Every country I've been through has been on Eurovision overload...Germany I was hearing Jamie Lee played everywhere and her CD single(!) for sale in various music shops, Sweden have Petra and Mans beaming out from every magazine cover, and even Denmark had photos of their entry in the newspapers.

 

Just arrived in Malmo so almost there!

Sadly some of us had to fly into the chicken shed they call "Stockholm" Västerås.

Gutted!!! This is why I flew KLM so I flew into a proper airport (and still for less than the direct SAS flight from Edinburgh to Arlanda)

Euro gays I need help. I heard a song tonight that I am pretty sure is Eurovision related. All I know is the singer is female and kept going Say A A A A. Or something like that. If anyone can help me I will be so very thankful.

All that springs to mind is Barei's Say Yay but I am assuming you aren't referring to a song from this year.

I could be. If might be some bangers o'clock remix of it.

Okay, I just noticed that Spain and France alongside the host country have been voting in Semi 1 for 3 years in a row now. With Italy, Germany and UK in Semi 2. Weird as f***.

The pedestrian crossings in Stockholm play Eurovision songs!! 'Euphoria' when the lights are red and 'Heroes' on green!

 

(probably mentioned already but just heard them now!)

Full minute by minute schedule of the final here: http://www.svt.se/melodifestivalen/sa-blir...minut-for-minut

 

So the show is going to last 3 hours 40 minutes, Destiny from JESC will be appearing (*.*), Jury voting results will last 35 minutes (with a Green Room interval) and Televoting results will last 7 minutes. Mans will be giving us a medley of Fire In The Rain and Heroes and Justin will be doing a medley of Rock Your Body and Can't Stop The Feeling.

And... voting will be open for 42 (yes 42!) minutes!

why

With the jury voting results being able to happen while televotes are verified this should have meant a need for barely any interval acts but of course SVT need to cram as many in as possible and there's no point in closing the televoting until the jury results start.

I didn't really know where else to put this but when it came to doing my ranking, I've noticed there's no song I hate this year and I can't remember a year where I've felt like that. There's songs I don't particularly 'get' but I wouldn't say there's anything I found really bad or annoying.

Justin is performing at the rehearsal dinner tonight, too! :D

A journalist from a French TV show seems to have done a feature on "asking the questions to Eurovision artists no-one else dares to ask" which amongst other things features Jamala and Sergey being asked about each other's countries and finally Iveta and Samra being asked about each other's entries - I think Samra's answer has the potential to become the new Kaliopi "I LOVE GREECE"!

 

 

Just skip through the French studio talking parts to get to the interviews on location and it's quite an interesting watch!

They don't seem to understand that there might be repercussions for answering in a positive way for these artists because of the countries they are from. Iveta was the most professional of them all and I liked Sergey's answer. What conflict can there be if televote really almost exchanged their 12s this year?!? :/

 

I really don't see the point in this type of questions.

I actually do like Jamala's song... It reminds me that, beside famine, povertry and war there is still something worse.

 

Like her rants err... song...

 

I wonder if someone will eventually make a fun youtube vid on her screams...

poor butthurt people complaining over the results of this. just because Ukraine won. if any of the top 3 won there would be the same scandal. people are so dumb. i love the official statement. 'i ain't sorry~'.

 

i also read some idiot russian say that eurovision is shit and politics is the reason why russia wasn't ~allowed~ to vote in semi 2. i was howling. that completely describes the majority of russians like that. they don't bother to find out anything about anything relevant to the issue from sources other than their neighbour's step-father's dog's carer's babysitter's grandmother, and then they will always make assumptions presenting them as the holy f***ing objective truth and arguing based on them to half-death.

 

speaking of alex range, i hope he isn't dead

UK sales chart peaks for the Eurovision songs:

 

#31 - Joe and Jake

#39 - Frans

#54 - Dami Im

#74 - Poli Genova *.*

#75 - Sergey Lazarev

 

Official peaks:

 

#61 - Frans

#81 - Joe and Jake

 

Was never going to be a big year for Eurovision anyway even without streaming. In 2014, when the chart was sales only, Common Linnets and Conchita went top 20 and Molly and Sanna went top 40 too.

More from the sales report:

 

One of Sykes bandmates, Siva Kaneswaran, was among the three writers of the UK's 2016 Eurovision entry, You're Not Alone by Joe & Jake, which makes an even more disappointing debut outside the Top 75 at No.81 (8,216 sales) after finishing 24th out of 26 songs in the competition. Electro Velvet also finished 24th for the UK last year with Still In Love With You, which did even less well on the chart than You're Not Alone, peaking at No.114. Last year, Sweden's Eurovision winner Måns Zelmerlöw's Heroes reached No.11, becoming the fourth winner of the competition in a row to make the Top 20 - and Sweden supplies the only Eurovision entry to the Top 75 this year, in the form of If I Were Sorry by the 17 year old Frans (No.61, 10,131 sales). It was fifth in this year's competition. By contrast, this year's winner, 1944 by Ukraine's Jamala, sold only 2,834 copies and is thus outside the Top 200, at No.289. 19 Eurovision entries made the Top 200 in 2014, falling to seven last year and just four this year - joining Frans and Joe & Jake are Australian entry Sound Of Silence (No.160, 4,664 sales) by Dami Im and Bulgarian entry If Love Was A Crime (No.200, 3,765 sales) by Poli Genova. Russian entry You Are The Only One by Sergey Lararez just misses the Top 200 (No.206, 3,682 sales).

 

The poor showing of the songs notwithstanding, the Eurovision Song Contest: Stockholm 2016 album, which contains all of the entries, jumps 34-9 (4,400 sales) on the compilation chart. Last year's Eurovision album (Vienna 2015) ended a run of four straight Top 10 entries for the series, peaking at No.11, although its cumulative sales of 16,489, conversely, are the highest yet for the series passing the previous high of 16,256 set by the Malmo 2013 edition.

 

Jamala snatching that #289 monster smash *.* Poli top 200 <3

Nina Kraljić has, unsurprisingly, won the Barbara Dex award in a landslide 770 votes, compared to second place Jamie-Lee with 335 votes. Rykka, Dalal & Deen & co. and Poli Genova round off the top 5.