Eurovision Song Contest 2007

The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was the 52nd edition held on 10 and 12 May 2007. It was also the first contest ever to be broadcast in high definition.

Having waited a full 45 years for their first victory, Finland won the right to stage the contest for the very first time at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki where a record-breaking 42 nations were set to compete. Making their debuts were the Czech Republic, Georgia, Montenegro and Serbia (the latter two had broken off into independent nations a year earlier), and Austria and Hungary returned after a time away. Monaco decided to withdraw after bad results in recent years.