EuroMusic Song Contest 35

The EuroMusic Song Contest 35 was the thirty fifth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Ukraine, that won the previous edition, with the song Call for love. This was the first time that Ukraine hosted this contest. Lviv was selected to host this edition.

Norway won this edition with the song "Fallen angel" performed by Tix. It was the first time that the country won the contest. Poland was able to reach the second place, for the first time. Armenia, a returning country, finished at the third place. In the top ten, only three automaticcaly qualified countries were able to finish here. It was the first edition where the Turkey changed to Türkiye. The country its broadcaster asked the EBU to change their name, what they eventually did.

Twenty nine countries participated in this edition. One country less than in the previous edition. Armenia and Estonia decided to return a long absence. Israel and Moldova didn't select an entry for this edition. The Russian broadcaster was excluded from participating in future editions by the EBU due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Location
Straight after the Ukrainian victory in the previous edition, the national broadcaster announced that they were planning to host this edition. At the official press conference after their victory, they said to be proud that the EuroMusic was comming to Ukraine. However of the war in the country, it was difficult to find a way to let Ukraine organize the contest.

Both the EBU and the Ukrainian broadcaster tried to find a solution for this problem. Kiev was the broadcaster's favorite city, but that entailed too many risks according to the EBU. Next, they looked at Lviv, a city in the west of the country, close to the Polish border. In addition, it was decided to choose a small venue for security reasons. The "Lviv National Opera" was announced as the host venue. It was the smallest venue where the competition was held.

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/555065/euromusic-song-contest-35---lviv---grand-final

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

Returning countries

 * Armenia.jpg Armenia
 * Estonia.jpg Estonia

Withdrawing countries

 * Israel.jpg Israel - The country decided to withdraw because the broadcaster wanted to focus more on national singing competitions.
 * Moldova.jpg Moldova - Due some financial problems, the national broadcaster was forced to withdraw.
 * Russia.jpg Russia - The country was excluded from participating in future editions by the EBU due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.