Contest year
- Host City
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Venue
- Globen
- Final Date
- January 1, 2000
- Entries
- 24
- Notable for expanding to 24 entries and introducing automatic qualification for the “Big Four” (France, Germany, Spain and the UK) alongside the host, altering the relegation system.
- Latvia debuted and finished third, one of the strongest first appearances.
- The contest was first webcast online via Microsoft’s MSN portals.
- Denmark’s surprise win achieved the third-highest points total to date, but Russia unsuccessfully sought disqualification over alleged vocoder use.
- Israel’s PingPong sparked controversy with provocative imagery and waving Syrian and Israeli flags, leading IBA to disavow the entry.
- via Wikipedia