EuroMusic Song Contest 15

Venue
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 Opening act
 Interval act
 Entries
 Debuting
 System
 Winner

The EuroMusic Song Contest 15 was the fifteenth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Spain, that won the last edition, with the song *Say yay!*. The contest took place in Madrid. It was the second time that Spain hosted the contest.

## Location

After the Spanish victory in the previous edition, the RTVE announced that they will host the this edition. They said to choose a host venue, through a selection. It will be the second time that Spain will host the contest.

All interested cities could sign up at the RTVE. The broadcaster said that the venue has to have at least a capacity of 8.000 people.

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

     Host venu
     Shortlisted

 Madrid
 Seville
 Valencia

The EBU announced that Madrid was choosen as host city for this edition. It was the first time that one city hosted the contest lore then once. Madrid hosted the very first edition of the contest.

## 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.

### 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. After, a team will create a running order.

### 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 mst 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

* France
* Greece
* Italy
* Malta
* San Marino
* Estonia
* Iceland
* Norway
* Sweden
* Georgia
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Russia
* Ukraine
* Hungary
* Israel
* Poland
* Switzerland
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Croatia
* North Macedonia
* Serbia
* Slovenia
* Germany
* Ireland
* Netherlands
* United Kingdom
* United States

## Returning artists

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

## Scoreboard

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

 5
 3
 1
 Serbia | Croatia

### Final

https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/297581/euromusic-song-contest-15--final

### 12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

## Other Countries

### Debuting countries

* Andorra - The broadcaster from Andorra announced that they would debut in the contest. The main reason was that the Spanish broadcaster invited them to participate in the contest.
* Latvia - Latvia already showed interests to participate for a couple of years. When the EBU published the official list of participating countries, it was clear that Latvia would take part for the first time.
* San Marino - SMRTV announced that they would select an act for this edition.

### Returning countries

* Ireland - The Irish broadcaster, RTÉ, announced that Ireland would return to the contest after a break from three editions.

### Withdrawing countries

* Austria - The Austrian broadcaster decided to withdraw from the contest because of the disappointing results.
* Finland - The Finnish broadcaster, Yle, announced that they were not taking part in this edition. They gave no specific reasons.