Showing posts with label eurovision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eurovision. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2011

Eurovision: Chart Update


It's been almost a week since the competition, so who's managed to get into the Irish charts then...

First up, the singles chart...

#1  Jedward - Lipstick
#9  A Friend in London - New Tomorrow
#27 Eric Saade - Popular
#34 Blue - I Can
#41 Eli and Nikki - Running Scared
#44 Getter Janni - Rockerfeller Street
#50 Lena - Taken By A Stranger

There has also been some developments in the album charts - Jedward jump 40 places to chart at #12 in the main album chart this week and the Eurovision album leaps 7 spots to #2 in the compliation chart

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Eurovision: The FINAL


Fast forward to Saturday night and 25 countires nervously clenched backstage while they waited for their turn in front of the estimated television audience of 2 billion.

Usually the show opens with a preformance of the previous year's winning song, but this year it was all change as Lena was competing again for Germany. So who better to perform the track than the 3 hosts of the evening ...

This has to be the best opening act of a Eurovision Song Contest EVER



2 bum numbing hours later, the 25 acts had sung and we got down to the voting. Germany were favourites to take the crown again but you can never underestimate the power of political and geographical block voting. When all 43 counties had delivered the votes, Azerbaijan were crowned as the winners.

Some other notable items:
  • Italy, back for the first time in 6 years, finished second
  • Ireland, who finished in 8th, had their best placing since Eamonn Toal's Millenium Of Love in 2000 (which finished 6th)
  • Hosts and favourites Germany scraped 10th place
  • The UK entrants Blue finished one place worse off in 11th
  • Kati Wolf had been touted as a strong contender for the crown, but landed in 21st
  • The wooden spoon went to Switzerland who managed to notch up 19 points and so avoid the dreaded "nul points" 
Click on the image below to see the scoreboard in full size
All scoreboards are taken from Wikipedia. For more a more in-depth look at the scores, click here.

And so that's it for another year. Next year, the competition rolls on to Baku in Azerbaijan (which, in case your windering, is just north of Iran).Preliminary dates have been set for the competition - 22 May and 24 May 2012 for the semi finals, with the final planned for the evening of 26 May 2012.

Come on Ireland, you can do it next year!

Eurovision: Semi Final 2


On to the results of Semi Final 2 which saw the shocker of Dana Internation and the Twiins not qualifying ... but how many points did they miss out by?


Well lets just say Dana Internation didnlt have a chance - she finished in 15th place on the night and missed out on the finals by 16 points. Slightly more annoying that the Belgian entry missed out by just one point - beaten by the weird Moldovan dudes with the huge pointy hats!

Of those that did qualify, it was a decent showing by the boyband-ish entries as they landed in first and second. Jedward qualified and were announced fourth on the night, however the table below shows that we were miles behind the rest of the pack - there's a gap of 87 points between us and Sweden's Eric Saade!

I didn;t get the appeal of Bosnia's act, so I'm baffled as to how they finished so high on the night and even more baffled about their final performance.... More on that later....

Click on the image below to view the full sized table

Eurovision: Semi Final 1



Well now that the contest is a distant (and drunken) memory, the voting for the 2 semi finals has been released. Click through to see who did well on in Semi Final 1....

The biggest suprise of the night had to be Greece topping the polls with 133 points and they were followsed in second place by eventual winners Azerbaijan. Finland's "Da Da Dam" rounded out the top 3.

Many people were tipping Kati Wolf to take the overall crown but she could only manage to take 7th place on the night and finished much worse than that on the night! More on that later.....

Click on the image below to view it in full size! 

And here's the video of how the results were unveiled on the night - from the Finnish TV network YLE

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Eurovision: Semi Final 2 LIVE BLOG

Here we go again! For the next three hours, your we're gonna have commentary on everything from songs to hair styles! Are we ready?



1930 30 mins to go. If you don't know who's performing tonight, then make sure you check out the previews here and here

2000 Live from the Espirit Arena in Dusseldorf, it's the second semi final. Watching this on BBC Three because commentary cut out on RTÉ on Tuesday...

2002 I think that comedian chick is the better looking of the two....

2004 And so our first contestants are Bosnia and Hertzigovina. An old folksie song that really doesn't sound great.

Did that hyperactive dude with the trumpet actually play?

2008 The Austrian contingent are next on stage with The Secret Is Love. First observation is that she has a lobsided bob.

Its a very shouty Celine Dion type ballad - i don't like it

2013 The Netherlands are next out of the gate. Scott Mills just pointed out that they haven't qualified for the last six years and I don't think tonight is going to be any different.

The song isn't bad, but it could have been better of they had got cute blonde guitarist to sing it... The lead singer looks greasy and scruffy in his white suit ... I'm gonna guess that he smells too

2016 La Belgique next singing With Love Baby - it's like something you'd see in a school talent show ... If the teachers were performing.

That said, the harmonies, beat boxing and acapella are spot on. Outfits are a shambles - they really do look like teachers. Love the comment from Scott Mills that they look like Glee in 20 years!

2020 The Slovakian Twiins are next (that's the correct spelling) with I'm Still Alive. They have the cleavage out, so the boys will definitely be voting for this one!

They look like Marcia Cross from Desperate Housewives!

This is supposed to be one of the favorites, but the song is a bit "bleh"...

2026 Off to the Ukraine now with Angel. Now this song I like! This chick really rocks the posh frock with feathered shoulders look! Kinda looks like Taylor Swift....

Oh, and the sand artist is amazing!

2030 Moldova look SCARY! Love Scott Mills comment that the song is 3 minutes too long (it's only 3 minutes long!).

Unicycling horn players wearing white? Did someone spike my Diet Coke? This entry is as ridiculous as the things on theirs heads.

NEXT!

2034 Sweden are up next with Popular. Sounds like a summer dancefloor stomper! Such a shame that he's SO out of tune. Guaranteed to qualify with the young girl and clergy vote.

2038 The Cypriot entries are next with a song in Greek, so I'm not gonna try to write the name down.

This better liven up because they're singing like someone is about to get buried. And now a chick swinging soap on a rope... ...

If I've missed anything or you have any feedback, leave a comment in the box below or tweet me @daveindub

2042 Bulgaria are up next with Na Inat. It's a good song with good energy but who the f*** dressed this girl?

2048 FYR Macedonia next with another foreign song name. Starts off like a dance song that I can't remember the name of and the just sounds like the normal Eurovision tripe.

NEXT!

2051 And now Dana International is back with Ding Dong! This is one of the most anticipated performances of the night. It looms like someone put her dress in the shredder.

Overall the song is nothing special which is a shame

2055 Slovenia are next with No One. Why do they all feel the need to do the Mariah voice thingy?? This chick is trying too hard to be Xtina
Aguilera.

2058 Next up are Romania with Change. Did you know that their lead singer is from Newcastle?

It's okay but cheesy.

2105 Back from the ad break and we've got Estonia. She looks great but she's out of tune and flat. Such a shame because I had high hopes for her :(

2108 Next is Belarus with I Love Belarus. Bad song title, bad song and crap singing. Need I say more?

NEXT!

NOTE: There was more of this blog, but unfortunately it fell into the abyss when blogger went tits up :(

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Eurovision Predictions...

According to the Google Predictor, if Jedward qualify they're in with a shot of taking this years title.... kind of.


Want to predict the future? Forecast the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 before the final with the iGoogle “Predictor” gadget. Based on Google search data, it shows how popular each participant is and then calculates the scores they would get if the voting took place today! 50% of the score on the night comes from a professional jury so we can't predict what their vote will be.


You can check this out by clicking here.

Eurovision: The Big Five

So we've looked at the contenders for the first semi final and tomorrow we'll be looking at the second semi final, but what about the BIG FIVE. These are the countries that automatically qualify each year as they provide the funding for the song contest.

Here's a rundown of their songs!

France
Amaury Vassili / Sognu (Translates as Dream)


Italy
Raphael Gualazzi / Madness Of Love


United Kingdom
Blue / I Can


Germany
Lena / Taken By A Stranger


Spain
Lucía Pérez / Que Me Quiten Lo Bailao (Translates as I'm Over The Moon)

Eurovision: Semi Final 2 - The Contenders (Part 2)

And here are the final 9 counties competing in tonights semi final....

NOTE: This was posted at 1130 this morning but didn't publish til 1840!!


FYR Macedonia
Vlatko Ilievski / Rusinka (Translates as Russian Girl)


Israel
Dana International / Ding Dong


Slovenia
Maja Keuc / No One


Romania
Hotel FM / Change


Estonia
Getter Jaani / Rockerfeller Street


Belarus
Anastasia Vinnikova / I Love Belarus


Latvia
Musiqq / Angel In Disguise


Denmark
A Friend In London / New Tomorrow


!!IRELAND!!
Jedward / Lipstick


We'll be love blogging later on, so keep checking back for all the latest on the second semi final!

Eurovision: Semi Final 2 - The Contenders (Part 1)

Tomorrow is the second semi final of this years Eurovision when another 19 countied will compete for the last 10 places in Saturday's final. And here's a sneaky peek of the songs...

Bosnia and Hertzigovina
Dino Merlin / Love In Rewind


Austria
Nadine Beiler / The Secret Is Love


Netherlands
3JS / Never Alone


Belgium
Witloof Bay / With Love Baby


Slovakia
TWiiNS / I'm Still Alive


Ukraine
Mika Newton / Angel


Moldova
Zdob şi Zdub / So Lucky


Sweden
Eric Saade / Popular


Cyprus
Christos Mylordos / San aggelos s'agapisa (Translates as I loved you like an angel)


Bulgaria
Poli Genova / Na inat (Translates as For Spite)


There'll be more for you to mull over just before lunch.....

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

BREAKING NEWS: Eurovision Semi Final 1 - The Result

19 countries competed (although some may as well have stayed at home with the crap that they sent .... I'm looking at you Portugal) and we now have our 10 who move on to Saturday's final! The lucky countries are:

Serbia
Lithuania
Greece
Azerbaijan
Georgia (How??)
Switzerland
Hungary
Finland
Russia
Iceland


A special mention for Norway who didn't get through but really did deserve to :(

More Eurovision tomorrow with a sneaky peek of the second semi final.

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Eurovision: Semi Final 1 - The Contenders (Part 2)

And here's the final 9 of tonights countries:

Malta
Glen Vella / One Life


San Marino
Senit / Stand By


Croatia
Daria / Celebrate


Iceland
Sigurjón's Friends / Coming Home


Hungary
Kati Wolf / What About My Dreams?


Portugal
Homens da Luta / A luta é alegria (Translates as The struggle is joy)


Lithuania
Evelina Sašenko / C'est Ma Via (Translates as It's My Life - song is sung in English)


Azerbaijan
Ell and Nikki / Running Scared


Greece
Loukas Giorkas feat. Stereo Mike / Watch My Dance


So who's your favourite and who do you think will get through to the final...?

Eurovision: Semi Final 1 - The Contenders (Part 1)

So here's the first 10 of tonight's countries:

Poland
Magdalena Tul / Jestem (translates as I Am)


Norway
Stella Mwangi / Haba Haba (translates as Little by Little)


Albania
Aurela Gaçe / Feel The Passion


Armenia
Emmy / Boom Boom


Turkey
Yüksek Sadakat / Live It Up


Serbia
Nina / Čaroban (translates as Magical)


Russia
Alexey Vorobyov / Get You

Switzerland
Anna Rossinelli / In Love For A While


Georgia
Eldrine / One More Day


Finland
Paradise Oskar / Da Da Dam


More after lunch.....