ESC COPENHAGEN 2001 (46ª)

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  • Dates – Grand Final: Saturday, 12 May 2001 – 21:00 CEST
  • Host – Venue & Location: Parken Stadium (Parken, Parkenstadion; Københavns Idrætspark, Idrætsparken), Copenhagen, 🇩🇰 Denmark
  • Presenter (s): Natasja Crone-Back & Søren Pilmark
  • Musical Director:
  • Director: Jan Frifelt
  • Executive Producer: Jørgen Ramskov
  • Executive Supervisor: Christine Marchal-Ortiz
  • Multicamera Director: Jan Frifelt
  • Host broadcaster: Danmarks Radio (DR)
  • Motto: 
  • Opening Act: “Fly on the Wings of Love” and “Walk Right Back” performed by the Olsen Brothers
  • Interval Act: Medley of Aqua hits performed by Aqua feat. Safri Duo
  • Participants – Number of entries: 23 [🇬🇧 United Kindom (41ª), 🇪🇸 Spain (38ª), 🇳🇴 Norway (38ª), 🇸🇪 Sweden (39ª), 🇫🇷 France (42ª)🇮🇪 Ireland (33ª), 🇲🇹 Malta (14ª), 🇭🇷 Croatia (9ª), 🇹🇷 Turkey (23ª), 🇪🇪 Estonia (7ª)🇳🇱 The Netherlands (40ª)🇩🇪 Germany (42ª), 🇮🇱 Israel (22ª), 🇩🇰 Denmark (31ª)🇮🇸 Iceland (15ª), 🇱🇻 Latvia (2ª), 🇷🇺 Russia (5ª), 🇬🇷 Greece (21ª), 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina (7ª), 🇱🇹 Lithuania (3ª), 🇵🇱 Poland (7ª), 🇵🇹 Portugal (33ª), 🇸🇮 Slovenia (7ª)]
  • Debuting countries:
  • Return: 🇬🇷 Greece (21ª), 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina (7ª), 🇱🇹 Lithuania (3ª), 🇵🇱 Poland (7ª), 🇵🇹 Portugal (33ª), 🇸🇮 Slovenia (7ª)
  • Non-returning countries: 🇦🇹 Austria (37ª), 🇧🇪 Belgium (40ª), 🇨🇾 Cyprus (19ª), 🇫🇮 Finland (33ª), 🇲🇰 FYRO Macedonia (2ª), 🇷🇴 Romania (3ª), 🇨🇭 Switzerland (40ª)
  • Struttura di voto: Each country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs.
  • Nil Points:
  • Winning song: 1f3c6Everybody” – Tanel Padar, Dave Benton e 2XL – 🇪🇪 Estonia (1ª)

Logo ESC 2001

About. A record-breaking 35,000 spectators attended the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, the largest venue to date.

Come on, everybody!. 23 countries participated in the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest. Bosnia & Herzegovina, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Lithuania and Greece all returned to the contest, replacing the seven countries with the lowest average result in the past five contests: Romania, Switzerland, FYR Macedonia, Finland, Belgium, Austria and Cyprus. The spectator record from the previous year in Stockholm was already broken in 2001 as nearly 35,000 attended the show in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen. France, Greece and Slovenia were predicted to win this year but Estonia took everyone by surprise by taking the trophy.

About the winner. Tanel Padar and Aruban-born Dave Benton’s pop-funk entry “Everybody” won the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest 21 points ahead of second-placed Denmark. The song did not become a hit in Europe but did provide Estonia with the opportunity to host the contest the following year. 

Facts and figures. The EBU introduced a new rule this year that only the top 15 countries and the so called ‘Big Four’ (Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and France) could participate in the 2002 contest; The Danish national broadcaster CR had to cope with major challenges including building a roof over the Parken Stadium so that it met the requirements to host the Eurovision Song Contest. The venue is still the largest to host the contest to date; The presenters spoke entirely in rhyming couplets, much to the ridicule of UK commentator Terry Wogan. He later apologised for his comments after the Danish broadcaster complained to the BBC.

o/r country PaRticipant(s) SONG – TRANSLATE – LANGUAGE Points  rank
01 🇳🇱 The Netherlands NOS Michelle (Michelle Courtens) Out on my own English 016 18
02 🇮🇸 Iceland RÚV Two Tricky  Angel (Birta) English 003 22
03 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina PBSBIH Nino (Nino Pršeš, Нино Пршеш) Hano (Хано, Hannah) Bosnian, English 029 14
04 🇳🇴 Norway NRK Haldor Lægreid On my own English 003 22
05 🇮🇱 Israel IBA Tal Sondak ( טל סונדק) Ein davar (אין דבר, Never mind) Hebrew 025 16
06 🇷🇺 Russia C1R Mumiy Troll (Мумий Тролль) Lady alpine blue (Леди Синих Альп / Обещания) English 037 12
07 🇸🇪 Sweden SVT Friends Listen to your heartbeat (Lyssna till ditt hjärta) English 100 05
08 🇱🇹 Lithuania LRT SKAMP You got style English, Lithuanian[b] 035 13
09 🇱🇻 Latvia LTV Arnis Mednis Too much (Par daudz) English 016 18
10  🇭🇷 Croatia HRT Vanna (Вана) Strings of my heart (Strings) English 042 10
11 🇵🇹 Portugal RTP MTM ( Marco, Tony e Música) Só sei ser feliz assim (This is the only way I know to be happy / Only can be happy this way) Portuguese 018 17
12 🇮🇪 Ireland RTÉ Gary O’Shaughnessy Without Your Love English 006 21
13 🇪🇸 Spain TVE David Civera Dile que la quiero (Tell her that I love her) Spanish 076 06
14 🇫🇷 France France 3 Natasha St-Pier Je n’ai que mon âme (All I have is my soul) French, English 142 04
15 🇹🇷 Turkey TRT Seday Yüce Sevgiliye son (End of my lover) Turkish, English 041 11
16 🇬🇧 United Kindom BBC Lindsay D. (Lyndsay Dracass) No dream impossible English 028 15
17 🇸🇮 Slovenia RTVSLO Nuša Derenda (Нуша Деренда) Energy English 070 07
18 🇵🇱 Poland TVP PIASEK (Andrzej Piaseczny) 2 Long English 011 20
19 🇩🇪 Germany ARD Michelle Wer liebe lebt (Whoever lives love) German, English 066 08
20 🇪🇪 Estonia ERR Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL Everybody English 198 01
21 🇲🇹 Malta PBS Fabrizio Faniello Another summer night English 048 09
22 🇬🇷 Greece ERT Antique (I Would) Die for you (Die for You) Greek, English 147 03
23 🇩🇰 Denmark DR Rollo & King Never ever let you go [Der står et billede af dig på mit bord (There is a picture of you on my table)] English 177 02

Participation map

A coloured map of the countries of Europe

Transmitirá a 2º semifinal noutro horário. Participating countries  Transmitirá a 1º semifinal em direto. Countries that participated in the past but not in 2001

ESC 2001 Scoreboard Ι Detailed voting results:

Scoreboard - Eurovision Song Contest 2001

The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was the 46th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, following the country’s victory at the 2000 contest with the song “Fly on the Wings of Love” by Olsen Brothers. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR), the contest was held at the Parken Stadium on 12 May 2001. The contest was presented by Danish television presenter Natasja Crone Back and actor Søren Pilmark.

Twenty-three countries took part in the contest. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, and Slovenia returned after their relegation from the previous edition. Greece also returned after their two-year absence, following financial trouble. Meanwhile, Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Macedonia, Romania, and Switzerland were relegated.

The winner was Estonia with the song “Everybody”, performed by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL, and written by Ivar Must and Maian-Anna Karmas. This was the first time one of the former Soviet republics won the contest. Denmark, Greece, France and Sweden rounded out the top five with Greece achieving its best result up to that point in the contest. Further down the table, Slovenia equalled their best result from 1995, finishing seventh. Meanwhile, Ireland finished in 21st place, giving the nation its worst placement up to that point.

Parken Stadium, Copenhagen – host venue of the 2001 contest.

1.Location. Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, was the chosen host city. The venue choice for the contest was Parken Stadium, the national football stadium, located in the Indre Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from 1990 to 1992.

The Danish national broadcaster DR faced some problems whilst organising the contest such as a lack of funds and the search for a suitable venue. The three largest cities in Denmark – Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense – all made bids to host the contest. Eventually, DR chose the large football stadium Parken as the host venue, after the company running the stadium agreed to add a retractable roof to the building. This solution made it the biggest venue ever to host a Eurovision Song Contest with room for an audience of 38,000, breaking the record of 16,000 held by the previous year’s hosts Sweden. However, the scale of it all wasn’t entirely a success: many audience members could not see the stage, and for many entries the hall appeared to be too big.

Cover art of the official album

2.Production. The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 was produced by the Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR). Jørgen Ramskov served as executive producer, Jan Frifelt served as director and Christine Marchal-Ortiz served as Executive Supervisor. Television presenter Natasja Crone Back and actor Søren Pilmark were the presenters of the 2001 contest.

The logo for this year’s contest was developed by Danish companies Kontactpunkt, 2Graphic Design and EventRelations. It was made out of four circles, placed in the shape of a heart. The four circles were also present in the stage design, with the light construction made of the same four rings. The whole rig could be formed into various shapes to add to each country’s staging. The design was described by its designers as “a modern expression of a heart which symbolises openness, warmth, attitudes, pulse and movement”.

The draw to the determine the running order of competing countries was held on 21 November 2000.

A compilation album featuring all 23 competing entries was released on 5 May 2001 by EMI Records and CMC International.

2.1.Opening and interval acts. The show was opened by the last year’s Eurovision winners, the Olsen Brothers, with a snippet from their winning Eurovision song “Fly on the Wings of Love”, followed by their latest single “Walk Right Back”.

The interval-act featured medley of Aqua songs performed by Aqua and Safri Duo.

3.Format. Each participating broadcaster was represented in the contest by one song, which was required to be no longer than three minutes in duration. A maximum of six performers were allowed on stage during each country’s performance, and all performers must have reached the age of 16 in the year of the contest. Selected entries were not permitted to be released commercially before 1 January 2001, and were then only allowed to be released in the country they represented until after the contest was held. Entries were required to be selected by each country’s participating broadcaster by 11 March, and the final submission date for all selected entries to be received by the contest organisers was set for 16 March. This submission was required to include a sound recording of the entry and backing track for use during the contest, a video presentation of the song on stage being performed by the artists, and the text of the song lyrics in its original language and translations in French and English for distribution to the participating broadcasters, their commentators and juries.

3.1.Entries. 

3.2.Voting procedure. The results of the 2001 contest were determined through the same scoring system as had first been introduced in 1975: each country awarded twelve points to its favourite entry, followed by ten points to its second favourite, and then awarded points in decreasing value from eight to one for the remaining songs which featured in the country’s top ten, with countries unable to vote for their own entry. Each participating country was required to use televoting to determine their points. Viewers had a total of five minutes to register their vote by calling one of twenty-two different telephone numbers to represent the twenty-three competing entries except that which represented their own country, with voting lines opening following the performance of the last competing entry. Once phone lines were opened a video recap containing short clips of each competing entry with the accompanying phone number for voting was shown in order to aid viewers during the voting window. Systems were also put in place to prevent lobby groups from one country voting for their song by travelling to other countries.

Countries which were unable to hold a televote due to technological limitations were granted an exception, and their points were determined by an assembled jury of eight individuals, which was required to be split evenly between members of the public and music professionals, comprised additionally of an equal number of men and women, and below and above 30 years of age. Countries using televoting were also required to appoint a back-up jury of the same composition which would be called into action upon technical failure preventing the televote results from being used. Each jury member voted in secret and awarded between one and ten votes to each participating song, excluding that from their own country and with no abstentions permitted. The votes of each member were collected following the country’s performance and then tallied by the non-voting jury chairperson to determine the points to be awarded.

4.Participating countries. Per the rules of the contest twenty-three countries were allowed to participate in the event. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Lithuania, Poland and Portugal and Slovenia returned after being relegated from the previous year’s event. 2000 participants Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Macedonia, Romania and Switzerland were absent from this edition.

4.1.Qualification. Due to the high number of countries wishing to enter the contest a relegation system was introduced in 1993 in order to reduce the number of countries which could compete in each year’s contest. Any relegated countries would be able to return the following year, thus allowing all countries the opportunity to compete in at least one in every two editions. The relegation rules introduced for the 1997 contest were again utilised ahead of the 2001 contest, based on each country’s average points total in previous contests. The twenty-three participants were made up of the previous year’s winning country, “Big Four” countries, the twelve countries which had obtained the highest average points total over the preceding five contests, and any eligible countries which did not compete in the 2000 contest. In cases where the average was identical between two or more countries the total number of points scored in the most recent contest determined the final order.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia returned after being excluded from participating in the 2000 contest, while Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, Macedonia, Romania, Switzerland, the seven countries with the lowest average result in the past five contests, were relegated.

The calculations used to determine the countries relegated for the 2001 contest are outlined in the table below.

Table key: [1] Automatic qualifier, [2] Qualifier

 
Rank Country Average Yearly Point Totals
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
1 🇱🇻 Latvia [2] 136.00 136
2 🇬🇧 United Kindom[1] 107.20 77 227 166 38 28
3 🇮🇪 Ireland [2] 98.60 162 157 64 18 92
4 🇩🇰 Denmark [1] 97.00 25 71 195
5 🇷🇺 Russia [2] 94.00 33 155
6 🇮🇱 Israel [2] 90.67 172 93 7
7 🇸🇪 Sweden [2] 88.00 100 36 53 163 88
8 🇩🇪 Germany [1] 86.00 22 86 140 96
9 🇲🇹 Malta [2] 80.80 68 66 165 32 73
10  🇭🇷 Croatia [2] 80.40 98 24 131 79[a] 70
11 🇪🇪 Estonia [2] 80.00 94 82 36 90 98
12 🇳🇱 The Netherlands [2] 68.80 78 5 150 71 40
13 🇮🇸 Iceland [2] 65.00 51 18 146 45
14 🇳🇴 Norway [2] 57.00 114 0 79 35 57
15 🇹🇷 Turkey [2] 56.60 57 121 25 21 59
16 🇧🇪 Belgium 46.00 22 122 38 2
17 🇦🇹 Austria  44.75 68 12 65 34
18 🇨🇾 Cyprus 43.40 72 98 37 2 8
19 🇪🇸 Spain [1] 30.60 17 96 21 1 18
20 🇫🇷 France [1] 27.00 18 95 3 14 5
21 🇲🇰 FYRO Macedonia 22.50 16 29
22 🇫🇮 Finland  16.33 9 22 18
23 🇷🇴 Romania 15.50 6 25
24 🇨🇭 Switzerland 10.25 22 5 0 14

4.2.Returning artists.

Artist Country Previous year(s)
Tanel Padar (with Dave Benton and 2XL) 🇪🇪 Estonia 2000 (as backing vocalist for Ines)

4.3.Participants and results. The contest took place on 12 May 2001. The table below outlines the participating countries, the order in which they performed, the competing artists and songs, and the results of the voting.

The winner was Estonia represented by the song “Everybody”, composed by Ivar Must, written by Maian-Anna Kärmas and performed by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL. This marked Estonia’s first victory in the contest. Norway meanwhile finished in last place for the ninth time.

Prior to the contest Greece were hotly tipped to win by the bookmakers, Sweden the second favourites, with France, Slovenia and host country Denmark expected to round out the top 5. However, as the voting progressed it quickly became a two-horse race between host Denmark and surprisingly Estonia.

Dave Benton, who was born and raised in Aruba, was the first black person and, at the age of 50 years and 101 days, the oldest contestant at the time to win the contest.

4.4.All the national selections for Eurovision Song Contest 2001: 

• National Selections in 2001:

COUNTRY EVENT WINNER
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina BH Eurosong 2001 Nino Pršeš / Nino – “Hano
 🇭🇷 Croatia Dora 2001 Vanna – “Strings of My Heart” / “Strune ljubavi”
🇩🇰 Denmark Melodi Grand Prix 2001 Rollo & King – “Never Ever Let You Go” / “Der står et billede af dig på mit bord” 
🇪🇪 Estonia Eurolaul 2001 Tanel Padar, Dave Benton & 2XL – “Everybody”
🇩🇪 Germany Countdown Grand Prix 2001 Michelle – “Wer Liebe lebt
🇬🇷 Greece Ellinikós Telikós 2001 Antique – “Die for You”
🇮🇸 Iceland Söngvakeppni Sjónvarpsins 2001 TwoTricky / Kristján Gíslason & Gunnar Ólafsson – “Angel” / “Birta”
🇮🇪 Ireland (Irish Selection 2001) Gary O’Shaughnessy – “Without Your Love”
🇮🇱 Israel Kdam Eurovision 2001 Tal Sondak – “Ein Davar” (אין דבר)
🇱🇻 Latvia Eirodziesma 2001 Arnis Mednis – “Too Much”
🇱🇹 Lithuania Eurovizijos Atranka 2001 SKAMP – “You Got Style”
🇲🇹 Malta Malta Song for Europe 2001 Fabrizio Faniello – “Another Summer Night”
🇳🇱 The Netherlands Nationaal Songfestival 2001 Michelle – “Out on My Own”
🇳🇴 Norway Melodi Grand Prix 2001 Haldor Lægreid – “On My Own”
🇵🇹 Portugal Festival da Canção 2001 MTM – “Só sei ser feliz assim
🇸🇮 Slovenia EMA 2001 Nuša Derenda – “Energy” / “Ne, ni res”
🇪🇸 Spain Eurocanción 2001 David Civera – “Dile que la quiero”
🇸🇪 Sweden Melodifestival 2001 Friends – “Listen to Your Heartbeat” / “Lyssna till ditt hjärta” 
🇹🇷 Turkey Şarkı Yarışması 2001 Sedat Yüce – “Sevgiliye Son
🇬🇧 United Kindom A Song for Europe 2001 Lindsay D / Lindsay Dracass – “No Dream Impossible”

• Internal Selections in 2001:

🇫🇷 France Natasha Saint-Pier / Natasha St-Pier – “Je n’ai que mon âme
🇵🇱 Poland Piasek – “2 Long”
🇷🇺 Russia Mumiy troll – “Lady Alpine Blue”
4.5.Connections:

5.Detailed voting results. 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. This year the EBU introduced for the first time a mix of voting systems (50% televoting and 50% jury) for those countries that didn’t want to use 100% televoting. Only three votes were allowed per household.

According to the EBU rules, every broadcaster was free to make a choice between the full televoting system and the mixed 50-50 system. In exceptional circumstances, where televoting was not possible at all, only a jury was used: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey and Russia. Only a few countries are confirmed to have used the mixed voting system: Croatia, Greece and Malta.

Detailed voting results
Voting procedure used: [1] 100% televoting, [2] 100% jury vote, [3]  50% jury and televote
Total score
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🇳🇱 The Netherlands 16 5 1 6 4
🇮🇸 Iceland 3 1 2
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 29 4 10 7 1 7
🇳🇴 Norway 3 3
🇮🇱 Israel 25 6 10 7 2
🇷🇺 Russia 37 5 3 10 8 4 2 5
🇸🇪 Sweden 100 7 3 2 8 2 2 6 4 5 8 5 2 8 8 5 7 8 10
🇱🇹 Lithuania 35 5 1 2 4 10 1 5 1 4 2
🇱🇻 Latvia 16 8 8
 🇭🇷 Croatia 42 7 10 5 3 10 7
🇵🇹 Portugal 18 6 12
🇮🇪 Ireland 6 1 5
🇪🇸 Spain 76 7 2 5 4 12 5 4 7 3 5 6 3 1 1 3 8
🇫🇷 France 142 8 4 12 7 2 12 6 7 7 6 12 7 3 1 6 6 10 6 10 4 6
🇹🇷 Turkey 41 3 7 7 7 4 10 3
🇬🇧 United Kindom 28 2 3 3 3 3 2 4 1 2 2 3
🇸🇮 Slovenia 70 4 6 10 6 1 4 7 4 8 2 2 1 6 4 5
🇵🇱 Poland 11 2 3 5 1
🇩🇪 Germany 66 1 3 8 1 1 10 6 10 6 3 2 4 1 5 1 4
🇪🇪 Estonia 198 12 10 4 10 6 6 8 12 12 2 10 8 8 12 12 12 12 10 12 12 8
🇲🇹 Malta 48 3 1 5 7 3 1 4 2 1 3 1 2 3 12
🇬🇷 Greece 147 6 8 8 8 10 5 12 5 2 5 4 5 12 3 5 7 8 8 8 6 7 5
🇩🇰 Denmark 177 10 12 12 7 10 6 10 12 8 12 7 4 4 10 10 7 12 12 6 6

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

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
9 Estonia 🇬🇷 Greece, 🇱🇻 Latvia, 🇱🇹 Lithuania, 🇲🇹 Malta, 🇳🇱 The Netherlands, 🇵🇱 Poland, 🇸🇮 Slovenia, 🇹🇷 Turkey, 🇬🇧 United Kindom
6 🇩🇰 Denmark  🇭🇷 Croatia, 🇪🇪 Estonia, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇮🇪 Ireland, 🇳🇴 Norway
3 🇫🇷 France 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina, 🇵🇹 Portugal, 🇷🇺 Russia
2 🇬🇷 Greece 🇪🇸 Spain, 🇸🇪 Sweden
1 🇪🇸 Spain 🇮🇱 Israel
🇲🇹 Malta 🇩🇰 Denmark
🇵🇹 Portugal 🇫🇷 France

5.2.Spokespersons. Each country nominated a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing, in English or French, the votes for their respective country. As had been the case since the 1994 contest, the spokespersons were connected via satellite and appeared in vision during the broadcast. Spokespersons at the 2001 contest are listed below.

  1. 🇳🇱 The Netherlands – Marlayne
  2. 🇮🇸 Iceland – Eva María Jónsdóttir
  3. 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina – Segmedina Srna
  4. 🇳🇴 Norway – Roald Øyen
  5. 🇮🇱 Israel – Yoav Ginai 
  6. 🇷🇺 Russia – Larisa Verbitskaya
  7. 🇸🇪 Sweden – Josefine Sundström
  8. 🇱🇹 Lithuania – Loreta Tarozaitė
  9. 🇱🇻 Latvia – Renārs Kaupers
  10.  🇭🇷 Croatia – Daniela Trbović 
  11. 🇵🇹 Portugal – Margarida Mercês de Melo 
  12. 🇮🇪 Ireland – Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh
  13. 🇪🇸 Spain – Jennifer Rope 
  14. 🇫🇷 France – Corinne Hermès
  15. 🇹🇷 Turkey – Meltem Ersan Yazgan
  16. 🇬🇧 United Kindom – Colin Berry
  17. 🇸🇮 Slovenia – Mojca Mavec 
  18. 🇵🇱 Poland – Maciej Orłoś 
  19. 🇩🇪 Germany – Axel Bulthaupt
  20. 🇪🇪 Estonia – Ilomai Küttim “Elektra”
  21. 🇲🇹 Malta – Marbeck Spiteri
  22. 🇬🇷 Greece – Alexis Kostalas
  23. 🇩🇰 Denmark – Gry Johansen

6.Broadcasts. Most countries sent commentators to Copenhagen or commented from their own country, in order to add insight to the participants and, if necessary, the provision of voting information.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s)
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina BHTV1 Ismeta Dervoz-Krvavac 
 🇭🇷 Croatia HRT 1 Aleksandar “Aco” Kostadinov
HR2 Draginja Balaš
🇩🇰 Denmark DR1 Hans Otto Bisgaard and Hilda Heick 
🇪🇪 Estonia ETV Marko Reikop
Raadio 2 Vello Rand
🇫🇷 France France 3 Marc-Olivier Fogiel and Dave
France Bleu Olivier Chiabodo 
🇩🇪 Germany Das Erste Peter Urban
Deutschlandfunk/NDR 2 Thomas Mohr
🇬🇷 Greece ET1 Dafni Bokota
ERA 1 Giorgos Mitropoulos
🇮🇸 Iceland Sjónvarpið Gísli Marteinn Baldursson
🇮🇪 Ireland RTÉ One Marty Whelan
RTÉ Radio 1 Larry Gogan
🇮🇱 Israel Channel 1 No commentator
Reshet Gimel Daniel Pe’er
🇱🇻 Latvia LTV1 Kārlis Streips 
🇱🇹 Lithuania LRT Darius Užkuraitis
🇲🇹 Malta TVM Alfred Borg
🇳🇱 The Netherlands Nederland 2 Willem van Beusekom
Radio 2 Hijlco Span
🇳🇴 Norway NRK1 Jostein Pedersen
NRK P1 Stein Dag Jensen 
🇵🇱 Poland TVP1 Artur Orzech
🇵🇹 Portugal RTP1 Eládio Clímaco
🇷🇺 Russia ORT Alexander Anatolyevich and Konstantin Mikhailov 
🇸🇮 Slovenia SLO1 Andrea F
🇪🇸 Spain La Primera José Luis Uribarri
🇸🇪 Sweden SVT1 Henrik Olsson
SR P3 Carolina Norén
🇹🇷 Turkey TRT 1 Ömer Önder
TRT Radyo 3 Ümit Tunçağ
🇬🇧 United Kindom BBC One Terry Wogan
BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster(s) Commentator(s)
🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA
SBS TV[c] Terry Wogan, Effie[d]
🇦🇹 Austria ORF 1 Andi Knoll
FM4 Stermann & Grissemann
🇧🇪 Belgium RTBF La Une French: Jean-Pierre Hautier
VRT TV1 Dutch: André Vermeulen and Anja Daems
RTBF La Première French: Laurent Daube and Éric Russon
VRT Radio 2 Dutch: Julien Put [nl] and Michel Follet
🇨🇾 Cyprus RIK 1 Evi Papamichail
🇫🇮 Finland YLE TV1 Jani Juntunen and Asko Murtomäki 
YLE Radio Suomi Iris Mattila and Tarja Närhi 
 🇲🇰 FYRO Macedonia  MTV 2 Milanka Rašić
🇷🇴 Romania TVR2 Andreea Marin and Leonard Miron
🇨🇭 Switzerland SF 2 German: Sandra Studer
TSR 1 French: Phil Mundwiller
TSI 1 Italian: Jonathan Tedesco
 Yugoslavia YU Info Unknown

6.1Viewing figures. 

 
Country Broadcaster Nominal Share Ref(s)
🇩🇰 Denmark DR1 2.667.000 95%
🇲🇹 Malta TVM Unknown 94%
🇸🇮 Slovenia SLO1 Unknown 82%
🇬🇧 United Kindom BBC One 6.500.000 35%
🇩🇪 Germany Das Erste 8.160.000 36,7%
🇳🇱 The Netherlands NPO 2 3.600.000 Unknown
🇳🇴 Norway NRK1 Unknown 57%
🇸🇪 Sweden SVT1 Unknown 85%
🇫🇷 France France 3 5.000.000 30%
🇵🇱 Poland TVP1 4.500.500 Unknown
🇬🇷 Greece ERT1 Unknown 51%
🇪🇸 Spain La 1 5.630.000 45%
🇵🇹 Portugal RTP1 800.000 8,8%
🇮🇱 Israel Channel 1 453.000 19%
🇧🇪 Belgium VRT TV1 500.000 Unknown
🇫🇮 Finland YLE TV1 385.000 Unknown
🇷🇺 Russia ORT Unknown 31,1%

7.Incidents. Controversy was again rife in the contest: the United Kingdom TV commentator Terry Wogan repeatedly made critical comments about the hosts and dubbed them “Doctor Death and the Tooth Fairy/The Little Mermaid” after providing their entire commentary in rhyming couplets. The Danes were so offended that the BBC was obliged to issue an apology on Wogan’s comments.

Controversy also surrounded the Swedish song, “Listen To Your Heartbeat”, which was repeatedly accused as a plagiarism of the Belgian entry for the 1996 contest, “Liefde is een kaartspel”. Eventually the EBU decided for the matter to be settled in court, with the song allowed to compete as long as the courts did not declare the song as plagiarism. At first this was denied by the Swedish songwriters, one of whom was Thomas G:son, but after the Belgian songwriters and the author’s organisation SABAM pressed for legal action, a cash settlement was agreed.

During the voting the Danish band Aqua performed with a medley of their singles, with percussion ensemble Safri Duo performing in the medley. Although enjoyable, people complained about it being a little bit “rude” as there was some swearing during the performance, both at the beginning and end of “Barbie Girl”.

8.Other awards.

8.1.Barbara Dex Award. The Barbara Dex Award is the award, created by fansite House of Eurovision, was awarded to the performer deemed to have been the “worst dressed” among the participants. The winner in 2001 was Polish representative Piasek, as determined by the visitors of the website House of Eurovision.

9.Notes.

  • [a] Croatia’s score from the 1999 contest was reduced by 33% for the purposes of determining average scores due to the use of synthesised pre-recorded vocals in that year’s Croatian entry.
  • [b] Contains some words in German and French.
  • [c] SBS aired the contest without postcards and voting.
  • [d] Although Australia was not eligible to enter the contest at the time, the event was broadcast on SBS. As is the case each year, it did not however broadcast it live due to the difference in Australian time zones. This year, the broadcast contained a locally produced addition of a studio audience of young representatives from the competing countries. However, after a number of complaints, they showed the United Kingdom’s broadcast, including commentary from Terry Wogan, a few weeks later.

10.Trivial / Fun facts.

  • 24 countries participated in 2001. Bosnia & Herzegovina, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Lithuania and Greece returned.
  • Replacing the countries with the lowest average: Romania, Switzerland, FYR Macedonia, Finland, Belgium, Austria and Cyprus.

← Eurovision Song Contest 2000 • Eurovision Song Contest 2001 • Eurovision Song Contest 2002 →

Countries (in order of appearance)
Final The Netherlands ⦁ Iceland ⦁ Bosnia and Herzegovina ⦁ Norway ⦁ Israel ⦁ Russia ⦁ Sweden ⦁ Lithuania ⦁ Latvia • Croatia ⦁ Portugal ⦁ Ireland ⦁ Spain • France • Turkey • United Kingdom ⦁ Slovenia ⦁ Poland ⦁ Germany ⦁ Estonia (winner) ⦁ Malta ⦁ Greece ⦁ Denmark
Artists (in order of appearance)
Final Michelle ⦁ Two Tricky ⦁ Nino ⦁ Haldor Lægreid ⦁ Tal Sondak ⦁ Mumiy Troll ⦁ Friends ⦁ Skamp ⦁ Arnis Mednis ⦁ Vanna • MTM ⦁ Gary O’Shaughnessy ⦁ David Civera ⦁ Natasha St-Pier ⦁ Sedat Yüce • Lindsay Dracass ⦁ Nuša Derenda ⦁ Piasek ⦁ Michelle • Tanel Padar, Dave Benton and 2XL (winner) ⦁ Fabrizio Faniello ⦁ Antique ⦁ Rollo and King
Songs (in order of appearance)
Final “Out on My Own” ⦁ “Angel” ⦁ “Hano” ⦁ “On My Own” ⦁ “Ein Davar” (אין דבר) ⦁ “Lady Alpine Blue” ⦁ “Listen to Your Heartbeat” ⦁ “You Got Style” ⦁ “Too Much” • “Strings of My Heart” • “Só sei ser feliz assim• “Without Your Love” • “Dile que la quiero” • “Je n’ai que mon âme” • “Sevgiliye Son” ⦁ “No Dream Impossible” ⦁ “Energy” ⦁ “2 Long” • “Wer Liebe lebt” • “Everybody” (winner) ⦁ “Another Summer Night” • “Die for You” • “Never Ever Let You Go”