As usual, 2004 saw a broad selection of entries covering a number of genres, although we did appear to be missing the "joke" entrant this year…on second thoughts…..both Estonia and Israel had questionable tracks! After a 24 year break we welcomed back Monaco, with their French euro-pop number Notre Planète, performed by Maryon. The UK entrant was former Fame Academy participant James Fox asking to Hold On To Our Love. Other more notable ballads competing for points included the Elton-John sounding Du Bist by Austrian’s Tie Break, Iceland’s Jonsi with Heaven and the Irish entrant, Chris Doran whose song If My World Stopped Turning was co-written by ex-Westlife member Bryan McFadden.

Euro-dance came courtesy of Belgium’s Xandee with 1 Life, Sweden’s Lena Philipsson with It Hurts and the Maltese who managed to combine a house beat with some rather operatic singing in Julie & Ludwig’s song On Again...Off Again but it was Bosnia Herzegovina who really pumped up the BPM with Euro-beats from Deen on In The Disco. Others to look out for included the French love song from Jonatan Cerrada - A Chaque Pas, Germany’s smooth pop from Max: Can’t Wait Until Tonight and The Netherlands’ Re-Union whose acoustic ballad Without You reminded one of 90’s hit More Than Words by Extreme. The Greek entry was Nana Mouskouri’s protégé Sakis; the first man to grace the cover of Greek Vogue, the face of Greek Pepsi and Vodafone as well as a spokesperson for Greek-Turkish relations – his song Shake It was produced by Ricky Martin producer Desmond Child.

Special Features
Disc 1:

• The semi final (includes subtitles – running time = 120 mins)
  
• The artists
  
• "Behind the Scenes" stories

Disc 2:

• The grand final (includes subtitles – running time = 190 mins)
  
• Interview with the winner, Ukraine's Ruslana