North Vision Song Contest 29

North Vision Song Contest 29; Exploring New Horizons
Dates
Semi-final 1 date	8 September 2019
Semi-final 2 date	14 September 2019
Final date	13 October 2019
Host
Venue	3Arena, Dublin
Presenter(s)	Linda Martin, Kasey Smith and Sarah McTernan
Broadcaster	RTÉ
Opening act	Semi-final 1: "Emerald" performed by Lyra ; Semi-final 2: "Tír na nÓg" performed by Celtic Woman with Oonagh; Final: "Falling" performed by Lyra with RDC
Interval act	Semi-final 1: "The Shield and the Sword" performed by Claire Maguire; Semi-final 2: A medley of "What's Another Year", "Why Me?" and "Hold Me Now" performed by Johnny Logan; Final: Riverdance performed by Innova Irish Dance Company to various popular hits and "22" performed by Sarah McTernan
Participants
Entries	53
Returning	Czech Republic; Egypt; Poland; Portugal
Withdrawing	Croatia
	Participation map Participating countries Did not qualify from the semi final or the PQR Countries that participated in the past but not this edition ;
Voting
System	Each country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting
Winner	Sweden; "Hearts Will Bleed"
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North Vision Song Contest 29, often referred to as NVSC 29, was the twenty-ninth edition of the North Vision Song Contest. The contest was hosted in Dublin, as Ireland was the winning country of the twenty-eighth edition due to Lyra's win with "Falling". The show was hosted by Linda Martin, Kasey Smith and Sarah McTernan.

Fifty-three countries participated in the edition. This includes the Czech Republic, Egypt, Poland and Portugal who all returned after their one-edition absence.

The winner was Sweden with the song "Hearts Will Bleed" performed by Janice. This marks Sweden's third win, making the country tie with Denmark for the amount of most victories in the contest to date. The runner-up, Ukraine achieved another second place and therefore marking its 10th automatic qualification. Israel, which placed third, got their best result since their last victory in the fifteenth edition. Dutch Dotan achieved another fourth place for the Netherlands after previously finishing fourth in the ninth edition. Fifth place Tunisia gained its first automatic qualification spot ever, coming 5th in the final, at the same time marking its best place achieved to date. United Kingdom completes the top six, making it their 7th automatic qualification. Hosts Ireland finished 25th in the final, just one place above Andorra, which ended up last with 41 points. Lebanon achieved their second top 10 placing in a row, for the first time. Norway achieved their fifteenth top 10 placing. Monaco returned to the final after an absence since the sixteenth edition, finishing 17th in the final, while Portugal returned to the final after an absence since the twentieth edition, finishing 13th. Egypt have gotten their worst semi-final result to date, finishing last. Returning artists Mustii and Vendredi sur Mer have finished in the bottom 5 of their semi-final, after having previously achieved a top 5 placing for their countries Belgium and Switzerland, respectively.

Location

For further information see Dublin

Although there was no bidding phase made public, RTÉ received biddings from several cities to host the edition. Eventually, Dubli was announced as the host city of the edition along with the theme art reveal on 9 August 2019.

Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Situated on a bay on the east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey, it lies within the province of Leinster. It is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. It has an urban area population of 1,173,179, while the population of the Dublin Region (formerly County Dublin) as of 2016 was 1,347,359. The population of the Greater Dublin Area was 1,904,806 per the 2016 census.

Participating countries

Fifty-three countries took part in the 29th edition. Four countries announced their return to the competition: Czech Republic, Egypt, Poland and Portugal all returned after a short abscence from the competition.

Meanwhile, two other countries confirmed their absence from the competition: Croatia and Spain announced that they would be withdrawing. It marks the second edition in a row that Spain announced not to compete in the contest.

Returning artists

The twenty-ninth edition saw the returns of three former artists that have previously achieved a fourth place in the competition. Dotan returns for The Netherlands after coming fourth in the ninth edition, Mustii returns to represent Belgium after his fourth place in the twenty-third edition and Vendredi sur Mer who came fourth in the twenty-fifth edition and who also hosted the twenty-eighth edition, returned to represent Switzerland once again. Faroese artist Eivør returned to the contest after having represented the Faroe Islands in the twenty-first edition, this time joined by Tom Hodge.

Results

Pre-Qualification Round

Main article: Pre-Qualification Round 15

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Estonia	Rozell feat. Merilin Mälk	"Foolish"	5	111
02	Hungary	Hien	"Boy"	2	118
03	Monaco	Najoua Belyzel	"Tu me laisses aller"	1	145
04	Cyprus	Alex Economou	"Dance With Me"	9	85
05	Albania	Inis Neziri	"E theve"	6	105
06	Latvia	Patrisha	"Visu un vēl vairāk"	7	101
07	Armenia	Lidushik	"Yes U Du"	8	98
08	North Macedonia	Antonia Gigovska	"Mogli smo u dvoje"	3	116
09	Finland	Rony Rex feat. New Ro	"Mona Lisa"	4	111

Semi-final 1

Andorra, Ireland and Montenegro will also vote in this semi-final.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Israel	Lola Marsh	"Echoes"	1	324
02	France	Antoine Elie	"La rose et l'armure"	15	84
03	Azerbaijan	Damla	"Kabus"	19	60
04	Denmark	Fallulah	"Dysfunctional"	11	127
05	Monaco	Najoua Belyzel	"Tu me laisses aller"	6	173
06	Faroe Islands	Eivør vs Tom Hodge	"Nothing Less Nothing More"	4	188
07	Egypt	Nadah El Shazly	"Palmyra"	20	42
08	Kazakhstan	Amre	"Aitshy Zhauabyn"	16	73
09	Georgia	SopioT	"Insomnia"	7	170
10	Slovenia	Anja Kotar	"Brain"	9	153
11	Czech Republic	Oceán	"Po Hlase a Podle Chůze"	17	71
12	Algeria	Ysa Ferrer	"Follow Me"	13	110
13	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Lakiko	"Sreca"	2	207
14	Hungary	Hien	"Boy"	14	103
15	Lithuania	Monika LIU	"Komm Zu Mir"	18	64
16	Slovakia	PRIE100R	"SEBAklam"	10	131
17	Italy	Tersø	"Le Promesse"	5	177
18	Greece	Aphrodite	"How It Goes"	8	160
19	Portugal	Sreya	"Flores Picantes"	3	190
20	Morocco	Manal	"Pas Le Choix"	12	119

Semi-final 2

Norway, Sweden and San Marino will also vote in this semi-final.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Romania	Paul Damixie feat. Liv Royale	"Lost In Space"	8	164
02	Iceland	Kælan Mikla feat. Bang Gang	"Nótt eftir nótt"	14	96
03	Poland	Męskie Granie Orkiestra 2019	"Sobie i Wam"	20	47
04	Switzerland	Vendredi sur Mer	"Encore"	17	71
05	Malta	Petit Massif	"Banshee"	19	53
06	Austria	Mathea	"Chaos"	4	202
07	Bulgaria	4Magic	"Kolko mi lipsvash"	10	134
08	Tunisia	Konqistador & Medusa TN	"Eden, Woman's War"	3	203
09	Belgium	Mustii	"Blind"	16	73
10	Russia	Zivert	"Life"	12	107
11	Serbia	Edita	"Magnum"	15	84
12	Lebanon	Shirin	"22"	9	156
13	Turkey	Bö & Noes	"Gece Terörü"	7	175
14	Belarus	Palina	"Pinki"	18	62
15	Netherlands	Dotan	"Numb"	2	209
16	Moldova	Cream Soda	"Krasivo"	13	103
17	Germany	Felix Räuber	"Wall"	6	185
18	United Kingdom	V V Brown	"Lazarus"	5	195
19	Luxembourg	CHAILD	"Artificial"	11	123
20	Ukraine	Artem Pivovarov	"No. 1"	1	284

Final

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Tunisia	Konqistador & Medusa TN	"Eden, Woman's War"	5	351
02	Slovakia	PRIE100R	"SEBAklam"	24	96
03	Netherlands	Dotan	"Numb"	4	397
04	Georgia	SopioT	"Insomnia"	22	135
05	Israel	Lola Marsh	"Echoes"	3	409
06	Montenegro	Sirius Human	"Microcosm"	23	117
07	Monaco	Najoua Belyzel	"Tu me laisses aller"	17	191
08	Norway	Emilie Adams	"Aliens"	8	268
09	Lebanon	Shirin	"22"	9	262
10	Romania	Paul Damixie feat. Liv Royale	"Lost In Space"	18	191
11	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Lakiko	"Sreca"	12	252
12	Sweden	Janice	"Hearts Will Bleed"	1	470
13	Portugal	Sreya	"Flores Picantes"	13	243
14	Andorra	ALIENA	"Quítame La Ropa"	26	41
15	Austria	Mathea	"Chaos"	10	261
16	Faroe Islands	Eivør vs Tom Hodge	"Nothing Less Nothing More"	16	199
17	Slovenia	Anja Kotar	"Brain"	15	206
18	Italy	Tersø	"Le Promesse"	19	195
19	Ireland	FLAVIA	"Hateful"	25	87
20	Ukraine	Artem Pivovarov	"No. 1"	2	452
21	Greece	Aphrodite	"How It Goes"	21	140
22	San Marino	Joey	"La Rockstar"	20	175
23	United Kingdom	V V Brown	"Lazarus"	6	321
24	Bulgaria	4Magic	"Kolko mi lipsvash"	11	255
25	Germany	Felix Räuber	"Wall"	7	271
26	Turkey	Bö & Noes	"Gece Terörü"	14	221

Non-qualifier results

Place	Country	Semi-final Place	Points	Percentage
27	Denmark	11	127	4.76%
28	Luxembourg	11	123	4.61%
29	Morocco	12	119	4.46%
30	Algeria	13	110	4.12%
31	Russia	12	107	4.01%
32	Moldova	13	103	3.86%
33	Hungary	14	103	3.86%
34	Iceland	14	96	3.60%
35	Serbia	15	84	3.15%
36	France	15	84	3.15%
37	Belgium	16	73	2.74%
38	Kazakhstan	16	73	2.74%
39	Czech Republic	17	71	2.66%
40	Switzerland	17	71	2.66%
41	Lithuania	18	64	2.40%
42	Belarus	18	62	2.32%
43	Azerbaijan	19	60	2.25%
44	Malta	19	53	1.99%
45	Poland	20	47	1.76%
46	Egypt	20	42	1.57%
47	North Macedonia	N/A
48	Finland
49	Estonia
50	Albania
51	Latvia
52	Armenia
53	Cyprus