OGAE

Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l'Eurovision
AbbreviationOGAE
Formation1984 (1984)
TypeNGO, NP, NPO
Location
Coordinates61°52′5″N 028°53′10″E / 61.86806°N 28.88611°E / 61.86806; 28.88611
Region served
42 countries (see list below)
President
Simon Bennett
Secretary
Anthony Cigé
Treasurer
Morten Thomassen
Other Members
  • Alasdair Rendall (Board Member)
  • Marcus Davey (Board Member)
  • Sebastian Zasada (Deputy Member)
  • Stéphane Chiffre (Deputy Member)
Websitewww.ogaeinternational.org

The Organisation Générale des Amateurs de l'Eurovision (pronounced [ɔʁɡanizɑsjɔ̃ ʒeneʁal dez‿amatœʁ də løʁovizjɔ̃]; French for 'General Organisation of Eurovision Fans'), shortened to OGAE, is a non-governmental and non-profit international organisation, consisting of 42 Eurovision Song Contest fan clubs from across Europe and beyond. It was founded in 1984 in Savonlinna, Finland by Jaripekka Koikkalainen.

Four non-profit competitions are organised by the OGAE every year to promote national popular music to Eurovision fans around the world. The organisation also works frequently in co-operation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and national broadcasters from the participating countries in order to help promote the Eurovision Song Contest.

The current president of the OGAE International Network is Simon Bennett from OGAE United Kingdom, who succeeded Maiken Mäemets of OGAE Finland in 2015.

History

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The Eurovision Song Contest began in 1956, and in 1984 the OGAE International Network was founded by Jaripekka Koikkalainen in Savonlinna, Finland.[1] The organisation, which is an independent Eurovision fan club, operates as a non-governmental, non-political and non-profit body, and works frequently in cooperation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The network is open to countries that take part in the Eurovision Song Contest or have participated in the past. Several other countries around Europe and beyond that do not have their own independent OGAE Network, including Monaco, San Marino, Kazakhstan, South Africa, and the United States of America, participate under the name "OGAE Rest of the World".[2]

Every year, the organisation arranges two competitions, the OGAE Second Chance Contest, and the OGAE Song Contest.[3] The cooperative exercise of the OGAE Network is to raise awareness of popular national music across the world, in collaboration with the fans of the Eurovision Song Contest, as well as establishing a strong relationship between national broadcasting companies and the marketing of the Eurovision Song Contest itself to a wider fan-base.[4]

In 2007, Antonis Karatzikos was elected as new International Coordinator for the OGAE, until 2009. In July 2009 he was re-elected for the same post.[5] In 2011, OGAE International Network became a registered organisation in France, and Maiken Mäemets was elected president.[4] She was re-elected for a second term on 17 May 2013 at the Euro Fan Café (Moriska Paviljongen) in Malmö, Sweden.[6] During the annual OGAE Presidents’ Meeting, which took place on 22 May 2015 at the Euro Fan Café in Vienna, the presidents of the OGAE Clubs elected a new board for the OGAE International Network (shown below), who would maintain their roles until the next election in 2017.[7][needs update]

Position Name OGAE club
President Simon Bennett  United Kingdom
Secretary Anthony Cigé  Iceland
Treasurer Morten Thomassen  Norway
Board members Alasdair Rendall  United Kingdom
Marcus Davey  Australia (ROW)
Deputy members Sebastian Zasada  Poland
Stéphane Chiffre  France

OGAE branches

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OGAE currently has forty-four members, including two in Germany.[1][8] These are:

  1.  Albania
  2.  Andorra
  3.  Armenia
  4.  Australia
  5.  Austria
  6.  Azerbaijan
  7.  Belarus
  8.  Belgium
  9.  Bulgaria
  10.  Croatia
  11.  Cyprus
  12.  Czech Republic
  13.  Denmark
  14.  Estonia
  15.  Finland
  16.  France
  17.  Germany
  18. Germany Germany Eurovision Club
  19.  Greece
  20.  Hungary
  21.  Iceland
  22.  Ireland
  23.  Israel
  24.  Italy
  25.  Latvia
  26.  Lithuania
  27.  Luxembourg
  28.  Malta
  29.  Netherlands
  30.  Norway
  31.  North Macedonia
  32.  Poland
  33.  Portugal
  34. Rest of the World
  35.  Romania
  36.  Russia
  37.  Serbia
  38.  Slovenia
  39.  Spain
  40.  Sweden
  41.   Switzerland
  42.  Turkey
  43.  Ukraine
  44.  United Kingdom

OGAE Rest of the World

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Countries that do not have an OGAE Network in their own right, but are active or associate members of the EBU are unified under the name "Rest of the World". The countries which constitute this OGAE Network are:[2][9]

Notes
2.^ Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, San Marino and Slovakia have all participated in the Eurovision Song Contest, though they do not have full OGAE membership and thus are part of OGAE Rest of the World.[10][11]

OGAE contests

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OGAE Poll

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The Marcel Bezençon Fan Award was handed out in 2002 and 2003, and voted on by members of the OGAE. It was discontinued and replaced by the Composer Award in 2004.

Year Winner Song Performer
2002  Finland "Addicted to You" Laura Voutilainen
2003  Spain "Dime" Beth

Every year since 2007, the OGAE has conducted a pre-Eurovision Song Contest poll in which every national club plus OGAE Rest of the World cast a vote from all entries participating in a particular contest, using the same scoring system as the one at Eurovision: the most voted songs on each club receive 1 to 8, and then 10 and 12 points, and countries cannot vote for themselves. The winners of this poll are:

Year Winner Song Performer Runner-up Third place
2007  Serbia "Molitva" (Молитва) Marija Šerifović  Belarus   Switzerland
2008  Sweden "Hero" Charlotte Perrelli   Switzerland  Serbia
2009  Norway "Fairytale" Alexander Rybak  France  Sweden
2010  Denmark "In a Moment Like This" Chanée and N'evergreen  Israel  Germany
2011  Hungary "What About My Dreams?" Kati Wolf  France  United Kingdom
2012  Sweden "Euphoria" Loreen  Italy  Iceland
2013  Denmark "Only Teardrops" Emmelie de Forest  San Marino  Norway
2014  Sweden "Undo" Sanna Nielsen  Hungary  Israel
2015  Italy "Grande amore" Il Volo  Sweden  Estonia
2016  France "J'ai cherché" Amir  Russia  Australia
2017  Italy "Occidentali's Karma" Francesco Gabbani  Belgium  Sweden
2018  Israel "Toy" Netta  France  Finland
2019  Italy "Soldi" Mahmood   Switzerland  Netherlands
2020  Lithuania "On Fire" The Roop  Iceland   Switzerland
2021  Malta "Je me casse" Destiny   Switzerland  France
2022  Sweden "Hold Me Closer" Cornelia Jakobs  Italy  Spain
2023  Sweden "Tattoo" Loreen  Finland  France
2024  Croatia "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" Baby Lasagna  Italy   Switzerland
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Winner
Second place
Third place
Failed to qualify
Contest cancelled

OGAE Second Chance Contest

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Main article: OGAE Second Chance Contest

The OGAE Second Chance Contest is a visual event which was founded in 1987 and is organised by branches of the OGAE.[12] Four nations competed in the first contest which took place in 1987. The competition was previously a non-televised event, but evolved over the years by the usage of video tape and later DVD, YouTube and streaming services.[13]

Each summer following the Eurovision Song Contest, each branch can enter one song that failed to win the country's national selection process for the contest. The members of each club choose amongst the songs that did not win and select one to represent the club in the event. Votes are cast by members of the OGAE clubs and are returned to the OGAE branch organising the particular year's event. Guest juries have been used to cast votes since 1993.[14]

OGAE Song Contest

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The OGAE Song Contest is an audio event in which all OGAE national clubs can enter with an original song released in the previous 12 months in their countries. The competing songs must be sung in one of the country's official languages.[15][16] This rule was planned to be removed in 2022,[17] before the event was cancelled that year due to the controversy surrounding OGAE Russia's continued participation and the decision by OGAE not to remove the Russian OGAE club from the contest for its support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[18]

Participation

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So far 59 countries have been represented at the contest at least once. These are listed here alongside the year in which they made their debut:

Year Country making its debut entry
1986  Finland,  Germany,  Netherlands,  Norway,  Sweden
1987  Botswana (as Rest of the World),  Israel,  Portugal,  Spain,  Zimbabwe (as Rest of the World)
1988  Belgium,  Greece,  United Kingdom
1989  Denmark,  France
1990  Austria,  Cyprus,  Ireland,  Italy
1991  Bulgaria,  Monaco
1992  Luxembourg
1993  Japan (as Rest of the World),  Slovakia,   Switzerland
1994  South Africa (as Rest of the World),  Turkey
1996  Australia
1997  New Zealand (as Rest of the World)
1998  Poland
1999  Croatia,  Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,  Kazakhstan (as Rest of the World)
2000  Iceland,  Malta,  Slovenia
2001  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Russia
2002  North Macedonia[a]
2003  Lithuania,  Serbia and Montenegro
2005  Estonia,  Lebanon
2006  Albania,  Andorra,  Armenia,  Serbia,  Ukraine
2008  Azerbaijan,  Canada (as Rest of the World)
2009  Guyana (as Rest of the World)
2011  United States (as Rest of the World)
2012  Mexico (as Rest of the World)
2013  Colombia (as Rest of the World),  Belarus
2014  Montenegro
2015  Latvia
2016  Czech Republic,  Hungary

OGAE Rest of the World represents countries that do not have an OGAE branch of their own. Their first participations came at the 1987 contest, where they represented Botswana & Zimbabwe.

Winners

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Fourteen countries have won the contest since it began in 1986. The most successful country in the contest is the United Kingdom, which has won the contest eight times.

Year Host city Winner Song Performer Points No. of
entries
1986 Finland Savonlinna  Germany "Stimmen in Wind" Juliane Werding 16 5
1987 Finland Savonlinna  Israel "Ba'ati Eleiha" (באתי אליך) Yardena Arazi 83 10
1988 United Kingdom Cardiff  Germany "Explosion" Mary Roos 83 10
1989 Germany Berlin  Norway "Hjem" Karoline Krüger and Anita Skorgan 93 13
1990 Norway Oslo  Italy "Vattene amore" Mietta and Amedeo Minghi 136 18
1991 Italy Pisa  France "Désenchantée" Mylène Farmer 151 17
1992 France Paris  Portugal "Se o dia nascesse" Nucha 115 16
1993 France Montargis  Italy "La solitudine" Laura Pausini 154 20
1994 Italy Pisa  Greece "Ftes" (Φταις) Sabrina 116 19
1995 Greece Athens  Spain "Cada vez" Paloma San Basilio 144 21
1996 Spain Las Palmas de Gran Canaria  Spain "Me quedaré solo" Amistades Peligrosas 159 16
1997 Spain Las Palmas de Gran Canaria  Spain "Amor perdido" Marta Sánchez 199 22
1998 Spain Las Palmas de Gran Canaria  Poland "Im Wiecej Ciebie tym mniej" Natalia Kukulska 125 16
1999 Greece Athens  France "Jardin de lumière" Leyla Doriane 169 24
2000 France Paris  Sweden "Svarta änkan" Nanne 168 26
2001 Sweden Umeå  France "Moi... Lolita" Alizée 189 24
2002 France Paris  United Kingdom "What If" Kate Winslet 126 25
2003 United Kingdom Southampton  France "Cassé" Nolwenn Leroy 183 27
2004 France Lyon  Russia "Gryozy" (Грёзы) Varvara 178 27
2005 Russia Moscow  Italy "Da grande" Alexia 164 28
2006 Italy Pisa  Greece "Mambo" Elena Paparizou 244 30
2007 Greece Athens  Spain "Qué no daría yo" Rebeca 179 29
2008 Spain Zaragoza  Croatia "Ruža u kamenu" Franka Batelić 164 27
2009 Croatia Zagreb  United Kingdom "Viva la Vida" Coldplay 248 30
2010 United Kingdom London  United Kingdom "Heartbreak (Make Me a Dancer)" Freemasons feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor 228 27
2011 United Kingdom London  United Kingdom "Someone Like You" Adele 189 26
2012 United Kingdom London  Italy "Per sempre" Nina Zilli 219 26
2013 Italy Bologna  Spain "Te despertaré" Pastora Soler 237 30
2014 Spain Spain  France "Dernière danse" Indila 251 26
2015 France Paris  France "Andalouse" Kendji Girac 248 31
2016 France Paris  Spain "Sofia" Álvaro Soler 234 28
2017 Spain Spain  Australia "Fighting for Love" Dami Im 232 28
2018 Australia Sydney  United Kingdom "Scared of the Dark" Steps 230 29
2019 United Kingdom London  United Kingdom "Someone You Loved" Lewis Capaldi 241 28
2020 United Kingdom Edinburgh  United Kingdom "Physical" Dua Lipa 213 28
2021 United Kingdom Cardiff  Australia "Fly Away" Tones and I 172 29
2022 Event cancelled
2023 Australia Canberra  United Kingdom "As It Was" Harry Styles 255 31
2024 United Kingdom Belfast  Italy "Euforia" Annalisa 197 24

OGAE Video Contest

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The OGAE Video Contest is a video event which, much like the OGAE Song Contest, is organised between branches of the OGAE. All OGAE national clubs can enter with an original song and video released in the previous 12 months in their countries. There is no obligation on the entry for the OGAE Video Contest to be sung in one of the country's official languages.

Participation

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So far 51 countries have been represented at the contest at least once. These are listed here alongside the year in which they made their debut:

Year Country making its debut entry
2003  Albania,  Armenia,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Finland,  France,  Germany,  Greece,  Iceland,  Israel,  Italy,  North Macedonia,  Malta,  Netherlands,  Norway,  Portugal,  Russia,  Slovenia,  Spain,  Turkey,  United Kingdom
2004  Bulgaria,  Croatia,  Luxembourg,  Serbia and Montenegro
2005  Ireland,  Kazakhstan (as Rest of the World),  Poland,  Ukraine
2006  Moldova,  Serbia,  South Africa (as Rest of the World)
2007  Andorra,  Austria,  Estonia,  Latvia,  Namibia (as Rest of the World)
2010  Australia (as Rest of the World)
2012  Belgium,  United States (as Rest of the World)
2013  Belarus,  South Korea (as Rest of the World)
2014  Azerbaijan,  Montenegro,  Slovakia
2016  Cyprus,  Czech Republic,  Hungary,  Romania,  Sweden,   Switzerland,  Uzbekistan (as Rest of the World)

OGAE Rest of the World represents countries that do not have an OGAE branch of their own. Their first participation came at the 2005 contest, where they represented Kazakhstan.

Winners

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Nine countries have won the contest since it began in 2003. The most successful countries in the contest has been France, who has won the contest four times.

Year Country Video Performer Points Host city
2003  France "Fan" Pascal Obispo 122 Turkey Istanbul
2004  Portugal "Cavaleiro Monge" Mariza 133 France Fontainebleau
2005  Ukraine "I Will Forget You" Svetlana Loboda 171 Portugal Lisbon
2006  Italy "Contromano" Nek 106 Turkey İzmir
2007  Russia "LML" Via Gra 198 Italy Florence
2008  Russia "Potselui" Via Gra 140 Russia Moscow
2009  Russia "Karma" Yin-Yang 142 Russia Saint Petersburg
2010  Poland "Kim tu jestem" Justyna Steczkowska 85 Russia Volgograd
2011  France "Lonely Lisa" Mylène Farmer 96 Poland Wrocław
2012  Italy "È l'amore che conta" Giorgia 135 France Paris
2013  Belgium "Papaoutai" Stromae 144 Italy Turin
2014  France "Tourner dans le vide" Indila 141 Belgium Brussels
2015  Germany "Gäa" Oonagh 122 France Paris
2016  United Kingdom "Hymn for the Weekend" Coldplay 673 Germany Lüneburg
2017  Belgium "Mud Blood" Loïc Nottet 184 United Kingdom London
2018  Czech Republic "Me Gusta" Mikolas Josef 132 Belgium Antwerp
2019  Ukraine "Siren Song" Maruv 174 Czech Republic Prague
2020  Sweden "Fingers Crossed" Agnes 157 Ukraine Kyiv
2021  France "Nous" Julien Doré 165 Sweden Stockholm
2022 Event not held

Notes

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  1. ^ Until 2018 participated as F.Y.R. Macedonia.

References

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  1. ^ a b Guðmundsdóttir, Laufey Helga. "OGAE International Welcome Page". OGAE International. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
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  3. ^ "OGAE Contests". Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  4. ^ a b Guðmundsdóttir, Laufey Helga (August 2016). "OGAE International About Us". OGAE International. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  5. ^ Viniker, Barry (2 July 2007). "OGAE elects new International Co-ordinator". ESCToday. Archived from the original on 5 July 2007. Retrieved 2 July 2007.
  6. ^ Jiandani, Sanjay (22 May 2013). "OGAE International Board members elected". ESCToday. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  7. ^ Guðmundsdóttir, Laufey Helga (1 April 2017). "Bureau Elections 2017". Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  8. ^ Guðmundsdóttir, Laufey Helga (3 August 2016). "OGAE National Clubs". OGAE International. Retrieved 16 April 2017.
  9. ^ Speirs, Gary. "OGAE Second Chance Contest 2012: Rest of the World". SECHUK.COM. sechuk.com. Retrieved 7 June 2013.
  10. ^ "Belarus: Candidate Member". List of OGAE Clubs. OGAE. Archived from the original on 17 June 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
  11. ^ "OGAE Rest of the World Members". OGAE Rest of the World. Retrieved 10 June 2013. At this moment, the countries without clubs and therefore part of Ogae rest of the world are Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco and San Marino.
  12. ^ "About us". OGAE Second Chance Contest. OGAE. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  13. ^ Speirs, Gary. "Contest Background". OGAE Second Chance Contest. sechuk.com. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  14. ^ Speirs, Gary. "Statistics and other Useless Information". OGAE Second Chance Contest. sechuk.com. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
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  16. ^ "OGAE Song Contest Results: 2012". OGAE. OGAE Croatia. 1 December 2012. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
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  18. ^ Granger, Anthony (2022-09-27). "OGAE Song Contest 2022 Cancelled". Eurovoix. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
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