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Omg yes!! #susanbumparty

Same :’)

Very surprised at Olta Boka not being top 10. That is one of Albanias finest entries.

Got my tix to see her live in August at the same venue I was for Fever Ray.

Calm your Yehussy, that top 3 is still fresh enough x

I just rewatched Eurovision 2006 and 2007 and this was LITERALLY that

Omg no spoilers, I haven’t watched the reunion yet ö

Year 01: New Girl In Town It was the year 2008. A 19-year old Conderella with very low-intermediate English was less-than-one-year fresh on the English-speaking forum scene and finally brave enough to explore other parts of Buzzjack besides Personal and UK Charts. The humiliation from not understanding how things work around here and posting her own personal chart in the comments of another user’s Personal Chart was still lingering in the air. A little forum named BJSC caught her eye. A song competition where you play Eurovision not just once a year but TEN?! She immediately signed up and founded a country - Eledan (changed to Elëdan shortly) that she named after a singer that was all the rage at that time - Adele. She was 3 months late to the party so she didn’t know what to expect. One thing she knew is that the first 3 winners were all women so she decided to enter a fellow Russian artist she liked - Polina Gagarina - who several years later went to represent them at the actual Eurovision and shortly after proclaimed her support for P*tin. Oops. P*lina came dead last. Conderella could have never expected what was about to happen next month. What was supposed to be a way to say sorry, she sent the song “Gomenasai” (meaning “I’m sorry” in Japanese) by an unknown Russian band called Tatu. To her surprise, this landslided (landslid? landslide? landslidden?) into a massive win with a 40% lead over the 2nd place. Winning her second ever contest against Girls Aloud, Sugababes, M.I.A. at the peak of her career with Paper Planes, Taylor Swift and Yelle?! Before Conderella could process this, it was time to host BJSC 6. Elëdan went ahead and played tribute to Adele who was after all the inspiration for the country’s name. ‘Hometown Glory’ was selected and it finished 12th overall. The total number of participants grew only from 27 to 29 so the Semifinal was also scrapped. BJSC 6 was won by Quotosibb who were the first country to have debuted at number one, sent a British singer who is also the first black winner of BJSC, and with a live version of the song. Maybe it was Beverley Knight’s talent or maybe it was Conderella’s stellar hosting that attracted a huge wave of new countries joining in droves the following month. Mirroring Eurovision, for the first time ever, the two Semifinal format was introduced. “How will I ever achieve the highs of that win again?”, she thought to herself, inputting LEAVEMEALONE in GTA Vice City. ‘I Bruise Easily’ by Natasha Bedingfield was her next choice. Having given her 12 to Imogen Heap’s ‘Headlock’, Conderella ultimately finished 19th that month. But in retrospect, that contest in particular was everyone’s to lose from the beginning. Except Mdiče who managed to snatch ‘I Kissed A Girl’ and win, with Lady Gaga’s obscure album track ‘Just Dance’ in the distant 2nd place. By that time male artists have been occasionally successful in the contest but never won so Conderella decided to try something new. Perhaps inspired by another Russian of Eurovision fame in BJSC 7, Dima Bilan, finishing 5th, she entered Sergey Lazarev (who will, coincidentally, also go to Eurovision twice in the next 11 years). Lazarev will go on to become the highest placed solo male artist in that Final finishing… second-to-last. Charli XCX’s MySpace song appeared here and crashed in the Semifinals along with Kate Bush and ABBA. 2026 Buzzjack would gasp in horror. Even though BJSC 8 proved to be iconic in the worst possible ways, it was time for Conderella to get her head in the game. All these cheap whores are winning but none of her risks were paying off. It was time for Romanian Eurodance! BJSC 9 was once again a clean sweep but this time by a Norwegian singer Margaret Berger (who went on to represent Norway in Eurovision a few years later with her incredible pussy eating anthem) and Pink came only 2nd. Margaret was one of the most popular winners, if not THE most popular winner, for a long time after BJSC 9. Conderella was taking notes. Morandi finished 17th. In the grand scheme of things, out of 44 entries, this was technically a hit. But of course she wanted to win. Super coincidentally, in BJSC 10 Conderella decided to enter a Norwegian female singer - Maria Mena - with whom she placed 13th. Succumbing to the pressure and sending female artists worked! The actual contest turned out to quite uneventful. Almost the entire Top 10 was filled with songs everyone knew before except one song that shortly went to become Conderella’s first multiple-week Personal Chart topping BJSC discovery - Camille’s ‘Money Note’. This was the first and last time Elëdan would give a 12 to the same song alongside Ashton (Republique d’Àskorza) and FSR Rontvia. The latter also sent one of their most iconic entries - ‘Headhunted’ by Mira Craig. Also super coincidentally Norwegian! This year ended on a good note, not exactly the Money Note for Elëdan’s bank but their 3rd best placement and second most points received. And of course the effects of the win were still being felt. Conderella knew that only Aeroche are allowed to complain when they haven’t had more than three Top 3s including a win in 2 years, so she stayed positive and looked ahead. Because another surprise was awaiting her right around the corner… Elëdan IV :: Polina Gagarina :: Колыбельная 20th /20 - 22pts Elëdan V :: t.A.T.u. :: Gomenasai 1st /24 - 114pts Elëdan VI :: Adele :: Hometown Glory 12th /29 - 57pts Elëdan VII :: Natasha Bedingfield :: I Bruise Easily 19th /27 - 58pts Elëdan VIII :: Sergey Lazarev :: Girlfriend 26th /27 - 38pts Elëdan IX :: Morandi :: Angels (Love Is The Answer) 17th /26 - 76pts Elëdan X :: Maria Mena :: Just Hold Me 13th /27 - 86pts

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Welcome to the chronically incomplete Official Chronicle of Elëdan.

I don’t know, something like a ‘pop gas giant’ but I thought she pivoted to Netflix given her very recent appearance on LIB Poland xo

I don’t know if I should cringe more at this horrendous title (they are probably not even paying you for that gurl lol) or the fact that Ellie Goulding and popstar were used in the same sentence… and now technically twice :’)

First of all, I forgot about how absolutely brutal the semifinals were in this era. Only 10 qualifiers out of 28 songs. And don’t even get me started on the whole top 10 auto qualifies the next year rule. No wonder there was only one winner that didn’t come out of the semifinal the entire time that the format was on until they switched in 2008. I forgot how insane the crowd is with the flags and how masculine and shouty the energy is - 90% of the audience seem to be (gay) men. Starting with the Semifinal. We finally got some competent hosts and not just previous entrants with A1 French knowledge who have zero chemistry together. Also, the postcards are very cute and not repetitive at all. In comparison to Athens, it’s night and day. Bulgaria: Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankulov – "Water" 10/10 What a song. This was my favourite Bulgarian entry until Dara happened. I still remember listening to it back in 2007 and being in awe. This aged extremely well and continues to be one of Bulgaria’s proudest moments. Scandinavia and The Baltics completely ignored this in the televoting, I don’t understand why. Such a shame that Elitsa and Stoyan’s follow up entry did not qualify, although it was objectively not as good as this. Israel: Teapacks – "Push the Button" 0/10 Now this has aged soooo poorly. I don’t even need to write any jokes, the lyrics for this provide all the humour. I completely forgot that this was also sung in French. This also got a point from Russia. How appropriate! Let me wipe it quickly out of my memory before I move on. Cyprus: Evridiki – "Comme ci, comme ça" 2/10 Terrible fashion (I mean it’s 2000s so I’ll take it easy), one-note angry delivery throughout the whole song in a language that has nothing to do with Cyprus. It’s not like French has been slaying in the contest - France just finished 22nd the year before. Deserved DNQ. UK gave this 10 points LOL Belarus: Dmitry Koldun – "Work Your Magic" 8/10 Not Kirkorov being involved here too! :’) The song slaps and continues to be Belarus’ best entry to date which is also their best result ever. Iceland: Eiríkur Hauksson – "Valentine Lost" 5/10 This was okay but a bit too MOR for me. I don’t remember anything about this song and I rewatched the performance like 30 minutes ago x Fun fact: this received 12 points from Finland, Sweden and Norway as well as getting 10 from Hungary and Denmark. Practically nothing outside of that :’) Georgia: Sopho Khalvashi – "Visionary Dream" 9/10 Oh yes!! This was my favourite back in the day. What a debut entry, so energetic, incredible staging, amazing vocalist. Caucasus, Slavic and Balkan countries really came through this year because they pushed everyone else out of the semis. Montenegro: Stevan Faddy – "Ajde, kroči" 2/10 Some Slavic twink jumping on stage singing quite a forgettable song. This is just the beginning of bad Montenegrin choices, but that’s a spoiler x Switzerland: DJ Bobo – "Vampires Are Alive" 5/10 Poor thing. Wasn't he hyped prior to the contest and expected to at least qualify? Right after Kate Ryan’s flop too! The song was nothing to write home about so I was not surprised. The staging was kitsch and too cringe Moldova: Natalia Barbu – "Fight" 6/10 I remember I liked it back in the day but now it just sounds a bit cringe and dated. Unsurprisingly this was pushed through solely by the Russian speaking population elsewhere. The Netherlands: Edsilia Rombley – "On Top of the World" 4/10 Edsilia was competent and with great stage presence but the identically dressed backing singers/dancers were extremely distracting with their OTT expressions and very bad “choreo”. Albania: Frederik Ndoci – "Hear My Plea" 6/10 This could’ve easily been a Q if they pushed it a bit further (but they learned later at least) with the song production and slightly more captivating staging. The balkans didn't provide the needed support here. Denmark: DQ – "Drama Queen" 3/10 Oh no, this already sounded dated in 2007. So sad that this has set such a bad precedent for drag queens to appear in the contest until the eventual win in 2014 of course. This received a 7 from UK lol Croatia: Dragonfly feat. Dado Topić – "Vjerujem u ljubav" 1/10 As a country that massively slayed ever since they debuted in 1993, this song just was not it. I mean they had 6 top 10s in 7 contests at one point. Maria Magdalena and Moja štikla still remain as some of my favourite Eurovision songs ever. Although the latter got swallowed by the Semi giants and Hari Mata Hari’s Balkan vote domination. Poland: The Jet Set – "Time to Party" 0/10 Wait, I take back my 2006 is messy comment. This is single handedly fulfilling the quota. Blonde women in cages, chains projected in the background, sexually overcharged sighing, nothing behind the eyes, sunglasses on, ridiculous choreo and lyrics made by a 12 year old. At least they went back to cages afterwards. (Not so) fun fact: Andorra had a jury vote that year and they gave this garbage 10 points over a ZERO for Molitva. I would like to try the drugs they were clearly on. Perhaps they were already over the contest and tried sabotaging it given this was their 4th attempt to even qualify. Regardless, I hope those people have long since retired from the music industry because they have no place being there. Serbia: Marija Šerifović – "Molitva" 10/10 Still having goosebumps watching the performance. This was such a gamechanger, first winner in the country’s native language in like 10 years! Estonia, Türkiye and Andorra remain on the wrong side of history having not voted for it in the semifinal. Flops. Speaking of flops, spoiler alert - UK will not vote for Molitva in the Final, they are too busy flying the flag for the terrible taste. Czech Republic: Kabát – "Malá dáma" 2/10 (live) ; 7/10 (studio) Unpopular opinion but I liked this song back in the day. To be honest, the chorus of the studio version is very catchy. I don’t know what happened but the people who made mics did not match at all and the main vocalist was just shouting - this was such a mess live. Not the best debut entry for sure but at least it was iconic. Portugal: Sabrina – "Dança comigo" 2/10 Ok, Penelope Cruz impersonator, work it girl. A bit funny how given the title, the male dancer massively struggled sometimes especially when it came to more physically challenging moves. I am dying over the huge fans and how they bring nothing to the staging. This came way too close to qualifying. I didn’t remember it had French either, what’s with random countries inserting French into their songs all of a sudden?! Macedonia: Karolina Gočeva – "Mojot svet" 8/10 Second iconic North Macedonian entry in a row, truly their best period in the contest. Both contained the genius ‘nanajna’ word in the lyrics, I think they cracked the code. That lipstick shade does not suit you at all though honey, use warmer tones! Norway: Guri Schanke – "Ven a bailar conmigo" 4/10 The nordics clearly decided to take a break this year. What a weird direction for Norway after the incredible Alvedansen the year before (which didn’t deserve to flop at all and I’m still very angry about it). Quite surprisingly, I still remember how this song goes even after all those years. :’) Malta: Olivia Lewis – "Vertigo" 2/10 Come on inherently Asian elements in the staging despite being no Asian person in sight :’) This is still doing nothing for me. Apparently she landslides her selection process but then again the same happened with Lithuania 2026 so it’s not a good sign all the time. Andorra: Anonymous – "Salvem el món" 2/10 Andorra getting their best ever result finishing 12th in the semifinal. I wouldn’t call this song as their best personally (La Mirada Interior is their best). I wouldn’t even listen to it at all x Hungary: Magdi Rúzsa – "Unsubstantial Blues" 8/10 I was a bit surprised this did so well in the semi. But it stood out a lot, I still remembered many details of the staging to this day (except the “thank god I’m the VIP” t-shirt lmao!!!). Love this but I’m a bit confused why it finished only 9th in the final. Estonia: Gerli Padar – "Partners in Crime" 3/10 Not much can be said about this song, I don’t remember much about it from 2007, it finished bottom 10 in the semifinal. Pretty much only received points from the neighbours including a 12 from Latvia lol Belgium: The KMG's – "Love Power" 2/10 I will never understand the decision to wear sunglasses on stage during a performance/song competition. The song is very inoffensive, dated and repetitive. This did receive an unexpected 12 from Georgia though lol. Even Netherlands only gave it a 2. Slovenia: Alenka Gotar – "Cvet z juga" 8/10 One of the OG opera divas with LED lights in her palms single-handedly fed the entire Europe. This deserved to finish top 10. At least Slovenia qualified for the first time in 4 years! Turkey: Kenan Doğulu – "Shake It Up Şekerim" 7/10 This has confirmed the beginning of the golden era (which will ultimately be their last) for Türkiye. Snatched six 12s in the semifinal too. I’m such a sucker for them in Eurovision and this song is no exception. Austria: Eric Papilaya – "Get a Life - Get Alive" 2/10 What a terrible year for people of colour in Eurovision, everyone left at the semifinal stage :’) The song was not memorable and should’ve been left in the drafts. Latvia: Bonaparti.lv – "Questa notte" 4/10 Latvia cashing in on the now-infamous Italian language Eurovision bait while Italy is taking a rest. This does nothing for me unfortunately. My qualifiers: Bulgaria Serbia Georgia Slovenia Belarus Hungary Macedonia Türkiye Moldova Albania I would’ve preferred Albania over Latvia so those were really good results. The announcement was so much smoother too compared to Sakis and Maria, especially the former who was absolutely useless - stick to singing instead Mr Rouvas). And of course the losers in the crowd were booing because all of their shitty home country songs didn't qualify and we didn’t get any ‘Western’ Europe through lol This Semifinal had lots of unnecessary junk, the final should be much more enjoyable. Auto qualifiers have also brought it hard this month (except the “””Big””” Four, this year aka, spoiler alert, Bottom Four in the Final).

I realized I have scratched a massive itch that not following 2026 left for me. So I’ve decided to revisit some of my favourite years. I started with 2006 and now going through 2007 which is less of a mess x

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That’s a bit awkward. ‘elédan’ means ‘ur mum’ in Ashtonese.

I like the current semi tiebreak rules. In the semi you should stand out as much as possible in order to qualify, in the final it’s more about crossover appeal. I wonder what song came 20th in semi 2.

12 Pagasa: ear - Real Life 10 08 07 06 05 04 FSR Rontvia: Benefits - Land Of The Tyrants (feat. Zera Tønin) 03 02 01

YES! He’s a multitalented diva sensation boots the house DOWN! The song is from the ‘I cannot wait to use the internet’ album he released last year and it’s amazing. 12 of those were mine. Ugh.

Maybe Spotify should work with local governments to make it more difficult for ticket touters to exist instead of creating even more scarcity.

Maybe spotify should fix their much bigger problems before doing useless PR stunts like these. They will still not pay artists enough, they will still use fake artists with identical music to boost overall streams and withhold money from real musicians, they will still continue deleting smaller artist accounts if a scammer adds your music to bot playlists, there will still be no way to delete music that falsely uses your feature (because it’s quite easy to do it still, especially for smaller artists, and there is zero verification required for that!). This is a deeply problematic company with extremely shitty practices and I shall be using hyperbole and assuming the worst given their history.

Brb buying 15 different Taylor single versions to have a possibility get on that list.