The Bundesvision Song Contest 2006 was the second edition of the annual

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musical event. The contest was held on 9 February 2006 at the Mittelhessen-Arena in

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, following

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's win in the 2005 contest in North Rhine-Westphalia with the song " Geile Zeit". The contest was hosted by Stefan Raab,

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, and

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in the

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Contest overview

The winner of the Bundesvision Song Contest 2006 was the band

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with the song "

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", representing

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. In second place were

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representing

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, and third place to

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representing

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. 14 of the 16 states awarded themselves the maximum of 12 points, with

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

, and

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

, awarding themselves 10, and 5 points each respectively. The contest was broadcast by

ProSieben ProSieben (, ''sieben'' is German for "seven"; often stylized as Pro7) is a German free-to-air television network owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media. It was launched on 1 January 1989. It is Germany's second-largest privately owned television company ...

and watched by 2.48 million people (9.1% market share). In the 14-49 age range 2.14 million viewers watched the show (18.3% market share).

Results

Scoreboard

References

External links

Official BSC website
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