OGAE Second Chance Contest 2004

The 2004 OGAE Second Chance Contest was the 17th OGAE Second Chance Contest, organised between members of international Eurovision Song Contest fan club OGAE to select the best song not to make it to the Eurovision Song Contest through their national finals. 21 songs comepted in the contest, held in Växjö in Sweden after OGAE Sweden's win the previous year with "Not a Sinner Nor a Saint" by Alcazar.

All 21 competing branches of OGAE competed in voting for the winner, along with three guest juries who were ineligible to compete in the contest from France, Ireland and Italy.

Serbia and Montenegro made its Second Chance debut after it debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. Denmark, Finland and FYR Macedonia returned to the contest after being relegated from the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 - Belgium and Turkey returned after holding internal selections the previous year, while Malta returned after being disqualified the previous year.

A number of countries also withdrew from the contest - Estonia and Israel had been set to compete in the contest, however withdrew at a late stage after selecting their entries (namely "Homme" by Maarja Liis-Ilus and "Freedom" by David D'Or respectively). Iceland withdrew due to no national final being held, while Romania withdrew out of choice. Ireland withdrew, but competed as a guest jury.

Participants

Draw

Country

Language

Artist

Song

English translation

National final

Place

Points

1

English

Andreana

"24/7"

8th

21

1

2

English

Natalija Verboten

"Cry on My Shoulder"

4th

8

80

3

English

Hyrise

"Leading Me On"

2nd

12

40

4

English

Jonna K

"Like Believers Do"

4th

18

15

5

Croatian

Andrea

"Noah"

2nd

7

87

6

English

SiStars

"Freedom"

7th

19

13

7

Portuguese

Gonçalo

"Novo e Clássico"

New and old

2nd

11

44

8

English

WigWam

"Crazy Things"

3rd

16

19

9

English

Patrick Nuo

"Undone"

Unplaced

3

147

10

Swedish

Shirley Clamp

"Min kärlek"

My love

2nd

2

187

11

English

Athena

"Easy Man"

2nd

20

10

12

Danish

Kaare Thøgersen

"Lykkelig i nat"

Happy tonight

Unplaced

10

55

13

Spanish

Davinia

"Mi obsessión"

My obsession

Unplaced

1

192

14

English

C-Stones

"All You Know"

4th

17

17

15

Bosnian

Deen

"Spava Sarajevo"

Sarajevo sleeps

2nd

14

27

16

Macedonian

Toše Proeski

"Daleku od mene"

Far away from me

2nd

6

90

17

English

Daniel Djuric

"Millionaire"

6th

9

59

18

English

Apostolos Psichramis

"Alright"

1st*

13

29

19

Serbian

Negative

"Zbunjena"

Confused

4th

15

23

20

English

Natalia

"Higher Than The Sun"

2nd

4

146

21

English

Anja Wessels

"Heart of Stone"

2nd

5

111

* Apostolos Psichramis had originally won the Greek national final, but Sakis Rouvas was internally selected to represent Greece at Eurovision. For more information, see Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004.

See also

  • OGAE
  • Eurovision Song Contest 2004