Eurovision Song Contest 2005

The **Eurovision Song Contest 2005** was the 50th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. The semi-final took place on the 19 May and the grand final on 21 May 2005. The contest was held in Kyiv, Ukraine, following their win at the 2004 contest with the song "Wild Dances" by Ruslana.

39 countries took part in the contest, with Bulgaria and Moldova taking part for the first time ever, while Hungary returned after a 6 year leave.

The winner was Greece with the song "My Number One", performed by Helena Paparizou.

## Location

Kyiv is the capital and largest city of Ukraine. On 6 September, 2004, it was confirmed that the Palace of Sports was the venue.

## Participants

|scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Broadcaster|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Language|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|RTSH|Ledina Çelo|"Tomorrow I Go"|English|||||||
|RTVA|Marian van de Wal|""|Catalan|||||||
|ORF|Global.Kryner|""|English, Spanish|||||||
|BTRC|Angelica Agurbash|"Love Me Tonight"|English|||||||
|RTBF|Nuno Resende|""|French|||||||
|BHRT|Feminnem|"Call Me"|English|||||||
|BNT|Kaffe|"Lorraine"|English|||||||
|HRT|Boris Novković  Lado Members|""|Croatian|||||||
|CyBC|Constantinos Christoforou|"Ela Ela"|English|||||||
|DR|Jakob Sveistrup|"Talking to You"|English|||||||
|ETV|Suntribe|"Let's Get Loud"|English|||||||
|YLE|Geir Rönning|"Why"|English|||||||
||Ortal|""|French|||||||
|NDR|Gracia|"Run & Hide"|English|||||||
|ERT|Helena Paparizou|"My Number One"|English|||||||
|MTV|Nox|""|Hungarian|||||||
|RÚV|Selma|"If I Had Your Love"|English|||||||
|RTÉ|Donna and Joe|"Love?"|English|||||||
|IBA|Shiri Maimon|"" <small>()</small>|Hebrew, English|||||||
|LTV|Walters and Kazha|"The War Is Not Over"|English|||||||
|LRT|Laura and the Lovers|"Little by Little"|English|||||||
|MRT|Martin Vučić|"Make My Day"|English|||||||
|PBS|Chiara|"Angel"|English|||||||
|TRM|Zdob și Zdub|""|English, Romanian|||||||
|TMC|Lise Darly|""|French|||||||
|NOS|Glennis Grace|"My Impossible Dream"|English|||||||
|NRK|Wig Wam|"In My Dreams"|English|||||||
|TVP||""|Polish, Russian|||||||
|RTP||""|Portuguese, English|||||||
|TVR|Luminița Anghel and|"Let Me Try"|English|||||||
|C1R|Natalia Podolskaya|"Nobody Hurt No One"|English|||||||
|UJRT|No Name|"" <small>()</small>|Montenegrin|||||||
|RTVSLO|Omar Naber|"Stop"|Slovene|||||||
|TVE|Son de Sol|""|Spanish|||||||
|SVT|Martin Stenmarck|"Las Vegas"|English|||||||
|SRG SSR|Vanilla Ninja|"Cool Vibes"|English|||||||
|TRT|Gülseren|"Rimi Rimi Ley"|Turkish|||||||
|NTU|GreenJolly|"" <small>()</small>|Ukrainian, English|||||||
|BBC|Javine|"Touch My Fire"|English|||||||

### Other countries

The Czech Republic had applied to debut in the contest, but it withdrew. Lebanon was set to debut in the contest with the song "Quand tout s'enfuit " by Aline Lahoud, but due to laws not allowing Israeli content, it withdrew.

### Semi-final

The semi-final was held on 19 May 2005 at 21:00 (CET).
|scope="col"||scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Points|scope="col"|Place|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Global.Kryner|""|30|21||||||||
||Laura and the Lovers|"Little by Little"|17|25||||||||
||2B|""|51|17||||||||
||Zdob și Zdub|""|207|2||||||||
||Walters and Kazha|"The War Is Not Over"|85|10||||||||
|||""|22|24||||||||
|||""|158|7||||||||
|||"Love Me Tonight"|67|13||||||||
|||"My Impossible Dream"|53|14||||||||
||Selma|"If I Had Your Love"|52|16||||||||
|||""|29|22||||||||
||Suntribe|"Let's Get Loud"|31|20||||||||
||Wig Wam|"In My Dreams"|164|6||||||||
||and Sistem|"Let Me Try"|235|1||||||||
||Nox|""|167|5||||||||
|||"Why"|50|18||||||||
|||"Make My Day"|97|9||||||||
|||""|27|23||||||||
||Vanilla Ninja|"Cool Vibes"|114|8||||||||
||feat. Lado members|""|169|4||||||||
||Kaffe|"Lorraine"|49|19||||||||
||Donna and Joe|"Love?"|53|14||||||||
|||"Stop"|69|12||||||||
|||"Talking to You"|185|3||||||||
||Ivan and Delfin|""|81|11||||||||

### Final

The final was held on 21 May 2005 at 21:00 (CET)
|scope="col"||scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Points|scope="col"|Place|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Nox|""|97|12||||||||
||Javine|"Touch My Fire"|18|22||||||||
||Chiara|"Angel"|192|2||||||||
||and Sistem|"Let Me Try"|158|3||||||||
||Wig Wam|"In My Dreams"|125|9||||||||
||Gülseren|"Rimi Rimi Ley"|92|13||||||||
||Zdob și Zdub|""|148|6||||||||
|||"Tomorrow I Go"|53|16||||||||
|||"Ela Ela"|46|18||||||||
||Son de Sol|""|28|21||||||||
|||""|154|4||||||||
||No Name|""|137|7||||||||
|||"Talking to You"|125|9||||||||
|||"Las Vegas"|30|19||||||||
|||"Make My Day"|52|17||||||||
||GreenJolly|""|30|19||||||||
||Gracia|"Run & Hide"|4|24||||||||
||feat. Lado members|""|115|11||||||||
|||"My Number One"|230|1||||||||
|||"Nobody Hurt No One"|57|15||||||||
||Feminnem|"Call Me"|79|14||||||||
||Vanilla Ninja|"Cool Vibes"|128|8||||||||
||Walters and Kazha|"The War Is Not Over"|153|5||||||||
||Ortal|""|11|23||||||||

## Official album

***Eurovision Song Contest: Kyiv 2005*** was the official compilation album of the 2005 contest.

The original album cover had Lebanon, but due to the country's withdrawal, it was changed.

## Infobox (eurovision)

- **name**: Eurovision Song Contest
- **year**: 2005
- **theme**: _Awakening_
- **logo**:
- **venue**: Palace of Sports (Kyiv), Palace of Sports
Kyiv, Ukraine
- **host**: Suspilne Ukraine, National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU)
- **entries**: 39
- **finalists**: 24