The anniversary, 50th Eurovision Song Contest was held in the capital of Ukraine, Kiyv, due to Ruslana win with the record-breaking anthem "Wild Dances" in the prior contest and bringing Ukraine the victory at only second appearance in the "Eurovision". The presenters of the show were chosen to be Pavlo Shylko and Maria Efrosinina, the DJ and TV-commentator. By the way, in my personal opinion, these were one of the best "Eurovision" presenters to-date. The winner of this anniversary contest was Helena Paparizou, born in Greece, who once participated in "Eurovision" as a part of the duo "Antique" and took 3rd place that year. The débutants of the contest were Moldova and Bulgaria, with Hungary returning. Lebanon intended to take part in it either but due to the country's statement that instead of the Israeli entry the commercial break would be on, Lebanon was forced to withdraw. Bulgraia was accused of plagiarism. The turkish National Final selection jury's votes were interpreted in a wrong way which led to Gülseren winning the selection and, further, representing Turkey in the "Eurovision" contest. The same happened during the Macedonian national selections. Maltese national contest that decides who goes to "Eurovision" was not been shown from the very beginning due to electricity problems in the country. 4 artists came back to the "Eurovision" stage in 2005. They were: Helena Paparizou (Greece), Constantinos Christoforou (Cyprus) - took part for the third time, Chiara (Malta) and Selma (Iceland).

So, the first victory to Greece was brought by Helena Paparizou, the big "star", who, by the way, "conquered" some European countries after the win in "Eurovision". Helena was leading since the very beginning of the votes announcement. 15 first consecutive countries-to-vote all gave her at least 2 points, 7 countries giving the highest mark - "12". Although in the middle of the voting the situation wasn't really in control of Greece but they were still leading by quite far. But to the end it became obvious that the winner was already decided. Malta, having scored the only one highest mark of twelve points from Russia, took the 2nd place in the final with breath-taking score of 193 points. To the comparison, ten highest marks of 12 points were awarded to the winner, Greece. Three - to the third placed song. By the way, it was the "drum-masterpiece" song called "Let Me Try" performed by Luminiţa Anghel & Sistem, who won the semifinal two days prior to the final of the contest. Latvia, having finished right on the line dividing the qualifiers from non-qualifiers, shockingly finished fifth in the final of the contest. This is probably the most surprising moment of "Eurovision 2005". Netherland, Iceland and Belarus losing the semifinal put the whole Europe in the shocking state as well. This once more proved that "Eurovision" is sometimes extremely unpredictable.

01.		Greece	Helena Paparizou	My number one	230
02.		Malta	Chiara	Angel	192
03.		Romania	Luminiţa Anghel & Sistem	Let me try	158
04.		Israel	Shiri Maymon	Hasheket Shenish'ar	154
05.		Latvia	Walter & Kazha	The war is not over	153
06.		Moldova	Zdob şi Zdub	Boonika bate toba	148
07.		Serbia and Montenegro	No Name	Zauvijek moja	137
08.		Switzerland	Vanilla Ninja	Cool vibes	128
09.		Norway	Wig Wam	In my dreams	125
10.		Denmark	Jakob Sveistrup	Talking to you	125
11.		Croatia	Boris Novković feat. Lado members	Vukovi umiru sami	115
12.		Hungary	NOX	Forogj, világ!	97
13.		Turkey	Gülseren	Rimi rimi ley	92
14.		Bosnia & Herzegovina	Feminnem	Call me	79
15.		Russia	Natalia Podolskaya	Nobody hurt no one	57
16.		Albania	Ledina Çelo	Tomorrow I go	53
17.		FYR Macedonia	Martin Vučić	Make my day	52
18.		Cyprus	Constantinos Christoforou	Ela ela	46
19.		Ukraine	Greenjolly	Razom nas bahato	30
20.		Sweden	Martin Stenmarck	Las Vegas	30
21.		Spain	Son de sol	Brujería	28
22.		United Kingdom	Javine	Touch my fire	18
23.		France	Ortal	Chacun pense à soi	11
24.		Germany	Gracia	Run & hide	4