Eurovision Song Contest 2000
Production
Production
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The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was produced by the Swedish public broadcaster  (SVT). [Svante Stockselius](/wiki/Svante_Stockselius "Svante Stockselius") served as [executive producer](/wiki/Executive_producer "Executive producer"), Peter Lundin served as [producer](/wiki/Television_producer "Television producer"), Marius Bratten served as [director](/wiki/Television_director "Television director"), and Mikael Varhelyi and Kristofer Röhr served as [designers](/wiki/Scenic_design "Scenic design"). The contest was presented by the journalist [Kattis Ahlström](/wiki/Kattis_Ahlstr%C3%B6m "Kattis Ahlström") and the television presenter [Anders Lundin](/wiki/Anders_Lundin "Anders Lundin").

The graphic design, including the contest's logo, scoreboard, on\-screen overlays and postcards, was developed by Stockholm Design Lab. The chosen logo, presented publicly in early 2000, was a pair of open lips, and described as "a sensual, yet stylistically pure, mouth representing song, dialogue and speech" by its designers; ahead of the  this logo was also considered by contest organisers when developing the contest's new generic logo for that edition. The logo also featured prominently as part of the set design; the outline of the mouth featured on a display next to the stage, and was filled with a distorted form of each country's national flag as their entry was performed. The 2000 contest was the first to incorporate [LED display](/wiki/LED_display "LED display") technology within the set design, with five LED pillars featuring on stage during each performance and displaying images designed to complement each song's theme or presentation and producing a unique backdrop to each performance.

A [compilation album](/wiki/Compilation_album "Compilation album") featuring all twenty\-four competing entries was released within Europe ahead of the contest, released through the German record labels [Ariola](/wiki/Ariola "Ariola") and [BMG](/wiki/Bertelsmann_Music_Group "Bertelsmann Music Group"). This was the first time an official album had been commissioned by the organisers, and followed a previous attempt at an album for the 1999 contest which failed to contain all entries in that year's contest due to copyright issues.


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