Who performed at Eurovision this year. In the entire history of Eurovision, Russia has won only once
Eurovision Song Contest 2019 will be held from May 14 to 18, 2019 in Tel Aviv on the stage of the Israel Trade Fair and Exhibition Center. Representatives from 41 countries will perform in front of an audience of millions of Eurovision fans. Only one country, which scores the most points based on the results of voting by viewers and the jury, will become the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019.
Who will go to Eurovision 2019 from Russia?
This year Russia will be represented at the Eurovision Song Contest Sergey Lazarev with the song “Scream”.
You can watch the rehearsals of the performance here:
This is Sergei Lazarev’s second attempt to win Eurovision - in 2016 he took second place with the song “You are the only one”.
Lazarev's performance in the second semi-final:
Lazarev's performance in the Eurovision 2019 final:
Eurovision 2019 dates
The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 will be held in three stages: two semi-finals and a final. The first semi-final will take place on May 14 (Tuesday). The second semi-final is May 16 (Thursday). Eurovision 2019 final - May 18 (Saturday) at 22.00 Moscow time.
Eurovision 2019 watch online
Live broadcasts of the Eurovision semi-finals and finals can be watched for free at high quality uncensored on the official Eurovision channel on YouTube.
Watch the first semi-final of Eurovision 2019 online:
Watch the second semi-final of Eurovision 2019 online:
Eurovision 2019 final watch online:
All participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 and their songs
First semi-final 05/14/2019
Cyprus: Tamta "Replay"
Montenegro: D mol "Heaven"
Finland: Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman "Look away"
Poland: Tulia "Pali się"
Slovenia: Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl “Sebi”
Czech Republic: Lake Malawi "Friend of a Friend"
Hungary: Joci Pápai “Az én apám”
Belarus: ZENA “Like it”
Serbia: Nevena Božović “Kruna”
Belgium: Eliot "Wake up"
Georgia: Oto Nemsadze “Keep on going”
Australia: Kate Miller-Heidke "Zero gravity"
Iceland: Hatari "Hatrið mun sigra"
Estonia: Victor Crone "Storm"
Portugal: Conan Osiris "Telemoveis"
Greece: Katerina Duska “Better love”
San Marino: Serhat “Say Na Na Na”
Second semi-final 05/16/2019
Armenia: Srbuk “Walking out”
Ireland: Sarah McTernan "22"
Moldova: Anna Odobescu "Stay"
Switzerland: Luca Hänni “She got me”
Latvia: Carousel "That night"
Romania: Ester Peony “On a sunday”
Denmark: Leonora “Love is forever”
Sweden: John Lundvik “Too late for love”
Austria: PÆNDA “Limits”
Croatia: Roko "The dream"
Malta: Michela "Chameleon"
Lithuania: Jurij Veklenko “Run with lions”
Russia: Sergey Lazarev “Scream”
Albania: Jonida Maliqi “Ktheju tokës”
Norway: KEiiNO “Spirit in the sky”
Netherlands: Duncan Laurence "Arcade"
North Macedonia: Tamara Todevska "Proud"
Azerbaijan: Chingiz "Truth"
FINAL 05/18/2019 - results and who won
Malta: Michela “Chameleon” – 95
Albania: Jonida Maliqi “Ktheju tokës” – 90
Czech Republic: Lake Malawi “Friend of a Friend” – 157
Germany: S!sters “Sister” – 32
Russia: Sergey Lazarev “Scream” – 369
Denmark: Leonora “Love is forever” – 120
San Marino: Serhat “Say Na Na Na” – 81
North Macedonia: Tamara Todevska “Proud” – 295
Sweden: John Lundvik “Too late for love” – 332
Slovenia: Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl “Sebi” – 105
Cyprus: Tamta “Replay” – 101
Netherlands: Duncan Laurence "Arcade" - 492
Greece: Katerine Duska “Better love” – 71
Israel: Kobi Marimi "Home" - 47
Norway: KEiiNO “Spirit in the sky” – 338
United Kingdom: Michael Rice “Bigger than us” – 16
Iceland: Hatari “Hatrið mun sigra” – 234
Estonia: Victor Crone "Storm" - 86
Belarus: ZENA “Like it” – 31
Azerbaijan: Chingiz “Truth” – 297
France: Bilal Hassani “Roi” – 105
Italy: Mahmood “Soldi” – 465
Serbia: Nevena Božović “Kruna” – 92
Switzerland: Luca Hänni “She got me” – 360
Australia: Kate Miller-Heidke “Zero gravity” – 285
Spain: Miki “La Venda” – 60
Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Winner - Duncan Lawrence (Netherlands)
Channel One, which is responsible for representing Russia at Eurovision this year, announced the name of our artist who will perform at the competition in Kyiv. This is a singer from Ukhta, a 27-year-old girl with 1st group disability. Yulia Samoilova will perform in the Ukrainian capital with the song “Flame Is Burning,” written by Leonid Gutkin, Netta Nimrodi and Arie Burshtein. Kommersant music columnist Boris Barabanov found out the details.
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Television producers kept the suspense until the end. Channel One announced its decision on Sunday evening. On Monday, our application for Eurovision would simply not have been accepted, and the participation fee (according to Kommersant’s information, in the amount of €250 thousand) would not have been returned by the European Broadcasting Union. The debate over who will represent Russia at the song competition in Kyiv has flared up in recent weeks like a flame in a song competition. Filipp Kirkorov, who has no relation to any of the contestants this year, and people's deputies Kobzon and Milonov added fuel to the fire. All these notable gentlemen, in one way or another, spoke out in favor of a boycott of Eurovision by Russia. Top managers of Channel One did not give any comments, and the singers, whose names were rumored to be first on the list of candidates, denied their participation. The closer the deadline got, the more passions ran high.
The leaders of Channel One do not look like people who can just throw away a substantial sum of euros, so most observers made forecasts, or rather put forward theories about what a Russian participant should be like in order to minimize various risks. This, of course, should not have been a person from the Ukrainian blacklists; moreover, this character should have qualities that could serve as protection from any provocation or physical aggression. “Kommersant” suggested that such a character could be Hieromonk Photius, the winner of the 4th season Russian show"Voice". But Channel One made an even more radical decision. The likelihood of provocations against the singer with disabilities extremely small.
In addition, before making its decision public, intentionally or not, Channel One thoroughly “softened” public opinion within the country with the help of the “Minute of Fame” show. The scandal that erupted the other day around the participation in the program of a dancer with disabilities Evgeniy Smirnov, with subsequent comments and then apologies from jury members Vladimir Pozner and Renata Litvinova, demonstrated that we can or good, or not at all. And now let only someone try to speak critically about the song or voice of Yulia Samoilova.
It is worth noting that Yulia Samoilova is by no means a newcomer to the stage. She was a finalist in the musical television project “Factor A” (2nd place, 2013, channel “Russia 1”) and received Alla Pugacheva’s personal award “ Gold star Alla", and also sang at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi. This is not her first time competing. And she is not the first singer in Eurovision history to perform on stage in wheelchair. Something else is confusing. The combination of the political context and the quality of the song is confusing.
We decided to send an artist with disabilities to Eurovision right now, in 2017, when he can serve as a human shield in the situation of difficult relations with Ukraine. Previously, the intrigue with the Russian participant was always on a different plane. In past years, they wondered whether “Kirkorovsky”, “Fadeevsky”, “Pervokanalny” - something like that would go. And then they suddenly decided to show that talented artists can be different, talent lives where it wants. Better this than nothing, of course.
As for the “anthem,” the song “Flame Is Burning” belongs to the authorship of the Russian composer Leonid Gutkin, who prepared numbers for Dina Garipova (2013) and Polina Gagarina (2015). He composed these songs together with Swedish authors. Now, apparently guided by the motto “Stop feeding Sweden,” the composer offered Channel One a song created together with Israelis living in Berlin, their names are Netta Nimrodi and Arie Burshtein. According to Mr. Gutkin, Mr. Gutkin and his colleagues composed the song “Flame Is Burning” last year, long before the selection of the song for Eurovision entered the decisive stage. Leonid Gutkin found out who exactly will perform the song at Eurovision three days ago. Netta Nimrodi and Arie Burshtein have their own pop project Amber Revival. They collaborate with the German publishing company IMAGEM/Steam, whose clients also include, for example, Daft Punk and Mark Ronson.
“Flame Is Burning” is a song that, obviously, would not raise questions on someone's album as a so-called filler, that is, if it simply filled out the medium without pretending to be a hit single. The Kommersant columnist tried to imagine his emotions if he heard this song for the first time without video accompaniment. Most likely, he would rate the chances of the Russian participant to advance with her from the semifinals to the finals as very low. But now we have to worry and worry about a girl who already has a hard time in life, and now we need to represent our country with such a song at such a time. You won't envy anyone in this story.
Alas, there will be no participant from Russia at the Eurovision 2017 contest this year. And Channel One will not broadcast the show. The Security Service of Ukraine banned the entry of singer Yulia Samoilova, who was supposed to represent our country at the competition, for three years. All because of performances in Crimea, which Kyiv still considers its territory.
In the entire history of the competition, there has never been a case where any country was not allowed to participate in the competition. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) invited Russia to broadcast the singer's performance via satellite or change the contestant, to which Moscow refused. Well, since we won’t be able to root for a contestant from our country, we decided to remember who represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest in its entire history.
The debut year for Russia at Eurovision was 1994. Singer Masha Katz, also known under the pseudonym Judith, received the honor of becoming the first participant in the competition to represent our country. In Irish Dublin, she performed the song “Eternal Wanderer” and took 9th place.
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The following year, 1995, at Eurovision, which again took place in Dublin, Russia was represented by the popular pop singer Philip Kirkorov. With the song "Lullaby for a Volcano" he took 17th place.
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In 1996, singer and composer Andrei Kosinsky was supposed to participate in the competition, but his song “I am I” did not pass the additional qualifying round.
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In 1997, the country was represented by Alla Pugacheva. Having performed the song “Primadonna”, she took 15th place. Initially, Valery Meladze was supposed to perform it, but he fell ill.
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The next time Russia participated in the competition was only in 2000. A young singer from Tatarstan, Alsu, who at that time was not yet 17 years old, participated in Eurovision from our country. Alsou was waiting for triumph - her song “Solo” took 2nd place in the competition.
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In 2001, the Russian rock band Mumiy Troll went to Eurovision with the song “Lady Alpine Blue”. She took 12th place in the competition.
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In 2002, the Russian pop group “Prime Minister” performed at the song competition. Having performed the song “Northern Girl” (“Girl from the North”), the quartet became tenth.
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The 2003 Eurovision Song Contest featured the popular group “t.A.T.u.”, both in Russia and abroad. At a competition in Latvia, the group performed the song “Don’t believe, don’t be afraid, don’t ask” and took 3rd place.
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In 2004, Yulia Savicheva, a graduate of the TV project “Star Factory-2”, went to the most popular music competition in Europe. Her song "Believe Me" took 11th place.
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Another participant of the “Star Factory”, singer Natalya Podolskaya, represented Russia at Eurovision in 2005. With the song "Nobody Hurt No One" she became 15th.
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In 2006, Eurovision participant from Russia Dima Bilan needed very little to win the famous competition. Having performed the song “Never Let You Go” (“I will never let you go”), he became second. That year, Europeans liked the costumed rock band Lordi from Finland more.
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In 2007, the then little-known group “Serebro” (SEREBRO) set out to defend the honor of Russia, which performed quite successfully with the song “Song No. 1” (Song No. 1) - it came third.
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In 2008, Dima Bilan went to Eurovision again and this time he returned home triumphant. His song “Believe” (“Believe”) took 1st place - Russia won the competition for the first time. Bilan did not perform alone on stage; figure skater Evgeni Plushenko and Hungarian violinist and composer Edwin Marton took part in the performance.
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In 2009, Eurovision was held in Moscow for the first time. Russia was represented at the competition by another graduate of the “Star Factory” - singer Anastasia Prikhodko. She performed the song “Mamo” in Russian and Ukrainian and ended up in 11th place.
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In 2010, the musical group of singer Peter Nalich passed the national qualifying round. Nalich went to Eurovision with the song “Lost and Forgotten” and took 11th place.
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In 2011, singer Alexey Vorobyov participated in Eurovision from Russia with the song “Get You”. Vorobyov's participation in the competition was accompanied by a number of scandalous incidents; in the end, his performance was far from successful, taking 16th place.
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In 2012, the group “Buranovskie Babushki” went to Eurovision. Singing grandmothers in national costumes were considered favorites even before the start of the competition. They made a huge impression on the audience and took second place with the song “Party for Everybody”.
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In 2013, Russia was represented by singer Dina Garipova, winner of the TV show “The Voice” on Channel One. Dina Garipova performed the song “What If” (“What if…”) and took fifth place.
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Russian twin sisters Tolmachev became winners in 2006 children's competition Eurovision with the song “Spring Jazz”, but in the “adult” competition in 2014 with the song “Shine” they could only take seventh place. Moreover, during the first semi-final of the Eurovision 2014 song contest, the audience generally booed the news that Russia had reached the final.
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In 2015, Russia international competition The pop song was presented by vocalist Polina Gagarina, who already had a victory on the popular television show “Star Factory-2” under her belt. The singer performed with the song “A Million Voices” and took an honorable second place. Given the difficult political context, things could have turned out much worse for Russia, which is why many called its silver a real victory.
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33-year-old Russian singer and actor Sergei Lazarev went to the Eurovision final in 2016. With the song “You are the only one” he took 3rd place.
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In 2017, Yulia Samoilova was supposed to perform. But, alas, this year she will definitely not represent our country.
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- As of the beginning of 2017, the Security Service of Ukraine banned 140 people from entering the country Russian figures crops that, in the opinion of the department, threaten the national security of the country. Among them are actor Mikhail Boyarsky, singers Oleg Gazmanov and Joseph Kobzon.
- Ukraine received the right to host Eurovision 2017 after singer Jamala won in Stockholm in 2016 with the song “1944”. This year the competition will take place in Kyiv. The dates of the semi-finals are May 9 and May 11, the final will be held on May 13.
Russia made its debut on the stage of the annual international Eurovision Song Contest in 1994. Then Judith (Maria Katz) with the song “Eternal Wanderer” took ninth place. In 1996 and 1998-1999, Russia did not participate in various reasons. In 1996, performer Andrei Kosinsky was supposed to go to the competition in Oslo (Norway) with the song “I am I,” but could not pass the qualifying round. In 1998, Russia was not allowed to participate due to a low average score in previous years' participation. This is why Russia refused to broadcast in 1998, which violated the rules of the competition, and the country was unable to participate in 1999.
Since 2000, Russian participants perform at Eurovision every year. Russia won Eurovision once - in 2008, when Dima Bilan performed with the song "Believe". As of 2016, Russia took part in the competition for the 20th time and has qualified for the final each time since 2004.
Undoubtedly, the best performances at the competition can be considered the performances in 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2015, when Russia was represented by Alsou, Dima Bilan, “Buranovskie Babushki” and Polina Gagarina. All of them took second place in the competition. Third places were brought to the country by the Tatu group in 2003, the Serebro group in 2007 and Sergey Lazarev in 2016.
"Let Russia rest"
"These are the rules of Ukraine. Let Russia rest for one year, and Samoilova can take part in next year", Georgian singer Tamara Gachechiladze commented in Kyiv on the story with the Russian Eurovision participant Yulia Samoilova.
And Samoilova’s story is this: she was supposed to represent Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest with the love song “Flame Is Burning”. However, the Security Service of Ukraine banned the artist from entering the country for three years because of her performance in Crimea. The European Broadcasting Union tried to rectify the situation and offered Russia to broadcast the competition via satellite, or change the contestant altogether. But Channel One, responsible for selecting the participant from Russia, called both options unacceptable. And in the current situation, they did not consider it possible to broadcast the competition.
Yulia Samoilova was born in 1989 in the city of Ukhta (Komi Republic Russian Federation). A singer, composer, author of lyrics to songs, she has repeatedly won and become a laureate of many music competitions and festivals both in her native Russia and abroad. She has won bronze on the vocal television project "Factor A" (2013, channel "Russia 1"), the "Alla's Golden Star" award (Alla Pugacheva Award), as well as participation in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi.
Yulia has been moving around since childhood. wheelchair and has 1st disability group. Yulia was brought into the world of music by her mother. Despite her peculiarity, the girl is accustomed to soberly assessing the steps and path to the musical Olympus, therefore she does not accept pity addressed to her and tries to live a full life.
According to the Russian broadcaster, Yulia Samoilova will take part in the 2018 competition regardless of the location of the competition in the event that she is not allowed to enter the territory of Ukraine.
Nadezhda na Kostova
Nevertheless, there is one Muscovite boy at the Eurovision contest, albeit of Bulgarian origin. His name is Christian Kostov, and he plays for Bulgaria. Kostov - finalist of the first season Russian project"The Voice. Children", as well as the winner of second place in the fourth season of the Bulgarian vocal project "X Factor".
Christian was born in 2000 in Moscow. His mother Zaura is Kazakh, his father Konstantin Kostov is Bulgarian. Boy sings with early childhood, was a soloist of the famous children's ensemble "Fidgets" and participated with this group in numerous musical concerts in Russia and abroad. In 2009, Fidgets had the honor of opening Eurovision in Moscow.
In 2011, Christian Kostov won the Grand Prix at the international children's competition "Sound Kids", after which Christian was accepted as a resident of the Jazz Parking production center. The experience of live performances with the Jazz Parking Band under the direction of Alexey Batychenko played an important role in the development of the young singer.
In 2012, Christian represented Bulgaria at the Children's New Wave 2012, where he took seventh place. And in October of the same year, the boy was invited to become a member of a new children's television project“School of Music” by Lina Arifulina, where he performed with popular artists, including Batyrkhan Shukenov, and took third place.
At the age of thirteen, namely in the fall of 2013, Christian successfully passes the casting (blind auditions) of the first season of the Russian television project “The Voice. Children” and becomes a finalist of the project. In 2015, at the age of 15, Christian Kostov entered the fourth season of the talent show "The X Factor Bulgaria", where he not only became the youngest participant of the season, but also took second place in the final.
In October 2016, Christian Kostov released his debut single with the song “Ne si za men” (“Not for me”), which for two weeks was in first place in the national hit parade of Bulgarian songs most often heard on radio and television. Later, on January 13, 2017, the English version of this song "You Got Me Girl" was released.
The fact that Christian Kostov will represent Bulgaria at the adult Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv became officially known in March 2017. And here Christian will be the youngest participant in the competition this year. It is noteworthy that in the winter of 2017, Christian Kostov was accepted into Berkeley, where, due to graduating from high school and participating in Eurovision 2017, he will begin his studies only in 2018.
Christian Kostov has a very high chances to win Eurovision. Despite the fact that the bookmakers unanimously predict the first place for the Italian singer Francesco Gabbani, and Kostov for the second, Christian is really hot on the heels of the Italian. And Eurovision, as you know, is an unexpected competition. And on the stage of the competition Kostov will perform a suitable song “Beautiful Mess” - “Beautiful Confusion”. So let's see!
The 62nd Eurovision music competition starts in Kyiv on Tuesday, May 9. In Ukraine, the show is held thanks to the singer Jamala, who won last year in Stockholm with the song “1944”. Traditionally, the competition consists of three concerts: two semi-finals and a final, in which on May 13 the winners of the semi-finals and representatives of the “Big Five” countries - the founders of the competition (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain) and the host country Ukraine will take part.
Russia's representative at Eurovision will compete with artists from other countries in the second semi-final of the competition on May 11. This became known after the announcement of the results of the official draw in Kyiv. For our country, participation in the second, and not the first, semi-final is a unique case in history music competition. For the first time, we will be next to our only “ally” in the semi-finals - Belarus, which always supports us with points. Among other countries that are loyal to our country and vote for it - almost no one. And at the same time - maximum quantity“unfriendly”, year after year giving Russia in the competition minimum scores: Lithuania, Estonia, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway. By the way, our country had the chance to compete in the first (according to European experts, the least successful - approx.) part of the semi-final. It is believed that the artists performing towards the end have the greatest chance of making it out of their semi-finals, since before voting the audience remembers them, and not those who sang at the start of the show. How could such a draw turn out for Russia?
First of all, there is a risk of not getting out of the Eurovision semi-finals and not getting into the final.
Last year, our country was guaranteed to reach the final precisely thanks to a strong artist and a powerful hit, which received points from a lot of countries that had not yet been noticed in active sympathy for Russia. Sergei Lazarev's song You are the only one became the absolute leader in the voting among European television viewers. If the composition or performer had been weaker, we would have simply been “crushed” by voting on geopolitical grounds. What needs to hit Eurovision this year in order to defeat politics and become the favorites is a question that Channel One, which is responsible for preparing the participant from Russia this year, still has to puzzle over.
Among the candidate candidates being discussed so far, the 32-year-old “The Voice” star is called the most likely candidate for the trip to Kyiv. Panayotov is included in the so-called short list of Channel One, along with singers Nyusha, Elena Temnikova, the female group “Turetsky Soprano” and, perhaps, the most risky option today -. Channel One conducted the experiment of sending the winner of a project to search for young talent to the competition for the first time in 2013 at Eurovision - 17-year-old Dina Garipova then went to Sweden to defend the honor of the country. The result - fifth place with the ballad What if did not inspire the Russian organizing committee to repeat the experiment. The next time, the First threw “heavy artillery” into battle in the person of Polina Gagarina - and in 2015 in Vienna she came closest to victory, taking second place. But with her voice and charisma, Antonyuk is the same now - never the “modest schoolgirl” Dina Garipova. The only question is time, which may not be enough to prepare the young artist for performances on the big European stage.
Let us remind you how to “beat” Europe at Eurovision will be decided in Russia, as before, in a closed discussion mode within the bowels of the organizing committee - from the principle of “popular voting” Russian television broadcasters - both the Rossiya channel and the First - in recent years decided to refuse. The name of the delegate on whose shoulders the responsibility will once again fall to defend the honor of Russia on Channel One is promised to be announced by March 10.
