EuroMusic Song Contest 5

The EuroMusic Song Contest 5 was the fifth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Ireland, that won the last edition, with the song Playing with numbers. It was the first time that Ireland hosted the contest. The contest took place in Dublin.

Sweden won this edition with the song:I can't go on. The received 136 points and that was enough to win yhe show. The United Kingdom became second and Greece ended in a third place.

Location
Afther the Irish victory in the previous edition, the RTÉ announced that they will host the fifth edition.

The Irish broadcaster announced that they chosed Dublin as host city. Later that week is was clear that the 3Arena would be the host venue.

Format
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.

Voting
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/228943/euromusic-song-contest-5--dublin

Debuting countries

 * Finland.jpg Finland - Due the good results of the other Scandinavian countries in the previous edition, the Yle decided to débuts in this edition.

Withrawing countries

 * United States.jpg United States - After their invitation to participate in this edition the NBC decided to continue their participation, however a couple of days before the start of the contest the American broadcaster announced that the USA would not be able to participate in the fifth edition of the contest.