The 4th country has reported their results to pick their favourite Eurovision song for 2017. We present the voting picture from Taiwan.
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SWITZERLAND WINNER FOR EUROVISION 2017
ARTIST & SONG ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SWITZERLAND
Artist and song Announcement by Geneva Eurettefriend (Designed by Carolina Añazgo Leo):
“My name is Geneva and i’m a caring and mother figure to everyfriend in the Song Contest. Specially, when i teach good things about Eurovision to my Lil Eurofriend students and help them to be better friends in the Contest!
Since Switzerland is having it’s national final today, i’m giving extra ETLC (Eurovisiony Tender Loving Care for short) while my country chooses it’s Eurostar for the upcoming Esc in Kyiv! I can’t wait to help my friends and care for them with lots of 12 points in May!”- By Geneva Eurettefriend
Die Entscheidungsshow 20:05 CET
Official Link: http://www.srf.ch/…/eurovision-song…/eurovision-song-contest
Unofficial Links: https://www.firstonetv.eu/Live/Switzerland/SRF-zwei-4
https://www.firstonetv.eu/Live/Italy/RSI-La-2-39
Switzerland page at ESCKAZ: http://www.esckaz.com/2017/swi.htm
FINNISH COMPILATION CD SET
I just got a 3 CD set compilation from Finland. It seems to be a series called MUISTOJEN 70 LUKU featuring 20 Finnish songs per CD, so a total of 60 in such a set. I got the set dedicated to the year 1977 so it is 60 songs that were popular in Finland in that year. It is more or less split 50-50 between original songs and covers. Most interesting of course is the covers of Eurovision songs. This set contains the following
FRANCE – L’oiseau et l’enfant
In Finnish it is sung by Katri Helena (who herself took part for Finland at Eurovision twice). She called her cover LINTU JA LAPSI
MONACO – Une petite francaise
In Finnish it is sung by Merja Rantamaki and it is called OON TYTTO MAALTA
SPAIN – Ensename a cantar
In Finnish it is sung by Arto Sotavalta and it is called SAI LAULU AIKAAN SEN
SWITZERLAND – Swiss lady
In Finnish it is sung by Kari Tapio and it is called AIKUINEN NAINEN
Of course also there is the 1977 Finnish entry LAPPONIA sung by Monica Aspelund
For ABBA fans there are also several covers
MONEY MONEY MONEY
In Finnish this is RAHAA RAHAA RAHAA and sung by Vicky Rosti who also took part in Eurovision one year
DANCING QUEEN
In Finnish this is PRINSESSA and sung by Marion
SWITZERLAND AT EUROVISION – THE SOUTH AFRICAN CD COLLECTION
1994 – STO PREGANDO – DUILIO = 1 CD
1995 – no participation
1996 – MON COEUR L’AIME – KATHY LEANDER = 1 CD
1997 – DENTRO DI ME – BARBARA BERTA = 1 CD
1998 – LASS IHN – GUNVOR = 1 CD
1999 – no participation
2000 – LA VITA COS’E – JANE BOGAERT = 1 CD
2001 – no participation
2002 – IN THE GARDEN OF MY SOUL – FRANCINE JORDI = 1 CD
2003 – no participation
2004 – CELEBRATE – PIERRO ESTERIORE & THE MUSIC STARS = 1 CD
2005 – COOL VIBES – VANILLA NINJA = 1 CD
2006 – IF WE ALL GIVE A LITTLE – SIX4ONE = 1 CD
2007 – VAMPIRES ARE ALIVE – DJ BOBO = 2 CD’S
2008 – ERA STUPENDO – PAOLO MENEGUZZI = 1 CD
2009 – THE HIGHEST HEIGHTS – LOVEBUGS = 1 CD
2010 – IL PLEUT DE L’OR – MICHAEL VON DER HEIDE = 2 CD’S
2011 – IN LOVE FOR A WHILE – ANNA ROSSINELLI = 2 CD’S
2012 – UNBREAKABLE – SINPLUS = 1 CD
2013 – YOU AND ME – TAKASA = 1 CD
2014 – HUNTER OF STARS – SEBALTER = 1 CD
2015 – TIME TO SHINE – MELANIE RENE = 1 CD
2016 – THE LAST OF OUR KIND – RYKKA = 1 CD
EUROVISION 2016 SONG REVIEWS – SWITZERLAND
Song 9: SWITZERLAND
(18th in semi final 2 : 28 points)
Artist: Rykka
Song: The Last of Our Kind
Music and Lyric: Christina Maria Rieder (Rykka), Mike James, Jeff Dawson, Warne Livesey
VOTE IN SECOND CHANCE CONTEST 2016
The OGAE Second Chance Contest 2016 kicked off on 1st of June and members of OGAE Rest of the World can still vote! We are now at the halftime – the deadline for send your vote is 30/06/2016 midnight CET.
To vote, you have to rate all the entries, giving them a point between 0 and 5, except the song No. 9 which represents Rest of the World (and of course, Hungary), so if you rate it, it doesn’t count…
We ask you to send your votes to escvotes@gmail.com until the deadline. If you vote, you’ll earn 10 points for 2017 Ticket List.
Here’s the playlist of this year’s 23 competitors:
The details of the songs:
01 Belgium I’m not lost Tom Frantzis
02 Belarus My universe NAPOLI
03 Ukraine Helpless The Hardkiss
04 Albania Liroje Zemrën Besa Krasniqi
05 Malta Golden Brooke
06 UK Shine a little light Bianca
07 Lithuania Leading me home Erica Jennings
08 Italy Cieli immensi Patty Pravo
09 Rest Of the World (Hungary) Who we are Kállay Saunders Band
10 Sweden Save me Wiktoria
11 Denmark Never Alone Anja Nissen
12 Austria I’ll be around Elly V
13 Latvia We will be stars MyRadiantU
14 Switzerland Half a smile Vincent Gross
15 Norway Laika The Hungry Hearts
16 Slovenia Črno bel Raiven
17 Estonia Supersonic Laura
18 Finland On it goes Mikael Saari
19 Israel Somebody out there Ella Daniel
20 Romania Behind the shadows Florena
21 Poland Cool me down Margaret
22 Germany Mystery of a blood red rose Avantasia
23 Spain La vida sólo es una María Isabel
02 Belarus My universe NAPOLI
03 Ukraine Helpless The Hardkiss
04 Albania Liroje Zemrën Besa Krasniqi
05 Malta Golden Brooke
06 UK Shine a little light Bianca
07 Lithuania Leading me home Erica Jennings
08 Italy Cieli immensi Patty Pravo
09 Rest Of the World (Hungary) Who we are Kállay Saunders Band
10 Sweden Save me Wiktoria
11 Denmark Never Alone Anja Nissen
12 Austria I’ll be around Elly V
13 Latvia We will be stars MyRadiantU
14 Switzerland Half a smile Vincent Gross
15 Norway Laika The Hungry Hearts
16 Slovenia Črno bel Raiven
17 Estonia Supersonic Laura
18 Finland On it goes Mikael Saari
19 Israel Somebody out there Ella Daniel
20 Romania Behind the shadows Florena
21 Poland Cool me down Margaret
22 Germany Mystery of a blood red rose Avantasia
23 Spain La vida sólo es una María Isabel
2016 RESULTS – SEMI FINAL TWO
18 – Switzerland = 28 points
17 – Denmark = 34 points
16 – Albania = 45 points
15 – Ireland = 46 points
14 – Slovenia = 57 points
13 – Norway = 63 points
12 – Belarus = 84 points
11 – FYR Macedonia = 88 points
10 – Serbia = 105 points
09 – Georgia = 123 points
08 – Latvia = 132 points
07 – Israel = 147 points
06 – Poland = 151 points
05 – Bulgaria = 220 points
04 – Lithuania = 222 points
03 – Belgium = 274 points
02 – Ukraine = 287 points
01 – Australia = 330 points
SEMI FINAL DRAW
FIFTH GAME FOR POINTS
Switzerland each year opens the field so wide that every Tom, Dick and Harry can upload a video on the internet and be in the running. Yet their results over the years while they have been using this method were not good enough when you potentially can get songs from every corner of the world. What are they doing wrong? Swiss TV has asked you to give them some advice and share ideas how to ensure that they end up with a top 5 placing in Stockholm.
For me the problem is that although potentially artists from all over the world can enter, when the finalists are picked, 90% of them are Swiss artists. They must look back at 1988 when they had Celine Dion from Canada and won. So it really is stupid to have artists entering from many countries but that should also reflect then the finalists that come to TV.