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My first full ranking: Amazing 01 🇸🇪 Sweden - Kaj - Bara Bada Bastu Great 02 🇩🇪 Germany - Abor & Tynna - Baller 03 🇦🇱 Albania - Shkodra Elektronike – Zjerm 04 🇫🇮 Finland - Erika Vikman - Ich komme 05 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - Remember Monday - What The Hell Just Happened Very good 06 🇲🇹 Malta - Miriana Conte - Serving 07 🇦🇺 Australia - GO-JO - Milkshake Man 08 🇨🇭 Switzerland - Zoë Më - Voyage 09 🇩🇰 Denmark - Sissal - Hallucination 10 🇫🇷 France - Louane - Toi avec moi 11 🇸🇲 San Marino - Gabry Ponte - Tutta L'Italia 12 🇱🇻 Latvia - Tautumeitas - Bur man laimi Good 13 Luxembourg - Laura Thorn - La Poupée Monte Le Son 14 🇱🇹 Lithuania - Katarsis - Tavo akys 15 🇺🇦 Ukraine - Ziferblat - Bird of Pray 16 🇵🇱 Poland - Justyna Steczkowska - Gaja 17 🇳🇱 Netherlands - Claude - C'est La Vie 18 🇮🇹 Italy - Lucio Corsi - Volevo essere un duro 19 🇨🇾 Cyprus - Theo Evan - Shh 20 🇦🇹 Austria - JJ - Wasted Love 21 🇬🇷 Greece - Klavdia - Asteromata Ok 22 🇪🇪 Estonia - Tommy Cash - Espresso Machiato 23 🇧🇪 Belgium - Red Sebastian - Strobe Light 24 🇸🇮 Slovenia - Klemen - How Much Time Do We Heve Left 25 🇮🇸 Iceland - Vaeb - Roa 26 🇳🇴 Norway - Kyle Alessandro - Lighter 27 🇨🇿 Czechia - Adonxs - Kiss Kiss Goodbye 28 🇦🇲 Armenia - PARG – Survivor 29 🇮🇪 Ireland - Emmy - Laika Party 30 🇵🇹 Portugal - NAPA - Deslocado 31 🇪🇸 Spain - Melody - Esa Diva 32 🇲🇪 Montenegro - Nina Žižić - Dobrodošli No 33 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan - Mamagama - Run with U 34 🇷🇸 Serbia - Princ – Mila 35 🇭🇷 Croatia - Marko Bošnjak – Poison Cake 36 🇬🇪 Georgia - Mariam Shengelia - Freedom 37 🇮🇱 Israel - Yuval Raphael - New Day Will Rise On balance, there are a few more songs this year that I enjoy than last year (this time last year I had 18 good or above). Sweden I like more than any entry from the 2024 contest.

I definitely prefer the studio version. It's quite a tender song to have debuted on such a HUGE stage like that. Not that she didn't do it justice, but it will probably work better in the smaller setting of Basel and with proper staging.

This was one of the most hyped Eurovision songs I can ever remember, and it doesn't fully justify the build up for me. It's a perfectly nice ballad, but I think Switzerland is a little more my cup of tea even in terms of the French ballads. And it might steal some of those jury votes away. France is dropping in the odds following the reveal, but I agree it's still in the mix to win if it can win the jury and come top five on the televote (4-6 feels realistic there imo).

I can't believe I didn't think to send The Riddle, love that version!

I was quite surprised to see it top 100 at all at this point! Mae had the hosting hype, and the goodwill hype of us having come 2nd the year before so more people were curious as to how we would follow it up. While Olly as you say, was a name, and it's actually surprising he never advanced beyond No.42 after the contest. Sam didn't chart this far in advance of the contest and neither did anything else really all the way back to Scooch in 2007. So I think the status quo is just returning of the Sam success halo effect well and truly having worn off. Amazing. I actually finally bought it on CD last week so I'm quite curious how far ahead of No.41 it was! Surprised more people haven't sought it out after the success of Short n' Sweet.

JADE – FUFN (F**k You For Now) (early 2010s Saturdays meets Gaga vibes was never going to miss with me, love it) Chappell Roan – The Giver (can't decide between the top two, I love this too - but going to give it to JADE on this occasion) Sugababes – Jungle (very fresh and solid comeback) Lil Nas X – HOTBOX (cool 00s Pharrell vibes to this - would be higher on a weaker week) Tom Grennan – Boys Don't Cry (good 80s vibe, solid track) Lizzo – Still Bad Gwen Stefani – Still Gonna Love You (quite boring, sadly, although the original parent album was too) Dermot Kennedy – Let Me In (meh, I saw him live a few years back and he was great but I haven't enjoyed a single of his in a long time)

Pirates certainly picked up the silent votes there, I barely saw it mentioned in the threads before. I thought it was a decent response record with a smooth vocal from Shola Ama. Going for Sundown again here.

Knowing Chappell’s career trajectory though, some other song from her album would have blown up out of nowhere, she seems to go viral with everything. I don’t think she could have waited forever, as it is it’s her first new release in nearly a year. She must be so eager to get new stuff out by now, some of the songs on her album are half a decade old. However well or not The Giver does this week, it will probably have a second wind in about six months time regardless 😂 country songs have a tendency to have legs in the charts here as people can take longer to warm up to them and radio pick them up more gradually over time. I’m really into it myself so I hope it is a decent hit.

Cool to see the extended version of Picture Of You on there. I've got that on a compilation somewhere of 90s 12" versions.

Placebo but both are very strong.

Very easy - Aaliyah, what a gem and what a talent.

Gone for P!nk, sorry. For me it just didn’t click as a lead single. I only enjoyed God Is A DJ from that album’s singles run.

3 is ok with me. I tend to vote in them all together so doesn’t really matter too much to me if it’s 2 or 3.

Oh, I wasn't expecting FUFN. Early 2010s style pop banger, love it. Jungle and The Giver are also very much up my street, so will have to vote later once I've had a few plays.

On the odd occasion they do, but it's hit and miss. Now 119 had auto-rip for sure, but haven't had it on the recent spin-offs or Yearbooks I've ordered from there. I also find Amazon release day delivery hit and miss with pre-orders. So generally I don't pre-order but I wait until midnight of release day and then they sometimes give you about an hour between 12 and 1am to order and get delivery later that day.