EuroMusic Song Contest 39

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The EuroMusic Song Contest 39 was the thirty-ninth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Greece, that won the previous edition, with the song *Fotiá*. This was the third time that Greece hosted this contest and it was the first time ever a country hosted the contest in two consecutive editions.

Thirty three countries participated in this edition. It was the same number as in the previous edition. The Czech Republic returned to the contest while Azerbaijan withdrew from the competition.

Australia won this edition with the song "Sound of silence", performed by Dami Im. It was the first victory for the country. Greece and Malta completed the top three. These three countries were counted as main contenders for the first place. Denmark was seen as one of the favorites to win aswel, but failed to qualify.

## Location

Straight after the Greek victory in the previous edition, the national broadcaster announced that they were planning to host this edition. At the official press conference after their victory, they said to be proud that the EuroMusic would stay in Greece.

ERT announced some days later that Athens would host this edition. At the end the O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall was selected. It has a capacity of 17.600 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

* Cyprus
* Georgia
* Italy
* Malta
* Türkiye
* Israel
* Portugal
* Romania
* Spain
* Ukraine
* Estonia
* Finland
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Norway
* Sweden
* Belgium
* France
* Germany
* Netherlands
* Poland
* United Kingdom
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Croatia
* Montenegro
* Serbia
* Slovenia

## Returning artists

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

## Scoreboard

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

 3
 2
 1
 Portugal | France

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

 4
 2
 1
 Slovenia | Albania

### Grand Final

https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/635158/euromusic-song-contest-39---grand-final

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

## Other Countries

### Returning countries

* Czech Republic - The broadcaster of this country announced that the nation would return to this edition.

### Withdrawing countries

* Azerbaijan - The broadcaster of this country announced that the nation would not take part in this edition.