Eurovision Song Contest 2007

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The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was the 52nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Helsinki, Finland, following the country's victory at the 2006 contest with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah" by Lordi. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle), the contest was held at the Hartwall Areena, and consisted of a semi-final on 10 May, and a final on 12 May 2007. The two live shows were presented by Finnish television presenter Jaana Pelkonen and musician and TV-host Mikko Leppilampi. In addition, Krisse Salminen acted as guest host in the green room, and reported from the crowds at the Senate Square.

Eurovision Song Contest 2007
True Fantasy
Dates
Semi-final	10 May 2007 (2007-05-10)
Final	12 May 2007 (2007-05-12)
Host
Venue	Hartwall Areena Helsinki, Finland
Presenter(s)	Jaana Pelkonen Mikko Leppilampi Krisse Salminen (green room)
Directed by	Timo Suomi
Executive supervisor	Svante Stockselius
Executive producer	Heikki Seppälä
Host broadcaster	Yleisradio (Yle)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/helsinki-2007
Participants
Number of entries	42
Debuting countries	Czech Republic  Georgia  Montenegro  Serbia
Returning countries	Austria  Hungary
Non-returning countries	Monaco
Participation map      Participating countries     Did not qualify from the semi final     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2007
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 point(s) to their 10 favourite songs.
Nul points in final	None
Winning song	Serbia "Molitva"
2006 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 2008

Forty-two countries participated in the contest - three more than the previous record of thirty-nine, that took part in 2005. The EBU decided to put aside its limit of 40 countries, which would have meant excluding some countries using a ranking order scheme.^[1] The Czech Republic and Georgia participated for the first time this year, with Montenegro and Serbia taking part as independent nations for the first time.^{[citation needed]} Austria and Hungary both returned, after their absence from the previous edition. Meanwhile, Monaco decided not to participate,^[2] despite initially confirming participation.^[3] Monaco has not competed in Eurovision Song Contest ever since.

The winner was Serbia with the song "Molitva", performed by Marija Šerifović and written by Vladimir Graić and Saša Milošević Mare. This was Serbia's first victory in the contest, coincidentally the first year it competed as an independent nation. It was also the first winning song entirely performed in a country's native language since Israel's "Diva" in 1998. Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Bulgaria rounded out the top five. Further down the table, Belarus achieved their best placing to date, finishing sixth. Meanwhile, Ireland achieved its worst placing in the contest, finishing twenty-fourth (last place). Of the "Big Four" countries, Germany placed the highest, finishing nineteenth.

Location

 

 

Helsinki

 

Espoo

 

Tampere

 

Turku

 

Kittilä

 

Lahti

 

Rovaniemi

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Locations of the candidate cities: the chosen host city is marked in blue, while the eliminated cities are marked in red.

Helsinki, the Finnish capital, was chosen as the host city, although other cities were in the running; the second-largest city of Espoo, the third-largest city of Tampere, and the city of Turku all submitted bids to host the contest alongside Kittilä, Lahti and Rovaniemi. The choice of Helsinki was justified, among other things, by the requirements of the number of people and technology, as well as its superior flight and transport connections and accommodation capacity.^[4]

Venue

 

Hartwall Areena, Helsinki - host venue during the 2007 contest.

A total of 11 venues in seven locations applied for hosting rights. The known possible venues for the contest included LänsiAuto Areena in Espoo, Helsinki Ice Hall, Helsinki Fair Center, industrial workshop buildings at Pasilan konepaja [fi] in Helsinki, Lahden suurhalli [fi] in Lahti, Rovaniemi Lapland Arena, Pirkkahalli (main hall of Tampere Exhibition and Sports Centre), Tampere Ice Stadium and Turkuhalli.^[5]

In the end, Helsinki was chosen, with the host venue being the Hartwall Areena.^[4] The venue is a large multi-functional indoor arena, which opened in 1997, and can take some 12,000–15,000 spectators for concerts. Its name comes from its largest sponsor, the beverage company Hartwall, also based in Helsinki. For the contest, the arena was referred to as the Helsinki Arena.

Format

On 12 March 2007, the draws for the running order for the semi-final, final and voting procedure took place. A new feature allowed five wild-card countries from the semi-final and three countries from the final to choose their starting position. The heads of delegation went on stage and chose the number they would take. In the semi-final, Austria, Andorra, Turkey, Slovenia and Latvia were able to choose their positions. In the final, Armenia, Ukraine and Germany were able to exercise this privilege. All countries opted for spots in the second half of both evenings. Shortly after the draw, the entries were approved by the EBU, ending the possibility of disqualification for the Israeli song.^{[citation needed]} The United Kingdom chose their entry after the deadline because they were granted special dispensation from the EBU.

 

The hosts Jaana Pelkonen and Mikko Leppilampi

The contest saw some minor changes to the voting time-frame. The compilation summary video of all entries including phone numbers was shown twice. The voting process was the same as 2006 except there was fifteen minutes to vote, an increase of five minutes on the 2006 contest. In the final, the results from each country were once again shown from one to seven points automatically on screen and only eight, ten and twelve were read by the spokespeople. For the first time, the winner was awarded a promotion tour around Europe, visiting Denmark, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Greece and Germany. The tour was held between 16 May and 21 May. The event was sponsored by Nordic communications group TeliaSonera, and — as with several previous contests — Nobel Biocare. Apocalyptica were the interval act, and played a medley of songs: Worlds Collide, Faraway and finally Life Burns!, but without the usual lyrics.

Visual design

The official logo of the contest remained the same as 2006; the flag in the centre of the heart was changed to the Finnish flag. The European Broadcasting Union and YLE announced that the theme for the 2007 contest would be "True Fantasy", which embraced Finland and "Finnishness" in terms of the polarities associated with the country.^[6] The design agency Dog Design was responsible for the design of the visual theme of the contest which incorporated vibrant kaleidoscopic patterns formed from various symbols including exclamation marks and the letter F.^[7] The stage was in the shape of a kantele, a traditional Finnish instrument. On 20 February 2007 a reworked official website for the contest was launched marking the first public exhibition of this year's theme. An official CD and DVD were released (but no HD DVD or Blu-ray, despite the event being broadcast in high definition for the first time). An official fan book was also released. The themes of the postcards (short videos between the acts) were short stories occurring in different Finnish landmarks.

Participating countries

Participating countries in a Eurovision Song Contest must be active members of the EBU.

42 countries submitted preliminary applications. Although in previous years the maximum number of participating countries was 40, the EBU allowed all 42 to participate in 2007. The Czech Republic, Serbia, Montenegro and Georgia all entered the contest for the first time in 2007.^{[citation needed]} Monaco announced its non-participation on 12 December 2006,^[2] and the EBU announced the final lineup of 42 countries on 15 December 2006.

Returning artists

Artist	Country	Previous year(s)
Evridiki	Cyprus	1983 (backing singer for Stavros and Constantina), 1987 (backing singer for Alexia), 1992, 1994
Eiríkur Hauksson	Iceland	1986 (as member of ICY), 1991 (for   Norway, as member of Just 4 Fun)
Karolina	Macedonia	2002
Edsilia Rombley	Netherlands	1998

Semi-final

The semi-final was held on 10 May 2007 at 21:00 (CET). 28 countries performed and all 42 participants voted.

  Qualifiers

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language^[8]	Points	Place^[9]
1	Bulgaria	Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankoulov	"Water"	Bulgarian	146	6
2	Israel	Teapacks	"Push the Button"	English, French, Hebrew	17	24
3	Cyprus	Evridiki	"Comme ci, comme ça"	French	65	15
4	Belarus	Koldun	"Work Your Magic"	English	176	4
5	Iceland	Eiríkur Hauksson	"Valentine Lost"	English	77	13
6	Georgia	Sopho	"Visionary Dream"	English	123	8
7	Montenegro	Stevan Faddy	"'Ajde, kroči" ('Ајде, крочи)	Montenegrin	33	22
8	Switzerland	DJ BoBo	"Vampires Are Alive"	English	40	20
9	Moldova	Natalia Barbu	"Fight"	English	91	10
10	Netherlands	Edsilia Rombley	"On Top of the World"	English	38	21
11	Albania	Frederik Ndoci	"Hear My Plea"	English, Albanian	49	17
12	Denmark	DQ	"Drama Queen"	English	45	19
13	Croatia	Dragonfly feat. Dado Topić	"Vjerujem u ljubav"	Croatian, English	54	16
14	Poland	The Jet Set	"Time to Party"	English	75	14
15	Serbia	Marija Šerifović	"Molitva" (Молитва)	Serbian	298	1
16	Czech Republic	Kabát	"Malá dáma"	Czech	1	28
17	Portugal	Sabrina	"Dança comigo"	Portuguese, English^[a]	88	11
18	Macedonia	Karolina	"Mojot svet" (Мојот свет)	Macedonian, English	97	9
19	Norway	Guri Schanke	"Ven a bailar conmigo"	English^[b]	48	18
20	Malta	Olivia Lewis	"Vertigo"	English	15	25
21	Andorra	Anonymous	"Salvem el món"	Catalan, English	80	12
22	Hungary	Magdi Rúzsa	"Unsubstantial Blues"	English	224	2
23	Estonia	Gerli Padar	"Partners in Crime"	English	33	22
24	Belgium	The KMG's	"LovePower"	English	14	26
25	Slovenia	Alenka Gotar	"Cvet z juga"	Slovene	140	7
26	Turkey	Kenan Doğulu	"Shake It Up Şekerim"	English	197	3
27	Austria	Eric Papilaya	"Get a Life – Get Alive"	English	4	27
28	Latvia	Bonaparti.lv	"Questa notte"	Italian	168	5

Final

The finalists were:

• the four automatic qualifiers France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom;
• the top 10 countries from the 2006 final (other than the automatic qualifiers);
• the top 10 countries from the 2007 semi-final.

The final was held on 12 May 2007 at 21:00 (CET) and was won by Serbia.

  Winner

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language^[8]	Points	Place^[10]
1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Marija Šestić	"Rijeka bez imena" (Ријека без имена)	Serbian	106	11
2	Spain	D'Nash	"I Love You Mi Vida"	Spanish^[c]	43	20
3	Belarus	Koldun	"Work Your Magic"	English	145	6
4	Ireland	Dervish	"They Can't Stop the Spring"	English	5	24
5	Finland	Hanna Pakarinen	"Leave Me Alone"	English	53	17
6	Macedonia	Karolina	"Mojot svet" (Мојот свет)	Macedonian, English	73	14
7	Slovenia	Alenka Gotar	"Cvet z juga"	Slovene	66	15
8	Hungary	Magdi Rúzsa	"Unsubstantial Blues"	English	128	9
9	Lithuania	4Fun	"Love or Leave"	English	28	21
10	Greece	Sarbel	"Yassou Maria" (Γεια σου Μαρία)	English^[d]	139	7
11	Georgia	Sopho	"Visionary Dream"	English	97	12
12	Sweden	The Ark	"The Worrying Kind"	English	51	18
13	France	Les Fatals Picards	"L'Amour à la française"	French, English ("Franglais")	19	22
14	Latvia	Bonaparti.lv	"Questa notte"	Italian	54	16
15	Russia	Serebro	"Song #1"	English	207	3
16	Germany	Roger Cicero	"Frauen regier'n die Welt"	German, English	49	19
17	Serbia	Marija Šerifović	"Molitva" (Молитва)	Serbian	268	1
18	Ukraine	Verka Serduchka	"Dancing Lasha Tumbai"	German, English, Surzhyk^[e]	235	2
19	United Kingdom	Scooch	"Flying the Flag (For You)"	English	19	22
20	Romania	Todomondo	"Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" (Люби, Люби, I Love You)	English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French, Romanian	84	13
21	Bulgaria	Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankoulov	"Water"	Bulgarian	157	5
22	Turkey	Kenan Doğulu	"Shake It Up Şekerim"	English	163	4
23	Armenia	Hayko	"Anytime You Need"	English, Armenian	138	8
24	Moldova	Natalia Barbu	"Fight"	English	109	10

Detailed voting results

All countries participating in the contest were required to use televoting and/or SMS voting during both evenings of the contest. In the event of technical difficulties, or if the votes of the country did not meet the EBU threshold, then a back-up jury's results were to be used. Albania and Andorra were the only countries that used juries. A draw was held in Helsinki to establish the order in which the countries presented their votes during the final.

Semi-final

Detailed voting results of the semi-final^[11][12]

Voting procedure used:   100% televoting   100% jury vote		Total score	Montenegro	Belarus	Armenia	Andorra	Austria	France	Denmark	Greece	Spain	Serbia	Finland	Turkey	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Belgium	Portugal	Albania	Romania	Cyprus	Croatia	Slovenia	Israel	Germany	Lithuania	Norway	Switzerland	Czech Republic	Netherlands	Ireland	Malta	Estonia	Georgia	Bulgaria	Sweden	Ukraine	Russia	Latvia	Iceland	Poland	Moldova	United Kingdom	Macedonia	Hungary
Contestants	Bulgaria	146	5		1		6	8		10	10	5	2	12	3	2	5	1	1	12	6	3	6	4				10			3		3			2					5	6	7	8
	Israel	17						6																	4			2				3					1		1
	Cyprus	65			4			5		12						5		8	7				4	3										7								10
	Belarus	176	4		12				1	7		4		5	2		1	4	3	10			12		10	3		5		6	7	7	4	6	3	12	12	10	4	4	12		4	2
	Iceland	77		3					10				12												5	12						6	1		12			6						10
	Georgia	123		8	8			4		6	3		4	10		1				7			8		8				5			10		3		10	10	7		3	8
	Montenegro	33										8			5			7			5	5																					3
	Switzerland	40				6			3	2										2	1	2		8							10	2						4
	Moldova	91		12	7					3	6			8			12		12	6			3							2			7	1		6	6
	Netherlands	38				5			4							10	3						1			1	1				8													5
	Albania	49	6				3			8				4	4						3			1			7							2								1	10
	Denmark	45				2						3											5			4			1	5	6				4				8			7
	Croatia	54	7				7					6			10			3				8		2			5																6
	Poland	75	1	5	5	10	4	3	2			2								3				5	3					10			6			5		1	2			3	2	3
	Serbia	298	12	10	10		12	7	6	5	5		8		12	4	4	2	6	8	12	12	7	10	1	8	12	12	10	8	1		8	8	10	8	8	2	10	5	6	5	12	12
	Czech Republic	1																														1
	Portugal	88		7	6	12		10			8	1				3				1		1		7			8		4									3		10	7
	Macedonia	97	10				5					10		6	7			10	2		8	10					6	6						12	5
	Norway	48	2		3	3			7		4		1				2												3		2	4			6				7	2	1			1
	Malta	15												7				6																								2
	Andorra	80		4						4	12		5	2			6				2	4	2		2	2		7		4		5			2		4		6	6			1
	Hungary	224		1		4	8	2	12		1	12	10	1	1	7	10	5	10	4	7	6		6	7	10	4	8	8	7	4	8	10	4	8	4	3	8	12	8		4
	Estonia	33											6												6					3			2					12			4
	Belgium	14																											2				12
	Slovenia	140	8	6		8	2	1			7	7		3	6	6	7		4		10					5		4	6	1	5			5		7	5	5		7	3		5	7
	Turkey	197	3		2	7	10	12	8		2		7		8	12		12	8					12		6	10	1	12					10	7	1	7		3	1	10	12	8	6
	Austria	4				1																					3
	Latvia	168		2			1		5	1			3			8	8		5	5	4	7	10		12	7	2	3	7	12	12	12	5		1	3	2		5	12	2	8		4

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the semi-final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
9	Serbia	Austria,   Bosnia and Herzegovina,   Croatia,   Czech Republic,   Hungary,   Macedonia,   Montenegro,   Slovenia,   Switzerland
6	Turkey	Albania,   Belgium,   France,   Germany,   Netherlands,   United Kingdom
5	Belarus	Armenia,   Israel,   Moldova,   Russia,   Ukraine
	Latvia	Estonia,   Ireland,   Lithuania,   Malta,   Poland
3	Hungary	Denmark,   Iceland,   Serbia
	Iceland	Finland,   Norway,   Sweden
	Moldova	Belarus,   Portugal,   Romania
2	Bulgaria	Cyprus,   Turkey
1	Andorra	Spain
	Belgium	Georgia
	Cyprus	Greece
	Estonia	Latvia
	Macedonia	Bulgaria
	Portugal	Andorra

Final

Detailed voting results of the final^[13][14]

Voting procedure used:   100% televoting   100% jury vote		Total score	Montenegro	Belarus	Armenia	Andorra	Austria	France	Denmark	Greece	Spain	Serbia	Finland	Turkey	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Belgium	Portugal	Albania	Romania	Cyprus	Croatia	Slovenia	Israel	Germany	Lithuania	Norway	Switzerland	Czech Republic	Netherlands	Ireland	Malta	Estonia	Georgia	Bulgaria	Sweden	Ukraine	Russia	Latvia	Iceland	Poland	Moldova	United Kingdom	Macedonia	Hungary
Contestants	Bosnia and Herzegovina	106	7		1		8	1	7			8		10				8			10	8		3		6	8	4	7						6								4
	Spain	43	4					6		1						3	8	12					2				5				2
	Belarus	145	3		10					5		2			4		1	2	1	6			12		7			2			10	7	8	1		12	12	8	4	7	10		7	4
	Ireland	5																5
	Finland	53		1		7			4															1	5	4	1					6			12				12
	Macedonia	73	10				1					10		1	8			3			8	10					6	5					1	10
	Slovenia	66	8	4							3	5			7	2	3				7				1						5					4	3	4		4			6
	Hungary	128				6	2		8			12	10			5	2		8		4	5		7	4	8	3		4	5	1	4	5		8			5	8	2		2
	Lithuania	28		2		1																								12								10				3
	Greece	139		3	8			3	1		2	4		4	3	8		7	10	12			1	10			4	3	5				4	12	4				5		6	10	3	7
	Georgia	97		6	5					3			7	5	1	6				1	2	2	6		12			1	2	1		5				8	7	6		5	4			2
	Sweden	51				2			12				8													12													10			7
	France	19			2	8												4							3							2
	Latvia	54																	2		1	6			10	3			3	10	4	10								1		4
	Russia	207	6	12	12	3		2	2	8	4	7	3	8	2		4		3	7	3	3	8	6	6	5		6		6	6	12	7	5	5	10		7	1	3	8	6	5	6
	Germany	49				5	7		5		5		1					6									7		6			3			1				2			1
	Serbia	268	12	7	7		12	8	6	4	1		12		12	7	5	1	6	3	12	12	3	8		10	12	8	8	4	8		6	6	10	6	5	3	7	8	5		12	12
	Ukraine	235	2	10	6	12	4	4	3	7	7	3	6	3	5	1	12		4	4	5	4	10	5	8	2	2	12	1	8	3	8	10	3	3		8	12	6	12	7	8	2	3
	United Kingdom	19																												7	12
	Romania	84				10	3	7		2	12			2			7			5			7							3				2		2	1	1			12			8
	Bulgaria	157	5		4		6	5		12	10	6	5	6	6	4	6		5	10	6	7		4				7			7	1				3	4	2			3	5	8	10
	Turkey	163	1				10	12	10				4		10	12		10	7					12		7	10		12				2	7	7	1	2		3		1	12	10	1
	Armenia	138		5			5	10		6	8			12		10				8			5	2				10	10				12	8		5	10			10	2
	Moldova	109		8	3	4				10	6	1	2	7			10		12	2		1	4		2	1				2			3	4	2	7	6			6			1	5

12 points

Below is a summary of all 12 points in the final:

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
9	Serbia	Austria,   Bosnia and Herzegovina,   Croatia,   Finland,   Hungary,   Macedonia,   Montenegro,   Slovenia,   Switzerland
5	Ukraine	Andorra,   Czech Republic,   Latvia,   Poland,   Portugal
	Turkey	Belgium,   France,   Germany,   Netherlands,   United Kingdom
3	Russia	Armenia,   Belarus,   Estonia
	Belarus	Israel,   Russia,   Ukraine
2	Armenia	Georgia,   Turkey
	Finland	Iceland,   Sweden
	Greece	Bulgaria,   Cyprus
	Sweden	Denmark,   Norway
	Romania	Moldova,   Spain
1	Bulgaria	Greece
	Georgia	Lithuania
	Hungary	Serbia
	Lithuania	Ireland
	Moldova	Romania
	Spain	Albania
	United Kingdom	Malta

Spokespersons

The order in which each country announced their votes was determined in a draw during the heads of delegation meeting. The spokespersons are shown alongside each country.^[15]

1.   Montenegro – Vidak Latković
2.   Belarus – Juliana
3.   Armenia – Sirusho
4.   Andorra – Marian van de Wal
5.   Austria – Eva Pölzl [de]
6.   France – Vanessa Dolmen [fr]
7.   Denmark – Susanne Georgi
8.   Greece – Alexis Kostalas [el]
9.   Spain – Ainhoa Arbizu [es]
10.   Serbia – Maja Nikolić [sr]
11.   Finland – Laura Voutilainen
12.   Turkey – Meltem Ersan Yazgan
13.   Bosnia and Herzegovina – Vesna Andree Zaimović
14.   Belgium – Maureen Louys
15.   Portugal – Francisco Mendes
16.   Albania – Leon Menkshi
17.   Romania – Andreea Marin Bănică
18.   Cyprus – Giannis Haralambous
19.   Croatia – Barbara Kolar
20.   Slovenia – Peter Poles
21.   Israel – Jason Danino-Holt^[16]
22.   Germany – Thomas Hermanns
23.   Lithuania – Lavija Šurnaitė [lt]
24.   Norway – Synnøve Svabø
25.   Switzerland – Sven Epiney
26.   Czech Republic – Andrea Savane
27.   Netherlands – Paul de Leeuw and Edsilia Rombley
28.   Ireland – Linda Martin
29.   Malta – Mireille Bonello
30.   Estonia – Laura Põldvere
31.   Georgia – Neli Agirba
32.   Bulgaria – Mira Dobreva
33.   Sweden – André Pops
34.   Ukraine – Kateryna Osadcha
35.   Russia – Yana Churikova
36.   Latvia – Jānis Šipkevics [lv]
37.   Iceland – Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir
38.   Poland – Maciej Orłoś [pl]
39.   Moldova – Andrei Porubin
40.   United Kingdom – Fearne Cotton
41.   Macedonia – Elena Risteska
42.   Hungary – Éva Novodomszky

Broadcasts

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Show(s)	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Albania	All shows	TVSH	Leon Menkshi
Andorra	All shows	ATV	Meri Picart [ca] and Josep Lluís Trabal
Armenia	–	Armenia 1	Gohar Gasparyan
Austria	–	ORF 2	Andi Knoll
Belarus	All shows	Belarus-1	Denis Kurian and Alexander Tikhanovich
Belgium	All shows	La Une	French: Jean-Pierre Hautier and Jean-Louis Lahaye [fr]	^[17]
		één	Dutch: André Vermeulen and Anja Daems
		La Première	French: Patrick Duhamel [fr] and Corinne Boulangier [fr]	^[17]
		Radio 2	Dutch: Michel Follet and Sven Pichal [nl]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	All shows	BHT 1	Dejan Kukrić
Bulgaria	All shows	Channel 1	Elena Rosberg and Georgi Kushvaliev
Croatia	All shows	HRT	Duško Ćurlić
Cyprus	All shows	RIK 1	Vaso Komninou
Czech Republic	All shows	ČT1	Kateřina Kristelová [cz]	^[18]^[19]^[20]
	Final		Josef Vojtek
Denmark	All shows	DR1	Søren Nystrøm Rasted and Adam Duvå Hall [da]	^[21]
Estonia	–	ETV	Marko Reikop	^[22]
Finland	All shows	YLE TV2	Finnish: Heikki Paasonen and Ellen Jokikunnas	^[23]^[24]
	Final		Finnish: Asko Murtomäki [fi]
	All shows	YLE FST5	Swedish: Thomas Lundin [sv]	^[25]^[26]
		YLE Radio Suomi	Finnish: Sanna Kojo and Jorma Hietamäki	^[27]^[28]
		YLE Radio Vega	Unknown	^[29]^[30]
France	Semi-final	France 4	Peggy Olmi [fr] and Yann Renoard
	Final	France 3	Julien Lepers and Tex [fr]
		France Bleu	Yves Derisbourg [fr]
Georgia	–	1TV	Sandro Gabisonia and Sopho Altunashvili
Germany	All shows	Das Erste	Peter Urban	^[31]
	Final	NDR 2	Thomas Mohr
		hr3	Tim Frühling	^[32]
Greece	All shows	NET	Fotis Sergoulopoulos [el] and Maria Bakodimou	^[33]
Hungary	All shows	m1	Gábor Gundel Takács [hu]
Iceland	–	Sjónvarpið	Sigmar Guðmundsson [is]	^[34]
Ireland	Semi-final	RTÉ Two	Marty Whelan	^[35]^[36]^[37]
	Final	RTÉ One
		RTÉ Radio 1	Larry Gogan
Israel	–	IBA	No commentary
Latvia	–	LTV	Kārlis Streips [lv]
Lithuania	–	LRT	Darius Užkuraitis
Macedonia	–	MRT	Milanka Rašić
Malta	–	TVM	Antonia Micallef
Moldova	–	TVM	Vitalie Rotaru
Montenegro	–	TVCG 2	Dražen Bauković and Tamara Ivanković
Netherlands	All shows	Nederland 1	Cornald Maas	^[38]
	Final		Paul de Leeuw
Norway	All shows	NRK1	Per Sundnes	^[39]
Poland	All shows	TVP1	Artur Orzech	^[40]
Portugal	–	RTP1	Isabel Angelino [pt]
	–		Jorge Gabriel
Romania	–	TVR1	Andreea Demirgian
Russia	–	Channel One	Yuriy Aksyuta [ru] and Yelena Batinova [ru]
Serbia	All shows	RTS1	Duška Vučinić-Lučić
Slovenia	–	RTV SLO	Mojca Mavec [sl]
Spain	All shows	La Primera	Beatriz Pécker
Sweden	All shows	SVT1	Kristian Luuk and Josef Sterzenbach [sv]
		SR P3	Carolina Norén	^[41]
Switzerland	All shows	SF zwei	German: Bernard Thurnheer [de]
		TSR 1	French: Jean-Marc Richard
	Semi-final		French: Nicolas Tanner
	Final		French: Henri Dès
	All shows	TSI 1	Italian: Sandy Altermatt [it] and Claudio Lazzarino
Turkey	All shows	TRT 1	Hakan Urgancı
Ukraine	All shows	First National	Timur Miroshnychenko
United Kingdom	Semi-final	BBC Three	Paddy O'Connell and Sarah Cawood
	Final	BBC One	Terry Wogan
		BBC Radio 2	Ken Bruce

Broadcasters and commentators in non-participating countries

Country	Show(s)	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Ref(s)
Australia	All shows	SBS	Des Mangan
Azerbaijan	All shows	İTV	Husniya Maharramova
Gibraltar	Final	GBC	Un­known	^[42]

International broadcasts

•   Australia – Although Australia was not itself eligible to enter, the semi-final and final were broadcast the event on SBS.^[43] As was the case each year, they were not broadcast live due to the difference in Australian time zones. Australia aired the United Kingdom's broadcast, including commentary from Paddy O'Connell, Sarah Cawood and Terry Wogan. Before the broadcasts, viewers were told by an SBS host that the Eurovision Song Contest was one of their most popular programmes. The final rated an estimated 436,000 viewers, and was ranked number 20 on the broadcasters top rating programs of the 2006/2007 financial year.^[44]
•   Azerbaijan – Azerbaijan were willing to enter the contest, but since AzTV applied for active EBU membership but was denied on 18 June 2007, they missed the contest and had to wait until they were accepted. Another Azerbaijani broadcaster, İctimai Televiziya və Radio Yayımları Şirkəti, broadcast the contest. It was a passive EBU member at the time, and had broadcast it for the previous two years. It was the only non-participating broadcaster this year to send its own commentators to the contest.^[45]
•   Italy – Italian television had not entered since 1997. National broadcaster RAI is in strong competition with commercial TV stations and believes that Eurovision would not be a popular show in Italy, although the 1991 edition (held in Rome) was followed by 6 million people. They have not broadcast the contest in recent years, although an independent Italian channel for the gay community has shown the show in 2003.^[46]

A live broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest was broadcast worldwide by satellite through Eurovision streams such as Channel One Russia, ERT World, TVE Internacional, TVP Polonia, RTP Internacional and TVR i. The official Eurovision Song Contest website also provided a live stream without commentary using the peer-to-peer transport Octoshape.

High-definition broadcast

Yle produced the event in 1080i HD and 5.1 surround sound.^[47] This was the first year that the event was broadcast live in HD. The British broadcaster BBC broadcast the final in high definition on BBC HD.^[48] Swedish broadcaster SVT broadcast both the semi-final and the final on SVT HD.^[49] However, the event was available on DVD in standard-definition only, with no DVD or Blu-ray version available in high-definition.

Other awards

In addition to the main winner's trophy, the Marcel Bezençon Awards and the Barbara Dex Award were contested during the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. The OGAE, "General Organisation of Eurovision Fans" voting poll also took place before the contest.

Marcel Bezençon Awards

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.^[50] The awards are divided into three categories: Artistic Award which was voted by previous winners of the contest, Composers Award, and Press Award.^[51]

Category	Country	Song	Performer(s)	Songwriter(s)
Artistic Award	Serbia	"Molitva"	Marija Šerifović	Vladimir Graić Saša Milošević Mare
Composers Award	Hungary	"Unsubstantial Blues"	Magdi Rúzsa	Magdolna Rúzsa Imre Mózsik
Press Award	Ukraine	"Dancing Lasha Tumbai"	Verka Serduchka	Andriy Danylko

OGAE

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 2007 poll was also the winner of the contest, Serbia's "Molitva" performed by Marija Šerifović; the top five results are shown below.^[52][53][54]

Country	Performer(s)	Song	OGAE result
Serbia	Marija Šerifović	"Molitva"	184
Belarus	Dmitry Koldun	"Work Your Magic"	159
Switzerland	DJ BoBo	"Vampires Are Alive"	156
Cyprus	Evridiki	"Comme ci, comme ça"	142
Greece	Sarbel	"Yassou Maria"	107

• Table reflects the corrected result of Switzerland since the cited source had a calculation error.

Barbara Dex Award

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.

Country	Performer(s)
Ukraine	Verka Serduchka

Official album

 

Cover art of the official album

Eurovision Song Contest: Helsinki 2007 was the official compilation album of the 2007 contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by CMC International on 20 April 2007. The album featured all 42 songs that entered in the 2007 contest, including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify into the grand final.^[55]

Charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position
German Compilation Albums (Offizielle Top 100)^[56]	3

Notes and references

Notes

1. Contains words in French and Spanish
2. Although the song was performed in English, the title and sentence in the lyrics "Ven a bailar conmigo" is in Spanish.
3. Contains words in English
4. The song is entirely in English but the title is in Greek
5. The song also contained words in Imaginary language.

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