EuroMusic Song Contest 34

The EuroMusic Song Contest 34 was the thirty fourth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Ireland, that won the previous edition, with the song Maps. This was the third time that Ireland hosted this contest. Dublin was selected to host this edition.

Ukraine was proclaimed as the winner of this edition. Khayat recieved 178 points, only two more than the runner up: Greece. Germany completed the top three.

Thirty countries participated in this edition. One country more than in the previous editoin, cause of Serbia's return. This was the first edition since the 31st edition that there were no withdrawing countries. Beside of that, it was the highest number of participaing countries since the 23rd edition. The United States were invited by the Irish boradcaster, but did not elaborate on this proposal.

Location
Straight after the Irish victory in the previous edition, RTÉ announced that they were planning to host this edition. At the official press conference after their victory, the Irish broadcaster said to be proud that the EuroMusic was again comming to Ireland. They directly announced that they selected the 3Arena as venue, in Dublin. This venue has a capacity of 13.000 seats and already hosted the fifth edition.

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.

From the 27th edition unitil the 30th 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. Since the 31st edition there is one semi-final, with a maximum of 20 countries.

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 one representative who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same country.

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

Grand Final
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/541285/euromusic-song-contest-34---grand-final

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

Returning countries

 * Serbia.jpg Serbia - The Serbian broadcaster announced that they would return to the contest. Their previous participating was in the 24th edition in Poland.