Eurovision Song Contest 2016

Eurovision Song Contest 2016
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Dates
Semi-final 1	10 May 2016 (2016-05-10)
Semi-final 2	12 May 2016 (2016-05-12)
Final	14 May 2016 (2016-05-14)
Host
Venue	Globe Arena Stockholm, Sweden
Presenter(s)	Petra Mede Måns Zelmerlöw
Directed by	Daniel Jelinek Robin Hofwander Sven Stojanović
Executive supervisor	Jon Ola Sand
Executive producer	Johan Bernhagen Martin Österdahl
Host broadcaster	Sveriges Television (SVT)
Website	eurovision.tv/event/stockholm-2016
Participants
Number of entries	42
Number of finalists	26
Debuting countries	None
Returning countries	Bosnia and Herzegovina  Bulgaria  Croatia  Ukraine
Disqualified countries	Romania
Non-returning countries	Portugal
Participation map      Finalist countries     Countries eliminated in the semi-finals     Countries that participated in the past but not in 2016
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points to ten songs.
Winning song	Ukraine "1944"
2015 ← Eurovision Song Contest → 2017

The Eurovision Song Contest 2016 was the 61st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Stockholm, Sweden, following the country's victory at the 2015 contest with the song "Heroes" by Måns Zelmerlöw. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT), the contest was held at the Globe Arena and consisted of two semi-finals on 10 and 12 May, and a final on 14 May 2016. The three live shows were presented by Petra Mede and the previous year's winner Måns Zelmerlöw.

Forty-two countries participated in the contest. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia and Ukraine returned after absences from recent contests, while Australia also returned after debuting as a special guest in 2015. Portugal did not enter, largely due to their national broadcaster's insufficient promotion of its music-based media, while Romania had planned to participate, but was disqualified due to repeated non-payment of debts by its national broadcaster to the EBU.

The winner was Ukraine with the song "1944", performed and written by Jamala. Australia, Russia, Bulgaria and host country Sweden rounded out the top five. This was the first time since the introduction of professional jury voting in 2009 that the overall winner won neither the jury vote, which was won by Australia, nor the televote, which was won by Russia, with Ukraine placing second in both. "1944" is the first song containing lyrics in Crimean Tatar to win the contest.

The Czech Republic managed to qualify for the final for the first time in five attempts since its debut in 2007, while both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Greece failed to qualify from the semi-finals for the first time ever, the latter being absent from the final for the first time since 2000. In the final, Australia's second-place finish was an improvement on its fifth-place finish in 2015, while Bulgaria finished fourth, its best result since its debut and first participation in a final since 2007.

The contest was the first to implement a voting system change since 1975: each country's professional jury points were announced largely as before, while the results of each national televote were combined and announced in reverse order. It was also the first contest to be broadcast on live television in the United States, and the EBU recorded a record-breaking 204 million viewers for the contest, beating the 2015 viewing figures by over 5 million.

The contest took place in the Globe Arena in Stockholm, following Sweden's victory at the 2015 contest. The Globe Arena has a capacity of approximately 16,000 attendees, and this was the second time the contest has been staged at the venue, after the Eurovision Song Contest 2000.^[1]

Stockholm

Gothenburg

Linköping

Sandviken and Gävle

Örnsköldsvik

Malmö

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Locations of the candidate cities: the chosen host city is marked in blue, while the eliminated cities are marked in red.

Host broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) announced on 24 May, the day after winning the 2015 contest, that the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm was their first choice venue. However, other cities and arenas were invited to apply, and those making a bid had approximately three weeks to submit their offer to SVT.

SVT announced on 1 June the conditions under which cities and venues could announce their interest in hosting the contest:^[2]

• SVT had to have access to the venue at least 4–6 weeks before the contest to build the stage and rig up lighting and technology.
• A press centre with a specific size had to be made available at the venue.
• A specific number of hotels and hotel rooms had to be made available in the vicinity of the venue.
• The host city had to be near a major airport.

An announcement regarding the venue was expected from SVT by midsummer,^[3][4] with the Ericsson Globe announced as the venue on 8 July.^[5]

Key  †  Host venue

The Eurovision Village was the official Eurovision Song Contest fan and sponsors' area during the events week. There it was possible to watch performances by local artists, as well as the live shows broadcast from the main venue. Located at Kungsträdgården in Stockholm, it was open from 6 to 13 May 2016.^[13]

The EuroClub was the venue for the official after-parties and private performances by contest participants. Unlike the Eurovision Village, access to the EuroClub was restricted to accredited fans, delegates, and press. It was located in a temporary building on the quay next to the water in front of the Royal Palace of Stockholm.^[14]

The EBU announced on 14 March 2016 that the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm would host a live event running alongside the final of the contest on 14 May.^[15] Eurovision the Party, hosted by Sanna Nielsen, allowed fans to watch the final on a big screen and featured backstage material from the Globe Arena such as Nielsen conducting exclusive interviews and appearing with hosts Petra Mede and Måns Zelmerlöw. The results of the Swedish jury vote was also announced live from the event by Gina Dirawi. A pre-party and after-party was also held and featured performances from former contest winners Carola and Loreen as well as Danny Saucedo, Panetoz and DJ Tim Henri.^[16][17] Executive producer Johan Bernhagen has stated that the event complements existing events being held at the Eurovision Village and the EuroClub, and it is hoped that Eurovision the Party would become an annual event in the host city of the contest.^[15]

Eligibility for potential participation in the Eurovision Song Contest requires a national broadcaster with active EBU membership capable of receiving the contest via the Eurovision network and broadcasting it live nationwide.^[18] The EBU issued an invitation to participate in the contest to all active members and associate member Australia.^[19]

Participating countries had until 15 September 2015 to submit their applications for participation in the contest, and until 10 October to withdraw their applications without facing financial sanctions.^[14] It had been initially announced on 26 November 2015 that 43 countries would participate in the contest, equalling the record number of participants set in 2008 and 2011.^[19] However, Romania was disqualified from participation on 22 April 2016, subsequently reducing the number of participating countries to 42.^[20]

Four countries returned after absences from recent contests: Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2012, Bulgaria and Croatia since 2013 and Ukraine since 2014. Australia also returned after debuting as a special guest in 2015, but by invitation of the EBU due to the associate membership status of the Special Broadcasting Service. However, instead of pre-qualifying for the final and voting in all three live shows, as was the case in 2015, Australia entered the second semi-final and voted only in that semi-final and the final. Portugal did not enter, largely due to its national broadcaster's insufficient promotion of their music-based media, as well as a poorly structured selection process,^[21] while Romania was disqualified on 22 April 2016 due to repeated non-payment of debts by their national broadcaster to the EBU.^[20]

Participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016^[22]

Country	Broadcaster	Artist	Song	Language	Songwriter(s)
Albania	RTSH	Eneda Tarifa	"Fairytale"	English	Olsa Toqi
Armenia	AMPTV	Iveta Mukuchyan	"LoveWave"	English	Stephanie Crutchfield Iveta Mukuchyan Levon Navasardyan Lilith Navasardyan
Australia	SBS	Dami Im	"Sound of Silence"	English	Anthony Egizii David Musumeci
Austria	ORF	Zoë	"Loin d'ici"	French	Christof Straub Zoë Straub
Azerbaijan	İTV	Samra	"Miracle"	English	Amir Aly Jakke "T.I Jakke" Erixson Henrik Wikström
Belarus	BTRC	Ivan	"Help You Fly"	English	Mary Susane Applegate Victor Drobysh Alexander Ivanov Timofei Leontiev
Belgium	VRT	Laura Tesoro	"What's the Pressure"	English	Louis Favre Sanne Putseys Birsen Uçar Yannick Werther
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BHRT	Dalal and Deen feat. Ana Rucner and Jala	"Ljubav je"	Bosnian	Almir Ajanović Jasmin Fazlić "Jala"
Bulgaria	BNT	Poli Genova	"If Love Was a Crime"	English	Sebastian Arman Poli Genova Borislav Milanov Joacim Persson
Croatia	HRT	Nina Kraljić	"Lighthouse"	English	Andreas Grass Nikola Paryla
Cyprus	CyBC	Minus One	"Alter Ego"	English	Thomas G:son Minus One
Czech Republic	ČT	Gabriela Gunčíková	"I Stand"	English	Sara Biglert Aidan O'Connor Christian Schneider
Denmark	DR	Lighthouse X	"Soldiers of Love"	English	Søren Bregendal Daniel Durn Katrine Klith Andersen Johannes Nymark Sebastian Owens Martin Skriver
Estonia	ERR	Jüri Pootsmann	"Play"	English	Vallo Kikas Fred Krieger Stig Rästa
Finland	Yle	Sandhja	"Sing It Away"	English	Heikki Korhonen Sandhja Kuivalainen Petri Matara Milos Rosas Markus Savijoki
France	France Télévisions	Amir	"J'ai cherché"	French, English	Johan Errami Amir Haddad Nazim Khaled
Georgia	GPB	Nika Kocharov and Young Georgian Lolitaz	"Midnight Gold"	English	Thomas G:son Kote Kalandadze
Germany	NDR[a]	Jamie-Lee	"Ghost"	English	Thomas Burchia Conrad Hensel Anna Leyne
Greece	ERT	Argo	"Utopian Land"	English, Greek	Vladimiros Sofianides
Hungary	MTVA	Freddie	"Pioneer"	English	Borbála Csarnai Zé Szabó
Iceland	RÚV	Greta Salóme	"Hear Them Calling"	English	Greta Salóme Stefánsdóttir
Ireland	RTÉ	Nicky Byrne	"Sunlight"	English	Nicky Byrne Ronan Hardiman Wayne Hector
Israel	IBA	Hovi Star	"Made of Stars"	English	Doron Medalie
Italy	RAI	Francesca Michielin	"No Degree of Separation"	Italian, English	Federica Abbate Cheope Fabio Gargiulo Norma Jean Martine Francesca Michielin
Latvia	LTV	Justs	"Heartbeat"	English	Aminata Savadogo
Lithuania	LRT	Donny Montell	"I've Been Waiting for This Night"	English	Beatrice Robertsson Jonas Thander
North Macedonia	MRT	Kaliopi	"Dona" (Дона)	Macedonian	Romeo Grill Kaliopi
Malta	PBS	Ira Losco	"Walk on Water"	English	Lisa Desmond Tim Larsson Ira Losco Tobias Lundgren Molly Pettersson Hammar
Moldova	TRM	Lidia Isac	"Falling Stars"	English	Gabriel Alares Ellen Berg Leonid Gutkin Sebastian Lestapier
Montenegro	RTCG	Highway	"The Real Thing"	English	Maro Market Srđan Sekulović "Skansi" Luka Vojvodić
Netherlands	AVROTROS	Douwe Bob	"Slow Down"	English	Matthijs van Duijvenbode Jan-Peter Hoekstra Jeroen Overman Douwe Bob Posthuma
Norway	NRK	Agnete	"Icebreaker"	English	Gabriel Alares Ian Curnow Agnete K. Johnsen
Poland	TVP	Michał Szpak	"Color of Your Life"	English	Andy Palmer Kamil Varen
Russia	RTR	Sergey Lazarev	"You Are the Only One"	English	John Ballard Ralph Charlie Dimitris Kontopoulos Philipp Kirkorov
San Marino	SMRTV	Serhat	"I Didn't Know"	English	Olcayto Ahmet Tuğsuz Nektarios Tyrakis
Serbia	RTS	Sanja Vučić Zaa	"Goodbye (Shelter)"	English	Ivana Peters
Slovenia	RTVSLO	ManuElla	"Blue and Red"	English	Manuella Brečko Marjan Hvala Leon Oblak
Spain	RTVE	Barei	"Say Yay!"	English	Barei Víctor Púa Rubén Villanueva
Sweden	SVT	Frans	"If I Were Sorry"	English	Fredrik Andersson Oscar Fogelström Frans Jeppsson Wall Michael Saxell
Switzerland	SRG SSR	Rykka	"The Last of Our Kind"	English	Jeff Dawson Mike James Warne Livesey Christina Maria Rieder
Ukraine	NTU	Jamala	"1944"	English, Crimean Tatar	Jamala
United Kingdom	BBC	Joe and Jake	"You're Not Alone"	English	Justin J. Benson S. Kanes Matt Schwartz

Seven artists returned after having previously participated in the contest. Deen returned after previously representing Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004, finishing ninth in the final with the song "In the Disco".^[8] Kaliopi returned after previously representing Macedonia in 2012, finishing 13th in the final with the song "Crno i belo". She was also selected to represent Macedonia in 1996 with "Samo ti", but was eliminated in a non-televised pre-qualifying round.^[24] Poli Genova returned after previously representing Bulgaria in 2011, finishing 12th in the second semi-final with the song "Na inat".^[25] Ira Losco returned after previously representing Malta in 2002, finishing in second place with the song "7th Wonder".^[9] Donny Montell returned after previously representing Lithuania in 2012, finishing 14th in the final with the song "Love Is Blind".^[26] Greta Salóme returned after previously representing Iceland in 2012 with Jónsi, finishing 20th in the final with the song "Never Forget".^[27] Bojan Jovović returned for Montenegro as part of Highway after previously representing Serbia and Montenegro in 2005 as part of No Name, finishing seventh in the final with the song "Zauvijek moja".^[10]

Armenian backing vocalist Monica previously represented Armenia in Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2008. Sahlene, who represented Estonia in 2002, returned as a backing vocalist for Australia. Martina Majerle, who represented Slovenia in 2009 and provided backing vocals numerous times for Croatia 2003, Montenegro 2008, 2014 and Slovenia 2007, 2011, 2012, returned as a backing vocalist for Croatia.

•  Portugal – Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) had encouraged viewers to suggest changes to their selection process, assuming they had chosen to participate in the contest. Portugal had failed to qualify for the final since 2010, which the majority of the Portuguese public believed to be due to RTP's selection format, Festival da Canção.^[21] Kátia Aveiro, sister of Cristiano Ronaldo, had launched a campaign on Twitter asking fans to back her bid to represent Portugal.^[28] However, RTP announced on 7 October 2015 that Portugal would not participate in the 2016 contest, adding that they were looking forward to participating in the 2017 contest with a restructured selection process.^[29] RTP's ombudsman, Jaime Fernandes, stated on 7 November during the television show A Voz do Cidadão that the decision was due not only to poor results in previous contests, but also RTP's insufficient promotion of music-related content.^[30]
•  Romania – Romania had originally confirmed their participation in the contest with the song "Moment of Silence", performed by Ovidiu Anton. However, the EBU announced on 22 April 2016 that Televiziunea Română (TVR) had repeatedly failed to pay debts totalling CHF 16 million (€14.56 million) by 20 April, the deadline set by the EBU. TVR's failure to repay their debts resulted in their expulsion from the EBU, and consequently Romania's disqualification from the contest.^[31] This led to strong reactions against the decision.^[32]

Active EBU member broadcasters in Andorra, Luxembourg, Monaco, Slovakia (despite the country's return to the Eurovision Young Dancers in 2015) and Turkey confirmed non-participation prior to the announcement of the participants list by the EBU.^{[33][34][35][36][37][38][39]} Lebanese broadcaster TL had not ruled out debuting in 2016,^[40] but it ultimately did not appear on the final list of participating countries.

The EBU announced on 18 December 2015 that Kazakh broadcaster Khabar Agency would become an associate EBU member on 1 January 2016. However, Kazakhstan would be unable to debut at the contest as eligibility for participation requires a national broadcaster with active EBU membership.^[41]

Despite the EBU's positive response to Chinese broadcaster Hunan Television's interest in participating,^[42] in June 2015 the union denied that China would debut at the contest.^[43] That same month, it was reported that Faroese broadcaster KVF had applied for active EBU membership in order to take part in the contest; the application was rejected due to the islands' membership of the Danish Realm.^[44][45] Despite Kosovo not being recognised by 15 states in Europe and its broadcaster RTK having neither active nor associate EBU membership, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Petrit Selimi tweeted that the country would debut at the 2016 contest, without further elaboration;^[46] this was promptly denied by the EBU.^[43] Liechtensteiner broadcaster 1 FL TV was also unable to debut at the contest due to insufficient funding for EBU membership.^[47]

The preliminary dates for the contest were announced on 16 March 2015 at a Heads of Delegation meeting in Vienna, with the semi-finals taking place on 10 and 12 May, and the final on 14 May 2016.^[48] These were subject to change depending on SVT,^[49] but were later confirmed when Stockholm was announced as the host city.^[5]

Discussions were held in 2014 between the EBU and the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) regarding the inclusion of a guest performance from the ABU TV Song Festival at the contest. The EBU confirmed on 16 July 2015 that they would be looking into the possibility of the proposal, which was discussed at the ABU General Assembly in 2014.^[50]

SVT proposed a change of start time of the contest from 21:00 CEST to 20:00 CEST on 9 September, arguing that such a change would help to promote family viewing of the contest, especially in eastern Europe when it would run late into the night.^[51] However, the EBU published the public rules of the contest on 28 October, which stated that the start time would remain at 21:00 CEST.^[52]

The EBU announced on 23 September that rather than using clips from their respective music videos, extended clips from the dress rehearsals of the six acts who qualified directly to the final (the "Big Five" and host nation Sweden) would be shown as previews during the semi-final in which they were allocated to vote.^[53]

The core team for the contest was announced by SVT and the EBU on 26 October. Johan Bernhagen and Martin Österdahl were executive producers, while Tobias Åberg was head of production. The three live shows were directed by Sven Stojanović and the contest was produced by Christer Björkman.^[54]

The EBU announced on 18 February 2016 that a new voting system would be implemented at the contest for the first time since 1975. The new system, inspired by the voting system of Melodifestivalen, involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1–8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Televoting votes from all the countries would be pooled. After viewers cast their votes, the results of each professional jury would be presented, with countries receiving 1–8 and 10 points being displayed on-screen, instead of 1–7 as had been the case since 2006, and the national spokesperson announcing only the country to which they award 12 points. After the results of the professional juries were presented, the televoting points from all participating countries would be combined, providing one score for each song. The new voting system would also be used to determine the qualifiers from each semi-final, but, as before, the qualifiers are announced in a random order.^[55][56]

As the new voting system would give equal weight to jury and televoting results, a national jury result could not be used as a backup result for the televoting or vice versa. Therefore, if a country could not deliver a valid televoting/jury result, a substitute result would be calculated by the jury/televoting result of a pre-selected group of countries approved by the contest's Reference Group. The Director General of Radiotelevisione della Repubblica di San Marino (SMRTV), Carlo Romeo, stated on 23 February that the use of a substitute televoting result discriminated against microstates like San Marino, which only used a professional jury due to their use of the Italian phone system and would therefore have its voting representation diminished under the new system, and criticised the EBU for not contacting its members before making the decision.^[57][58]

After his victory in the 2015 contest, Måns Zelmerlöw announced his interest in hosting the 2016 contest.^[59] His experience as a television presenter includes Melodifestivalen 2010^[60] and SVT sing-along show Allsång på Skansen.^[61] Christer Björkman told Expressen on 25 May that Gina Dirawi, Petra Mede and Sanna Nielsen were also being considered as hosts,^[62] but it was reported on 1 June that SVT was considering Zelmerlöw and Dolph Lundgren as co-hosts.^[63] Expressen reported on 19 August that Mede and Zelmerlöw were SVT's first choice of hosts,^[64] while it was announced at a press conference on 14 December that they would indeed co-host.^[65]

The press conferences were presented by Jovan Radomir and Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson, who also provided commentary from the red carpet event in front of the Stockholm Palace, before the official welcome party at Stockholm City Hall on 8 May 2016.^[66][67]

The draw to determine the allocation of the participating countries into their respective semi-finals took place at Stockholm City Hall on 25 January 2016, hosted by Alexandra Pascalidou and Jovan Radomir.^[68] The first part of the draw determined in which semi-final the "Big Five" and host country Sweden would have to vote. The second part of the draw decided in which half of the respective semi-finals each country would perform, with the exact running order determined by the producers of the show at a later date. The EBU originally announced that the running order would be revealed on 5 April,^[69] however for undisclosed reasons this was later put back to 8 April.^[70] Eighteen countries participated in the first semi-final, while nineteen countries were planned to participate in the second semi-final, but this was reduced to eighteen on 22 April due to the disqualification of Romania. From each semi-final, ten countries joined the "Big Five" and Sweden in the final, where a total of twenty-six countries participated.

The thirty-seven semi-finalists were allocated into six pots, which were published by the EBU on 21 January, based on historical voting patterns as calculated by the contest's official televoting partner Digame. Drawing from different pots helps in reducing the chance of so-called neighbour voting and increasing suspense in the semi-finals. Sweden and Germany were pre-allocated to vote and perform in the first and second semi-final respectively due to requests from their respective broadcasters, which were approved by the EBU.^[71][72]

The EBU announced on 1 May 2016 that the opening act of the first semi-final would be a performance of "Heroes" by Måns Zelmerlöw,^[73] while the opening act of the second semi-final would be a musical theatre comedy song entitled "That's Eurovision", composed by Matheson Bayley and written by Bayley, Edward af Sillén and Daniel Réhn, and performed by Zelmerlöw and Mede.^[74] The opening act of the final was a parade of flags similar to final opening ceremonies since 2013, themed as a tribute to Swedish fashion design and dance music with artists being welcomed on stage in a catwalk fashion show with flags being projected onto 26 dresses designed by Bea Szenfeld.^[75]

The interval acts of both semi-finals were sketches choreographed by Fredrik Rydman: "The Grey People" in the first semi-final and "Man vs Machine" in the second semi-final respectively. The EBU announced on 9 May that one of the interval acts of the final would be a world premiere live performance of "Can't Stop the Feeling!" and "Rock Your Body" by Justin Timberlake.^[76] He was the first "global megastar" in the contest's 61-year-history to perform during the interval.^[77] Other interval acts in the final included a sketch called "Love Love Peace Peace", a pastiche of past entries which featured appearances from Lordi and Alexander Rybak, winners of the contest in 2006 and 2009 respectively and performed by Zelmerlöw and Mede,^[78] a sketch starring Lynda Woodruff, played by Sarah Dawn Finer, and a performance of "Fire in the Rain" and "Heroes" by Zelmerlöw, from his albums Chameleon and Perfectly Damaged respectively.^[79]

During the live broadcast of the final on Logo TV in the United States, Timberlake's performance was replaced by a reprise of "The Grey People" from the first semi-final, while the official DVD release removed it entirely. In an interview with The Guardian, the contest's Executive Supervisor, Jon Ola Sand, revealed that this was due to rights restrictions.^[80][81][82]

Eighteen countries participated in the first semi-final. France, Spain, and Sweden voted in this semi-final.^[72][83] The highlighted countries qualified for the final.^[84]

Results of the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016^[85]

R/O[86]	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Finland	Sandhja	"Sing It Away"	51	15
2	Greece	Argo	"Utopian Land"	44	16
3	Moldova	Lidia Isac	"Falling Stars"	33	17
4	Hungary	Freddie	"Pioneer"	197	4
5	Croatia	Nina Kraljić	"Lighthouse"	133	10
6	Netherlands	Douwe Bob	"Slow Down"	197	5
7	Armenia	Iveta Mukuchyan	"LoveWave"	243	2
8	San Marino	Serhat	"I Didn't Know"	68	12
9	Russia	Sergey Lazarev	"You Are the Only One"	342	1
10	Czech Republic	Gabriela Gunčíková	"I Stand"	161	9
11	Cyprus	Minus One	"Alter Ego"	164	8
12	Austria	Zoë	"Loin d'ici"	170	7
13	Estonia	Jüri Pootsmann	"Play"	24	18
14	Azerbaijan	Samra	"Miracle"	185	6
15	Montenegro	Highway	"The Real Thing"	60	13
16	Iceland	Greta Salóme	"Hear Them Calling"	51	14
17	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Dalal and Deen feat. Ana Rucner and Jala	"Ljubav je"	104	11
18	Malta	Ira Losco	"Walk on Water"	209	3

Eighteen countries participated in the second semi-final. Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom voted in this semi-final.^[72][83] Romania were originally planned to perform twelfth in this semi-final, but were disqualified due to repeated non-payment of debts to the EBU, resulting in countries originally planned to perform thirteenth or later to do so one place earlier.^[20] The highlighted countries qualified for the final.^[87]

Results of the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016^[88]

R/O[86]	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Latvia	Justs	"Heartbeat"	132	8
2	Poland	Michał Szpak	"Color of Your Life"	151	6
3	Switzerland	Rykka	"The Last of Our Kind"	28	18
4	Israel	Hovi Star	"Made of Stars"	147	7
5	Belarus	Ivan	"Help You Fly"	84	12
6	Serbia	Sanja Vučić Zaa	"Goodbye (Shelter)"	105	10
7	Ireland	Nicky Byrne	"Sunlight"	46	15
8	Macedonia	Kaliopi	"Dona"	88	11
9	Lithuania	Donny Montell	"I've Been Waiting for This Night"	222	4
10	Australia	Dami Im	"Sound of Silence"	330	1
11	Slovenia	ManuElla	"Blue and Red"	57	14
12	Bulgaria	Poli Genova	"If Love Was a Crime"	220	5
13	Denmark	Lighthouse X	"Soldiers of Love"	34	17
14	Ukraine	Jamala	"1944"	287	2
15	Norway	Agnete	"Icebreaker"	63	13
16	Georgia	Nika Kocharov and Young Georgian Lolitaz	"Midnight Gold"	123	9
17	Albania	Eneda Tarifa	"Fairytale"	45	16
18	Belgium	Laura Tesoro	"What's the Pressure"	274	3

26 countries participated in the final, with all 42 participating countries eligible to vote. The running order for the final was revealed after the second semi-final qualifiers' press conference on 13 May.^[89]

Results of the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016^[90]

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Points	Place
1	Belgium	Laura Tesoro	"What's the Pressure"	181	10
2	Czech Republic	Gabriela Gunčíková	"I Stand"	41	25
3	Netherlands	Douwe Bob	"Slow Down"	153	11
4	Azerbaijan	Samra	"Miracle"	117	17
5	Hungary	Freddie	"Pioneer"	108	19
6	Italy	Francesca Michielin	"No Degree of Separation"	124	16
7	Israel	Hovi Star	"Made of Stars"	135	14
8	Bulgaria	Poli Genova	"If Love Was a Crime"	307	4
9	Sweden	Frans	"If I Were Sorry"	261	5
10	Germany	Jamie-Lee	"Ghost"	11	26
11	France	Amir	"J'ai cherché"	257	6
12	Poland	Michał Szpak	"Color of Your Life"	229	8
13	Australia	Dami Im	"Sound of Silence"	511	2
14	Cyprus	Minus One	"Alter Ego"	96	21
15	Serbia	Sanja Vučić Zaa	"Goodbye (Shelter)"	115	18
16	Lithuania	Donny Montell	"I've Been Waiting for This Night"	200	9
17	Croatia	Nina Kraljić	"Lighthouse"	73	23
18	Russia	Sergey Lazarev	"You Are the Only One"	491	3
19	Spain	Barei	"Say Yay!"	77	22
20	Latvia	Justs	"Heartbeat"	132	15
21	Ukraine	Jamala	"1944"	534	1
22	Malta	Ira Losco	"Walk on Water"	153	12
23	Georgia	Nika Kocharov and Young Georgian Lolitaz	"Midnight Gold"	104	20
24	Austria	Zoë	"Loin d'ici"	151	13
25	United Kingdom	Joe and Jake	"You're Not Alone"	62	24
26	Armenia	Iveta Mukuchyan	"LoveWave"	249	7

The spokespersons announced the 12-point score from their respective country's national jury in the following order:^[91]

Split results of semi-final 1

Place	Combined		Jury		Televoting
	Country	Points	Country	Points	Country	Points
1	Russia	342	Malta	155	Russia	194
2	Armenia	243	Russia	148	Austria	133
3	Malta	209	Armenia	127	Hungary	119
4	Hungary	197[d]	Czech Republic	120	Armenia	116
5	Netherlands	197[d]	Netherlands	102	Netherlands	95
6	Azerbaijan	185	Azerbaijan	92	Cyprus	93
7	Austria	170	Croatia	80	Azerbaijan	93
8	Cyprus	164	Hungary	78	Bosnia and Herzegovina	78
9	Czech Republic	161	Cyprus	71	Malta	54
10	Croatia	133	Montenegro	46	Croatia	53
11	Bosnia and Herzegovina	104	Austria	37	San Marino	49
12	San Marino	68	Finland	35	Czech Republic	41
13	Montenegro	60	Iceland	27	Iceland	24
14	Iceland	51[e]	Bosnia and Herzegovina	26	Greece	22
15	Finland	51[e]	Moldova	24	Finland	16
16	Greece	44	Greece	22	Estonia	15
17	Moldova	33	San Marino	19	Montenegro	14
18	Estonia	24	Estonia	9	Moldova	9

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country's professional jury and televote in the first semi-final. Countries in bold gave the maximum 24 points (12 points apiece from professional jury and televoting) to the specified entrant.

12 points awarded by juries

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
5	Russia	Azerbaijan,  Cyprus,  Greece,  Moldova,  Sweden
4	Armenia	Malta,  Montenegro,  Russia,  Spain
	Netherlands	Estonia,  Finland,  Iceland,  San Marino
3	Malta	Armenia,  Austria,  Hungary
2	Czech Republic	Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Croatia
1	Austria	France
	Croatia	Netherlands
	Hungary	Czech Republic

12 points awarded by televoting

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
6	Russia	Armenia,  Azerbaijan,  Estonia,  Iceland,  Malta,  San Marino
4	Armenia	Czech Republic,  France,  Netherlands,  Russia
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Austria,  Croatia,  Montenegro,  Sweden
2	Azerbaijan	Hungary,  Moldova
1	Austria	Spain
	Croatia	Bosnia and Herzegovina
	Cyprus	Greece
	Estonia	Finland
	Greece	Cyprus

Split results of semi-final 2

Place	Combined		Jury		Televoting
	Country	Points	Country	Points	Country	Points
1	Australia	330	Australia	188	Ukraine	152
2	Ukraine	287	Belgium	139	Australia	142
3	Belgium	274	Ukraine	135	Belgium	135
4	Lithuania	222	Israel	127	Poland	131
5	Bulgaria	220	Lithuania	104	Bulgaria	122
6	Poland	151	Bulgaria	98	Lithuania	118
7	Israel	147	Georgia	84	Latvia	68
8	Latvia	132	Latvia	64	Macedonia	54
9	Georgia	123	Serbia	55	Belarus	52
10	Serbia	105	Slovenia	49	Serbia	50
11	Macedonia	88	Macedonia	34	Georgia	39
12	Belarus	84	Belarus	32	Albania	35
13	Norway	63	Norway	29	Norway	34
14	Slovenia	57	Switzerland	25	Ireland	31
15	Ireland	46	Poland	20	Denmark	24
16	Albania	45	Ireland	15	Israel	20
17	Denmark	34	Denmark	10	Slovenia	8
18	Switzerland	28	Albania	10	Switzerland	3

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country's professional jury and televote in the second semi-final. Countries in bold gave the maximum 24 points (12 points apiece from professional jury and televoting) to the specified entrant.

12 points awarded by juries

N.	Contestant	Nation(s) giving 12 points
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