Home Composed Song Contest 2019

Contest overview

The 2019 edition of the Home Composed Song Contest was organised by the previous year's winning entrant, Rogério Afonso from Portugal, with assistance from Martin Faulkner of the HCSC Organising Committee.

We welcomed a new country to the competition for the second year in succession as Hungary made its debut, represented by Tamás Vámos. Meanwhile, Cyprus appeared on the scoreboard for the first time in 12 years - and former winner Boban Djekić returned to HCSC for the first time since 2009 as a co-composer on Stefan Engel's entry. In all, there were 20 entries from a total of 12 different countries.

Once again, there was an internet-based public vote (shown as in the scoresheet) and a guest jury, this time from Radio International (shown as in the scoresheet).

Partly because of the tightness of the vote and partly through a carefully selected voting order, the results presentation - which you can still watch here - was incredibly exciting, with the lead changing hands multiple times. You could have thrown a blanket over the top five at times and the entries submitted by Konstantinos Papoutsis, Andy Brook and Thanos Chasiotis all took their turn at the top of the leaderboard, but in the end it was Finnish duo AB and their song "Back In Time" who took the victory - giving composer Bo Söderholm his third Home Composed title.

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	Spain I	Welcome To My Dreams	Alfonso Daniel	Alfonso Daniel	n/a	9	54
02	Greece I	Arnoumai	Anna Maria Messari	Thanos Chasiotis	Thanos Chasiotis, Vasilis Poulimenakos	3	132
03	Hungary	My Voice	VTF (Vámos Tamás Failharmony)	Tamás Vámos, Attila Földváry, Béla Erdős	Tamás Vámos	17	21
04	Portugal	More Time	Heitor	Heitor	Heitor	10	52
05	Finland I	My Song	Snowclone	Tero Aalto	Tero Aalto	6	86
06	United Kingdom I	Le destin	Andrew Boyes	Andrew Boyes	Andrew Boyes	14	34
07	Spain II	Música de cámara	Lobo	Lobo	Lobo	11	46
08	Italy	Da Vinci	Cassidy Civet	Cassidy Civet	Cassidy Civet	7	80
09	Denmark	Kærlighed	Tony Olsen	Tony Olsen	Tony Olsen	13	35
10	Finland II	Back In Time	AB	Bo Söderholm	Bo Söderholm, Anssi Partanen	1	148
11	United Kingdom II	Bring Out Your Dead	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson	12	40
12	Australia	Used To Touch You	Rainbow Orbit	Phil McNulty	Phil McNulty	16	28
13	United Kingdom III	Alexander	londonvision	Andy Brook	Andy Brook	5	126
14	Germany I	Não fales mais	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	Jan Wehner	20	1
15	United Kingdom IV	Self-Made Man	The Jet Set Junta	L. B. (Link) Harrison	L. B. (Link) Harrison	17	21
16	United Kingdom V	Time To Face The World	Cellphone	Jim Brook	Jim Brook	8	60
17	Germany II	My Little Star	O´Mesi	Marcus Seiler, Boban Djekić	Stefan Engel	4	131
18	Sweden	Tvivlande hopp	Eva-Karin Håkansson & Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	15	30
19	Cyprus	Meltemi	Kalomoira Kastropoulou	Konstantinos Papoutsis	Konstantinos Papoutsis	2	139
20	Greece II	Earth And Light	Vasilis Pittas	Vasilis Pittas	n/a	19	12

Scoreboard

	Juries
																							Total
Welcome To My Dreams			6			5			5		8		1	7	10					10		2	54
Arnoumai	2	6		7	2		8	12	8	6	10	2	8	12	6	8	12	10	8			5	132
My Voice	8			1						3									3	6			21
More Time		8	2		4					7		5	4	2	8			1		5	6		52
My Song		7	4	5	8	10	4	3	3	5		7	12	1				7			7	3	86
Le destin				3	1	8			7				2		7		2				4		34
Música de cámara			8		3		7	7		1						1	4		4		3	8	46
Da Vinci		5			12			10	1	12	1	3		8	2	12	3	2	2	7			80
Kærlighed			10	8		2	1		2			6			1	2		3					35
Back In Time	4	4	5	10	7	1			12	4	5	12	10	4	12	3	10	5	10	8	10	12	148
Bring Out Your Dead	1		7			7	3	2			3		3				6		6		1	1	40
Used To Touch You						3				8	6		6			4				1			28
Alexander	10	2	12	6	6	6	12	8	6		2	4		6	4	10	8	6		3	8	7	126
Não fales mais								1															1
Self-Made Man						4	2	6			7						1		1				21
Time To Face The World	5	3	3	4		12	5						5			5		4	5	4	5		60
My Little Star	3	12			10		6	4	10	2	4	8	7	10	5	6	5	12	7	2	12	6	131
Tvivlande hopp	7	1	1	2						10				3							2	4	30
Meltemi	12	10		12	5		10	5	4		12	10			3	7	7	8	12	12		10	139
Earth And Light	6											1		5									12

Media

HCSC 2019 winner: AB - Back In Time

Recap of all HCSC 2019 songs in draw order
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