Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light

***Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light***  was a live television programme, created by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). It replaced the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, which was going to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, but was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The show was shown live from Hilversum, Netherlands on 16 May 2020 and lasted for two hours. It was hosted by Chantal Janzen, Edsilia Rombley and Jan Smit, who had been chosen to present the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 before its cancellation.

## Format

During the programme, all 41 songs that had been chosen to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 were show but no one could vote. Participants from the past were invited to make an appearance. Together, the artists performed "Love Shine a Light" from their home countries. Videos of Eurovision fans singing along to "What's Another Year" by Johnny Logan, which won the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 in The Hague, were shown as well.

### Venue

Hilversum was the host city and Studio 21 in Media Park was the venue of the show. It was the second time Hilversum hosted a Eurovision event, having previously hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1958.

### Presenters

The show was hosted by three presenters: Actress and television host Chantal Janzen, singer and commentator for the contest Jan Smit, and singer Edsilia Rombley, who represented the Netherlands in the 1998 and 2007 contests. They would have been the three hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest 2020.

### Performances

The show featured performances from the following Eurovision artists:
|scope="col"|Order|scope="col"|Country|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|01||Johnny Logan|"What's Another Year"|||||
|02||Måns Zelmerlöw|"Heroes"|||||
|rowspan="2"|03||Gali Atari <small>(of Milk and Honey)</small>|rowspan="2"|"Hallelujah"|||
||Past _Junior Songfestival_ finalists|||||||
|04||Diodato|"Nel blu, dipinto di blu"|||||
|05||Marija Šerifović|"Molitva"|||||
|06||Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra|"Love Shine a Light" <small>(musical score)</small>|||||
|rowspan="2"|07||Michael Schulte|rowspan="2"|"Ein bißchen Frieden"|||
||Ilse DeLange <small>(of The Common Linnets)</small>|||||||
|08||Netta|"Cuckoo"|||||
|09||Duncan Laurence|"Someone Else"|||||
|rowspan="2"|10|rowspan="2"|All countries <small>(except )</small>|The Artists of Eurovision 2020 <small>(except Hooverphonic)</small>|rowspan="2"|"Love Shine a Light"||
|Katrina Leskanich||||||||

### Song showcase

The show also showcased the artists and songs that would've been performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, by showing short videos of the songs' music videos or stage performances, along with video messages from the artists themselves.
|Order|Country|Artist|Song|Language(s)|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|01||Eden Alene|"Feker libi" <small>()</small>|English, Amharic, Hebrew, Arabic|
|02||Ulrikke|"Attention"|English|
|03||Little Big|"Uno"|English, Spanish|
|04||Tornike Kipiani|"Take Me as I Am"|English|
|05||Tom Leeb|"Mon alliée (The Best in Me)"|French, English|
|06||Efendi|"Cleopatra"|English|
|07||Elisa|"Medo de sentir"|Portuguese|
|08||The Roop|"On Fire"|English|
|09||The Mamas|"Move"|English|
|01||Samanta Tīna|"Still Breathing"|English|
|02||Hooverphonic|"Release Me"|English|
|03||James Newman|"My Last Breath"|English|
|04||VAL|"Da vidna" <small>()</small>|Belarusian|
|05||Aksel|"Looking Back"|English|
|06||Vasil|"You"|English|
|07||Gjon's Tears|"Répondez-moi"|French|
|08||Hurricane|"Hasta la vista"|Serbian|
|01||Blas Cantó|"Universo"|Spanish|
|02||Arilena Ara|"Fall from the Sky"|English|
|03||Lesley Roy|"Story of My Life"|English|
|04||Ana Soklič|"Voda"|Slovene|
|05||Vincent Bueno|"Alive"|English|
|06||Victoria|"Tears Getting Sober"|English|
|07||Senhit|"Freaky!"|English|
|08||Daði og Gagnamagnið|"Think About Things"|English|
|01||Stefania|"Supergirl"|English|
|02||Benny Cristo|"Kemama"|English|
|03||Alicja|"Empires"|English|
|04||Natalia Gordienko|"Prison"|English|
|05||Sandro|"Running"|English|
|06||Roxen|"Alcohol You"|English|
|07||Damir Kedžo|"Divlji vjetre"|Croatian|
|08||Ben Dolic|"Violent Thing"|English|
|01||Destiny|"All of My Love"|English|
|02||Uku Suviste|"What Love Is"|English|
|03||Montaigne|"Don't Break Me"|English|
|04||Go_A|"Solovey" <small>()</small>|Ukrainian|
|05||Ben & Tan|"Yes"|English|
|06||Diodato|"Fai rumore"|Italian|
|07||Athena Manoukian|"Chains on You"|English|
|08||Jeangu Macrooy|"Grow"|English|

### Appearances

- – Viki Gabor <small>(winner of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019)</small>
- – Alexander Rybak <small>(Norwegian representative in ; winner of the )</small>
- – Lenny Kuhr <small>(co-winner of the )</small>
- – Sandra Kim <small>(winner of the )</small>
- – Anne-Marie David <small>(French representative in ; winner of the )</small>
- – Niamh Kavanagh <small>(Irish representative in ; winner of the )</small>
- – Getty Kaspers <small>(winner of the  as part of Teach-In)</small>
- – Ell & Nikki <small>(winners of the )</small>
- – Sergey Lazarev <small>(Russian representative in  and )</small>
- – Dana <small>(winner of the )</small>
- – Elena Paparizou <small>(Greek representative in  as part of Antique; winner of the )</small>
- – Carola <small>(Swedish representative in  and ; winner of the )</small>
- – Conchita Wurst <small>(winner of the )</small>
- – Björn Ulvaeus <small>(winner of the  as part of ABBA)</small>
- – Graham Norton <small>(British commentator for the contest)</small>

#### Broadcasters and commentators

The countries below broadcasted the live show:
|Country|Broadcaster|Channel(s)|Commentator(s)|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||RTSH|RTSH 1, RTSH Muzikë|Andri Xhahu|||||
||colspan="2"|AMPTV (1TV)|David Tserunyan and Emma Hakobyan|||||
||SBS|SBS|Joel Creasey and Myf Warhurst|rowspan="2"||||
||ORF|ORF 1|Andi Knoll|||||
||colspan="2"|İctimai Television (İTV)|Murad Arif|||||
||BTRC|Belarus 1|Evgeny Perlin|||||
|rowspan="2"||RTBF|La Une|_French_: Jean-Louis Lahaye and Maureen Louys||||
|VRT|Eén|_Dutch_: Peter Van de Veire||||||
||BNT|BNT 1, BNT 4|Elena Rosberg and Petko Kralev|rowspan="2"||||
||HRT|HRT 1|Duško Čurlić|||||
||CyBC|RIK 1, RIK Sat|Andreas Iakovidis|||||
||ČT|ČT art|Jan Maxián|||||
||DR|DR1|Ole Tøpholm|||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|ERR|ETV|_Estonian_: Marko Reikop|rowspan="2"||
|ETV+|_Russian_: Yuliya Kalenda and Aleksandr Khobotov|||||||
||Yle|Yle TV2|_Finnish_: Mikko Silvennoinen and Krista Siegfrids _Swedish_: Eva Frantz and Johan Lindroos|||||
||France Télévisions|France 2|Stéphane Bern|||||
||GPB|1TV|Demetre Ergemlidze|||||
||ARD/NDR|Das Erste|Michael Schulte and Peter Urban|||||
||ERT|ERT1|Maria Kozakou|||||
||RÚV|RÚV 1|Felix Bergsson|rowspan="2"||||
||RTÉ|RTÉ One|Marty Whelan|||||
||IPBC (Kan)|Kan 11|[unknown]|||||
|rowspan="2"||rowspan="2"|RAI|Rai 1|Flavio Insinna and Federico Russo|rowspan="2"||
|Rai 4, Rai Radio 2|Gino Castaldo and Ema Stokholma|||||||
||LTV|LTV1|Toms Grēviņš|||||
||LRT|LRT televizija|Ramūnas Zilnys|||||
||PBS|TVM|[unknown]|rowspan="2"||||
||TRM|Moldova 1|Daniela Crudu|||||
||AVROTROS|NPO 1|Cornald Maas|||||
||MRT|MRT 1|Aleksandra Jovanovska|||||
||NRK|NRK1||||||
||TVP|TVP1, TVP Polonia|Artur Orzech|||||
||RTP|RTP1, RTPi|Nuno Galopim|||||
||TVR|TVR1, TVRi|Bogdan Stănescu|||||
||colspan="2"|Channel One (C1R)|Yuriy Aksyuta and Yana Churikova|rowspan="1"||||
||SMRTV|San Marino RTV||Flavio Insinna and Federico Russo||||
||RTS|RTS1, RTS Svet|Duška Vučinić|||||
||RTVSLO|TV Slovenija 1|Andrej Hofer|||||
||RTVE|La 1, TVEi|Tony Aguilar and Eva Mora|||||
||SVT|SVT1||||||
|rowspan="3"||rowspan="3"|SRG SSR|RSI La 2|_Italian_: Clarissa Tami and Sebalter|rowspan="2"||
|RTS 1|_French_: Yoann Provenzano and Jean-Marc Richard|||||||
|SRF 1|_German_: Sven Epiney|||||||
|rowspan="3"||colspan="2"|STB|rowspan="2"|Timur Miroshnychenko|||
|rowspan="2"|UA:PBC|UA:First||||||
|UA:Radio Promin|Oleksandra Franko and Les Myrnyi|||||||
||BBC|BBC One|Graham Norton|||||
||BHRT|BHT 1|Maja Miralem|rowspan="4"||||
||Khabar Agency|Khabar TV|Nursultan Qurman and Mahabbat Esen|||||
||RTK|RTK 1|[unknown]|||||
||RTCG|RTCG 1, Radio 98|[unknown]|||||

## Infobox (song contest)

- **final**: 16 May 2020
- **name**: Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light
- **exsupervisor**: Jon Ola Sand
- **exproducer**: Sietse Bakker
- **venue**: Media Park (Hilversum), Studio 21, Hilversum, Netherlands
- **green**: Y
- **green2**: Would have participated in the 2020 contest and broadcast the show
- **blue**: Y
- **blue2**: Would not have participated in the 2020 contest but broadcast the show
- **yellow**: Y
- **yellow2**: Participated in the past but did not broadcast the show