I'd make it double or quits as a bet on him not qualifying/finishing top ten.

I think I have to agree with Tom :P

You seriously think he won't qualify?

Actually, so certain am I that Eric will manage to avoid the bottom ten that I'll wager a tenner on this. If he fails to qualify, I owe you twenty Tom :P If he avoids the bottom ten, you'd owe me a tenner, if he comes top ten, you'd owe me twenty. Deal? :drama:

Deal (though I may renege on it if I don't make a ton of cash on Portugal qualifying)

That's probably not going to happen either :lol:

I heard Gina G - Ooh Aah Just A Little Bit in the club last night, I went wild! I'd had a fair bit to drink too but still, Eurovision in a club :w00t: Granted it's now a staple of 90s culture and barely anybody actually remembers it had anything to do with Eurovision, but who cares!

EUGH. My exam timetable has just been released and I have an exam the morning after the second semifinal. :nocheer: At least it's an easy one, though... Development of European Politics. :kink:

EUGH. My exam timetable has just been released and I have an exam the morning after the second semifinal. :nocheer: At least it's an easy one, though... Development of European Politics. :kink:

 

My summer exams are going to be happening from 5th May to 20th May. Although I don't have any exams on the dates of eurovision.

 

I'll still be watching eurovision though....still sucks.

I overheard someone listening to Satelite on their iPod on my train to work this morning. I restraned myself from jumping on them (mostly because it came straight after Whip My Hair, WTF?) but I did have a little squee :dance:

Sunstroke Project & Olia Tira - Run Away is still going on radio here once in a while :)

I can't believe I forgot to mention this :drama: but it's the London Preview Party on Sunday. Bulgaria, Malta, San Marino, Romania and Switzerland are performing. Oh yeah, and ITALY :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: Hope everyone's got their tickets, if not they're here:

 

http://www.londoneurovision.com/

I can't make it this year as it was too short notice for me to get time off work :( . Have a great time if you're going :D

Oh well. Will do :)

Wish I could go but I'm nowhere near London on Sunday, nor have the ability to be :( The only act that particularly interests me anyway is Switzerland although I'd still liked to have gone...shame Blue couldn't be part of it.

They're too successful unfortunately. Ditto Jedward, who I hate but it would have been nice to see because Ireland are usually there every year. Anyway shame you can't make it, will report back of course :)

The compilation (and karaoke compilation!) is up on iTunes :D As usual there are a number of album only songs and they are the entries from;

 

Germany

Denmark

Estonia

Spain

Finland

France

UK

Ireland

Norway

Romania

Sweden

Turkey

Ukraine

 

So basically all of the favourites then! I've bolded the ones that are available elsewhere on iTunes leaving us with six songs unavailable to purchase. The UK entry as we know is out on May 2nd, so we're only going to potentially have 'a Lena situation' (i.e. where the winner is potentially not available until a few days after the contest thus losing all momentum) if one of Denmark, Romania, Sweden, Turkey and Ukraine win. Sweden want to get their arses into gear becuase I could see Popular doing quite well on iTunes here.

Didn't know where to post this. But the compilation is obviously on iTunes now and currently at #46 in the iTunes album chart. But here are th epopularity of the tracks...

|||||||||||| Ell & Nikki 'Running Scared' (Azerbaijan)

 

||||||||| Kati Wolf 'What About My Dreams?' (Hungary)

 

|||||| Magdalena Tul 'Jestem' (Poland)

 

||| Anastasiya Vinnikova 'I Love Belarus' (Belarus)

 

||| Christos Mylordos 'San Angelos S'Agapisa' (Cyprus)

 

||| Daria 'Celebrate' (Croatia)

 

||| Dana International 'Ding Dong' (Israel)

 

||| Nina & Nina 'Caroban' (Serbia)

 

||| Maja Keuc 'No One' (Slovenia)

 

||| TWiiNS 'I'm Still Alive' (Slovakia)

 

The rest are "Album Only". Leave Ell & Nikki at the top, but turn the popularity upside down, near enough and that'll be more pleasing :( Poor Maja and TWiiNS! :(

I've moved your post in here Jonjo, which is basically general discussion. I wouldn't worry too much about that as there are a further 20 songs that aren't album only that have no pop bar at all (so probably haven't been bought at all as a single track yet). Basically, Ell & Nikki have probably had 4 downloads and Maja and Twiins 1 each :lol: ESC loons and people that listen to the tracks pre-contest will buy/download the compilation in full, everyone else will buy them following the contest - there aren't really any people left inbetween to cherry pick!

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