30 Years Of HCSC: Greatest Hits

Contest overview

In 2021, Stefan Engel organised a special edition to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Home Composed Song Contest.

All former HCSC participants who reached a top three position in one of the annual editions during the last 30 years were invited to take part in this anniversary contest with their original entries, the aim being to determine the HCSC community's favourite entry of all time.

The event had its own website, and an extensive video show - which you can still watch here - was produced to announce the results. The votes of the 22 participating entrants were supplemented by an online public vote as well as four guest jurors: HCSC stalwart Martin Kahnberg, regular supporters Radio International, ESC expert Irving Wolther a.k.a. "Dr. Eurovision", and Eurovision royalty in the shape of 1973 winner Anne-Marie David.

In the end, the public vote was needed to break the deadlock at the top of the scoreboard after the juries had had their say, and the overall winner was "Waiting Til May" by Eduard and Alex Alexogiannopoulos from Greece - the song that originally triumphed in the 2013 edition of HCSC. Congratulations to them, and thanks to Stefan for organising a fine anniversary celebration!

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	Finland I	Back In Time	AB	Bo Söderholm	Bo Söderholm, Anssi Partanen	6	119
02	Denmark	The Only One I Fear	Morten Boldt Hansen	Morten Boldt Hansen	Morten Boldt Hansen	12	60
03	Estonia	Morning Sun	Christa	Marcus Seiler	Marcus Seiler	11	73
04	Austria	Can't Stop	Sara Koell	Sara Koell	Clemens Herzog	20	44
05	Finland II	Deep Waters	Asla Osprey	Asla Osprey	Asla Osprey	15	57
06	Germany I	Warrior Of Love	Randi	Tato, Randi	Stefan Engel	2	153
07	Sweden	Här kommer solen	Onevoice	Ylva Persson, Linda Persson, Martin Klaman	Dan Attlerud	3	147
08	Turkey	Feel Free	Heja	Timo Schmid, Art Brauer	Timo Schmid	17	49
09	Greece I	Apopse	Emilia Kikli	Dimitris Kiklis	Dimitris Kiklis	10	74
10	Norway	Min lengsel	Roy Vorland	Roy Vorland	Roy Vorland	7	99
11	Germany II	I'll Send An Angel	Jannnni	Jannnni	Jannnni	19	44
12	Bosnia and Herzegovina	History	Sasha	Sascha Mutavdzic	Sascha Mutavdzic	18	48
13	Italy	Se mai capiresti	Calliope	Thanos Chasiotis, Konstantinos Papoutsis	Alberto Flego	8	96
14	Cyprus I	Meltemi	Kalomoira Kastropoulou	Konstantinos Papoutsis	Konstantinos Papoutsis	9	79
15	Finland III	Olen	Snowclone	Tero Aalto	Tero Aalto	13	59
16	Greece II	Waiting Til May	Eduard Alexogiannopoulos	Eduard & Alex Alexogiannopoulos	Eduard & Alex Alexogiannopoulos	1	160
17	Portugal	Liberate Your Inner Voice	Sweet Cristina	Rogério Afonso, Diamantino Gil Andrade	Filipe Ramos	16	52
18	Germany III	Mein Herz schlägt weiter	Riinka	Bernd Öttlinger	Michael Bauer, Bernd Öttlinger	21	28
19	Cyprus II	Exomologisi	Avraam Konstandinou	Savvas Degirmentzoglou	Avraam Konstandinou	14	57
20	United Kingdom I	Deep In My Heart	londonvision feat. Tiina	Andy Brook	Andy Brook	5	122
21	Romania	Take Me Away	CornEL	Cornel-Ionuț, DJ Stephano Rossi	Cornel-Ionuț	4	128
22	United Kingdom II	Outta Control	Jasmaynia	Kent Harvey	Kent Harvey	22	14

Scoreboard

	Juries
																												Total
Back In Time		8	1		2		7	2		12	12		1		12	6	12	2		3	3	7	7	12		6	4	119
The Only One I Fear					7	1	2		8		6	12						3							6		15	60
Morning Sun		6			10	12	8		3				6			7	3					6					12	73
Can't Stop			4		3		6	10	4							5				6	2						4	44
Deep Waters	6	5		6						3			10	4	7	2				7						1	6	57
Warrior Of Love	1	7	12				10		12		8	8	8	6	4	12	6	7	3	4		10	1		8	12	14	153
Här kommer solen			10		8	3				10	5	4	5	7	5	3	5	10	2	12	10	12		7	2	10	17	147
Feel Free			2		5	6			1	1	2	1	4	1		10			5								11	49
Apopse	7							4		5	1	5		8	1		1	6	8	8	8	4		3			5	74
Min lengsel	3	10				10	1	6	10			10			6			8		2			10			7	16	99
I'll Send An Angel	2	3				8		7	7									1							5	2	9	44
History		4				2		8					2		10			12					3				7	48
Se mai capiresti			8	4	1			3		4	4			12	2	1	8		6		5	3	6		7	4	18	96
Meltemi	12			5				1	5	2			7						10	1	1		4	2	4	3	22	79
Olen				3							10	7					2	4	1			5	5	4	12	5	1	59
Waiting Til May	10	12	7	10	6	7	5	12	6	6	3		12	10			10		4	10				6	3		21	160
Liberate Your Inner Voice			6	7	4		4			7		6	3								7	1		5			2	52
Mein Herz schlägt weiter	4	2		2												8					4						8	28
Exomologisi				1										3	3					5	12		12	1	1		19	57
Deep In My Heart	5		3	12		5	12		2		7	2		5		4	7	5	7		6	2	2	8		8	20	122
Take Me Away	8	1	5	8	12		3	5		8		3		2	8		4		12			8	8	10	10		13	128
Outta Control						4																					10	14

Guest jurors:

Martin Kahnberg Radio International Irving Wolther Anne-Marie David Public vote

Media

30 Years Of HCSC winner: Eduard Alexogiannopoulos - Waiting Til May
The hosts