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New material by the Eurovision Class of 2012: Ivi, Tooji, Soluna and Sinplus

June 30, 2012 Cyprus, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland No comments

Earlier in the week we featured the new single of the Greek Eurovision representative on our website. Yet Eleftheria is not the only of this years Eurovision class to release new material. Let’s have a look at the new singles of Soluna Samay, Tooji, Sinplus and Ivi Adamou.

Soluna Samay – Come Again (The Quetzal)

The 21 year old who represented Denmark at Eurovision has come up with a Latin-flavored uptempo summer track called ‘Come Again (The Quetzal)’. The chorus itself sounds like Samay has been inspired by the Maltese Eurovision entry of this year, while the verses sound very ‘Should’ve Known Better’. This folky, latin-influenced track suits her rather beautifully.

‘Come Again’ (The Quetzal) is out now via i-Tunes. Listen to it below

Tooji – If it Wasn’t For You

Tooji  who represented Norway at Eurovision, might not have had the best of birthday’s, coming last in the final in Baku. Yet winning the national selection has given him the opportunity to kick start his career. With new single ‘If It Wasn’t For You’ Tooji takes a step back and goes for a beat heavy mid tempo ballad which not only sounds current, but showcases a new side of the former model/tv veejay.

Tooji’s ‘If It Wasn’t For You’ is available now on itunes. Listen to it below

Sinplus – Do You Wanna Dance

Brothers Ivan & Gabriel Broggini, represented Switzerland as Sinplus at this years Eurovision but failed to qualify for the grand final with their rock track ‘Unbreakable’. Though dissapointment was huge for the guys, they did get a record company out of their adventure and have since released their debut album ‘Disinformation’. The second single taken from that album, is ‘Do You Wanna Dance’ continues into their rock style.

‘Do You Wanna Dance’ is now available on itunes. Listen to it below

Ivi Adamou – Madness ft TU/ Avra (ft. Pink Noisy)

The Cypriot beauty managed to get Cyprus out of the semi after a few tough years, and continued to have one of the bigger successes internationally with her hit single ‘La La Love’. Adamou is currently the only artist who has two new singles out. The first one ‘Madness’ ft TU which is in English and the dance track ‘Avra’ ft Pink Noisy. It’s not yet known whether both singles will be launched internationally. Videos for both tracks are expected soon.

Listen to ‘Madness’ and ‘Avra’ Below

ESC 2012: Full televoting split results announced.

June 18, 2012 Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Eurovision, Finland, France, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Ukraine No comments

It’s been three weeks since Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Many fans of the event are now in anticipation to find out the split votes between the juries and televoting, announced by the 42 participating broadcasters.

Eurovision.tv has today published the ranking after all 42 broadcasters voted in the final. As expected the televoters and juries agreed on the eventual winner, Sweden, while there was clear disagreement with its runner up Russia. Three of the big five countries Italy, France and Spain have all benefited from the juries as Italy and Spain both made it into the top ten, while France would have ended up with a nil point based on televoting only. A nil points hasn’t occurred occurred in the final since the introduction of the current system in 2004.

Country Combined Televote Jury vote
- # Pts # Pts # Pts
Sweden 1 372 1 343 1 296
Russia 2 259 2 332 11 94
Serbia 3 214 3 211 2 173
Azerbaijan 4 150 5 151 8 118
Albania 5 146 8 106 3 157
Estonia 6 120 12 78 6 152
Turkey 7 112 4 176 22 50
Germany 8 110 6 125 10 98
Italy 9 101 17 56 4 157
Spain 10 97 18 45 5 154
Moldova 11 81 13 75 9 104
F.Y.R.Macedonia 12 71 11 79 17 69
Romania 13 71 7 117 20 53
Lithuania 14 70 14 68 14 82
Cyprus 15 65 15 63 12 85
Ukraine 16 65 20 37 7 125
Greece 17 64 9 89 18 60
Bosnia & Herzegovina 18 55 16 57 15 71
Iceland 19 46 19 39 19 53
Ireland 20 46 10 89 25 14
Malta 21 41 25 10 16 70
Denmark 22 21 23 18 21 51
France 23 21 26 0 13 85
Hungary 24 19 22 20 23 30
United Kingdom 25 12 21 36 26 11
Norway 26 7 24 16 24 24

The results of both semi finals have also been revealed as follows:

Semifinal 1:

Country Combined Televote Jury vote
- # Pts # Pts # Pts
Russia 1 152 1 189 8 75
Albania 2 146 3 131 1 131
Romania 3 120 2 132 5 87
Greece 4 116 5 110 3 103
Moldova 5 100 7 85 2 107
Ireland 6 92 4 116 10 72
Cyprus 7 91 6 99 4 90
Iceland 8 75 8 79 11 70
Denmark 9 63 9 53 6 81
Hungary 10 52 11 39 7 76
Switzerland 11 45 10 49 13 45
Finland 12 41 12 36 12 57
Israel 13 33 16 16 9 72
San Marino 14 31 13 25 14 42
Montenegro 15 20 14 24 16 28
Latvia 16 17 15 18 18 17
Belgium 17 16 18 2 15 38
Austria 18 8 17 15 17 27

Semifinal 2:

Country Combined Televote Jury vote
- # Pts # Pts # Pts
Sweden 1 181 1 180 1 145
Serbia 2 159 2 148 2 141
Lithuania 3 104 3 128 10 55
Estonia 4 100 5 88 4 102
Turkey 5 80 4 114 13 42
Bosnia & Herzegovina 6 77 7 70 6 77
Malta 7 70 11 39 5 97
Ukraine 8 64 17 24 3 109
F.Y.R. Macedonia 9 53 8 63 9 58
Bulgaria 11 45 9 59 17 27
Norway 10 45 6 72 18 25
Croatia 12 42 14 34 7 66
Portugal 13 39 13 37 12 49
Georgia 14 36 18 15 8 62
Belarus 16 35 12 37 11 52
The Netherlands 15 35 10 51 16 31
Slovenia 17 31 16 27 14 40
Slovakia 18 22 15 32 15 40

Source: Escextra.com, Eurovision.tv

Due to Loreen winning the contest for Sweden with ‘Euphoria’ the Eurovision Song Contest is moving to Sweden since it’s victory in 1999 when the Swedish broadcaster hosted the very first contest of the millennium in 2000.

Watch the full recap of this years Eurovision Song Contest Final below

ESC 2012 Review Part 5 – San Marino, Cyprus & Denmark

April 3, 2012 Cyprus, Denmark, Eurovision, San Marino One comment

Time for another Eurovision update, with San Marino, Cyprus and Denmark lined up to be reviewed. What can you expect this time? A song about Facebook (?), a Cypriotic eurodance number and fluent radiopop from Denmark. Are you excited?

San Marino: Valentina Monetta – The Social Network Song

The tiny microstate San Marino, is yet to qualify for its very first Eurovision final since they debuted in the contest in 2008. This year they’ve internally selected Valentina Monetta, a jazz singer to represent her country with a Ralph Siegel song. The man is a rather familiar face in Eurovision having written the Eurovision winner in 1982, and responsible for many more eurovision songs. Now… Valentina is not exaclty singing jazz… but a song about yup… Facebook! Well social networking… San Marino was forced to rework the song as it was in breach with the EBU rules and decided to slightly alter the lyrics to the social network song. Eurofans everywhere are shocked and dare to make the comparison with Rebecca Black’s ”Friday”. Might be a bit harsh because ‘The Social Network Song’ is actually pure kitsch, it’s a a song about facebook on a disney beat and autotuning… and that’s what Eurovision is about really. Probably your highlight of the night, during the first semi final, whether it qualifies or not.

Cyprus: Ivi Adamou – La La Love

Cyprus could be called the weaker little ‘’brov’’ of Greece in Eurovision the past few years, but not this time. In fact, Cyprus is showing the Big Bro how you deliver a proper europop track. Ivi Adamou, was selected quite early during the summer that she would represent the island at this years Eurovision. In January, a final with three songs whas held, where a jury and televoting chose ‘La La Love’ as the Cypriot song for Baku. And quite a clever song choice, as Eurodance pop style is rather absent this year, a genre many of the fans absolutely love. We’re loving the dancebeats throughout the song and it sounds modern enough to become one of the huge summer hits in Europe & Ayia Napa alongside the Romanian entry! Let’s now hope Europe doesn’t mistake this to be Greek entry. Cyprus is one of the countries who have never won the Eurovision before, despite taking part 29 times. They’re best result to date is fifth in 2004 with Lisa Andreas.

Denmark: Soluna Samay – Should’ve Known Better

Final country for the day and we’re off to Denmark. In January the country held its national final with 9 finalists. Three of them made it to the superfinal, where an international jury of 4 countries (Azerbaijan, Germany, Norway & Russia), the Danish Jury and televoting decided upon their representative; Soluna Samay won the competition with ‘Should’ve Known Better’, a genuine radiofriendly pop song which reminds us in many ways to a young ‘Alanis Morissette in a poppy radio mood’. The Danish, have really raised their game in the Eurovision Song Contest, having survived the semi’s 6 out of 8 times, and the past two years ended up in the top five. And by the looks of it, ”Should’ve Known Better” is going to keep up with that trend. An easy one to qualify.

 

Our Verdict So far

1 Denmark

2 Romania

3 Finland

4 Belgium

5 Switzerland

6 Latvia

7 Cyprus

8 Israel

9 Iceland

10 Albania

11 Montenegro

12 Greece

13 San Marino

 

Next up are Russia and Hungary

 

ESC 2012 – Those Who Didn’t Make It Ivi’s You Don’t Belong Here

January 26, 2012 Cyprus No comments

It’s been a very exciting evening in yesterday’s Eurovision land. Not only was Baku officially recognized as the host city for this years contest.  A venue was officially confirmed and there was the Cypriotic national final. Having selected Ivi Adamou internally, the Cypriotic audience and jury decided amongs three songs being ‘Call the Police’, ‘La La Love’ and ‘You Don’t Belong Here’.

Both the jury and audience were unanimous and voted ‘La La Love’ as the big winner. But as you know the drill, we won’t listen to that one yet but we’ll have a look at one of the other two songs being the rocky ballad ‘You Don’t Belong Here’.  The song sounds like it would be a nice little filler for one of Kelly Clarkson’s album. Bit rocky, suits her vocals well, catchy in the chorus. I could see a windmachine in the arena already as well. Shame. Perhaps a bit too serious for a Eurovision stage, but we still like it and therefore our ‘those who didn’t make it’ of the day.

In March we’ll have a look at Ivi’s actual Entry for Cyprus. So don’t miss that one! In the mean time have your say, about ‘You Don’t Belong Here’. Get involved!!

Enjoy the video!

 
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