Home Composed Song Contest 2014

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Contest overview

The 2014 Home Composed Song Contest was organised by a team headed by the previous year's winner, Eduard Alexogiannopoulos from Greece, who created a dedicated website for the competition as well as - for the first time - a Twitter account (as @homecomposed14).

The 2014 participants included a combination of familiar faces and newcomers. All in all, there were 18 entrants from a total of twelve different countries. No new flags made their debut on the scoreboard this year, but the long history of Home Composed inevitably means there are not many territories that are yet to be represented in the competition.

The 2014 edition was notable for being the first in which all participants submitted just one entry each - this would become the norm from now on.

As usual, the participant juries were joined by a jury composed of the Radio International Team (shown as Gj2.png in the scoresheet). There was also a public vote based on "likes" on the music sharing site Soundcloud (shown as Gj1.png in the scoresheet), with the participants being encouraged to spread the word and drum up support for their own entries.

An incredibly exciting voting sequence presented in video form by the organisational team went right down to the wire, with the winner only being revealed with the very last vote of the night. Having finished 5th, 6th and 4th in the previous three editions, Bo Söderholm from Finland finally made his big breakthrough and took the title with his song "When My Heartache Is Over", narrowly followed by the entries representing Portugal and Italy.

Entries and results

Draw Country Song Title Performer Composer Lyricist Position Points
01 Ita.png Italy Se mai capiresti Calliope Thanos Chasiotis, Konstantinos Papoutsis Alberto Flego 3 128
02 Den.png Denmark Nightmare duo ToMat Tony Olsen, Mathias Filsø Vestergaard Tony Olsen, Mathias Filsø Vestergaard 15 27
03 Bul.png Bulgaria Wave JanJan JanJan n/a 15 27
04 Gre.png Greece Hellas In Time Giannis Papadopoulos Giannis Papadopoulos n/a 4 87
05 Esp.png Spain I Noviembre Alfonso Daniel Alfonso Daniel Alfonso Daniel 7 76
06 Ger.png Germany I YES, We Can! ONE WORLD - ONE DREAM Project Marcus Seiler Stefan Engel 10 53
07 Uk.png United Kingdom I Faster, Alone Disaster Addicts Niall Every, Danny McCann-Hale Niall Every 12 51
08 Alb.png Albania Wild Rya Neptlight Ainhoa Feal Ainhoa Feal 9 66
09 Swe.png Sweden Mindtrapped Martin Kahnberg Martin Kahnberg Martin Kahnberg 14 34
10 Fin.png Finland Poetessan tie Snowclone Tero Aalto Tero Aalto 6 79
11 Ger.png Germany II From Black To White Jan Wehner Jan Wehner Jan Wehner 18 1
12 Por.png Portugal Liberate Your Inner Voice Sweet Cristina Rogério Afonso, Diamantino Gil Andrade Filipe Ramos 2 131
13 Lat.png Latvia I Wanna Rule The World Dimitry Dimitry, Sam Guelzim Dimitry, Sam Guelzim 13 49
14 Uk.png United Kingdom II Chemical Tears Vulnerable Martin Faulkner Andrew Donaldson 5 82
15 Uk.png United Kingdom III Heart On The Line Jimmy Andrews' Midlife Crisis Andy Mendelson, Jim Brook Jim Brook 11 52
16 Fin.png Finland II When My Heartache Is Over Bo Söderholm Bo Söderholm Bo Söderholm 1 133
17 Esp.png Spain II Emptiness Estela H.U. H.U. 8 72
18 Ger.png Germany III Nachtgedanken Matthias Pohl Matthias Pohl Matthias Pohl 17 12

Scoreboard

Juries
Gj1.png Lat.png Fin1.png Esp2.png Bul.png Ita.png Den.png Ger2.png Uk1.png Gre.png Ger1.png Gj2.png Fin.png Ger3.png Por.png Swe.png Esp1.png Alb.png Uk2.png Uk3.png Total
Se mai capiresti 12 4 8 5 12 7 10 12 2 1 10 8 8 6 6 7 2 8 128
Nightmare 2 1 8 12 1 1 1 1 27
Wave 8 7 7 5 27
Hellas In Time 8 10 7 10 12 10 5 3 8 4 1 4 2 3 87
Noviembre 4 4 2 8 5 4 10 5 1 12 4 3 8 6 76
YES, We Can! 2 7 3 1 2 1 10 3 3 12 7 2 53
Faster, Alone 1 4 8 7 5 10 12 4 51
Wild 8 10 12 7 1 4 4 3 2 6 3 4 2 66
Mindtrapped 3 12 6 3 2 8 34
Poetessan tie 3 6 6 3 6 1 3 4 4 7 7 10 3 6 3 7 79
From Black To White 1 1
Liberate Your Inner Voice 6 6 6 3 5 10 6 8 12 12 12 10 5 10 5 5 10 131
I Wanna Rule The World 5 1 1 4 2 5 8 5 6 1 1 7 3 49
Chemical Tears 10 7 12 1 12 3 5 7 5 12 8 82
Heart On The Line 7 5 2 6 2 6 6 4 4 4 6 52
When My Heartache Is Over 12 3 10 4 7 7 8 5 7 8 2 10 8 8 12 10 12 133
Emptiness 5 2 2 4 5 3 6 10 7 6 5 2 2 12 1 72
Nachtgedanken 10 2 12

Media

HCSC 2014 winner: Bo Söderholm - When My Heartache Is Over


Recap of all HCSC 2014 songs in draw order


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