Wikipedia:WikiProject Eurovision/Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest XXXX was the XX annual Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in (insert city), (insert country), following (last year country's) win in the (insert previous year's contest).

Forty-two countries announced their participation in the contest, with (list any returning countries here) returning, having last taken part in (insert date last participated), and (insert withdrawing countries here).

It was won by singer (name of winning artist) from (insert winning country) with the song "(insert winning song)". The two semi-finals were held on (insert dates of semi-finals), and the final was held on (insert date of final). Add any other information about the top 5 and notable records broken here.

Add summary information about global viewing numbers via television or online platforms here.

Location
Add any information on the host location, and in the event of bidding phases for host city, include the map with locations of candidate cities. Don't forget to mention about ticket sales near the end of this section.

Participating countries
Information on participating countries, goes here. List the participating entries here. Use Latin script for all song titles. Any song titles not in English should be encased by lang templates using the two-letter code from List of ISO 639-2 codes. For any song titles in languages which primarily do not use Latin script, the non-Latin script should be included beside the Latin title, also encased with templates. Avoid including English translations, as this violates original research; it is not our job to provide translations tools.

Returning artists
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Production
Information on the production, covering visual design, presenters and stage design goes here.

Format
Information on the format goes here.

Semi-final allocation draw
Information on the semi-final allocation draw goes here.

Semi-final 1
List the date and time the show was held here. List the qualified finalist countries who vote in this semi-final here. Do not add languages or non-Latin script here, as this is covered in the Participants table above.

Information about opening and interval acts for the show should be listed here.

Semi-final 2
List the date and time the show was held here. List the qualified finalist countries who vote in this semi-final here.

Information about opening and interval acts for the show should be listed here.

Final
List the date and time the show was held here.

Information about opening and interval acts for the show should be listed here.

Brief prose about the winning country and other notable results (top 5, country's best performance etc.) should be included here.

Spokespersons
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Detailed voting results
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Semi-final 1
Semi-final 1 scoreboard goes here.

Semi-final 2
Semi-final 2 scoreboard goes here.

Final
Final scoreboard goes here. Split jury/televote results go into a collapsible table.

12 points
Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the final: 12 points tally goes here.

Other countries
Details of countries who attempted to participate, or where reported by reliable sources as participating, but later withdraw/changed their minds are listed here. "For a country to be eligible for potential participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, it needs to be an active member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)[1]. The EBU issued an invitation of participation to the Contest to all 56 active members[1]. [Number of countries] countries confirmed their participation.[2] Lebanon, Tunisia, and five other EBU members, however, did not publish their reasons for declining, whilst the following list of countries declined stating their reasons as shown below."

Active EBU Members

 * List countries using Esccnty with brief details and sources.

Non-active EBU Members

 * List countries using Esccnty with brief details and sources.

Broadcasts
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Add global viewing figures numbers here. Do not add individual viewing figures for specific countries or broadcasters; this information is rarely like-for-like and should be included within the individual "country by year" articles.

Incidents
Prose - any details on incidents/controversies that affected the contest appear here.

Other awards
Apart from the main contest itself, several other awards are presented to participants before and afterwards.

Marcel Bezençon Awards
The Marcel Bezençon Awards were first handed out during the Eurovision Song Contest 2002 in Tallinn, Estonia honoring the best competing songs in the final. Founded by Christer Björkman (Sweden's representative in the 1992 Eurovision Song Contest and current Head of Delegation for Sweden) and Richard Herrey (member of the Herreys, Eurovision Song Contest 1984 winner from Sweden), the awards are named after the creator of the annual competition, Marcel Bezençon. The awards are divided into three categories; Press Award; Artistic Award; and Composer Award.

OGAE
OGAE (Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l'Eurovision, English: General Organisation of Eurovision Fans) is one of the two major international fan club networks of the Eurovision Song Contest. It has branches throughout Europe. Although the Eurovision Song Contest started in 1956, OGAE began in 1984 in Finland. All countries that take part or have already taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest can have their own OGAE and most of them do, as does Lebanon. All other countries around the world are united under OGAE Rest of World, created in 2004. Every year, the organisation puts together four non-profit competitions (Song Contest, Second Chance Contest, Video Contest and Home Composed Song Contest).

In what has become an annual tradition for the OGAE fan clubs, a voting poll was opened allowing members from the respective clubs to vote for their favourite songs of the 2012 contest. Below is the top five overall results, after all the votes had been cast.

Official album
Eurovision Song Contest: [Country Year] was the official compilation album of the [Year] Contest, put together by the European Broadcasting Union and released by EMI Records and CMC International on [date of release].The album featured all [number] songs that entered in the 2015 contest, including the semi-finalists that failed to qualify into the grand final.

Include any chart information here (weekly and year-end charts in respective countries).