Ida Andia from Romania and Roy van der Merwe continue to look at the good and bad points of the 2019 Eurovision entries. Up today is AUSTRALIA.
Ida – Good point : I like the staging and the voice.
Bad point : Pop-opera is not the best style at the Eurovision song contest.
Roy – Good point : Impressive staging with Kate singing and swinging together.
Bad point : The song has very little in terms of lyrics.
Next up is Azerbaijan for Ida Andia of Romania and Roy van der Merwe of South Africa to list good and bad points of their 2019 entry.
Ida – good point : Chingiz is very charismatic, has an amazing voice, song and staging.
No bad point.
Roy – good point : The singer looked well and sang well.
Bad point : the robots were not as “charming” as those from San Marino 2018.
Ida Andia of Romania and Roy van der Merwe of South Africa continue looking at the 41 entries of the 2019 Eurovision song contest and highlight one good point and one bad point of each entry. Next up is Austria.
Ida – good point : I like the staging – black and white, and the triangle too.
Bad point : I don t like her clothing.
Roy – good point : I am happy they picked someone totally different each year.
Bad point : Paenda has blue hair but it was at times difficult to see on stage as the stage looked quite dark.
Elina Nechayeva, who represented Estonia at the 2018 Eurovision song contest with La forza has a brand new song out called LA VOCE DELL’ALBA.
This is such fun – a parody song of SAY NA NA NA (2019 Eurovision entry for San Marino) as SAY NO NO NO
Austrian singer Nathan Trent has a new song and video out. It is called I GOT ME.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=26&v=h7rAZ0IhPrU
Andreas from Vienna sent ESC Covers the first CD of Luca Hanni from Switzerland. The CD is called MY NAME IS LUCA. It came out in 2012 and was released after Luca won Deutschland sucht den Super star. The CD contains 12 tracks with all but one in English. Dieter Bohlen produced the CD and composed several of the songs. 7 years later Luca represented Switzerland at the Eurovision song contest and ended in 4th place.
This photo shows Nonzwakazi on stage at the Euro village in Tel Aviv on the Saturday of the Eurovision song contest final. In the left corner you will notice Andy Mikheev of ESC Kaz filming the performance and to the right is Roy van der Merwe of ESC Covers. Both were judges in the Afri Music song contest and were back stage with Nonzwakazi and Michelle and Suzie from the Afri music organisation prior to Nonzwakazi’s performance.
The viewing figures for the Eurovision song contest – comparing 2018 to 2019 in several countries.
Germany: 2019 Viewers 8,080,000 against 2018 Viewers 8,210,000. 1.5%
Israel: 2019 Viewers 1,300,000 against 2018 Viewers 1,060,000. 22.6%
United Kingdom: 2019 Viewers 7,700,000 against 2018 Viewers 6,900,000. 11.6%
Switzerland: 2019 Viewers 660,000 against 2018 Viewers 234,000. 182.1%
France: 2019 Viewers 4,448,000 against 2018 Viewers 4,780,000. 6.3%
Spain: 2019 Viewers 5,449,000 against 2018 Viewers 7,200,000. 24.3%
Netherlands: 2019 Viewers 4,409,000 against 2018 Viewers 3,021,000. 45.9%
Sweden: 2019 Viewers 2,566,000 against 2018 Viewers 2,583,000. 0.7%
Italy: 2019 Viewers 3,539,000 against 2018 Viewers 2,413,600. 46.7%
Australia: 2019 Viewers 412,000 against 2018 Viewers 266,000. 54.9%
Hungary: 2019 Viewers 145,000 against 2018 Viewers 403,559. 64.1%
Estonia: 2019 Viewers 201,000 against 2018 Viewers 233,000. 13.7%
Austria: 2019 Viewers 627,000 against 2018 Viewers 513,000. 22.2%
Ireland: 2019 Viewers 284,700 against 2018 Viewers 690,000. 58.7%
Denmark: 2019 Viewers 1,090,000 against 2018 Viewers 1,131,000. 3.6%
Poland: 2019 Viewers 1,150,000 against 2018 Viewers 1,518,000. 24.2%
Czech Republic: 2019 Viewers 284,600 against 2018 Viewers 250,440. 13.6%
Greece: 2019 Viewers 1,863,000 against 2018 Viewers 1,854,000. 0.5%
Cyprus: 2019 Viewers 180,020 against 2018 Viewers 245,740. 26.7%
Iceland: 2019 Viewers 171,000 against 2018 Viewers 95,000. 80%
Belgium: 2019 Viewers 249,596 against 2018 Viewers 206,154. 21.1%
Finland: 2019 Viewers 538,000 against 2018 Viewers 976,000. 44.9%
Romania: 2019 Viewers 147,000 against 2018 Viewers 158,000. 7%
Norway: 2019 Viewers 1,247,000 against 2018 Viewers 1,370,000. 9%
ESC Covers has been alerted to 3 more “positive” awards being voted on. Voting has closed and you can click on VIEW RESULTS to see them. It is a pity we had not been aware of this when voting opened.