Home Composed Song Contest 2020

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Contest overview

The 2020 Home Composed Song Contest was organised by the previous year's winner, Bo Söderholm from Finland, with assistance from Martin Faulkner of the HCSC Organising Committee.

Even nearly three decades into HCSC history, the competition was able to welcome new countries. This time it was the turn of Lithuania to make its debut, represented by singer-songwriter Gina Sabrina. Two other debutants, Janneck Schmacke from Germany and Anders Spakling from Finland, enjoyed strong results - the latter even achieving the highest number of 'douze points' in the course of finishing 5th. In all, there were 17 entries from a total of nine different countries.

Once again, there was an internet-based public vote (shown as Gj1.png in the scoresheet) and a guest jury, as often provided by Radio International (shown as Gj2.png in the scoresheet).

For a long time, the results (which can be viewed here) were a head-to-head race between previous winners Tony Olsen and Andy Brook. In the end, the latter's londonvision project pulled away for a fairly comfortable win with "The Cuckold Song (Should've Done The Same As You)" - the second win in the competition for both Andy and the United Kingdom generally. Meanwhile, host Bo drew level with the Danish entry to complete the podium with a joint second place.

Entries and results

Draw Country Song Title Performer Composer Lyricist Position Points
01 Ger.png Germany I Heaven Made Me Knowing You Janneck Schmacke Janneck Schmacke Janneck Schmacke 6 87
02 Cyp.png Cyprus Christmas Carols On The Age Of Covid 19 4 Chords Konstantinos Papoutsis Katevasies Chistougennon 10 59
03 Uk.png United Kingdom I Cast The Net On Me The Jet Set Junta Howard Thomas Howard Thomas 14 33
04 Aus.png Australia Fat Boy Rainbow Orbit Phil McNulty Phil McNulty 15 22
05 Fin.png Finland I Lie To Me Bo Söderholm Bo Söderholm Bo Söderholm 2 111
06 Uk.png United Kingdom II When I Look At You Andrew Boyes Andrew Boyes Andrew Boyes 11 47
07 Ger.png Germany II 740 Millionen MARWIN Marcus Seiler Stefan Engel 4 101
08 Swe.png Sweden Yr afon Martin Kahnberg & Eva-Karin Håkansson Martin Kahnberg Martin Kahnberg 13 37
09 Den.png Denmark Du og jeg Duo Dano Tony Olsen Frøydis Skinnarland 2 111
10 Fin.png Finland II Waters Anders Spakling Otto Manninen Anders Spakling 5 97
11 Uk.png United Kingdom III Honey, Let's Hurt Someone Vulnerable Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner, Andrew Donaldson 7 70
12 Ger.png Germany III Autumn Blues Jan Wehner Jan Wehner Jan Wehner 16 5
13 Uk.png United Kingdom IV The Cuckold Song (Should've Done The Same As You) londonvision Andy Brook Andy Brook 1 148
14 Ltu.png Lithuania Flames Gina Sabrina Gina Sabrina Gina Sabrina 17 2
15 Fin.png Finland III Red Light Stop Sign Snowclone Tero Aalto Tero Aalto 8 67
16 Ita.png Italy Greek Fire Cassidy Civet Cassidy Civet Cassidy Civet 12 44
17 Uk.png United Kingdom V Lockdown World Cellphone Jim Brook, Neil Stamps Jim Brook 9 61

Scoreboard

Juries
Gj1.png Gj2.png Uk2.png Ita.png Fin3.png Ger1.png Cyp.png Den.png Ger3.png Ger2.png Uk4.png Fin1.png Aus.png Fin2.png Uk1.png Ltu.png Uk3.png Swe.png Uk5.png Total
Heaven Made Me Knowing You 2 8 2 4 4 6 8 8 6 7 3 12 12 5 87
Christmas Carols On The Age Of Covid 19 12 6 1 4 6 3 12 1 7 7 59
Cast The Net On Me 2 6 5 2 10 2 2 4 33
Fat Boy 4 7 5 6 22
Lie To Me 3 12 3 8 5 7 5 10 7 5 4 3 12 12 8 3 1 3 111
When I Look At You 1 3 5 12 2 12 3 8 1 47
740 Millionen 8 4 2 12 2 8 6 7 12 10 4 12 6 2 6 101
Yr afon 5 4 7 1 5 5 1 7 2 37
Du og jeg 8 10 10 10 12 8 8 10 6 7 4 5 8 4 1 111
Waters 10 12 3 12 2 2 12 8 12 7 6 4 7 97
Honey, Let's Hurt Someone 6 3 7 1 4 10 4 4 2 2 4 8 1 1 3 10 70
Autumn Blues 5 5
The Cuckold Song (Should've Done...) 10 7 6 7 8 10 7 7 6 6 10 6 8 10 10 8 10 12 148
Flames 2 2
Red Light Stop Sign 5 5 5 6 3 1 3 5 3 2 4 3 7 10 5 67
Greek Fire 1 12 1 10 1 1 3 2 5 8 44
Lockdown World 7 1 1 3 2 8 3 4 10 5 1 6 6 4 61

Media

HCSC 2020 winner: londonvision - The Cuckold Song (Should've Done The Same As You)


Recap of all HCSC 2020 songs in draw order
The host
Bo Söderholm


The logo
2020logo.jpg


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