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OK – eurovision.tv have released information in relation to this year’s contest and if only the votes from just the juries were taken into account the the result of this year’s song contest would’ve been different (for the UK). As you can see, Norway would’ve still won but here are what the professional juries voted for.

1 – Norway – 312 points
2 – Iceland – 260 points
3 – United Kingdom – 223 points
4 – France – 164 points
5 – Estonia – 124 points
6 – Denmark – 120 points
7 – Turkey – 114 points
8 – Azerbaijan – 112 points
9 – Israel – 107 points
10 – Greece – 93 points
11 – Moldova – 93 points
12 – Bosnia & Herzegovina – 90 points
13 – Malta – 87 points
14 – Germany – 73 points
15 – Armenia – 71 points
16 – Ukraine – 68 points
17 – Russia – 67 points
18 – Portugal 64 points
19 – Croatia – 58 points
20 – Lithuania – 31 points
21 – Romania – 31 points
22 – Sweden – 27 points
23 – Albania – 26 points
24 – Finland – 12 points
25 – Spain – 9 points

If the juries only voted then the UK would’ve finished in a better position. Not that I’m complaining on us coming 5th lol.

Norway were the runaway winners of the song contest last night with a record 387 points awarded to Alexander Rybak and his song “Fairytale”. The United Kingdom came 5th and was their biggest win in the history of the contest (with the exception of the 1997 winning song by Katrina & The Waves) based on points.

So next year we are going to Scandinavia and to Oslo for the 55th Eurovision Song Contest.

The results are as follows:

1st – Norway with 387 points
2nd – Iceland with 218 points
3rd – Azerbaijan with 207 points
4th – Turkey with 177 points
5th – United Kingdom with 173 points
6th – Estonia with 129 points
7th – Greece with 120 points
8th – France with 107 points
9th – Bosnia & Herzegovina with 106 points
10th – Armenia with 92 points
11th – Russia with 91 points
12th – Ukraine with 76 points
13th – Denmark with 74 points
14th – Moldova with 69 points
15th – Portugal with 57 points
16th – Israel with 53 points
17th – Albania with 48 points
18th – Croatia with 45 points
19th – Romania with 40 points
20th – Germany with 35 points
21st – Sweden with 33 points
22nd – Malta with 31 points
23rd – Lithuania with 23 points
24th – Spain with 23 points
25th – Finland with 22 points

Well done Jade for the best performance of your life. You deserved to come 1st.

So last night in Moscow the 54th annual Eurovision Song Contest took place and the winning country was NORWAY. So next year we’ll be going to Oslo.

Today on the Eurovision website they have posted details of the results from the 2 semi-finals and they are:

Semi-Final 1
1st – Iceland with 174 points
2nd – Turkey with 172 points
3rd – Bosnia & Herzegovina with 125 points
4th – Sweden with 105 points
5th – Armenia with 99 points
6th – Malta with 86 points
7th – Israel with 75 points
8th – Portugal with 70 points
9th – Romania with 67 points
10th – F.Y.R. Macedonia with 45 points
11th – Montenegro with 44 points
12th – Finland with 42 points
13th – Belarus with 25 points
14th – Switzerland with 15 points
15th – Andorra with 8 points
16th – Bulgaria with 7 points
17th – Belgium with 1 point
18th Czech Republic with 0 points

Semi-Final 2
1st – Norway with 201 points
2nd – Azerbaijan with 180 points
3rd – Estonia with 115 points
4th – Greece with 110 points
5th – Moldova with 106 points
6th – Ukraine with 80 points
7th – Albania with 73 points
8th – Denmark with 69 points
9th – Lithuania with 66 points
10th – Serbia with 60 points
11th – Ireland with 52 points
12th – Poland with 43 points
13th – Croatia with 33 points
14th – Cyprus with 32 points
15th – Hungary with 16 points
16th – Slovenia with 14 points
17th – The Netherlands with 11 points
18th – Slovakia with 8 points
19th – Latvia with 7 points

*COUNTRIES IN BOLD MADE IT TO THE FINAL WITH THE BACK-UP JURY*

The results of the final will be posted next.

Here is the full running order in which the 25 countries who made it through to the final tomorrow night will perform in.

1st – Lithuania
2nd – Israel
3rd – France
4th – Sweden
5th – Croatia
6th – Portugal
7th – Iceland
8th – Greece
9th – Armenia
10th – Russia
11th – Azerbaijan
12th – Bosnia & Herzegovina
13th – Moldova
14th – Malta
15th – Estonia
16th – Denmark
17th – Germany
18th – Turkey
19th – Albania
20th – Norway
21st – Ukraine
22nd – Romania
23rd – United Kingdom
24th – Finland
25th – Spain

You can watch the live final tomorrow night on BBC 1 from 8pm. Good Luck to all the entrants and let the best song win.

Come back here on Monday to see who voted for who.

Last night the 2nd semi-final in this years Eurovision Song Contest took place in the Russin capital Moscow. 19 songs performed in this semi-final with the top 10 advancing through to Saturday’s live final. The contest opened with a band of 4 musicians with Russian stringed instruments playing some of the most famous songs in Eurovision history. They included Dana International’s “Diva” and last years winning songs “Believe” by Dimar Bilan. The 2 presenters were, as usual, so over-the-top it was funny just to watch them. The 2 favourites, Norway & Greece qualified but had to wait until the end before the result was announced. I’m a bit disappointed that Ireland & Cyprus didn’t qualify but am ecstatic that Denmark did. And why on earth did Croatia, Lithuania & Moldova qualify? It’s typical Eurovision Block-Voting lol. Here is who qualified in the order the countries were announced.

Azerbaijan
Croatia
Ukraine
Lithuania
Albania
Moldova
Denmark
Estonia
Norway
Greece

After the semi-final finished a draw took place to determine which position the 10 new finalist would perform in the live final and they are as follows:

Azerbaijan will sing 11th
Croatia will sing 5th
Ukraine will sing 21st
Lithuania will sing 1st
Albania will sing 19th
Moldova will sing 13th
Denmark will sing 16th
Estonia will sing 15th
Norway will sing 20th
Greece will sing 8th

So all 25 countries, who will sing in the 54th Eurovision Song Contest final have been announced. In my next post I will put the full running order.

Good Luck to Jade Ewen who is singing the UK’s entry “It’s My Time”. I’m sure you will do exceptionally well xx

We’ve already had the names of the 1st 10 countries to qualify for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest but what about the other 19 songs which will be performing tomorrow night in Moscow? Well the names of the acts and their songs are below. Couple of songs to watch out for are Denmark and Cyprus.

01) – Croatia – Igor Cukrov & Andrea sing “Lijepa Tena”
02) – Ireland – Sinead Mulvey & Black Daisy sing their rock song “Et Cetera”
03) – Latvia – Intars Bulsulis sing “Probka”
04) – Serbia – Marko Kon & Milaan sing “Cipela”
05) – Poland – Lidia Kopania sings “I Don’t Wanna Leave”
06) – Norway – Alexander Rybak sings his song “Fairytale”
07) – Cyprus – Christina Metaxa sings her ballad “Firefly”
08) – Slovakia – Kamil Mikulcik & Nela Pociskova sing “Let’Tmou”
09) – Denmark – Brinck sings his “Ronan Keating written song” “Believe Again”
10) – Slovenia – Quartissimo & Martina sing “Love Symphony”
11) – Hungary – Zoli Adok sings “Dance With Me”
12) – Azerbaijan – AySel & Arash sing “Always”
13) – Greece – Sakis Rouvas sings “This Is Our Night”
14) – Lithuania – Sasha Son sings about “Love”
15) – Moldova – Nelly Ciobanu sings “Hora Din Moldova”
16) – Albania – Kejsi Tola sings “Carry Me In Your Dreams”
17) – Ukraine – Svetlana Loboda sings “Be My Valentine”
18) – Estonia – Urban Symphony sings “Randajan”
19) – The Netherlands – The Toppers sing their eurodance song “Shine”

Join Paddy & Sara on BBC 3 this Thursday from 8pm to find out which of these songs will join the other 15 songs already chosen to go through to the final.

Last night saw the 1st 18 songs of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest take to the stage to perform in the hope that they would be voted for to appears in Saturday’s final. The show began with a fairytale and it was something to do with a tree, a horse, a dragon and the Fire Bird which is this years theme. When all of this had finally finished the show got off to a start. There were no surprises of which countries will qualify, all the Scandinavian songs went through although there were a couple of my favourite songs which didn’t make it and bad luck to Switzerland and F.Y.R. Macedonia. Both songs worthy of reaching the final but fell at the final hurdle.

The 10 songs which made it through are below (in the order they were announced):

Turkey
Sweden
Israel
Portugal
Malta
Finland
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Romania
Armenia
Iceland

And today, the council for the Eurovision Song Contest held a draw to determine which position the countries who qualified for the final will perform, and they are as follow:

Turkey will sing 18th
Sweden will sing 4th
Israel will sing 2nd
Portugal will sing 6th
Malta will sing 14th
Finland will sing 24th
Bosnia & Herzegovina will sing 12th
Romania will sing 22nd
Armenia will sing 9th
Iceland will sing 7th

So all eyes will be on Moscow again tomorrow for the 2nd semi-final where the 2 favourite songs to take this year’s crown will do battle on the stage. Hmmm I wonder whether there will be any surprises that make it through? Me thinks not.

Well it’s that time of year again where all of Europe (and other parts of the world) get together to celebrate all things musical. Yes it’s the start of Eurovision Week and tomorrow (12th May 2009) will see the first 18 songs performed in the 1st semi final. previous posts show what the running order of both semi finals will be but I wanted to name the artist and song for each country for the semi finals, and then then grand final on Saturday.

As I said in an earlier post, 18 countries will perform in the 1st semi final and they are (in running order)

01) – Montenegro – Andrea Demirovic with the song “Just Get Out Of My Life”
02) – Czech Republic – Gypsy.cz and their song “Aven Romale”
03) – Belguim – Copycat and his song “Copycat”
04) – Belarus – Petr Elfimov and his song “Eyes That Never Lie”
05) – Sweden – Malena Ernman and her pop/opera song “La Voix”
06) – Armenia – Inga & Anush and their song “Jan Jan”
07) – Andorra – Suzanne Georgi and her song “La Teva Decisio (Get A Life)”
08) – Switzerland – Lovebugs and their ballad “The Heighest Heights”
09) – Turkey – Hadise sings “Dum Tek Tek”
10) – Israel – Nora & Mira Awad sing “There Must Be Another Way”
11) – Bulgaria – Krassimir Avramov sings “llusion”
12) – Iceland – Yohanna sings her beautiful ballad “Is It True?”
13) – F.Y.R. Macedonia – Next Time sing their upbeat tempo song “Neshto Shto Ke Ostane”
14) – Romania – Elena sings her Europop song “The Balkan Girls”
15) – Finland – Waldo’s People and their song “Lose Control”
16) – Portugal – Flor-De-Lis sings “Todas As Ruas Do Amor”
17) – Malta – Chiara sings “What If We”
18) – Bosnia & Herzegovina – Regina sings “Bistra Voda”

Out of all the songs performing in this semi final I would love to see Iceland sail through to the final on Saturday. It’s a lovely ballad, other acts to note is Chiara who is representing Malta for a 3rd time with “What If We”. Will it be 3rd time luck for the Maltese songstress to get to that important final on Saturday?

Join Paddy & Sara on BBC 3 tomorrow at 8pm for all the songs and results.