ARMENPRESS

HAYKO COMES 8th AT EUROVISION SONG CONTEST

YEREVAN, MAY 13, ARMENPRESS: Armenian singer Hayko
with his song ‘Anytime You Need’ came 8-th at
Eurovision song contest final in Helsinki, Finland on
May 12.
He scored 138 points, receiving the highest 12
points from Turkey, as did last year Armenian singer
Andre and from the newcomer Georgia.
Hayko received also 10 points from France, Belgium,
Czech Republic, Netherlands, Russia and Poland. 8
points came from Spain, Cyprus and Bulgaria. Greece
gave 6 points; Belarus, Austria, Israel and Ukraine
gave 5 points and Moldova gave 2 points.
Serbia’s Marija Serifovic and her song Molitva
(Prayer) was ranked first with 268 points. Ukraine
came in second with 235 Points followed by Russia with
207.
For the first time, since the language rule was
abolished in 1999, a song won that included not a
single word in English.
Exactly one third of the competing nations in the
final were former USSR countries. Russia got 12 points
from three countries: Armenia, Belarus and Estonia.
Latvia got ten points from Estonia and Lithuania.
Georgia got its only top mark from Lithuania.
Thanks to Hayko, Armenia has again won the right to
be in the final of next year’s Eurovision song
contest.