The OGAE Second Chance Contest 2016 kicked off on 1st of June and members of OGAE Rest of the World can still vote! We are now at the halftime – the deadline for send your vote is 30/06/2016 midnight CET.
To vote, you have to rate all the entries, giving them a point between 0 and 5, except the song No. 9 which represents Rest of the World (and of course, Hungary), so if you rate it, it doesn’t count…
We ask you to send your votes to escvotes@gmail.com until the deadline. If you vote, you’ll earn 10 points for 2017 Ticket List.
Here’s the playlist of this year’s 23 competitors:
01 Belgium I’m not lost Tom Frantzis 02 Belarus My universe NAPOLI 03 Ukraine Helpless The Hardkiss 04 Albania Liroje Zemrën Besa Krasniqi 05 Malta Golden Brooke 06 UK Shine a little light Bianca 07 Lithuania Leading me home Erica Jennings 08 Italy Cieli immensi Patty Pravo 09 Rest Of the World (Hungary) Who we are Kállay Saunders Band 10 Sweden Save me Wiktoria 11 Denmark Never Alone Anja Nissen 12 Austria I’ll be around Elly V 13 Latvia We will be stars MyRadiantU 14 Switzerland Half a smile Vincent Gross 15 Norway Laika The Hungry Hearts 16 Slovenia Črno bel Raiven 17 Estonia Supersonic Laura 18 Finland On it goes Mikael Saari 19 Israel Somebody out there Ella Daniel 20 Romania Behind the shadows Florena 21 Poland Cool me down Margaret 22 Germany Mystery of a blood red rose Avantasia 23 Spain La vida sólo es una María Isabel
Next up in R O W’s top 12 songs, is ONLY TEARDROPS of EMMELIE DE FOREST – the 2013 winner from Denmark. Interesting is that this is the only song from Denmark to make it, but technically it was not such a big hit. But in general the song appeals to many fans,
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
Danish-Australian Kate Hansen has written the Good Luck message to ‘Anti Social Media’ who will represent Denmark in Vienna with their song ‘The Way You Are’.
Its Denmark up next and their 2010 song IN A MOMENT LIKE THIS sung by Chanee and N’evergreen. The cover of this in South Africa has become the biggest Eurovision cover ever in terms if sales – multi platinum.
It has been brought to our attention that Anne Gadegaard who was in the Danish 2015 Eurovision selection with SUITCASE has taken part for Denmark way back in 2003 at JUNIOR EUROVISION – her song was called ARABIENS DROM
