Years > Eurovision Song Contest 1978
Contest details
Location: Palais des Congrès, Paris, France
Broadcaster: TF1
Host(s): Denise Fabré and Léon Zitrone
Participating countries: 20
Voting: Each country allocated 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point to the top 10 of the national jury in descending order.
Participants
Eurovision Song Contest 1978
| country | participant(s) | song | pts | rnk | ||
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18 | Israel | Izhar Cohen and the Alphabeta | Abanibi | 157 | 1 |
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10 | Belgium | Jean Vallée | L'amour ça fait chanter la vie | 125 | 2 |
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6 | France | Joël Prévost | Il y aura toujours des violons | 119 | 3 |
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14 | Monaco | Caline and Olivier Toussaint | Les jardins de Monaco | 107 | 4 |
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1 | Ireland | Colm T. Wilkinson | Born to sing | 86 | 5 |
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13 | Germany | Ireen Sheer | Feuer | 84 | 6 |
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17 | Luxembourg | Baccara | Parlez-vous français? | 73 | 7 |
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15 | Greece | Tania Tsanaklidou | Charlie Chaplin | 66 | 8 |
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7 | Spain | José Vélez | Bailemos un vals | 65 | 9 |
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9 | Switzerland | Carole Vinci | Vivre | 65 | 9 |
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8 | United Kingdom | Co-Co | The bad old days | 61 | 11 |
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3 | Italy | Ricchi e Poveri | Questo amore | 53 | 12 |
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11 | The Netherlands | Harmony | 't Is OK | 37 | 13 |
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20 | Sweden | Björn Skifs | Det blir alltid värre framåt natten | 26 | 14 |
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19 | Austria | Springtime | Mrs. Caroline Robinson | 14 | 15 |
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16 | Denmark | Mabel | Boom boom | 13 | 16 |
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5 | Portugal | Gemini | Dai-li-dou | 5 | 17 |
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4 | Finland | Seija Simola | Anna rakkaudelle tilaisuus | 2 | 18 |
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12 | Turkey | Nazar | Sevinçe | 2 | 18 |
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2 | Norway | Jahn Teigen | Mil etter mil | 0 | 20 |
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Eurovision Song Contest 1978
After 11 years Denmark returned to the contest. Because Turkey also decided to participate again and no country withdrew, a new record was established, 20 countries took part. Israel won the contest and received 5 consecutive 12 point-votes which is still a Eurovision record. When it was obvious that Israel would win, the broadcasting company of Jordan stopped the live broadcast claiming they had technical difficulties. A day later they presented the song from Belgium as the winning song. For the first time the contest was hosted by two people. Norway didn't get a single vote, which was unique for the new voting system, but that feat would be repeated several times in the future.