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Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest
Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest
Participating broadcaster	İctimai Television (İTV)
Participation summary
Appearances	16 (13 finals)
First appearance	2008
Highest placement	1st: 2011
Host	2012
	Participation history 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2017; 2018; 2019; 2020; 2021; 2022; 2023; 2024; ;
External links
	Azerbaijan's page at Eurovision.tv
	For the most recent participation see; Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024

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Azerbaijan has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 16 times since making its debut in 2008, after İctimai Televiziya (İTV) became an active member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). İTV had broadcast the Eurovision Song Contest in previous years, purchasing broadcasting rights from the EBU. Azerbaijan was the last country in the Caucasus to debut in the contest and the first to win.

Azerbaijan has won the contest once, in 2011, with Ell and Nikki and the song "Running Scared" setting the record for the lowest average score for a winning song under the 12-points voting system, with 5.26 points per country. The country achieved five consecutive top-five results in the contest between 2009 and 2013, finishing third (2009) and fifth (2010) before its 2011 win and fourth (2012) and second (2013) following its win. Azerbaijan has failed to advance from the semi-finals on three occasions, in 2018, 2023 and 2024.

History

Prior to Azerbaijan's debut, broadcaster AzTV expressed interest in participating in 2007, but EBU rules did not allow this as AzTV was not an active member of the EBU. AzTV was denied active EBU membership on 18 June 2007, as it was considered too connected to the Azerbaijani government.^[1] On 5 July, İTV became a full EBU member,^[2] and on 15 October, it was given permission to take part in the contest by the EBU.^[3]

Azerbaijan's debut at Eurovision in 2008 proved to be successful, with Elnur and Samir placing 8th with 132 points. In 2009, Azerbaijan achieved an improvement on their 2008 debut, coming third and receiving 207 points with the song "Always" by Aysel and Arash.

Azerbaijan's first Eurovision win came in 2011, when Ell and Nikki triumphed with "Running Scared".^[4]^[5] With their entry only receiving 5.26 points per voting country, Azerbaijan holds the record of the lowest average score for a winning song under that voting system (in place from 1975 to 2015).

The country managed another two consecutive top five results, with Sabina Babayeva finishing fourth with 150 points in 2012, and Farid Mammadov second with 234 in 2013, but in 2014, Azerbaijan failed to place in the top ten for the first time since their debut, finishing 22nd, the country's lowest result in a Eurovision final to date. Azerbaijan has since failed to reach the top ten on five occasions, coming 12th in 2015, 17th in 2016, 14th in 2017, 20th in 2021 and 16th in 2022. 2018 saw Azerbaijan's first non-qualification, with Aisel failing to progress from the first semi-final, followed by TuralTuranX failing to advance from the first semi-final in 2023. Chingiz brought Azerbaijan back to the top ten by finishing eighth with the song "Truth" in 2019.

Popularity of the contest

Since Azerbaijan's debut in 2008, the contest has been extremely popular in the country. After placing in the top 10 at its debut in 2008 and also ending in the top 5 from 2009 to 2013, the contest became a matter of "national pride". The high importance of the contest within the country became evident in 2013, when the Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev launched an inquiry into his country failing to award Russia any points in the 2013 final.^[6] Since 2009, the contest has consistently been the most watched show on Azerbaijani television, despite the fact that the contest is broadcast at midnight local time due to the time difference from Central European Time. Azerbaijan issued a postage stamp dedicated to Ell and Nikki's win in 2011.^[7]^[8]

The country spent ₼300 million (€160 million) on hosting the 2012 contest, including building a completely new arena for the event.^[9] As of 2022,^[update] this is the largest amount of money ever spent by any host country on organising the contest.^[10]

Participation overview

Table key
1	First place
2	Second place
3	Third place
X	Entry selected but did not compete

Year	Artist	Song	Language	Final	Points	Semi	Points
2008	Elnur and Samir	"Day After Day"	English	8	132	6	96
2009	Aysel and Arash	"Always"	English	3	207	2	180
2010	Safura	"Drip Drop"	English	5	145	2	113
2011	Ell and Nikki	"Running Scared"	English	1	221	2	122
2012	Sabina Babayeva	"When the Music Dies"	English	4	150	Host country
2013	Farid Mammadov	"Hold Me"	English	2	234	1	139
2014	Dilara Kazimova	"Start a Fire"	English	22	33	9	57
2015	Elnur Hüseynov	"Hour of the Wolf"	English	12	49	10	53
2016	Samra	"Miracle"	English	17	117	6	185
2017	Dihaj	"Skeletons"	English	14	120	8	150
2018	Aisel	"X My Heart"	English	Failed to qualify		11	94
2019	Chingiz	"Truth"	English	8	302	5	224
2020	Efendi	"Cleopatra"	English	Contest cancelled^[a] X
2021	Efendi	"Mata Hari"	English	20	65	8	138
2022	Nadir Rustamli	"Fade to Black"	English	16	106	10	96
2023	TuralTuranX	"Tell Me More"	English	Failed to qualify		14	4
2024	Fahree feat. Ilkin Dovlatov	"Özünlə apar"	English, Azerbaijani	Failed to qualify		14	11

Hostings

Year	Location	Venue	Presenters	Image
2012	Baku	Baku Crystal Hall	Leyla Aliyeva, Eldar Gasimov and Nargiz Birk-Petersen

Awards received

Marcel Bezençon Awards

Year	Category	Song	Performer	Composer	Place	Points	Host city	Ref.
2012	Press Award	"When the Music Dies"	Sabina Babayeva	Anders Bagge, Sandra Bjurman, Stefan Örn, Johan Kronlund	4	150	Baku	^[11]
2013	Artistic Award	"Hold Me"	Farid Mammadov	Dimitris Kontopoulos	2	234	Malmö	^[12]

Related involvement

Heads of delegation

Year	Head of delegation	Ref.
2008–2011	Adil Karimli	^[13]
2012–2014	Husniyya Maharramova	^[14]
2015–2016	Tamilla Shirinova	^[15]
2018	Leyla Quliyeva	^[16]
2019	Husniyya Maharramova	^[14]
2020	Leyla Quliyeva	^[17]
2021–2022	Isa Melikov	^[18]^[19]
2023–2024	Vasif Mammadov	^[20]

Commentators and spokespersons

The contest is aired on İctimai Television (İTV) with notable commentators include Azer Suleymanli, and Murad Arif.

Year	Commentator	Spokesperson	Ref.
2006	Unknown	Did not participate	^[21]
2007	Murad Arif and Leyla Aliyeva	Did not participate	^[22]
2008	Husniyya Maharramova and Isa Melikov	Leyla Aliyeva	^[23]
2009	Leyla Aliyeva and Isa Melikov	Husniyya Maharramova	^[24]
2010	Husniyya Maharramova	Tamilla Shirinova	^[25]
2011	Leyla Aliyeva	Safura Alizadeh	^[26]^[27]^[28]
2012	Konul Arifgizi and Saleh Bagirov	Safura Alizadeh	^[29]
2013	Konul Arifgizi	Tamilla Shirinova	^[30]
2014	Konul Arifgizi	Sabina Babayeva	^[31]
2015	Kamran Guliyev	Tural Asadov	^[32]^[33]
2016	Azer Suleymanli		^[34]^[35]
2017			^[36]
2018			^[37]
2019	Murad Arif	Faig Aghayev	^[22]^[38]
2021	Murad Arif and Husniyya Maharramova	Ell and Nikki	^[39]
2022	Murad Arif	None^[b]	^[40]^[41]^[42]
2023	Azer Suleymanli	Narmin Salmanova	^[43]^[44]
2024	Nurlana Jafarova [az]	Aysel Teymurzadeh	^[45]^[46]

Stage directors

Year	Stage director(s)	Ref.
2011	Rennie Miro & Filip Adamo	^[47]
2013	Fokas Evangelinos	^{[citation needed]}
2014	Åsa Engman and Nicoline Refsing	^[48]
2015	Ambra Succi	^{[citation needed]}
2016	Roine Söderlundh	^{[citation needed]}
2017	Naila Mammadzadeh	^{[citation needed]}
2018	Fokas Evangelinos	^{[citation needed]}
2019	Mads Enggaard, Konstantin Tomilchenko & Aleksandr Bratkovsky	^[49]^[50]
~~2020~~	~~Mads Enggaard~~	^[51]
2021	Mads Enggaard	^[52]
2023	Mads Enggaard	^[53]
2024	Yevhenii "Timó" Timokhin [uk]	^[54]

Photo gallery

Elnur and Samir in Belgrade (2008)
Aysel and Arash in Moscow (2009)
Safura Alizadeh in Oslo (2010)
Ell and Nikki in Düsseldorf (2011)
Sabina Babayeva on homesoil in Baku (2012)
Farid Mammadov in Malmö (2013)
Dilara Kazimova in Copenhagen (2014)
Elnur Hüseynov in Vienna (2015)
Samra Rahimli in Stockholm (2016)
Diana Hajiyeva in Kyiv (2017)
Aisel in Lisbon (2018)
Chingiz in Tel Aviv (2019)
Efendi in Rotterdam (2021)
Nadir Rustamli in Turin (2022)
TuralTuranX in Liverpool (2023)
Fahree feat. Ilkin Dovlatov in Malmö (2024)

Notes

^ The 2020 contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
^ Narmin Salmanova was supposed to announce the results, but due to alleged technical difficulties, the contest's executive supervisor Martin Österdahl announced them instead.

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[11] The 2020 contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

[41] Narmin Salmanova was supposed to announce the results, but due to alleged technical difficulties, the contest's executive supervisor Martin Österdahl announced them instead.

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v t e Azerbaijan in the Eurovision Song Contest
Participation	2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024
Artists	Aisel Arash Aysel Sabina Babayeva Chingiz Dihaj Ilkin Dovlatov Efendi Fahree Eldar Gasimov Elnur Hüseynov Nigar Jamal Dilara Kazimova Farid Mammadov Nadir Rustamli Safura Samir Samra TuralTuranX
Songs	"Always" ~~"Cleopatra"~~ "Day After Day" "Drip Drop" "Fade to Black" "Hold Me" "Hour of the Wolf" "Mata Hari" "Miracle" "Özünlə apar" "Running Scared" "Skeletons" "Start a Fire" "Tell Me More" "Truth" "When the Music Dies" "X My Heart"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Azerbaijan did not compete Armenia–Azerbaijan relations in the Eurovision Song Contest