🔴 2006 Eurovision Song Contest FINAL Full Show From Athens No Commentary

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Venue: Olympic Stadium's Indoor Arena, Athens, Greece • Date: Saturday, 20 May 2006 • Presentation: Sakis Rouvas Maria Menounos • Voting: Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to its top 10 (by televote). • Number of countries: 24 (total: 37) • Qualification: Host + big 4 + 9 best of 2005 (excl. host, big 4 Serbia-Montenegro) + 10 best of semi-final. • • The high definition footage of the show can be seen here: • • • 🔴 2006 Eurovision Song Contest Grand ... • The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the 51st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Athens, Greece, following the country's victory at the 2005 contest with the song My Number One by Helena Paparizou. It was the first time Greece had hosted the contest - 32 years after the country made its debut. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), the contest was held at the Nikos Galis Olympic Indoor Hall, and consisted of a semi-final on 18 May, and the final on 20 May 2006. The two live shows were presented by Maria Menounos and Sakis Rouvas. • Thirty-seven countries participated in the contest. Armenia took part for the first time this year. Meanwhile, Austria, Hungary, and Serbia and Montenegro announced their non-participations in the contest for various reasons. Serbia and Montenegro had intended to participate, however, due to a scandal in the national selection, tensions were caused between the Serbian broadcaster, RTS, and the Montenegrin broadcaster, RTCG. Despite this, the nation did retain voting rights for the contest. • The winner was Finland with the song Hard Rock Hallelujah , performed by Lordi and written by lead singer Mr. Lordi a.k.a. Tomi Petteri Putaansuu. This was Finland's first victory in the contest - and first top five placing - in 45 years of participation. It was the first ever hard rock / heavy metal music song to win the contest, and Lordi was the first band to win since 1997. Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania and Sweden rounded out the top five. Bosnia and Herzegovina achieved their best result in their Eurovision history. Further down the table, Lithuania also achieved their best result to date, finishing sixth. Of the Big Four countries Germany placed the highest, finishing joint fourteenth (with Norway). • The contest saw the 1,000th song performed in the contest, when Ireland's Brian Kennedy performed Every Song Is a Cry for Love in the semi-final. • Final • The finalists were: • the four automatic qualifiers France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom; • the top 10 countries from the 2005 final (other than the automatic qualifiers); • the top 10 countries from the 2006 semi-final. • The final was held on 20 May 2006 at 21:00 (CET) and was won by Finland. • Draw Country Artist Song Language Place Points • 01 Switzerland six4one If We All Give a Little English 16 30 • 02 Moldova Arsenium and Natalia Gordienko Loca English 20 22 • 03 Israel Eddie Butler Together We Are One Hebrew, English 23 4 • 04 Latvia Vocal Group Cosmos I Hear Your Heart English 16 30 • 05 Norway Christine Guldbrandsen Alvedansen Norwegian 14 36 • 06 Spain Las Ketchup Un Blodymary Spanish 21 18 • 07 Malta Fabrizio Faniello I Do English 24 1 • 08 Germany Texas Lightning No No Never English 14 36 • 09 Denmark Sidsel Ben Semmane Twist of Love English 18 26 • 10 Russia Dima Bilan Never Let You Go English 2 248 • 11 Macedonia Elena Risteska Ninanajna (Нинанајна) English, Macedonian 12 56 • 12 Romania Mihai Trăistariu Tornerò English, Italian 4 172 • 13 Bosnia and Herzegovina Hari Mata Hari Lejla Bosnian 3 229 • 14 Lithuania LT United We Are the Winners English 6 162 • 15 United Kingdom Daz Sampson Teenage Life English 19 25 • 16 Greece Anna Vissi Everything English 9 128 • 17 Finland Lordi Hard Rock Hallelujah English 1 292 • 18 Ukraine Tina Karol Show Me Your Love English 7 145 • 19 France Virginie Pouchain Il était temps French 22 5 • 20 Croatia Severina Moja štikla Croatian 12 56 • 21 Ireland Brian Kennedy Every Song Is a Cry for Love English 10 93 • 22 Sweden Carola Invincible English 5 170 • 23 Turkey Sibel Tüzün Süper Star Turkish, English 11 91 • 24 Armenia André Without Your Love English 8 129

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