Eurovision Song Contest 1999 participants | Eurovision Song Contest News - 2008 Belgrade, Serbia 

The EBU issued some changes in the ESC rules. The language in which the singers had to perform the song became a free choice and the number of participants was reduced to 23 again. Furthermore the EBU.. More..

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Date of the Eurovision Song Contest 1999: 29 May 1999
Location: Israeli Congress Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Broadcaster: IBA
Host(s): Yigal Ravid, Dafna Dekel and Sigal Shachmon
Participating countries: 23
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.

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Eurovision Song Contest 1999

		country	participant(s)	song	pts	rnk
	15	Sweden	Charlotte Nilsson	Take me to your heaven	155	1
	13	Iceland	Selma Björnsdóttir	All out of luck	146	2
	21	Germany	Sürpriz	Reise nach Jerusalem - Kudüs'e seyahat	140	3
	4	Croatia	Doris Dragovic	Marija Magdalena	120	4
	19	Israel	Eden	Yom huledeth	93	5
	23	Estonia	Evelin Samuel and Camille	Diamond of night	90	6
	22	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Dino and Beatrice	Putnici	76	7
	9	Denmark	Trine Jepsen & Michael Teschl	This time (I mean it)	69	8
	18	Austria	Bobbie Singer	Reflection	65	9
	11	The Netherlands	Marlayne	One good reason	65	10
	6	Slovenia	Darja Svajger	For a thousand years	50	11
	2	Belgium	Venessa Chinltor	Like the wind	38	12
	8	Norway	Stig André Van Eijk	Living my life without you	37	13
	5	United Kingdom	Precious	Say it again	34	14
	20	Malta	Times 3	Believe 'n peace	32	15
	7	Turkey	Tuba Önal & Grup Mystik	Dön artik	21	16
	10	France	Nayah	Je veux donner ma voix	20	17
	17	Ireland	The Mullan's	When you need me	18	18
	12	Poland	Mietek (Mieczyslaw) Szczesniak	Przytul mnie mocno	17	19
	1	Lithuania	Aiste Smilgeviciute	Strazdas	13	20
	16	Portugal	Rui Bandeira	Como tudo começou	12	21
	14	Cyprus	Marlain Angelidou	Tha'nai erotas	10	22
	3	Spain	Lydia	No quiero escuchar	3	23

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The EBU issued some changes in the ESC rules. The language in which the singers had to perform the song became a free choice and the number of participants was reduced to 23 again. Furthermore the EBU decided that the hosting broadcasting company could decide not to use an orchestra, which IBA did. Latvia wanted to take part at first but withdrew at a late stage because of financial problems. Hungary was offered the free spot but they declined and so Portugal eventually got the opportunity to go to Jerusalem. While the security was an important issue during this Eurovision Song Contest, the atmosphere from Jerusalem was pleasant. The predictable but still favorite ABBA-sound from Sweden ended up as winner. Iceland finished second, performing as the 13th country with the song "All out of luck". One could say that they asked for it.