#EurovisionAgain: Carola wins the voting for the 1991 edition

#EurovisionAgain: Carola wins the voting for the 1991 edition
Sunday, 31 May 2020

  • #Eurovision Again has given the chance to all Eurovision fans to watch once again past editions of the Eurovision Song Contests and feel the joy and excitement of the contest without any interruptions. Saturday night the 1991 edition hit the screens once again, on the ESC Youtube Channel followed by an online voting that crowned Carola winner of that year's edition.

    The first to launch such initiative, was a group of fans that uploaded past events, while EBU followed through its official Eurovision Youtube Channel. Once the competing part of the contest is over, the audience has the chance to cast its votes and make up a new result for each edition.

     

    Eurovision 1991

    The EBU chose to rebroadcast this time one of the most exciting editions of the contest with a dramatic voting that led to a tie between Sweden and France and required the sets of 10 points awarded to be counted, in order to determine the final winner. Both countries had reached a total of 146 points each while the same time they had the exact same number of awarded 12 points , four for each one. The organisers had to count the 10 points awarded in order to determine that Carola was the final winner being awarded with 4 times with 10 points while Amina from France had received 10 points only two times.

    However even in the voting that followed the rebroadcast did we see any channges on the first three top placing with Sweden maitain the first place followed by France 2nd and Israel in 3rd place. Moreover the overall results that were determined by an online voting on the #EurovisionAgain twitter account develeped as pictured below: 

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    Although the first three placings remained the same we had some ups and downs for the rest participation such as Greece which came 5th in last night's voting climbing 8 places on the scoreboard from 13th that was its actual placing back in 1991, while Yugoslavia gained 14 places. Here are the rest of the results comparing them to the actual ones in 1991: 

    1. Sweden – Carola “Fångad av en stormvind” (-)
    2. France – Amina “C’est le dernier qui a parlé qui a raison” (-)
    3. Israel – Duo Datz “Kan” (-)
    4. Turkey – İzel Çeliköz, Reyhan Karaca & Can Uğurluer “İki Dakika” (+8)
    5. Greece – Sofia Vossou “Anixi” (+8)
    6. United Kingdom – Samantha Janus “A Message to Your Heart” (+5)
    7. Yugoslavia – Baby Doll “Brazil” (+14)
    8. Spain – Sergio Dalma ”Bailar pegados” (-4)
    9. Belgium – Clouseau “Geef het op” (+7)
    10. Portugal – Dulce Pontes “Lusitana paixão” (-2)
    11. Finland – Kaija Kärkinen “Hullu yö” (+9)
    12. Νorway – Just 4 Fun “Mrs. Thompson” (+5)
    13. Switzerland – Sandra Simó “Canzone per te” (-8)
    14. Cyprus – Elena Patroklou “SOS” (-4)
    15. Ireland – Kim Jackson “Could It Be That I’m In Love” (-5)
    16. Italy – Peppino di Capri  “Comme è ddoce ‘o mare” (-9)
    17. Iceland – Stefán & Eyfi "Nina” (-2)
    18. Malta – Georgina & Paul Giordimaina “Could It Be” (-12)
    19. Denmark – Anders Frandsen “Lige der hvor hjertet slår” (-)
    20. Luxembourg – Sarah Bray “Un baiser volé” (-6)
    21. Germany – Atlantis 2000 “Dieser Traum darf niemals sterben” (-3)
    22. Austria – Thomas Forstner ”Venedig im Regen“ (-)

    Lets enjoy Carola's winning performance once more and in case you miss out the show you can watch again the speicific edition of the contest on the official ESC Youtube channel.

     

    #EurovisionAgain results 

    Apart from last night's 1998 edition,  the #eurovisionagain winners of the contest have been Katrina And The Waves for the 1997 edition , Carola for 2006 ( with Lordi coming second).  Alexander Rybak and  Emmelie De Forest remained the winners of 2009 and 2013 respectively.   On April 25 the 2007 contest was rebroadcasted with the online voting crowning winner Verka Serduchka with Dancing Lasha Tumbai  leaving second Serbia (the actual winner back in 2007). One week before the 2015 edition was aired again and Mans Zelmerlow maintained the first winning place with Belgium and  Loic Nottet coming 2nd.

    On May 2,  the 2016 editon of the Eurovision Song Contest was broadcasted again with Dami Im and her entry Sound Of Silence topping the online voting instead of the actual winner Ukraine which came 4th, while in 2nd place we saw Bulgaria with Poli Genova! The following weekend fans had the chance to watch again the 1998 edition with Dana Iternational and her entry "Diva " winning the online voting while United Kingdomg with Imaani confimed its 2nd placing. The Netherlands came 3rd taking Malta's position which was the actual 3rd runner up back in 1998.

    On Sunday, May 17,  the 1974 edition was  rebroadcasted seeing ABBA's "Waterloo" tiumph once again. The top three countries on the scoreboard of that year’s contest maintained their placings. Italy came 2nd with Gigliola Cinquetti and her entry “Si”. The top 3 closed with The Netherlands and Mouth & MacNeal  and their enty “I See a Star”.

    Last Saturday, May 23, just a week after the special show ‘Europe Shine A Light’ , thousands fans had the chance to watch the 2003 edition online on the official ESC Youtube channel. 17 years after that contest that had taken place in Riga, Latvia,  the audience crowned once again winner Sertab and her entry "Everyway that i can".  Apart from Turkey that maitained its first placing we saw changes in the rest top 3 placings. Spain with Beth and her entry "Dime" displacing Urban Trad from Belgium that were the actual 2nd runner-ups that year.  Third came Iceland with Birgitta and her entry "Open your heart" instead of Russia's Tatu .