EuroMusic Song Contest 19

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 Winner

The EuroMusic Song Contest 19 was the nineteenth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Sweden, that won the previous edition, with the song *A million years*. This was the third time that Sweden hosted this contest, but the first time that Stockholm was choosen as host city.

Azerbaijan was the winner of this edition with 263 points. This was the first victory for this country. The United States finished at the second place but they were followed closely by Sweden, who finished third.

## Location

Straight after the Swedish victory in the previous edition, SVT announced that they would host this edition. They said they would select a host venue and city. The EBU and SVT published the conditions for the city and venue. One of the terms was that the venue needs to have a capacity of at least 8.000 seats.

Here you can see the cities and venues who where intrested to host the contest.

     Host venue
     Shortlisted

 Linköping
 Stockholm
 Stockholm International Fairs
 Västerås

## Format

### Number of participants

Since the seventh edition the EBU announced to put a maximum at the number of participants. In the seventh and eighth edition, eighteen countries were able to participate.

Because the introduction of the semi finals, there is no maximum of participating countries. However, since the seventeenth edition the EBU announced that they would put a new maximum of countries. This meant that 41 countries were able to sign for a participation. This means that each semi final would have 20 countries, plus the host nation (who qualify automatically). Until now, they never reached this limit.

### Running order

There are specific rules about how a country gets his running order.

The host country will have a random number. The rest of the countries will be split in to groups (first- and second half). This will happen fully random. Later on, a team will create a running order to make the show as interesting as possible.

### Song

Each country sends one song to the contest. There are no rules about the language of the song, but the song can't be longer than five minutes.

### Voting rules

After that all the participating countries have sang their song, each single country awards a set of points. The country who gets the most amount of points wins the contest. If two or more countries receive the same number of points, the country that received from the most countries points, will be ranked higher. If that is also the same, then the country who have the highest rank of a country, will be ranked higher.

## Semi final allocation draw

* Estonia
* Finland
* Iceland
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Belgium
* Ireland
* Netherlands
* United Kingdom
* United States
* Montenegro
* North Macedonia
* Serbia
* Slovenia
* Greece
* Israel
* Malta
* Portugal
* San Marino
* Czech Republic
* Germany
* Moldova
* Poland
* Romania
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Georgia
* Russia
* Ukraine

## Returning artists

The contest featured eight representatives who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same countries.

## Scoreboard

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

 3
 2
 1
 Bulgaria | Greece

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

 3
 2
 1
 Latvia | Estonia

### Grand Final

https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/313771/euromusic-song-contest-19--grand-final

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

## Other Countries

### Returning countries

* Greece - When the EBU published the offial list of participating countries, it was clear that Greece would return in this edition.
* Portugal - The broadcaster from Portugal announced that the country would return to the contest.
* United States - The American broadcaster announced that they would return.

### Withdrawing countries

* Croatia - The Croatian broadcaster announced that they were not gonne take part in this edition. They said that their long non-qualification streak was the main factor of the decision.
* Hungary - The withdrawal of the Hungarian broadcaster came as a suprise. Hungary decided not to take part because of the losing interests of the broadcaster.