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Encyclopedia > Eurovision Song Contest 2001
Eurovision Song Contest 2001
Date(s) 12 May 2001
Presenter(s) Natasja Crone Back,
Søren Pilmark
Host broadcaster Flag of Denmark DR
Venue Parken Stadium, Copenhagen, Denmark
Winning song Flag of Estonia Estonia
"Everybody"
Voting system Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of entries 23
Debuting countries None
Returning countries Flag of Portugal Portugal
Flag of Slovenia Slovenia
Withdrawing countries Flag of Austria Austria
Flag of Finland Finland
Flag of Republic of Macedonia FYR Macedonia
Flag of Switzerland Switzerland
Flag of Belgium Belgium
Null points None
Interval act Aqua,
Safri Duo


The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was the 46th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 12, 2001 in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. The presenters were Natasja Crone Back and Søren Pilmark. The contest was won by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL who were representing Estonia with the song Everybody. Dave Benton, from Aruba, is the only black person to have ever won the Eurovision Song Contest. The Danish national broadcaster faced some problems whilst organizing the contest such as the lack of funds and the search for a suitable venue. The event was eventually located in the football stadium Parken, after the company running the stadium agreed on adding a retractable roof to the building. This solution made it the biggest venue ever to host a Eurovision Song Contest, but the scale of it wasn't entirely a succes: Many of the 38,000 people in the audience could not see the stage, and for many entries the hall appeared to be too big. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Natasja Crone Back is a Danish journalist and TV-show host. ... Søren Pilmark (b. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Denmark. ... Danmarks Radio (normally referred to as just DR) is Denmarks national broadcasting corporation. ... Parken Stadium (Danish: the Park) is a football stadium in the Indre Østerbro (Inner Østerbro) district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from 1990-1992. ... Copenhagen (IPA: or ; Danish: IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark and the countrys largest city. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Estonia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Portugal. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Slovenia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Austria. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Finland. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Macedonia. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Switzerland. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Belgium_(civil). ... Aqua was a Danish-Norwegian dance/pop group, best-known for their 1997 breakthrough single Barbie Girl. The group formed in 1989, and achieved huge success across the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s. ... Safri Duo is a Danish percussion duo composed of Uffe Savery (born April 5, 1966) and Morten Friis (born August 21, 1968). ... The modern logo was introduced for the 2004 Contest to create a consistent visual identity. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Parken Stadium (Danish: the Park) is a football stadium in the Indre Østerbro (Inner Østerbro) district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from 1990-1992. ... Copenhagen (IPA: or ; Danish: IPA: ) is the capital of Denmark and the countrys largest city. ... Natasja Crone Back is a Danish journalist and TV-show host. ... Søren Pilmark (b. ... Tanel Padar (born October 27, 1980) is an Estonian singer. ... Dave Benton (b. ... Soul Militia (known until 2002 as 2XL) is an Estonian hip-hop act, internationally most notable for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 as backing singers for Tanel Padar and Dave Benton, with the song Everybody. The group consists of Lauri Pihlap (Lowry), Sergei Morgun (Semy) and Kaido Põldma... The Parken Stadium is a football stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. ...


All of the countries participating in this year’s Eurovision had to use televoting as it became compulsory from now on. The jury backup votes were only used for some countries because of either technical problems with their televotes or a weak fixed-telephone infrastructure. There was also a rule change concerning the qualification of countries from 2002. Along with the ‘Big 4’, the top 15 placed countries this year would qualify for next years competition. The other spots for 2002 would be filled by countries that were excluded from the 2001 contest because of their low point average for the years 1996-2000.


Big favourites in this contest were France, Greece and Slovenia. Also the latino singers from Malta and Spain were expected to do very well. The Swedish song ran into controversy, as it sounded very much like the 1996 Belgian entry Liefde is een kaartspel. When the voting came it was a two-horse race, with only Estonia and Denmark in contention. Estonia ended up the unexpected winners. The Eurovision Song Contest 1996 was the 41st Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 18, 1996 in Oslo. ...


The hosts provided their entire commentary in rhyming couplets which were full of jokes, attracting criticism from many people, especially the UK TV commentator Terry Wogan. His constant caustic comments about the hosts — who he repeatedly referred to as 'Doctor Death and the Tooth Fairy/The Little Mermaid' — so offended the Danes that the BBC was obliged to issue an apology. Sir Michael Terence Wogan, KBE DL (born August 3, 1938, in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland), more commonly known as Terry Wogan, is a radio and television broadcaster who has worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom (UK) for most of his career. ... This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ...


For the interval act, the Danish-Norwegian band Aqua performed, while people were voting, with a medley of their singles. Safri Duo performed the drums in the medley. Aqua was a Danish-Norwegian dance/pop group, best-known for their 1997 breakthrough single Barbie Girl. The group formed in 1989, and achieved huge success across the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s. ... Safri Duo is a Danish percussion duo composed of Uffe Savery (born April 5, 1966) and Morten Friis (born August 21, 1968). ...


It was the first time in 36 years, that Denmark hosted the Eurovision Song Contest, thanks to the Olsen Brothers win the previous year in Stockholm. The modern logo was introduced for the 2004 Contest to create a consistent visual identity. ... Niels and Jørgen Olsen The Olsen Brothers are a Danish rock/pop music duo, and are brothers Jørgen (born March 15, 1950) and Noller (Niels, born April 13, 1954) Olsen. ... The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was the 45th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 13, 2000 in the Globen Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, following Charlotte Nilssons victory in Jerusalem last year. ...


Of the countries that couldn't participate,Republic of Macedonia just missed out on qualifying for the 2001 contest but Skopje 2001 went ahead regardless and Andrijana Janevska emerged as winner with the nice ballad called Nostalgija. For an explanation of terms related to Macedonia, see Macedonia (terminology). ...

Contents

The presenters, Søren Pilmark and Natasja Crone Back.
Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL performing Everybody for Estonia.
The stage design for Eurovision 2001.
The stage design for Eurovision 2001.

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Interval Act Problems

The first song, "Around the World", went off without a hitch, but the air turned distinctly on the blue side when the lead singer, introducing "Barbie Girl", announced "Fuck off, Ken" and raised two fingers to the audience, and followed that with "Get a life will you?" Despite that, the performance continued. The song concluded with another set of insults, followed by "Turn Back Time", "Pepper Girl", "Lollipop (Candyman)", and "Doctor Jones". Accompanying the band were Safri Duo, who then joined in with "The Bongo Song" and concluded with "Cartoon Heroes". Despite the swearing and questionable gestures there is no indication that the EBU punished the broadcasters. It should be noted that in 2003, the EBU threatened to pull T.A.T.u.'s performance off the air following suggestions they perform a lesbian kiss / simulated sex act. Around The World is the tenth single release by the Scandinavian dance-pop group Aqua, and the second from their second album Aquarius. ... Barbie Girl is a song in the bubblegum pop genre by the band Aqua, who released it in 1997 as a single and included it on the album Aquarium. ... Turn Back Time is the seventh single release by the Scandinavian dance-pop group Aqua, and the third UK release. ... Lollipop (Candyman) was the fifth single to be released by the Scandinavian pop-dance group Aqua overall, and in many countries the follow-up to their most successful song Barbie Girl. Included on their debut album Aquarium, Lollipop is said to be one of the groups favourite songs, although it... Doctor Jones was the fourth single release by Aqua, and their second United Kingdom number one. ... Safri Duo is a Danish percussion duo composed of Uffe Savery (born April 5, 1966) and Morten Friis (born August 21, 1968). ... Cartoon Heroes is the ninth single release by the Scandinavian dance-pop group Aqua, and the first from their second album Aquarius. ... t. ...


Results

Draw Country Language Artist(s) Song Translation Place Points
1 Flag of Netherlands Netherlands English Michelle Out On My Own - 18 16
2 Flag of Iceland Iceland English Two Tricky Angel - 22 3
3 Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English Nino Pršeš Hano Hannah 14 29
4 Flag of Norway Norway English Haldor Lægreid On My Own - 22 3
5 Flag of Israel Israel Hebrew Tal Sondak Ein Davar Never mind 16 25
6 Flag of Russia Russia English Mumiy Troll Lady Alpine Blue - 12 37
7 Flag of Sweden Sweden English Friends Listen to Your Heartbeat - 5 100
8 Flag of Lithuania Lithuania English,Lithuanian SKAMP U Got Style - 13 35
9 Flag of Latvia Latvia English Arnis Mednis Too Much - 18 16
10 Flag of Croatia Croatia English Vanna Strings of My Heart - 10 42
11 Flag of Portugal Portugal Portuguese MTM Só sei ser feliz assim Only can be happy this way 17 18
12 Flag of Ireland Ireland English Gary O'Shaughnessy Without Your Love - 21 6
13 Flag of Spain Spain Spanish David Civera Dile que la quiero Tell her that I love her 6 76
14 Flag of France France English, French Natasha St-Pier Je n'ai que mon âme I only have my soul 4 142
15 Flag of Turkey Turkey English,Turkish Sedat Yüce Sevgiliye Son The end of love 11 41
16 Flag of United Kingdom United Kingdom English Lindsay Dracass No Dream Impossible - 15 28
17 Flag of Slovenia Slovenia English Nuša Derenda Energy - 7 70
18 Flag of Poland Poland English Piasek 2 Long - 20 11
19 Flag of Germany Germany English,German Michelle Wer Liebe lebt The one who lives love 8 66
20 Flag of Estonia Estonia English Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL Everybody - 1 198
21 Flag of Malta Malta English Fabrizio Faniello Another Summer Night - 9 48
22 Flag of Greece Greece English, Greek Antique Die For You - 3 147
23 Flag of Denmark Denmark English Rollo & King Never ever let you go - 2 177

Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Netherlands. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Michelle Courtens (born August 3, 1981), performing as Michelle, is a Dutch singer, who is known from her performance in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Iceland. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina. ... Serbian (српски језик; srpski jezik) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Bosnian singer and Ali G look-alike Nino Pršes was born in Sarajevo. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Norway. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Haldor Lægreid is a Norwegian musical artist. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Israel. ... “Hebrew” redirects here. ... Tal Sondak is famous Israeli singer. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Russia. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Mumiy Troll (Му́мий Тро́лль ) is a Russian rock group, founded in 1984 in Vladivostok by linguist Ilia Lagutenko (Илья Лагутенко). The literal name of the band, mummy troll, has no specific meaning in Russian, and is reminiscent of the Tove Jansson characters, the Moomintrolls. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Sweden. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Friends were a Swedish pop group made up of Stefan Brunzell, Tony Haglund, Kristian Hermanson, Nina Inhammar, Kim Kärnfalk and Peter Strandberg. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Lithuania. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... SKAMP is a Lithuanian pop band. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Latvia. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Croatia. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Portugal. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Ireland. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Spain. ... David Civera (born January 8, 1979 in Teruel, Aragon) is a Spanish singer. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Natasha Saint-Pier performing in Le Tampon in october 2006. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Turkey. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Represented the United Kingdom in the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Slovenia. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... NuÅ¡a Derenda,the winner of the EMA 2001, the Slovene preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Poland. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Piasek is a gmina within Pszczyna in Poland. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Estonia. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Tanel Padar (born October 27, 1980) is an Estonian singer. ... Dave Benton (b. ... Soul Militia (known until 2002 as 2XL) is an Estonian hip-hop act, internationally most notable for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 as backing singers for Tanel Padar and Dave Benton, with the song Everybody. The group consists of Lauri Pihlap (Lowry), Sergei Morgun (Semy) and Kaido Põldma... Image File history File links Flag_of_Malta. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Fabrizio Faniello Fabrizio Faniello (born April 27, 1981) is a Maltese pop singer. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Greece. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Antique is a Swedish duo which combines Greek popular music and lyrics with a Nordic dance/pop beat. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Denmark. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Rollo & King is a Danish group, formed by Søren Poppe and Stefan Nielsen. ...

Voting structure

The majority of participating countries held a televote, where the top ten most voted for songs were awarded the 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. Bosnia & Herzegovina, Turkey, Greece and Russia used juries, while Croatia and Malta used 50-50 votes compiled from both televoting and jury votes.


Score Sheet

  NL IS BA NO IL RU SE LT LV HR PT IE ES FR TR UK SI PL DE EE MT GR DK
Netherlands   0 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Iceland 0   0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bosnia-Herzeg. 0 0   0 0 0 4 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 1 0 7
Norway 0 0 0   0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Israel 0 0 6 0   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Russia 0 5 0 0 3   0 10 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 5 0
Sweden 0 7 3 2 8 2   2 6 4 5 8 5 2 8 8 0 5 0 7 8 0 10
Lithuania 5 1 2 0 4 10 1   5 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Latvia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8   0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0
Croatia 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0   0 0 0 0 10 0 5 0 3 0 10 7 0
Portugal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   0 6 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1   0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Spain 7 2 5 4 12 0 5 0 4 0 7 3   5 6 3 1 1 0 3 0 8 0
France 8 4 12 7 2 12 6 7 7 6 12 7 3   1 6 6 10 6 10 0 4 6
Turkey 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 7   0 0 0 7 0 4 10 3
United Kingdom 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 3 3 2 4 1 0 0   0 2 2 0 3 0 0
Slovenia 4 6 10 6 1 4 7 4 0 8 0 2 2 1 0 0   6 4 5 0 0 0
Poland 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3   5 0 0 0 1
Germany 1 0 0 3 0 8 0 0 1 1 10 6 10 6 3 2 0 4   1 5 1 4
Estonia 12 10 4 10 6 6 8 12 12 2 0 10 8 8 12 12 12 12 10   12 12 8
Malta 0 3 1 5 0 7 3 1 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 1 0 3 1 2   3 12
Greece 6 8 8 8 10 5 12 5 2 5 4 5 12 3 5 7 8 8 8 6 7   5
Denmark 10 12 0 12 7 0 10 6 10 12 8 12 7 4 4 10 10 7 12 12 6 6  
The table is ordered by appearance.

Spokespersons

  • Bosnia & Herzegovina - Segmedina Srna
  • Cyprus - Loukas Hamatsos
  • Germany - Axel Bulthaupt
  • Denmark - Gry Johansen
  • Estonia - Elektra
  • Spain - Jennifer Rope
  • Finland - Marion Rung
  • France - Corinne Hermes
  • United Kingdom - Colin Berry
  • Greece - Alexis Kostalas
  • Croatia - Danijela Trbovic
  • Iceland - Eva María Jónsdóttir
  • Israel - Yoav Ginai
  • Ireland - Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh
  • Lithuania - Loreta Tarozaite
  • Latvia - Renars Kaupers
  • Malta - Claire Fabri
  • Netherlands - Marlayne
  • Poland - Maciej Orlos
  • Portugal - Margarida Mercês de Mello
  • Romania - Leonard Miron
  • Russia - Larisa Verbitskaya
  • Sweden - Josefine Sundström
  • Slovenia - Peter Poles
  • Turkey - Meltem Ersan Yazgan

Lead singer of Latvian pop/rock band Brainstorm. ...

Map

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  • Green = Participating countries
  • Yellow = Countries who have participated in the past but don't this year

  Results from FactBites:
 
Eurovision Song Contest: Information from Answers.com (6850 words)
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held between active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), in which participating countries each submit a song to be performed on live television; then proceed to cast votes for the other countries' songs, in order to find the most popular song in the competition.
Countries may select their songs by any means they wish: whether it be an internal decision made by the participating broadcaster, or a public contest which allows the country's public to televote between several songs.
The impact that the Contest has on the host city is inversely proportional to its size: in Riga 2003, the city centre was virtually taken over by Eurovision delegates as they spent their week in the Latvian capital.
Eurovision Song Contest - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site (2291 words)
Up until 2003, participation in the Eurovision Song Contest was dependant on a country having performed with a reasonable amount of success for the previous few years.
Following the dominance of English language songs, particularly Sweden's 1974 victory (with ABBA's "Waterloo"), a rule was passed in 1977 that the song had to be sung in one of the official languages of the performing country.
Many viewers of the contest view the event as a combination of camp entertainment and a musical train wreck (a fact played upon in the English-language broadcast with the sardonic BBC commentary of Terry Wogan) and a subculture of Eurovision song contest drinking games and the like has evolved in some countries.
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