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Eurovision Song Contest: Vienna 2015
; Compilation album by Eurovision Song Contest;
Released	20 April 2015
Genre	Pop
Length	; ; 58:43 (CD 1); ; ; 61:50 (CD 2); ;
Label	Universal
; Eurovision Song Contest chronology

Eurovision Song Contest 2015
	Building Bridges
Dates
Semi-final 1	19 May 2015 (2015-05-19);
Semi-final 2	21 May 2015 (2015-05-21);
Final	23 May 2015 (2015-05-23);
Host
Venue	; Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria
Presenter(s)	; Mirjam Weichselbraun; ; Alice Tumler; ; Arabella Kiesbauer; ; ; Conchita Wurst (green room); ;
Directed by	Kurt Pongratz
Executive supervisor	Jon Ola Sand
Executive producer	Edgar Böhm
Host broadcaster	; Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Opening act	; ; Semi-final 1: "Rise Like a Phoenix" performed by Conchita Wurst with Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Peter Pejtsik; ; ; Final: "Building Bridges" by Mirjam, Alice, Arabella, Conchita Wurst, Left Boy and the choir of local children, with Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Peter Pejtsik; ;
Interval act	; ; Semi-final 1: Video: "Pets in Vienna"; ; ; Semi-final 2: "Funny moments in the Eurovision voting history"; ; ; Final: Martin Grubinger; "You Are Unstoppable" and "Firestorm" performed by Conchita Wurst; ; ;
Participants
Number of entries	40
Debuting countries	; Australia;
Returning countries	; ; Cyprus; ; ; ; Czech Republic; ; ; ; Serbia; ; ;
Withdrawing countries	; Ukraine;
	; Participation map; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Participating countries Did not qualify from the semi final Countries that participated in the past but not in 2015; ; ;
Vote
Voting system	Each country/jury awards 12, 10, 8–1 points to their top 10 songs.
Nul points	; ; Austria; ; ; ; Germany; ; ;
Winning song	; ; Sweden; ; ; "Heroes"; ;
	; ; ← 2014; ; Eurovision Song Contest; ; 2016 →; ; ;

The Eurovision Song Contest 2015 was the 60th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Vienna, Austria, following Conchita Wurst's win at the 2014 contest in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix". This was the second time that Austria hosted the contest; the 1967 edition being the first.

The 2015 contest consisted of two semi-finals, which took place on 19 and 21 May, and a final, held on 23 May 2015. The shows were presented by Mirjam Weichselbraun, Alice Tumler and Arabella Kiesbauer while Conchita Wurst was hosting the green room. Forty countries participated in the contest, with Australia making a guest appearance, and Cyprus, the Czech Republic, and Serbia returning. Ukraine, however, announced their withdrawal due to financial and political reasons around the Ukrainian crisis.

Once all the votes had been announced, based on 50% jury and 50% televoting, Sweden won the contest for the sixth time, with Måns Zelmerlöw's song "Heroes". Sweden became the first country to win the contest twice in the current format, and this was the country's second win in four years and the 21st century. Italy won the viewers voting with Russia in second place, and Sweden in third place. Sweden won the jury voting, with Latvia in second place and Russia in third place. This is the first time since the juries were reintroduced alongside the televoting in 2009 that the winner did not place first in the televoting. For the first time, the top four of the contest all scored 200 points or better. Russia's entry "A Million Voices" became the first non-winning Eurovision song to score over 300 points. Austria and Germany became the first countries since 2003 to score no points in the final. Austria is also the first host country to score nul points. The 2015 contest also saw the best ever result for Montenegro since its independence. Also, the top two countries of this contest were the same as the top two countries in the 2012 contest, being Sweden and Russia. 2014 hosts, Denmark, were eliminated in the semi-finals. Over 197 million viewers worldwide watched the contest, beating the 2014 viewing figures by 2 million.

Location

Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna – host venue of the 2015 contest

Venue

The event took place in Vienna, Austria, with the venue being the Wiener Stadthalle, after Austria won the right to host this edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for winning its previous 2014 edition with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix" performed by Conchita Wurst. The Wiener Stadthalle hosts the annual Erste Bank Open tennis tournament, along with many concerts and events throughout the year and has a capacity of approximately 16,000 attendees.^[1]

Bidding phase

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.^[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.^[3]

Vienna, considered the front-runner, had two venues in the phase: Wiener Stadthalle and the trade fair centre, Messe Wien, with capacities of up to 16,000 and 30,000 attendees respectively. Also in the race were Stadthalle Graz and Schwarzl Freizeit Zentrum, both located in the second largest city of Austria, Graz. With a maximum capacity of 30,000, the Wörthersee Stadium in Klagenfurt also joined the race; however, it would require the construction of a roof for the contest to be hosted there. Innsbruck also joined the race with Olympiahalle, which hosted ice hockey and figure skating at the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympics. A fifth city, Linz, joined the race with Brucknerhaus, although the venue is not big enough for the contest. Being geographically close to Linz, Wels showed desire to host the event as well.^[4]Oberwart, with the Exhibition hall, and Vorarlberg, with the Vorarlberger Landestheater, were the latest cities to declare an interest.^{[citation needed]}

On 29 May 2014, Austrian host public broadcaster ORF and the EBU released some requirements and details about the venue.^[5]^[6] ORF requested interested parties to respond by 13 June 2014.^[7]

The venue must be available for at least 6 to 7 weeks before the contest and one week after the conclusion of the contest.

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.

The Green Room should be located in the arena or as near it as possible, with a capacity of 300.

An additional room at least 6,000 square metres (65,000 sq ft) in area, to house 2 catering stands, a viewing room, make-up rooms, wardrobe, and booths for approximately 50 commentators.

Separate offices to house the press centre, open between 11 and 24 May 2015, at least 4,000 square metres (43,000 sq ft) in area, with a capacity of at least 1,500 journalists.^[5]

After the deadline on 13 June 2014, ORF announced 12 venues interested in hosting the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest:^[8] ORF announced on 21 June 2014 that 3 cities (Vienna, Innsbruck, and Graz) had been short-listed in the final stage of the bidding process.^[9]^[10]^[11] On 6 August 2014, ORF announced the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna as the host venue.^[12] The contest was provisionally set to take place on 12, 14 and 16 May 2015, but the dates were later pushed back a week in order to accommodate the candidate cities.^[13]

Graz

Innsbruck

Klagenfurt

Wels

Vienna

Oberwart

Locations of the candidate cities. The chosen host city is marked in red. The cities marked in orange were short-listed cities in the final bidding stage.

Key
Host venue

City	Venue	Capacity	Notes
Graz	Stadthalle Graz	11,000	Hosted the 2010 European Men's Handball Championship.
Innsbruck	Olympiaworld	10,000	Hosted the figure skating and ice hockey events at both the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympic Games.
Vienna	Schönbrunn Palace	—
	Wiener Stadthalle, Hall D	16,000	Hosts the annual Erste Bank Open tennis tournament and many events throughout the year.
	Vienna International Airport, Parking C^[14]	—
	Heldenplatz	—
	New All-round Concert Hall in Neu Marx^[15]	—
	Marx hall	—
	Trabrennbahn Krieau	—
Klagenfurt	Wörthersee Stadion	32,000	Served as host for some matches of UEFA Euro 2008.
Oberwart	Messezentrum	10,000

Inclusive traffic lights in Vienna

The city of Vienna introduced temporary new traffic signals for pedestrians on some streets, featuring same-sex couples holding hands or hugging. They were introduced as part of events connected to the theme of tolerance and inclusion in the lead-up to the Eurovision Song Contest.^[16]

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. In Salzburg the initiative SoHo and social democrate mayor Schaden promoted the change of the shape of the LED-lamps. The faceplates in Linz has been financed by sponsors driven by a Facebook-based initiative, but have been removed – without consent – by the new traffic minister of Linz of the party FPÖ in early December 2015.^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]

Format

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The competition consisted of two semi-finals and a final, a format which has been in use since 2008. 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.^[21]

Each participating country had their own national jury, which consisted of five professional members of the music industry. Each member of a respective nation's jury was required to rank every song, except that of their own country. The voting results from each member of a particular nation's jury were combined to produce an overall ranking from first to last place. Likewise, the televoting results were also interpreted as a full ranking, taking into account the full televoting result rather than just the top ten. The combination of the jury's full ranking and the televote's full ranking produced an overall ranking of all competing entries. The song which scored the highest overall rank received 12 points, while the tenth-best ranked song received one point.^[22] 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.^[23]^[24] The 2015 contest was the final time that using the 50/50 system and the modern scoring system introduced in 1975 before the format being modified the following year.

Semi-final allocation draw

The draw that determined the semi-final allocation was held on 26 January 2015 at the Vienna Rathaus and hosted by Andi Knoll and Kati Bellowitsch.^[25] The participating countries, excluding the automatic finalists (hosts Austria, the Big Five and Australia), were split into five pots, based on voting patterns from the previous ten years. The pots were calculated by the televoting partner Digame and were as follows:^[26]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Albania Macedonia Malta Montenegro Serbia Slovenia Switzerland	Denmark Estonia Finland Iceland Latvia Norway Sweden	Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Georgia Israel Lithuania Russia	Belgium Cyprus Greece Ireland Netherlands San Marino	Czech Republic Hungary Moldova Poland Portugal Romania

Running order

The final running order of the competing performances at the semi-finals and the final were decided by the producers of the show and approved by the EBU Executive Supervisor and the Reference Group, as had been done since the 2013 Contest, in contrast to a draw system for the contest's editions up until 2012 (apart from an ongoing draw method for the host country's direct position at the final). Hosts Austria drew their running order position on 16 March 2015 at the heads of delegations meeting, drawing starting position fourteen.^[27] The running order of the semi-finals were revealed on 23 March 2015. It was decided that Moldova would open the first semi-final and Lithuania the second. The running order for the grand final was announced shortly after the winners' press conference of the second semi-final, with Slovenia opening the show and Italy performing last.^[28]

Graphic design

The graphic design of the contest

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.^[29] On 11 September 2014, the slogan for the 2015 Contest was revealed to be "Building Bridges". The Director General of ORF, Alexander Wrabetz, commented in reference to the slogan: "With the song contest in Vienna, we want music to build bridges across borders, cultures and languages. In light of the unifying power of this great common European event, we invite all to build bridges and to join hands."^[30] One way of realising the slogan will be introduced in the beginning of the contest's final, as the competing artists will enter the arena via a structure which simulates a "magic bridge" of light.^[31] The graphic design of the contest was revealed by the EBU on 25 November 2014.^[32] The theme depicts a wave made up of many spheres, meant to symbolise diversity and the bridging of connections and encounters people experience on a constant basis. The colours of the theme intend to highlight individualism whilst simultaneously also representing the building of musical bridges and the diversity and variety of the artists, songs and audience. The theme art will be incorporated in all contest related developments such as crew uniforms, on-air graphics and merchandise.^[32]

The postcards of this year's contest also witness the slogan "Building Bridges". In the postcards, each of the clips start with every contestant receiving an invitation to Austria in their home country. More specifically, the invitation is to a region in the host country with all nine Austrian states taking part. The story continues with the contestants making their way to one of the states where they have an individual task to fulfil. The tasks on the journeys vary from culture to sports, from economics to science and tradition to modern.^[33] For example, the Austrian postcard features The Makemakes participating in a fun run and in the San Marino postcard, Michele Perniola and Anita Simoncini attend an evening at the Vienna Opera Ball.

In this year's contest, all the hashtags for participating countries incorporated the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country codes for them which were displayed on the television screen, preceded by the names of the performing countries. For example, the first country in semi-final 1, Moldova, which would normally have been displayed as "01 Moldova"; became "01 Moldova #MDA" under the new changes. When the hashtags were used on Twitter, they became "hashflags", and appeared by the accompanying of a heart symbol with the flag of the country of the hashtag.^[34]

Presenters

The presenters (from left) Alice Tumler, Mirjam Weichselbraun and Arabella Kiesbauer.

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 winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, Conchita Wurst was also chosen as host of the green room.^[35]

Weichselbraun is an actress and presenter known for hosting such productions as the annual Life Ball charity event, the Vienna Opera Ball and the TV show Dancing Stars since 2005, which has earned her the Austrian Romy television award in 2006 and 2008. Tumler is of Austrian-French descent and speaks five languages fluently: German, English, French, Italian and Spanish. She began her television career in 2004 with French music channel TraceTV, later working for Arte and France 3, and has hosted The KORA All Africa Music Awards in South Africa. Since 2013, she has hosted the talent show Die große Chance alongside Andi Knoll. 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. Since 2008 she has been an ambassador for integration in the team of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Integration. In 2013, she received the Golden Medal of the Republic of Austria for her commitment to tolerance and the fight against racism.^[35]

National host broadcaster

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. Edgar Böhm, who is the Head of Entertainment at ORF, was announced as the executive producer.^[36]

Participants

Countries in the first semi-final

Countries also voting in the first semi-final

Countries in the second semi-final

Countries also voting in the second semi-final

Country voting in both semi-finals (Australia)

On 10 February 2015, it was announced that thirty-nine countries (forty including Australia) would participate in the 2015 Contest.^[37]Cyprus and Serbia returned after one-year absences, the Czech Republic returned after a five-year absence, while Ukraine withdrew.^[37] Australia made its debut as a guest participant. The deadline to apply for participation was 15 September 2014. Countries that applied had until 10 October 2014 to withdraw from participation without financial consequences.^[38]

Invitation of Australia

On 10 February 2015, the EBU announced that in honour of the 60th anniversary of Eurovision, it had invited Australia to participate in the finals of the contest, represented by Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). SBS had been a long-time broadcaster of the event, which has had a large following in Australia. The Australian entry was placed directly in the grand final. Although it was considered a one-off event, if Australia were to win, SBS would have co-hosted the 2016 contest in a European host city of its choice. The EBU considered the possibility of similarly inviting countries to participate in future editions of the contest. 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.^[21]^[39]

Returning artists

Inga Arshakyan, who was part of Genealogy in 2015, represented Armenia in 2009, collaborating with her sister as part of Inga and Anush.^[40]Michele Perniola and Anita Simoncini both previously represented San Marino at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest: Perniola took part in 2013, and Simoncini took part in 2014 as part of The Peppermints.^[41]Amber, who represented Malta, was a backing vocalist for the Maltese entry in Malta. Uzari, who represented Belarus, was a backing vocalist for the Belarusian entry in Belarus.^[42]

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.^[43] Raay, who is a part of the Slovene duo Maraaya, was a backing musical performer for the 2014 entry in Slovenia.^[44]Hera Björk, who previously represented Iceland in 2010, returned as a backing singer for Iceland's entry.^[45] Nicolas Dorian, part of Witloof Bay, Belgium representatives in 2011, was part of the backing vocalists of Loic Nottet.

Semi-final 1

16 countries took part in the first semi-final. Australia,^[46]Austria, France and Spain voted in this semi-final.^[47] The ten songs in places 1 to 10 qualified for the final and are marked in orange.

Draw^[48]	Country^[49]	Artist^[49]	Song^[49]	Language	Place^[49]	Points
01	Moldova	Eduard Romanyuta	"I Want Your Love"	English	11	41
02	Armenia	Genealogy	"Face the Shadow"	English	7	77
03	Belgium	Loïc Nottet	"Rhythm Inside"	English	2	149
04	Netherlands	Trijntje Oosterhuis	"Walk Along"	English	14	33
05	Finland	Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät	"Aina mun pitää"	Finnish	16	13
06	Greece	Maria Elena Kyriakou	"One Last Breath"	English	6	81
07	Estonia	Elina Born & Stig Rästa	"Goodbye to Yesterday"	English	3	105
08	Macedonia	Daniel Kajmakoski	"Autumn Leaves"	English	15	28
09	Serbia	Bojana Stamenov	"Beauty Never Lies"	English	9	63
10	Hungary	Boggie	"Wars for Nothing"	English	8	67
11	Belarus	Uzari & Maimuna	"Time"	English	12	39
12	Russia	Polina Gagarina	"A Million Voices"	English	1	182
13	Denmark	Anti Social Media	"The Way You Are"	English	13	33
14	Albania	Elhaida Dani	"I'm Alive"	English	10	62
15	Romania	Voltaj	"De la capăt"	Romanian, English	5	89
16	Georgia	Nina Sublatti	"Warrior"	English	4	98

Semi-final 2

17 countries took part in this semi-final. Australia,^[46]Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom voted in this semi-final.^[47] The ten songs in places 1 to 10 qualified for the final and are marked in orange.

Draw^[48]	Country^[50]	Artist^[50]	Song^[50]	Language	Place^[50]	Points
01	Lithuania	Monika Linkytė & Vaidas Baumila	"This Time"	English	7	67
02	Ireland	Molly Sterling	"Playing with Numbers"	English	12	35
03	San Marino	Anita Simoncini & Michele Perniola	"Chain of Lights"	English	16	11
04	Montenegro	Knez	"Adio"	Montenegrin	9	57
05	Malta	Amber	"Warrior"	English	11	43
06	Norway	Mørland & Debrah Scarlett	"A Monster Like Me"	English	4	123
07	Portugal	Leonor Andrade	"Há um mar que nos separa"	Portuguese	14	19
08	Czech Republic	Marta Jandová & Václav Noid Bárta	"Hope Never Dies"	English	13	33
09	Israel	Nadav Guedj	"Golden Boy"	English	3	151
10	Latvia	Aminata	"Love Injected"	English	2	155
11	Azerbaijan	Elnur Huseynov	"Hour of the Wolf"	English	10	53
12	Iceland	Maria Olafs	"Unbroken"	English	15	14
13	Sweden	Måns Zelmerlöw	"Heroes"	English	1	217
14	Switzerland	Mélanie René	"Time to Shine"	English	17	4
15	Cyprus	John Karayiannis	"One Thing I Should Have Done"	English	6	87
16	Slovenia	Maraaya	"Here for You"	English	5	92
17	Poland	Monika Kuszyńska	"In the Name of Love"	English	8	57

Final

As in the 2014 contest, the winner was announced as soon as it was mathematically impossible to catch up. In this case, the winner had been determined by the 36th vote, which came from Cyprus.

Draw^[51]	Country^[52]	Artist^[52]	Song^[52]	Language	Place^[52]	Points
01	Slovenia	Maraaya	"Here for You"	English	14	39
02	France	Lisa Angell	"N'oubliez pas"	French	25	4
03	Israel	Nadav Guedj	"Golden Boy"	English	9	97
04	Estonia	Elina Born & Stig Rästa	"Goodbye to Yesterday"	English	7	106
05	United Kingdom	Electro Velvet	"Still in Love with You"	English	24	5
06	Armenia	Genealogy	"Face the Shadow"	English	16	34
07	Lithuania	Monika Linkytė & Vaidas Baumila	"This Time"	English	18	30
08	Serbia	Bojana Stamenov	"Beauty Never Lies"	English	10	53
09	Norway	Mørland & Debrah Scarlett	"A Monster Like Me"	English	8	102
10	Sweden	Måns Zelmerlöw	"Heroes"	English	1	365
11	Cyprus	John Karayiannis	"One Thing I Should Have Done"	English	22	11
12	Australia	Guy Sebastian	"Tonight Again"	English	5	196
13	Belgium	Loïc Nottet	"Rhythm Inside"	English	4	217
14	Austria	The Makemakes	"I Am Yours"	English	26^a	0
15	Greece	Maria Elena Kyriakou	"One Last Breath"	English	19	23
16	Montenegro	Knez	"Adio"	Montenegrin	13	44
17	Germany	Ann Sophie	"Black Smoke"	English	27	0
18	Poland	Monika Kuszyńska	"In the Name of Love"	English	23	10
19	Latvia	Aminata	"Love Injected"	English	6	186
20	Romania	Voltaj	"De la capăt"	Romanian, English	15	35
21	Spain	Edurne	"Amanecer"	Spanish	21	15
22	Hungary	Boggie	"Wars for Nothing"	English	20	19
23	Georgia	Nina Sublatti	"Warrior"	English	11	51
24	Azerbaijan	Elnur Huseynov	"Hour of the Wolf"	English	12	49
25	Russia	Polina Gagarina	"A Million Voices"	English	2	303
26	Albania	Elhaida Dani	"I'm Alive"	English	17	34
27	Italy	Il Volo	"Grande amore"	Italian	3	292

NOTES:: a. ^ While Austria and Germany both finished with no points, Austria is listed as finishing "ahead" of Germany due to the tiebreaker rule that favours the song performed earliest in the running order.^[53]

Scoreboard

Semi-final 1

Semi-final 1
Place	Televoting	Points	Jury	Points
1	Russia	151	Russia	167
2	Estonia	136	Belgium	151
3	Belgium	124	Greece	99
4	Georgia	97	Georgia	95
5	Romania	96	Netherlands	70
6	Armenia	90	Hungary	70
7	Serbia	86	Romania	67
8	Albania	66	Belarus	66
9	Greece	61	Estonia	66
10	Finland	55	Albania	61
11	Hungary	50	Denmark	58
12	Moldova	48	Armenia	54
13	Belarus	32	Serbia	47
14	Denmark	23	Moldova	46
15	Netherlands	23	Macedonia	42
16	Macedonia	22	Finland	1


Voting procedure used: 50% jury and televote 100% jury vote		Voting results^[54]

	Moldova	41		6						5	5		5			2	8	10
	Armenia	77	4		12	5		7		7			7	12		5	1	8			5	4
	Belgium	149	5	1		12	12	6	10	6	7	10	6	8	12	6	7	5	8	6	12	10
	Netherlands	33			6		3		5	1					7	1	3	2			2	3
	Finland	13							4		4	2	1		2
	Greece	81	3	8	3	6	2		1	4	6	3	3	5		12	6	4	6	4	3	2
	Estonia	105	2	4	5	8	8	4		2	2	8	8	10	8		2	3	5	10	4	12
	Macedonia	28	1						2		12					10			3
	Serbia	63		5		7	4	2		12		4	4	4	1				12	7	1
	Hungary	67			4	4	7		12		8			2	4	3	10		2	5	6
	Belarus	39	8	7				3						6	3			12
	Russia	182	7	10	8	10	10	12	8	8	10	12	12		10	7	12	7	10	12	10	7
	Denmark	33		2	1	3	1	1	7			7					5		4	1		1
	Albania	62	6		10			10		10		1		3				6		3	7	6
	Romania	89	12	3	7	2	6	5	3		3	5	2	1	6	8		1	1	8	8	8
	Georgia	98	10	12	2	1	5	8	6	3	1	6	10	7	5	4	4		7	2		5

12 points

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the first semi-final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
5	Russia	Austria, Belarus, Greece, Hungary, Romania
4	Belgium	Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands
2	Armenia	Belgium, Russia
2	Serbia	Australia, Macedonia
1	Belarus	Georgia
	Estonia	Spain
	Georgia	Armenia
	Greece	Albania
	Hungary	Estonia
	Macedonia	Serbia
	Romania	Moldova

Split 12p televoter selections in the first semi-final
N.	Contestant	National juries giving 12 points^[55]
3	Armenia	Belgium, France, Russia
2	Albania	Greece, Macedonia
	Belgium	Denmark, Netherlands
	Estonia	Finland, Hungary
	Romania	Moldova, Spain
	Russia	Armenia, Belarus
	Serbia	Australia, Austria
1	Finland	Estonia
	Greece	Albania
	Macedonia	Serbia
	Moldova	Romania

Split 12p juries selections in the first semi-final
N.	Contestant	National group of juries giving 12 points^[55]
6	Russia	Australia, Denmark, France, Greece, Romania, Spain
5	Belgium	Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Netherlands, Russia
2	Georgia	Armenia, Belarus
2	Macedonia	Albania, Serbia
1	Belarus	Georgia
	Estonia	Austria
	Hungary	Belgium
	Romania	Moldova
	Serbia	Macedonia

Semi-final 2

Semi-final 2
Place	Televoting	Points	Jury	Points
1	Sweden	195	Sweden	208
2	Israel	157	Latvia	155
3	Latvia	116	Norway	144
4	Poland	114	Israel	114
5	Norway	104	Malta	84
6	Lithuania	98	Slovenia	84
7	Slovenia	95	Ireland	84
8	Cyprus	80	Cyprus	76
9	Montenegro	58	Azerbaijan	67
10	Czech Republic	51	Lithuania	52
11	Azerbaijan	37	Montenegro	47
12	Malta	32	Czech Republic	34
13	Portugal	24	Portugal	23
14	Iceland	21	Switzerland	15
15	San Marino	16	Iceland	15
16	Ireland	14	Poland	10
17	Switzerland	6	San Marino	6


Voting procedure used: 50% jury and televote 100% jury vote		Voting results^[56]

	Lithuania	67		7	3		4	10		1	4	10	7	4		3	7			4			3
	Ireland	35	2		5	2				5		4	2		3		1	1			2		8
	San Marino	11				5																6
	Montenegro	57						3	5	6	7	2	10		7	1	2	10				4
	Malta	43		3	7	10				4	10									3		1	5
	Norway	123	8	4	8	6	5		8	7	1	7		10	12	10	6	6	6	8	7	2	2
	Portugal	19				4							3			6		4			1		1
	Czech Republic	33		1	4	1	1		1		8	1			1			3	8		4
	Israel	151	4	8	6	3	10	8	10	2		3	8	8	10	7	10	5	10	7	8	12	12
	Latvia	155	12	12	10		7	7	7	8	2		6	7	8	8	8	8	7	10	10	8	10
	Azerbaijan	53	6			7	8		3	10	3			2	4		5		3	2
	Iceland	14	1	2				2					5		2				2
	Sweden	217	10	10	12	8	12	12	12	12	12	12	4	12		12	12	12	12	12	12	10	7
	Switzerland	4						1					1	1					1
	Cyprus	87	3	6	2		2	6	6		5	6		5	6	5		7	4	6	5	7	6
	Slovenia	92	7		1	12	3	4	4	3	6	8	12	6		4	3		5	5	6	3
	Poland	57	5	5			6	5	2			5		3	5	2	4	2		1	3	5	4

12 points

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the second semi-final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
14	Sweden	Australia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland
2	Israel	Italy, United Kingdom
	Latvia	Ireland, Lithuania
	Slovenia	Azerbaijan, Montenegro
1	Norway	Sweden

Split 12p televoter selections in the second semi-final
N.	Contestant	National juries giving 12 points^[57]
6	Sweden	Australia, Czech Republic, Iceland, Israel, Malta, Poland
4	Lithuania	Ireland, Latvia, Norway, United Kingdom
2	Israel	Cyprus, Portugal
2	Poland	Germany, Italy
1	Latvia	Lithuania
	Montenegro	Slovenia
	Norway	Sweden
	Portugal	Switzerland

Split 12p juries selections in the second semi-final
N.	Contestant	National group of juries giving 12 points^[57]
14	Sweden	Australia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia
2	Latvia	Germany, Switzerland
2	Slovenia	Azerbaijan, Montenegro
1	Cyprus	Italy
	Israel	United Kingdom
	Norway	Sweden

Final

This is the first time since the juries were reintroduced alongside the televoting in 2009 that the winner was not placed first in the televoting.^[58]

Final
Place	Televoting	Points	Jury	Points
1	Italy	366	Sweden	353
2	Russia	286	Latvia	249
3	Sweden	279	Russia	234
4	Belgium	195	Australia	224
5	Estonia	144	Belgium	186
6	Australia	132	Italy	171
7	Israel	104	Norway	163
8	Latvia	100	Israel	77
9	Albania	93	Cyprus	63
10	Serbia	86	Georgia	62
11	Armenia	77	Estonia	53
12	Romania	69	Montenegro	44
13	Georgia	51	Austria	40
14	Azerbaijan	48	Azerbaijan	40
15	Poland	47	Slovenia	36
16	Lithuania	44	Lithuania	31
17	Norway	43	Hungary	29
18	Montenegro	34	Greece	29
19	Slovenia	27	France	24
20	Spain	26	Germany	24
21	Greece	24	Romania	21
22	Hungary	21	Armenia	15
23	Cyprus	8	United Kingdom	12
24	United Kingdom	7	Serbia	12
25	Germany	5	Spain	6
26	France	4	Albania	4
27	Austria	0	Poland	2


Voting procedure used: 50% jury and televote 100% jury vote 100% Televoting		Voting results (voting order)^[59]

	Slovenia	39	4		1						3	3	5							1						8				4		1	6				2		1
	France	4																3																	1
	Israel	97	3	5	3		1	2	5		7	1	6		3					4	5	2		1	2				5		5	4			2	8	5	6	4	7		1
	Estonia	106	1	3	10			7	4		4	6	2	6		2				3	2	3		3	6	2		7		8	4	2	3	7		2	1	2	3	1		2
	United Kingdom	5		1															1																3
	Armenia	34				1		4								3	3						2			3								6								12
	Lithuania	30										7		1					7										4										6		2	3
	Serbia	53	12						2						5							5	3		3	10	6		1		1		2			3
	Norway	102		2	4		6					2		3	10				4	7	4	4		2	4		4	4		5	3	3			6	5	10			6	4
	Sweden	365	5	10	12	4	8	10	7	8	6	12	8	12	12	12	8	7	10		10	12	10	8	7	5	12	10	12	10	10	12	10	8	7	12	12	10	12	8	10	7
	Cyprus	11				10																					1
	Australia	196		6	5	5	2	6	3	4		5	3	8	8	4	2	1	5	12	7			7	12		2	8	10	3	8	8	7	4	8	6	8	4	10		5
	Belgium	217			7	7	7	8	1	6		4	4	7	2		12	4	2	10	8	6	6	6	5	1	3	12	3	7	12	5	4	10	5	7	4	7	7	5	7	6
	Austria	0
	Greece	23							10									5																				8
	Montenegro	44							6		2		12					8		2						4	10
	Germany	0
	Poland	10															4		3										2							1
	Latvia	186		4	6	3	5	5		2	5		1	4	4	7	7	2	12	5	6	7	5	4	1		7	5	7	12	2	10		2	12	4	7	3	8	2	6	4
	Romania	35								12				2		5								5				1					5					1		4
	Spain	15	2							1	1				1		5																1	1						3
	Hungary	19					4										1				1		1												4						8
	Georgia	51				2		3		5	10					1		10				1	4					3		6				5							1
	Azerbaijan	49	8	8			3			3													12							2				3								10
	Russia	303	7	7	8	8	10	12	8	10	12	10	10	10	7	10	10	12	8	6	12	10	8	10	8	6	5	6	6		6	6	8			10	3	5	2	10	12	5
	Albania	34	10			6										6										12
	Italy	292	6	12	2	12	12	1	12	7	8	8	7	5	6	8	6	6	6	8	3	8	7	12	10	7	8	2	8	1	7	7	12	12	10		6	12	5	12	3	8

12 points

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
12	Sweden	Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom
9	Italy	Albania, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain
5	Russia	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Germany
3	Belgium	France, Hungary, Netherlands
3	Latvia	Ireland, Lithuania, San Marino
2	Australia	Austria, Sweden
1	Albania	Macedonia
	Armenia	Georgia
	Azerbaijan	Czech Republic
	Montenegro	Serbia
	Romania	Moldova
	Serbia	Montenegro

Split 12p televoter selections in the grand final
N.	Contestant	National televoters giving 12 points^[60]
14	Italy	Albania, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain
6	Russia	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Israel, Latvia
3	Albania	Italy, Macedonia, Switzerland
3	Sweden	Australia, Denmark, Norway
2	Armenia	Czech Republic, Georgia
	Lithuania	Ireland, United Kingdom
	Serbia	Montenegro, Slovenia
1	Australia	Sweden
	Belgium	Netherlands
	Estonia	Finland
	Greece	Cyprus
	Latvia	Lithuania
	Montenegro	Serbia
	Romania	Moldova

Split 12p juries selections in the grand final
N.	Contestant	National group of juries giving 12 points^[60]
11	Sweden	Belarus, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Georgia, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, United Kingdom
8	Latvia	Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, San Marino, Slovenia
5	Russia	Australia, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Romania, Spain
4	Italy	Albania, Greece, Israel, Malta
3	Australia	Austria, Poland, Sweden
3	Norway	Italy, Portugal, Switzerland
1	Georgia	Armenia
	Hungary	Estonia
	Montenegro	Serbia
	Romania	Moldova

Other countries

For a country to be eligible for potential participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, it needs to be an active member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).^[61] The EBU issued an invitation of participation for the 2015 Contest to all 56 active members.^[61] Thirty-nine countries confirmed their participation,^[37] whilst the following list of countries declined stating their reasons as shown below.

Active EBU members

Andorra – On 17 June 2014, Andorran broadcaster Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra (RTVA) confirmed that Andorra would not return to the contest in 2015.^[62]

Bosnia and Herzegovina – The Bosnian broadcaster, Radio and Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BHRT), had submitted a provisional application to participate in the 2015 Contest,^[63] whilst they determined how to fund the participation fees.^[64] This application was subject to change and participation could subsequently be withdrawn.^[65] On 17 November 2014, the broadcaster announced that they had withdrawn their application to participate at the forthcoming contest because of financial reasons.^[66]

Bulgaria – Despite sending a preliminary application to participate,^[67] on 10 October 2014 the Bulgarian broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (BNT) announced that it would not return to the contest because of financial reasons.^[68] On 31 October 2014, BNT confirmed that they had not yet taken a final decision on participation at the 2015 contest, and that the EBU had given them extra time to resolve outstanding budget issues.^[69] However, on 18 December 2014, BNT confirmed via their official Eurovision Twitter account that they would not take part in the 2015 Contest.^[70]

Croatia – On 26 September 2014, Croatian national broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) confirmed that Croatia would not participate in the 2015 contest.^[71]

Lebanon – Télé Liban (TL) confirmed on 15 September 2014 that Lebanon would not be making their debut in Vienna.^[72] Lebanon were initially going to make their debut at the 2005 contest, but they pulled out prior to the contest.^[73]

Luxembourg – On 31 July 2014, RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg confirmed that Luxembourg would not be returning to the contest in 2015.^[74] However, it was reported on 26 October 2014 that the country's Minister of Culture, Maggy Nagel, expressed her desire for the country to return to the contest.^[75]^[76]^[77] This was later confirmed by Nagel to be a "misunderstanding" and that the country would not be returning.^[78] A collaboration with San Marino had been proposed by the broadcaster SMRTV and singer Thierry Mersch,^[79]^[80] but later SMRTV clarified that there have only been talks between the two countries and the broadcaster is evaluating other proposals.^[81] However, on 24 November 2014, it was announced that Mersch had failed to raise the necessary funds in time for the project to move forward.^[82]

Monaco – Monegasque broadcaster Télé Monte Carlo (TMC) confirmed on 20 June 2014 that Monaco would not return to the contest in 2015.^[83]

Morocco – Moroccan broadcaster Société Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision (SNRT) confirmed on 31 October 2014 that Morocco would not return to the contest in 2015.^[84]

Slovakia – On 26 August 2014, Radio and Television Slovakia (RTVS) announced that Slovakia would not return to the contest in 2015 because of financial restrictions and an incompatibility between the contest format and the programming goals of the broadcaster.^[85]

Turkey – Though the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) announced that Turkey would not be participating in the 2014 for the second year in a row, it was later reported that a return in the 2015 Contest could be possible with Eurovision event supervisor Sietse Bakker tweeting about the possibility of the country's return.^[86]^[87] In late August 2014, it was reported that international public relations officer for TRT, Yağmur Tüzün, stated that Turkey would not be returning to the contest in 2015 and that TRT currently has no plans to return to the competition.^[88]^[89] The non-participation was further confirmed on 5 September 2014.^[90]

Ukraine – On 19 September 2014, Ukrainian broadcaster National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU) announced that Ukraine would not be participating in the contest because of financial reasons and the ongoing armed conflict in the country.^[91]^[92] On 16 September 2015, it was announced that Ukraine would return to the contest in 2016.^[93]

Require active EBU membership

Liechtenstein – The Liechtenstein broadcaster 1FLTV suspended its plans to join the EBU because of lack of funding.^[94]

Incidents

Anti-booing technology

During the results, loud boos could be heard whenever Russia was mentioned or the country received one of the top three high points.^[95] The Russian entrant Polina Gagarina could be seen crying in the green room during the voting procedure, and this was reported by various media to have occurred as a result of the booing.^[96] 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."^[95] The Executive Supervisor of ESC, Jon Ola Sand, urged that Eurovision should be a "friendly battlefield....not a political battleground",^[97] and presenter Alice Tumler reminded the audience that "Our motto is 'Building Bridges', and music should stand over politics tonight...". 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.^[98]

Smoke machine malfunction

During the performance of Georgia in the grand final, a smoke machine malfunctioned, causing the Georgian entrant Nina Sublatti to disappear temporarily on the stage in a cloud of grey smoke.^[99]

Macedonia and Montenegro jury results excluded

The jury votes from Macedonia and Montenegro in the final were not included, in accordance to the rulebook of the ESC. The rules for voting indicate that votes must be 50% jurors, 50% televoting, but Macedonia's and Montenegro's voting was 100% televoting. The final result of the contest was not affected.^[100]^[101]

Other awards

The Marcel Bezençon Awards, the OGAE voting poll and the Barbara Dex Awards are awards that were contested by the entries competing at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, in addition to the main winner's trophy.

Marcel Bezençon Awards

The Marcel Bezençon Awards were first handed out during the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 in Tallinn, Estonia, honouring the best competing songs in the final. 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.^[102] The awards were divided into three categories: Press Award, Artistic Award, and Composer Award. The winners were revealed shortly before the final on 23 May.^[103]

Category	Country	Song	Performer(s)	Composer(s)
Artistic Award	Sweden	"Heroes"	Måns Zelmerlöw	Anton Malmberg Hård af Segerstad, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb
Composer Award	Norway	"A Monster Like Me"	Mørland & Debrah Scarlett	Kjetil Mørland
Press Award	Italy	"Grande amore"	Il Volo	Francesco Boccia, Ciro Esposito

OGAE

Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l'Eurovision (more commonly known as OGAE) is an international organisation that was founded in 1984 in Savonlinna, Finland by Jari-Pekka Koikkalainen.^[104] The organisation consists of a network of over 40 Eurovision Song Contest fan clubs across Europe and beyond, and is a non-governmental, non-political, and non-profit company.^[105] 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.^[106] The table below shows the top five overall results, after votes from forty-one OGAE clubs had been cast.^[107]

Country	Performer(s)	Song	OGAE result^[107]
Italy	Il Volo	"Grande amore"	367
Sweden	Måns Zelmerlöw	"Heroes"	338
Estonia	Elina Born & Stig Rästa	"Goodbye to Yesterday"	274
Norway	Mørland & Debrah Scarlett	"A Monster Like Me"	243
Slovenia	Maraaya	"Here for You"	228

Barbara Dex Award

The Barbara Dex Award, annually awarded by the fan website House of Eurovision from 1997 to 2016, and since 2017 by songfestival.be, is a humorous award given to the worst dressed artist each year in the contest. 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.^[108]

Place^[109]	Country^[109]	Performer(s)^[109]	Votes^[109]
1	Netherlands	Trijntje Oosterhuis	1,324
2	Serbia	Bojana Stamenov	605
3	United Kingdom	Electro Velvet	397
4	Albania	Elhaida Dani	263
5	Romania	Voltaj	237

International broadcasts and voting

It was reported by the EBU that the 2015 Contest was viewed by a worldwide television audience of a record breaking 197 million viewers,^[110] beating the 2014 record which was viewed by 195 million.^[111]

Voting and spokespersons

The voting order was revealed the morning of the final, and for the only time in Eurovision history to date, the names of all the spokespersons were displayed onscreen. However, because of technical problems in some countries the final voting order was the following:^[112]

Montenegro – Andrea Demirović (Montenegrin representative in the 2009 Contest)

Malta – Julie Zahra (Maltese representative in the 2004 Contest along with Ludwig Galea)

Finland – Krista Siegfrids (Finnish representative in the 2013 Contest)

Greece – Helena Paparizou (Greek representative in the 2001 Contest as part of Antique, winner of the 2005 Contest)

Romania – Sonia Argint Ionescu

Belarus – Teo (Belarusian representative in the 2014 Contest)

Albania – Andri Xhahu

Moldova – Olivia Furtună

Azerbaijan – Tural Asadov

Latvia – Markus Riva

Serbia – Maja Nikolić

Denmark – Basim (Danish representative in the 2014 Contest)

Switzerland – Laetitia Guarino

Belgium – Walid

France – Virginie Guilhaume

Armenia – Lilit Muradyan

Ireland – Nicky Byrne (Irish representative in the 2016 Contest)

Sweden – Mariette Hansson

Germany – Barbara Schöneberger

Australia – Lee Lin Chin

Czech Republic – Daniela Písařovicová

Spain – Lara Siscar

Austria – Kati Bellowitsch

Macedonia – Marko Mark

Slovenia – Tinkara Kovač (Slovene representative in the 2014 Contest)

Hungary – Csilla Tatár

United Kingdom – Nigella Lawson

Lithuania – Ugnė Galadauskaitė

Netherlands – Edsilia Rombley (Dutch representative in the 1998 and 2007 Contests)

Poland – Ola Ciupa

Israel – Ofer Nachshon

Russia – Dmitry Shepelev (Green room host of the 2009 Contest)

San Marino – Valentina Monetta (Sammarinese representative in the 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2017 Contests)

Italy – Federico Russo

Iceland – Sigríður Halldórsdóttir

Cyprus – Loukas Hamatsos

Norway – Margrethe Røed

Portugal – Suzy (Portuguese representative in the 2014 Contest)¹

Estonia – Tanja (Estonian representative in the 2014 Contest)¹

Georgia – Natia Bunturi¹

Notes

1.^ Portugal, Estonia and Georgia were originally scheduled to announce their votes as the 5th, 13th and 30th countries, respectively, but instead voted 38th, 39th and 40th, respectively, after all the other countries announced their votes. The reason for this was technical difficulties in the minutes running up to the voting presentation.^[112]

Commentators

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.

Albania – Andri Xhahu (RTSH, all shows)^{[citation needed]}

Armenia – Aram Mp3 and Erik Antaranyan (AMPTV, first semi-final); Vahe Khanamiryan and Hermine Stepanyan (AMPTV, second semi-final); Avet Barseghyan and Arevik Udumyan (AMPTV, final)^{[citation needed]}

Australia – Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang (SBS One, all shows)^[113]

Austria – Andi Knoll (ORF eins, all shows)

Azerbaijan – Kamran Guliyev (İTV and İTV Radio, all shows)^[114]

Belarus – Evgeny Perlin (Belarus-1 and Belarus-24, all shows)^[115]

Belgium – Dutch: Peter Van de Veire and Eva Daeleman (één and Radio 2, all shows);^[116]French: Jean-Louis Lahaye and Maureen Louys (La Une, all shows);^[117] Olivier Gilain (VivaCité, final)^[118]

Cyprus – Melina Karageorgiou (RIK 1, RIK SAT, RIK HD and Trito Programma, all shows)^[119]

Czech Republic – Aleš Háma (ČT art, semi-finals; ČT1, final)^[120]

Denmark – Ole Tøpholm (DR1, all shows);^[121] Sign language performers (DR Ramasjang, all shows)^[122]

Estonia – Marko Reikop (ETV, all shows); Mart Juur and Andrus Kivirähk (Raadio 2, first semi-final and final)^[123]

Finland – Finnish: Aino Töllinen and Cristal Snow (Yle TV2 and Yle Radio Suomi, all shows), Swedish: Eva Frantz and Johan Lindroos (Yle TV2 and Yle Radio Vega, all shows)^[124]

France – Mareva Galanter and Jérémy Parayre (France Ô, first semi-final);^[125]Stéphane Bern and Marianne James (France 2, final)^[126]

Georgia – Lado Tatishvili and Tamuna Museridze (GPB First Channel, all shows)^[127]^[128]

Germany – Peter Urban (EinsFestival and Phoenix, semi-finals; Das Erste, final); Sign language performers (EinsPlus, all shows)^[129]^[130]

Greece – Maria Kozakou and Giorgos Kapoutzidis (NERIT1, NERIT HD and Second Programme, all shows)^[131]

Hungary – Gábor Gundel Takács (Duna, all shows)^[132]^[133]

Iceland – Felix Bergsson (RÚV and Rás 2, all shows)^[134]

Ireland – Marty Whelan (RTÉ2, semi-finals; RTÉ One, final); Shay Byrne and Zbyszek Zalinski (RTÉ Radio 1, second semi-final and final)^[135]^[136]

Israel – Hebrew/Arabic subtitles (Channel 1 and Channel 33, all shows); Kobi Menora (88 FM, all shows); Yuval Caspin (88 FM, first semi-final); Tal Argaman (88 FM, second semi-final)^[137]

Italy – Marco Ardemagni and Filippo Solibello (Rai 4, first semi-final (delayed) and second semi-final (live); Rai Radio 2, all shows); Federico Russo and Valentina Correani (Rai 2, final)^[138]

Latvia – Valters Frīdenbergs (LTV1, all shows); Toms Grēviņš (LTV1, final)^[139]

Lithuania – Darius Užkuraitis (LRT and LRT Radijas, all shows)^{[citation needed]}

Macedonia – Macedonian: Karolina Petkovska (MRT 1, MRT Sat and Radio Skopje, all shows); Albanian: TBC (MRT 2 and MRT 2 Sat, all shows)^[140]

Malta – Corazon Mizzi (TVM, all shows)^{[citation needed]}

Moldova – Daniela Babici (Moldova 1, Radio Moldova Actualități, Radio Moldova Muzical and Radio Moldova Tineret, all shows)^[141]

Montenegro – Dražen Bauković and Tijana Mišković (TVCG 2, all shows)^[142]

Netherlands – Cornald Maas and Jan Smit (NPO 1, BVN and NPO Radio 2, all shows)^[143]^[144]

Norway – Olav Viksmo-Slettan (NRK1, all shows);^[145] Ronny Brede Aase, Silje Reiten Nordnes and Markus Ekrem Neby (NRK3, final);^[146]Per Sundnes (NRK P1, final);^[147] Sign language performers (NRK1 Tegnspråk, all shows)^{[citation needed]}

Poland – Artur Orzech (TVP1 and TVP Polonia (live), TVP Rozrywka and TVP HD (one day delay), all shows)^[148]^[149]

Portugal – Hélder Reis and Ramon Galarza (RTP1, RTP Internacional and RTP África, first semi-final (delayed), second semi-final and final (live))^[150]

Romania – Bogdan Stănescu (TVR1, TVRi and TVR HD, all shows)^[151]

Russia – Yana Churikova and Yuriy Aksyuta (Channel One Russia, all shows)^[152]

San Marino – Lia Fiorio and Gigi Restivo (SMtv San Marino and Radio San Marino, all shows)^[153]

Serbia – Duška Vučinić (RTS 1, RTS HD and RTS SAT, first semi-final and final); Silvana Grujić (RTS 2 and RTS SAT, second semi-final)^[154]^[155]^[156]

Slovenia – Andrej Hofer (RTV SLO2, semi-finals; RTV SLO1, final; Radio Val 202 and Radio Maribor, second semi-final and final)^[157]

Spain – José María Íñigo and Julia Varela (La 2, semi-finals; La 1 (live) and Clan (deferred), final)^[158]^[159]

Sweden – Sanna Nielsen and Edward af Sillén (SVT1, all shows);^[160]Carolina Norén and Ronnie Ritterland (SR P4, all shows)^[161]

Switzerland – German: Sven Epiney (SRF zwei, semi-finals; SRF 1, final); Peter Schneider and Gabriel Vetter (SRF 1 and Radio SRF 3, final); French: Jean-Marc Richard and Nicolas Tanner (RTS.ch (online), first semi-final; RTS Deux, second semi-final; RTS Un, final); Italian: Clarissa Tami and Paolo Meneguzzi (RSI La 2, second semi-final; RSI La 1, final)^[162]^[163]^[164]

United Kingdom – Scott Mills and Mel Giedroyc (BBC Three, semi-finals);^[165]Ana Matronic (BBC Radio 2 Eurovision, first semi-final (two-day delay), second semi-final (live));^[166]Graham Norton (BBC One, final); Ken Bruce (BBC Radio 2, final)^[167]

Non-participating countries

Bulgaria – Elena Rosberg and Georgi Kushvaliev (BNT 1 and BNT HD, final)^[168]

Canada – Tommy D. and Adam Rollins (OUTtv, all shows)^[169]

China – Kubert Leung and Wu Zhoutong (Hunan TV, all shows)^[170]

New Zealand – No commentary (BBC UKTV, all shows)^[171]

Slovakia – Daniel Baláž, Pavol Hubinák and Juraj Malíček (Radio FM, final)^[172]

Ukraine – Timur Miroshnychenko and Tetiana Terekhova (Pershyi, all shows)^[173]

Official album

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. The album features all 40 songs that entered in the 2015 contest, including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify into the grand final.^[174]

CD 1
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"I'm Alive" (Albania)	Elhaida Dani	3:00
2.	"Face the Shadow" (Armenia)	Genealogy	3:02
3.	"I Am Yours" (Austria)	The Makemakes	3:00
4.	"Tonight Again" (Australia)	Guy Sebastian	3:02
5.	"Hour of the Wolf" (Azerbaijan)	Elnur Hüseynov	2:59
6.	"Rhythm Inside" (Belgium)	Loïc Nottet	2:53
7.	"Time" (Belarus)	Uzari & Maimuna	3:03
8.	"Time to Shine" (Switzerland)	Mélanie René	3:02
9.	"One Thing I Should Have Done" (Cyprus)	John Karayiannis	3:03
10.	"Hope Never Dies" (Czech Republic)	Marta Jandová & Václav Noid Bárta	3:04
11.	"Black Smoke" (Germany)	Ann Sophie	3:12
12.	"The Way You Are" (Denmark)	Anti Social Media	3:05
13.	"Goodbye to Yesterday" (Estonia)	Elina Born & Stig Rästa	3:00
14.	"Amanecer" (Spain)	Edurne	3:04
15.	"Aina mun pitää" (Finland)	Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät	1:27
16.	"N'oubliez pas" (France)	Lisa Angell	3:00
17.	"Still in Love with You" (United Kingdom)	Electro Velvet	2:53
18.	"Warrior" (Georgia)	Nina Sublatti	3:01
19.	"One Last Breath" (Greece)	Maria Elena Kyriakou	2:56
20.	"Wars for Nothing" (Hungary)	Boggie	2:57
Total length:			58:43

CD 2
No.	Title	Artist	Length
1.	"Playing with Numbers" (Ireland)	Molly Sterling	3:05
2.	"Golden Boy" (Israel)	Nadav Guedj	3:00
3.	"Unbroken" (Iceland)	María Ólafs	3:04
4.	"Grande amore" (Italy)	Il Volo	3:01
5.	"This Time" (Lithuania)	Monika Linkytė & Vaidas Baumila	3:10
6.	"Love Injected" (Latvia)	Aminata	3:00
7.	"I Want Your Love" (Moldova)	Eduard Romanyuta	2:59
8.	"Adio" (Montenegro)	Knez	3:02
9.	"Autumn Leaves" (Macedonia)	Daniel Kajmakoski	3:02
10.	"Warrior" (Malta)	Amber	2:59
11.	"Walk Along" (Netherlands)	Trijntje Oosterhuis	3:03
12.	"A Monster Like Me" (Norway)	Mørland & Debrah Scarlett	3:04
13.	"In the Name of Love" (Poland)	Monika Kuszyńska	2:56
14.	"Há um mar que nos separa" (Portugal)	Leonor Andrade	3:00
15.	"De la capăt (All over Again)" (Romania)	Voltaj	3:00
16.	"Beauty Never Lies" (Serbia)	Bojana Stamenov	2:55
17.	"A Million Voices" (Russia)	Polina Gagarina	3:07
18.	"Heroes" (Sweden)	Måns Zelmerlöw	3:11
19.	"Here for You" (Slovenia)	Maraaya	2:58
20.	"Chain of Lights" (San Marino)	Michele Perniola & Anita Simoncini	3:01
Total length:			60:37

Charts and certifications

Chart (2015)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)^[175]	4
German Compilation Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[176]	2
UK Albums (OCC)^[177]	11

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External links

Official website

60 Years of Eurovision

See also:

ABU Radio Song Festival 2015

ABU TV Song Festival 2015

Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits

Eurovision Young Dancers 2015

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015

Türkvizyon Song Contest 2015

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Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Building Bridges

Dates
Semi-final 1	19 May 2015 (2015-05-19)
Semi-final 2	21 May 2015 (2015-05-21)
Final	23 May 2015 (2015-05-23)
Host
Venue	Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna, Austria
Presenter(s)	Mirjam Weichselbraun Alice Tumler Arabella Kiesbauer Conchita Wurst (green room)
Directed by	Kurt Pongratz
Executive supervisor	Jon Ola Sand
Executive producer	Edgar Böhm
Host broadcaster	Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)
Opening act	Semi-final 1: "Rise Like a Phoenix" performed by Conchita Wurst with Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Peter Pejtsik Final: "Building Bridges" by Mirjam, Alice, Arabella, Conchita Wurst, Left Boy and the choir of local children, with Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Peter Pejtsik
Interval act	Semi-final 1: Video: "Pets in Vienna" Semi-final 2: "Funny moments in the Eurovision voting history" Final: Martin Grubinger; "You Are Unstoppable" and "Firestorm" performed by Conchita Wurst
Participants
Number of entries	40
Debuting countries	Australia
Returning countries	Cyprus Czech Republic Serbia
Withdrawing countries	Ukraine
Participation map Participating countries Did not qualify from the semi final Countries that participated in the past but not in 2015
Vote
Voting system	Each country/jury awards 12, 10, 8–1 points to their top 10 songs.
Nul points	Austria Germany
Winning song	Sweden "Heroes"
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Eurovision Song Contest 2015

Contents

Location

Venue

Bidding phase

Inclusive traffic lights in Vienna

Format

Semi-final allocation draw

Running order

Graphic design

Presenters

National host broadcaster

Participants

Invitation of Australia

Returning artists

Semi-final 1

Semi-final 2

Final

Scoreboard

Semi-final 1

12 points

Semi-final 2

12 points

Final

12 points

Other countries

Active EBU members

Require active EBU membership

Incidents

Anti-booing technology

Smoke machine malfunction

Macedonia and Montenegro jury results excluded

Other awards

Marcel Bezençon Awards

OGAE

Barbara Dex Award

International broadcasts and voting

Voting and spokespersons

Commentators

Non-participating countries

Official album

Charts and certifications

References

External links

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