Lied van Liedjes 43

This was the 43rd Lied van Liedjes to be held. The contest would be held in Frankfurt, Germany, following their victory at the previous contest. The Semi-Finals would occur on 13 June 2004, 15 June 2004 and 17 June 2004. The Grand Final would take place on 19 June 2004.

Adelardo Garibaldi kept his place as executive producer, inviting Annie McLoad againt to be the director of the contest. Since Hans Weiss was a persona non grata in LVL due to the things he did before as Executive Producer, Garibaldi invited a local Frankfurter to take the place of the coordinator - Tobias Flint.

41 countries participated in the contest. No new nations or territories debuted. The only non-european country to withdraw was South Africa, stating high travel costs. Serbia and Montenegro merged to become the broadcaster, sending an unique entry, therefore the separate countries withdrawed. Belarus withdrawal after another scandal in the national-final where the selected singer couldn't perform in Germany due to travel restritions in Western Europe, the second place declined participating. Armenia's broadcaster withdraw because it was shown they didn't transmit Turkey's performance last edition and refused to transmit this edition too, pressured to transmit it, they decided to withdraw. Georgia withdraw because it didn't had funds to send someone representing them. Joining Serbia & Montenegro, two other nations returned: Bosnia and Bulgaria.

Semi-Final 1
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Semi-Final 2
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Semi-Final 3
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