Category Archives: San Marino 2018

SAN MARINO 2018 – CANDIDATE UPDATE

Time for our daily update on the top 10 artists in the second Wildcard for the 2018 San Marino selection.

14 artists have over 2000 likes, 21 artists have over 1000 likes. Luckily those with no likes have also drastically reduced with only a round 25 or so to still get one like.

01 – GLORIA ZACCARIA (Italy) 27118

02 – Miguel Vicente (Spain) 20815

03 – Dario Mifsud Bonnici (Malta) 8156

04 – Stavros Pilichos (Greece) 7796

05 – HIlary Smile (Italy) 7504

06 – Sofya Angel-Barokko (Russia) 7116

07 – Yana Gloushak (Russia) 6293

08 – Mac Zavadsky (Poland) 6009

09 – Julian Lesinski (Poland) 5818

10 – Camilla Dentale (Italy) 4612

Sebastian Calleja dropped out of top 10, 11th now with 4314 likes

SAN MARINO WILDCARD – UPDATE

As promised today’s update on the top 10 candidates for the second WILD CARD spot in the San Marino 2018 selection for Eurovision.

Right now a clear runaway winner but hopefully the others can catch up

01 – GLORIA ZACCARIA (Italy) 26074
02 – Miguel Vicente (Spain) 11489
03 – Dario Mifsud Bonnici (Malta) 6837
04 – HIlary Smile (Italy) 6256
05 – Sofya Angel-Barokko (Russia) 5026
06 – Yana Gloushak (Russia) 4266
07 – Stavros Pilichos (Greece) 4177
08 – Julian Lesinski (Poland) 3171
09 – Sebastian Calleja (Malta) 2589
10 – Raylan Arbizu (Spain) 2413

SAN MARINO – FANCLUB WILDCARD

ESC Covers had a look at the 70 candidates who are fighting for the ONE WILDCARD position. Some of them have hardly any likes while others have over 1000 likes.

Some of the candidates with the most likes are:
Bjorn Rosier (Belgium) 1073 likes
Yana Glushak-Sirena (Russia) 971 likes
Emma Sandstrom (Finland) 1193 likes
Gloria Zaccaria (Italy) 2828 likes
Dionisis Kostis (Greece) 2671 likes

And the top 2 are
Dario Mifsud Bonnia 3445 likes
Lyosha Dontsov 4709 likes

Lyosha is listed as from Ukraine but his facebook lists he lives in Kazakhstan.

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SAN MARINO CANDIDATE – PANAGIOTIS MADEMLIS

ESC Covers got the following from Panagiotis Mademlis Greece
I’m contacting you. Below you will find a small bio with informations about my musical background till now and why I’m sending my music to San Marino, Germany, UK and Ireland.
My musical background started with album releases, tv and magazine interviews, reaching the point being chosen to perform live on stage with Metallica (for their sick of the studio world tour 2007). Unfortunately I was forced to stop building my future after being diagnosed with a gigantic brain tumor in 2010. It took me 5 years to stand on my feed again after a surgery in Sweden and a radiotherapy in Athens. But it made me only stronger reaching the point helping people that suffer from health issues and being rejected like me once. We are being rejected because the world around us lives behind locked doors. They don’t receive any information what we went/are going through.
Ignoring and avoiding to search for any info, makes them create a wall and leave us behind. A wall made out of ignorance and fear.
The song called “Cure & War” has been sent to all 4 countries.
Germany received also 3 more tracks called:
1. U Equal I
2. Television Fame (containing also some German lyrics)
3. Erase The Fear
My goal is not to become famous, but to walk through the Eurovision gate and together with Anna (being deaf and teaching the deafness language in Athens) spread the message that the world must stop being afraid of us.
They have to understand that we are alive, full of dreams trying to fulfill them and…yes sometimes even stronger than anyone around us.
It would be more than helpful to writing something about my goal mentioning what I’m trying to do.
Maybe people, alone and in need, could find support that could lift them up.
Thank you for your time.
1) “Cure & War” (Live Session for San Marino)
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2) U Equal I
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3) Television Fame
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4) Erase The Fear
Studies: T.E.I. – Department of Music Technology & Acoustics – Réthymnon, Greece
Two albums released through “ΜΒΙ”
Rot – Rabid Outbreak Through (2002)
Rot – pRovOcaTiv (2003)
Pop+Rock (music magazine) February 2003. 
Pages 94-98 Interview.
Winner of ΕΜΙ contest (2007) with the band Dirt Spawn Disease.
 
Opening act for Metallica (2007) tour “Sick of the studio” with My Dying Bride and Mastodon (Rockwave Festival)
Demo of the month English Metal Hammer (2006)
Opening act for bands like Biohazard, Rotting Christ etc.
First personal album (2015) “PANMAD”.
Acoustic Rock, Alternative, Experimental.
Music, lyrics and vocals: composed, written, arranged, mixed and mastered by Panagiotis Mademlis (PanMadMusic – PANMAD).
Album and music played by stations all around the world.
 
Second personal album (2017) “Cure & War”.
Rock, Pop, Electro.
Music, lyrics and vocals: composed, written, arranged, mixed and mastered by Panagiotis Mademlis (PanMadMusic – PANMAD).
mademlis.panagiotis@rocketmail.com 
info@panmadmusic.com Panagiotis Mademlis – PanMadMusic – PANMAD

 

SAN MARINO VIDEOS – LIKES

Now we do a follow up article on the videos who have been entered to select the artist for San Marino to represent them at the 2018 Eurovision song contest in Lisbon, Yesterday we looked at the videos who got the most views. Now we look at those who have the most likes.

Likes are important as any video who gets 100 or more likes will be seen by the judges. Of the 314 videos we checked 65 of them have 100 to 499 likes. 24 more videos exceed 500 likes.

The top 10 are
10th – Raylan Arbiza – Spain 863 likes
9th – David Vardanov – Armenia 1217 likes
8th – Ivan Martin – Spain 1254 likes
7th – Dionisis Kostis – Greece 1520 likes
6th – Tashia Odi – Belgium 2567 likes
5th – Hlary Smile – Italy 2621 likes
4th – Sarah Nanret – Ireland 2696 likes
3rd – Justin Utley – USA 3432 likes
2nd – Sefya Angel Barokko – no country mentioned 4279 likes
1st – Marco Antonio Gaitano – Spain 6077 likes.

Pierre who has first in the viewing list with 21 000 views does not feature even in the top 100 according to likes.

Marco who has he most likes, was only 10th in the viewing list

Of course this can change dramatically as we move towards the cut off.

SAN MARINO VIDEOS – VIEWS

A few of the staff of this website have spend some days now analyzing the videos uploaded so far in connection with finding an artist for San Marino to represent them at the 2018 Eurovision song contest in Lisbon.

On their Youtube channel, we found 318 videos and there are artists from 63 countries

one each from the following countries
Afghanistan
San Marino
Zimbabwe
Brazil
Denmark
Czech republic
Slovak republic
Tajikistan
Indonesia
Cameroon
Montenegro
China
Kenya
Namibia
Slovenia
Hungary
Nigeria
Luxembourg
Lebanon
Mexico
Sierre Leone
Switzerlan
Lithuania

two each from
Iran
Singapore
Colombia
Ireland
Guatemala
Bulgaria
Haiti
Latvia
Molova
Argentina

three each from
Romania
Turkey
Philipinnes
Croatia

four each from
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Norway
Ukraine
Azerbaijan
Netherlands
Serbia
Canada
Belgium

five each from
Israel
France

six each from
Armenia
Australia
Belarus

seven each from
Austria
Poland
South Africa

nine each from
Greece
Portugal

Countries with more than ten
Russia – 11
Sweden & Malta – 13
United States – 16
United Kingdom – 23
Germany – 26
Italy – 27
Spain – 35

Countries so far not having an artist
Cyprus
Georgia
Iceland
Andorra
Finland
Estonia

Looking at the videos on their Youtube channel 29 of the 318 have had more than 1000 views with 13 of these having more than 2000 views

So the top 13 are
13th Diorisis Kostis – Greece 2 400 views
12th Ardi Taranik – Belarus 2 600 views
11th Josema San Dez – Spain 2 800 views
10th Marco Antario Gaitano – Spain 2 900 views
9th Dario & Grecia Bezzine – Malta 4 500 views
8th Justin Utley – USA 4 700 views
7th Lewis Sheriden – UK 4 900 views
6th Margaret – Poland 5 400 views
5th David Vardarov – Armenia 7 000 views
4th One Antene – Haiti 9 900 views
3rd Ivan Martin – Spain 12 000 views
2nd Julian Lesinski – Poland 17 000 views
1st Pierre Hondemarck – France 21 000 views

From 14th to 29th are videos from 1000 to 1 700 views and among them are Sergey Sysuev (Ukraine), Sara de Blue (Austria) an Olivier Kaye (Belgium)

Of course the picture can drastically changed over the next two weeks until the final day on 30 November