Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Ukraine received the incredible 28 times 12 points, 8 times 10 points, 2 times 8 (North Macedonia, Malta) points and once 7 points (Serbia) or 431 out of 468. That is certainly something that won't be repeated very easily. The European television audience really felt a need to support Ukraine and all I can say to that is Slava Ukraini! But the juries supported Ukraine as well. Poland, Moldova, Latvia, Romania and Lithuania gave them 12 points and Germany, Iceland and France 10 points, and they got 192 points in total, placing fourth after United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain.  What comes to the separate voting results by juries versus televotes it's remarkable how different they are. They totally agreed only on Spain (3rd) and less than five place difference on Armenia, Italy, Ukraine, UK, Sweden, Poland, Estonia, Czech Republic and the very bottom ones. Moldova has a difference of 18 places, and big differences also for Portugal, Norway, Australia, Azerbaijan and Switzerland.  An...

Now that the new season has started it's worth remembering how the televoters and the juries vote before we go any further. Then again, every now and then comes someone like Lordi or Salvador Sobral and throws all the statistic and logic out of the window and there we are: a "surprise" winner. Someone has had time and energy to check the stats and votes for the Top-50 televoting and Top-50 jury votes over the years and you can see them below. The televote winner is Italy's Il Volo with Grande amore - however it's the only televoting success for Italy, while Russia places 7 of its entries in Top-50, followed by Ukraine (4), Greece (3) and Sweden (3). Turkey would be on top as well had they kept participating me thinks.... In jury votes it's a bit different story: Sweden leads with four presences followed by Italy, Belgium and Australia with three - or in other words: all Aussie entries. Portugal's Salvador Sobral and Amar pelos dois is the ulti...

EBU has released the jury members for the Eurovision song contest 2017 as always there are dozens of familiar names from the national finals, both artists and authors/producers etc but also plenty of real Eurovision veterans, have a look at the list below. Among other names this blogger is very pleased to see San Marino's Fabrizio Raggi :-) See the full list on eurovision.tv Albania 2008: Olta Boka Austria 2016: Zoe Estonia 2011: Getter Jaani Finland 1987: Vicky Rosti Germany 1982: Nicole Israel 2001: Tal Sondak Malta 1998, 2005, 2009: Chiara Moldova 2009: Nelly Ciobanu Norway 1974, 1976: Ann Karine Strom Poland 2011: Magdalena Tul Slovenia (1995, 1999): Darja Svajger Spain (2001): David Civera several from  Switzerland:  Daniela Simons (1986), Michael von der Hiede (2010) and Ivan Broggini (of Sinplus) (2012) and also from  Romania: Luminita Anghel (2005), MIHAI (2006),  Cesar Florin (2013), Paula Seling (2010, 2014)

The juries have been made public. Still blogger still fails a bit to understand what's the point making them known this early, as I think it will be easier to maybe reach out to them and influence their vote when they are all out and known. But then what do I know? Only that if, say Jannika was a friend of mine, I would brainwash her to vote who I want to, lol. If I didn't know she's in the jury and she didn't tell me I wouldn't.... Just saying :-) The Finnish one is: Simo "Jurek" Reunamäki (29) - he has been involved in producing for example Antti Tuisku's latest megasuccesful album, as well as Johanna Kurkela, Janna and Robin so he knows at least what kind of music Finns like to buy and listen in 2016. Hanna Kinnunen (35) - she's hosting an afternoon show on Radio Aalto. She's also musician and singer (as Hanna B), and actress in both films and television. Heimo Hatakka (50) - journalist and lyricist. He has written songs to A...