Yeah, semi-live, as we’re not really that enamoured about it so far. We’ll still be liveblogging the final itself on Saturday night, so tune in for that. For tonight, it’d be hard to come up with much. “This Swiss rock band make Razorlight look like fucking Sepultura”, for instance, who’d really need to read that? Instead, we’re going to stat up some data on last year’s acts and see who made it big. Mmm, look excited – all the fun of Eurovision, and the promise of a big chart at the end.
How it works:
We do a YouTube search for each song. We note down the number of views for the most popular search result. That’s about it. We reckon Sébastien Tellier is going to do well here, so here it is:
Here’s the rundown from last year:
Dima Bilan - Believe (Russia, 272 pts)
Ani Lorak - Shady Lady (Ukraine, 230 pts)
Kalomira - Secret Combination (Greece, 218 pts)
Sirusho - Qélé, Qélé (Armenia, 199 pts)
Maria Haukaas Storeng - Hold On Be Strong (Norway, 182 pts)
Jelena Tomaševic - Oro (Serbia, 160 pts)
Mor ve Ötesi - Deli (Turkey, 138 pts)
Elnur and Samir - Day After Day (Azerbaijan, 132 pts)
Boaz Ma'uda - The Fire in Your Eyes (Israel, 124 pts)
Laka - Pokušaj (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 110 pts)
Pirates of the Sea - Wolves of the Sea (Latvia, 83 pts)
Diana Gurtskaya - Peace Will Come (Georgia, 83 pts)
Vânia Fernandes - Senhora do mar (Negras águas) (Portugal, 69 pts)
Euroband - This is My Life (Iceland, 64 pts)
Simon Mathew - All Night Long (Denmark, 60 pts)
Olta Boka - Zemrën e lamë peng (Albania, 55 pts)
Rodolfo Chikilicuatre - Baila el Chiki-chiki (Spain, 55 pts)
Charlotte Perrelli - Hero (Sweden, 47 pts)
Sébastien Tellier - Divine (France, 47 pts)
Nico and Vlad - Pe-o margine de lume (Romania, 45 pts)
Kraljevi Ulice and 75 cents - Romanca (Croatia, 44 pts)
Teräsbetoni - Missä miehet ratsastaa (Finland, 35 pts)
No Angels - Disappear (Germany, 14 pts)
Isis Gee - For Life (Poland, 14 pts)
Andy Abraham - Even If (United Kingdom, 14 pts)
And here is a table of our two-thousand-and-ninely adjusted scores.
| Song | Nation, Score | YouTube Views |
| Dima Bilan - Believe | (Russia, 272 pts) | 4,606,622 |
| Ani Lorak - Shady Lady | (Ukraine, 230 pts) | 3,924,121 |
| Kalomira - Secret Combination | (Greece, 218 pts) | 3,227,716 |
| Sirusho - Qélé, Qélé | (Armenia, 199 pts) | 1,332,180 |
| Maria Haukaas Storeng - Hold On Be Strong | (Norway, 182 pts) | 778,108 |
| Jelena Tomaševic - Oro | (Serbia, 160 pts) | 528,896 |
| Mor ve Ötesi - Deli | (Turkey, 138 pts) | 412,169 |
| Elnur and Samir - Day After Day | (Azerbaijan, 132 pts) | 881,863 |
| Boaz Ma'uda - The Fire in Your Eyes | (Israel, 124 pts) | 1,327,393 |
| Laka - Pokušaj | (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 110 pts) | 823,111 |
| Pirates of the Sea - Wolves of the Sea | (Latvia, 83 pts) | 424,139 |
| Diana Gurtskaya - Peace Will Come | (Georgia, 83 pts) | 190,967 |
| Vânia Fernandes - Senhora do mar (Negras águas) | (Portugal, 69 pts) | 96,703 |
| Euroband - This is My Life | (Iceland, 64 pts) | 216,917 |
| Simon Mathew - All Night Long | (Denmark, 60 pts) | 167,553 |
| Olta Boka - Zemrën e lamë peng | (Albania, 55 pts) | 141,852 |
| Rodolfo Chikilicuatre - Baila el Chiki-chiki | (Spain, 55 pts) | 6,896,963 |
| Charlotte Perrelli - Hero | (Sweden, 47 pts) | 1,391,624 |
| Sébastien Tellier - Divine | (France, 47 pts) | 1,514,851 |
| Nico and Vlad - Pe-o margine de lume | (Romania, 45 pts) | 515,531 |
| Kraljevi Ulice and 75 cents - Romanca | (Croatia, 44 pts) | 92,947 |
| Teräsbetoni - Missä miehet ratsastaa | (Finland, 35 pts) | 623,008 |
| No Angels - Disappear | (Germany, 14 pts) | 325,092 |
| Isis Gee - For Life | (Poland, 14 pts) | 506,378 |
| Andy Abraham - Even If | (United Kingdom, 14 pts) | 439,150 |
And so, sorting them by YouTube views, and shoving them into a chart, here’s the result.
Woo, yeah! We were wrong about Seb Tellier, but this does give us a perfect excuse to post a video of Spain’s premier Rolf Harris impersonator. Everybody do El Robocop!
See you on Saturday! (Or, more accurately in a bit, because we’ve got another, non-Eurovision, non-charty update to put up.
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