Posted March 15, 20232 yr So as the last few songs get released this week and we get our full picture of the field, discussion naturally turns to the running order the songs will be performed in. Given that this year we're back to a 100% televote semi-final, the running order could have an even bigger impact than usual! In terms of the semis first half/second half splits: Semi One First Half Croatia: Let 3 - Mama ŠČ! Ireland: Wild Youth - We Are One Latvia: Sudden Lights - Aijā Malta: The Busker - Dance (Our Own Party) Norway: Alessandra - Queen of Kings Portugal: Mimicat - Ai coração Serbia: Luke Black - Samo mi se spava Second Half Azerbaijan: TuralTurunX - Tell Me More Czech Republic: Vesna - My Sister's Crown Finland: Käärijä - Cha Cha Cha Israel: Noa Kirel - Unicorn Moldova: Pasha Parfeni -Soarele și luna Netherlands: Mia Nicolai & Dion Cooper - Burning Daylight Sweden: Loreen - Tattoo Switzerland: Remo Forrer - Watergun Semi Two First Half Armenia: Brunette - Future Lover Belgium: Gustaph - Because of You Cyprus: Andrew Lambrou - Break A Broken Heart Denmark: Reiley - Breaking My Heart Estonia: Alika - Bridges Greece: Victor Vernicos - What They Say Romania: Theodor Andrei - D.G.T (Off and On) Iceland: Dilja - Power Second Half Albania: Albina & Familja Kelmendi - Duje Australia: Voyager - Promise Austria: Teya & Salena - Who The Hell is Edgar? Georgia: IRU - Echo Lithuania: Monika Linkytė - Stay Poland: Blanka - Solo San Marino: Piqued Jacks - Like an Animal Slovenia: Joker Out - Carpe Diem So get your producer heads on and tell us, how would you programme the running order for these semis?
March 15, 20232 yr Author Since we've got everything in for Semi One, I'd programme them something like this 01 Norway 02 Croatia 03 Ireland 04 Portugal 05 Latvia 06 Serbia 07 Malta 08 Azerbaijan 09 Moldova 10 Netherlands 11 Sweden 12 Switzerland 13 Israel 14 Czechia 15 Finland This, in contrast to usual, felt relatively straightforward to put together. Norway felt like the best choice to open with and, like last year, the "novelty act" makes sense going on second as that won't have any problem standing out no matter where it is. Beyond that I tried to go for the variation between high and lows in energy and tempo. Sweden might have seemed like the obvious closer but I reckoned that there'll need to be some kind of ad break before or after it to properly set up whatever version of the staging will be in Liverpool.
March 18, 20232 yr Author And the way I'd run Semi 2: 01 Belgium 02 Romania 03 Greece 04 Denmark 05 Estonia 06 Iceland 07 Cyprus 08 Armenia 09 San Marino 10 Albania 11 Poland 12 Slovenia 13 Austria 14 Lithuania 15 Australia 16 Georgia This felt a lot harder but essentially I thought Belgium made the most sense as the opener and Georgia made the most sense as a closer and I tried to have as much variation as possible throughout.
March 21, 20232 yr Author Official running orders are dropping at 6PM GMT tomorrow! Get your final predictions/pitches in now folks.
March 22, 20232 yr The irish sun was reporting over the weekend that ireland have got the dreaded slot of performing 2nd in the semi, interesting to see if it turns out to be true.
March 23, 20232 yr Damn, poor Romania and Latvia killed 3 Mostly as expected, that's two fantastic anthemic closers (my personal top 2 xx), and Norway is a great opener.
March 23, 20232 yr This Romanian entry was never alive x Armenia in 2nd seems like a very rogue choice :unsure:
May 6, 20232 yr Shame for France, and that’s Spain’s televote potential down as well. I bet Finland and Sweden both get second half.
May 6, 20232 yr Would've liked France to be second half, I'm not mad on it but it's just nice to have another song seen as being in 'contention'. I would really like Finland to get second half and Sweden to get first half so that things are seen to be kept 'interesting' but really, whichever is going to win I think will do so from anywhere.
May 9, 20232 yr Author They're doing the first/second half draws on TikTok live at the moment, currently stands at: First Half Spain France Italy Switzerland Finland Portugal Sweden Serbia Second Half Ukraine United Kingdom Germany Croatia Moldova Czechia Israel Norway
May 9, 20232 yr Author Sweden, Finland and France all in the first half is going to really stack the opening of the show!
May 9, 20232 yr Author Noa, Mae and Alessandra all in the second half is going to leave somebody disappointed. Sweden's bolted on to be singing 13th so they can wheel the box off (I'd imagine)
May 9, 20232 yr Oops, if Poland get through and get second half too then that's difficult for Mae to navigate. Very interesting to have all three of the favourites in the first half, the early running (I'm guessing they'll put him on 8-10th) could reduce Finland's televote a little, giving Loreen a leg up.
May 9, 20232 yr I reckon they will put Finland 10th/11th and Loreen 12th/13th. It will certainly be interesting if all the favourites go first half. I worry that Ukraine may do even better now, they seem to have been forgotten about but I could still see a show where they come close to winning again. I don't think they will get 400+ in the televotes but can still see them getting 300 or something. Its also interesting that Loreen is almost top 10 on itunes already but Finland is nowhere to be seen yet, could suggest she may do really well in the televote? Edited May 9, 20232 yr by simonf
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