February 19, 20205 yr Haven't heard any Eurovision 2020 entry yet, but here's the current top 10 according to bookmakers (Eurovisionworld.com): 1 Italy 2 Lithuania 3 Sweden 4 Russia 5 Norway 6 Australia 7 Bulgaria 8 Malta 9 Poland 10 Belgium
February 19, 20205 yr Well, I've heard 11 entries now (thanks to YouTube) and my faves are Australia, Italy and France in this order. 7jMAywkE3Wg
February 19, 20205 yr Bordering ICONIC: 1. Norway: Ulrikke - Attention 2. Australia: Montaigne - Don’t Break Me 3. Latvia: Samanta Tina - Still Breathing A little bit of LOVIN: 4. Athenia Makounian - Chains On You Decent/Good: 5. Czech Republic: Benny Cristo - Kemama 6. Spain: Blas Cantó - Universo Like: 7. Albania: Arilena Ara - Shaj 8. France: Tom Leeb - The Best In Me 9. Lithuania: The Roop - On Fire Boring: 10. Belgium: Hooverphonic - Release Me 11. Italy: Diodato - Fai rumore
February 22, 20205 yr :wub: 01 Norway: Ulrikke - Attention 02 Australia: Montaigne - Don't Break Me 03 Latvia: Samanta Tina - Still Breathing :) 04 Ukraine: Go_A - Solovey 05 Armenia: Athena Manoukian - Chains On You 06 Lithuania: The Roop - On Fire 07 Czech Republic: Benny Cristo - Kemama 08 Spain: Blas Canto - Universo 09 Belgium: Hooverphonic - Release Me 10 Albania: Arilene Ara - Shaj :/ 11 Italy: Diodato - Fai Rumore 12 Slovenia: Ana Soklič - Voda 13 France: Tom Leeb - The Best In Me
February 23, 20205 yr look at women coming through all of a sudden in such a male fronted first look!
February 23, 20205 yr Bordering ICONIC: 1. Norway: Ulrikke - Attention 2. Australia: Montaigne - Don’t Break Me 3. Latvia: Samanta Tina - Still Breathing A little bit of LOVIN: 4. Athenia Makounian - Chains On You Decent/Good: 5. Ukraine: Go_A - Solovey 6. Czech Republic: Benny Cristo - Kemama 7. Spain: Blas Cantó - Universo Like: 8. Albania: Arilena Ara - Shaj 9. France: Tom Leeb - The Best In Me 10. Lithuania: The Roop - On Fire Boring: 11. Belgium: Hooverphonic - Release Me 12. Slovenia: Ana Soklič - Voda 13. Italy: Diodato - Fai rumore
February 23, 20205 yr I would rank them like this so far 1. Norway 2. Lithuania 3. Australia 4. Latvia 5. Belgium 6. Italy 7. Ukraine 8. Albania 9. Armenia 10. Spain 11. Slovenia 12. France 13. Czech Republic
February 24, 20205 yr Author The stand-out tier 01 Norway: Ulrikke - Attention 02 Ukraine: Go_A - Solovey 03 Australia: Montaigne - Don’t Break Me The decent tier 04 Czech Republic: Benny Cristo - Kemama 05 Italy: Diodato - Fai rumore 06 France: Tom Leeb - The Best In Me 07 Albania: Arilena Ara - Shaj 08 Poland: Alicja Szemplińska - Empires 09 Lithuania: The Roop - On Fire The average tier 10 Spain: Blas Cantó - Universo 11 Slovenia: Ana Soklič - Voda The 'would rather you sit-out' tier 12 Belgium: Hooverphonic - Release Me 13 Armenia: Athenia Makounian - Chains On You 14 Latvia: Samanta Tina - Still Breathing
February 25, 20205 yr GOD TIER 01 | [ukraine] Go_A - Solovey 02 | [Latvia] Samanta Tina - Still Breathing 03 | [Lithuania] The Roop - On Fire GREAT 04 | [Australia] Montaigne - Don’t Break Me 05 | [Armenia] Athenia Makounian - Chains On You COOLIO 06 | [belgium] Hooverphonic - Release Me 07 | [Czech Republic] Benny Cristo - Kemama OKAY 08 | [Norway] Ulrikke - Attention EH 09 | [Albania] Arilena Ara - Shaj 10 | [Poland] Alicja Szemplińska - Empires 11 | [spain] Blas Cantó - Universo 12 | [France] Tom Leeb - The Best In Me NO NOT TODAY 13 | [slovenia] Ana Soklič - Voda 14 | [italy] Diodato - Fai rumore apparently tons of unpopular opinions judging by everyone else’s rankings. Ukraine doesn’t deserve my first place after what they did to MARUV but it’s still a really good song with a hot drop. Lithuania’s entry is a way to do subtle dance right, Armenia’s ended up being surprisingly catchy, and the Hooverphonic song reminded me of something I’d head on Dance Moms, which is always cool. Then you have Poland, Spain and France who have songs that are either way too safe or doing the bare minimum. Tom Leeb is proof that good vocals can’t save a boring song. And what the actual flying f*ck was Italy thinking? It’s probably the most forgettable entry this year. Like I wasn’t the biggest fan of Soldi (it was good but HEAVILY OVERRATED) but at least it made me feel something.
February 25, 20205 yr moves me 01 Latvia: Samanta Tina - Still Breathing killing it 02 Spain: Blas Canto - Universo 03 Lithuania: The ROOP - On Fire 04 Ukraine - Go_A - Solovey good 05 Poland: Alicja Szemplińska - Empires 06 Armenia: Athena Manoukian - Chains On You 07 Albania: Arilena Ara - Shaj 08 Italy: Diodato - Fai rumore average 09 Belgium: Hooverphonic - Release Me 10 Australia: Montaigne - Don't Break Me 11 Norway: Ulrikke - Attention bad 12 Slovenia: Ana Soklič - Voda 13 Czech Republic: Benny Cristo - Kemama 14 France: Tom Leeb - The Best In Me
February 27, 20205 yr In my all time favourite list already 1 Albania: Arilena Ara - Shaj 2 Australia: Montaigne - Don't Break Me Very very good 3 Latvia: Samanta Tina - Still Breathing 4 Norway: Ulrikke - Attention Very Good 5 Slovenia: Ana Soklič - Voda Good 6 Lithuania: The ROOP - On Fire Passable 7 Poland: Alicja Szemplińska - Empires 8 United Kingdom: James Neman - Last Breath 9 Spain: Blas Canto - Universo Would never listen to it out of choice 10 Italy: Diodato - Fai rumore 11 Armenia: Athena Manoukian - Chains On You 12 Ukraine - Go_A - Solovey 13 Czech Republic: Benny Cristo - Kemama Actively dislike 14 Belgium: Hooverphonic - Release Me 15 France: Tom Leeb - The Best In Me Edited February 27, 20205 yr by Colm
February 28, 20205 yr 01 (NE) Ukraine - hope their financial issues don't put paid to this it's amazing 02 (NE) Norway - really beautiful and a potential jury winner 03 (NE) Germany - think this will shrink 04 (NE) Armenia - really underrated and excited for the revamp 05 (NE) Belgium - like this vibe 06 (01) Australia 07 (NE) UK - think this kinda slaps, we'll see how much is patriotism tho haha 08 (02) Czech Rep 09 (NE) Lithuania - I really like it but it is overrated 10 (03) Albania 11 (NE) Belarus - only just heard it a couple of times so we'll see 12 (05) Italy 13 (NE) Poland - pretty boring sadly 14 (06) Spain 15 (04) Latvia 16 (NE) France - sad but he's hot so I guess a bonus point for that 17 (NE) Slovenia - not feeling this sadly
February 28, 20205 yr GOD TIER 01 | [Germany] Ben Dolic - Violent Thing 02 | [Latvia] Samanta Tina - Still Breathing 03 | [ukraine] Go_A - Solovey 04 | [Lithuania] The Roop - On Fire GREAT 05 | [Australia] Montaigne - Don’t Break Me 06 | [Armenia] Athenia Makounian - Chains On You 06 | [belarus] VAL - Da Vidna COOLIO 08 | [united Kingdom] James Newman - My Last Breath 09 | [belgium] Hooverphonic - Release Me 10 | [Czech Republic] Benny Cristo - Kemama OKAY 11 | [Norway] Ulrikke - Attention EH 12 | [Albania] Arilena Ara - Shaj 13 | [Poland] Alicja Szemplińska - Empires 14 | [spain] Blas Cantó - Universo 15 | [France] Tom Leeb - The Best In Me NO NOT TODAY 16 | [slovenia] Ana Soklič - Voda 17 | [italy] Diodato - Fai rumore And Germany was one of my least faves last year... how the turn tables
February 29, 20205 yr Bordering ICONIC: 1. Norway: Ulrikke - Attention 2. Australia: Montaigne - Don’t Break Me 3. Latvia: Samanta Tina - Still Breathing A little bit of LOVIN: 4. Athenia Makounian - Chains On You Decent/Good: 5. Ukraine: Go_A - Solovey 6. Czech Republic: Benny Cristo - Kemama 7. Spain: Blas Cantó - Universo Like/Okay: 8. Albania: Arilena Ara - Shaj 9. Germany: Ben Dolic - Violent Thing 10. Belarus: VAL - Da Vidna 11. Poland: Alicja Szemplińska - Empires 12. United Kingdom: James Newman - My Last Breath 13. Lithuania: The Roop - On Fire 14. France: Tom Leeb - The Best In Me Boring: 15. Belgium: Hooverphonic - Release Me 16. Slovenia: Ana Soklič - Voda 17. Italy: Diodato - Fai rumore
March 1, 20205 yr :wub: 01 Norway: Ulrikke - Attention 02 Australia: Montaigne - Don't Break Me 03 Latvia: Samanta Tina - Still Breathing :D 04 Germany: Ben Dolic - Violent Thing 05 Moldova: Natalia Gordienko - Prison :) 06 Ukraine: Go_A - Solovey 07 Armenia: Athena Manoukian - Chains On You 08 Belarus: VAL - Da Vidna 09 Lithuania: The Roop - On Fire 10 Czech Republic: Benny Cristo - Kemama 11 Poland: Alicja Szemplińska - Empires 12 Spain: Blas Canto - Universo 13 United Kingdom: James Newman - My last Breath 14 Belgium: Hooverphonic - Release Me 15 Albania: Arilene Ara - Shaj 16 Croatia: Damir Kedžo - Divlji vjetre :/ 17 Iceland: Daði Freyr - Think About Things 18 Italy: Diodato - Fai Rumore 19 Slovenia: Ana Soklič - Voda 20 Estonia: Uku Suviste - What Love Is 21 France: Tom Leeb - The Best In Me This year is quite lacking looking at them like this :( Most of the middle ok/good section I wouldn't really go mad over or listen to out of choice, but I think Chains On You will be in the next section with a revamp and maybe Kemama too as I remember they're revamping that too. Maybe there's gonna be some random af massive growers.
March 7, 20205 yr Amazing 1 Albania 2 Australia 3 Norway 4 Germany Very good 5 Latvia 6 Slovenia 7 Greece Quite good 8 Israel 9 Iceland 10 Lithuania Good 11 Switzerland 12 Italy 13 Ireland 14 United Kingdom Ok, I suppose.... 15 Moldova 16 Poland 17 Spain 18 Czech Republic 19 Armenia Bad 20 Romania 21 Estonia 22 Belgium 23 Ukraine 24 France 25 Belarus 26 Austria 27 Serbia 28 Netherlands I've not listened to the rest at this point. Edited March 7, 20205 yr by Colm
March 8, 20205 yr All-in-all currently an alright year. Expect to rank it somewhere like this compared to last decade: 01. 2016 02. 2019 03. 2018 04. 2014 05. 2013 06. 2012 07. 2020 08. 2017 09. 2010 10. 2015 11. 2011 Iconic 01 | Iceland · Daði and Gagnamagnið ‒ Think About Things 02 | Germany · Ben Dolic ‒ Violent Thing Amazing 03 | Lithuania · The Roop ‒ On Fire 04 | Bulgaria · Victoria ‒ Tears Getting Sober 05 | Sweden · The Mamas ‒ Move 06 | Italy · Diodato ‒ Fai Rumore 07 | Switzerland · Gjon's Tears ‒ Répondez-moi Great 08 | Australia · Montaigne ‒ Don't Break Me 09 | Serbia · Hurricane ‒ Hasta La Vista 10 | Norway · Ulrikke ‒ Attention 11 | United Kingdom · James Newman ‒ My Last Breath 12 | Denmark · Ben & Tan ‒ Yes 13 | Albania · Arilena Ara ‒ Shaj Good 14 | Cyprus · Sandro ‒ Running 15 | Ireland · Lesley Roy ‒ Story of My Life 16 | Israel · Eden Alene ‒ Feker Libi 17 | Poland · Alicja Szemplinska ‒ Empire 18 | Austria · Vincent Buono ‒ Alive 19 | Ukraine · Go_A ‒ Solovey 20 | Belarus · VAL ‒ Da Vidna 21 | Finland · Aksel Kankaanranta ‒ Looking Back 22 | Greece · Stefania ‒ Superg!rl 23 | Spain · Blas Cantó ‒ Universo 24 | Slovenia · Ana Soklic ‒ Voda Alright 25 | Estonia · Uku Suviste ‒ What Love Is 26 | Moldova · Natalia Gordienko ‒ Prison 27 | Romania · Roxen ‒ Alcohol You 28 | Czech Republic · Benny Cristo ‒ Kemama 29 | Netherlands · Jeangu Macrooy ‒ Grow 30 | Latvia · Samanta Tina ‒ Still Breathing Bad 31 | France · Tom Leeb ‒ The Best In Me 32 | Croatia · Damir Kedzo ‒ Divlji vjetre 33 | Belgium · Hooverphonic ‒ Release Me 34 | Georgia · Tornike Kipiani ‒ Take Me As I Am Awful 35 | Portugal · Elisa ‒ Medo de Sentir 36 | Armenia · Athena Manoukian ‒ Chains on You Edited March 8, 20205 yr by diva thin muffin
March 9, 20205 yr Amazing 1. Bulgaria · Victoria ‒ Tears Getting Sober 2. Denmark · Ben & Tan ‒ Yes 3. Iceland · Daði and Gagnamagnið ‒ Think About Things 4. Israel · Eden Alene ‒ Feker Libi Great 5. Australia · Montaigne ‒ Don't Break Me 6. Sweden · The Mamas ‒ Move Very good 7. United Kingdom · James Newman ‒ My Last Breath 8. Malta · Destiny - All Of My Love 9. Lithuania · The Roop ‒ On Fire 10. Ireland · Lesley Roy ‒ Story of My Life 11. Norway · Ulrikke ‒ Attention 12. Italy · Diodato ‒ Fai Rumore 13. Cyprus · Sandro ‒ Running Good 14. Germany · Ben Dolic ‒ Violent Thing 15. Ukraine · Go_A ‒ Solovey 16. Belgium · Hooverphonic ‒ Release Me 17. Switzerland · Gjon's Tears ‒ Répondez-moi 18. Netherlands · Jeangu Macrooy ‒ Grow 19. Estonia · Uku Suviste ‒ What Love Is 20. Serbia · Hurricane ‒ Hasta La Vista 21. Poland · Alicja Szemplinska ‒ Empire Pretty good 22. Finland · Aksel Kankaanranta ‒ Looking Back 23. San Marino · Senhit - Freaky 24. Albania · Arilena Ara ‒ Shaj 25. Belarus · VAL ‒ Da Vidna 26. Czech Republic · Benny Cristo ‒ Kemama Average 27. North Macedonia · Vasil - You 28. Austria · Vincent Buono ‒ Alive 29. Slovenia · Ana Soklic ‒ Voda 30. Greece · Stefania ‒ Superg!rl 31. Spain · Blas Cantó ‒ Universo 32. Romania · Roxen ‒ Alcohol You 33. Armenia · Athena Manoukian ‒ Chains on You 34. Latvia · Samanta Tina ‒ Still Breathing 35. Moldova · Natalia Gordienko ‒ Prison 36. France · Tom Leeb ‒ The Best In Me 37. Portugal · Elisa ‒ Medo de Sentir 38. Georgia · Tornike Kipiani ‒ Take Me As I Am 39. Croatia · Damir Kedzo ‒ Divlji vjetre There have been a lot of missed opportunities this year. It's not a bad lineup, but it feels like way more excellent songs than usual were thrown away in the national finals. There's not anything I really dislike for once, but the choices of some of the countries near the bottom (France/Portugal) are a little bit WTF. I very rarely love Israel but adore Feker Libi, Bulgaria have blown me away in recent years, they've suddenly become so good at the contest out of nowhere. Hopefully it will be them or Iceland that win, as I don't see Denmark managing it. Sweden solid as ever, even though they'd have been top here with Dotter. And actually, the UK has a really solid entry for once when hearing it with the rest of the pack, I hope it manages to avoid the bottom five, it doesn't deserve that fate.
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