FSC 96

Following Norway's victory in FSC 95 with Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør’s song ‘Never Ever’, our host city for this edition of FSC is Stavanger, Norway’s 4th largest city and the ‘Oil-capital’ of the country.
The main theme for this FSC-edition is: ‘Northern Magic: Welcome to Norway’.
This edition sees a reduction in participants to 29, due to the withdrawal of Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico and Morocco. We do however have 2 returning countries, namely Brazil and the United States of America.
During the results show, Russia came close to victory, but finally finished in 2nd position, with Norway emerging as the winner for the second time in a row, and giving Norway it's seventh gold medal. Finland came in third.
== The Host City ==
The Host city for this FSC 96-edition is Stavanger, Norway’s 4th largest city and the Oil-capital of the country. It is the 3rd largest urban zone and metropolitan area in Norway, with a population of 240.000. It is the administrative centre of Rogaland county. Located on the Stavanger Peninsula in South-western Norway, Stavanger counts its official founding year as the year 1125.
The city's history, is a continuous alternation, between economic booms and recessions. For long 
periods of time, its most important industries, have been shipping , shipbuilding , the fish canning 
industry and associated subcontractors. In 1969, a new boom started, as oil was first discovered
in the North Sea and the city became on-shore center for the oil industry on the Norwegian sector.
Stavanger's core is to a large degree 18th- and 19th-century wooden houses (“Old town”) that are 
protected and considered part of the city's cultural heritage. This has caused the town centre and 
inner city to retain a small-town character , with an unusually high ratio of detached houses , and 
has contributed significantly to spreading the city's population growth to outlying regional parts.
== The Venue ==
Our venue for FSC February 2017 is Stavanger Konserthus, or Stavanger Concert Hall , a concert hall in Stavanger , Norway . It was officially opened by the Crown Prince Haakon on 15th September 2012 . The financing of the building , was shared by the municipality of Stavanger, the county of Rogaland, the Norwegian government and private sponsors at a cost of 1.225 billion Norwegian kroner (Nkr) .The concert hall, has two separate halls , an orchestra hall (1500 seats) & a multi-purpose hall (1700 seats) with excellent acoustics, great foyer areas out to the seaside and a large outdoor amphitheater. Its architecture means that it's possible to have a symphonyconcert in one hall (F. Valen orchestra hall) and a rock concert in the other (Zetlitz multi-purpose hall) at the same time . The larger hall can be used for a great many purposes from rock to opera, and may be rigged as an amphitheatre, an arena, or just a flat floor suitable for a banquet or standing audience.
== The Hosts ==
Our lovely hosts for this edition are Espen Lind and Ina Wroldsen.
Espen Lind (born 1971) is a well known Norwegian record producer, songwriter, pop-singer, and 
multi-instrumentalist . He is one half of the production team ‘Espionage’. Espen is also a mentor 
on the Norwegian version of ‘ The Voice ’. He started his pop-career under the artist name Sway 
and his biggest success in that period was his single “When Susannah Cries” . Later he released 
albums under his own name and had popular songs like “Where The Lost Ones Go” (with Sissel) 
“Unloved” ( 2004 ) and “Scared of Heights” ( 2008 ). In 2009 he revceived a Norwegian Grammy. 
Since then he has continued writing / producing songs for other artists as well as taking part in 
some tv-shows / productions . He currently lives in New York in the US and keeps writing music.
Ina Wroldsen (born 1984) is a well known Norwegian singer/songwriter famous too as one half 
of the Scandinavian Electro-pop duo Ask Embla. Her career started solely as an artist, but soon 
turned to writing music for others. As a songwriter, she has had great success and today she is 
internationally considered one of the most sought after in her field . She has won many awards 
for her work . With Ask Embla she also enjoyed success with many popular songs, among them 
“Father’s Eyes”, “Legion”, & “Lay It On Me” . She has rejuvenated her solo career , in recent years 
and has released several singles . Ina has in the last year , also made her mark as a judge in the 
Norwegian version of “Idol”.She has lived in London UK for several years but is often in Norway.
== The Show ==
Nr.	Jury	Artist 	Song 	Rank	Points
01.	 	Caramel 	Elzárt övezet 	04. 	81
02.	 	Ward Thomas 	Carry you home 	08. 	74
03.	 	Christopher 	Heartbeat 	17. 	57
04.	 	Alan Walker ft. Noonie Bao 	Alone 	01. 	113
05.	 	XXANAXX feat. TEN TYP MES 	Nie znajdziesz mnie 	18. 	53
06.	 	Julia Michaels 	Issues 	10. 	69
07.	 	Eden Ben Zaken 	Ta'amin Li (Believe me) 	19. 	50
08.	 	Katrina Bindere 	Tev Lidzas 	05. 	76
09.	 	Desi Slava 	I na vsichki kato tebe 	12. 	68
10.	 	Alexandra Usurelu 	Suflet, ramai pur 	23. 	26
11.	 	Top One Project 	Sa'n Na 	22. 	29
12.	 	Jaco Losgelaat 	Verlang jy? 	28. 	12
13.	 	Faun ft. Wardruna 	Odin 	21. 	36
14.	 	Randy Pandugo 	I don't care 	26. 	22
15.	 	Janieck 	Feel the love 	16. 	58
16.	 	Francinne ft. Empire I 	Meninas querem diversão 	29.*	34
17.	 	Tiziano Ferro ft. Carmen Consoli	Il Conforto 	14. 	64
18.	 	JJ Lin 	Infinity and beyond 	27. 	21
19.	 	Bloom Twins 	Set us free 	25. 	22
20.	 	Amy Shark 	Adore 	15. 	61
21.	 	The Blondes 	Paralelni svijet 	13. 	65
22.	 	Diana Navarro 	El perdón 	11. 	68
23.	 	Sunrise Avenue 	Prisoner in paradise 	03. 	85
24.	 	Sanna Nielsen 	Dansar bort med någon annan	09. 	70
25.	 	Sergey Lazarev 	Idealny Mir 	02. 	96
26.	 	Derya Ulug 	Okyanus 	20. 	41
27.	 	Milica Pavlovic 	Baja papaja 	24. 	23
28.	 	Perfume 	Flash 	06. 	75
29.	 	Mick Pedaja 	Arm & Hirm 	07. 	75
* Brazil failed to vote and was moved to the bottom of the scoreboard while retaining its score.
== The Results ==
== The Winner ==
Alan Walker feat. Noonie Bao - Alone:
File:Alan Walker - Alone