Home Composed Song Contest 2024

Contest overview

The 2024 edition was organised by a team from OGAE Ukraine following that country's victory in the previous year, with Dmytro Humeniuk acting as supervisor and Ivan Kucherovskij on video hosting duties. Dnipro was the designated host city.

Understandably given the situation in the country, the team experienced some delays and difficulties along the way, but nevertheless delivered a really well-produced final show that you can still view here. Please note that the results shown at the end of the video turned out to contain a few small inaccuracies; the tables lower down this page show the correct and confirmed results after everything was double-checked behind the scenes.

In the scoreboard table, represents the regular guest jury from Radio International and () denotes the internet-based public vote.

A total of 28 songs representing 13 countries went into battle, and what resulted was quite simply the closest finish in Home Composed history. "Get In A Fight" by debutant Dylan Playve and "Husband And Wife" by second-time participant Ole Morten Bowitz couldn't be separated in terms of their total scores, each achieving 151 points. But of course, just like in ESC, HCSC has its own established tie-break rules and they came into force here. Firstly the public vote was discarded, but since neither entry received points from the public, the tie remained in place. Finally, the guest jury was discarded to leave only the votes from the participants - and with Ole Morten getting the full 12 points from the Radio International jury, that meant the tie was resolved in favour of "Get In A Fight".

That gave Ukraine the notable honour of winning the contest on both of their participations to date.

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	Germany I	Where Are My Heroes?	Iron Avalanche	Marcus Seiler, Stefan Engel, AI	Stefan Engel	10	75
02	Ukraine I	The Theory Of Everything	Hillel	Liubomyr Sirskyi, Dmytro Lohvynenko	Liubomyr Sirskyi	28	7
03	United Kingdom I	Drown My Love (Live At Wimbledon)	The Resistors	Jim Brook, The Resistors	Jim Brook	25	11
04	Sweden I	The Peaks Of Snow	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	22	19
05	Greece I	Alcyone	Konstantinos Papoutsis	Konstantinos Papoutsis	n/a	16	49
06	Norway I	Peace Of Mind	Gunnar Bernhard Ingebrigtsen, Lars Rune Rebbestad & Peder Noteng	Gunnar Bernhard Ingebrigtsen	Gunnar Bernhard Ingebrigtsen	20	29
07	Germany II	Final Boss	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	24	11
08	Norway II	Husband And Wife	Ole Morten Bowitz	Ole Morten Bowitz	Ole Morten Bowitz	2	151
09	Romania	Reason To Go On	Floriana	Floriana, Lukinich Attila	Floriana	3	141
10	United Kingdom II	Catastrophically Lonely	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	Andrew Donaldson	13	54
11	Sweden II	Fånga ditt liv	Eva-Karin Håkansson	Eva-Karin Håkansson	Eva-Karin Håkansson	11	70
12	United Kingdom III	Evermore	ConstantX featuring Thao	Constantinos Karaiskos, Chris Hall	Constantinos Karaiskos	6	99
13	Ukraine II	Pivnich-Pivden'	Karma Axxidentalis	Mykhailo Lysenko	Mykhailo Lysenko, Yevhen Bondarev	19	30
14	Australia	Let Them/Consequences	Rainbow Orbit	Phil McNulty	Phil McNulty	21	25
15	Finland I	What Do You Do With Nothing?	Nightlife Behaviour Project	Bo Söderholm	Bo Söderholm	4	128
16	Albania	Zjarri i dashurisë	Ainhoa Feal	Ainhoa Feal, SOUNDRAW Inc.	Ainhoa Feal	27	7
17	Spain I	Dos mil trece	Lobo	Lobo	Lobo	12	56
18	Norway III	Rock Bottom Man	Billy Fraser	Billy Fraser	Billy Fraser	23	17
19	Greece II	Agiatrefti agapi mou	Calliope (Tamta)	Thanos Chasiotis	Thanos Chasiotis	5	128
20	Ukraine III	Get In A Fight	Dylan Playve	Dylan Playve	Dylan Playve	1	151
21	Sweden III	Tre minuter av magi	Majo	Majo	Majo	26	8
22	Lithuania	Iššoksim	Ignas Valiulis	Ignas Valiulis	Ignas Valiulis	14	53
23	Germany III	The Hidden Bliss	Janneck Schmacke	Janneck Schmacke	Janneck Schmacke	18	44
24	United Kingdom IV	How To Say Goodbye	Andy Brook	Andy Brook	Andy Brook	9	92
25	Norway IV	Color Of The Rainbow	Kristin Ringsby	Mo Kowkabi	Rabia Rufina Reshetnikova	17	48
26	Spain II	También eres tú	Rafael de Alba	Rafael de Alba	Rafael de Alba	15	50
27	Finland II	Working Title	Snowclone	Tero Aalto	Tero Aalto	8	93
28	Ireland	Waking Nightmare	Lamph	C. Jackson, E. Jackson	C. Jackson, E. Jackson	7	94

Scoreboard

	Juries
																															Total
Where Are My Heroes?					7			7	12		8		5			7					1				3	7	12			6	75
The Theory Of Everything				1						1		4																		1	7
Drown My Love								3					3												5						11
The Peaks Of Snow							4							1											10		1			3	19
Alcyone				10		10		2	2							2			10						1		5			7	49
Peace Of Mind					1								6					5							12	1			4		29
Final Boss				2						2	7																				11
Husband And Wife	7	5			4	12	7		10		12	10	7		8	10		12	6		2	8	10		7			2	12		151
Reason To Go On	6			3	8	2	8	12		10	4	2	1	4	4			10	8	3	6	6	6		8		10	5	7	8	141
Catastrophically Lonely			3	5				8					8	3			5			7			4		6					5	54
Fånga ditt liv	3	3	2	6		3	10			12						5						4		6	4			12			70
Evermore	2				10	8		4	6					5	3	12	3	8			7	3		10		2		4		12	99
Pivnich-Pivden'		8				1					5					3				4			1				8				30
Let Them/Consequences			10							5							7											1		2	25
What Do You Do With Nothing?		10			2	4	6		4		3		12	7		8	4	6	3	12	8	12	12			8	4		3		128
Zjarri i dashurisë				4			3																								7
Dos mil trece										7		1	4	10	10				1	10		1		2	2	6			2		56
Rock Bottom Man		1				7											8							1							17
Agiatrefti agapi mou	1	4	8	12	12	6	1	5	3			7	2		12			1		6				12		12	2	10	8	4	128
Get In A Fight	8	12	12		6			6	7	4	6		10		6	6	10	2	12		5	10	2	5		10	6	6			151
Tre minuter av magi											2																		6		8
Iššoksim	12											12		8	2		6	4		8									1		53
The Hidden Bliss									8	3		5		2					7			2				4		8	5		44
How To Say Goodbye	4	7	6		3	5	12		5		1	3			7	4		3	5		10	7	7				3				92
Color Of The Rainbow	10		4						1						5				4	5		5	5	4		5					48
También eres tú		2	5		5		2	1		6		6			1		1		2	1	12			3				3			50
Working Title	5	6	1	8			5	10						12		1	2	7		2	3		3	8		3		7	10		93
Waking Nightmare			7	7						8	10	8		6			12				4		8	7			7			10	94

Media

HCSC 2024 winner: Dylan Playve - Get In A Fight

Recap of all HCSC 2024 songs in draw order
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