Eurovision Song Contest 1999
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The Eurovision Song Contest 1999 was the 44th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 29, 1999 in Jerusalem. The presenters were Dafna Dekel, Sigal Shachamon and Yigal Ravid. Charlotte Nilsson was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, Take Me To Your Heaven.
From this year, the long-standing rule that each country had to sing in one of its own national languages was dropped, and it was decided that France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, as the highest-paying European Broadcasting Union subscribers, would automatically be allowed to participate every year, irrespective of their five-year point average.
Results
| Country (Language) |
Artist(s) | Song (Translation) |
Place | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria (English) |
Bobbie Singer | Reflections In Your Eyes | 10 | 65 |
| Belgium (English) |
Vanessa Chinitor | Like The Wind | 12 | 38 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosnian and French) |
Dino Dervishalidović and Beatrice | Putnici | 7 | 86 |
| Croatia (Croatian) |
Doris Dragović | Marija Magdalena | 4 | 118* |
| Cyprus (Greek) |
Marlain Aggelidou | Tha Nai Erotas | 22 | 2 |
| Denmark (English) |
Trine Jepsen & Michael Teschl | Denne gang | 8 | 71 |
| Estonia (English) |
Evelin Samuel & Camille | Diamond of the Night | 6 | 90 |
| France (French) |
Nayah | Je veux donner ma voix | 19 | 14 |
| Germany (German/English/Turkish) |
Sürpriz | Reise Nach Jerusalem | 3 | 140 |
| Iceland (English) |
Selma Björnsdóttir | All out of luck | 2 | 146 |
| Ireland (English) |
Bronagh and Karen Mullan | When you Need me | 17 | 18 |
| Israel (English & Hebrew) |
Eden | Yom Huledet | 5 | 93 |
| Lithuania (Lithuanian) |
Aiste Smilgeviciute | Strazdas | 20 | 13 |
| Malta (English) |
Times 3 | Believe in Peace | 15 | 32 |
| Netherlands (English) |
Maralayne | One Good Reason | 8 | 71 |
| Norway (English) |
Van Eijk | Living My Life Without You | 14 | 35 |
| Poland (Polish) |
Mietek Szczesniak | Przytul mnie mocno | 18 | 17 |
| Portugal (Portuguese) |
Rui Bandeira | Como Tudo Começou | 21 | 12 |
| Slovenia (Slovenian) |
Darja Svajger | Se tisoč let | 11 | 50 |
| Spain (Spanish) |
Lydia | No Quiero Escuchar | 23 | 1 |
| Sweden (English) |
Charlotte Nilsson | Take Me To Your Heaven | 1 | 163 |
| Turkey (Turkish) |
Tugba Önal & Grup Etnik | Dön Artik | 16 | 22 |
| United Kingdom (English) |
Precious | Say It Again | 12 | 38 |
| Venue: Israeli Conference Center - Jerusalem, Israel | ||||
| The table is ordered by the countries names. | ||||
| *Because the song used synthesised male backing voices, Croatia's score was reduced by 33% to 79 for the purpose of calculating its five-year average to determine participation in future contests, though it was decided to leave its placement in the 1999 result unaffected. | ||||
Voting Structure
Each Country had a televote, where the top ten most voted for songs were awarded the 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points.
After some thoroughly confusing thrills and spills in the early voting, with Lithuania awarding maximum points to the - for once - rank outsiders Ireland, the contest soon settled into a nip-and-tuck duel between Sweden and Iceland, but with Iceland more often than not holding a slight lead. The fortunes of Germany were more erratic - on a few occasions, their challenge seemed to be failing, only for a couple of high scores to haul them back to within striking distance of the leading pair. That appeared to be the case once again when the penultimate voting country, Bosnia and Herzegovina, handed ten points to the Germans. This momentarily distracted attention from the fact that the Balkan nation had not yet awarded any points to Sweden or Iceland, meaning that one of the two was bound to receive nothing. With Charlotte Nilsson of Sweden already having crept into a three-point lead at a crucial moment, the realisation quickly dawned that, while twelve points for Iceland would put them back into a commanding position, twelve points for Sweden would settle the contest in abrupt fashion. And, indeed, it was Selma of Iceland who in short order found she was 'all out of luck', while Sweden were taken to their heaven of being able to host the millennium edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
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