul, Turkey
- **host**: Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT)
- **entries**: 36
- **finalists**: 24