[28], On 31 July, the EBU released a new and revamped version of the generic logo as a celebration of the Eurovision Song Contest's 60th anniversary. The contest was held on the 19th, 21st and the 23rd of May and was hosted by Mirjam Weischelbaum, Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiesbauer. [12], Key Acts [47]Elnur Hüseynov, who was Azerbaijan's debut representative at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, as part of the duo Elnur and Samir, was internally selected to represent the nation for a second time. Eurovision Song Contest 2015 result: Sweden won with the song "Heroes" by Måns Zelmerlöw with 365 points Date: Saturday 23 May 2015 Location: Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria Broadcaster: Österreichischer Rundfunk Hosts: Mirjam Weichselbraun, Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiesbauer, Green Room by Conchita Wurst Slogan: Building Bridges Article: Tonight: Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final Also in the race were Stadthalle Graz and Schwarzl Freizeit Zentrum, both located in the second largest city of Austria, Graz. Austria was allocated to perform in the #14 slot in the final during the Head of Delegation meetings on 16 March 2015. The tasks on the journeys vary from culture to sports, from economics to science and tradition to modern. Withdrawing Germany, Italy, Australia and United Kingdom voted in this semi. With only one win for Russia back in 2008, Polina has come the closest to winning Russia the Eurovision song contest for the second time. It was replaced with the lyric video and the character was altered for Vienna. Debuting The album covers of the songs Heroes (Sweden) and Hour of the Wolf (Azerbaijan) are similar, which some people suspect to be plagiarism. Voting It was the second time Austria had hosted the contest, having previously done so in 1967. Semi 1: Conchita Wurst performing Rise Like a Phoenix with the ORF Radio Symphony OrchestraSemi 2: NoneFinal: "Building Bridges" featuring Conchita Wurst, Alice Tumler, Mirjam Weischelbaum, Arabella Kiesbauer, the Vienna Boys' Choir, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Suparar Choir, Lidia Baich, Left Boy and the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra On 23 December 2014, it was announced that initially thirty-nine countries would participate in the 2015 Contest. [21] In the event of a televoting failure (insufficient number of votes/technical issues) or jury failure (technical issue/breach of rules), only one of the methods was used by each country. [1], After Austria's victory in the 2014 Contest, their delegation revealed the possibility of hosting the contest either in the capital city, Vienna, or in Salzburg. SBS had been a long-time broadcaster of the event, which has had a large following in Australia. Video of the performance, music video and lyrics of the song. The ten countries with the highest scores in each semi-final qualified to the final where they joined the host nation Austria, the five main sponsoring nations (known as the Big Five): France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, and Australia which was invited this year to commemorate the Contest's 60th anniversary. Eurovision Song Contest: Vienna 2015 is the official compilation album of the 2015 Contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and was released by Universal Music Group on 20 April 2015. Participating Countries The organisers had anticipated such reactions, and had prepared and installed 'anti-booing technology' which was deployed for the first time in Eurovision broadcasting history. May 23, 2015. [104], The jury votes from Macedonia and Montenegro in the final were not included, in accordance to the rulebook of the ESC. Anti Social Media - The Way You Are (Denmark) 2015 Eurovision Song Contest by Eurovision Song Contest. Director The Green Room should be located in the arena or as near it as possible, with a capacity of 300. For the junior contest, see, Macedonia and Montenegro jury results excluded, 2010 European Men's Handball Championship, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Integration, List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest, Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Société Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision, "Eurovision 2015: Preliminary dates and speculation", "ORF releases new dates and venue requirements", "Anforderungsprofil an die Austragungsstätte des Eurovision Song Contest 2015", "ESC'15: 12 Venues in the Running To Host", "Eurovision 2015: Vienna, Innsbruck or Graz? It was the second time that Norway had hosted the contest, the last time being in 1989. In 2013, she received the Golden Medal of the Republic of Austria for her commitment to tolerance and the fight against racism. The pots are as follows, calculated by the EBU's voting providers Digame and based on voting patterns over the past 10 years: As per request by the German broadcaster, ARD/NDR, which was approved by the EBU Reference Group, Germany was pre-allocated to broadcast and vote in Semifinal 2. Get all the lyrics to songs on Eurovision Song Contest: Vienna 2015 and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. Russia's entry "A Million Voices" became the first non-winning Eurovision song to score over 300 points. The postcards of this year's contest also witness the slogan "Building Bridges". The slogan was unveiled by ORF on 11 September 2014. Previous [2] Vienna, Klagenfurt, Innsbruck, Lower Austria, Graz, Upper Austria, Burgenland, and Vorarlberg were all reportedly interested in hosting the contest; Salzburg pulled out of the bidding phase as the city was not able to meet the cost of the venue and promotion. "[100] The Executive Supervisor of ESC, Jon Ola Sand, urged that Eurovision should be a "friendly battlefield....not a political battleground",[102] and presenter Alice Tumler reminded the audience that "Our motto is 'Building Bridges', and music should stand over politics tonight...". The voting results from each member of a particular nation's jury were combined to produce an overall ranking from first to last place. [34], On 19 December 2014, ORF announced that Mirjam Weichselbraun, Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiesbauer were the hosts of the 60th contest; the all-female trio was the first in history to host the contest. The album features all 40 songs that entered in the 2015 contest, including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify into the grand final. [16][17][18][19], The competition consisted of two semi-finals and a final, a format which has been in use since 2008. The Albanians have done Eurovision solo. [48] Raay, who is a part of the Slovene duo Maraaya, was a backing musical performer for the 2014 entry of Slovenia. As well, it was the first time that the host country failed to score (Austria also tied Norway's record of being served the nul points 4 times). 2:55. Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Final. France participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "N'oubliez pas", written by Moïse Albert, Michel Illouz and Laure Izon.The song was performed by Lisa Angell, who was selected by French broadcaster France Télévisions in collaboration with the France 2 channel in January 2015 to represent the nation at the 2015 contest in Vienna, Austria. The postcards end with a picture of their activity turned into a big billboard, placed in different locations of Vienna. [39] After the presenters welcomed the viewers of the show, representatives of the twenty-seven participating countries also took to the stage during the flag parade using a "magical bridge" created through the audience from the greenroom. The theme of this year's contest was Building Bridges, symbolizing the unifying power of the event and spreading music across cultures, borders, and languages. [112], The Barbara Dex Award, annually awarded by the fan website House of Eurovision, is a humorous award given to the worst dressed artist each year in the contest. Building Bridges The voting was tense with the three big favourites, Russia, Sweden and Italy battling it out for victory. Albania's Eurovision 2020 participant Arilena Ara Ergys Zhabjaku During an initial meeting between the host broadcaster ORF and the EBU in late May 2014, the representatives of the core organising team were selected. Uzari, who represented Belarus, was a backing vocalist for the Belarusian entry in 2011. Edurne was internally selected to represent Spain at the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Amanecer (Dawn). [66] Thirty-nine countries confirmed their participation,[42] whilst the following list of countries declined stating their reasons as shown below. Innsbruck also joined the race with Olympiahalle, which hosted ice hockey and figure skating at the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics. Edgar Böhm, who is the Head of Entertainment at ORF, was announced as the executive producer. Each member of a respective nation's jury was required to rank every song, except that of their own country. Founded by Christer Björkman (Sweden's representative in the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest and the current Head of Delegation for Sweden) and Richard Herrey (a member of the Herreys and the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 winner from Sweden), the awards are named after the creator of the annual competition, Marcel Bezençon. 21 May 2015 [42] Australia made its debut as a guest participant. [15], Traffic lights of the same – copyrighted – design of the kind "Ampelpärchen" (couples for traffic lights) followed before Christopher Street Days in June 2015 in Salzburg and Linz. Jon Ola Sand Mid in tempo, the song … She preformed the song A Million Voices to represent her country and she should be extremely proud of her performance. Semi Final 1 (The addresses on the invitations used were the broadcasting headquarters addresses) More specifically, the invitation is to a region in the host country with all nine Austrian states taking part. Its highest placing in the contest, to this point, has been fourth place, which the nation achieved on two occasions: in 2008 with the song "Qélé, Qélé" performed by Sirusho and in 2014 with the song "Not Alone" performed by Aram Mp3. The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, Conchita Wurst was also chosen as host of the green room. Eurovision Song Contest 2015 Eurovision 2015 Grand Final - final Recap 27 songs - YouTube Cyprus Czech Republic Serbia [110] In what has become an annual tradition for the OGAE fan clubs, a voting poll ran from 1 May 2015 and ended on 10 May 2015, allowing members from forty clubs to vote for their favourite songs of the 2015 contest. This was done to allow the countries allocated to the semifinals a fair chance to qualify on their own merit. The venue must not be open-air, but an air-conditioned building with a capacity of at least 10,000 and a minimum ceiling height of 15 metres (49 ft), insulated for sound and light. ", "Elnur Huseynov is the Azerbaijani representative in Vienna", "Iceland 2015: Hera Björk joins María in Vienna", "Eurovision Song Contest: Australia to compete in 2015", "Allocation Draw results: Who's in which Semi-Final? The story continues with the contestants making their way through one of the provinces where they have an individual task to fulfill to the host city of Vienna attached to the object they received. The competition consisted of four shows that commenced with the first of three semi-finals on 7 February 2015 and conclude with a final on 28 February 2015. [101] During a break in the countries' reporting of their votes, when the running total showed Russia leading, Eurovision 2014 winner Conchita Wurst announced to Gagarina, "You gave an amazing performance, and you deserve to be in the lead. Semi-finala I. 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Kiesbauer is a presenter, writer and actress who started her career at the Austrian public broadcaster in 1989, but is probably most known for presenting her own talk show in Germany from 1994 to 2004 on ProSieben. [46] Amber, who represented Malta, was a backing vocalist for the Maltese entry in 2012. Sangen opnåede 365 point og dermed 62 point flere end det russiske bidrag på andenpladsen. The rules for voting indicate that votes must be 50% jurors, 50% televoting, but Macedonia's and Montenegro's voting was 100% televoting. For the first time, the top four of the contest all scored 200 points or better. 27 countries competed in the Grand Final of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, the largest number ever. SwedenMåns Zelmerlöw - Heroes Australia's participation brought the number of the finalists up to 27, the highest number of entries in a final in the contest's history.[20][44]. [citation needed], On 29 May 2014, Austrian host public broadcaster ORF and the EBU released some requirements and details about the venue. -- Sweden was the winner of Eurovision 2015 with 365 points Prior to the 2015 Contest, Armenia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest eight times since its first entry in 2006. It was held on 21 May 2015. Host Broadcaster Eurovision Song Contest 2015 var den 60. udgave af Eurovision Song Contest, der blev vundet af Sverige med sangen "Heroes" fremført af Måns Zelmerlöw. The three live shows were hosted by Mirjam Weichselbraun, Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiesbauer, while Conchita Wurst hosted the green room. Sweden's Måns Zermelöw took the trophy with his song Heroes meaning that the Eurovision Song Contest would be hosted by Sweden for the second tim… Elina Born & Stig Rästa - Goodbye To Yesterday (Estonia) 2015 Eurovision Song Contest by Eurovision Song Contest. Returning This also marked the shortest gap between two wins for the same country since Ireland’s 1994 and 1996 victories. It is named after the Belgian artist, Barbara Dex, who came last in the 1993 contest, in which she wore a dress she designed herself. Most countries sent commentators to Vienna or commentated from their own country, in order to add insight to the participants and, if necessary, the provision of voting information. The motto for the contest was "#Discover". As in the 2014 contest, the winner was announced as soon as it was mathematically impossible to catch up. [50] Nicolas Dorian, part of Witloof Bay, Belgium representatives in 2011, was part of the backing vocalists of Loic Nottet. This was Sweden's sixth victory in the contest, following their wins in 1974, 1984, 1991, 1999 and 2012. 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