May 11, 201411 yr Personally I'd like to see the UK try a national selection next year. Get social media involved and maybe the public can actually get behind our entry.
May 11, 201411 yr 1h #Eurovision 2014 last night averaged 8.79m/41.9%, up 1.09m on last year's contest. "This year's average of 8.79m makes it the second most watched Eurovision Song Contest of the past 10 years, only beaten by 9.54m in 2011." "The #Eurovision peak audience came at 11pm, when 10.60m (55.8% of the TV audience) were watching." "Against Eurovision, ITV's audience fell to just 0.88m/3.9% for Prey at 9pm and 0.52m/2.5% for The Americans at 10pm." :o at ITV's audience! Eurovision thrashed them! Under 1 million on supposedly the UK's second biggest channel on Saturday night!
May 11, 201411 yr It won't matter who we send, I don't see the UK ever finishing top 5, let alone winning the thing!! LOL Jade Ewen finished 5th.
May 11, 201411 yr Those figures are huge, the UK definitely would never pull out while it's pulling in ratings like that!
May 11, 201411 yr Fantastic to see it do so well in the ratings even with an unknown to prove we don't need a 'name' from last century. Done that with Scooch. The UK just needs a big power ballad. Sam Bailey :lol: I kid but she could actually get a respectable result if a really good song was written for her. Personally I'd like to see the UK try a national selection next year. Get social media involved and maybe the public can actually get behind our entry. A choice of five acts found through BBC Introducing would be perfect. Well, any national selection without a novelty option (or Pete Waterman song) would do!
May 11, 201411 yr So a man dressed as woman with a beard wins it... darn it why didnt we think of that....... Edited May 11, 201411 yr by fiesta
May 11, 201411 yr Reading comments on a daily mail article about Austria's win and the comments are so homophobic/transphobic - I know not to expect any better from the daily mail but it is still sickening to see people act that way. Plus the article even refers to him as transgender... What's so hard to understand that he is a drag queen?
May 11, 201411 yr Probably I'm alone with this opinion, but I still don't like the idea of the 'Big 5'. I seriously think it's a disadvantage: other countries' song are not new to the casual viewers/voters in the final, while poor Molly had to perform when everyone was already calculating the results. Noone needs a brand new song at the very end of a contest. Ok, I know, Lena could win for Germany, but there was a huge hype around 'Satellite', it was already well-known in many countries. I think if Molly had the opportunity to perform twice (she would've easily qualified for the final), she would've finished in the top 12 (with a wow-moment, that I missed, even top 5). I understand that the big 5 wants to get something for their money, (that they are in the final), but for the performers, it sucks. Quite often the Big 5 has lazy choices (songs which wouldn't even qualify) and like in Molly's case, a second performance would improve their results a lot.
May 11, 201411 yr Probably I'm alone with this opinion, but I still don't like the idea of the 'Big 5'. I seriously think it's a disadvantage: other countries' song are not new to the casual viewers/voters in the final, while poor Molly had to perform when everyone was already calculating the results. Noone needs a brand new song at the very end of a contest. Ok, I know, Lena could win for Germany, but there was a huge hype around 'Satellite', it was already well-known in many countries. I think if Molly had the opportunity to perform twice (she would've easily qualified for the final), she would've finished in the top 12 (with a wow-moment, that I missed, even top 5). I understand that the big 5 wants to get something for their money, (that they are in the final), but for the performers, it sucks. Quite often the Big 5 has lazy choices (songs which wouldn't even qualify) and like in Molly's case, a second performance would improve their results a lot. Totally agree with this!
May 11, 201411 yr The UK Jury Members. Caroline Vanessa Grant Stephen Allen Candice McKenzie Gus Gowland Laura Wright
May 11, 201411 yr Reading comments on a daily mail article about Austria's win and the comments are so homophobic/transphobic - I know not to expect any better from the daily mail but it is still sickening to see people act that way. Plus the article even refers to him as transgender... What's so hard to understand that he is a drag queen? It's like that on YouTube too....but then again they are YouTube comments. What do you expect?
May 11, 201411 yr Probably I'm alone with this opinion, but I still don't like the idea of the 'Big 5'. I seriously think it's a disadvantage: other countries' song are not new to the casual viewers/voters in the final, while poor Molly had to perform when everyone was already calculating the results. Noone needs a brand new song at the very end of a contest. Ok, I know, Lena could win for Germany, but there was a huge hype around 'Satellite', it was already well-known in many countries. I think if Molly had the opportunity to perform twice (she would've easily qualified for the final), she would've finished in the top 12 (with a wow-moment, that I missed, even top 5). I understand that the big 5 wants to get something for their money, (that they are in the final), but for the performers, it sucks. Quite often the Big 5 has lazy choices (songs which wouldn't even qualify) and like in Molly's case, a second performance would improve their results a lot. I agree, it's not advantaging us being heard just the once and it would look fairer - this year only Spain of the big 5 beat the UK the others did badly. On other comments elsewhere, the same hissy fits thrown by people who just don't get eurovision, online and in the press, are irrelevant and they should just shut up. As licence fee payers, the UK is entitled to get at least SOME music product on TV (and the BBC output is pitiful generally for music fans) and with massive viewing figures that no other music show could possibly come close to for a very low budget cost per hour, eurovision will never be taken off the BBC air. Don't like it don't watch it. I don't watch sport on TV, for the most part, even though it's got hours and hours and hours on air each week, but I don't whinge constantly about it. Eurovision is a mere 10 hours a year at most, and it's much cheaper than sport. There is not one single logical or fair point anyone can put forward to stop entering eurovision. So there!
May 11, 201411 yr damn this is first time in last 7-8 years that I didn't watched or heard anything from this.. does anyone have any link for stream final show? I was searching but I couldn't found anything yet.
May 11, 201411 yr I am bitterly disappointed over our final result and like many I can't really fathom what went wrong. Even the jury vote is far lower than expected. Still, Molly should be really proud of her performance (at least we didn't finish last) and fingers crossed she'll bag herself a top 10/15 hit out of it. Putting aside the UK's placing, I'm thrilled Conchita got the win. The performance was sublime and what a great message to Europe (and a middle finger to Putin). Really chuffed that Ruth Lorenzo (dat hair flip) came top 10! Emmelie de Forest's performance of Rainmaker with the final 26 was a real highlight for me. What a song, perhaps she would have defended her title if that had been Denmark's entry this year? Here's to Austria 2015!
May 11, 201411 yr So I watched this last night and was really quite chuffed with how well The Common Linnets did, it was by far my favourite song of the contest. I did feel sorry for Molly, she didn't deserve to win but it was definitely one of the better songs of the night so to finish that low down seemed really unjust. I did quite like the overall sound of it in principle - the niggle for me is that the production isn't big enough in the chorus, it feels like it should soar akin to a Florence & The Machine single but then it just never quite makes it and ends up leaving you with a slightly underwhelming feeling.
May 11, 201411 yr I'm so glad for the Top 3!!!! Austria is a deserved winner! Her vocals were flawless yesterday. The voting was very exciting because it was a little bit unpredictable at the beginning. I didn't like Belarus but I think that France had the worst performance yesterday. I didn't expect that "Rise Up" would end up so low in the scoreboard. I think that the juries didn't vote it. Italy deserved to be much higher. Shame that my country didn't give points to Italy! Emma had a professional performance (She reminds me a little bit of Pink). I really like Molly's song but it didn't impress me yesterday. My parents totally love "Calm After The Storm". I think that Greece had a long time to give 8 points to Netherlands (If it happened in the past). Their performance was really good and emotional. Me and my bro wanted Austria to win. "Rise Like A Poenix" could be a succesful JamesBond theme. The visual effects were impressive yesterday. I think that Danish had the best stage in Eurovision!! I was totally speechless...Congratulations on their production!!
May 11, 201411 yr I'm glad Molly is having a hit out of this, it's a song and an entry we can be very proud of, despite the result.
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