Home Composed Song Contest 2017

Contest overview

The 2017 Home Composed Song Contest was hosted by the previous year's winner, Bo Söderholm from Finland, and organised by Bo along with the recently formed HCSC Organising Committee.

After one disqualification, a total of 14 entries participated in the competition. As usual, the participant votes were supplemented by a public internet vote, represented by in the voting table below. This year, an expert jury was also provided by Sugar House Publishing from Vaasa, Finland, represented by in the voting table below.

The votes were nicely spread out, with no fewer than nine of the 14 entries receiving at least one maximum "douze points" score. On his return to the competition after several years' absence, Eduard Alexogiannopoulos representing Greece ultimately took the first prize, making it two wins in three participations. It was a close victory in the end, with debutant Asla Osprey from Finland finishing not far behind in second place. Spain's Alfonso Daniel completed the podium, achieving his best result to date in the main competition.

The full voting show can still be viewed on YouTube.

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	United Kingdom I	Never Met A Woman	Jimmy Andrews' Midlife Crisis	Andy Mendelson	Jim Brook	8	74
02	Spain	Halley	Alfonso Daniel	Alfonso Daniel	n/a	3	93
03	Finland I	Breaking Space	Snowclone	Tero Aalto	Tero Aalto	6	79
04	Germany I	Love Is Like Dancing	Rebecca	Marcus Seiler	Stefan Engel	4	82
05	Albania	Hyjnitë e natës	Ainhoa Feal	Ainhoa Feal	Ainhoa Feal	11	40
06	Greece	San mia prosefchi	Konstantinos Papoutsis	Konstantinos Papoutsis	n/a	7	77
07	United Kingdom II	Messed Up	Emily Roberts	Emily Roberts	Emily Roberts	9	67
08	Sweden	Dŵr dwfn	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	13	24
09	Finland II	Deep Waters	Asla Osprey	Asla Osprey	Asla Osprey	2	109
10	United Kingdom III	Future Tense	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	Andrew Donaldson	10	54
11	Germany II	Hopeless Lines	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	14	0
12	Greece II	Need To Know	Eduard Alexogiannopoulos	Eduard Alexogiannopoulos	Eduard Alexogiannopoulos	1	115
13	Finland III	Love Isn't An Emotion	Roger Holmlund	Roger Holmlund	n/a	12	33
14	United Kingdom IV	Looking Through Life's Window	londonvision	Andy Brook	David Graaff	5	81

Scoreboard

	Juries
																	Total
Never Met A Woman	5	1	8		4		5	12	4		5	4	10	8		8	74
Halley	4	12	5	2	1	8	12	8	12	10		7		2		10	93
Breaking Space			7	10	8	12	4	4	1	3	7	6	8	3	3	3	79
Love Is Like Dancing	10	10		5	6	3	1	3	8		10	10	2	4	6	4	82
Hyjnitë e natës		5		7			7			8		3		5	5		40
San mia prosefchi	12	6	2	8	5	7		7		4	6	5	3	6		6	77
Messed Up	1		3	6			6	5	2	7	1	12	7	7	10		67
Dŵr dwfn	8	2				1	2		5			1	1		4		24
Deep Waters	3	7	12	4	7	6	8		6	12	12	2	4	12	7	7	109
Future Tense	7		4	12	2	10		1		6	3		6		2	1	54
Hopeless Lines																	0
Need To Know	2	3	10	1	12	5	10	10	7	5	8	8		10	12	12	115
Love Isn't An Emotion		8	1		3	4		2	3	1	2		5	1	1	2	33
Looking Through Life's Window	6	4	6	3	10	2	3	6	10	2	4		12		8	5	81

Media

HCSC 2017 winner: Eduard Alexogiannopoulos - Need To Know

Recap of all HCSC 2017 songs in draw order