Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001

Eurovision Song Contest 2001
Country	Spain
National selection
Selection process	Eurocanción 2001
Selection date(s)	23 February 2001
Selected entrant	David Civera
Selected song	"Dile que la quiero"
Selected songwriter(s)	Alejandro Abad
Finals performance
Final result	6th, 76 points
Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2000 • 2001 • 2002►

Spain participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 with the song "Dile que la quiero" written by Alejandro Abad. The song was performed by David Civera. Songwriter Alejandro Abad represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994 with the song "Ella no es ella" placing eighteenth in the competition. The Spanish broadcaster Televisión Española (TVE) organised the national final Eurocanción 2001 in order to select the Spanish entry for the 2001 contest in Copenhagen, Denmark. Twenty artists and songs competed in the televised show where an in-studio jury and a public televote selected "Dile que la quiero" performed by David Civera as the winner.

As a member of the "Big Four", Spain automatically qualified to compete in the Eurovision Song Contest. Performing in position 13, Spain placed sixth out of the 23 participating countries with 76 points.

Background

Main article: Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2001 contest, Spain had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest forty times since its first entry in 1961. ^[1] The nation has won the contest on two occasions: in 1968 with the song "La, la, la" performed by Massiel and in 1969 with the song "Vivo cantando" performed by Salomé, the latter having won in a four-way tie with France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Spain has also finished second four times, with Karina in 1971, Mocedades in 1973, Betty Missiego in 1979 and Anabel Conde in 1995. In 2000, Spain placed eighteenth with the song "Colgado de un sueño" performed by Serafín Zubiri.

The Spanish national broadcaster, Televisión Española (TVE), broadcasts the event within Spain and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. In 2000, TVE organised the national final Eurocanción which featured a competition among several artists and songs, a procedure which was continued for their 2001 entry. ^[2]

Before Eurovision

Eurocanción 2001

Eurocanción 2001 was the national final organised by TVE that took place on 23 February 2001 at the Estudios Buñuel in Madrid, hosted by Jennifer Rope and Sandra Morey. ^[3] The show was broadcast on La Primera and TVE Internacional. ^[4] Twenty artists and songs competed with the winner being decided upon through a combination of public televoting and an in-studio expert jury. ^[5]

Competing entries

TVE directly invited over 30,000 composers to submit their songs and 2,160 entries were received. ^[6] A fifteen-member committee, which included the creator and director of Eurocanción José Luis Uribarri, evaluated the entries received and shortlisted 30 for an audition round, where twenty entries were ultimately selected for the national final. The twenty competing acts were announced during a press conference on 22 February 2001. ^{[7] [8]}

Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)
David Castedo	"Un terrón de azúcar"	David Castedo
David Civera	"Dile que la quiero"	Alejandro Abad
Frank Bravo	"No sé por qué"	Jose Manuel Moles
Herbert	"Abre los brazos"	G. Carillo
Hi Priority	"A nadie como a ti"	Pablo Pinilla, David Santisteban
Kingdom Brothers	"Nada es igual"	A. Hernández, David Santana, L. Suárez, Yeron Torres
Locomía	"Música, música"	Alejandro García Price
Luna	"No pidas más amor"	Mercedes Trujillo
Mina	"Libres"	José María Díez, Angel Santiago Haro
Mister Robinson	"Un flechazo de Cupido"	Daniel Grostz, Rafael Esparza
Natalia	"Porque quiero"	Natalia Gómez Lantero
Noemí	"Sin rencor"	Susan Adkinson, Alfonso Sanz
Oxígeno	"Niña bonita"	David Villar, Daniel Cardenete
Paula	"Prisionera de tu amor"	Jose Antonio Ogara
Román	"Nada sin ti"	Douglas Bastidas, Raúl Velez
Silvana	"Dónde"	Enrique Casellas, José Carlos Seco
Sonia and Selena	"Yo quiero bailar"	Francisco Ten, Tony Ten
Toni and Miguel	"Baila"	Benjamín Estació
Trans X	"Amándonos"	Javier Morán, Octavio Narbón, Cristóbal Garrido, Pascual Anguirad
Virginia	"No tengas miedo de amar"	José Luciano Garrigó, Emilio Alquézar

Final

The televised final took place on 23 February 2001. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, guest performers included former Eurovision contestants Edyta Górniak who represented Poland in 1994, Dana International who represented Israel and won the contest in 1998 and Charlotte Nilsson who represented Sweden and won the contest in 1999. Several former Spanish Eurovision contestants also performed during the show. ^[9] The winner, "Dile que la quiero" performed by David Civera, was selected through the combination of the votes of an in-studio jury (75%) and a public televote (25%). ^{[10] [11]} The nine members of the in-studio jury that evaluated the entries were Augusto Algueró (musician), Pilar Tabares (music director of TVE), Maria Teresa Segura (Spanish Head of Delegation for the Eurovision Song Contest), Daniel Velázquez (music coordinator of the City Council of Madrid), Juan Ignacio Ocaña (director of the TVE territorial centre in Madrid), Hugo de Campos (presenter), Silvia Gambino (actress), Juan Luis Ayllón Piquero (Eurovision expert) and José Martín Alfageme (Eurovision expert). ^[12]

Final – 23 February 2001

Draw	Artist	Song	Jury	Televote	Total	Place
1	Locomía	"Música, música"	4	0	4	17
2	Noemí	"Sin rencor"	57	6	63	4
3	David Castedo	"Un terrón de azúcar"	26	9	35	10
4	Paula	"Prisionera de tu amor"	6	0	6	15
5	Sonia and Selena	"Yo quiero bailar"	29	12	41	9
6	Hi Priority	"A nadie como a ti"	60	24	84	2
7	David Civera	"Dile que la quiero"	72	36	108	1
8	Trans X	"Amándonos"	11	0	11	12
9	Mina	"Libres"	60	18	78	3
10	Toni and Miguel	"Baila"	4	0	4	17
11	Kingdom Brothers	"Nada es igual"	8	0	8	13
12	Herbert	"Abre los brazos"	30	30	60	5
13	Virginia	"No tengas miedo de amar"	50	0	50	7
14	Frank Bravo	"No sé por qué"	8	0	8	13
15	Natalia	"Porque quiero"	30	3	33	11
16	Román	"Nada sin ti"	6	0	6	15
17	Mister Robinson	"Un flechazo de Cupido"	28	15	43	8
18	Luna	"No pidas más amor"	31	21	52	6
19	Oxígeno	"Niña bonita"	2	0	2	19
20	Silvana	"Dónde"	0	0	0	20

Detailed Jury Votes

Draw	Song	A. Algueró	P. Tabares	M. T. Segura	D. Velázquez	J. I. Ocaña	H. de Campos	S. Gambino	J. L. Ayllón Piquero	J. M. Alfageme	Total
1	"Música, música"			2						2	4
2	"Sin rencor"	10	3	5	8	10	7	10	4		57
3	"Un terrón de azúcar"	8	2	7		4			1	4	26
4	"Prisionera de tu amor"			6							6
5	"Quiero bailar"		8		7		6	6	2		29
6	"A nadie como a ti"	12		12		8	3	12	6	7	60
7	"Dile que la quiero"	5	10	10	12	6	2	7	8	12	72
8	"Amándonos"			8		2				1	11
9	"Libres"	4	6	4	5	12	4	5	10	10	60
10	"Baila"	3						1			4
11	"Nada es igual"			3		1		4			8
12	"Abre los brazos"		5		10	3	12				30
13	"No tengas miedo de amar"	1	12		6		8	3	12	8	50
14	"No sé por qué"	6	1		1						8
15	"Porque quiero"		4		4	7	10	2	3		30
16	"Nada sin ti"									6	6
17	"Un flechazo de Cupido"		7	1	2	5	1		7	5	28
18	"No pidas más amor"	7			3		5	8	5	3	31
19	"Niña bonita"	2									2
20	"Dónde"										0

At Eurovision

The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 took place at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 12 May 2001. ^[13] The relegation rules introduced for the 1997 contest were again utilised ahead of the 2001 contest, based on each country's average points total in previous contests. The 23 participants were made up of the host country, the "Big Four" (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom), and the 12 countries with the highest average scores between the 1996 and 2000 contests competed in the final. ^[14] As a member of the "Big Four", Spain automatically qualified to compete in the contest. On 21 November 2000, an allocation draw was held which determined the running order and Spain was set to perform in position 13, following the entry from Ireland and before the entry from France. ^[15] Spain finished in sixth place with 76 points. ^[16] Prior to the competition, "Dile que la quiero" was released as a CD single, which charted in Spain's Promusicae Top 50 peaking at number 2. ^[17]

In Spain, the show was broadcast on La Primera with commentary by José Luis Uribarri. ^[18] The Spanish spokesperson, who announced the results of the Spanish televote during the final, was Jennifer Rope. The broadcast of the contest was watched by 5.63 million viewers in Spain with a market share of 45%. ^[19]

Voting

Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Spain and awarded by Spain in the contest. The nation awarded its 12 points to Greece in the contest.

Points awarded to Spain [20] Score Country 12 points   Israel 10 points 8 points   Greece 7 points   Netherlands   Portugal 6 points   Turkey 5 points   Bosnia and Herzegovina   France   Sweden 4 points   Latvia   Norway 3 points   Estonia   Ireland   United Kingdom 2 points   Iceland 1 point   Poland   Slovenia

Points awarded by Spain [20] Score Country 12 points   Greece 10 points   Germany 8 points   Estonia 7 points   Denmark 6 points   Portugal 5 points   Sweden 4 points   Malta 3 points   France 2 points   Slovenia 1 point   United Kingdom

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