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Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Awakening
Dates
Semi-final	19 May 2005 (2005-05-19)
Final	21 May 2005 (2005-05-21)
Host
Venue	Palace of Sports Kyiv, Ukraine
Presenter(s)	Maria Efrosinina Pavlo Shylko
Director	Sven Stojanovic
Executive supervisor	Svante Stockselius
Executive producer	Pavlo Grytsak
Host broadcaster	National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/kyiv-2005
Participants
Number of entries	39
Number of finalists	24
Debuting countries	Bulgaria  Moldova
Returning countries	Hungary
Non-returning countries	None
Participation map      Finalist countries     Countries eliminated in the semi-final     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2005
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs.
Winning song	Greece "My Number One"
2004 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 2006

The Eurovision Song Contest 2005 was the 50th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Kyiv, Ukraine, following the country's victory at the 2004 contest with the song "Wild Dances" by Ruslana. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU), the contest was held at the Palace of Sports, and consisted of a semi-final on 19 May, and a final on 21 May 2005. The two live shows were presented by Ukrainian television presenters Maria Efrosinina and Pavlo Shylko.

Thirty-nine countries participated in the contest, three more than the previous record of thirty-six, that took part the year before. Bulgaria and Moldova made their first participation this year, while Hungary returned to the contest after a six-year absence, having last taken part in 1998.

The winner was Greece with the song "My Number One", performed by Helena Paparizou and written by Manos Psaltakis, Christos Dantis and Natalia Germanou. This was Greece's first victory in the contest after 31 years of participation. Malta, Romania, Israel and Latvia rounded out the top five. Malta equalled their best result from 2002, while Romania achieved their best result in their Eurovision history. Unusually, all "Big Four" countries (France, Germany, Spain and United Kingdom) ended up as the "Last Four", all placing in the bottom four positions in the final.

Location

Kyiv is the capital and largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper. The Palace of Sports, a multi-purpose indoor arena, was confirmed by officials as the host venue on 6 September 2004. However, in order to host the contest, the facilities had been brought up to the standard required by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

At the end of December 2004, work began on the renovation of the hall, for which approximately 4 million francs were allocated. Renovation works were to be finished by 20 April, however, they were completed at the beginning of May. The arena could accommodate over 5,000 seated spectators. Additionally 2,000 press delegates were catered for.

Hotel rooms were scarce as the contest organisers asked the Ukrainian government to put a block on bookings they did not control themselves through official delegation allocations or tour packages: this led to many people's hotel bookings being cancelled.

Organizers hoped that by hosting Eurovision, it would boost Ukraine's image abroad and increase tourism, while the country's new government hoped that it would also give a modest boost to the long-term goal of acquiring European Union membership.

Participating countries

Thirty-nine countries participated in the 2005 contest. Hungary returned to the contest after a six-year absence, last competing in 1998. Bulgaria and Moldova competed in the contest for the first time.

Eurovision Song Contest 2005 participants

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)
Albania	RTSH	Ledina Çelo	"Tomorrow I Go"	English	Adrian Hila Pandi Laço
Andorra	RTVA	Marian van de Wal	"La mirada interior"	Catalan	Daniel Aragay Rafael Artesero Rafael Fernández Rafah Tanit
Austria	ORF	Global.Kryner	"Y así"	English, Spanish	Edi Köhldorfer Christof Spörk
Belarus	BTRC	Angelica Agurbash	"Love Me Tonight"	English	Nikos Terzis Nektarios Tyrakis
Belgium	RTBF	Nuno Resende	"Le Grand Soir"	French	Alec Mansion Frédéric Zeitoun
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BHRT	Feminnem	"Call Me"	English	Andrej Babić
Bulgaria	BNT	Kaffe	"Lorraine"	English	Orlin Pavlov Vesselin Vesselinov-Eko
Croatia	HRT	Boris Novković feat. Lado Members	"Vukovi umiru sami"	Croatian	Boris Novković Franjo Valentić
Cyprus	CyBC	Constantinos Christoforou	"Ela Ela"	English	Constantinos Christoforou
Denmark	DR	Jakob Sveistrup	"Talking to You"	English	Jacob Launbjerg Andreas Mørck
Estonia	ETV	Suntribe	"Let's Get Loud"	English	Sven Lõhmus
Finland	YLE	Geir Rönning	"Why"	English	Steven Stewart Mika Toivanen
France	France Télévisions	Ortal	"Chacun pense à soi"	French	Ortal Saad Tabainet
Germany	NDR	Gracia	"Run & Hide"	English	David Brandes John O'Flynn Jane Tempest
Greece	ERT	Helena Paparizou	"My Number One"	English	Christos Dantis Natalia Germanou Manos Psaltakis
Hungary	MTV	Nox	"Forogj, világ"	Hungarian	Szabolcs Harmath Attila Valla
Iceland	RÚV	Selma	"If I Had Your Love"	English	Linda Thompson Þorvaldur Bjarni Þorvaldsson Vignir Snær Vigfússon
Ireland	RTÉ	Donna and Joe	"Love?"	English	Karl Broderick
Israel	IBA	Shiri Maimon	"HaSheket SheNish'ar" (השקט שנשאר)	Hebrew, English	Pini Aharonbayev Ben Green Eyal Shahar
Latvia	LTV	Walters and Kazha	"The War Is Not Over"	English	Mārtiņš Freimanis
Lithuania	LRT	Laura and the Lovers	"Little by Little"	English	William "Billy" Butt Bobby Ljunggren
Macedonia	MRT	Martin Vučić	"Make My Day"	English	Branka Kostić Dragan Vučić
Malta	PBS	Chiara	"Angel"	English	Chiara Siracusa
Monaco	TMC	Lise Darly	"Tout de moi"	French	Philippe Bosco Didier Fabre
Moldova	TRM	Zdob și Zdub	"Boonika bate doba"	English, Romanian	Mihai Gîncu Roman Iagupov
Netherlands	NOS	Glennis Grace	"My Impossible Dream"	English	Robert D. Fisher Bruce Smith
Norway	NRK	Wig Wam	"In My Dreams"	English	Trond "Teeny" Holter
Poland	TVP	Ivan and Delfin	"Czarna dziewczyna"	Polish, Russian	Ivan Komarenko Łukasz Lazer Michał Szymański
Portugal	RTP	2B	"Amar"	Portuguese, English	Alexandre Honrado Ernesto Leite José da Ponte
Romania	TVR	Luminița Anghel and Sistem	"Let Me Try"	English	Cristian Faur
Russia	C1R	Natalia Podolskaya	"Nobody Hurt No One"	English	Mary Susan Applegate Viktor Drobysh Jussi-Pekka Järvinen
Serbia and Montenegro	UJRT	No Name	"Zauvijek moja" (Заувијек моја)	Serbian	Slaven Knezović Milan Perić
Slovenia	RTVSLO	Omar Naber	"Stop"	Slovene	Omar Naber Urša Vlašič
Spain	TVE	Son de Sol	"Brujería"	Spanish	Alfredo Panebianco
Sweden	SVT	Martin Stenmarck	"Las Vegas"	English	Niklas Edberger Johan Fransson Tim Larsson Tobias Lundgren
Switzerland	SRG SSR	Vanilla Ninja	"Cool Vibes"	English	David Brandes John O'Flynn Jane Tempest
Turkey	TRT	Gülseren	"Rimi Rimi Ley"	Turkish	Göksan Arman Erdinç Tunç
Ukraine	NTU	GreenJolly	"Razom nas bahato" (Разом нас багато)	Ukrainian, English	GreenJolly
United Kingdom	BBC	Javine	"Touch My Fire"	English	Javine Hylton John Themis

Returning artists

Lead artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Constantinos Christoforou	Cyprus	1996, 2002 (as member of One)
Helena Paparizou	Greece	2001 (as member of Antique)
Selma	Iceland	1999
Chiara	Malta	1998

Backing performers

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Alexandros Panayi	Greece	1995 (for  Cyprus)
Anabel Conde	Andorra	1995 (for  Spain)
Elina Konstantopoulou	Cyprus	1995 (for  Greece)

Other countries

Active EBU members

Czech broadcaster Czech Television initially applied to participate in the 2005 contest; however, the broadcaster reconsidered débuting in the contest and later withdrew their application. Lebanese broadcaster Télé Liban initially confirmed Lebanon's début in the contest and selected the song "Quand tout s'enfuit" performed by Aline Lahoud as their entry; however, the broadcaster announced their withdrawal from the competition in March 2005 after finding out the obligation to broadcast all participating entries, including the Israeli one, as well as enabling their viewers to vote for them; this contravened a Lebanese law prohibiting any acknowledgement of Israel.

Format

Visual design

The official logo of the contest remained the same from the 2004 contest with the country's flag in the heart being changed. Following Istanbul's 'Under the Same Sky', the slogan for the 2005 show was 'Awakening', which symbolised the awakening of the country and city ready to present itself to Europe. The postcards (short clips shown between performances) for the 2005 show illustrated Ukraine's culture and heritage along with a more modern and industrial side to the country.

This was the first edition to be broadcast in widescreen 16:9 format.

Presenters

The hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv were television presenter Maria "Masha" Efrosinina and DJ Pavlo "Pasha" Shylko. Previous winner Ruslana returned to the stage in Kyiv to perform in the interval act and to interview the contestants backstage in the 'green room'. Ruslana was also intended to be a presenter for the show, but was pulled out before the contest for numerous reasons, including her poor English skills. The Ukrainian boxers Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko opened the televoting, while a special trophy was presented to the winner by Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko.

Publicity

An official CD and DVD was released and a new introduction was an official pin set, which contains heart-shaped pins with the flags of all thirty-nine participating countries. The EBU also commissioned a book "The Eurovision Song Contest – The Official History" by British/American author John Kennedy O'Connor to celebrate the contest's fiftieth anniversary. The book was presented on screen during the break between songs 12 and 13 (Serbia and Montenegro, Denmark). The book was published in English, German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Danish and Finnish.

Contest overview

Semi-final

The semi-final was held on 19 May 2005 at 21:00 (CET). 25 countries performed but all 39 participants voted.

Results of the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Austria	Global.Kryner	"Y así"	30	21
2	Lithuania	Laura and the Lovers	"Little by Little"	17	25
3	Portugal	2B	"Amar"	51	17
4	Moldova	Zdob și Zdub	"Boonika bate doba"	207	2
5	Latvia	Walters and Kazha	"The War Is Not Over"	85	10
6	Monaco	Lise Darly	"Tout de moi"	22	24
7	Israel	Shiri Maimon	"HaSheket SheNish'ar"	158	7
8	Belarus	Angelica Agurbash	"Love Me Tonight"	67	13
9	Netherlands	Glennis Grace	"My Impossible Dream"	53	14
10	Iceland	Selma	"If I Had Your Love"	52	16
11	Belgium	Nuno Resende	"Le Grand Soir"	29	22
12	Estonia	Suntribe	"Let's Get Loud"	31	20
13	Norway	Wig Wam	"In My Dreams"	164	6
14	Romania	Luminița Anghel and Sistem	"Let Me Try"	235	1
15	Hungary	Nox	"Forogj, világ"	167	5
16	Finland	Geir Rönning	"Why"	50	18
17	Macedonia	Martin Vučić	"Make My Day"	97	9
18	Andorra	Marian van de Wal	"La mirada interior"	27	23
19	Switzerland	Vanilla Ninja	"Cool Vibes"	114	8
20	Croatia	Boris Novković feat. Lado members	"Vukovi umiru sami"	169	4
21	Bulgaria	Kaffe	"Lorraine"	49	19
22	Ireland	Donna and Joe	"Love?"	53	14
23	Slovenia	Omar Naber	"Stop"	69	12
24	Denmark	Jakob Sveistrup	"Talking to You"	185	3
25	Poland	Ivan and Delfin	"Czarna dziewczyna"	81	11

Final

The finalists were:

• the four automatic qualifiers France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom;
• the top 10 countries from the 2004 final (other than the automatic qualifiers);
• the top 10 countries from the 2005 semi-final.

The final was held on 21 May 2005 at 21:00 (CET) and was won by Greece.

Results of the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Hungary	Nox	"Forogj, világ"	97	12
2	United Kingdom	Javine	"Touch My Fire"	18	22
3	Malta	Chiara	"Angel"	192	2
4	Romania	Luminița Anghel and Sistem	"Let Me Try"	158	3
5	Norway	Wig Wam	"In My Dreams"	125	9
6	Turkey	Gülseren	"Rimi Rimi Ley"	92	13
7	Moldova	Zdob și Zdub	"Boonika bate doba"	148	6
8	Albania	Ledina Çelo	"Tomorrow I Go"	53	16
9	Cyprus	Constantinos Christoforou	"Ela Ela"	46	18
10	Spain	Son de Sol	"Brujería"	28	21
11	Israel	Shiri Maimon	"HaSheket SheNish'ar"	154	4
12	Serbia and Montenegro	No Name	"Zauvijek moja"	137	7
13	Denmark	Jakob Sveistrup	"Talking to You"	125	9
14	Sweden	Martin Stenmarck	"Las Vegas"	30	19
15	Macedonia	Martin Vučić	"Make My Day"	52	17
16	Ukraine	GreenJolly	"Razom nas bahato"	30	19
17	Germany	Gracia	"Run & Hide"	4	24
18	Croatia	Boris Novković feat. Lado members	"Vukovi umiru sami"	115	11
19	Greece	Helena Paparizou	"My Number One"	230	1
20	Russia	Natalia Podolskaya	"Nobody Hurt No One"	57	15
21	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Feminnem	"Call Me"	79	14
22	Switzerland	Vanilla Ninja	"Cool Vibes"	128	8
23	Latvia	Walters and Kazha	"The War Is Not Over"	153	5
24	France	Ortal	"Chacun pense à soi"	11	23

Spokespersons

The order in which each country announced their votes was compiled by placing the countries that failed to qualify from the semi-final first in the running order they performed during the semi-final, followed by the finalists which voted in the order they performed in during the final. The spokespersons are shown alongside each country.

1.  Austria – Dodo Roscic [de]
2.  Lithuania – Rolandas Vilkončius [lt]
3.  Portugal – Isabel Angelino [pt]
4.  Monaco – Anne Allegrini
5.  Belarus – Elena Ponomareva
6.  Netherlands – Nancy Coolen
7.  Iceland – Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir
8.  Belgium – Armelle Gysen [fr]
9.  Estonia – Maarja-Liis Ilus
10.  Finland – Jari Sillanpää
11.  Andorra – Ruth Gumbau
12.  Bulgaria – Evgeniya Atanasova [bg]
13.  Ireland – Dana
14.  Slovenia – Katarina Čas
15.  Poland – Maciej Orłoś [pl]
16.  Hungary – Zsuzsa Demcsák [hu]
17.  United Kingdom – Cheryl Baker
18.  Malta – Valerie Vella
19.  Romania – Berti Barbera [ro]
20.  Norway – Ingvild Helljesen
21.  Turkey – Meltem Ersan Yazgan
22.  Moldova – Elena Camerzan
23.  Albania – Zhani Ciko [sq]
24.  Cyprus – Melani Steliou
25.  Spain – Ainhoa Arbizu [es]
26.  Israel – Dana Herman [he]
27.  Serbia and Montenegro – Nina Radulović
28.  Denmark – Gry Johansen
29.  Sweden – Annika Jankell
30.  Macedonia – Karolina Gočeva
31.  Ukraine – Maria Orlova
32.  Germany – Thomas Hermanns
33.  Croatia – Barbara Kolar
34.  Greece – Alexis Kostalas [el]
35.  Russia – Yana Churikova
36.  Bosnia and Herzegovina – Ana Mirjana Račanović
37.   Switzerland – Cécile Bähler [de]
38.  Latvia – Marija Naumova
39.  France – Marie Myriam

Detailed voting results

The EBU introduced an undisclosed threshold number of televotes that would have to be registered in each voting country in order to make that country's votes valid. If that number was not reached, the country's backup jury would vote instead. This affected Albania, Andorra and Monaco in the semi-final, and Andorra, Moldova and Monaco in the final.

Semi-final

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the semi-final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
6	Romania	Cyprus,  Greece,  Hungary,  Israel,  Moldova,  Spain
5	Croatia	Austria,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Macedonia,  Serbia and Montenegro,  Slovenia
4	Denmark	Ireland,  Netherlands,  Norway,  Sweden
	Moldova	Romania,  Russia,  Turkey,  Ukraine
3	Israel	Andorra,  Belarus,  Monaco
	Norway	Denmark,  Finland,  Iceland
	Portugal	France,  Germany,   Switzerland
2	Latvia	Lithuania,  Malta
	Macedonia	Albania,  Croatia
1	Belarus	Bulgaria
	Belgium	Portugal
	Estonia	Latvia
	Hungary	Poland
	Ireland	United Kingdom
	Netherlands	Belgium
	Switzerland	Estonia

Final

12 points

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

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
10	Greece	Albania,  Belgium,  Bulgaria,  Cyprus,  Germany,  Hungary,  Serbia and Montenegro,  Sweden,  Turkey,  United Kingdom
3	Latvia	Ireland,  Lithuania,  Moldova
	Norway	Denmark,  Finland,  Iceland
	Romania	Israel,  Spain,  Portugal
	Serbia and Montenegro	Austria,  Croatia,   Switzerland
2	Croatia	Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Slovenia
	Cyprus	Greece,  Malta
	Moldova	Romania,  Ukraine
	Switzerland	Estonia,  Latvia
	Turkey	France,  Netherlands
1	Albania	Macedonia
	Denmark	Norway
	Israel	Monaco
	Malta	Russia
	Russia	Belarus
	Spain	Andorra
	Ukraine	Poland

Broadcasts

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Show(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Albania	RTSH		All shows
Andorra	RTVA	ATV	All shows	Meri Picart [ca] and Josep Lluís Trabal
Austria	ORF	ORF 1	All shows	Andi Knoll
Belarus	BTRC	Belarus-1	All shows	Ales Kruglyakov
Belgium	RTBF	La Une, RTBF Sat	All shows	Jean-Pierre Hautier
			Semi-final	Jean-Louis Lahaye [fr]
	VRT	Eén	All shows	André Vermeulen and Anja Daems
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BHRT	BHT 1	All shows
Bulgaria	BNT		All shows
Croatia	HRT	HRT 2	Semi-final	Duško Ćurlić
		HRT 1	Final
Cyprus	CyBC		All shows
Denmark	DR	DR1	All shows	Jørgen de Mylius
Estonia	ETV		All shows	Marko Reikop
	ER	Raadio 2		Mart Juur and Andrus Kivirähk
Finland	YLE	YLE TV2	All shows	Jaana Pelkonen and Heikki Paasonen
			Final	Asko Murtomäki [fi]
		YLE FST, YLE Radio Vega	All shows	Thomas Lundin [sv] and Hans Johansson
		YLE Radio Suomi		Sanna Kojo and Jorma Hietamäki
France	France Télévisions	France 4	Semi-final
		France 3	Final	Julien Lepers and Guy Carlier [fr]
Germany	ARD	NDR Fernsehen	Semi-final	Peter Urban
		Das Erste	Final
Greece	ERT	NET	All shows	Alexandra Pascalidou
Hungary	MTV	m1	All shows	Zsuzsa Demcsák [hr], András Fáber and Dávid Szántó
Iceland	RÚV	Sjónvarpið, Rás 2	All shows	Gísli Marteinn Baldursson
Ireland	RTÉ	RTÉ Two	Semi-final	Marty Whelan
		RTÉ One	Final
Israel	IBA		All shows
Latvia	LTV		All shows	Kārlis Streips [lv]
Lithuania	LRT		All shows	Darius Užkuraitis
Macedonia	MRT		All shows
Malta	PBS	TVM	All shows
Moldova	TRM	Moldova 1	All shows
Monaco	TMC Monte Carlo		All shows	Bernard Montiel [fr] and Genie Godula [fr]
Netherlands	NPO	Nederland 2	All shows	Willem van Beusekom and Cornald Maas
		Radio 2
Norway	NRK	NRK1	All shows	Jostein Pedersen
		NRK P1
Poland	TVP	TVP1	All shows	Artur Orzech
Portugal	RTP	RTP1	All shows	Eládio Clímaco
Romania	TVR	TVR 1	All shows
Russia	Channel One		All shows	Yuriy Aksyuta [ru] and Yelena Batinova [ru]
Serbia and Montenegro	RTS	RTS 1	All shows
	RTCG	TVCG 1
Slovenia	RTVSLO	SLO 2 [sl]	Semi-final	Mojca Mavec [sl]
		SLO 1 [sl]	Final
		Radio Val 202	All shows	Jernej Vene
Spain	TVE	La 2	Semi-final	Beatriz Pécker [es], Ainhoa Arbizu [es] and Carlos Cerezo
		La Primera	Final	Beatriz Pécker
Sweden	SVT	SVT1	All shows	Pekka Heino
	SR	SR P4		Björn Kjellman and Carolina Norén
Switzerland	SRG SSR	SF 2	Semi-final	Sandra Studer
		SF 1	Final
		TSR 2	Semi-final	Jean-Marc Richard and Marie-Thérèse Porchet
		TSR 1	Final
		TSI 2	Semi-final	Daniela Tami and Claudio Lazzarino
		TSI 1	Final
Turkey	TRT	TRT 1	All shows
Ukraine	NTU	Pershyi Natsionalnyi	All shows	Yaroslav Chornenkyi
	UR			Galyna Babiy [uk]
United Kingdom	BBC	BBC Three	Semi-final	Paddy O'Connell
		BBC One, BBC Prime	Final	Terry Wogan
		BBC Radio 2		Ken Bruce

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Show(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Armenia	AMPTV
Australia	SBS	SBS TV	Semi-final	Paddy O'Connell
			Final	Terry Wogan
Falkland Islands	BFBS	BFBS 1	Final
Kosovo	RTK	RTK

Other awards

In addition to the main winner's trophy, the Marcel Bezençon Awards and the Barbara Dex Award were contested during the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest.

Marcel Bezençon Awards

The Marcel Bezençon Awards, organised since 2002 by Sweden's then-Head of Delegation and 1992 representative Christer Björkman, and 1984 winner Richard Herrey, honours songs in the contest's final. The awards are divided into three categories: Artistic Award which was voted by previous winners of the contest, Composer Award and Press Award.

Category	Country	Song	Performer(s)	Composer(s)	Final result	Points
Artistic Award	Greece	"My Number One"	Helena Paparizou	Manos Psaltakis Christos Dantis Natalia Germanou	1st	230
Composer Award	Serbia and Montenegro	"Zauvijek moja"	No Name	Slaven Knezović Milan Perić	7th	137
Press Award	Malta	"Angel"	Chiara	Chiara Siracusa	2nd	192

Barbara Dex Award

The Barbara Dex Award is a humorous fan award given to the worst dressed artist each year. Named after Belgium's representative who came last in the 1993 contest, wearing her self-designed dress, the award was handed by the fansite House of Eurovision from 1997 to 2016 and is being carried out by the fansite songfestival.be since 2017.

Place	Country	Performer(s)	Votes
1	Macedonia	Martin Vučić	42
2	Iceland	Selma	39
3	Portugal	2B	34
4	Norway	Wig Wam	29
5	Belarus	Angelica Agurbash	21

Official album

Eurovision Song Contest: Kyiv 2005 was the official compilation album of the 2005 contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by EMI Records and CMC International on 2 May 2005. The album featured all 39 songs that entered in the 2005 contest, including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify into the grand final.

The original cover designed for the album was changed after Lebanon's withdrawal from the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 after announcing they would show advertisements over the Israeli entry. Had they entered, they would have been on track 4, disc 2 with the song "Quand tout s'enfuit" by Aline Lahoud.

It was reported that sales of the 2005 Eurovision merchandise reached record-breaking levels.

Charts

Notes

1. On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD
2. Delayed repeat broadcast on France 3 on 21 May at 01:20 (CEST)
3. Deferred broadcast on 20 May (semi-final) and 22 May (final) at 19:30 (AEST)
4. Deferred broadcast at 21:00 (FKT)

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Further reading

• Zirin, Oleksandr (2005). Бачення Євро. Хроніки українського Євробачення. Vinnitsa: Nova Kniga. ISBN 966-8609-46-8.

External links

• Official website
• Eurovision Song Contest 2005 at IMDb
• Eurovision Song Contest 2005's channel on YouTube

• Eurovision Song Contest 2005
• Eurovision Song Contest by year
• Music festivals in Ukraine
• 2005 song contests
• 2005 in Ukraine
• Music in Kyiv
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