The top 100 compiled by Norbert and Roy continues and we reveal the next 10 songs. Continue reading THE TOP 100 OF 2022 – positions 90 to 81
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THE TOP 100 OF 2022 – positions 100 to 91
No fewer than 236 people from 54 different countries have sent a top 10 for this 3rd edition of the TOP 100 organized by Roy van der Merwe and Nor Bert.
COUNTRIES WITH THE LOWEST QUALIFICATION PERCENTAGE IN EUROVISION
An interesting video just came out showing the 18 countries with the lowest qualification percentage in Eurovision. Continue reading COUNTRIES WITH THE LOWEST QUALIFICATION PERCENTAGE IN EUROVISION
EUROVISION – ALL 0 POINTS (1956 to 2022)
About an hour ago, SAY EUROVISION released a video featuring all the ZERO points in the history of Eurovision. Continue reading EUROVISION – ALL 0 POINTS (1956 to 2022)
COVER2COVER COMPETITION
About 10 days ago Cole van Dais, a South African singer, contacted ESC Covers with an idea for a video cover competition in these days of lock down over Covid 19. Cole is the South African female who has done the MOST Eurovision covers and is probably in the top 3 worldwide with maybe just Birthe Kjaer of Denmark and Katri Helena of Finland ahead of her. We worked on her idea and developed a COVER 2 COVER competition. This competition will be launched on 25 July, Cole’s birthday. From that day, for a period of 3 months, singers can submit a cover with a lock down video taken with their phone (or other methods) to us. There will be 3 categories. The first 2 are just open for people who sing in AFRIKAANS, the third category is open to anybody world wide who wants to sing a cover in ANY language other than the language in which the song was sung at Eurovision. One of the songs in this category to select from is WATERLOO of ABBA. It was sung in English at the 1974 Eurovision, so people can cover it in ANY other language but English. The details will be made public on 25 July with all the possible songs in each of the 3 categories plus all details on how to enter, obtain the backtrack etc.
The competition is a joint effort by ESC COVERS website of Roy van der Merwe and two facebooks EuroVisionMusic of Nor Bert and Eurovision Coverage of Andy Mikheev. These 3 will also be part of the judging panel. 6 or 7 more people will be added to judge. There will also be an opportunity for ordinary people to cast votes as each video we receive will be published on several Youtube channels etc. There will be a winner in each of the three categories and we look at having the 3 winners battle it out for an OVERALL winner. There will be prizes but that will be announced much later.
The aim now is just to get the competition out there for artists and singers to make a note of it in their diaries. We will do daily posts on the website and 2 facebooks over things and also have on line shows to highlight the entries. This competition is ideal for singers who want to lift their profiles because with it being Eurovision covers, we will try and have it published in as many social media as possible.
LONELY PLANET COMPETITION – ENTRY NUMBER FIVE
The Journey to Eurovision
by Niall Drennan
June comes around, time to start
Earn your points, play your part
Vote, write, comment, create
Watch the deadlines, don’t be late
July or August, the host city unveiled
Time to start planning, everything detailed
Choose a hotel, book your flight
All is organised, just need to sit tight
November is here, the kids turn on stage
It’s Junior Eurovision, singers of a young age
A few weeks later, your code is sent
Buy the fan package, money well spent
January to March, national finals begin
Review all the entries, predict who will win
Rank each country, decide who is best
Who are the favourites and who is a mess
May is here, time to get going
Travel to the host city, excitement is showing
Check out the Village, attend the red carpet
Meet and greet and take selfies with artists
Dance at Euroclub, every night without fail
La La Love, Opa, She’s a Fairytale
Bed at dawn, a few hours sleep
Up early for sightseeing, Repeat, Repeat
Attend the semi’s, predict who goes through
Oh San Marino, you still have no clue
Good Evening Europe, it’s Grand Final time
Flags everywhere, the show is sublime
Europe start voting, the results come in
26 countries, which one will win
Votes are announced, the winner’s reprise
Was it predicted or perhaps a surprise
Depart the next day, pack up all your gear
Farewell to friends, see you next year
P.E.D. kicks in, back to the mundane
But not long to wait until we start over again
JAMALA COMPETITION
We will open the competition for the JAMALA t-shirt and JAMALA bag also to people other than GROOT FM radio listenaars. There is one t-shirt and one bag up for grabs.
Interested Euro fan outside of the Groot FM catchment area must do the following.
Send you name and e-mail address to info@esccovers.com
Answer two simple questions
1 – Is Riaan Grobler a Groot FM presenter – yes or no
2 – Is Jamala Ukraine’s second Eurovision winner – yes or no
Unfortunately the t-shirt is a LARGE so you do not have a choice of size.
You will be put into the draw for both prizes, but there will be two winners, one gets the t-shirt and one the bag. The first name drawn has a choice – t-shirt or bag, the second name drawn will have to settle with whatever is left.
Unfortunately if the winners are outside of South Africa, you will have to pay the postal cost – 6 euro for the t-shirt and 5 euro for the bag. We have a sponsor (courier company) should the winners be South African (unfortunately they do not deliver overseas so then we have to post it).
Colombians Celebrate National Finals
We have received some pictures of the celebration held last weekend in Colombia by some of our Rest of the World members. They met in Medellin and Bogota to enjoy the final of Melodifestivalen and Melodi Grand Prix. They are now planning for their celebrations with the final of Eurovision on May 23rd. It is great to see that we have members all over the world who share the enjoyment of Eurovision.