Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004

Eurovision Song Contest 2004
Country	Cyprus
National selection
Selection process	National Final
Selection date(s)	Spring 2004
Selected entrant	Lisa Andreas
Selected song	"Stronger Every Minute"
Finals performance
Semi-final result	Qualified (5th, 149 points)
Final result	5th, 170 points

Cyprus was represented by Lisa Andreas and the song "Stronger Every Minute", with music and English lyric by Mike Connaris, and Greek lyric by Matheson Bayley and Andrew Adams. The Cypriot National Final was held on February 17, 2004, hosted by Loukas Hamatsos who participated in the 1990 and 1993 Cypriot finals,with the winner being chosen by an "expert" jury (40%) and televoting (60%).On January 25, an internal jury selected 10 songs that made it to the final.

Lisa Andreas

At Eurovision, Lisa Andreas came in 5th place in the semi-final,behind Serbia & Montenegro, Ukraine, Greece and Albania. Andreas repeated this success in the final, coming in equal 5th with Sweden, behind Ukraine, Serbia & Montenegro, Greece and Turkey, its equal highest placing ever to date in the Eurovision Song Contest (the other times being in 1982 with Anna Vissi and 1997 with Hara&Andreas Constantinou). Cyprus also received its most ever points in one contest (170 points from 32 countries).

Cyprus also won a Marcel Bezençon Award. Mike Connaris (lyricist and composer) walked away with the first ever Composer Award for his composition of Cyprus' entry.

Points Given by Cyprus (Final)

12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
Greece	Serbia and Montenegro	Ukraine	Spain	Russia
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Sweden	Turkey	Romania	Poland	Belgium

Points Awarded to Cyprus (Final)

12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
Greece	Ireland  United Kingdom  Iceland	Belarus  Netherlands  Germany	Estonia  Finland  Malta	Austria  Denmark  Russia  Sweden
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
France  Lithuania	Andorra  Belgium  Croatia  Latvia  Norway  Poland  Ukraine	Serbia and Montenegro  Spain  Romania  Portugal  Israel	Switzerland  Monaco	Slovenia  Turkey

Cyprus did not receive points from  Albania,  Bosnia and Herzegovina or  Macedonia