The Eurovision Final: A Response

Look!!!!! For 3 glorious seconds, we were leading the Eurovision Song Contest!!!!!!!

So after reflecting on the two semis, how did my taste in Eurovision music compare to the voting Euro-public and the music-professional jury members when it came to the Grand Final?

My first impressions: A reminder.

(UK) 100 (bracketed as I couldn’t vote for it)
1 Ukraine 95
2 Moldova 92
3 Albania 90
4 Greece 86
5 France 86
6 Norway 84
7 Estonia 81
8 Romania 74
9 Turkey 72
10 Germany 71

My impression on the night ( /100)

1 Germany 100
(UK) 100
2 Ukraine 98
3 Armenia 87
4 Estonia 87
5 Moldova 76
6 Portugal 75
7 Greece 74
8 Albania 74
9 Lithuania 65
10 Azerbaijan 61

My iPod Top 10 (number of listens)

61 Portugal (I did like it... but 61 times?)
51 (UK) (Did I really listen to this 51 times?)
48 Spain
47 Turkey
41 Albania
40 Israel (??????????????????????? What?!)
36 Armenia
36 Sweden (My iPod count function must be malfunctioning)
36 Ukraine
34 Estonia
32 Ireland (They wuz robbed in the Semi)
32 Moldova

The actual Top 10

1 Norway (appeared on NONE of my lists)
2 Iceland (appeared on NONE of my lists)
3 Azerbaijan (Made a faint impression on the night)
4 Turkey (Good first impression and a popular iPod track)
5 UK (On ALL my lists! J)
6 Estonia (On ALL of my lists!)
7 Greece (On 2 of my lists and it was my 7th favourite song on the night!)
8 France (A good first impression)
9 Bosnia Herzegovina (appeared on NONE of my lists)
10 Armenia (On 2 of my lists)

Ukraine came: 12th

Germany came: 20th (though 11th in the jury scoring)

Portugal came: 15th

So how can I sum all of this data up? It goes to show you why I don’t bet on Eurovision!