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Iceland: results for Söngvakeppnin 2023 revealed!

Iceland’s public broadcaster RUV has announced the detailed results for their national final Söngvakeppnin 2023.  Now we can examine how both the televoting and jury gave their points.

Iceland national final got the highest voting participation from the televoting exceeding any previous year.  In fact, the Icelandic final receive more than 260,000 votes, an impressive number for a country with a population of around 370,000 people.

Here are the detailed results of Söngvakeppnin 2023:

Public voting in the first round of voting

  1. Diljá -Power: 47,549 votes (38.60%)
  2. Langi Seli og Skuggarnir – OK: 31,557 votes (25.62%)
  3. Celebs – Doomsday Dancing: 17,436 votes (14.15%)
  4. Bragi -Sometimes the world’s against you: 14,463 votes (11.74%)
  5. Sigga Ózk -Dancing Lonely: 12,179 votes (9.89%)

Jury voting in the first round of voting

  1. Diljá – Power: 30,939 votes (25.12%)
  2. Sigga Ózk -Dancing Lonely: 24,350 votes (19.77%)
  3. Celebs – Doomsday Dancing: 23,491 votes (19.07%)
  4. Bragi -Sometimes the world’s against you: 22,345 votes (18.14%)
  5. Langi Seli og Skuggarnir -OK: 22,059 votes (17.91%)

Total first round voting results

  1. Diljá – Power: 78,488 votes (31.86%)
  2. Langi Seli og Skuggarnir – OK: 53,616 votes (21.76%)
  3. Celebs -Doomsday Dancing: 40,927 votes (16.61%)
  4. Bragi – Sometimes the world’s against you: 36,808 votes (14.94%)
  5. Sigga Ózk – Dancing Lonely: 36,529 votes (14.83%)

The top two voted songs advanced to the second and final voting phase, where only the audience voted.

Second phase televoting

  1. Diljá – Power: 85,515 votes
  2. Langi Seli and the Shadows -OK: 42,235 votes

The votes from the televote during the first voting phase were added to the votes of the second round, for the final result.

Final result

  1. Diljá-Power: 164,003 votes
  2. Langi Seli and the Shadows -OK: 95,851 votes

The ranking of the judges

Judge 1

Dilja – Power
BRAGI – Sometimes the world’s against you
Sigga Ózk -Dancing Lonely
Celebs – Doomsday Dancing
Langi Seli og Skuggarnir -OK

Judge 2

Celebs – Doomsday Dancing
Dilja – Power
Sigga Ózk -Dancing Lonely
BRAGI – Sometimes the world’s against you
Langi Seli og Skuggarnir -OK

Judge 3

Dilja – Power
BRAGI – Sometimes the world’s against you
Celebs – Doomsday Dancing
Sigga Ózk -Dancing Lonely
Langi Seli og Skuggarnir –OK

Judge 4

Dilja – Power
BRAGI – Sometimes the world’s against you
Sigga Ózk -Dancing Lonely
Langi Seli og Skuggarnir – OK
Celebs – Doomsday Dancing

Judge 5

Langi Seli og Skuggarnir -OK
Dilja – Power
Celebs – Doomsday Dancing
BRAGI – Sometimes the world’s against you
Sigga Ósk -Dancing Lonely

Judge 6

Sigga Ózk -Dancing Lonely
Dilja – Power
BRAGI – Sometimes the world’s against you
Langi Seli og Skuggarnir -OK
Celebs – Doomsday Dancing

Judge 7

Sigga Ózk -Dancing Lonely
Langi Seli og Skuggarnir –OK
Dilja – Power
Celebs – Doomsday Dancing
BRAGI – Sometimes the world’s against you

Judge 8

Dilja – Power
Celebs – Doomsday Dancing
Langi Seli og Skuggarnir –OK
Sigga Ózk -Dancing Lonely
BRAGI – Sometimes the world’s against you

Judge 9

Dilja – Power
Sigga Ózk -Dancing Lonely
BRAGI – Sometimes the world’s against you
Langi Seli og Skuggarnir -OK
Celebs – Doomsday Dancing

Judge 10

Celebs – Doomsday dancing
Dilja – Power
Langi Seli og Skuggarnir –OK
Sigga Ósk -Dancing Lonely
BRAGI – Sometimes the world’s against you

The international jury consisted of four Icelandic and six foreign professionals:

  • Lovísa Elísabet Sigrúnardóttir (Lay Low) musician – Iceland
  • Jón Ólafsson musician – Iceland
  • Jóhann Kristófer Stefánsson (Joey Christ) artist – Iceland
  • Gugusar (Guðlaug Sóley Höskuldsdóttir) musician – Iceland
  • Gaute Ormåsen competing in Eurovision 2022 – Norway
  • Ersin Parlak San Marino Music Agent and Media Representative at Eurovisison – Turkey
  • Ramūnas Zilnys Music Director at Lithuanian National Radio – Lithuania
  • Helena Nilsson Social Media Manager – Sweden
  • Ihan Haydar competing in Eurovision 2022 – Denmark
  • Emely Griggs Program Director at Australian National Television – Australia

Iceland is very notable for being very transparent regarding their Eurovision national final.  Every year at the end of their national final the public broadcaster makes public the details of both the jury and the televote so that everyone can know the details behind the final scoreboard.

Diljá will represent Iceland in Liverpool for Eurovision with her song Power

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Source: RUV

Reactions continue over the cancellation of the voting of six juries!

On Saturday night, during the Grand Final, the EBU sent out a vague statement saying it had identified “voting irregularities” in six unnamed countries after the second rehearsals of the Second Semi-Final. Their jury votes were cancelled and replaced with a ” substitute aggregated result for each concerned country for both the Second Semi-Final and the Grand Final (calculated based on the results of other countries with similar voting records)”

Understandably, the above treatment caused a reaction from these countries as there had been no prior information and they ended up seeing a different score from the one they had given themselves.

Romania

On Sunday morning, Romanian television posted a lengthy statement on the official Eurovision page, which among other things said

“Romanian TV is fully committed to participate in Eurovision 2022, paying the participation fee and preparing, together with the WRS team, a project that won the appreciation of the public”

“We were surprised to see that the result of the Romanian jury’s vote was not taken into account in the final ranking, with the organisers assigning a different score on behalf of our country’s jury”

“We clarify that the Romanian jury decided to give the maximum score to the Moldovan representatives”

Furthermore, TVR, asks the EBU for the exact reasons why they made the cancellation of their committee’s score and they are able to make amends in case they made a mistake.

Montenegro

The Montenegrin broadcaster reacted in the same way

“Following the announcements made on the Eurovision website, we would like to inform the public that we have sent a request for clarification to authorised representatives of the EBU”

“Following the submission of our jury’s vote, the relevant officials stated that the RTCG vote was conducted in accordance with the normal procedure, was legally certified by the EBU, and they saw no reason to suspect any form of irregularity. We therefore await a detailed answer to the question of our vote change.”

Georgia

Georgia’s broadcaster, GPB, has issued a statement regarding the removal of the Georgian jury’s votes from Eurovision 2022

“The Public Broadcaster met all the requirements, sent the official document and received the EBU’s consent that there were no possible irregularities”

“The Georgian jury gave its highest score, the 12 points, to Ukraine. However, when the results of the Final were announced, the 12 points from Georgia were given to the United Kingdom”

“The Georgian delegation had no interest in manipulating the results. It was of prime importance for our jury to secure 12 points for a deserving contestant, which in this case was the representative of Ukraine”

The Georgian public broadcaster remains in active communication with the EBU regarding the current situation and hopes that official answers will be provided soon.

To date, the EBU has not yet clarified the exact reason why the votes of the six juries were removed.

What do you think of all this? Could much of the confusion have been cleared up if the EBU had given more specific information from the start? We look forward to reading your views in the comments below!

Source: Wiwibloggs, Eurovoix

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Eurovision 2022: The 10 finalists of the 2nd Semi-Final!

The 2nd Semi-Final of Eurovision Song Contest 2022 ended a few minutes ago, held Pala Olimpico in Turin, Italy.

The 10 countries that advanced to Saturday’s grand final are:

  • Belgium
  • Czech Republic
  • Azerbaijan
  • Poland
  • Finland
  • Estonia
  • Australia
  • Sweden
  • Romania
  • Serbia

The 2nd Semi- Final began with an opening act in which in one of the presenters Alessandro Cattelan danced with a group of dancers to the viral TikTok song “My name is Chiki”.

In total, 18 countries claimed the 10 tickets leading to the Final. Those were:

  1. Finland: The Rasmus – “Jezabel”
  2. Israel: Michael Ben David – “I.M.”
  3. Serbia: Konstrakta – “In Corpore Sano”
  4. Azerbaijan: Nadir Rustamli – “Fade to Black”
  5. Georgia: Circus Mircus – “Lock Me In”
  6. Malta: Emma Muscat – “I Am What I Am”
  7. San Marino: Achille Lauro – “Stripper”
  8. Australia: Sheldon Riley – “Not the Same”
  9. Cyprus: Andromache – “Ela”
  10. Ireland: Brooke – “That’s Rich”
  11. North Macedonia: Andrea – “Circles”
  12. Estonia: Stefan – “Hope”
  13. Romania: WRS – “Llámame”
  14. Poland: Ochman – “River”
  15. Montenegro: Vladana – “Breathe”
  16. Belgium: Jérémie Makiese  – “Miss You”
  17. Sweden: Cornelia Jakobs – “Hold Me Closer”
  18. Czech Republic: We Are Domi – “Lights Off”

Interval Acts

After the end of the competing part Mika along side with Laura Pausini performed exceptionally Sting’s Fragile, and Patti Smith’s People Have the Power, conveiyng an antiwar message.

Il Volo also got on stage to perform another version of their 2015 entry Grande Amore.

Spain, United Kingdom and Germany

Right before the announcement of the aforementioned finalists, we had the chance to see clips from the performances of Spain, United Kingdom and Germany, the member of the Big 5 who had the right to vote in this Semi – Final.

https://youtu.be/a6uq6oSP5MI

https://youtu.be/rbtPxZby4js

https://youtu.be/ohzfN-ueDZE

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American Song Contest: The Last Four Qualifiers of the 2nd Semi-Final!

A few moments ago, the qualifiers of the second semi-final, and therefore the last finalists of the American Song Contest 2022 were released. The second semi-final took place last Monday (2/5) with eleven states competing for the last five spots in the final. Tyler Braden from Tennessee won the jury vote and therefore advanced to the grand final!

The last four artists to reach the final are:

The public vote for the finalists will open the day before the grand final. As a reminder, the following artists made it to the final:

This will be the eighth of eight nights and will be broadcast live on Tuesday, May 9, at 2AM CET on NBC. You can also follow the contest from Denmark (DR) at 21:00 CET on Tuesdays, Finland (YLE) on Tuesday evenings, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg (Red Bull) on demand, Greece (ERTFLIX), Iceland (RUV), Montenegro (RTCG) at 21:00 CET on Sundays, Norway (NRK) on Saturday nights, Serbia (RTS), Slovenia (RTV SLO) at 22:00 CET on Saturdays, Spain (RTVE Play) and Sweden (SVT)!

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American Song Contest: Fifth Qualifier Round’s Results!

The final qualifier round of American Song Contest just finished with eleven more songs competing for four spots in the semifinals, with the outcome decided by the votes of the judges and the public vote. Jared Lee from Massachusetts, Stela Cole from Georgia and MARi from New Hampshire will join Washington’s Allen Stone from the fourth qualifier round to the semi-finals. Michigan’s Ada LeAnn will follow them as he won the fifth qualifier round’s jury as well as Ryan Charles from Wyoming as he earned one of the two wildcards!

The following artists competed in tonight’s fifth qualifying round:

  1. Illinois: Justin Jesso – “Lifeline
  2. California: Sweet Taboo – “Keys to the Kingdom
  3. Idaho: Andrew Sheppard – “Steady Machine
  4. New Mexico: Khalisol – “Drop
  5. Missouri: HALIE – “Better Things
  6. American Samoa: Tenelle – “Full Circle
  7. North Carolina: John Morgan – “Right in the Middle
  8. Vermont: Josh Panda – “Rollercoaster
  9. Guam: Jason J. – “Midnight
  10. Michigan: Ada LeAnn – “Natalie
  11. Maryland: Sisqó – “It’s Up

At the beginning of the night, Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson announced that Jared Lee from Massachusetts, Stela Cole from Georgia and MARi from New Hampshire won the public’s support in the fourth qualifier round. Wyoming’s Ryan Charles was announced later on as one of the two wildcards. Just before the end of the show, the winner of the fifth qualifier round’s jury was announced and therefore Ada LeAnn from Michigan will be in the semi-finals.

The detailed results of the fifth qualifier round’s juries were as follows:

  1. Michigan: Ada LeAnn – “Natalie
  2. California: Sweet Taboo – “Keys to the Kingdom
  3. North Carolina: John Morgan – “Right in the Middle
  4. American Samoa: Tenelle – “Full Circle
  5. Illinois: Justin Jesso – “Lifeline
  6. Idaho: Andrew Sheppard – “Steady Machine
  7. New Mexico: Khalisol – “Drop
  8. Vermont: Josh Panda – “Rollercoaster
  9. Maryland: Sisqó – “It’s Up
  10. Missouri: HALIE – “Better Things
  11. Guam: Jason J. – “Midnight

Voting for those not selected by the jury will continue for two days until Wednesday. The public vote will determine the other three artists who will make it to the semi-finals. The semi-finalists will be announced during this week.

This was the fifth of a total of five qualifier rounds. You can also follow the contest from Denmark (DR) at 21:00 CET on Tuesdays, Finland (YLE) on Tuesday evenings, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg (Red Bull) on demand, Greece (ERTFLIX), Iceland (RUV), Montenegro (RTCG) at 21:00 CET on Sundays, Norway (NRK) on Saturday nights, Serbia (RTS), Slovenia (RTV SLO) at 22:00 CET on Saturdays, Spain (RTVE Play) and Sweden (SVT)!

You can check here the performance of the first semifinalist of the 5th qualifying round from Michigan:


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Sweden: Detailed results of Melodifestivalen 2022 released!

The SVT (Swedish public television) released the detailed results of Melodifestivalen 2022. As you will see below, the age categories did not affect the results, which were in line with the absolute number of votes except for the semi-final of the second chance, where two songs would not have qualified for the final if this system was not implemented.

There are two things worth mentioning. The first one is that Anders Bagge had about half a million more votes than the winner Cornelia Jakobs. The second is that Anna Bergendahl and Cazzi Opeia, despite collecting fewer votes in the semifinal of the second chance than Alvaro Estrella and Lisa Miskovsky respectively, got the ticket for the final as based on the age categories they got higher amount of points. Anna Bergendahl even had almost 200,000 votes less than Alvaro Estrella and despite of that was the one who had more points in the age categories.

Despite her second place in the public voting, Cornelia Jakobs will represent Sweden at Eurovision 2022, with the song Hold Me Closer. Sweden participates in the second semifinal and will appear in the second half.

https://youtu.be/wWDThAfryW4

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Spain: The detailed results of Benidorm Fest 2022 have been published!

The detailed results of Benidorm Fest 2022, the national final of Spain, were announced by RTVE a while ago. As you will see below, the winner, Chanel, gathered less than 4% of the public vote.

On the other hand, the entry that ended up in second place overall won the televoting, gathering 70.75% of the votes among 8 participants.

Widespread reactions have erupted in Spain, as Galician political parties have already stated that they will raise the issue in the House of Representatives. Tanxugueiras who won the public vote are from Galicia and sung a song in Galician.

Complaints about possible conflict of interest of the judges are also serious, as members of the jury seem to have worked in the past with Chanel, the winner of the jury and Benidorm Fest overall.

On the other hand, the Galician telecommunications provider Toxo Telecom seems to have contributed to the Tanxugueiras’ huge lead in the public vote, allowing its customers to vote for the Tanxugueiras once for free.

The detailed results of Benidorm Fest 2022 are as follows:

TV audience (192,000 votes in total):

  1. Tanxugueiras: 70.75% – 30 points
  2. Rigoberta Bandini: 18.08% – 25 points
  3. Chanel: 3.97% – 20 points
  4. Varry Brava: 2.26% – 18 points
  5. Rayden: 2.12% – 15 points
  6. Blanca Paloma: 1.04% – 12 points
  7. Xeinn: 1.01% – 10 points
  8. Gonzalo Hermida: 0.66% – 5 points

Demoscopic Jury (350 people representative of the Spanish population):

  1. Tanxugueiras: 2,658 (14.59%) – 30 points
  2. Chanel: 2,624 (13.88%) – 25 points
  3. Rigoberta Bandini: 2,555 (13.52%) – 20 points
  4. Gonzalo Hermida: 2,385 (12.62%) – 18 points
  5. Rayden: 2,300 (12.17%) – 15 points
  6. Varry Brava: 2,152 (11.39%) – 12 points
  7. Blanca Paloma: 2063 (10.92%) – 10 points
  8. Xeinn: 2063 (10.92%) – 5 points

Expert Jury (Natalia Calderón, Miryam Benidited, Estefanía García, Felix Bergsson, Marvin Dietmann) :

Jury 1

  • Rayden: 8
  • Tanxugueiras: 10
  • Varry Brava: 6
  • Channel: 7
  • Rigoberta Bandini: 12
  • Xenn: 4
  • Gonzalo Hermida: 2
  • Blanca Paloma:5

Jury 2

  • Rayden: 10
  • Tanxugueiras: 7
  • Varry Brava: 5
  • Channel: 12
  • Rigoberta Bandini: 8
  • Xenn: 4
  • Gonzalo Hermida: 2
  • Blanca Paloma: 6

Jury 3

  • Rayden: 7
  • Tanxugueiras: 4
  • Varry Brava: 5
  • Channel: 12
  • Rigoberta Bandini: 6
  • Xenn: 10
  • Gonzalo Hermida: 2
  • Blanca Paloma: 8

Jury 4

  • Rayden: 6
  • Tanxugueiras: 7
  • Varry Brava: 4
  • Channel: 8
  • Rigoberta Bandini: 10
  • Xenn: 5
  • Gonzalo Hermida: 2
  • Blanca Paloma: 12

Jury 5

  • Rayden: 6
  • Tanxugueiras: 2
  • Varry Brava: 5
  • Channel: 12
  • Rigoberta Bandini: 10
  • Xenn: 7
  • Gonzalo Hermida: 4
  • Blanca Paloma: 8

Final Expert Jury Result :

  1. Channel: 51
  2. Rigoberta Bandini: 46
  3. Blanca Paloma: 39
  4. Rayden:37
  5. Tanxugueiras: 30
  6. Xinn:30
  7. Varry Brava: 25
  8. Gonzalo Hermida: 12

Final Benidorm Fest 2022 Results :

  1. Chanel – 96
  2. Rigoberta Bandini – 91
  3. Tanxugueiras – 90
  4. Rayden – 67
  5. Blanca Paloma – 61
  6. Varry Brava – 60
  7. Xeinn – 45
  8. Gonzalo Hermida – 40

The communications director of RTVE, shortly before announcing the detailed results, said that Spain had triumphed and the Benidorm Fest was a success for music, while asking for respect for the members of the expert jury, who were selected for their knowledge. and who were asked to vote with absolute freedom.

She clarified that RTVE will continue to work to resolve any errors that may have occurred or even to review or update the voting system for the next Benidorm Fest.

She concluded by thanking the artists who participated in Benidorm Fest and encouraging all singers and composers to participate next year, “because Benidorm Fest brings only good things”, as the high ratings were to the benefit of all participants.

You can watch the performance of the winner of Benidorm Fest and representative of Spain at Eurovision 2022, Chanel below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mYBiIO0pfY

Source: RTVE

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Sweden: The detailed results of Melodifestivalen 2020

Sweden’s representatives at Eurovision 2020 after winning with just one point in the Melodifestivalen are the Mamas with the song “Move”. Not long ago, Swedish public television announced the analytical results of the Melodifestivalen, both in the semi-finals and in the final, which was awaited by many.

Before we look at the results, it is good to remind you of this year’s voting system so you can better understand the results of the public.

The televoting was divided into ages groups

It was not possible to vote via sms this year, as the producers of Melodifestivalen emphasized that sms votes were scarce. The only way to vote was by phone or special application.

Voting through the app required you to state your age. Viewers were divided into seven categories as follows:

-Green: 3 to 9 years old
-Turquoise: 10 to 15 years
-Blue: 16 to 29 years old
-Purple: 30 to 44 years old
-Pink: 45 to 59 years old
-Red: 60 to 74 years old
-Orange: 75 and above

Changes to the vote

The eighth category was voting by telephone, where age cannot be ascertained. Each category had 43 points in the semifinals (12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1) and 58 in the final (12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1). In the second chance round he scored 1 point in the song that he preferred in each duel, and in the case of a tie (4-4), he was the one who received the most votes. Another change was that the international jury in the final was reduced from eleven to eight, so that their numbers were the same as the age groups, and they also had 58 points, just like the public groups. Each user of the app could give up to five hearts (votes) per song.

The results of Melodifestivalen 2020

First let’s say that all the nights were counted 44 million votes, a decrease of 12.5% ​​compared to the previous year, as Melodifestivalen 2019 counted 50 million votes.

In the final, the Mamas garnered the most votes, 1,610,446, with Dotter receiving 1,489,636. If the rules that were in force until 2018 had been used in the Melodifestivalen 2020 final, the first two places would not have changed. The Mamas would have earned 122 points and Dotter 118.

Another important point is that those who voted by phone agreed with the ratings of the app voters, with the only exception being the third semifinal they voted for Drängarna and the final that they voted for Anna Bergendahl.

Let’s now look at the 12s in the final category:

3-9: Hanna Ferm

10-15: The Mamas

16-29: The Mamas

30-44: Dotter

45-59: Anna Bergendahl

60-74: Anna Bergendahl

75 and above: Anna Bergendahl

Phones: Anna Bergendahl

Dotter, despite receiving a 12th, was in the top three in all age categories. The Mamas received some high scores and some middle scores. Anna Bergendahl though she received four 12s, received two 0s from the two younger age categories.

Winners of every night and category:

Winner of Melodifestivalen: The Mamas.
Winner of the vote: The Mamas.
Jury winner: Dotter.
First Semifinal Winner: The Mamas.
Second Semifinal Winner: Anna Bergendahl.
Third Semifinal Winner: Mariette.
Fourth Semifinal Winner: Hanna Ferm.
Second Chance Winner: Anis Don Demina

Below are the results in the final:

Source: SVT