Turkey sensationally won the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest on May 24th with "Everyway that I can" sung by Sertab Erener. In a nail-biting voting session it was down to the last country voting. Russia, Belgium, and Turkey were all close enough to win, but the telephone votes cast by Slovenia put Turkey's song ahead to win, with Belgium's "Sanomi" sung performed by Urban Trad in second place. Russia's infamous Tatu came third. Full table of results is here, with the placings here, and an Excel 2000 spreadsheet (zipped) here for those who need more. The placings page also discusses the major changes for next year's show. There's still the full song list with pictures here. The BBC's full voting scores here. At the other end of the results table there was equal excitement, as up to the votes cast by Estonia, two countries, United Kingdom & Latvia, had no points. Estonia gave Latvia's excellent song "Hello from Mars" (sung by F.L.Y.) its only points, and in the end only the United Kingdom song "Cry Baby", performed by Jemini had no points. This is the UK's first no-pointer, and lowest score ever. With the rule changes there will never be a 26th place again, so Jemini have a place in history. Some believe the poor score was caused by Britain's part in the Iraq war, but I think it was a poor song, poorly performed. Gemma Abbey sung the first minute of the song off-key. The problem is the UK send amateur performers with amateur songs. We may not have heard of Sertab before but she has been in the business for over 10 years, and the experience shows. She can hold a note even if the equipment fails. It isn't a talent show. You have to have talent to win.

The 2003 Eurovision Song Contest Compilation CD with all 26 songs is now available to order from Amazon.co.uk. It came out on May 19th, and costs £11.99. Click here to order it. If you missed last year's order it here. Plus our favourite Russians t.A.T.u. have put their Eurovision 2003 entry on their next UK single, "Not gonna get us". It came out on May 19th so click the cover picture here to buy or click here. UK entrants Jemini appeared on BBC-1's Top of the Pops Saturday May 17th. Play the clip right here in RealVideo (56k). The UK entry by Jemini was out on May 26th, and you can order it here. Eurovision fans with Broadband internet must try Eurovision Explorer, an all-music Internet radio station with all decades of Eurovision music - Its great!