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Eurovision Song Contest 1999The Eurovision Song Contest 1999 was the 44th Eurovision, it was held in Israel on May 29th and the presenters were Dafna Dekel, Sigal Shachamon and Yigal Ravid. Charlotte Nilsson was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, Take Me To Your Heaven. The long-standing rule that each country had to sing in one of its own national languages was dropped in this contest. Results Voting Structure Each Country had a televote, where the top ten most voted for songs were awarded the 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points. After some thoroughly confusing thrills and spills in the early voting, with Lithuania awarding maximum points to the - for once - rank outsiders Ireland, the contest soon settled into a nip-and-tuck duel between Sweden and Iceland, but with Iceland more often than not holding a slight lead. The fortunes of Germany were more erratic - on a few occasions, their challenge seemed to be failing, only for a couple of high scores to haul them back to within striking distance of the leading pair. That appeared to be the case once again when the penultimate voting country, Bosnia and Herzegovina, handed ten points to the Germans. This momentarily distracted attention from the fact that the Balkan nation had not yet awarded any points to Sweden or Iceland, meaning that one of the two was bound to receive nothing. With Charlotte Nilsson of Sweden already having crept into a three-point lead at a crucial moment, the realisation quickly dawned that, while twelve points for Iceland would put them back into a commanding position, twelve points for Sweden would settle the contest in abrupt fashion. And, indeed, it was Selma of Iceland who in short order found she was 'all out of luck', while Sweden were taken to their heaven of being able to host the millennium edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.
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