EuroMusic Song Contest 32

The EuroMusic Song Contest 32 was the thirty second edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Sweden, that won the previous edition, with the song Voices. This was the fourth time that Sweden hosted this contest. Gothenburg was selected to host this edition.

Destiny from Malta won this edition with her song "Je me casse". It was the second victory for this Maltese singer. This makes her the first artist to win the contest multiple times. Her previous victory was in the fifteenth edition. Israel surprisingly finished in second place. Denmark, who won the semi final, finished at the third place.

Location
Straight after the Swedish victory in the previous edition, SVT announced that they would host this edition. The city and venue were decided through a selection.

Here are the cities and venues who where intrested to host the contest.

Host venue Shortlisted

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/475671/euromusic-song-contest-32-grand-final---gothenburg

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

Returning countries

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 * Turkey.jpg Turkey

Withdrawing countries

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