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This song now coming finally four years later as announced on the album track list! Saw it mentioned in her album thread so thought it deserved a bump :lol:

The old Albanian jury is gone and in its place is a 3-member international jury apparently, 1 of which is Dimitris Kontopoulos. Will that work in Elvana’s favour, I hope! Although international juries have become increasingly unpredictable...

My PREDICTION is as follows: 1 Spain 2 Poland 3 Armenia 4 France 5 Kazakhstan 6 Italy 7 Serbia 8 Australia 9 Netherlands 10 Russia 11 North Macedonia 12 Ireland 13 Malta 14 Belarus 15 Ukraine 16 Georgia 17 Albania 18 Wales 19 Portugal

01 Poland 02 France 03 North Macedonia 04 Armenia 05 Kazakhstan 06 Serbia 07 Spain 08 Ukraine 09 The Netherlands 10 Ireland 11 Malta 12 Australia 13 Belarus 14 Russia 15 Wales 16 Georgia 17 Albania 18 Italy 19 Portugal That's the definitive ranking! :cheer: Expect the win to be between Poland and Spain...

And now up to #8!

10. Taylor Swift - The Archer

Quite impressive that Taylor has made it back into the top 10! Whereas a discounted Little Mix is out of the top 40 despite the same release week.

Pixie #1 on music videos chart :twirl:

FINAL Overall - Televote - Jury 01 01 01 The Netherlands 02 02 04 Switzerland 03 05 03 Australia 04 07 02 Sweden 05 03 09 Russia 06 06 08 Azerbaijan 07 14 06 Italy 08 15 07 Greece 09 08 14 Cyprus 10 12 10 Serbia 11 04 22 Norway 12 21 05 Malta 13 10 17 France 14 09 19 Iceland 15 17 11 Albania 16 11 18 Spain 17 13 16 Denmark 18 18 13 North Macedonia 19 20 12 Czech Republic 20 24 15 Slovenia 21 16 25 Estonia 22 19 23 Belarus 23 23 20 United Kingdom 24 25 21 Israel 25 22 24 San Marino 26 26 26 Germany

SEMI 2 Overall - Televote - Jury 01 02 02 The Netherlands 02 05 01 Sweden 03 01 06 Russia 04 03 04 Switzerland 05 04 07 Azerbaijan 06 08 10 Denmark 07 09 09 Albania 08 16 03 Austria 09 14 05 Malta 10 07 12 Lithuania 11 11 08 North Macedonia 12 06 15 Norway 13 12 11 Armenia 14 13 13 Romania 15 10 18 Croatia 16 17 14 Latvia 17 15 17 Moldova 18 18 16 Ireland

SEMI 1 Overall - Televote - Jury 01 01 01 Australia 02 02 02 Greece 03 03 07 Cyprus 04 05 05 Hungary 05 08 06 Serbia 06 13 03 Slovenia 07 12 04 Czech Republic 08 06 10 Belgium 09 04 14 Iceland 10 07 12 Estonia 11 14 09 Georgia 12 09 15 Poland 13 16 08 Finland 14 11 13 Belarus 15 10 16 San Marino 16 15 11 Portugal 17 17 17 Montenegro

Cyprus I'm sure will be perfectly fine, I was hoping Malta would get a much better draw than that though and I am nervous for them. I think Estonia benefit actually, the majority of people will gravitate to that one out of the group of 4 due to it being by far the most accessible. I expect top 5 in televote for Estonia, it's just whether the juries completely sink them a la Verona.

I think Australia's hopes could be completely transformed if they come up with a brand new stage show from scratch. As it stands, it unfortunately comes across like a joke performance that massively distracts from the quality vocals and decent song that there is. Instead all that we have in our minds (if listening) or are seeing is a pastiche of some of the big joke act performances over the years. I know the meaning behind it but it does so much more harm than good. Judging from the videos provided on the Eurovision channel, if people tuned in to them and watched them all for the first time they'd think that this year's joke act is Australia over any other I think and that's not what they should be portraying.

Something like this maybe: SEMI 1 01 Belarus 02 Montenegro 03 Czech Republic 04 Serbia 05 Finland 06 Poland 07 Hungary 08 Cyprus 09 Slovenia 10 San Marino 11 Portugal 12 Greece 13 Georgia 14 Belgium 15 Australia 16 Iceland 17 Estonia SEMI 2 01 Denmark 02 Romania 03 Switzerland 04 Moldova 05 Armenia 06 Latvia 07 Austria 08 Sweden 09 Ireland 10 Croatia 11 Azerbaijan 12 North Macedonia 13 Lithuania 14 Albania 15 Russia 16 Malta 17 The Netherlands 18 Norway