EuroMusic Song Contest 30

The EuroMusic Song Contest 30 was the thirtieth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Iceland, that won the previous edition, with the song Mama said. This was the first time that Iceland hosted this contest. Reykjavík was announced as host city.

Finland won the contest for the very first time. The United Kingdom finished at the second place. Ukraine finished at the third place.

Location
Straight after the Icelandic victory in the previous edition, RÚV announced that they would host this edition. They said to choose a host venue, through a selection. As expected, the Icelandic captital city, Reykjavík, was announced as city. Later on, it was clear that the edition would be hosted in Laugardalshöll. The venue has a capacity of 11.000 people.

Number of participants
Since the seventh edition the EBU announced to put a maximum at the number of participants. In the seventh and eighth edition, eighteen countries were able to participate.

Because the introduction of the semi finals, there is no maximum of participating countries. However, since the seventeenth edition the EBU announced that they would put a new maximum of countries. This meant that 41 countries were able to sign for a participation. This means that each semi final would have 20 countries, plus the host nation (who qualify automatically). Until now, they never reached this limit. Because of the limited number of participants, there was no semi final.

Since the 27th edition, the last three countries have to withdraw from the competition. This is to give other countries the possibility to return to the contest because of the limited spots.

Running order
There are specific rules about how a country gets his running order.

The host country will have a random number. The rest of the countries will be split in to groups (first- and second half). This will happen fully random. Later on, a team will create a running order to make the show as interesting as possible.

Song
Each country sends one song to the contest. There are no rules about the language of the song, but the song can't be longer than five minutes.

Voting rules
After that all the participating countries have sang their song, each single country awards a set of points. The country who gets the most amount of points wins the contest. If two or more countries receive the same number of points, the country that received from the most countries points, will be ranked higher. If that is also the same, then the country who have the highest rank of a country, will be ranked higher.

Returning artists
The contest featured eight representatives who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same or for another country.

Scoreboard
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/374612/euromusic-song-contest-30---reykjavk

12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

Returning countries

 * Croatia.jpg Croatia
 * Denmark.jpg Denmark
 * Moldova.jpg Moldova

Withdrawing countries

 * Belgium.jpg Belgium - Because they finished at one of the last three possitions in the previous contest, they had to withdraw. Until now, Belgium took part in every edition.
 * Malta.jpg Malta - Because they finished at one of the last three possitions in the previous contest, they had to withdraw.
 * San Marino.jpg San Marino - Because they finished at one of the last three possitions in the previous contest, they had to withdraw.