EuroMusic Song Contest 41

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The EuroMusic Song Contest 41 was the forty-first edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. Cyprus was the host country, because they won the previous edition, with the song "*Ela*". This was the second time that Cyprus hosted this contest. Limassol was selected to host this edition.

Thirty-eight countries participated in this edition. Two countries more as in the previous edition. It was the highest number of participating countries in the hostory of the contest. Both North Macedonia and San Marino. The Sanmarinese return came unexpected as the broadcaster never showed any interests to return before. The broadcasters from Bulgaria and Latvia showed some interests to return, but ultimately didn't show up at the list of participating countries. Monaco, who tried to return in the previous edition, announced that the country would not take part and that a return in the near future was unlikely.

The the grand final, Serbia scored the most points and became the winner of this edition. It was the first Serbian victory. Israel finished, for the fourth time in their history, at the second place with 12 points behind the winner. Finland finished at the third place. Those three countries were counted as the main contenders for the vitory, according to the bookmakers. Ireland finished at the last place for the first time. However, Ireland received 17 points, the most amounth of points for a last place since the beginning of the contest.

## Location

The Cypriot broadcaster announced that it would like to organise the festival. However, they added that there were few, if any, arenas that fully met the EBU's requirements. Nevertheless, the broadcaster said it was determined to do everything it could to bring the festival back to their country after 38 editions. The Greek broadcaster said after the final that it wanted to step in as the host country, if it were not possible for Cyprus to organise the festival.

A few days after the end of the final, the EBU published the logo for the forty-first edition. Here it became clear that the festival would indeed take place in Cyprus, and more specifically in Limassol. The Spyros Kyprianou Athletic Center was chosen as the venue. Normally, the hall has a capacity for 6,255 spectators. however, due to the Basketball World Cup, the venue was temporarily enlarged to a capacity of 9,600 spectators.

## 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. Because of the limited number of participants, there was no semi final.

From the 27th edition unitil the 30th edition, the last three countries have to withdraw from the competition. This is to give other countries the possibility to return to the contest because of the limited spots. From the the 31st until the 37th edition there is one semi-final, with a maximum of 20 countries. In the 38th edition, the two semi finals were reintroduced.

### 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

* Denmark
* Estonia
* Finland
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Norway
* Sweden
* Georgia
* Israel
* Lithuania
* Poland
* Romania
* Ukraine
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Croatia
* Montenegro
* North Macedonia
* Serbia
* Slovenia
* Türkiye
* Greece
* Italy
* Malta
* Portugal
* San Marino
* Spain
* Belgium
* Czech Republic
* Germany
* Netherlands
* Slovakia
* United Kingdom

## Returning artists

The contest featured two representatives who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same country.

  Romania | Elena

## Scoreboard

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

 4
 3
 2
 1

### Grand Final

https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/664091/euromusic-song-contest-41---grand-final

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

## Other Countries

### Returning countries

* North Macedonia - The Macedonian broadcaster announced that the country would return to take part in the 41st edition. The last time North Macedonia took part was in the 32nd edition.
* San Marino - The Sanmarinese broadcaster announced that the country would return to take part in the 41st edition. The last time San Marino took part was in the 29th edition.