Home Composed Song Contest 2020

Contest overview

The 2020 Home Composed Song Contest was organised by the previous year's winner, Bo Söderholm from Finland, with assistance from Martin Faulkner of the HCSC Organising Committee.

Even nearly three decades into HCSC history, the competition was able to welcome new countries. This time it was the turn of Lithuania to make its debut, represented by singer-songwriter Gina Sabrina. Two other debutants, Janneck Schmacke from Germany and Anders Spakling from Finland, enjoyed strong results - the latter even achieving the highest number of 'douze points' in the course of finishing 5th. In all, there were 17 entries from a total of nine different countries.

Once again, there was an internet-based public vote (shown as in the scoresheet) and a guest jury, as often provided by Radio International (shown as in the scoresheet).

For a long time, the results (which can be viewed here) were a head-to-head race between previous winners Tony Olsen and Andy Brook. In the end, the latter's londonvision project pulled away for a fairly comfortable win with "The Cuckold Song (Should've Done The Same As You)" - the second win in the competition for both Andy and the United Kingdom generally. Meanwhile, host Bo drew level with the Danish entry to complete the podium with a joint second place.

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	Germany I	Heaven Made Me Knowing You	Janneck Schmacke	Janneck Schmacke	Janneck Schmacke	6	87
02	Cyprus	Christmas Carols On The Age Of Covid 19	4 Chords	Konstantinos Papoutsis	Katevasies Chistougennon	10	59
03	United Kingdom I	Cast The Net On Me	The Jet Set Junta	Howard Thomas	Howard Thomas	14	33
04	Australia	Fat Boy	Rainbow Orbit	Phil McNulty	Phil McNulty	15	22
05	Finland I	Lie To Me	Bo Söderholm	Bo Söderholm	Bo Söderholm	2	111
06	United Kingdom II	When I Look At You	Andrew Boyes	Andrew Boyes	Andrew Boyes	11	47
07	Germany II	740 Millionen	MARWIN	Marcus Seiler	Stefan Engel	4	101
08	Sweden	Yr afon	Martin Kahnberg & Eva-Karin Håkansson	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	13	37
09	Denmark	Du og jeg	Duo Dano	Tony Olsen	Frøydis Skinnarland	2	111
10	Finland II	Waters	Anders Spakling	Otto Manninen	Anders Spakling	5	97
11	United Kingdom III	Honey, Let's Hurt Someone	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson	7	70
12	Germany III	Autumn Blues	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	16	5
13	United Kingdom IV	The Cuckold Song (Should've Done The Same As You)	londonvision	Andy Brook	Andy Brook	1	148
14	Lithuania	Flames	Gina Sabrina	Gina Sabrina	Gina Sabrina	17	2
15	Finland III	Red Light Stop Sign	Snowclone	Tero Aalto	Tero Aalto	8	67
16	Italy	Greek Fire	Cassidy Civet	Cassidy Civet	Cassidy Civet	12	44
17	United Kingdom V	Lockdown World	Cellphone	Jim Brook, Neil Stamps	Jim Brook	9	61

Scoreboard

	Juries
																				Total
Heaven Made Me Knowing You	2		8	2	4		4	6		8	8	6	7			3	12	12	5	87
Christmas Carols On The Age Of Covid 19	12	6	1	4	6			3	12		1			7				7		59
Cast The Net On Me		2		6				5				2	10	2		2			4	33
Fat Boy	4									7					5			6		22
Lie To Me	3	12	3	8	5	7	5	10	7	5	4		3	12	12	8	3	1	3	111
When I Look At You	1				3	5		12	2	12	3							8	1	47
740 Millionen	8	4	2	12	2	8	6				7	12		10	4	12	6	2	6	101
Yr afon	5		4		7		1		5				5			1	7		2	37
Du og jeg		8	10	10	10	12	8		8	10	6	7	4	5	8	4	1			111
Waters		10	12	3	12	2		2			12	8	12		7	6		4	7	97
Honey, Let's Hurt Someone	6	3	7		1	4	10	4	4	2	2	4	8	1	1			3	10	70
Autumn Blues																	5			5
The Cuckold Song (Should've Done...)	10	7	6	7	8	10	7	7	6	6		10	6	8	10	10	8	10	12	148
Flames																	2			2
Red Light Stop Sign		5	5	5		6	3		1	3	5	3	2	4	3	7	10	5		67
Greek Fire						1	12	1	10	1		1		3	2	5			8	44
Lockdown World	7	1		1		3	2	8	3	4	10	5	1	6	6		4			61

Media

HCSC 2020 winner: londonvision - The Cuckold Song (Should've Done The Same As You)

Recap of all HCSC 2020 songs in draw order
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