Eurovision Song Contest 1995

The XL Eurovision Song Contest took place on May 13, 1995 at the Point Theater in Dublin, Ireland, with Mary Kennedy as presenter.

Secret Garden was the winning band with the new-age song "Nocturne". Norway's representative song, which was mostly instrumental and consisted of only 24 words, got 148 votes, just 29 points ahead of second-placed Spain, which got 119. This was, until the edition of 2022, the last time Spain was in the "Top-5". Sweden, which began leading the vote in a head-to-head with Norway, would end up occupying third place after being overtaken by Anabel Conde. Fourth place went to France and fifth to Denmark.

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the festival, at the beginning of the broadcast a special video was broadcast with images of its entire history. After this video, the presenter Mary Kennedy made her entrance by going down a large staircase that was illuminated as she passed, and once she had gone down, the staircase ascended into the air with a pyrotechnic effect, revealing a stage in which the background was a continuation in vertical of the main platform. The set design was the work of Alan Farquharson, who had also designed the 1993 set.

Participating countries

A total of 23 countries took part in this edition. Compared to the previous edition, a total of 7 participants were relegated: Estonia, Slovakia, Finland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland. With this, 5 countries were able to return: Belgium, Denmark, Slovenia, Israel and Turkey. Italy and Luxembourg, which had been eliminated in 1994, declined to participate; Despite this, neither Switzerland nor Slovakia, ranked 19th and 20th in 1994, respectively, were allowed to participate.

Songs and selection

Country and TV	Original title of the song	Artist	Selection process and date
	Spanish translation	Languages
Germany ARD	Verliebt In Dich	Stone " Stone "	Internal elections
	In love with you	German
Austria ORF	Die Welt dreht sich verkehrt	Stella Jones	Internal elections
	The world turns backwards	German
Belgium RTBF	The Voix Est Libre	Frédéric Etherlinck	Final Nacional, 06-03-1995
	The voice is free	French
Bosnia and Herzegovina RTVBIH	Dvadeset Prvi Vijek	Davor Popović	Eurosong BiH, 08-03-1995
	The 21st Century	Bosnian
Cyprus CyBC	Sti Fotia	Alex Panayi	Final Nacional, 14-03-1995
	In the fire	Greek
Croatia HRT	Nostalgija	Magazin " Lidija "	Dora 1995, 12-03-1995
	The nostalgia	Croatian
Denmark DR	Fra Mols Til Skagen	Aud Wilken	Dansk Melodi Grand-Prix 1995, 25-03-1995
	From Mols to Skagen	Danish
Slovenia RTVSLO	Prisluhni Mi	Darja Švajger	EMA 1995, 27-02-1995
	Listen to me.	Slovenian
Spain TVE	Come back with me.	Anabel Conde	Internal elections
	-	Spanish
France FT2	Il Me Donne Rendez-Vous	Nathalie Santamaria	Internal elections
	He stays with me.	French
Greece ERT	Pia Prosefhi	Elina Konstantopoulou	Internal elections
	What prayer?	Greek, Ancient Greek
Hungary MTV	Új Név a Régi Ház Falán	Csaba Szigeti	Internal elections
	A new name on the wall of an old house	Hungarian
Ireland RTÉ	Dreamin'	Eddie Friel	Eurosong 1995, 12-03-1995
	Dreaming	English
Iceland RúV	Núna	Bo Halldórsson	Internal elections
	Now	Iceland
Israel IBA	Amen	Liora	Kdam Eurovision 1995, 09-03-1995
	Amen.	Hebrew
Malta PBM	Keep Me In Mind	Mike Spiteri	Tal-Kanzunetta Maltija 1995, 05-02-1995
	Remind me	English
Norway NRK	Nocturne	Secret Garden	Melodi Grand Prix 1995, 05-02-1995
	Noctur	Norwegian
Poland TVP	Sama	Justyna	Internal elections
	Sola	Polish
Portugal RTP	Baunilha e Chocolate	Too Cruz	Festival da Canção 1995, 07-03-1995
	Vanilla and chocolate	Portuguese
United Kingdom BBC	Love City Groove	Love City Groove	A Song for Europe, 07-03-1995
	The rhythm of the city of love	English
Russia ORT	Kolybelnaya Dlya Vulkana	Philipp Kirkorov	Internal elections
	Crab song for a volcano	Russian
Sweden SVT	Se På Mej	Jan Johansen	Melodifestivalen 1995, 24-02-1995
	Look at me.	Swedish
Turkey TRT	Sev!	Arzu Ece	Eurovision Şarkı Yarışması Türkiye Finali 1995, 18-03-1995
	Love!	Turkish

Results

Although Norway started first, it soon lost its position to Sweden, with which it established a neck-and-neck for first position, although the Swedes were always one step ahead until the tenth vote in which Norway was again first., Sweden was deflating and losing positions very quickly in favor of Spain, which discreetly reached second position, but could not catch up with the Norwegians. Finally, Norway took its second victory.

#	Country	Performer(s)	Song	Place	Points
01	Poland	Justyna	«Sama»	18	15
02	Ireland	Eddie Friel	"Dreamin"	14	44
03	Germany	Stone " Stone "	«Verliebt in Dich»	23	1
04	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Davor Popović	«Dvadest prvi vijek»	19	14
05	Norway	Secret Garden	«Nocturne»	1	148
06	Russia	Philipp Kirkorov	«Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana»	17	17
07	Iceland	Bo Halldórsson	"Núna"	15	31
08	Austria	Stella Jones	«Die Welt dreht sich verkehrt»	13	67
09	Spain	Anabel Conde	«Return with me»	2	119
10	Turkey	Arzu Ece	"Sev!"	16	21
11	Croatia	Magazin " Lidija "	«Nostalgija»	6	91
12	France	Nathalie Santamaria	«Il me donne rendez-vous»	4	94
13	Hungary	Csaba Szigeti	«Új név a régi haz falán»	22	3
14	Belgium	Frédéric Etherlinck	«The Voix is free»	20	8
15	United Kingdom	Love City Groove	«Love City Groove»	11	76
16	Portugal	Too Cruz	"Baunilha and chocolate"	21	5
17	Cyprus	Alex Panayi	«Sti fotia»	9	79
18	Sweden	Jan Johansen	«Se på mej»	3	100
19	Denmark	Aud Wilken	«Fra Mols til Skagen»	5	92
20	Slovenia	Darja Švajger	«Prisluhni mi»	7	84
21	Israel	Liora	«Amen»	8	81
22	Malta	Mike Spiteri	«Keep Me in Mind»	10	76
23	Greece	Elina Konstantopoulou	«Pia prosefhi»	12	68

Voting

Voting system

Each national jury, of 16 members, awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 to 1 points to their ten favorite songs.

Voting table

...Participant....	Pts.
Poland	15		0	0	0	4	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Ireland	44	0		1	5	1	5	3	0	3	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	10	1	5	0	0	4
Germany	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	14	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	3	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Norway	148	12	10	4	1		12	12	0	4	12	0	10	6	5	4	12	7	0	2	7	10	6	12
Russia	17	0	0	0	0	10		0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iceland	31	0	6	0	0	2	3		4	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	6	8	0	0	0	0
Austria	67	2	0	0	0	3	0	0		6	4	0	8	4	10	5	2	0	4	10	0	2	0	7
Spain	119	8	2	6	8	0	0	5	0		8	10	7	2	12	8	7	10	0	0	0	12	8	6
Turkey	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2		5	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	3	1	7	0
Croatia	91	0	3	0	10	7	0	10	0	12	7		0	0	0	0	4	5	0	0	12	4	12	5
France	94	7	5	8	0	6	0	8	10	0	2	3		10	6	1	0	2	3	6	8	7	0	2
Hungary	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Belgium	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
United Kingdom	76	5	1	0	4	0	1	0	12	0	0	0	12	7	7		10	0	5	7	0	5	0	0
Portugal	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Cyprus	79	1	0	3	0	5	4	2	0	5	0	1	0	12	8	3	0		8	5	4	6	4	8
Sweden	100	10	12	12	2	8	6	4	8	0	1	0	3	0	0	6	8	4		12	1	0	3	0
Denmark	92	3	7	7	3	12	10	7	7	0	6	0	0	3	3	0	6	0	12		6	0	0	0
Slovenia	84	4	8	5	6	0	7	1	3	0	0	2	0	8	0	10	5	3	7	0		3	2	10
Israel	81	0	0	10	7	0	8	0	6	0	0	4	0	5	4	12	0	8	2	0	10		5	0
Malta	76	0	4	2	12	0	0	0	2	10	10	12	6	0	0	7	0	6	1	4	0	0		0
Greece	68	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	8	0	7	5	0	2	0	3	12	0	0	2	8	10

High scores

After the vote, the countries that received 12 points (the maximum score that the jury could award) were:

N.	A	From
6	Norway	Poland, Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Portugal, Greece
3	Croatia	Spain, Slovenia, Malta
3	Sweden	Ireland, Germany, Denmark
2	Denmark	Norway, Sweden
2	Spain	Belgium, Israel
2	Malta	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
2	United Kingdom	Austria, France
1	Cyprus	Hungary
1	Greece	Cyprus
1	Israel	United Kingdom