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Eurovision Song Contest 2012
Light Your Fire!
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Dates and venue
Semi-final 1
  • 22 May 2012 (2012-05-22)
Semi-final 2
  • 24 May 2012 (2012-05-24)
Final
  • 26 May 2012 (2012-05-26)
VenueBaku Crystal Hall
Baku, Azerbaijan
Organisation
OrganiserEuropean Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Executive supervisorJon Ola Sand
Production
Host broadcasterİctimai Television (İTV)
DirectorLadislaus Kiraly
Executive producerAdil Kerimli
Presenters
Participants
Number of entries42
Number of finalists26
Returning countriesImage Montenegro
Non-returning countries
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         Finalist countries     Countries eliminated in the semi-finals     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2012
Vote
Voting systemEach country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs.
Winning song
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The Eurovision Song Contest 2012 was the 57th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of two semi-finals on 22 and 24 May and a final on 26 May 2012, held at the Baku Crystal Hall in Baku, Azerbaijan, and presented by Leyla Aliyeva, Nargiz Birk-Petersen, and Eldar Gasimov. It was organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster İctimai Television (İTV), which staged the event after winning the 2011 contest for Azerbaijan with the song "Running Scared" by Gasimov himself and Nigar Jamal as Ell and Nikki. It was the first time the contest was hosted in Azerbaijan – only four years after the country made its debut.[1][2]

Broadcasters from forty-two countries participated in the contest. Montenegro returned to the contest for the first time since 2009. Meanwhile, Armenia withdrew due to security concerns in relation to the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan, while Poland did not participate due to financial concerns.

The winner was Sweden with the song "Euphoria", performed by Loreen and written by Thomas G:son and Peter Boström. The song won both the jury vote and televote and received 372 points out of a maximum of 492. Russia, Serbia, Azerbaijan, and Albania rounded out the top five, with Albania achieving their best result to date. Out of the "Big Five" countries, Germany, Italy and Spain all managed to rank within the top 10, finishing eighth, ninth and tenth, respectively.

The lead-up to the contest was met with political concerns and protests surrounding the host country, including its human rights record and allegations by advocacy groups that Baku was carrying out forced evictions in the construction of the contest's venue.

Location

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Baku Crystal Hall, Baku - host venue of the 2012 contest.
Locations of the suggested venues in Baku, Azerbaijan: the chosen venue is marked in blue, while eliminated venues are marked in red

Azerbaijani broadcaster İctimai Television (İTV) got the right to host the 2012 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest after winning the previous edition with the song "Running Scared" performed by Ell and Nikki.[3][4] Baku, the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region, was named the host city for the contest, with the venue being the Baku Crystal Hall, built a few months prior to the contest on the city's coastline.

Shortly after Azerbaijan's victory at the 2011 edition, officials announced that a new 23,000-seat concert venue was to be built near National Flag Square in Baku, as a potential venue for the event.[5][6] Three days later, other venue options were revealed by organisers, such as the 37,000-seat Tofiq Bahramov Stadium and the Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex.[7] On 2 August 2011, Alpine Bau Deutschland AG was awarded the contract to construct the Baku Crystal Hall. Preparations for construction began in the area shortly after the announcement.[8] Even though the full cost of the contract was not named, the government allocated 6 million AZN for the construction of the venue.[9]

On 8 September 2011, Azad Azerbaijan TV (ATV) reported that Baku Crystal Hall would be the venue of the contest, but no formal confirmation was made at the time neither by İTV nor the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). On 31 October 2011, Ismayil Omarov, the director general of İTV announced that a decision on the venue choice would be taken by the steering committee in January 2012.[10] On 25 January 2012, it was confirmed that the Baku Crystal Hall would be the venue of the contest.[11] Even though the venue had an extended capacity of 23,000 people, only 16,000 people were able to attend each show.[11] Tickets for the contest became available online for purchase on 28 February 2012.[12][13]

Participants

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Eurovision Song Contest 2012 – Participation summaries by country

On 17 January 2012, the EBU initially announced that forty-three countries would take part in the 2012 contest.[14] The 57th edition saw the return of Montenegro, who was last represented by Andrea Demirović in 2009.[15] Poland decided not to participate, due to the financial burden of the UEFA Euro 2012 (which Poland co-hosted with Ukraine) and the 2012 Summer Olympics.[14] Armenia, who had originally planned to participate, later withdrew their application due to security concerns related to the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan, subsequently reducing the number of participating countries to 42.[16]

Four artists returned in this year's contest. Kaliopi had intended to participate for Macedonia in 1996 with the song "Samo ti", which placed in 26th position in the pre-qualifying round.[17][18] She would then go on to represent Macedonia in 2016. Jónsi had represented Iceland in 2004 with the song "Heaven", which placed 19th.[19][20] Željko Joksimović for Serbia,[21] had represented Serbia and Montenegro in 2004 with the song "Lane moje" which placed second, and had co-hosted the 2008 contest with Jovana Janković. Jedward had represented Ireland in 2011, and returned for a second consecutive year, after their 8th-place finish with the song "Lipstick".[22][23] In addition, Martina Majerle, who represented Slovenia in 2009, returned as a backing vocalist for Slovenia.

Lys Assia, who won the first Eurovision for Switzerland in 1956, entered the song "C'était ma vie", written by Ralph Siegel and Jean Paul Cara, into the 2012 Swiss national selection.[24][25] The song, however, only came eighth in a closely fought national selection. Assia attended the event in Baku as a guest of honour.[26]

Eurovision Song Contest 2012 participants[27]
Country Broadcaster Artist Song Language Songwriter(s)
Image Albania RTSH Rona Nishliu "Suus" Albanian
Image Austria ORF Trackshittaz "Woki mit deim Popo" German[a]
  • Manuel Hoffelner
  • Lukas Plöchl
Image Azerbaijan İTV Sabina Babayeva "When the Music Dies" English
Image Belarus BTRC Litesound "We Are the Heroes" English
  • Dmitriy Karyakin
  • Vladimir Karyakin
Image Belgium VRT Iris "Would You?" English
Image Bosnia and Herzegovina BHRT Maya Sar "Korake ti znam" Bosnian Maja Sarihodžić
Image Bulgaria BNT Sofi Marinova "Love Unlimited" Bulgarian
  • Krum Georgiev
  • Iasen Kozev
  • Donka Vasileva
Image Croatia HRT Nina Badrić "Nebo" Croatian Nina Badrić
Image Cyprus CyBC Ivi Adamou "La La Love" English
Image Denmark DR Soluna Samay "Should've Known Better" English
Image Estonia ERR Ott Lepland "Kuula" Estonian
Image Finland Yle Pernilla "När jag blundar" Swedish Jonas Karlsson
Image France France Télévisions Anggun "Echo (You and I)" French, English
Image Georgia GPB Anri Jokhadze "I'm a Joker" English, Georgian
  • Rusudan Chkhaidze
  • Bibi Kvachadze
Image Germany NDR[b] Roman Lob "Standing Still" English
Image Greece ERT Eleftheria Eleftheriou "Aphrodisiac" English
Image Hungary MTVA Compact Disco "Sound of Our Hearts" English
  • Behnam Lotfi
  • Gábor Pál
  • Attila Sándor
  • Csaba Walkó
Image Iceland RÚV Greta Salóme and Jónsi "Never Forget" English Greta Salóme
Image Ireland RTÉ Jedward "Waterline" English
Image Israel IBA Izabo "Time" English, Hebrew
  • Shiri Hadar
  • Ran Shem Tov
Image Italy RAI Nina Zilli "L'amore è femmina (Out of Love)" English, Italian
Image Latvia LTV Anmary "Beautiful Song" English
  • Ivars Makstnieks
  • Rolands Ūdris
Image Lithuania LRT Donny Montell "Love Is Blind" English
  • Jodie Rose
  • Brandon Stone
Image Macedonia MRT Kaliopi "Crno i belo" (Црно и бело) Macedonian
Image Malta PBS Kurt Calleja "This Is the Night" English
Image Moldova TRM Pasha Parfeny "Lăutar" English
Image Montenegro RTCG Rambo Amadeus "Euro Neuro" English Rambo Amadeus
Image Netherlands TROS Joan Franka "You and Me" English
Image Norway NRK Tooji "Stay" English
Image Portugal RTP Filipa Sousa "Vida minha" Portuguese
  • Andrej Babić
  • Carlos Coelho
Image Romania TVR Mandinga "Zaleilah" Spanish, English
Image Russia RTR Buranovskiye Babushki "Party for Everybody" Udmurt, English
Image San Marino SMRTV Valentina Monetta "The Social Network Song (Oh Oh – Uh – Oh Oh)" English
Image Serbia RTS Željko Joksimović "Nije ljubav stvar" (Није љубав ствар) Serbian
Image Slovakia RTVS Max Jason Mai "Don't Close Your Eyes" English Max Jason Mai
Image Slovenia RTVSLO Eva Boto "Verjamem" Slovene
Image Spain RTVE Pastora Soler "Quédate conmigo" Spanish
Image Sweden SVT Loreen "Euphoria" English
  • Peter Boström
  • Thomas G:son
Image  Switzerland SRG SSR Sinplus "Unbreakable" English
  • Gabriel Broggini
  • Ivan Broggini
Image Turkey TRT Can Bonomo "Love Me Back" English Can Bonomo
Image Ukraine NTU Gaitana "Be My Guest" English
Image United Kingdom BBC Engelbert Humperdinck "Love Will Set You Free" English

Languages

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The Finnish entry, "När jag blundar", sung by Pernilla Karlsson, was only Finland's second entry in Swedish (after "Fri?" by Beat in 1990) and the first entry at all to be sung in Swedish since 1998. Russia's entry, "Party for Everybody", sung by Buranovskiye Babushki, was the first entry ever to be performed in Udmurt. The Georgian entry, "I'm a Joker" was the first Eurovision entry containing the Georgian language while the Bulgarian song "Love Unlimited" had a few words in the Azerbaijani language, both of whom never appeared at the contest before.

Other countries

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Active EBU members

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  • Image Armenia – On 7 March 2012, the EBU announced that Armenian broadcaster ARMTV had decided to withdraw despite originally being included in the list of participating countries, after Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev had given a speech the previous week calling "Armenians of the world" one of Azerbaijan's "main enemies".[29][30] Armenia was consequently fined by the EBU and was expected to face further penalties, such as exclusion from participation in future contests if it failed to comply with the EBU requirements.[31][32] Armenia had been in a continuous state of war with Azerbaijan since the early 1990s due to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[33]

Active EBU member broadcasters in Andorra, Czech Republic, Luxembourg and Poland confirmed non-participation prior to the announcement of the participants list by the EBU.[34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41] The Monegasque and Moroccan broadcasters did the same, despite previous speculations of a possible return.[42][43][44][45]

Non-EBU member

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On 26 November 2011, it was reported that two official EBU documents showed that Liechtenstein's only national broadcaster 1FLTV was being granted active EBU membership, sparking speculations of a debut for the nation.[46] However, it was clarified a few days later that these documents contained editing mistakes.[47]

Format

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Presenters of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, from left to right – Leyla Aliyeva, Eldar Gasimov and Nargiz Birk-Petersen

In a meeting of the Eurovision Reference Group on 29 June 2011,[48] it was decided that the televoting system would revert the format used most recently in the 2009 contest, in which the phone and SMS lines opened for a fifteen-minute window after all songs had been performed, instead of opening before the show starts, which was the system used between 2010 and 2011. The results format of each show remained the same with each country's votes being decided on a 50:50 split between televoting and a national jury. Each participating country had their own national jury, which consisted of five professional members of the music industry.[49]

Under the official rules released on 24 November 2011, the number of participants in the grand final was raised to 26, including the host nation, the "Big Five", and the ten qualifiers from each semi-final. This was the second time in the Eurovision Song Contest that 26 countries were in the grand final, the first being the 2003 contest.[49][50][51]

Semi-final allocation draw

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Semi-final allocation draw ceremony at the Buta Palace in Baku.
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Results of the semi-final allocation draw
  Participating countries in the first semi-final
  Pre-qualified for the final but also voting in the first semi-final
  Participating countries in the second semi-final[c]
  Pre-qualified for the final but also voting in the second semi-final

The draw that determined the semi-final running order was held on 25 January 2012 at the Buta Palace. The participating countries, excluding the automatic finalists (Azerbaijan, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom), were split into six pots, based upon how those countries voted in past contests. From these pots, half (or as close to half as possible) competed in the first semi-final on 22 May 2012. The other half in that particular pot competed in the second semi-final on 24 May 2012.[52] This draw also acted as an approximate running order, in order for the delegations from the countries to know when their rehearsals would commence and determine which semi-final the automatic finalists would be allowed to vote in.[53][54]

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Pot 5 Pot 6

Graphic design

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Stage design of the contest.

The design of the contest was built around the motto "Light Your Fire!", inspired by the nickname of Azerbaijan itself, "Land of Fire".[55]

Each introductory video postcard began with a shot of the artist and performers, followed with the flag and country name in a handwritten font with a background resembling the yellow, orange and red fire of the 2012 theme art.[56] The postcards consisted of various shots of Azerbaijan, with a caption displaying 'Azerbaijan' and underneath 'Land of ...' (e.g. Land of Abundance; Land of Poetry etc.), which were then followed by the name of a town or geographic feature, showing the landscape and culture of the country.[56] Some postcards focused on the host city of Baku with text changing to 'Baku' and underneath 'City of ...' (e.g. City of Jazz; City of Leisure etc.). The postcards finished with a shot of the Crystal Hall displayed in the colours of the performing country's flag. These postcards acted as a tourism mechanism to present the country to a wider audience.[56][57]

The artist, song and number graphics as well as tables and voting graphics were kept the same as those used in 2011, with a slight modification to incorporate the 2012 theme art.[56] The lower points (1-7) were highlighted in red squares while the top points (8, 10, 12) were highlighted in orange squares with each square increasing in size in relation to the point value. Both sets of graphics were designed by London brand design agency Turquoise Branding.[58][59]

Host broadcaster

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İctimai Television (İTV), which is the EBU member that participates in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Azerbaijan, is one of country's public-service broadcasters.[60][61] Azerbaijan's largest telecommunications operator, Azercell, was chosen as the presenting partner for the contest.[62] On 1 December 2011, İTV named the German production company Brainpool as its official production partner for the contest, citing the quality of its work on the previous year's contest.[63]

Contest overview

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Semi-final 1

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The first semi-final took place on 22 May 2012 at 00:00 AZST (21:00 CEST). All the countries competing in this semi-final were eligible to vote, plus Azerbaijan, Italy and Spain.[52] The EBU allowed the Albanian broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) to defer transmission and only use jury votes due to the Qafa e Vishës bus accident.[64] The highlighted countries qualified for the final.

  Qualifiers
Results of the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012[65][66]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1 Image Montenegro Rambo Amadeus "Euro Neuro" 20 15
2 Image Iceland Greta Salóme and Jónsi "Never Forget" 75 8
3 Image Greece Eleftheria Eleftheriou "Aphrodisiac" 116 4
4 Image Latvia Anmary "Beautiful Song" 17 16
5 Image Albania Rona Nishliu "Suus" 146 2
6 Image Romania Mandinga "Zaleilah" 120 3
7 Image  Switzerland Sinplus "Unbreakable" 45 11
8 Image Belgium Iris "Would You?" 16 17
9 Image Finland Pernilla "När jag blundar" 41 12
10 Image Israel Izabo "Time" 33 13
11 Image San Marino Valentina Monetta "The Social Network Song (Oh Oh – Uh – Oh Oh)" 31 14
12 Image Cyprus Ivi Adamou "La La Love" 91 7
13 Image Denmark Soluna Samay "Should've Known Better" 63 9
14 Image Russia Buranovskiye Babushki "Party for Everybody" 152 1
15 Image Hungary Compact Disco "Sound of Our Hearts" 52 10
16 Image Austria Trackshittaz "Woki mit deim Popo" 8 18
17 Image Moldova Pasha Parfeny "Lăutar" 100 5
18 Image Ireland Jedward "Waterline" 92 6

Semi-final 2

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The second semi-final took place on 24 May 2012 at 00:00 AZST (21:00 CEST). All the countries competing in this semi-final were eligible to vote, plus France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Germany requested that they vote in this semi-final.[52] Before it withdrew, Armenia was drawn to perform in the first half of this semi-final.[16] The highlighted countries qualified for the final.

  Qualifiers
Results of the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012[65][67]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1 Image Serbia Željko Joksimović "Nije ljubav stvar" 159 2
2 Image Macedonia Kaliopi "Crno i belo" 53 9
3 Image Netherlands Joan Franka "You and Me" 35 15
4 Image Malta Kurt Calleja "This Is the Night" 70 7
5 Image Belarus Litesound "We Are the Heroes" 35 16
6 Image Portugal Filipa Sousa "Vida minha" 39 13
7 Image Ukraine Gaitana "Be My Guest" 64 8
8 Image Bulgaria Sofi Marinova "Love Unlimited" 45 11
9 Image Slovenia Eva Boto "Verjamem" 31 17
10 Image Croatia Nina Badrić "Nebo" 42 12
11 Image Sweden Loreen "Euphoria" 181 1
12 Image Georgia Anri Jokhadze "I'm a Joker" 36 14
13 Image Turkey Can Bonomo "Love Me Back" 80 5
14 Image Estonia Ott Lepland "Kuula" 100 4
15 Image Slovakia Max Jason Mai "Don't Close Your Eyes" 22 18
16 Image Norway Tooji "Stay" 45 10
17 Image Bosnia and Herzegovina Maya Sar "Korake ti znam" 77 6
18 Image Lithuania Donny Montell "Love Is Blind" 104 3

Final

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The final took place on 26 May 2012 at 00:00 AZST (21:00 CEST) and was won by Sweden. The "Big Five" and the host country, Azerbaijan, qualified directly for the final. From the two semi-finals on 22 and 24 May 2012, twenty countries qualified for the final. A total of 26 countries competed in the final and all 42 participants voted.

Sweden won with 372 points, winning both the jury vote and the televote. Russia came second with 259 points, with Serbia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Estonia, Turkey, Germany, Italy and Spain completing the top ten. France, Denmark, Hungary, United Kingdom and Norway occupied the bottom five positions.

  Winner
Results of the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012[65][68]
R/O Country Artist Song Points Place
1 Image United Kingdom Engelbert Humperdinck "Love Will Set You Free" 12 25
2 Image Hungary Compact Disco "Sound of Our Hearts" 19 24
3 Image Albania Rona Nishliu "Suus" 146 5
4 Image Lithuania Donny Montell "Love Is Blind" 70 14
5 Image Bosnia and Herzegovina Maya Sar "Korake ti znam" 55 18
6 Image Russia Buranovskiye Babushki "Party for Everybody" 259 2
7 Image Iceland Greta Salóme and Jónsi "Never Forget" 46 20
8 Image Cyprus Ivi Adamou "La La Love" 65 16
9 Image France Anggun "Echo (You and I)" 21 22
10 Image Italy Nina Zilli "L'amore è femmina (Out of Love)" 101 9
11 Image Estonia Ott Lepland "Kuula" 120 6
12 Image Norway Tooji "Stay" 7 26
13 Image Azerbaijan Sabina Babayeva "When the Music Dies" 150 4
14 Image Romania Mandinga "Zaleilah" 71 12
15 Image Denmark Soluna Samay "Should've Known Better" 21 23
16 Image Greece Eleftheria Eleftheriou "Aphrodisiac" 64 17
17 Image Sweden Loreen "Euphoria" 372 1
18 Image Turkey Can Bonomo "Love Me Back" 112 7
19 Image Spain Pastora Soler "Quédate conmigo" 97 10
20 Image Germany Roman Lob "Standing Still" 110 8
21 Image Malta Kurt Calleja "This Is the Night" 41 21
22 Image Macedonia Kaliopi "Crno i belo" 71 13
23 Image Ireland Jedward "Waterline" 46 19
24 Image Serbia Željko Joksimović "Nije ljubav stvar" 214 3
25 Image Ukraine Gaitana "Be My Guest" 65 15
26 Image Moldova Pasha Parfeny "Lăutar" 81 11

Spokespersons

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Each participating broadcaster appointed a spokesperson who was responsible for announcing, in English or French, the votes for its respective country. The order in which each country announced their vote was determined in a draw following the jury results from the final dress rehearsal. Similar to the 2011 contest an algorithm was used to add as much excitement as possible. The spokespersons are shown alongside each country.[69]

  1. Image Albania – Andri Xhahu
  2. Image Montenegro – Marija Marković
  3. Image Romania – Paula Seling
  4. Image Austria – Kati Bellowitsch
  5. Image Ukraine – Oleksiy Matias
  6. Image Belarus – Dmitry Koldun
  7. Image Belgium – Peter Van de Veire
  8. Image Azerbaijan – Safura Alizadeh
  9. Image Malta – Keith Demicoli
  10. Image San Marino – Monica Fabbri
  11. Image France – Amaury Vassili
  12. Image United Kingdom – Scott Mills
  13. Image Turkey – Ömer Önder [tr]
  14. Image Greece – Adriana Magania
  15. Image Bosnia and Herzegovina – Elvir Laković Laka
  16. Image Moldova – Olivia Fortuna
  17. Image Bulgaria – Anna Angelova
  18. Image  Switzerland – Sara Hildebrand
  19. Image Slovenia – Lorella Flego
  20. Image Cyprus – Loucas Hamatsos
  21. Image Croatia – Nevena Rendeli
  22. Image Slovakia – Mária Pietrová
  23. Image Macedonia – Kristina Talevska
  24. Image Netherlands – Vivienne van den Assem
  25. Image Portugal – Joana Teles
  26. Image Iceland – Matthías Matthíasson
  27. Image Sweden – Sarah Dawn Finer[70]
  28. Image Norway – Nadia Hasnaoui
  29. Image Lithuania – Ignas Krupavičius
  30. Image Estonia – Getter Jaani
  31. Image Denmark – Louise Wolff [da]
  32. Image Latvia – Valters Frīdenbergs
  33. Image Spain – Elena S. Sánchez
  34. Image Finland – Mr Lordi
  35. Image Georgia – Sopho Toroshelidze
  36. Image Italy – Ivan Bacchi [it]
  37. Image Serbia – Maja Nikolić [sr]
  38. Image Germany – Anke Engelke
  39. Image Russia – Oxana Fedorova
  40. Image Hungary – Éva Novodomszky
  41. Image Israel – Ofer Nachshon
  42. Image Ireland – Gráinne Seoige[d]

Detailed voting results

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The EBU and PwC audit company checked and verified the individual jury and televoting results, which were combined to create the overall national vote for the contests. On 18 June 2012, the EBU published the following results.[71][72]

Semi-final 1

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  Qualifiers
Split results of semi-final 1[72]
Place Combined Jury Televoting
Country Points Country Points Country Points
1 Image Russia 152 Image Albania 131 Image Russia 189
2 Image Albania 146 Image Moldova 107 Image Romania 132
3 Image Romania 120 Image Greece 103 Image Albania 131
4 Image Greece 116 Image Cyprus 90 Image Ireland 116
5 Image Moldova 100 Image Romania 87 Image Greece 110
6 Image Ireland 92 Image Denmark 81 Image Cyprus 99
7 Image Cyprus 91 Image Hungary 76 Image Moldova 85
8 Image Iceland 75 Image Russia 75 Image Iceland 79
9 Image Denmark 63 Image Israel 72 Image Denmark 53
10 Image Hungary 52 Image Ireland 72 Image  Switzerland 49
11 Image  Switzerland 45 Image Iceland 70 Image Hungary 39
12 Image Finland 41 Image Finland 57 Image Finland 36
13 Image Israel 33 Image  Switzerland 45 Image San Marino 25
14 Image San Marino 31 Image San Marino 42 Image Montenegro 24
15 Image Montenegro 20 Image Belgium 38 Image Latvia 18
16 Image Latvia 17 Image Montenegro 28 Image Israel 16
17 Image Belgium 16 Image Austria 27 Image Austria 15
18 Image Austria 8 Image Latvia 17 Image Belgium 2
Detailed voting results of semi-final 1[73][74]
Total score
Montenegro
Iceland
Greece
Latvia
Albania
Romania
Switzerland
Belgium
Finland
Israel
San Marino
Cyprus
Denmark
Russia
Hungary
Austria
Moldova
Ireland
Azerbaijan
Italy
Spain
Contestants
 Montenegro 20128
Iceland 75555451043810142216
Greece 11610581238371245110101053
Latvia 1724443
Albania 146123104412105510107210121112124
Romania 1207485248661835121271012
Switzerland 4527321128388
Belgium 16421261
Finland 417611128123
Israel 33153136572
San Marino 314210753
Cyprus 91612123673110735178
Denmark 638183108443176
Russia 1528671268121212271271068827
Hungary 527866455452
Austria 8152
Moldova 100362410766536122626410
Ireland 92110310777122106845

12 points

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Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the first semi-final:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
5 Image AlbaniaImage Austria, Image Azerbaijan, Image Italy, Image Montenegro, Image  Switzerland
Image RussiaImage Belgium, Image Denmark, Image Finland, Image Israel, Image Latvia
3 Image RomaniaImage Ireland, Image Moldova, Image Spain
2 Image CyprusImage Greece, Image Iceland
Image GreeceImage Cyprus, Image Romania
1 Image FinlandImage Hungary
Image IrelandImage San Marino
Image MoldovaImage Russia
Image MontenegroImage Albania

Semi-final 2

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  Qualifiers
Split results of semi-final 2[72]
Place Combined Jury Televoting
Country Points Country Points Country Points
1 Image Sweden 181 Image Sweden 145 Image Sweden 180
2 Image Serbia 159 Image Serbia 141 Image Serbia 148
3 Image Lithuania 104 Image Ukraine 109 Image Lithuania 128
4 Image Estonia 100 Image Estonia 102 Image Turkey 114
5 Image Turkey 80 Image Malta 97 Image Estonia 88
6 Image Bosnia and Herzegovina 77 Image Bosnia and Herzegovina 77 Image Norway 72
7 Image Malta 70 Image Croatia 66 Image Bosnia and Herzegovina 70
8 Image Ukraine 64 Image Georgia 62 Image Macedonia 63
9 Image Macedonia 53 Image Macedonia 58 Image Bulgaria 59
10 Image Norway 45[e] Image Lithuania 55 Image Netherlands 51
11 Image Bulgaria 45[e] Image Belarus 52 Image Malta 39
12 Image Croatia 42 Image Portugal 49 Image Belarus 37
13 Image Portugal 39 Image Turkey 42 Image Portugal 37
14 Image Georgia 36 Image Slovenia 40 Image Croatia 34
15 Image Netherlands 35[f] Image Slovakia 40 Image Slovakia 32
16 Image Belarus 35[f] Image Netherlands 31 Image Slovenia 27
17 Image Slovenia 31 Image Bulgaria 27 Image Ukraine 24
18 Image Slovakia 22 Image Norway 25 Image Georgia 15
Detailed voting results of semi-final 2[75][76]
Total score
Serbia
Macedonia
Netherlands
Malta
Belarus
Portugal
Ukraine
Bulgaria
Slovenia
Croatia
Sweden
Georgia
Turkey
Estonia
Slovakia
Norway
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lithuania
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Contestants
 Serbia 15912105888121210810181010212103
Macedonia 538125767188
Netherlands 3521773384
Malta 703225664544632612
Belarus 3511412287
Portugal 396331554183
Ukraine 6443612251665122522
Bulgaria 4526261063325
Slovenia 31104854
Croatia 42127118121
Sweden 181781287107101061251212127106128
Georgia 3661103412
Turkey 801071228732316766
Estonia 100841233112710881077
Slovakia 22174361
Norway 45333321048414
Bosnia and Herzegovina 7755551512521264451
Lithuania 104641010744742521077510

12 points

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Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the second semi-final:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
6 Image SwedenImage Estonia, Image Georgia, Image Germany, Image Netherlands, Image Norway, Image Slovakia
4 Image SerbiaImage Bulgaria, Image France, Image Macedonia, Image Slovenia
2 Image Bosnia and HerzegovinaImage Croatia, Image Turkey
Image CroatiaImage Bosnia and Herzegovina, Image Serbia
Image EstoniaImage Portugal, Image Sweden
1 Image BelarusImage Ukraine
Image GeorgiaImage Lithuania
Image MaltaImage United Kingdom
Image TurkeyImage Malta
Image UkraineImage Belarus

Final

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  Winner
Split results of the final[72]
Place Combined Jury Televoting
Country Points Country Points Country Points
1 Image Sweden 372 Image Sweden 296 Image Sweden 343
2 Image Russia 259 Image Serbia 173 Image Russia 332
3 Image Serbia 214 Image Albania 157 Image Serbia 211
4 Image Azerbaijan 150 Image Italy 157 Image Turkey 176
5 Image Albania 146 Image Spain 154 Image Azerbaijan 151
6 Image Estonia 120 Image Estonia 152 Image Germany 125
7 Image Turkey 112 Image Ukraine 125 Image Romania 117
8 Image Germany 110 Image Azerbaijan 118 Image Albania 106
9 Image Italy 101 Image Moldova 104 Image Greece 89
10 Image Spain 97 Image Germany 98 Image Ireland 89
11 Image Moldova 81 Image Russia 94 Image Macedonia 79
12 Image Romania 71[g] Image Cyprus 85 Image Estonia 78
13 Image Macedonia 71[g] Image France 85 Image Moldova 75
14 Image Lithuania 70 Image Lithuania 82 Image Lithuania 68
15 Image Ukraine 65 Image Bosnia and Herzegovina 71 Image Cyprus 63
16 Image Cyprus 65 Image Malta 70 Image Bosnia and Herzegovina 57
17 Image Greece 64 Image Macedonia 69 Image Italy 56
18 Image Bosnia and Herzegovina 55 Image Greece 60 Image Spain 45
19 Image Ireland 46 Image Iceland 53 Image Iceland 39
20 Image Iceland 46 Image Romania 53 Image Ukraine 37
21 Image Malta 41 Image Denmark 51 Image United Kingdom 36
22 Image France 21 Image Turkey 50 Image Hungary 20
23 Image Denmark 21 Image Hungary 30 Image Denmark 18
24 Image Hungary 19 Image Norway 24 Image Norway 16
25 Image United Kingdom 12 Image Ireland 14 Image Malta 10
26 Image Norway 7 Image United Kingdom 11 Image France 0
Detailed voting results of the final[77][78]
Total score
Albania
Montenegro
Romania
Austria
Ukraine
Belarus
Belgium
Azerbaijan
Malta
San Marino
France
United Kingdom
Turkey
Greece
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Moldova
Bulgaria
Switzerland
Slovenia
Cyprus
Croatia
Slovakia
Macedonia
Netherlands
Portugal
Iceland
Sweden
Norway
Lithuania
Estonia
Denmark
Latvia
Spain
Finland
Georgia
Italy
Serbia
Germany
Russia
Hungary
Israel
Ireland
Contestants
 United Kingdom 121524
Hungary 1971182
Albania 1461018101125106412345121516312168
Lithuania 70184437516341257
Bosnia and Herzegovina 5567101710275
Russia 2593445101281031043743668563448778688108851077776
Iceland 464145664736
Cyprus 656221281255823
France 21226623
Italy 10172410713555225524473142542
Estonia 1201410421077108788610468
Norway 7313
Azerbaijan 15045127124212571010862121031081
Romania 713624712341107165
Denmark 21522525
Greece 6412852531411214132
Sweden 372571012661276312126687871010712612312121012121212128101212121212
Turkey 11210337128551473886127831
Spain 9766616853866122443110
Germany 11024276424210331010731281010
Malta 41738252176
Macedonia 7188328122681112
Ireland 46141103545454
Serbia 214112510255688103121012712710105310105261044
Ukraine 6510371831121626383
Moldova 81312185822116774725

12 points

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Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the grand final:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
18 Image SwedenImage Austria, Image Belgium, Image Denmark, Image Estonia, Image Finland, Image France, Image Germany, Image Hungary, Image Iceland, Image Ireland, Image Israel, Image Latvia, Image Netherlands, Image Norway, Image Russia, Image Slovakia, Image Spain, Image United Kingdom
4 Image AlbaniaImage Macedonia, Image Italy, Image San Marino, Image  Switzerland
Image AzerbaijanImage Lithuania, Image Malta, Image Turkey, Image Ukraine
Image SerbiaImage Bulgaria, Image Croatia, Image Montenegro, Image Slovenia
2 Image CyprusImage Greece, Image Sweden
Image GreeceImage Albania, Image Cyprus
Image MacedoniaImage Bosnia and Herzegovina, Image Serbia
1 Image LithuaniaImage Georgia
Image MoldovaImage Romania
Image RomaniaImage Moldova
Image RussiaImage Belarus
Image SpainImage Portugal
Image TurkeyImage Azerbaijan

Broadcasts

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Most countries sent commentators to Baku or commentated from their own country, in order to add insight to the participants and, if necessary, the provision of voting information. In addition to the participating countries, the hosts mentioned that the contest was also broadcast in Australia and New Zealand. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Show(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Image Albania RTSH TVSH All shows Andri Xhahu
Image Austria ORF ORF eins All shows Andi Knoll [79][80][81]
Final Stermann and Grissemann and Lukas Plöchl [de]
Image Azerbaijan İTV All shows Konul Arifgizi and Saleh Baghirov [az] [82]
Image Belarus BTRC Belarus-1 All shows Denis Kurian
Image Belgium VRT één, Radio 2 All shows André Vermeulen and Peter Van de Veire [83]
RTBF La Une Jean-Pierre Hautier and Jean-Louis Lahaye [fr] [84]
Image Bosnia and Herzegovina BHRT BHT 1 All shows Dejan Kukrić [85]
Image Bulgaria BNT   All shows Georgi Kushvaliev and Elena Rosberg
Image Croatia HRT HRT 1 All shows Duško Ćurlić
Image Cyprus CyBC RIK 1 All shows Melina Karageorgiou [86]
Image Denmark DR DR1, DR HD All shows Ole Tøpholm [87]
Image Estonia ERR ETV All shows Marko Reikop
Image Finland YLE YLE TV2, YLE HD [fi] All shows
[88][89]
YLE Radio Suomi Sanna Kojo and Jorma Hietamäki
Yle Radio Vega Eva Frantz and Johan Lindroos
Image France France Télévisions France3.fr SF1 [90]
France Ô SF2 Audrey Chauveau [fr] and Bruno Berberes [fr]
France 3 Final Cyril Féraud and Mireille Dumas [90][91]
Radio France France Bleu Fabien Lecœuvre [fr] and Serge Poezevara
Image Georgia GPB 1TV All shows Temo Kvirkvelia
Image Germany ARD Das Erste All shows Peter Urban [92]
NDR NDR 2 Thomas Mohr [93]
HR hr3 Tim Frühling [94]
Image Greece ERT NET All shows Maria Kozakou [95]
Image Hungary MTVA m1 All shows Gábor Gundel Takács [hu] [96]
Image Iceland RÚV Sjónvarpið All shows Hrafnhildur Halldorsdóttir [97]
Image Ireland RTÉ RTÉ Two Semi-finals Marty Whelan [98][99]
RTÉ One Final
RTÉ Radio 1 Shay Byrne and Zbyszek Zalinski [100]
Image Israel IBA   All shows No commentary
Image Italy RAI Rai 5 SF1 Federica Gentile [it] [101]
Rai 2 Final Filippo Solibello [it] and Marco Ardemagni [102]
Image Latvia LTV LTV1 All shows Valters Frīdenbergs [103]
Final Kārlis Būmeisters [104]
Image Lithuania LRT   All shows Darius Užkuraitis [lt]
Image Macedonia MRT MRT 1 All shows Karolina Petkovska [105]
Image Malta PBS TVM All shows Elaine Saliba and Ronald Briffa
Image Moldova TRM Moldova 1 All shows Marcel Spătari
Image Montenegro RTCG TVCG 1 SF1/Final Dražen Bauković and Tamara Ivanković [106][107]
TVCG 2 SF2 [108]
RTCG Sat All shows [109][110][111]
Image Netherlands TROS Nederland 1 All shows Jan Smit and Daniël Dekker [112][113]
Image Norway NRK NRK1 All shows Olav Viksmo-Slettan [114]
Image Portugal RTP RTP1 All shows Pedro Granger [pt] [115]
Image Romania TVR TVR 1 All shows Leonard Miron and Gianina Corondan [116]
Image Russia RTR Russia-1 All shows Olga Shelest [ru] and Dmitry Guberniev [117]
Image San Marino SMRTV SMtv San Marino All shows Lia Fiorio and Gigi Restivo [118]
Image Serbia RTS RTS1, RTS Sat SF1 Dragan Ilić [119][120][121][122]
SF2/Final Duška Vučinić-Lučić
Image Slovakia RTVS Jednotka, Rádio Slovensko All shows Roman Bomboš
Rádio FM Final Daniel Baláž [sk] and Pavol Hubinák [123]
Image Slovenia RTVSLO TV SLO 2 Semi-finals Andrej Hofer [sl] [124][125]
TV SLO 1 Final [126]
Image Spain RTVE La 2 SF1 José María Íñigo [127]
La 1 Final
Image Sweden SVT SVT1 All shows Gina Dirawi and Edward af Sillén [128]
SR SR P3 Carolina Norén and Björn Kjellman
Image  Switzerland SRG SSR SF zwei SF1/Final Sven Epiney [129]
RTS Deux Jean-Marc Richard and Nicolas Tanner [130]
RSI La 2 SF1 Clarissa Tami [it] and Paolo Meneguzzi [131]
RSI La 1 Final
Image Turkey TRT TRT 1, TRT HD, TRT Türk, TRT Müzik, TRT Avaz All shows Bülend Özveren and Erhan Konuk [tr] [132]
Image Ukraine NTU Pershyi Natsionalnyi All shows Timur Miroshnychenko and Tetyana Terekhova [133]
Image United Kingdom BBC BBC Three Semi-finals Scott Mills and Sara Cox [134]
BBC One Final Graham Norton [135]
BBC Radio 2 Ken Bruce [136]
Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries
Country Broadcaster Channel(s) Show(s) Commentator(s) Ref(s)
Image Armenia AMPTV Armenia 1 All shows Gohar Gasparyan and Artur Grigoryan [137]
Image Australia SBS SBS One All shows[h] Julia Zemiro and Sam Pang [138][139]

Incidents and controversies

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Human rights concerns

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Azerbaijan's large investment in hosting the Eurovision contest was widely discussed in Western media as an attempt to "mitigate misgivings about its poor democracy and human rights record".[140][141] Elnur Majidli, an activist imprisoned during the Arab Spring-inspired 2011 Azerbaijani protests, was released in an apparent effort to soften Azerbaijan's image ahead of the contest, but many political prisoners remained.[141] Human Rights Watch reported a "violent crackdown on protesters" on the eve of the contest,[142] and Amnesty International condemned the "stern crackdown of freedom of expression, dissent, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), critical journalists, in fact anyone who criticised the Aliyev regime too strongly" that continued up to the contest.[143]

Human Rights Watch also criticised the Azerbaijani government and the Baku City Authority for carrying out forced evictions against local residents, in order to allow for the demolition of flats to make way for construction in the neighbourhood where the Baku Crystal Hall was built.[144] The Public Association for Assistance to Free Economy, a transparency and economic rights campaign group, had described the evictions as a "violation of human rights", and as having "no legal authority". However, in a statement to the BBC, the EBU said that on a recent visit to Baku they had observed "that the construction of the concert hall [which] media reports refer to was already well under way on a clean construction site and thus there are no demolitions needed".[145] The EBU cited the "apolitical" nature of the contest and the Azerbaijani government's claim that the construction was not tied to the contest.[144]

The contest's eventual winner Loreen met local human rights activists during the event weeks, the only entrant to do so. She later told reporters, "Human rights are violated in Azerbaijan every day. One should not be silent about such things."[143] An Azerbaijan government spokesman criticized her in response, saying that the contest should not "be politicised" and requested the EBU prevented further meetings of a similar nature.[146] Swedish diplomats replied that the EBU, the Swedish broadcaster SVT and Loreen had not acted against the competition's rules.[147]

On 26 May, a flash mob of anti-government protesters were quickly dispersed by police.[140] Activists expressed fears that they would face a crackdown when the international spotlight left Azerbaijan again at the end of the contest.[141] Before presenting the results of the German vote, the German spokesperson Anke Engelke gave a live statement that alluded to the human rights issues in Azerbaijan, saying: "Tonight nobody could vote for their own country. But it is good to be able to vote. And it is good to have a choice. Good luck on your journey, Azerbaijan. Europe is watching you."[148][149]

Tensions with Iran

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Iranian officials objected to Azerbaijan hosting the contest, with Iranian clerics Ayatollah Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari and Ayatollah Ja'far Sobhani condemning Azerbaijan for "anti-Islamic behaviour", while also claiming that Azerbaijan was hosting a gay parade.[150] This led to protests in front of Iranian embassy in Baku, where protesters carried slogans mocking the Iranian leaders. Ali Hasanov, head of the public and political issues department in Azerbaijani president's administration, said that gay parade claims were untrue, and advised Iran not to meddle in Azerbaijan's internal affairs.[151] In response, Iran recalled its ambassador from Baku,[152] while Azerbaijan demanded a formal apology from Iran for its statements in connection with Baku's hosting of the contest,[153] and later also recalled its ambassador from Iran.[154]

On 30 May, the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan announced that they had thwarted a series of planned terror attacks against the contest, among the targets being Baku Crystal Hall, as well as Marriott and Hilton hotels in Baku.[155] On 22 August, The Daily Telegraph reported that according to Western intelligence services, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei personally gave orders to the elite Quds Force unit to launch terrorist attacks against the West and its allies, including Azerbaijan during the contest.[156]

Other awards

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In addition to the main winner's trophy, the Marcel Bezençon Awards and the Barbara Dex Award were contested during the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. The OGAE, "General Organisation of Eurovision Fans" voting poll also took place before the contest.

Marcel Bezençon Awards

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The Marcel Bezençon Awards, organised since 2002 by Sweden's then-Head of Delegation and 1992 representative Christer Björkman, and 1984 winner Richard Herrey, honours songs in the contest's final.[157] The awards are divided into three categories: Artistic Award, Composers Award, and Press Award.[158]

Category Country Song Artist Songwriter(s)
Artistic Award Image Sweden "Euphoria" Loreen
Composers Award
Press Award Image Azerbaijan "When the Music Dies" Sabina Babayeva

OGAE

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OGAE, an organisation of over forty Eurovision Song Contest fan clubs across Europe and beyond, conducts an annual voting poll first held in 2002 as the Marcel Bezençon Fan Award. After all votes were cast, the top-ranked entry in the 2012 poll was also the winner of the contest, "Euphoria" performed by Loreen; the top five results are shown below.[159][160][161]

Country Song Artist Points
Image Sweden "Euphoria" Loreen 375
Image Italy "L'amore è femmina (Out of Love)" Nina Zilli 212
Image Iceland "Never Forget" Greta Salóme and Jónsi 211
Image Serbia "Nije ljubav stvar" Željko Joksimović 199
Image Norway "Stay" Tooji 164

Barbara Dex Award

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The Barbara Dex Award is a humorous fan award given to the worst dressed artist each year. Named after Belgium's representative who came last in the 1993 contest, wearing her self-designed dress, the award was handed by the fansite House of Eurovision from 1997 to 2016 and is being carried out by the fansite songfestival.be since 2017.[162][163]

Place Country Artist Votes
1 Image Albania Rona Nishliu 829
2 Image Ireland Jedward 551
3 Image Bulgaria Sofi Marinova 232
4 Image Netherlands Joan Franka 163
5 Image Ukraine Gaitana 145

Official album

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Image
Cover art of the official album

Eurovision Song Contest: Baku 2012 was a compilation album put together by the European Broadcasting Union, and released by Universal Music Group on 4 May 2012. The album featured all 42 songs that entered in the 2012 contest, including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify into the grand final.[164]

Charts

[edit]
Chart (2012) Peak
position
German Compilation Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[165]2

See also

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Specifically Mühlviertlerisch, a Central Bavarian dialect spoken in Upper Austria
  2. ↑ On behalf of the German public broadcasting consortium ARD[28]
  3. 1 2 Armenia, which had originally been allocated into semi-final 2, withdrew from the contest in March 2012.
  4. ↑ Ireland was originally scheduled to announce its votes as the 32nd country, but instead voted 42nd (last). The reason for this was technical difficulties in the minutes running up to the voting presentation.
  5. 1 2 Despite finishing with the same number of points as Bulgaria, Norway is deemed to have finished in tenth place due to receiving points from a greater number of countries, which resulted in Norway qualifying for the final over Bulgaria.
  6. 1 2 Despite finishing with the same number of points as Belarus, the Netherlands is deemed to have finished in fifteenth place due to receiving points from a greater number of countries.
  7. 1 2 Despite finishing with the same number of points as Macedonia, Romania is deemed to have finished in twelfth place due to receiving points from a greater number of countries.
  8. ↑ Broadcast on 26 and 27 May 2012

References

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