Home Composed Song Contest 2014

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

Scoreboard

	Juries
																					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