('The Little Song Contest') was a one-off music competition in the Eurovision Song Contest format, organised and broadcast by the Austrian broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF). It served as a local alternative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020, which was planned to be held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The competition consisted of three semi-finals between 14 and 18 April 2020 and a final on 18 April 2020, and was hosted by Andi Knoll. All shows were broadcast on the television channel ORF 1, as well as on the streaming platform ORF-TVthek.
Format
In each semi-final, the music videos (or national final performances) of 13 or 14 entries that would have taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 were shown. Each member of the jury awarded 0–8, 10 or 12 points to each entry. The entry that received most points in each semi-final proceeded to the final on 18 April 2020. Out of the three finalists, the winner was determined by 100% televote of the Austrian public.
Presenter The programme was hosted by Andi Knoll, who has been the Eurovision Song Contest commentator for ORF since 1999.
Jury The jury consisted of 10 singers who represented Austria in past editions of the Eurovision Song Contest:
Hans Kreuzmayr (, as part of Waterloo & Robinson) Simone Stelzer () Petra Frey () Manuel Ortega () Alf Poier () Eric Papilaya () Nadine Beiler () Conchita Wurst () Zoë Straub () Cesár Sampson ()
Participants Semi-final 1 The first semi-final took place on 14 April 2020 at 20:15 CEST and featured the following competing entries: Detailed jury votesDrawSongJurorsTotal scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" 141010261058887128286612163860346661088666664545845320642550641010108549661210410121311271744848736565580044161010179466510122268611048658102351061116101228124541275128045671400351383688611211063142281087623250 CountryArtistSongLanguage(s)PlacePoints 1Jeangu Macrooy"Grow"English371 2Eden Alene"Feker libi" ()English, Amharic, Hebrew, Arabic860 3James Newman"My Last Breath"English466 4Athena Manoukian"Chains on You"English1242 5Tornike Kipiani"Take Me as I Am"English1149 6Victoria"Tears Getting Sober"English271 7Blas Cantó"Universo"Spanish955 8VAL"Da vidna" ()Belarusian1417 9Alicja "Empires"English661 10Roxen"Alcohol You"English761 11Daði og Gagnamagnið"Think About Things"English175 12Senhit"Freaky!"English1335 13Hooverphonic"Release Me"English563 14Sandro"Running"English1050
Semi-final 2 The second semi-final took place on 16 April 2020 at 20:15 CEST and featured the following competing entries: Detailed jury votesDrawSongJurorsTotal scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" 1106128642123467242848712121026935142410248105044101010812310664560661631343662310817110510577816105723214588252461110309681061012108888610626881024225011866388410025512015328232228136566210461105614810108121281091097 Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points 1Little Big"Uno"English, Spanish467 2Tom Leeb"Mon alliée (The Best in Me)"French, English369 3Efendi"Cleopatra"English950 4Gjon's Tears"Répondez-moi"French564 5Samanta Tīna"Still Breathing"English1236 6The Roop"On Fire"English657 7Damir Kedžo"Divlji vjetre"Croatian1145 8Elisa"Medo de sentir"Portuguese1330 9The Mamas"Move"English286 10Ana Soklič"Voda"Slovene1050 11Lesley Roy"Story of My Life"English855 12Natalia Gordienko"Prison"English1428 13Aksel"Looking Back"English756 14Destiny"All of My Love"English197
Semi-final 3 The third semi-final took place on 18 April 2020 at 20:15 CEST and featured the following competing entries: Detailed jury votesDrawSongJurorsTotal scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" 15536486806512438518202235318888786210664528588312110625814366120435684631276211059721248662083518625627124134894581012108431276103105105741053621142634815364212103101071328451384612812584673 Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points 1Stefania"Supergirl"English851 2Montaigne"Don't Break Me"English1235 3Ben Dolic"Violent Thing"English366 4Ulrikke"Attention"English462 5Hurricane"Hasta la vista"Serbian1335 6Diodato"Fai rumore"Italian659 7Benny Cristo"Kemama"English751 8Uku Suviste"What Love Is"English948 9Vincent Bueno"Alive"English176 10Arilena Ara"Shaj"Albanian562 11Vasil"You"English1142 12Go A"Solovey" ()Ukrainian1045 13Ben & Tan"Yes"English273
Final The live final took place on 18 April 2020 at 21:45 CEST and featured the three songs (one from each semi-final) that received most points from the jury. Country Artist Song Place % of votes 1Daði og Gagnamagnið"Think About Things"148 2Destiny"All of My Love"319 3Vincent Bueno"Alive"233
See also Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light Die Grand Prix Hitliste Eurovision 2020 – das deutsche Finale Eurovision: Come Together Free European Song Contest Sveriges 12:a
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