Home Composed Song Contest 2015

Contest overview

The 2015 Home Composed Song Contest was organised by Bo Söderholm from Finland following his victory in the previous year's competition. As in previous years, there was a dedicated website for the event.

In one of the most bizarre episodes in HCSC history, a total of 12 entries had to be disqualified after it was discovered that they had all been submitted with the direct or indirect involvement of four-time winner Tony Olsen from Denmark. This came to light after the voting, when 11 debut "entrants" - all of whom were represented by instrumental-only songs, none of whom had a traceable online footprint, and all of whom had declined to join the Home Composed Facebook group or allow themselves to be identified more credibly - all gave 12 points to Tony's entry and otherwise voted in a way that appeared to be designed to hinder the chances of the other likely contenders. Organiser Bo Söderholm's only option was to disqualify all of the offending entries, Tony's included, on the assumption of unsportsmanlike conduct and to run the voting again with the artificial votes removed. The songs are not shown on this page, since they were never intended as genuine entries in the first place.

This left the 2015 contest with a field of 18 valid entries. Belarus, Russia and San Marino appeared on the scoreboard for the first time, although the latter was represented by Alberto Flego, who had previously entered HCSC under the Italian flag. As usual, the participant juries were joined by a jury composed of the Radio International Team (shown as in the voting table below). There was also an internet-based public vote (shown as below), with the participants being encouraged to spread the word and drum up support for their own entries.

The disqualification drama masked what would have been an incredibly exciting voting, with a spread of just three points separating the top four entries. In the end, Spain grabbed its first ever HCSC victory with "When I Die" by composer H.U. (name redacted at composer's request) and vocalist Kristin. Meanwhile, at the other end of the table, even the lowest-ranked entries achieved total scores in the 30s and 40s - a remarkable and encouraging turn of events.

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	United Kingdom II	Heavy Of Heart	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	Ray Holt	5	74
02	Belarus	Davai Sputnik	Spaceboys	Dimitri Kushnikov, Natan Glamatovic, Janar Kinski	Dimitri Kushnikov, Natan Glamatovic, Janar Kinski	12	53
03	Germany I	Bald schon wirst du sehen	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	17	33
04	Spain II	When I Die	Kristin	H.U.	H.U.	1	99
05	San Marino	Teddy Bear (Toys)	Donkey's Stars	Alberto Flego	Alberto Flego	14	47
06	Italy	America	Fabrizio Picciolo	Fabrizio Picciolo	Fabrizio Picciolo	16	43
07	Russia	Dance All Night	Turdy	Turdy	n/a	10	54
08	Germany II	Bananenboot	Lauchmann	Klaus Weltuh	Jens Wu	13	50
09	Albania	Nga marrëzia	Ainhoa Feal	Ainhoa Feal	Ainhoa Feal	15	46
10	Spain I	Still Remember	Alfonso Daniel	Alfonso Daniel	Alfonso Daniel	4	96
11	Portugal	Destiny	Rajah & Sapphire	Ricardo Rodrigues	Rogério Afonso, Filipe Ramos	8	68
12	Greece	The Winter Fire	Giannis Papadopoulos	Giannis Papadopoulos	n/a	6	72
13	Spain III	Almohadas	Victoria	Victoria Álvarez	Victoria Álvarez	7	70
14	Germany III	Erdbeer-Schokolade	Matthias	Matthias Pohl	Matthias Pohl	18	32
15	Sweden	Relda's Doubts	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	10	54
16	United Kingdom I	Not Alone	Jimmy Andrews' Midlife Crisis	Jim Brook, Andy Mendelson	Jim Brook	9	59
17	Finland	The One	Snowclone	Tero Aalto	Tero Aalto	2	98
18	Serbia	Lavirint	NIDEJ	Nikola Radunović, Dejan Nikodijević	Nikola Radunović, Dejan Nikodijević	3	97

Scoreboard

	Juries
																					Total
Heavy Of Heart			4			12		1	3	1	7	6		3	12	10		7	1	7	74
Davai Sputnik	5		3	8		8		12					1	5		8		3			53
Bald schon wirst du sehen		2		4				7					8				12				33
When I Die	6		12				10		7	5	10	4	12		2	12	3	6		10	99
Teddy Bear (Toys)		10	2	5				8				10	6				6				47
America	8				1				10	4	4	2	3				1	4		6	43
Dance All Night		8	6	10	2			6		8			10		1			1	2		54
Bananenboot	1	12	1	2			1		1	3	2			8	4	3	10	2			50
Nga marrëzia		5	8	7	10		5	2					4	4		1					46
Still Remember	10			6	7		4		12		12	12	7	6	3	2	5	5	4	1	96
Destiny		1			6		2	3	4	12		5		12	10	5	2		6		68
The Winter Fire	4			3	12		3		5	10				2	8		7	8	8	2	72
Almohadas	3		5	12	3		12				3			7		7			10	8	70
Erdbeer-Schokolade		7				6		10			1		5						3		32
Relda's Doubts	2	6					8	5				3					8	10		12	54
Not Alone		3			4	10		4	2	2	6	1			5			12	5	5	59
The One	7		10	1	8		6		6	6	8	7	2	10	6	6			12	3	98
Lavirint	12	4	7		5	7	7		8	7	5	8		1	7	4	4		7	4	97

Note: There are some points missing from the Italian jury. Italy sent votes before the deadline, but because of a misunderstanding, the votes sent were not a full top 20 as required by the rules. The mass disqualifications meant that the organiser had to refer to these lower positions in order to compile a new voting result, but this was not possible for Italy. In order to be able to announce the final result without a further delay, the organiser took the decision to let the Italian entry stay in the contest with the votes as given, since everyone had delivered usable votes for the first final in good faith and could not be held responsible for the disqualifications. The organiser's decision on this matter is final.

Media

HCSC 2015 winner: Kristin - When I Die

Recap of all HCSC 2015 songs in draw order