This has been a great opportunity for me to re-listen to my ESC 2003 album, I have it in front of me right now in fact :D Aahh, it's feels so good listening to Sanomi and Vise Nisam Tvoja again. There are so many songs I liked this year! :wub: The only songs I didn't like was Estonia and that terrible Austria! :(

 

Edit: Actually, scrap that. I thought Austria was different and interesting. I just don't like listening to it.

Edited January 29, 201213 yr by Freeze

Just watched the show. Nine years passed, insane!

 

Anyway, I'm closing this in like 15 minutes.

 

Results imminent.

GET ON WITH IT

SHUT UP I was distracted by the Songwriter.

Qualifier #1.

 

BELGIUM

 

Original ESC finish: 2nd

Qualifier #2.

 

SWEDEN

 

Original ESC finish: 5th

Qualifier #3.

 

ICELAND

 

Original ESC finish: 8th

Qualifier #4.

 

RUSSIA

 

Original ESC finish: 3rd

Qualifier #5.

 

ROMANIA

 

Original ESC finish: 10th

Qualifier #6.

 

TURKEY

 

Original ESC finish: 1st

 

Woo. Probably the best Top 3 of ESC ever! All made it through. :D

6 ---- 73

7 Spain 72

8 The Netherlands 68

9 France 51

10 Germany 45

11 Croatia 37

12 Portugal 34

13 Norway 34

14 United Kingdom 23

15 Ireland 19

16 Greece 18

17 Malta 17

18 Latvia 15

19 Poland 14

20 Estonia 13

21 Slovenia 12

22 Bosnia & Herzegovina 10

23 Israel 6

24 Ukraine 4

25 Austria 3

26 Cyprus 2

 

Poor Spain, and later Holland too, was on the verge of qualification most of the voting time :drama:

 

Germany started off very well but received about 10 points from the last 10 voters. Ha.

Nicola made it! :D Never cared much for any of Sertab, Sanomi or the tATu song which I frankly found crap compared to All The Things She Said and Not Gonna Get Us (which it was the b-side to in the UK btw!). I'm certain that Birgitta tipped over the 100 points mark, one of Iceland's finest ever entries, 8th was a real injustice. Give Me Your Love was a slightly lesser schlager gem but it was one nonetheless. Alcazar's Not A Sinner, Nor A Saint or Pernilla Wahlgren's Let Your Spirit Fly would have been better Melodifestivalen winners that year though...

And here's how the 6 qualifiers got divided into semis.

 

Semi 1

 

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7. Estonia 2002 // Sahlene - Runaway

8.

9.

10.

11.

12. Iceland 2003 // Birgitta Haukdal - Open Your Heart

13.

14. Malta 2002 // Ira Losco - 7th Wonder

15. Denmark 2002 // Malene - Tell Me Who You Are

16.

17. Sweden 2003 // Fame - Give Me Your Love

18.

19.

20.

21.

22.

23.

24.

25.

26.

27.

28. Turkey 2003 // Sertab Erener - Everyway That I Can

29.

30.

 

Semi 2

 

1.

2. Romania 2003 // Nicola - Don't Break My Heart

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12. Sweden 2002 // Afro-dite - Never Let It Go

13.

14.

15. Russia 2003 // t.A.T.u. - Ne ver', ne bojsya

16.

17.

18.

19.

20. United Kingdom 2002 // Jessica Garlick - Come Back

21.

22.

23.

24.

25.

26.

27. France 2002 // Sandrine François - Il faut du temps (je me battrai pour ça)

28.

29. Belgium 2003 // Urban Trad - Sanomi

30.

Edited January 29, 201213 yr by Ljósið

Well, Tatu made it through which is good, it's not as good as All The Things She Said, but it was still the best thing there. Disappointed to see Netherlands out, but I don't think I'm complaining with the rest of the qualifiers.

Well, Tatu made it through which is good, it's not as good as All The Things She Said, but it was still the best thing there. Disappointed to see Netherlands out, but I don't think I'm complaining with the rest of the qualifiers.

 

I gave a lot of points to The Netherlands too, it was a #2 in my chart :o I'm actually surprised it did as well as it did, I always get the impression that it's been a bit forgotten by Eurovision fans :(

I'm MORALLY OUTRAGED at Germany's failure!

I'm very disappointed for both Germany and Spain :(

I gave a lot of points to The Netherlands too, it was a #2 in my chart :o I'm actually surprised it did as well as it did, I always get the impression that it's been a bit forgotten by Eurovision fans :(

 

The Netherlands stood out in the recap. Because I never watched the contests back here and I don't have enough time to watch the whole show, as much as I would like to, I'm going by the recaps and keeping the songs that sound good. That Netherlands song sounded amazing in the recap! So I'm sure gonna keep it around.

Shame Spain didn't make it, 'Dime' is one of their best entries.

 

The only song I don't like, to make it through so far, is Russia's. :puke2:

FUCK ME, I just close the window where I formatted half of 2004 and lost all the data.

 

HERE WE GO AGAIN.