Eurovision Song Contest 2006 participants | Eurovision Song Contest News - 2008 Belgrade, Serbia 

Eurovision Song Contest 2006 - semifinal

All countries that didn't make it to the top-10 of last year's final will have to participate in the semifinal again. Austria, originally one of the semifinal's participants, decided to withdraw. Georgia and Armenia might join the list as new participants.

		country	participant(s)	song	pts	rnk
	16	Finland	Lordi	Hard rock hallelujah	292	1
	22	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Hari Mata Hari	Lejla	267	2
	13	Russia	Dima Bilan	Never let you go	217	3
	20	Sweden	Carola	Invincible	214	4
	18	Lithuania	LT United	We are the winners	163	5
	1	Armenia	André	Without your love	150	6
	15	Ukraine	Tina Karol	Show me your love	146	7
	14	Turkey	Sibel Tüzün	Superstar	91	8
	8	Ireland	Brian Kennedy	Every song is a cry for love	79	9
	11	FYR Macedonia	Elena Risteska	Ninanajna	76	10
	12	Poland	Ich Troje	Follow my heart	70	11
	7	Belgium	Kate Ryan	Je t'adore	69	12
	23	Iceland	Silvia Night	Congratulations	62	13
	6	Albania	Luiz Ejlli	Zjarr e ftohtë	58	14
	9	Cyprus	Annet Artani	Why angels cry	58	15
	3	Slovenia	Anžej Dežan	Mr. Nobody	45	16
	2	Bulgaria	Mariana Popova	Let me cry	36	17
	21	Estonia	Sandra	Through my window	28	18
	19	Portugal	Nonstop	Coisas de nada	26	19
	17	The Netherlands	Treble	Amambanda	22	20
	10	Monaco	Séverine Ferrer	La coco-dance	14	21
	5	Belarus	Polina Smolova	Mum	10	22
	4	Andorra	Jennifer	Sense tu	8	23

Click here for a full crostable of the votes (available after the contest)

Eurovision Song Contest 2006 - final

Countries that managed to reach the top-10 of last year's final and the so-called 'Big4' (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) will compete in the final.

		country	participant(s)	song	pts	rnk
	17	Finland	Lordi	Hard rock hallelujah	292	1
	10	Russia	Dima Bilan	Never let you go	248	2
	13	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Hari Mata Hari	Lejla	229	3
	12	Romania	Mihai Traistariu	Tornero	172	4
	22	Sweden	Carola	Invincible	170	5
	14	Lithuania	LT United	We are the winners	162	6
	18	Ukraine	Tina Karol	Show me your love	145	7
	24	Armenia	André	Without your love	129	8
	16	Greece	Anna Vissi	Everything	128	9
	21	Ireland	Brian Kennedy	Every song is a cry for love	93	10
	23	Turkey	Sibel Tüzün	Superstar	91	11
	20	Croatia	Severina	Moja štikla	56	12
	11	FYR Macedonia	Elena Risteska	Ninanajna	56	13
	8	Germany	Texas Lightning	No, no, never	36	14
	5	Norway	Christine Guldbrandsen	Alvedansen	36	15
	1	Switzerland	Six4One	If we all give a little	30	16
	4	Latvia	Cosmos	I hear your heart	30	17
	9	Denmark	Sidsel Ben Semmane	Twist of love	26	18
	15	United Kingdom	Daz Sampson	Teenage life	25	19
	2	Moldova	Arsenium & Natalia Gordienko	Loca	22	20
	6	Spain	Las Ketchup	Bloody Mary	18	21
	19	France	Virginie Pouchin	Il était temps	5	22
	3	Israel	Eddie Butler	Ze hazman	4	23
	7	Malta	Fabrizio Faniello	I do	1	24

Click here for a full crostable of the votes (available after the contest)

The 51st Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Athens, which is the political, cultural and economic capital of Greece. Thanks to Helena Paparizou and her song My number one, the Greek broadcaster ERT will host the contest, for the first time. The semifinal is scheduled for 18th May, the final for 20th May.