Eurovision Song Contest 2004 participants | Eurovision Song Contest News - 2008 Belgrade, Serbia 

The 2004 Eurovision Song Contest was the first contest that lasted two nights. The EBU decided to change the showformat this way so every interrested country could participate. On wednesday 24 countri.. More..

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Date of the Eurovision Song Contest final: 15 May 2004
Date of the Eurovision Song Contest qualifier round: 12 May 2004
Location: Abdi Ipkeçi Arena, Istanbul
Broadcaster: TRT
Host(s): Meltem Cumbul & Korhan Abay
Participating countries: 36
Voting: Each country allocated 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point to the top 10 of the national jury in descending order (both in the qualificationround and in the final).

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Eurovision Song Contest final

		country	participant(s)	song	pts	rnk
	10	Ukraine	Ruslana	Wild dances	280	1
	5	Serbia & Montenegro	Željko Joksimoviæ	Lane moje	263	2
	16	Greece	Sakis Rouvas	Shake it	252	3
	22	Turkey	Athena	For real	195	4
	21	Cyprus	Lisa Andreas	Stronger every minute	170	5
	24	Sweden	Lena Philipsson	It hurts (Det gör ont)	170	6
	9	Albania	Anjeza Shahini	The image of you	106	7
	8	Germany	Max (Maximilian Mutzke)	Can't wait until tonight	93	8
	12	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Deen	In the Disco	91	9
	1	Spain	Ramón	Para llenarme de ti	87	10
	14	Russia	Julia Savicheva	Believe me	67	11
	6	Malta	Julie & Ludwig	On again...off again	50	12
	11	Croatia	Ivan Mikulic	You are the only one	50	13
	15	FYR Macedonia	Tose Proeski	Life	47	14
	4	France	Jonatan Cerrada	A chaque pas	40	15
	20	United Kingdom	James Fox	Hold on to our love	29	16
	19	Poland	Blue Cafe	Love Song	27	17
	23	Romania	Sanda Ladosi	I admit	18	18
	17	Iceland	Jónsi	Heaven	16	19
	7	The Netherlands	Re-union	Without you	11	20
	2	Austria	Tie Break	Du bist	9	21
	13	Belgium	Xandee	1 Life	7	22
	18	Ireland	Chris Doran	If my world stopped turning	7	23
	3	Norway	Knut Anders Sørum	High	3	24

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Eurovision Song Contest qualifier round

		country	participant(s)	song	pts	rnk
	20	Serbia & Montenegro	Željko Joksimoviæ	Lane moje	263	1
	11	Ukraine	Ruslana	Wild dances	256	2
	10	Greece	Sakis Rouvas	Shake it	238	3
	13	Albania	Anjeza Shahini	The image of you	167	4
	14	Cyprus	Lisa Andreas	Stronger every minute	149	5
	22	The Netherlands	Re-union	Without you	146	6
	21	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Deen	In the Disco	133	7
	8	Malta	Julie & Ludwig	On again...off again	74	8
	18	Croatia	Ivan Mikulic	You are the only one	72	9
	15	FYR Macedonia	Tose Proeski	Life	71	10
	5	Israel	David D'or	Le'ha'amin	57	11
	17	Estonia	Neiokõsõ	Tii	57	12
	19	Denmark	Tomas Thordarson	Shame on you	56	13
	1	Finland	Jari Sillanpää	Takes 2 to tango	51	14
	7	Portugal	Sofia	Foi Magia	38	15
	12	Lithuania	Linas ir Simona	What's happened to your love	26	16
	4	Latvia	Fomins & Kleins	Dziesma par laimi	23	17
	6	Andorra	Marta Roure	Jugarem a estimar-nos	12	18
	2	Belarus	Aleksandra & Konstantin	My Galileo	10	19
	9	Monaco	Maryon	Notre planète	10	20
	16	Slovenia	Platin	Stay forever	5	21
	3	Switzerland	Piero Esteriore & the MusicStars	Celebrate	0	22

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The 2004 Eurovision Song Contest was the first contest that lasted two nights. The EBU decided to change the showformat this way so every interrested country could participate. On wednesday 24 countries competed for 10 spots in the final for which 14 countries (the big four and the top 10 of 2003) directly qualified. Eventually, the top 3 in the result of the grand final on saturday all emerged from the qualificationround. Ukrain, debutant in 2003, won the contest.