Eurovision Song Contest 2008

The finals has just started (15-20 minutes ago) in Belgrade, Serbia. These are the finalists:



1. Romania: Nico og Vlad - «Pe o margine de luxe»

2. UK: Andy Abraham - «Even if»

3. Albania: Olta Boka - «Zemrën E Lamë Peng»

4. Germany: No Angels - «Disappear»

5. Armenia: Sirusho - «Qele Qele»

6. Bosnia: Laka - «Pokusaj»

7. Israel: Boaz - «Ke'ilo kan»

8. Finland: Teräsbetoni - «Missä miehet ratsastaa»

9. Croatia: Kraljevi Ulice og 75 cents - «Romanca»

10. Polen: Isis Gee - «For life»

11. Iceland: Euroband - «This is my life»

12. Turkey: Mor ve Ötesi - «Deli»

13. Portugal: Vânia Fernandes - «Senhora Do Mar»

14. Latvia: Pirates of the Sea - «Wolves of the sea»

15. Sweden: Charlotte Perrelli - «Hero»

16. Denmark: Simon Mathew - «All Night Long»

17. Georgia: Diana Gurtskaya - «Peace Will Come»

18. Ukraine Ani Lorak - «Shady lady»

19. France: Sébastien Tellier - «Divine»

20. Azerbaijan: Elnur and Samir - «Day after day»

21. Greece: Kalomira - «Secret combination»

22. Spain: Rodolfo Chikilicuatre - «Baila el chiki chiki»

23. Serbia: Jelena Tomaševic and Bora Dugic - «Oro»

24. Russia: Dima Bilan - «Believe»

25. Norway: Maria - «Hold on be strong»



May the best song win!




Last year's thread:
Eurovision Song Contest 2007

They are now done with the performing of their songs. The voting begins now.

The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 is Russia. So, the ESC 2009 will be held in Moscow. Norway got number 5, not bad...

Here are the points after the voting:


1. Russia - 272
2. Ukraine - 230
3. Greece - 218
4. Armenia - 199
5. Norway - 182
6. Serbia - 160
7. Turkey - 138
8. Azerbaijan - 132
9. Israel - 124
10. Bosnia - 110
11. Georgia - 83
12. Latvia - 83
13. Portugal - 69
14. Iceland - 64
15. Denmark - 60
16. Spain - 55
17. Albania - 55
18. Sweden - 47
19. France - 47
20. Romania - 45
21. Croatia - 44
22. Finland - 35
23. Germany - 14
23. Poland - 14
23. UK - 14

I can't believe I had to miss Doctor Who this week because of a stooping song contest... well I hope people enjoyed it...

This competition deserves to die on its arse. I speak as a viewer for most of the
last 30 years (or more - I can remember Abba).

Now, with the UK having come joint last I realise that will look like a severe case of sour grapes, but not so.

The UK has done badly in the past, and deservedly so, but the voting pattern these days is a travesty.

There has always been political voting, Scandinavian countries voting for each other, Greece and Cyprus, UK and Ireland, etc etc, but even so the best song generally won, if not always.

Now however the winner is seemingly determined by which countries get through the semi's and who there mates are, nothing to do with music.

IMHO, Greece should have won last night, but the Russian entry was limp.

Sweden and Ukraine was wearing the exact same dress (oh, horror)! Ani Lorak (Karolina) was better looking in it, and also had a better performance. Sweden was expected by many to make at least top-5 position, but ended up as number 18 with only 47 points. Here's Ukraine:

RussiaToday: Eurovision result upsets British anchor

Britain's Eurovision anchor Terry Wogan said the victory of Russian singer Dima Bilan in the song contest in Belgrade was politically motivated and has called for a change in the competition's rules.