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Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2004.

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Semi-final
№	Country	Performer	Song
1	Finland	Jari Sillanpää	Takes 2 to Tango
2	Belarus	Alexandra & Konstantin	My Galileo
3	Switzerland	Piero Esteriore	Celebrate
4	Latvia	Ivo Fomins & Tomass Kleins	Dziesma par Laimi
5	Israel	David D’Or	Le’ha’amin
6	Andorra	Marta Roure	Jugarem a Estimar-nos
7	Portugal	Sofia	Foi Magia
8	Malta	Julie & Ludwig	On Again Off Again
9	Monaco	Maryon	Prenez Soin de Notre Planéte
10	Greece	Sakis Rouvas	Shake It
11	Ukraina	Ruslana (Ruslana Lyzhychko)	Wild Dances
12	Lithuania	Linas & Simona	What’s Happened To Your Love
13	Albania	Anjeza Shahini	The Image of You (Imazhi Yt)
14	Cyprus	Lisa Andreas	Stronger Every Minute
15	Macedonia	Tose Proeski	Life is a Book
16	Slovenia	Platin	Stay Forever
17	Estonia	Neiokösö	Tii
18	Croatia	Ivan Mikulich	You Were My Only Love
19	Denmark	Tomas Thordarson	Shame on You (Sig Det’ Løgn)
20	Serbia & Montenegro	Željko Joksimovic	Lane moje
21	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Deen	In The Disco
22	Netherlands	Reunion	Without You
Final
№	Country	Performer	Song
1	Spain	Ramón	Para Llenarme De Ti
2	Austria	Tie Break	Du Bist
3	Norway	Knut Anders	High
4	France	Jonatan Cerrada	À Chaque Pas
5	Serbia & Montenegro	Željko Joksimovic	Lane moje
6	Malta	Julie & Ludwig	On Again Off Again
7	Netherlands	Re-Union	Without You
8	Germany	Max (Maximilian Mutzke)	Can’t Wait Until Tonight
9	Albania	Anjeza Shahini	The Image of You (Imazhi Yt)
10	Ukraina	Ruslana (Ruslana Lyzhychko)	Wild Dances
11	Croatia	Ivan Mikulich	You Were My Only Love
12	Bosnia-Herzegovina	Deen	In The Disco
13	Belgium	Xandee	1 Life
14	Russia	Julia Savicheva	Believe Me
15	Macedonia	Tose Proeski	Life is a Book
16	Greece	Sakis Rouvas	Shake It
17	Iceland	Jón Jósep Snjæbjörnsson (Jónsi)	Heaven
18	Ireland	Chris Doran	If the World Stops Turning
19	Poland	Blue Cafe	Love Song
20	The United Kindom of Great Britain	James Fox	Hold on to Our Love
21	Cyprus	Lisa Andreas	Stronger Every Minute
22	Turkey	Athena	For Real
23	Romania	Sanda Ladosi	I Admit
24	Sweden	Lena Philipsson	Det Gör Ont

    In 2004, according to new rules, for the first time in histories of the Eurovision 49-th Eurovision Song Contest will pass to two stages during two days - all over again a semifinal, and next day, accordingly, the final.

By new rules, at once to participation in the final are supposed :

•  The countries - members of  VIS club (Very important Sponsors) - 4 countries (France, Germany, Spain, the Great Britain), brought in the greatest feasible contribution as alive forces and technical equipments (in sense - experts and the equipments), and banknotes in business of construction and development EBU as a whole (not just for Eurovision). For this contribution (and also as a token of a recognition of the last merits) these countries have received the lifelong right every year to participate in competition irrespective of a place occupied the last year.
•  The country - the winner of the last competition (in this case - Turkey, the winner of 2003 year).
•  The countries so-called (me so-called) the Super League - which have occupied the places at the last competition in first ten after the winner, that is about 2-nd on 11-th. In this case - Belgium, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Poland, Iceland, Romania and Ireland.
•  By results of a semifinal 10 more countries which also will take part in struggle for a rank of the winner of 49-th Eurovision Song Contest 2004 will be defined.

The following countries will take part in a semifinal of Contest:

•   The countries so-called (besides, me so-called) the Lowest League - not occupied in the last Contest (in this case - in 2003 year) places in first ten. It is Bosnia - Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Israel, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Ukraine.
•   The countries which have occupied on before last (in 2002 year) Eurovision Song Contest the latest places, received for it a red card and removed for one year from a field ;-) Year has passed, term of the imposed collecting has expired, the stumbled countries have realized the mistakes, have expiated their fair work for the blessing of all progressive mankind, and now with clear conscience come back in formation :-). It is Denmark, Finland, Former Yugoslavian Republic Macedonia, Lithuania, Switzerland and Monaco.
•   The countries - the beginners for the first time participating in Contest - Albania, Andorra, Belarus and Serbia with Montenegro.

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