Eurovision Song Contest 2012: Baku, Azerbaijan

[Terence]

Semi-final 1: 22 May 2012

01. Montenegro - Rambo Amadeus - Euro Neuro
02. Iceland - Greta Salóme & Jónsi - Never Forget
03. Greece - Eleftheria Eleftheriou - Aphrodisiac
04. Latvia - Anmary - Beautiful Song
05. Albania - Rona Nishliu - Suus
06. Romania - Mandinga - Zaleilah
07. Switzerland - Sinplus - Unbreakable
08. Belgium - Iris - Would You?
09. Finland - Pernilla Karlsson - När Jag Blundar
10. Israel - Izabo - Time
11. San Marino - Valentina Monetta - The Social Network Song
12. Cyprus - Ivi Adamou - La La Love
13. Denmark - Soluna Samay - Should've Known Better
14. Russia - Buranovskiye Babushki - Party For Everybody
15. Hungary - Compact Disco - Sound of Our Hearts
16. Austria - Trackshittaz - Woki Mit Deim Popo (Shake Your Bum)
17. Moldova - Pasha Parfeny - Lautar
18. Ireland - Jedward - Waterline



Semi-final 2: 24 May 2012

01. Serbia - Zeljko Joksimovic - Nije Ljubav Stvar
02. Macedonia - Kaliopi - Crno i Belo
03. The Netherlands - Joan Franka - You & Me
04. Malta - Kurt Calleja - This Is The Night
05. Belarus - Litesound - We Are The Heroes
06. Portugal - Filipa Sousa - Vida Minha
07. Bulgaria - Sofi Marinova - Love Unlimited
08. Ukraine - Gaitana - Be My Guest
09. Slovenia - Eva Boto - Verjamem
10. Croatia - Nina Badric - Nebo
11. Sweden - Loreen - Euphoria
12. Georgia - Anri Jokhadze - I'm A Jocker
13. Turkey - Can Bonomo - Love Me Back
14. Estonia - Ott Lepland - Kuula
15. Slovakia - Max Jason - Don't Close Your Eyes
16. Norway - Tooji - Stay
17. Bosnia & Herzegovina - Maya Sar - Korake Ti Znam
18. Lithuania - Donny Montell - Love is Blind


Final: 26 May 2012

Final: 26 May 2012

01. United Kingdom - Engelbert Humperdinck - Love Will Set You Free
02. Hungary - Compact Disco - Sound of Our Hearts
03. Albania - Rona Nishliu - Suus
04. Lithuania - Donny Montell - Love is Blind
05. Bosnia & Herzegovina - Maya Sar - Korake Ti Znam
06. Russia - Buranovskiye Babushki - Party For Everybody
07. Iceland - Greta Salóme & Jónsi - Never Forget
08. Cyprus - Ivi Adamou - La La Love
09. France - Anggun - Echo (You & I)
10. Italy - Nina Zilli - L'amore è Femmina
11. Estonia - Ott Lepland - Kuula
12. Norway - Tooji - Stay
13. Azerbaijan - Sabina Babayeva - When The Music Dies
14. Romania - Mandinga - Zaleilah
15. Denmark - Soluna Samay - Should've Known Better
16. Greece - Eleftheria Eleftheriou - Aphrodisiac
17. Sweden - Loreen - Euphoria
18. Turkey - Can Bonomo - Love Me Back
19. Spain - Pastora Soler - Quédate conmigo
20. Germany - Roman Lob - Standing Still
21. Malta - Kurt Calleja - This Is The Night
22. Macedonia - Kaliopi - Crno i Belo
23. Ireland - Jedward - Waterline
24. Serbia - Zeljko Joksimovic - Nije Ljubav Stvar
25. Ukraine - Gaitana - Be My Guest
26. Moldova - Pasha Parfeny - Lautar

[poriel]

Finally opened! Cyprus already confirmed with Ivi Adamou, I think she's hot ( ), hope she gets great song for ESC 2012!

[firefly_86]

^^ Portugal is not confirmed yet probably because their national broadcaster (RTP) has been privatized. It's not clear whether the broadcasting rights will be transferred to the new privatized broadcaster or another one (probably SIC or TVI) will bid to pick it up.

Is there actually a possibility France might not compete? Ouch that's massive investment lost!

Also Italy's not on either list - have they withdrawn? They did so well!

[NoAngels]

A tad early to talk about who's gonna participate and who isn't!

Germany is gonna run a talent show to pick a winner and send it over to "Baku" just like they did with Lena.

[poriel]

@planetjedward JEDWARD
#JEDWARDeuroVision2012

Well..

[Terence]

The final participant list should be available by mid-December!

Also Italy's not on either list - have they withdrawn? They did so well!

Added Italy & San Marino... forgot to include them!

Regarding the "unconfirmed" countries:

I can't see Russia, Serbia & Belarus missing out. Greece will be in as well, in spite of all the financial and privatisation problems around. Having achieved their best result in years, Ireland are safely in I'd assume. Can see no reason for Croatia and Macedonia missing out either.

France are always among the last countries to confirm so I wouldn't worry about them either. Italy's second place is probably enough to ensure they participate again in 2012 but you never know with RAI.

The ones I'd worry about at the moment are Armenia, Poland (I can see them skipping a contest if they continue with all these failures) and Portugal (what a pity that would be!).

[irishguy28]

Jedward FTW!!!!

Or if Dana wins the presidential election (Yeah! Right! ) we could send her. That would be a Eurovision first - a head of state representing their country at Eurovision.

[greek_boy]

Confirmed countries:
Slovakia

It's official:
Slovakia withdraws from Eurovision 2012

Eurovision Song Contest sweeps coveted TV award

It has just been announced that the Eurovision Song Contest has won the coveted Deutscher Fernsehpreis (German TV Prize) in the category Best Entertainment at a ceremony in Cologne.

Also competing for the award was I'm A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here and Let's Dance. I

To top it all off one of the hosts of Europe's favourite TV show, Stefan Raab, won an award in the category of Best Entertainer. So all in all it was a pretty successful night for the Eurovision Song Contest in Germany!

Incidentally, the 2010 the award for Best Entertainment actually went to the German national selection shows, Unser Star für Oslo, which produced Lena and her song Satellite.

[Terence]

Oikotimes states otherwise:

While local media claiming STV sources, said today that Slovak national broadcaster is not entering the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, eurocontest.cz holds a statement of STV spokesman Richard Šümeghy saying that the fate of the Eurovision song contest in Azerbaijan has not yet been decided.

we are still awaiting for a more proper and official answer by STV

[irishguy28]

Joe McElderry has apparently been dropping hints about a tilt at Eurovision 2012 for the UK!!!

Jedward are almost guaranteed to return for Ireland!!

[NoAngels]

"Lipstick" was such a fun song, I wanna hear what they're gonna enter with if they got chosen to represent Ireland!

[greek_boy]

Oikotimes states otherwise:

While local media claiming STV sources, said today that Slovak national broadcaster is not entering the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest, eurocontest.cz holds a statement of STV spokesman Richard Šümeghy saying that the fate of the Eurovision song contest in Azerbaijan has not yet been decided.

we are still awaiting for a more proper and official answer by STV

From esctoday:

Moments ago, the Slovak public broadcaster RTVS released an official communiqué stating that their participation in the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest is yet to be decided.

The management of RTVS goes on saying that they are "interested in being present at major international competitions", an aim for which the Slovak broadcaster "must be prepared so that the financial resources bring the desired effect".

The Slovak public broadcaster also states that the final decision will be announced in due course.

This statement comes two days after the head of programmes at RTVS, Andrej Miklánek, suggested that Slovakia would miss the next edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. According to him, RTVS would be focusing on producing another type of entertainment shows

I hope they won't withdraw!

Joe McElderry has apparently been dropping hints about a tilt at Eurovision 2012 for the UK!!!

Jedward are almost guaranteed to return for Ireland!!

Joe McElderry?

Jedward again? Please no!

[irishguy28]

Yes! Send Jedward every year until they win it.

Then they can do a Lena, and return to defend their title!!!

[greek_boy]

Yes! Send Jedward every year until they win it.

Then they can do a Lena, and return to defend their title!!!

I'm glad you're joking Mrs. Kavanagh may comeback in the Irish selection with a song like "Falling"

[irishguy28]

Nikki or Niamh? (they're both Ms, not Mrs)

"Falling" would have come second-last had it gone to Duesseldorf!!!

[greek_boy]

^Sorry, my mistake! Nikki of course

I like "Falling", it sounds like "Running Scared" so i guess juries would have voted for it at least but we will never know

I'm glad Jedward represented Ireland this year, but a 2nd time in Eurovision wouldn't be a good choice.

[stevyy]

i just started listening to I can again.. and what can I say.. i still looove it.

[poriel]

Joe McElderry? Really?

[poriel]

OGAE Second Chance Contest 2011 results released!

#1 : 2011 Iceland (Rest of the world) Nott Yohanna
#2 : Jenny Silver - Something In Your Eyes


Congrats!

[irishguy28]

Joe McElderry? Really?

The first of probably numerous names that will be bandied about before the BBC reveals, at the last minute, what their act will be.

Or maybe they'll go with an (sort-of-)open casting call this year.

Who knows?

[Terence]

My choice in this year's Irish selection would be whoever sang 'Talking With Jennifer' - I quite liked that one!

[irishguy28]

Don Mescall! Nice tune indeed (but none of the other entries would have done better in Düsseldorf than the Grimes brothers)

UK X Factor rejects Same Difference have entered a song for Switzerland. Click below (the link is intended to be an embed, but because that's not allowed on this site, it will open at full-size in a new window)

Same Difference - "Music"

Greekboy - when did you become a drag queen?

[poriel]

Listening Swiss' pre-ESC entrys but so many songs

http://www.eurovisionplattform.sf.tv/videos you can check and listen here.

[Terence]

Andorra are once again OUT.

[greek_boy]

Kate Ryan says 'maybe' for second Eurovision try

Even though she didn't qualify for the final in 2006 with her song Je T'Adore, she didn't think of the whole participation in a bad way. "I would always do it again, it was an extremely enriching experience," Ryan said to Estonian media.

She added that meeting various people at the contest taught her a lot about her performances. "It made me grow as an artist," she explains.

But now a question every fan wants to know - would she do it for the second time? She stays a bit mysterious and says: "I would think about it and maybe I would participate again... but just maybe!"

Kate Ryan represented Belgium at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Je T'Adore and finished 12th in the Semi-Final, thus not qualifying for the Final.

Source: http://www.eurovision.tv