1: Michael & Shimrit Greylsummer - Tu Du Du 2: Idit Halevi - It's My Time 3: Sivan - Take Me 4: Carmel Ackman - .... 5: Chen Aharoni - Or 6: Dana International - Ding Dong 7: Niki Goldstein - You Make Me Fly 8: Adi Cohen - About Love 9: Hatikva 6 - Hakol Sababa 10: Knob - I'm Loving It
Lukas Yorkas & Stereo Mike - Watch My Dance for Greece It was a close race between first and second and in the end Greece chose this
Mika to keep her song Originally Mika Newton was going to sing in Ukraine against the other top 2 after voting fraud accusations, but her competition pulled out (Jamala said she didn't want to be involved in fraud and Zlata said she had hurt her leg). Mika wanted to sing a new song, but changed her mind saying that another scandal is the last thing anyone wants. She will sing a revamped version of Angel.
France's snippet is out http://www.amazon.fr/Sognu/dp/B004Q8DRFW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1299267552&sr=8-2
What will happen in the next few days Saturday: Portugal will choose its entry. They have 12 songs to choose from. Some are Portuguese and some are bilingual. Croatia will choose its song and singer. It's between a man and a woman and all 3 songs announced are in Croatian. Armenia's Emmy will sing 4 songs and the jury and public will choose the winner. Sweden has their Second Chance round. The final's on the 12th. (They will be the last of the year to choose I believe) Slovakia will perform their whole song on the 5th. (The studio version's already on youtube) Next week: France will show their whole song on the 7th. Israel's final is on the 8th. UK and San Marino will show their songs on the 11th. Albania will show its new bilingual version on the 13th. Hungary will present their song sometime next week. No word yet on Russia's or Azerbaijan's song.
Never Alone For Holland Never Alone is the title of the Dutch entry and 3js have said that on top of singing in English guitars will be added and the intro will be considerably shorter.
Portuguese Song It was another race where the winner won by a point just like last year. The public gave Homens their victory with their 12.
My Ranking 1: Sara Varga 2: Eric Saade 3: The Playtones 4: Linda Bengtzing 5: Sanna Nielsen 6: Brolle 7: Nicke Borg 8: The Moniker 9: Danny Saucedo 10: Swingfly
News on the draw, the stage and the songs All songs have been chosen so just go to the 2011 official entries thread for the videos. After some confusion, Poland has decided to stick to Polish. Magdalena wrote on her website that it's to respect the wishes of the Polish people. Poland, France, Spain, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Portugal, and Cyprus are the only entries this year with no English. Now for some news on the stage Düsseldorf chosen mainly because of its modern arena :: Press Center will be located at Athletics Sports Hall, next to the main arena :: 700 working spots, 300 computers and 400 additional working spaces :: Lounge for 200 journalists and 2,500 pigeon holes :: Stage will include LED-screen in the back :: A satellite of 40 meters will also be included in the stage design :: 26 cameras will cover the event :: Stage floor will have LED stripes and will be shaped in two ramps :: Green Room will be located behind the stage :: Final’s interval act will include last year’s song Satellite performed by Stefan Raab’s Big Band :: The interval act in the final will be popular German singer Jan Delay and his group Disko No. Running order can be seen here: SEMIFINAL 1 01. Poland (chose that position...who the hell would want to open the show? ) 02. Norway 03. Albania 04. Armenia 05. Turkey 06. Serbia 07. Russia 08. Switzerland 09. Georgia 10. Finland 11. Malta 12. San Marino 13. Croatia 14. Iceland 15. Hungary 16. Portugal 17. Lithuania 18. Azerbaijan 19. Greece (chose that position) SEMIFINAL 2 01. Bosnia & Herzegovina 02. Austria 03. Holland 04. Belgium 05. Slovakia (chose that position) 06. Ukraine 07. Moldova 08. Sweden 09. Cyprus 10. Bulgaria 11. FYR Macedonia 12. Israel 13. Slovenia 14. Romania 15. Estonia 16. Belarus 17. Latvia (chose that position) 18. Denmark 19. Ireland FINAL 01. Country Name 02. Country Name 03. Country Name 04. Country Name 05. Country Name 06. Country Name 07. Country Name 08. Country Name 09. Country Name 10. Country Name 11. France 12. Italy 13. Country Name 14. United Kingdom 15. Country Name 16. Germany 17. Country Name 18. Country Name 19. Country Name 20. Country Name 21. Country Name 22. Spain (chose that position) 23. Country Name 24. Country Name 25. Country Name
Slovenia's English version Slovenia will sing in English and the song is called No One and aside from Maja singing a bit of the chorus a capella NO ONE has made it public yet, not even a snippet. The lyrics are on www.eurovision.tv though. I just heard that it will premiere this Saturday at 20:00. In a way this is the last song to be revealed.