Eurovision Song Contest 2004

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The Eurovision Song Contest 2004 was the 49th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Istanbul, Turkey, following the country's victory at the Template:Escyr with the song "Everyway That I Can" by Sertab Erener. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), the contest was held at the Abdi İpekçi Arena, and, for the first time, consisted of a semi-final on 12 May, and a final on 15 May 2004.<ref name="Decade" /> The two live shows were presented by Turkish actors Korhan Abay and Meltem Cumbul. It was the first time that the contest was hosted in Turkey, 29 years after they made their debut, and was also the first time since the Template:Escyr contest in Birmingham that it was not hosted in the host country's capital city.

Thirty-six countries participated in the contest, beating the record of twenty-six in the previous edition. Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty took part for the first time this year. The old relegation system was replaced with a semi-final format. This was done in order to accommodate the increasing number of countries who wished to participate. The new format allowed all countries to participate every year, rather than being forced to sit out per the relegation rules, which had been the standard since Template:Escyr. Because of this, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty all returned to the contest, Monaco not having competed since Template:Escyr.

The winner was Template:Esccnty with the song "Wild Dances", performed by Ruslana who wrote it with her husband Oleksandr Ksenofontov. This was Ukraine's first victory in the contest, only one year after the country made its debut in 2003. Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty rounded out the top five. Due to the expansion of the contest, this year was the first time in which a non-winning entry scored over 200 points. Prior to this contest, only the winning entries for Template:Esccnty and the Template:Esccnty had passed this mark. In this contest, the top 3 songs all got over 200 points. An official CD was released and, for the first time, the entire contest was released on DVD which included the semi-final and the final.

LocationEdit

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Abdi İpekçi Arena, Istanbul – host venue of the 2004 contest.

Template:Location map+ Istanbul was chosen as the host city of the 2004 edition following Turkey's victory in the Template:Escyr contest in Riga, Latvia with "Everyway That I Can" by Sertab Erener. Originally the Mydonose Showland, an entertainment center in the form of a giant pyramid tent near Atatürk International Airport, was chosen by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) to host the event,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> but the venue was later changed to the Abdi İpekçi Arena as the contest approached due to its bigger capacity.<ref name="Decade" /> The Mydonose Showland, later renamed the Istanbul Show Center, was demolished in 2009 after a fire destroyed it in April that year.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Abdi İpekçi Arena was closed after the 2016/2017 basketball season and was demolished in early 2018.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

A number of other venues in the city were reported as possible venues, these included Ataköy Athletics Arena and Istanbul Lütfi Kırdar International Convention and Exhibition Center (ICEC), the latter of which lost out to Mydonose Showland.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Istanbul Chamber of Commerce president Mehmet Yıldırım offered the World Trade Center Istanbul (WTCI) as a venue for the event and confirmed that the Chamber would also provide financial support for the contest's organisation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

ParticipantsEdit

Template:Further Template:Interlanguage link info Template:ESC 2004 participants This year's Eurovision contest was the first to be a two-day event, with one qualifying round held on a Wednesday and the grand final held on the following Saturday. Under this new format, byes into the final were given to the 'Big 4'; Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and the Template:Esccnty –whose broadcasters were the largest financial contributors to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)– and the ten highest placed finishers in the Template:Escyr contest.

Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty participated in the contest for the first time, with Template:Esccnty returning after a 25-year absence. Template:Esccnty were due to return after an absence of 11 years, but later pulled out after money issues arose between RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg (RTL) and the EBU. Template:Esccnty was also due to return after last participating in 1998, but ultimately they did not take part in the contest.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Hungary would eventually return to the contest the following year, while Luxembourg would not return to the contest until 2024.

All participating countries had the right to vote in both the qualifying round and the grand final. This was the first year in which all 36 participating countries voted based on a public phone vote, in the final. However Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty did not broadcast the semi-final (as they were not participating in it) and therefore did not give votes for it like the other thirty-three countries. In Belgium, the French-language {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (RTBF) did not broadcast the semi-final, but the Dutch-language {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (VRT) did. Monaco's televoting results in the semi-final were rendered invalid and a back-up jury had to be used, but no problems occurred in the final.

Stefan Raab, who had represented Template:Esccnty, provided backing vocals for his country.

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Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)
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Template:Esc	RTSH	Anjeza Shahini	"The Image of You"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	RTVA	Marta Roure	lang}}"	Catalan	Template:Ill
Template:Esc	ORF	Tie Break	lang}}"	German	Peter Zimmermann
Template:Esc	BTRC	Aleksandra and Konstantin	"My Galileo"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	VRT	Xandee	"1 Life"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	PBSBiH	Deen	"In the Disco"	English	Vesna Pisarović
Template:Esc	HRT	Ivan Mikulić	"You Are the Only One"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	CyBC	Lisa Andreas	"Stronger Every Minute"	English	Mike Connaris
Template:Esc	DR	Tomas Thordarson	"Shame on You"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	ETV	Neiokõsõ	lang}}"	Võro	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	YLE	Jari Sillanpää	"Takes 2 to Tango"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	lang}}	Jonatan Cerrada	lang}}"	French, Spanish	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	NDR Template:Efn	Max	"Can't Wait Until Tonight"	English, Turkish	Stefan Raab
Template:Esc	ERT	Sakis Rouvas	"Shake It"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	RÚV	Jónsi	"Heaven"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	RTÉ	Chris Doran	"If My World Stopped Turning"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	IBA	David D'Or	lang}}" ({{#invoke:Lang\|lang}})	Hebrew, English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	LTV	Fomins and Kleins	lang}}"	Latvian	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	LRT	Linas and Simona	"What's Happened to Your Love"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	MRT	Toše Proeski	"Life"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	PBS	Julie and Ludwig	"On Again... Off Again"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	TMC	Maryon	lang}}"	French	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	NOS	Re-union	"Without You"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	NRK	Knut Anders Sørum	"High"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	TVP	Blue Café	"Love Song"	English, Spanish	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	RTP	Sofia Vitória	lang}}"	Portuguese	Paulo Neves
Template:Esc	TVR	Sanda	"I Admit"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	C1R	Yulia Savicheva	"Believe Me"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	UJRT	Željko Joksimović and Template:Ill	lang}}" ({{#invoke:Lang\|lang}})	Serbian	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	RTVSLO	Platin	"Stay Forever"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	TVE	Ramón	lang}}"	Spanish	Kike Santander
Template:Esc	SVT	Lena Philipsson	"It Hurts"	English	Thomas "Orup" Eriksson
Template:Esc	SRG SSR	Piero and the MusicStars	"Celebrate"	English	Greg Manning
Template:Esc	TRT	Athena	"For Real"	English	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	NTU	Ruslana	"Wild Dances"	English, Ukrainian	Template:Hlist
Template:Esc	BBC	James Fox	"Hold On to Our Love"	English	Template:Hlist

FormatEdit

Visual designEdit

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The stage design of the contest

The contest's new official generic logo was used for the first time this year, with the heart-shaped flag in the centre due to be changed for future contests. The slogan for Istanbul's contest was "Under the Same Sky", which communicated the importance of a united Europe and Turkish integration.

Voting structureEdit

Every country in the competition, including those who did not qualify for the final, were allowed to vote for other countries. After all performances were completed, each country opened their phone lines to allow their viewers to vote for their favourite song. Voting for the country in which you are situated is not allowed, however. Each country awarded points based on the number of votes cast for each song: the song which received the most viewer votes was awarded 12 points, the second 10 points, the third 8 points and then 7, 6, 5, etc. down to 1.

In the event of a tie, the number of countries to vote for the tying songs would be counted, and the song having the most countries awarding points to it, would be the winner. In the event of a further tie, then the previously used method of counting back on the number of 12 points, 10 points etc., would be used to find an eventual winner.

This was also the first year that the scores were only re-read by the hosts in one language. Before 2004 every point was repeated in French and English, but due to 36 countries voting, and more in years to come, in 2004 to save time the hosts only re-read each score in one language. This was in the opposite of the original country representative spoke in.

Contest overviewEdit

Semi-finalEdit

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The semi-final was held on 12 May 2004 at 21:00 (CET). 22 countries performed and all participants voted except Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and Template:Esccnty who opted not to broadcast the show.

A new ABBA video was shown in the semi-final, briefly outlining how ABBA started and what the response was of the first record company they approached. It featured small puppets of the band performing snippets of their songs (the voices being the ones of the band) and featured Rik Mayall as the record company manager.<ref name="Decade" /> Due to copyright purposes, this was cut from the Eurovision Song Contest DVD and released separately. References to the video before it was shown were also cut.

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Template:Abbr	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
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1	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Takes 2 to Tango"	51	14
2	Template:Esc	Aleksandra and Konstantin	"My Galileo"	10	19
3	Template:Esc	Piero and the MusicStars	"Celebrate"	0	22
4	Template:Esc	Fomins and Kleins	lang}}"	23	17
5	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	57	11
6	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	12	18
7	Template:Esc	Sofia Vitória	lang}}"	38	15
8	Template:Esc	Julie and Ludwig	"On Again... Off Again"	74	8
9	Template:Esc	Maryon	lang}}"	10	19
10	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Shake It"	238	3
11	Template:Esc	Ruslana	"Wild Dances"	256	2
12	Template:Esc	Linas and Simona	"What's Happened to Your Love"	26	16
13	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"The Image of You"	167	4
14	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Stronger Every Minute"	149	5
15	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Life"	71	10
16	Template:Esc	Platin	"Stay Forever"	5	21
17	Template:Esc	Neiokõsõ	lang}}"	57	11
18	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"You Are the Only One"	72	9
19	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Shame on You"	56	13
20	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname and Ad-Hoc Orchestra	lang}}"	263	1
21	Template:Esc	Deen	"In the Disco"	133	7
22	Template:Esc	Re-union	"Without You"	146	6

FinalEdit

The finalists were:

the four automatic qualifiers Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, Template:Esccnty, and the Template:Esccnty;
the top 10 countries from the 2003 contest (other than the automatic qualifiers);
the top 10 countries from the 2004 semi-final.

The final was held on 15 May 2004 at 21:00 (CET) and was won by Template:Esccnty.

In the semi-final and the final, Meltem Cumbul warmed up the audience with a sing-a-long of Eurovision classic "{{#invoke:Lang|lang}}", originally performed by Domenico Modugno. Sertab Erener returned to the stage in the final to perform "Everyway That I Can", the 2003 winning song, and one of her new songs called "Leave". Sertab also interviewed contestants in the green room. The Turkish dance ensemble Fire of Anatolia performed as the interval act.<ref name="Decade">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Template:Abbr	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
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1	Template:Esc	Ramón	lang}}"	87	10
2	Template:Esc	Tie Break	lang}}"	9	21
3	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"High"	3	24
4	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	lang}}"	40	15
5	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname and Ad-Hoc Orchestra	lang}}"	263	2
6	Template:Esc	Julie and Ludwig	"On Again... Off Again"	50	12
7	Template:Esc	Re-union	"Without You"	11	20
8	Template:Esc	Max	"Can't Wait Until Tonight"	93	8
9	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"The Image of You"	106	7
10	Template:Esc	Ruslana	"Wild Dances"	280	1
11	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"You Are the Only One"	50	12
12	Template:Esc	Deen	"In the Disco"	91	9
13	Template:Esc	Xandee	"1 Life"	7	22
14	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Believe Me"	67	11
15	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Life"	47	14
16	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Shake It"	252	3
17	Template:Esc	Jónsi	"Heaven"	16	19
18	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"If My World Stopped Turning"	7	22
19	Template:Esc	Blue Café	"Love Song"	27	17
20	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Hold On to Our Love"	29	16
21	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"Stronger Every Minute"	170	5
22	Template:Esc	Athena	"For Real"	195	4
23	Template:Esc	Sanda	"I Admit"	18	18
24	Template:Esc	Template:Sortname	"It Hurts"	170	5

SpokespersonsEdit

Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson to announce its respective country's points in the final.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The voting order in the 2004 contest was determined alphabetically by each country's ISO two-letter country code. Template:Div col

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Template:Flagu Template:Snd Template:Ill
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Template:Ill
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Mija Martina
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Template:Ill
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Denis Kurian
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Emel Aykanat
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Template:Ill
Template:Flagu Template:SndLoukas Hamatsos
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Thomas Anders
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Camilla Ottesen
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Maarja-Liis Ilus
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Anne Igartiburu
Template:Flagu Template:SndAnna Stenlund
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Template:Ill
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Lorraine Kelly
Template:Flagu Template:SndAlexis Kostalas
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Barbara Kolar
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Johnny Logan
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Merav Miller
Template:Flagu Template:SndSigrún Ósk Kristjánsdóttir
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Template:Ill
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Lauris Reiniks
Template:Flagu Template:SndAnne Allegrini
Template:Flagu Template:SndKarolina Petkovska
Template:Flagu Template:SndClaire Agius
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Esther Hart
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Ingvild Helljesen
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Template:Ill
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Template:Ill
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Andreea Marin
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Yana Churikova
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Jovan Radomir
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Peter Poles
Template:Flagu Template:SndMeltem Ersan Yazgan
Template:Flagu Template:Snd Pavlo Shylko

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Detailed voting resultsEdit

Semi-finalEdit

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rowspan="22" Template:Vert header	Finland	51		7			1				6			7	3			5				3			6	2			3			8
Belarus	10												2								1	2												5
Switzerland	0
Latvia	23						4						5						4	2		6		2
Israel	57	3	5	1		2	3		3	2	1	2		4	2	2	3									6	2		7	5			4
Andorra	12													12
Portugal	38	12				4		7						6										1						8
Malta	74	5	6		4		1					4	10			5	1	1	1	6	2	7	7		4		3		4			1		2
Monaco	10	4	2							4
Greece	238	8	12	5	5	10	8	3	10	12	10	3	4	7	5	12		6	2	12	6	8	6	4	7	12	6	5	8	12	4	4	12	10
Ukraine	256	10	3	4	7	8	12	2	8	8	6	6	12	10	8	7	7	8	10	10	10	12	10	5	8	10	7	7	12	7	6	8	8
Lithuania	26						2			7							2		3	1			8			3
Albania	167	6		7	6	5		10	6	1	8	7	1	2	6	6	8	7	5	4	4		5	3	12	8	5	8	2	6	7	5	6	1
Cyprus	149	2		6		6	6	1	2		4	5	6	1	7	10	12	2	8	3	8	4	3	12		5	10	4	3	1	3	3	5	7
Macedonia	71		8	2	8			5	12		3	1					4	5								1	1			4	2	6	3	6
Slovenia	5				1													3							1
Estonia	57		1						4						12	1					7	10	12					1	5		1			3
Croatia	72			8	10		7	6	5		5				1							3	1		6		4		1			7		8
Denmark	56				3					3			3		4					5	12			10		2		6		2	5		1
Serbia and Montenegro	263	1	4	12	12	7	10	12		10	12	10		8	10	8	10	12	6	8		1	4	7	10	4	12	10	10	10	12	12	7	12
Bosnia and Herzegovina	133		10	10		3		8	7		7	12				4		10	7						5		8	12			10	10	10
Netherlands	146	7		3	2	12	5	4	1	5	2	8	8	5	3	3	6	4	12	7	5	5	2	8	3	7		2	6	3		2	2	4

12 pointsEdit

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the semi-final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
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7	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc
4	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc
2	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc
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FinalEdit

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rowspan="24" Template:Vert header	Spain	87	12				7	2	6		7	2					8		3			8	1			3	1	3	4		1	12	5				2
Austria	9															4		5
Norway	3																																	3
France	40	7	1			10								4											12						2		4
Serbia and Montenegro	263	2	7	12	12	3	7	12		10	10	7	1	6	10	10	3	8	12	3	7	7	2	5	1	10	6	10	6	5	7	8	10	12	12	8	12
Malta	50	6	3		1							1	6				2	1	2	6	4		4	6		3				3	1						1
Netherlands	11					6							3														2
Germany	93		2	10	3			10					2	12		7	4		1	4			1		7			3	1	6	8	4			3	5
Albania	106			5	4	1		7	8		5	4			3	1	1	10	6	2		4		1		12	10	1	3			1		7	4	6
Ukraine	280	10	5	4	6	5	10		10	8	6	5	12	8	8	2	5	7	8	7	12	12	12	12	6	8	8	7	7	12	10	6	12	10	8	12
Croatia	50			3	10		5	3	5		1				1											5							5		5		7
Bosnia and Herzegovina	91		10	7				5	6			8							10						4	4		2	10					8	10	7
Belgium	7	1								1																		5
Russia	67						12		1	6			8		4			2			6		8	10													10
Macedonia	47		6		8			1	12										5								1								7	4	3
Greece	252	8	12	2	5	8	6	4	7	12	7	3	5	7	6	6	12		7	5	10	6	10	7	10	7	12	6	2	7	6	12	7	4	6	10	8
Iceland	16											2			2										5				5				2
Ireland	7																7
Poland	27									2	4			1				4				3	7											1			5
United Kingdom	29						1						4							8		2		3			4			2		2	1	2
Cyprus	170	4		6		4	8	2	3		8	6	7	3	7	5	10	12	4	10	3	10	5	4	2		7	8	4	4	3	3	6	6	1	1	4
Turkey	195	3	8	8	7	12	3	8	2	4	12	10		2	5	12	6	6	3	1	2	5	3	2	8	6		12	8	8		10	8	5			6
Romania	18									3				10							1										4
Sweden	170	5	4	1	2	2	4		4	5	3	12	10	5	12	3	8			12	5	8	6	8		2	5		12	10	5	7	3		2	3	2

12 pointsEdit

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
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7	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc
5	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc
4	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc
4	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc, Template:Esc
2	Template:Esc	Template:Esc, Template:Esc
1	Template:Esc	Template:Esc
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BroadcastsEdit

Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators, are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries<ref name=broadcast />
Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Template:Tooltip	Commentator(s)	Template:Abbr
Template:Flagu	RTVA	ATV	All shows	Template:Ill and Josep Lluís Trabal	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	ORF	ORF 1	All shows	Andi Knoll	<ref name="Freiburg halb" /><ref name="Freiburg" /><ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
Template:Flagu	BTRC	Template:N/A	All shows	Ales Kruglyakov and Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	VRT	TV1	All shows	Template:N/A	<ref name="Leidsch halve" /><ref name="Leidsch" />
	RTBF	lang}}	Final	Jean-Pierre Hautier	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="LeSoir">Template:Cite news</ref>
	RTBF	lang}}	Final	Template:N/A	<ref name="LeSoir" />
Template:Flagu	PBSBiH	BHTV 1, BH Radio 1	All shows	Dejan Kukrić	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTVFBiH	FTV	Final	Dejan Kukrić	<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation
Template:Flagu	HRT	HRT 2	Semi-final	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	HRT	HRT 1	Final	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	CyBC	lang}}	All shows	Template:N/A	<ref name="Simerini">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Simerini2">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	DR	DR1	All shows	Jørgen de Mylius	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	ETV		All shows	Marko Reikop	<ref name="Eesti">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	ER	lang}}	All shows	Mart Juur and Andrus Kivirähk	<ref name="Eesti">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	YLE	YLE TV2	All shows	Markus Kajo and Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		YLE FST		Template:Ill	<ref name="FST semi">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		lang}}		Sanna Kojo and Jorma Hietamäki	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		YLE Radio Vega		Thomas Lundin	<ref name="FST semi" />
		YLE Radio Vega	Final	Hans Johansson	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	lang}}	France 3	Final	Laurent Ruquier and Elsa Fayer	<ref name="TV8" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	Radio France	lang}}	Final	Jean-Luc Delarue	<ref name="TV8" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	ARD	lang}}	Semi-final	Peter Urban	<ref name="Freiburg" /><ref>Template:Cite press release</ref><ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
Template:Flagu	ARD	lang}}	Final	Peter Urban
Template:Flagu	ERT	NET	All shows	Template:N/A	<ref name="Simerini" /><ref name="Simerini2" />
Template:Flagu	RÚV	lang}}, {{#invoke:Lang\|lang}}	All shows	Gísli Marteinn Baldursson	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTÉ	N2	Semi-final	Marty Whelan	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTÉ	RTÉ One	Final	Marty Whelan
Template:Flagu	LTV	Template:N/A	All shows	Template:Ill	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	LRT	LTV	All shows	Darius Užkuraitis	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Wileński">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	PBS	TVM	All shows	Eileen Montesin	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	TMC Monte Carlo		All shows	Template:Ill	<ref name="TV8" /><ref name="TV8 démi" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	PO	lang}}	All shows	Willem van Beusekom and Cornald Maas	<ref name="Leidsch halve">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Leidsch">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	PO	Radio 2	All shows	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	NRK	NRK2 Template:Efn	Semi-final	Jostein Pedersen	<ref name="Scandi semi">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Scandi">Template:Cite news</ref>
		NRK1	Final	Jostein Pedersen
		NRK P1	Final	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	TVP	TVP1	Final	Artur Orzech	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTP	Template:N/A	All shows	Eládio Clímaco	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	TVR	lang}}	All shows	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	Channel One		Final	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTS	RTS 1	Semi-final	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTS	RTS 1	Final	Duška Vučinić-Lučić and Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	RTVSLO	SLO 2	Semi-final	Andrea F	<ref name="slo1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		SLO 1	Final	Andrea F	<ref name="slo1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation
		Template:N/A	All shows	Jernej Vene	<ref name="slo1" />
Template:Flagu	TVE	lang}}	Semi-final	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	TVE	lang}}	Final	Template:Ill	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	SVT	SVT1	All shows	Pekka Heino	<ref name="Scandi semi" /><ref name="Scandi" /><ref name="Melfest">Template:Cite book</ref>
Template:Flagu	SR	SR P4	All shows	Björn Kjellman and Carolina Norén	<ref name="Melfest" />
Template:Flagu	SRG SSR	SF 2	Semi-final	Marco Fritsche	<ref name="Freiburg halb">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Freiburg">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="TV8">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="TV8 démi">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		SF 1	Final	Sandra Studer
		TSR 2	Semi-final	Jean-Marc Richard and Alain Morisod
		TSR 1	Final	Jean-Marc Richard and Alain Morisod
		TSI 1	All shows	Template:N/A
Template:Flagu	TRT	TRT 1, TRT Int	All shows	Template:N/A	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	NTU	lang}}	All shows	Rodion Pryntsevsky	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	BBC	BBC Three	Semi-final	Paddy O'Connell	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1\|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
		BBC One, BBC Prime	Final	Terry Wogan	<ref name="TV8" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
		BBC Radio 2	Final	Ken Bruce	<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

citation
Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Template:Abbr	Commentator(s)	Template:Abbr
CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Template:Flagu	SBS	SBS TV Template:Efn	All shows	Des Mangan	<ref name="Australia">Template:Cite news</ref>
Template:Flagu	BFBS	BFBS 1Template:Efn	Final	Terry Wogan	<ref name="Falklands">Template:Cite news</ref>

IncidentsEdit

Just before the Template:Esccntyn entry was about to be performed, the Turkish broadcaster accidentally took a commercial break which meant the Slovenian song was not heard by Turkish viewers.<ref name="Decade" /> There were technical problems when in a short hiatus halfway through the songs used for the advertising break the hosts tried to contact various parties in Europe. They tried contacting Germany, Spain, and Turkey, but in the end were only able to get a response from Germany. During the Template:Esccntyn postcard introduction, the information for the Romanian entry appeared on the screen, but was quickly taken away. A final minor hiccup occurred when, on her way to present the winner the trophy, Sertab Erener got her shoe stuck in a speaker grill by the side of the stage and had to be freed by stagehands. However this did not delay proceedings, and other than the above the show ran smoothly.

An hour after the semi-final had been aired, the European Broadcasting Union discovered that there had been problems with the vote counting in Template:Esccnty and Template:Esccnty. Digame, an affiliate of Deutsche Telekom, who had been responsible for processing all the votes (from 2004), reported that they had encountered problems with their calculation software, and there was a problem with text message voting in Croatia. When the votes were counted, results showed that Croatia had awarded themselves 4 points, which is against Eurovision rules. Later, an official EBU statement read that there had been technical problems at the side of the Croatian mobile service provider, who neglected to delete the illegal votes from the results. Consequently, some votes were not counted in the results announced at the end of the broadcast of the semi-final. When the results were corrected to include these additional votes, they were found not to have affected which countries had qualified for the final.<ref name="Decade" />

This year was also notable as it was the first year that Template:Esccnty voted for Template:Esccnty and the second year in a row that Cyprus voted for Turkey. When the country presented its votes no map of the island was shown although all other presenters were preceded with their country being highlighted on a map. This was probably due to Turkey's recognition of the northern half of the island as an independent republic, which is not recognised by any other state.<ref name="Decade" />

Other awardsEdit

In addition to the main winner's trophy, the AP Awards and the Marcel Bezençon Awards were contested during the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest.

AP AwardsEdit

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Category	Country	Song	Artist	Songwriter(s)
Artist Award	Template:Esc	"Life"	Toše Proeski	Template:Hlist
Composer Award	Template:Esc	"Hold On to Our Love"	James Fox	Template:Hlist
Performance Award	Template:Esc	"Wild Dances"	Ruslana	Template:Hlist
Song Award	Template:Esc	lang}}"	Sofia Vitória	Paulo Neves

Marcel Bezençon AwardsEdit

The Marcel Bezençon Awards, organised since 2002 by Sweden's then-Head of Delegation and 1992 representative Christer Björkman, and 1984 winner Richard Herrey, honours songs in the contest's final.<ref name="Bezençon">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The awards are divided into three categories: the Artistic Award which was voted by previous winners of the contest, the Composer Award, and the Press Award.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Category	Country	Song	Artist	Songwriter(s)
Artistic Award	Template:Esc	"Wild Dances"	Ruslana	Template:Hlist
Composer Award	Template:Esc	"Stronger Every Minute"	Lisa Andreas	Mike Connaris
Press Award	Template:Esc	lang}}"	Željko Joksimović	Template:Hlist

Official albumEdit

File:ESC 2004 album cover.jpg

Cover art of the official album

Eurovision Song Contest: Istanbul 2004 was the official compilation album of the 2004 contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by EMI Records and CMC International on 26 April 2004. The album featured all 36 songs that entered in the 2004 contest, including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify into the grand final.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

ChartsEdit

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Chart (2004)	Peak position

NotesEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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External linksEdit

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