18 – Switzerland = 28 points
17 – Denmark = 34 points
16 – Albania = 45 points
15 – Ireland = 46 points
14 – Slovenia = 57 points
13 – Norway = 63 points
12 – Belarus = 84 points
11 – FYR Macedonia = 88 points
10 – Serbia = 105 points
09 – Georgia = 123 points
08 – Latvia = 132 points
07 – Israel = 147 points
06 – Poland = 151 points
05 – Bulgaria = 220 points
04 – Lithuania = 222 points
03 – Belgium = 274 points
02 – Ukraine = 287 points
01 – Australia = 330 points
Tag Archives: Belarus
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Diana Gromova covers ‘If I Could Fly’ by One Direction
Diana Gromova has recorded a gentle acoustic version of the One Direction song If I Could Fly. The song showcases Diana’s crystal clear vocals.
Diana was a former participant in the Belarussian Junior Eurovision national selections and her dream is to take part in the Eurovision Song Contest.
You can see the video for If I Could Try below.
Source: www.esccovers.com
Eurovision 2016: News round up
It has been a busy few days in the world of Eurovision. Starting with the theme for the 2016 contest which is Come Together. We have had songs selected in Malta and Belarus. Also, Hungary began their selection process and Lithuania continued with their qualification programmes.
Malta – The 2002 representative for Malta, Ira Losco, will once again represent her country at Eurovision. Ira won with Chameleon (Invincible). There was a semi-final of 20 songs and 14 songs took part in the final.
Belarus – Ivan will represent Belarus after winning the national selection with Help You Fly. Ivan beat off competition from nine other acts.
Hungary – The national selection of Hungary (A Dal) began and the first six acts to qualify for the next stage are Freddie, Benji, Mushu, Egy Másik Zenekar, Reni Tolvai (all by jury) and ByTheWay (televote).
Lithuania – 12 acts competed in the next phase and the following acts progressed Ieva Zasimauskaitė, Baiba, E.G.O. ,Berta Timinskaitė, Neringa Šiaudikytė, 4 Roses, Saulenė Chlevickaitė, Milda Martinkėnaitė, Ruslanas Kirilkinas, Aistė Pilvelytė
Ukraine: The national final will be on 21 February with two semi-finals preceding on 6 February and 13 February.
Poland: A national final has been confirmed for 5 March.
Source: www.eurovision.tv
SEMI FINAL DRAW
Gunesh releases her new song – ‘Heartbroken Woman’
Gunesh, from Belarus with an Azeri background, has released her new single entitled Heartbroken Woman. It is composed by Nicklas Säwström and Christian Löwenborg Wahlström and published by Sweden Songs.
Gunesh has had much success nationally and internationally in countries such as Ukraine, Bulgaria, Latvia and Turkey. She took the second prize at the 2013 Türkvizyon competition and has also participated in the Belarussian Eurovision national selection on several occasions.
You can hear Heartbroken Woman below and Gunesh will also perform the song at the Belarus 2016 Eurovision national final as a guest.
Source: www.esccovers.com
Sweden Songs publishing company have 10 songs in 2016 Eurovision selections
The music publisher, Sweden Songs, have an impressive 10 songs in contention in various national selections for the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. At this time they have songs in the running in Lithuania, Moldova, Belarus and Austria.
LITHUANIA
4 Roses Butterfly (Calle Kindbom/Dan Fernström/Viktor Brunö) (split publishing with Yellow)
Baiba Skurstenė-Serdiukė Mayday (Daniel Persson/Magnus Mikaelsson)
Neringa Šiaudikytė Never Knew Love (Tina A Hilli/Daniel Persson)
Ruslanas Kirilkinas In My World (Niklas Bergvist) Lithuanian version lyrics
Aistė Pilvelytė You Can’t Leave Me Now (Niklas Bergvist)
MOLDOVA
Beatrice Saved My Heart For You (Nicklas Säwström/Christian Löwenborg Wahlström)
Rafaella Hours Lost (Johan Wåhlander/Hannu Hemmilä/Hugo Lundgren)
Mihai Radu I Walk Through Fire (Patrik Öhlund/Madelene Hamberg)
AUSTRIA (wildcard competition)
Celina Ann Life Is On Your Side (Niklas Bergqvist/Magnus Almgren/Celina Ann/ Valentin Oman)
BELARUS
Shir My Mind On You (Fredrik Hult/Bahman Ghanbari/Ina Forsberg) Artist (split publishing with Firefly)
In 2015 Sweden Songs had 11 songs in various Eurovision national selection. They have also published songs for Eurovision acts such as Conchita Wurst (2 songs on her album), Ryan Dolan (ESC 2013 Ireland), Gianluca Bezzina (ESC 2013 Malta) and Farid Mammadov (ESC 2013 Azerbaijan) and many others.
Keith Almgren was a publisher with Scandinavian Songs for Melodifestivalen winners Charlotte Nilsson (ESC 1999 Sweden winner) and Roger Pontare (ESC 2000 Sweden).
Source: www.esccovers.com
Diana Gromova releases her new song ‘The Closest Friend’
Diana Gromova has just released her brand new song The Closest Friend. It is an upbeat pop dance song with a strong production and beat. She has recorded the song in both English and Russian languages.
Diana was a former competitor of the Belarus Junior Eurovision national selections and came very close to representing her country. She has since blossomed in to a charming and respectable performing artist. She is certainly hoping to be on the Eurovision stage in the future.
You can hear The Closest Friend below.
Source: www.esccovers.com
Diana Gromova appears in Icon contest…and the winner will sing in Belarus national final
Diana Gromova is a highly talented young singer from Belarus. In the past she appeared in several Junior Eurovision national selections in her homeland but narrowly missed out on representing her country. She has also submitted songs to the Belarus national selection in recent years.
Now Diana is competing in the Icon competition in Belarus (the Icon of the scene). Over the weeks the acts have had to sing an original song, russian hit, world hit and a Eurovision song. Diana performed her version of Warrior (2015 ESC Georgia) by Nina Sublatti.
The creator of the Icon project is Belarusian music producer Maksim Aleynikov. The final will be on 29 October, where 12 acts will compete. The prize is not only for money but the winner will also have a song for the Belarus Eurovision national selection.
You can see Diana in a compilation video below where you can see her perform Warrior also.
Source: www.esccovers.com
RATING OF THE PRESS P R OF EACH COUNTRY – PART TWO
Every year I do rate the P R of each each country from a press perspective (seen out of my own eyes mostly) but also taking into account that I hear from others and then give them a point of out 10
Every year some countries SHINE and others are just awful. 2015 was no exception. I have decided to do this in order of appearance via semi final 1 and 2 and then those automatically in the final
SERBIA
I had very little to do with the press people as the president of OGAE Serbia brought me the promo CD with several language versions. As the week went on, many more copies seemed to be given to mindividuls.
8 out of 10
HUNGARY
It was quite easy and I was not neccessary to wait for Tamas arrival to help me. I got the promo CD easily and the whole delegation was nice and friendly.
8.5 out of 10
BELARUS
A huge disappointment, having had always fantastic relations with them, especially in 2009 in Moscow when the head of press, every time she saw me put another gift in my hands, this was such a low point for me. I had for exampled asked no less than TEN times if we could get a t-shirt of Belarus to give to someone to wear at the fanstand – it was the most beautiful t-shirt with the lyrics, yet although they kept saying yes, it never came. I was told no promo CD but a UB stick that looked like a watch. had it not been for Pavel, I would have had nothing. I know why this change but will rather keep quiet on it.
2 out of 10
RUSSIA
A first difficult, In got postcards and t-shirts but they have run out of CD’s by the time they got to my pigeonhole nunber 1576. I had to write to the Swedish composers and CEO’s of the publishing company and then I got the CD for me. Most of these people came especially to say hallo to me at the fan stand and I was able to hand Jasmyn’s cover of the song. I do understand that the Russian people in the delegation were not as clued up to my involvement as the Swedish group. Luckily it all ended well.
8 out of 10
DENMARK
Horror after horror after horror, three years in a row now. Just absolutely nothing and they seem to live by the name of the group “Anti social media”. The chances are slim that I ever will be involved in an Afrikaans cover of a Danish euro song. I wish could give minus points.
0 out of 10
ALBANIA
They made up for last year and I quickly got the CD and DVD.
9 out of 10
ROMANIA
For many years, Romania has been among the top 5 when it comes to my experience with them and 2015 was not exception, so much so that I wore a Romanian T-shirt one day at the fan stand and also the lead singer and his little son came to chat to me when they walked on the red carpet. The song has also jumped into my rankings to number 6.
10 out of 10
GEORGIA
I also have close relations with Georgia, especially when they have a Thomas Gson song and I got the CD almost immediately. I also got gift bags and t-shirts which I were able to hand to other fans. We also took a photo of Georgian head of delegation coming to vote at the fan stand.
10 out of 10
RESULTS – EUROVISION 2015 – CHILE
We can now reflect on the latest voting from one of our LATIN AMERICAN countries, this time from CHILE. We publish it first as general news and then Jeff will move it t0 the sub-page for Chile under OUR WORLD.
