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The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 was the 58th annual Eurovision Song Contest. The contest took place in Malmö, Sweden, following Loreen's win the previous year with the song "Euphoria".

No country made its debut while Armenia, which last participated in 2011 in Düsseldorf, made its return. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Portugal, Slovakia and Turkey all withdrew from competing.

The winner was Emmelie de Forest of Denmark with the song "Only Teardrops". This was the country's third win.

Location[]

Bidding Phase[]

City Venue Capacity Notes
Gothenburg Scandivanium 14,000 The venue hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1985
Swedish Exhibition Centre 8,000 Withdrew on 20 June 2012
Malmö Malmö Arena 12,600-15,500 The venue has served as the host of the Melodifestivalen semi-finals for the past four years.
Stockholm Friends Arena 54,00-65,000 Opened in October 2012; hosted the final of Melodifestivalen in March 2013

Venue[]

Malmö Arena

The venue of the contest, the Malmö Arena in Malmö, Sweden

The Contest took place in the Malmö Arena in Malmö, following Sweden's victory at the 2012 Contest in Baku with the song "Euphoria", performed by Loreen, who gave the country its fifth win.

The arena opened on 6 November 2008 has a capacity of approximately 15,500 attendees.

Participants[]

Returning artists[]

Artist Note
Valentina Monetta Represented her country the previous year
Elitsa & Stoyan Previously represented their home country at the 2007 Contest
Nevena Božović Represented her home country in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, where she came third in 2007
Bledar Sejko He was the on-stage guitarist for the country's entry at the 2011 Contest
Gor Suyjan He was a backing vocalist for the country's entry at the 2010 Contest
Aliona Moon She was a backing vocalist for her country's entry in 2012. In addition, Pasha Parfeny, the Moldovan representative from that year, was the composer of her entry and he actually accompanied her on the piano.
Lauri Pihlap & Kaido Põldma They were part of the group 2XL, which won the Contest in 2001 together with Dave Benton and Tanel Padar

Semi Final 1[]

Flag of Italy Italy, Flag of Sweden Sweden and the Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom voted in this semi-final. The ten songs that are highlighted qualified to the final.

Draw Country Performer(s) Song Language Translation Place Points
01 Flag of Austria Austria Natália Kelly "Shine" English 14 27
02 Flag of Estonia Estonia Birgit "Et uus saaks alguse" Estonian So there can be a new beginning 10 52
03 Flag of Slovenia Slovenia Hannah "Straight Into Love" English 16 08
04 Flag of Croatia Croatia Klapa s Mora "Mižerja" Croatian Misery 13 38
05 Flag of Denmark Denmark Emmelie de Forest "Only Teardrops" English 1 167
06 Flag of Russia Russia Dina Garipova "What If" English 2 156
07 Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Zlata Ognevich "Gravity" English 3 140
08 Flag of the Netherlands.svg The Netherlands Anouk "Birds" English 6 75
09 Flag of Montenegro Montenegro Who See "Igranka" Montenegrin The party 12 41
10 Flag of Lithuania Lithuania Andrius Pojavis "Something" English 9 53
11 Flag of Belarus Belarus Alyona Lanskaya "Solayoh" English 7 64
12 Flag of Moldova Moldova Aliona Moon "O mie" Romanian A thousand 4 95
13 Flag of Ireland Ireland Ryan Dolan "Only Love Survives" English 8 54
14 Flag of Cyprus Cyprus Despina Olympiou "An me thimasai" Greek If you remember me 15 11
15 Flag of Belgium Belgium Roberto Bellarosa "Love Kills" English 5 75
16 Flag of Serbia Serbia Moje 3 "Ljubav je svuda" Serbian Love is all around 11 46

Semi Final 2[]

Flag of Germany Germany, Flag of France France and Flag of Spain Spain voted in this semi-final. The ten songs that are highlighted qualified to the final.

Draw Country Performer(s) Song Language Translation Place Points
01 Flag of Latvia Latvia PeR "Here We Go" English 17 13
02 Flag of San Marino San Marino Valentina Monetta "Crisalide (Vola)" Italian Chrysalis (Fly) 11 47
03 Flag of North Macedonia F.Y.R. Macedonia Esma & Lozano "Pred da se razdeni" Macedonian, Romani Before the sunrise 16 28
04 Flag of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Farid Mammadov "Hold Me" English 1 139
05 Flag of Finland Finland Krista Siegfrids "Marry Me" English 9 64
06 Flag of Malta Malta Gianluca "Tomorrow" English 4 118
07 Flag of Bulgaria Bulgaria Elitsa & Stoyan "Samo shampioni" Bulgarian Only champions 12 45
08 Flag of Iceland Iceland Eythor Ingi "Ég á líf" Icelandic I am alive 6 75
09 Flag of Greece Greece Koza Mostra feat. Agathonas Iakovidis "Alcohol Is Free" Greek 2 121
10 Flag of Israel Israel Moran Mazor "Rak bishvilo" Hebrew Only for him 14 40
11 Flag of Armenia Armenia Dorians "Lonely Planet" English 7 69
12 Flag of Hungary Hungary ByeAlex "Kedvesem" Hungarian My darling 8 66
13 Flag of Norway Norway Margaret Berger "I Feed You My Love" English 3 120
14 Flag of Albania Albania Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko "Identitet" Albanian Identity 15 31
15 Flag of Georgia Georgia Nodi Tatishvili & Sophie Gelovani "Waterfall" English 10 63
16 Flag of Switzerland Switzerland Takasa "You and Me" English 13 41
17 Flag of Romania Romania Cezar "It's My Life" English 5 83

Final[]

Draw Country Performer(s) Song Language Translation Place Points
01 Flag of France France Amandine Bourgeois "L'enfer et moi" French Hell and me 23 14
02 Flag of Lithuania Lithuania Andrius Pojavis "Something" English 22 17
03 Flag of Moldova Moldova Aliona Moon "O mie" Romanian A thousand 11 71
04 Flag of Finland Finland Krista Siegfrids "Marry Me" English 24 13
05 Flag of Spain Spain ESDM "Contigo hasta el final" Spanish With you until the end 25 8
06 Flag of Belgium Belgium Roberto Bellarosa "Love Kills" English 12 71
07 Flag of Estonia Estonia Birgit "Et uus saaks alguse" Estonian So there can be a new beginning 20 19
08 Flag of Belarus Belarus Alyona Lanskaya "Solayoh" English 16 48
09 Flag of Malta Malta Gianluca "Tomorrow" English 8 120
10 Flag of Russia Russia Dina Garipova "What If" English 5 174
11 Flag of Germany Germany Cascada "Glorious" English 21 18
12 Flag of Armenia Armenia Dorians "Lonely Planet" English 18 41
13 Flag of the Netherlands.svg The Netherlands Anouk "Birds" English 9 114
14 Flag of Romania Romania Cezar "It's My Life" English 13 65
15 Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom Bonnie Tyler "Believe in Me" English 19 23
16 Flag of Sweden Sweden Robin Stjernberg "You" English 14 62
17 Flag of Hungary Hungary ByeAlex "Kedvesem" Hungarian My darling 10 84
18 Flag of Denmark Denmark Emmelie de Forest "Only Teardrops" English 1 281
19 Flag of Iceland Iceland Eythor Ingi "Ég á líf" Icelandic I am alive 17 47
20 Flag of Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Farid Mammadov "Hold Me" English 2 234
21 Flag of Greece Greece Koza Mostra feat. Agathonas Iakovidis "Alcohol Is Free" Greek 6 152
22 Flag of Ukraine Ukraine Zlata Ognevich "Gravity" English 3 214
23 Flag of Italy Italy Marco Mengoni "L'essenziale" Italian The essential 7 126
24 Flag of Norway Norway Margaret Berger "I Feed You My Love" English 4 191
25 Flag of Georgia Georgia Nodi Tatishvili & Sophie Gelovani "Waterfall" English 15 50
26 Flag of Ireland Ireland Ryan Dolan "Only Love Survives" English 26 5

Scoreboard[]

ESC 2013 scoreboard

Incidents[]

Azerbaijan[]

Before the Contest finals, it was reported in Lithuanian media that an undercover video recording published on YouTube seemed to suggest that Azerbaijan was paying bribes for phone votes from Lithuania. Lithuania ended up voting the maximum 12 points to Azerbaijan. Students said they were approached by men who offered them €20 each to vote multiple times for a contestant. Their goal was to recruit groups of 10 people to vote for Azerbaijan. Those recruited were given SIM cards, which would allow them to vote as many times as possible within 15 minutes. Dialogue in the video suggested that similar activity was taking place in a total of 15 countries including Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Croatia and Switzerland.

In response, the European Broadcasting Union's official contest website eurovision.tv published a news article, quoting the Executive Supervisor Jon Ola Sand reaffirming the contest organisers' commitment to a "fair and transparent result". He stated: "We are looking into this case, but would emphasise that the intention of these individuals have not yet been clarified, and nor has a link been established between the individuals in the video and the Azeri delegation, the Azeri act or the Azeri EBU member Ictimai TV." He added that, since 1998, when he was first involved with the contest, "every year there are rumors about irregularities in the voting".

Azerbaijan, Russia and Belarus[]

When Azerbaijan officially awarded no points to Dina Garipova of Russia, despite Garipova having reportedly come second in the country's phone poll, the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ordered an inquiry. The Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that the result had been falsified, and stated: "This outrageous action will not remain without a response". He promised a co-ordinated response with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov. Simultaneously, the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed that his own country having received no points from Russia showed that the result must have been falsified.

Accusations of plagiarism[]

Allegations of plagiarism against the winning Danish entry surfaced after Eric van Tijn, a notable Dutch music producer, mentioned the opening flute solo's similarity to "I Surrender", a 2002 song by the Dutch band K-Otic. However Eric van Tijn also stated that the flute solo was the only similarity between the two songs, thus calling it "a storm in a teacup".

Finland's same-sex kiss[]

The performance of the Finnish entry, "Marry Me", caused controversy in more socially conservative countries broadcasting the contest. The act featured the female singer Krista Siegfrids kissing one of her female backing singers at the end, widely labelled in media as Eurovision's first "lesbian kiss". It was reported that Turkish and Greek media reacted negatively to Siegfrid's act. The Turkish Eurovision broadcaster TRT, who had earlier withdrawn from competing in the contest for 2013, initially indicated that they would still broadcast the contest, but apparently made a late decision not to do so. A number of media reports directly linked this decision to the kiss in the Finnish performance, although TRT stated the reason was low viewing figures for the contest.

Jury in the Netherlands[]

After the first semi final, Dutch commentator Daniël Dekker prematurely revealed Cornald Maas and Eric van Tijn as two members of the Dutch jury. Maas and Van Tijn were replaced for the final by Jeroen Nieuwenhuize and André de Raaff.

Eric Saade[]

Green Room host Eric Saade referred to Petra Mede as a "MILF" on air during the break between the first and second halves of the voting, saying "Back to you, Petra. #MILF." While the statement was supposedly scripted, with the SVT aware of Saade's plan, some on social media were confused and offended by the comment.

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