FSC 04

Forum Song Contest #04
Host	Manchester, United Kingdom
Date	June 1, 2009
Entries	24
Winner	Israel
Debuting countries	Austria ; Croatia ; Hungary
Returning countries	Canada
Withdrawing countries	Portugal
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For the second time we are hosted in the United Kingdom, this time in Manchester, the third-largest city.

Another record is set with the number of participants, this time being 24. Three countries, namely Austria, Croatia and Hungary, make their debut, and Canada also returns to the competition. The only country to withdraw is Portugal.

After the voting was completed, Israel emerged victorious, with its entry 'Barechov' performed by Hen Aharoni. The United Kingdom and Ireland followed closely to take second and third places respectively. Both the Netherlands and Croatia failed to vote and were penalised with 20 points each. However, it was Croatia who received the least points and obtained the last position.

The Host City

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted city status in 1853. In 2007, the population of the Manchester local government district was estimated to be 458,100, while the surrounding metropolitan county of Greater Manchester had an estimated population of 2,562,200. Manchester itself lies at the centre of the wider Greater Manchester Urban Area, which at the 2001 census was shown to have a population of 2,240,230 (of which 394,269 lived within the Manchester subdivision), and it was the United Kingdom's third-largest conurbation at that census. Manchester is part of the second-most-populous Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) in the UK with an estimated population in the 2004 Urban Audit of 2,539,100 and is the sixteenth-most populated in Europe. Manchester is the 15th largest urban area in the European Union.

The Hosts

Susan Margaret Boyle (born 1 April 1961) is a Scottish singer who came to international public attention in 2009 after she appeared as a contestant on Britain's Got Talent Boyle became known when she sang "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables in the competition's first round,[4] first broadcast in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2009. In the final of third series of the show, Boyle finished in second place, behind dance troupe Diversity. Boyle attended Edinburgh Acting School and also took part in the Edinburgh Fringe. Prior to her appearance on Britain's Got Talent, her main experience had come from singing in church and karaoke in the local pubs in her village. She had also tried out several times for My Kind of People.

Simon Phillip Cowell (born October 7, 1959) is an English television personality, A&R executive, television producer, and entrepreneur. He is famous in the United Kingdom and in the United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, American Idol, The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent. He is also the owner of the television production and music publishing house Syco.

The Show

Draw	FSC jury	Performer	Song	Place	Points
01	Greece	Loukas Alexandrou	Thyma	4	96
02	Spain	Malú	A esto le llamas amor	10	61
03	Poland	Orbita Wiru	Moja mala furia	22	13
04	Russia	Vintazh	Eva	11	60
05	Serbia	Ana Štajdohar	Žute sandale	18	20
06	Israel	Hen Aharoni	Barechov	1	114
07	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Feminnem ft. Alex Manga	Oye, oye, oye	15	41
08	The Netherlands	Valerius	She Doesn't Know	23	-3
09	Ireland	Industry	My Baby's Waiting	3	98
10	Norway	Röyksopp	The Girl and The Robot	7	74
11	Germany	Daniel Schumacher	Anything But Love	13	51
12	Ukraine	Platina	Sontse	14	50
13	Bulgaria	Andrea & Costi	Izbiram Teb	12	59
14	Croatia	Natali Dizdar	Stranac	24	-12
15	Turkey	Hadise	Double Life	20	18
16	Belgium	Anna Grace	Let the Feelings Go	8	74
17	Macedonia	Karolina	Kraj	17	23
18	Canada	Peaches	Talk to Me	16	39
19	Sweden	Caroline Af Ugglas	Vi blundar	6	75
20	United Kingdom	Pixie Lott	Here we Go Again	2	101
21	Austria	Oliver Wimmer	Blown Away	19	18
22	Denmark	Medina	Kun for mig	5	83
23	Romania	Provincialii	Chitara	21	15
24	Hungary	Unique	Fekete-Feher	9	68