February 27, 20205 yr Author Here is a recap of the 2019 pre-top 400 massacre if anyone is curious: 2019 · Tel Aviv, Israel Albania / Jonida Maliqi - "Ktheju Tokës" Armenia / Srbuk - "Walking Out" Australia / Kate Miller-Heidke - "Zero Gravity" Azerbaijan / Chingiz - "Truth" Belarus / ZENA - "Like It" Cyprus / Tamta - "Replay" Czech Republic / Lake Malawi - "Friend of a Friend" France / Bilal Hassani - "Roi" Germany / S!sters - "Sister" Greece / Katerine Duska - "Better Love" Hungary / Joci Pápai - "Az én apám" Iceland / Hatari - "Hatrið mun sigra" Italy / Mahmood - "Soldi" Malta / Michela - "Chameleon" Netherlands / Duncan Laurence - "Arcade" Norway / KEiiNO - "Spirit in the Sky" Poland / Tulia - "Fire of Love (Pali się)" Romania / Ester Peony - "On a Sunday" San Marino / Serhat - "Say Na Na Na" Serbia / Nevena Božović - "Kruna" Slovenia / Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl - "Sebi" Spain / Miki - "La Venda" Sweden / John Lundvik - "Too Late For Love" Switzerland / Luca Hänni - "She Got Me" Ukraine / MARUV - "Siren Song" United Kingdom / Michael Rice - "Bigger Than Us" 27. Latvia / Carousel - "That Night" (404) 28. Estonia / Victor Crone - "Storm" (413) 29. Russia / Sergey Lazarev - "Scream" (440) 30. Denmark / Leonora - "Love Is Forever" (459) 31. Croatia / Roko - "The Dream" (466) 32. Belgium / Eliot - "Wake Up" (495) 33. Moldova / Anna Odobescu - "Stay" (527) 34. Portugal / Conan Osíris - "Telemóveis" (551) 35. Montenegro / D mol - "Heaven" (567) 36. North Macedonia / Tamara Todevska - "Proud" (595) 37. Austria / Pænda - "Limits" (607) 38. Israel / Kobi Marimi - "Home" (624) 39. Finland / Darude ft. Sebastian Rejman - "Look Away" (628) 40. Lithuania / Jurij Veklenko - "Run With The Lions" (645) 41. Ireland / Sarah McTernan - "22" (684) 42. Georgia / Oto Nemsadze - "Sul tsin iare" (724) Front page has been updated with the current standings of all years. Updating the countries as well shortly. Edited February 27, 20205 yr by diva thin muffin
March 4, 20205 yr On Again...Off Again is one of my all-time favourites, I have a lot of good memories linked to it. I even remember sending Julie an email at the time and she replied...the days before Twitter :lol: I adored everything Malta sent between 2002-2005, even poor Lynn, they were the most consistent nation for me in that period. Love What If (even though it's hugely generic, I love the melody and it sounded great 'live in the hall') and Dona, which is a vocal powerhouse. Edited March 4, 20205 yr by gooddelta
March 5, 20205 yr Agree that 18th seems surprisingly high for Is It Right looking back, it had bottom three written all over it. I do have it on CD single actually, but I was in Munich the week of the contest and got hold of it for cheap. I loved New Tomorrow at the time, although don't listen to it that much now. It's a bit 'Take That album track' but is quite anthemic.
March 6, 20205 yr Author Yes your eyes are not deceiving you. Dustin the Turkey IS in my top 5 irish entries and he is an undisputed icon. Don't @ me. Ireland 2008 / Dustin the Turkey - "Irelande Douze Pointe" 2011 / Jedward - "Lipstick" 2013 / Ryan Dolan - "Only Love Survives" 2014 / Can-Linn ft. Kasey Smith - "Heartbeat" 2018 / Ryan O'Shaughnessy - "Together" 06. 2012 / Jedward - "Waterline" (371) 07. 2015 / Molly Sterling - "Playing With Numbers" (391) 08. 2010 / Niamh Kavanagh - "It's For You" (406) 09. 2001 / Gary O'Shaughnessy - "Without Your Love" (424) 10. 2003 / Mickey Harte - "We've Got The World" (482) 11. 1999 / The Mullans - "When You Need Me" (578) 12. 2005 / Donna & Joe - "Love?" (634) 13. 2016 / Nicky Byrne - "Sunlight" (644) 14. 2004 / Chris Doran - "If My World Stopped Turning" (651) 15. 2017 / Brendan Murray - "Dying to Try" (665) 16. 2009 / Sinéad Mulvey & Black Daisy - "Et Cetera" (670) 17. 2019 / Sarah McTernan - "22" (684) 18. 2000 / Eamonn Toal - "Millennium of Love" (703) 19. 2007 / Dervish - "They Can't Stop The Spring" (709) 20. 2006 / Brian Kennedy - "Every Song Is A Cry For Love" (736)
March 6, 20205 yr Based on your Birgit comment I'm looking forward to seeing where Pernilla places, though on typing this I just remembered that's actually in Swedish - though you still very rarely hear that! I think Finnish is one of the most beautiful languages when coupled with music - along with Icelandic, and Estonian sounds nice too (based on Randajad).
March 6, 20205 yr Yes your eyes are not deceiving you. Dustin the Turkey IS in my top 5 irish entries and he is an undisputed icon. Don't @ me. To be fair, Ireland haven't been up to much have they in this time period... Dustin the Turkey would probably be at least in my top 10 for them :mellow: Think I'd rank them with Ryan at first by quite a way, then Niamh by quite a way, then Jedward (Lipstick) which really is quite a cringe thing to admit... to be fair, Cann-Lin and Ryan Dolan weren't bad either so they'd be up there for me too.
March 6, 20205 yr Author Based on your Birgit comment I'm looking forward to seeing where Pernilla places, though on typing this I just remembered that's actually in Swedish - though you still very rarely hear that! I think Finnish is one of the most beautiful languages when coupled with music - along with Icelandic, and Estonian sounds nice too (based on Randajad). There's a few of these nordic/baltic songs where the language plays a bit part yet to come actually: Pernilla, Kuula, Rändajad, Tii, Työlki Ellää and Alvedansen to name a few.
March 7, 20205 yr Author Oh no you did not rank 'Sebi' below bloody Jemini. x I did and I’ll happily do it again :angel:
March 11, 20205 yr Author Bulgaria 2006 / Mariana Popova - "Let Me Cry" 2012 / Sofi Marinova - "Love Unlimited" 2016 / Poli Genova - "If Love Was A Crime" 2017 / Kristian Kostov - "Beautiful Mess" 2018 / Equinox - "Bones" 06. 2010 / Miro - "Angel Si Ti" (361) 07. 2011 / Poli Genova - "Na Inat" (368) 08. 2008 / Deep Zone & Balthazar - "DJ, Take Me Away" (460) 09. 2009 / Krassimir Avramov - "Illusion" (498) 10. 2005 / Kaffe - "Lorraine" (744) 11. 2007 / Elitsa & Stoyan - "Water" (763) 12. 2013 / Elitsa & Stoyan - "Samo Shampioni" (766)
March 11, 20205 yr Switch Mariana for Deep Zone and that'd be the same Bulgarian top 5 for me! Also couldn't stand "Samo Shampioni" and still don't really get "Water" either...
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