Eurovision Song Contest 1999

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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