EuroMusic Song Contest 7

The EuroMusic Song Contest 7 was the seventh edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Ireland, that won the last edition, with the song Together. It was the second time in the history of the contest that a country hosted the contest twice. This time the RTÉ chose Millstreet.

After a very exiting voting, it was clear that Greece won the show with their song "One last breath". The United Kingdom ended for a second time in the second place, and The United States were able to finish for the first time in the top-3.

Location
Afther the Irish victory in the previous edition, the RTÉ announced that they will host the seventh edition. Because Ireland is the first country who won the contest twice, they will be the first nation who hosted the contest twice.

The Irish broadcaster and the EBU agreed that they only venues with a capacity of at least 6.000 seats would allowed this year.

Here you can see the cities and venues who where intrested to host the contest.

Host venue

The Irish broadcaster announced that Millstreet was choosen as host city. The RTÉ said that they choosed Millstreet, because Dublin got the opportunity in the fith edition to make publicity for their citty. Now Millstreet gets the chance to give a different view of them, and also for Ireland.

Format
The EBU announced that in this edition, there would come a limit of participating countries due the interests of a lot of countries. The EBU decided to allow 18 participating countries. The nations who already particpated in the previous edition got priority.

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.

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 got the highest point will rank higher.

Returning artists
The contest featured one representative who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same country.

Voting
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/241513/euromusic-song-contest-07--millstreet-ireland

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

Debuting countries

 * Austria.jpg Austria; the Austrian broadcaster, ORF, announced to début in the contest.

Withrawing countries

 * Italy.jpg Italy; due the disappointing results in the previous editions, the RAI decided to withraw from the competition.