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Who did the best job of following up their Eurovision win? Rank the last 10 host entries from best to worst. There won't be any results, it's just for a bit of fun.

 

Finland 2007 // Hanna Pakarinen - Leave Me Alone

Serbia 2008 // Jelena Tomašević feat. Bora Dugic - Oro

Russia 2009 // Anastasia Prikhodko - Mamo

Norway 2010 // Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours

Germany 2011 // Lena - Taken By A Stranger

Azerbaijan 2012 // Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies

Sweden 2013 // Robin Stjernberg - You

Denmark 2014 // Basim - Cliché Love Song

Austria 2015 // The Makemakes - I Am Yours

Sweden 2016 // Frans - If I Were Sorry

 

And in case any of you need educating/a refresher:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Germany 2011 // Lena - Taken By A Stranger [BEST]

Serbia 2008 // Jelena Tomašević feat. Bora Dugic - Oro

Finland 2007 // Hanna Pakarinen - Leave Me Alone

Azerbaijan 2012 // Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies

Russia 2009 // Anastasia Prikhodko - Mamo

Denmark 2014 // Basim - Cliché Love Song

Sweden 2013 // Robin Stjernberg - You

Norway 2010 // Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours

Austria 2015 // The Makemakes - I Am Yours

Sweden 2016 // Frans - If I Were Sorry

 

Ukraine, send a woman to Kyiv!

 

Although this is probably my favourite ever host entry, how Estonia didn't the double I'll never know!

 

Ooh putting them like that I didn't realise how good the host entries have been over the years! :o

 

Amazing

01. Germany 2011 // Lena - Taken By A Stranger

02. Azerbaijan 2012 // Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies

03. Sweden 2016 // Frans - If I Were Sorry

 

Great

04. Finland 2007 // Hanna Pakarinen - Leave Me Alone

05. Serbia 2008 // Jelena Tomašević feat. Bora Dugic - Oro

06. Sweden 2013 // Robin Stjernberg - You

07. Norway 2010 // Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours

 

Good

08. Russia 2009 // Anastasia Prikhodko - Mamo

09. Denmark 2014 // Basim - Cliché Love Song

 

Average

10. Austria 2015 // The Makemakes - I Am Yours

 

It really isn't a good bunch, I only have two of them on my Eurovision playlist and I'd happily never hear most of them again. The fact I have LENA so high should be evidence enough as to how bad everything else is.

 

 

10 Serbia 2008 // Jelena Tomašević feat. Bora Dugic - Oro

09 Azerbaijan 2012 // Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies

06 Russia 2009 // Anastasia Prikhodko - Mamo

06 Germany 2011 // Lena - Taken By A Stranger

06 Finland 2007 // Hanna Pakarinen - Leave Me Alone

05 Norway 2010 // Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours

05 Austria 2015 // The Makemakes - I Am Yours

03 Sweden 2013 // Robin Stjernberg - You

03 Denmark 2014 // Basim - Cliché Love Song

00 Sweden 2016 // Frans - If I Were Sorry

I think most of these are great! Although the weakest four are the most recent four so maybe it was a trend that ended up dying off. The first six are all great.

 

1. Finland 2007 // Hanna Pakarinen - Leave Me Alone

2. Serbia 2008 // Jelena Tomašević feat. Bora Dugic - Oro

3. Russia 2009 // Anastasia Prikhodko - Mamo

4. Germany 2011 // Lena - Taken By A Stranger

5. Norway 2010 // Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours

6. Azerbaijan 2012 // Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies

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7. Sweden 2013 // Robin Stjernberg - You

8. Sweden 2016 // Frans - If I Were Sorry

9. Austria 2015 // The Makemakes - I Am Yours

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10. Denmark 2014 // Basim - Cliché Love Song

 

yes, mostly chronological is the way I'm ranking these.

Sweden 2016 // Frans - If I Were Sorry

Germany 2011 // Lena - Taken By A Stranger

Sweden 2013 // Robin Stjernberg - You

Norway 2010 // Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours

Finland 2007 // Hanna Pakarinen - Leave Me Alone

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Austria 2015 // The Makemakes - I Am Yours

Denmark 2014 // Basim - Cliché Love Song

Serbia 2008 // Jelena Tomašević feat. Bora Dugic - Oro

Russia 2009 // Anastasia Prikhodko - Mamo

Azerbaijan 2012 // Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies

 

I don't care for any of the bottom five tbh, I like Hanna and Didrik's songs and love the top three <3

01 Oro

 

02 When The Music Dies

03 Leave Me Alone

 

04 Mamo

05 Taken By A Stranger

 

06 You

07 My Heart Is Yours

08 If I Were Sorry

 

09 Cliche Love Song

10 I Am Yours

 

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Oro is genuinely an amazing composition of its own right regardless of the 'host entry' tag. It's not exactly a stellar bunch and I only REALLY care for the top three ('Taken By A Stranger' is a bit overrated IMO) but I don't actively dislike any of them (that damn Frans song grew on me dammit!).

Ooh putting them like that I didn't realise how good the host entries have been over the years! :o

 

Same here!

 

Sweden 2016 // Frans - If I Were Sorry

Sweden 2013 // Robin Stjernberg - You

Finland 2007 // Hanna Pakarinen - Leave Me Alone

Azerbaijan 2012 // Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies

Serbia 2008 // Jelena Tomašević feat. Bora Dugic - Oro

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Germany 2011 // Lena - Taken By A Stranger

Denmark 2014 // Basim - Cliché Love Song

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Norway 2010 // Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours

Russia 2009 // Anastasia Prikhodko - Mamo

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Austria 2015 // The Makemakes - I Am Yours

 

Austria is a total dud. Mamo I'm not THAT fond of as a song, but the performance was an iconic mess, Didrik rather on the dull side.

 

(that damn Basim song grew on me dammit!)

01 Serbia 2008 // Jelena Tomašević feat. Bora Dugic - Oro

02 Germany 2011 // Lena - Taken By A Stranger

03 Finland 2007 // Hanna Pakarinen - Leave Me Alone

 

 

 

04 Azerbaijan 2012 // Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies

 

05 Sweden 2016 // Frans - If I Were Sorry

06 Norway 2010 // Didrik Solli-Tangen - My Heart Is Yours

07 Russia 2009 // Anastasia Prikhodko - Mamo

08 Sweden 2013 // Robin Stjernberg - You

 

 

 

09 Denmark 2014 // Basim - Cliché Love Song

10 Austria 2015 // The Makemakes - I Am Yours

 

The last Ukrainian host entry was really significant, I mean, you don't often get songs that are the literal anthem of a revolution on the Eurovision stage.

 

 

I also like it. As opposed to considering it the red-headed stepchild of Ukrainian entries. I kinda hope they've got something similarly meaningful up their sleeves.

 

Oh, and For Real is awesome.

 

 

I miss Turkey a lot sometimes.

 

And of course Hello From Mars, one of the early Latvian epics and one of those early-00s Eurovision songs that sticks with me really well. Almost as good as Brainstorm.

 

 

They can be good as the song can be a celebration that the country's just won, Greenjolly, Anastasia & Didrik felt like that especially (and for the latter two felt like a real expression of otherwise-repressed Russian personality for Mamo and made what could have been a dull ballad really sweet instead for My Heart Is Yours).

I'll take Germany 2011 all the way. Sweden 2013 is "OK", the rest are varying degrees of woeful. That Norwegian entry from 2010 was a particular low point... rather like the 2010 contest itself.

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