As you may know, OGAE is currently undertaking its usual poll to find who would win if it was left to the fans. Up to 44 national fanclubs, plus the Rest-of-the-world, are voting on their favourites. Sixteen have already announced their votes, and two more did today – Poland […]
We continue to look at how the official videos of the 43 competing songs in Stockholm are fairing. There have been a few movements and we have a new runner-up. Who is it? As a reminder, these positions are based on the official videos on the official Eurovision […]
We continue to look at how the 43 songs from 2016 are doing in terms of their Youtube hits. These are based on the Official Videos which you can find on the official Eurovision Youtube channel HERE. Like last Wednesday, I’ve this time broken them charts down into […]
We’re all busy compiling lists of our favourite songs for 2016. No doubt they’ll all differ, as it’s a dull old world when we all agree. Is Sergey from Russia going to be everyone’s No.1 song, or is it over-rated? Will Serhat from San Marino and his re-arranged […]
As you’ll know, we’ve been tracking the fortunes of the videos of the 43 songs through their Youtube hits. These figures are based on the Official Videos on the official Eurovision Youtube channel. There are other videos of the songs on there, but we’re only counting the Official […]
What will Dami Im’s song ‘Sound of Silence’ sound live? Well here is the answer. Dami Im’s first live performance of “Sound of Silence” took place just a short time ago at ‘Watergardens’ in Melbourne. Dami introduces the song to the crowd and you can see just how passionate […]
The draws for the two semi-finals have taken place, and now the real work of predicting qualifiers and possible winners can now begin. As you’ll know, 10 will make it through, so in reality each song has a better than average chance of making it. Only eight or […]
We continue to look at how the 43 songs from 2016 are doing in terms of their Youtube hits. These are based on the Official Videos which you can find on the official Eurovision Youtube channel HERE. In a break with the previous charts, I’ve this time broken […]
Continuing my delve into the staging & presentation of Eurovision songs and today we look at the Pyrotechnics. It’s something we’ve very much come to expect in Eurovision these days, not that every song needs flaming pianos (see. Austria 2015) guitars (see. Albania 2013) or record decks (see. Bulgaria 2005) but they […]
The OGAE POLL is onto the 4th Jury and the votes from Switzerland following those of Slovenia. Is this becoming a 3 horse race? Swiss Votes 12 points – France 10 points – Russia 8 points – Australia 7 points – Latvia 6 points – Austria 5 […]