Home Composed Song Contest 2013

Contest overview

The 2013 Home Composed Song Contest was organised by the previous year's winning performer and songwriter, Tero Aalto from Finland. As usual, the contest had its own dedicated website; unusually, it is still active now and can be viewed here.

Some familiar faces returned to the fold: Peter Reinders from the Netherlands participated for the first time since 2005, while Martin Kahnberg ensured that Sweden was represented for the first time since Onevoice won the competition in 2009. All in all, the field consisted of 26 songs from 23 entrants representing a total of 12 countries.

The participant juries were joined by a jury composed of the Radio International Team (shown as in the scoresheet below). Unfortunately, Fabrizio Picciolo failed to vote on time and was disqualified accordingly.

In the end it was a comfortable, though by no means dominant, victory for Greece and the brotherly duo of Eduard and Alex Alexogiannopoulos - while at the other end of the table, two entries found themselves with "nul points" at the close of voting. Third place was the best result achieved by a Portuguese entry to date, while this was the first year with no German song in the top five since 2006!

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	Italy I	Spiritual Harvest	Antonello Venneri	Antonello Venneri	Antonello Venneri	13	51
02	Germany IV	Aladdin, 1001 Nacht-Visionen	Matthias Pohl	Lutz Holzapfel, Matthias Pohl	Matthias Pohl	16	39
03	Netherlands	Dove Of Peace	Peter Reinders	Peter Reinders	Buddy Sutton	19	32
04	Finland II	If I See A Falling Star	Bo Söderholm	Bo Söderholm	Bo Söderholm	4	102
05	Serbia	Forever	NIDEJ	Nikola Radunović, Dejan Nikodijević	n/a	17	36
06	Portugal III	Find The Light	Heitor	Heitor	Heitor	8	65
07	Germany III	When The Rooftops Collapse	Felix Penk	Felix Penk	Felix Penk	13	51
08	United Kingdom I	One Last Love Song	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	9	59
09	Portugal II	No Strings	Pavel	Konstantinos Papoutsis	Alberto Flego	12	57
10	Portugal I	This Love (Keeps Burning)	Petra Camacho	Rogério Afonso, Filipe Ramos, Paulo Ferraz	Rogério Afonso, Filipe Ramos	3	103
11	Denmark	Det bedste jeg ve' er min DVD	Tony Olsen	Tony Olsen	Tony Olsen	17	36
12	Sweden	Freedom	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	22	8
13	Albania	I'm Yours	Rya Neptlight	Ainhoa Feal	Ainhoa Feal	20	26
15	Spain I	Mucho por ganar	Jessica González & Alfonso Fernández	Alfonso Fernández	Alfonso Fernández	15	42
16	United Kingdom III	Taking Time	Natascha Adams	Natascha Adams	Natascha Adams	7	67
17	Finland I	Antediluvian Anthem	Snowclone	Tero Aalto	Tero Aalto	5	83
18	Portugal IV	Libertação	Manel da Silva	Manel da Silva	David Mourão-Ferreira	21	19
19	Italy I	Beware	Antonello Venneri	Antonello Venneri	Antonello Venneri	10	58
20	Germany II	Yolo-Yolo	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	24	0
21	United Kingdom II	Deep In My Heart	londonvision	Andy Brook	Andy Brook	2	122
22	Spain II	Dance To The Beat	Paco Pérez	Paco Pérez	n/a	23	6
23	Germany IV	Du und ich, wir beide	Matthias Pohl	Matthias Pohl	Matthias Pohl	24	0
24	Serbia	Don't Fade Away	NIDEJ	Nikola Radunović, Dejan Nikodijević	Nikola Radunović, Dejan Nikodijević	10	58
25	Greece	Waiting Til May	Eduard Alexogiannopoulos & Alex Alexogiannopoulos	Eduard Alexogiannopoulos, Alex Alexogiannopoulos	Eduard Alexogiannopoulos, Alex Alexogiannopoulos	1	140
26	Germany I	Once In My Life	Christine	Gorgi	Stefan Engel	6	74

Song disqualified before the voting was complete:

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist
14	Italy II	La ragazza dell'ESC	Fabrizio Picciolo	Fabrizio Picciolo	Fabrizio Picciolo

Scoreboard

	Juries
																								Total
Spiritual Harvest	8							7	12		7			3		8	2				4			51
Aladdin, 1001 Nacht-Visionen			3		10	8				7								4		7				39
Dove Of Peace		3	4	5											12						2		6	32
If I See A Falling Star	12	7	5	1	4		8	5	1				12	5	5	10		1	3	6	8	5	4	102
Forever			7			6	6			5			1								7	4		36
Find The Light			10	2	7			2		2	2	6			10	12		10					2	65
When The Rooftops Collapse			6	12	5	3			2		5			7			3		5	3				51
One Last Love Song			12			5				4	6		4			7	5	3		10		3		59
No Strings		6						8	7	12			3	1	4		6		10					57
This Love (Keeps Burning)	4	8		6	8	10				6		4	7	12	8		8				10		12	103
Det bedste jeg ve' er min DVD			2	3					10			3	5	6	2				2	2			1	36
Freedom					3		3															2		8
I'm Yours						12	2		6											1	5			26
Mucho por ganar				10	1	7											12	12						42
Taking Time		2			6		12	4	5		3	5	10		7					12		1		67
Antediluvian Anthem	10	5	8				10	6		8	8	2	2			4	1		4	8		7		83
Libertação						4	4				1					2			8					19
Beware	3	4									10	8		8		3	7	6			1		8	58
Yolo-Yolo																								0
Deep In My Heart	5	12		7	2	2	1	12	4	10	4	7	8	2	6	5		5	7	4	6	6	7	122
Dance To The Beat	2							1	3															6
Du und ich, wir beide																								0
Don't Fade Away	1	1		8		1	5		8			1		4			4	2	12			8	3	58
Waiting Til May	6	10	1		12		7	3		1	12	12	6	10	3	6	10	8	1		12	10	10	140
Once In My Life	7			4				10		3		10			1	1		7	6	5	3	12	5	74

Media

HCSC 2013 winner: Eduard Alexogiannopoulos & Alex Alexogiannopoulos - Waiting Til May

Recap of all HCSC 2013 songs in draw order