EuroMusic Song Contest 36

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The EuroMusic Song Contest 36 was the thirty sixth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Norway, that won the previous edition, with the song *Fallen angel*. This was the first time that Norway hosted this contest. Oslo was selected to host this edition.

Sweden was declared the winner at the end of the voting. It was the fourth attempt by Swedish singer Eric Saade to give Sweden another victory. Malta finished just behind Sweden after a very exciting scoring. Albania managed to complete the top three.

Thirty countries participated in this edition. One country more than in the previous edition, because of the return of Spain.

## Location

Straight after the Norwegian 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 was comming to Norway.

Here are the cities and venues who where intrested to host the contest.

     Host venue

 Oslo
 Stokke

Three cities applied to the Norwegian broadcaster to host this edition. Oslo was selected by both the EBU and the NRK as location.

## 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. Since the 31st edition there is one semi-final, with a maximum of 20 countries.

### 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.

## Returning artists

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

  Switzerland | Timebelle

## Scoreboard

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

 6
 4
 3
 2
 1

### Grand Final

https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/565006/euromusic-song-contest-36---oslo

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

## Other Countries

### Returning countries

* Spain - The broadcaster of Spain announed that the nation would return to this edition.