Hey everyone!

It's time for the fifth annual Sofia Nizharadze Award: the award for the best vocal performance of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015!
Before we have a look at this year, we're going to have a look at the past results. Here are the past winners:
2011: Nadine Beiler (Austria - The Secret Is Love)
2012: Pastora Soler (Spain - Quédate Conmigo) & Ott Lepland (Estonia - Kuula)
2013: Zlata Ognevich (Ukraine - Gravity) & Eythor Ingi (Iceland - Ég Á Líf)
2015: Conchita Wurst (Austria - Rise Like A Phoenix)

2015 procedure:
We will stick to 1 award where all vocalists, only those credited as lead vocalists, will be in the running to win the Sofia Nizharadze Award 2014.
Instead of going by semis and final, a random draw has taken place to divide all 53 lead vocalists into 2 groups of 10 and 3 groups of 11. You will vote on these in private in Eurovision style!

The first group will go online in a few minutes!

Group 1:

Alex Larke

Amber

Aminata

Anita Simoncini

Boggie

Călin Goia

Daniel Kajmakoski

Elnur Hüseynov

Inga Arshakyan

Marjetka Vovk

Nina Sublatti

Please send me your votes (top 10, Eurovision style, 12,10,8-1) here in a PM or on e-mail/Facebook, whatever you like! The top five of these will qualify! You have until 21.00 UK time tomorrow to send me your top 10 of these in Eurovision style!

REMEMBER: You vote on a vocal performance only! It should not matter whether you like a song or not!

Group 1:

Qualifiers (alphabetical order):

Aminata

Boggie

Călin Goia

Marjetka Vovk

Nina Sublatti

Eliminated:

6th: Elnur Hüseynov - 66 points

7th: Inga Arshakyan - 60 points

8th: Alex Larke - 43 points

9th: Daniel Kajmakoski - 34 points

10th: Amber - 28 points

11th: Anita Simoncini - 2 points

Group 2:

Bianca Nicholas

Elhaida Dani

Guy Sebastian

John Karayiannis

Knez

Lisa Angell

Loïc Nottet

Molly Sterling

Monika Linkyte

Stephanie Topalian

Václav Noid Bárta

Please send me your votes (top 10, Eurovision style, 12,10,8-1) here in a PM or on e-mail/Facebook, whatever you like! The top five of these will qualify! You have until 21.00 UK time tomorrow to send me your top 10 of these in Eurovision style!

REMEMBER: You vote on a live vocal performance in Eurovision only! It should not matter whether you like a song or not!

Group 2:

Qualifiers (alphabetical order):

Guy Sebastian

John Karayiannis

Knez

Lisa Angell

Loïc Nottet

Eliminated:

6th: Václav Noid Bárta - 57 points

7th: Molly Sterling - 43 points

8th: Stephanie Topalian - 40 points

9th: Monika Linkyte - 28 points

10th: Bianca Nicholas - 23 points

11th: Elhaida Dani - 1 point

Group 3:

Ann Sophie

Dominic Muhrer

Essaï Altounian

Gianluca Ginoble

Mary-Jean O'Doherty Vasmatzian

Mélanie René

Monika Kuszynska

Mørland

Philip Tornell

Uzari

Vaidas Baumila

Please send me your votes (top 10, Eurovision style, 12,10,8-1) here in a PM or on e-mail/Facebook, whatever you like! The top five of these will qualify! You have until 21.00 UK time tomorrow to send me your top 10 of these in Eurovision style! Only votes from regular chatters will count!

REMEMBER: You vote on a live vocal performance in Eurovision only! It should not matter whether you like a song or not!

Oh dear, this contest is just showing there were quite a few performers who couldn't carry a tune in a bucket

Group 3:

Qualifiers (alphabetical order):

Ann Sophie

Dominic Muhrer

Gianluca Ginoble

Mørland

Vaidas Baumila

Eliminated:

6th: Philip Thornhill - 56 points

7th: Uzari - 53 points

8th: Essaï Altounian - 48 points

9th: Monika Kuszynska - 46 points

10th: Mary-Jean O'Doherty Vasmatzian - 34 points

11th: Mélanie René - 34 points

Group 4:

Eduard Romanyuta

Edurne

Elina Born

Ignazio Boschetto

Kari Aalto

Maria Olafs

Michele Perniola

Nadav Guedj

Tamar Kaprelian

Trijntje Oosterhuis

Please send me your votes (top 10, Eurovision style, 12,10,8-1) here in a PM or on e-mail/Facebook, whatever you like! The top five of these will qualify! You have until 21.00 UK time tomorrow to send me your top 10 of these in Eurovision style! Only votes from regular chatters will count!

REMEMBER: You vote on a live vocal performance in Eurovision only! It should not matter whether you like a song or not!

Group 4:

Qualified:

Edurne

Elina Born

Ignazio Boschetto

Nadav Guedj

Trijntje Oosterhuis

Eliminated:

6th: Tamar Kaprelian - 73 points

7th: Eduard Romanyuta - 57 points

8th: Maria Olafs - 34 points

9th: Michele Perniola - 33 points

10th: Kari Aalto - 27 points

Group 5:

Bojana Stamenov

Debrah Scarlett

Leonor Andrade

Måns Zelmerlöw

Maria Elena Kyriakou

Marta Jandová

Piero Barone

Polina Gagarina

Stig Rästa

Vahe Tilbian

Please send me your votes (top 10, Eurovision style, 12,10,8-1) here in a PM or on e-mail/Facebook, whatever you like! The top five of these will qualify! You have until 21.00 UK time tomorrow to send me your top 10 of these in Eurovision style! Only votes from regular chatters will count!

REMEMBER: You vote on a live vocal performance in Eurovision only! It should not matter whether you like a song or not!