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The EBU intended to have 25 countries in this contest, the 45th, but after the withdrawal of Greece, they didn't appoint a replacing country so 24 countries were in competition. Among them was Latvia .. More..

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Date of the Eurovision Song Contest 2000: 13 May 2000
Location: Globen Arena - Stockholm, Sweden
Broadcaster: SVT
Host(s): Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin
Participating countries: 24
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 2000

		country	participant(s)	song	pts	rnk
	14	Denmark	Olsen brothers	Fly on the wings of love	195	1
	9	Russia	Alsou	Solo	155	2
	21	Latvia	BrainStorm	My star	136	3
	4	Estonia	Ines	Once in a lifetime	98	4
	15	Germany	Stefan Raab	Wadde hadde dudde da	96	5
	23	Ireland	Eamonn Toal	Millennium of love	92	6
	18	Sweden	Roger Pontare	When spirits are calling my name	88	7
	7	Malta	Claudette Pace	Desire	73	8
	17	Croatia	Goran Karan	Kada zaspu andeli	70	9
	22	Turkey	Pinar Ayhan & S.O.S. band	Yorgunum anla	59	10
	8	Norway	Charmed	My heart goes boom	57	11
	12	Iceland	Einer Ágúst Víðisson en Telma Ágústdóttir	Tell me! (Hvert sem er)	45	12
	2	The Netherlands	Linda Wagenmakers	No goodbyes	40	13
	24	Austria	The rounder girls	All to you	34	14
	19	FYR Macedonia	XXL	100\% te ljubam	29	15
	3	United Kingdom	Nicki French	Don't play that song again	28	16
	6	Romania	Taxi	The moon	25	17
	13	Spain	Serafín Zubiri	Colgado de un sueño	18	18
	20	Finland	Nina Åström	A little bit	18	18
	16	Switzerland	Jane Bogaert	La vita cos'è?	14	20
	11	Cyprus	Voice	Nomiza	8	21
	1	Israel	Ping Pong	Sa'me'akh	7	22
	5	France	Sofia Mestari	On aura le ciel	5	23
	10	Belgium	Nathalie Sorce	Envie de vivre	2	24

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The EBU intended to have 25 countries in this contest, the 45th, but after the withdrawal of Greece, they didn't appoint a replacing country so 24 countries were in competition. Among them was Latvia that made a great debut finishing 3rd. Denmark was a surprising winner. The internet polls were wrong, favorites like UK and The Netherlands became 16th and 13th while winner Denmark was predicted to finish 18th in the internet polls. With 13.000 spectators in the hall, a new Eurovision record was set, it lasted until 2001.