FIST SEMIFINAL (TUESDAY)
156 Greece
139 Armenia
135 Russia
106 Norway
104 Israel
096 Azerbaijan
094 Romania
079 Finland
072 Bosnia-Herzegovina
042 Poland
036 Slovenia
036 Moldova
027 Netherlands
023 Montenegro
022 Ireland
016 Belgium
008 Estonia
005 San Marino

SECOND SEMIFINAL (THURSDAY)
152 Ukraine
120 Portugal
112 Denmark
112 Croatia
107 Georgia
086 Latvia
085 Turkey
068 Iceland
067 Albania
064 FYR Macedonia
056 Bulgaria
054 Sweden*
047 Switzerland
038 Malta
036 Cyprus
030 Lithuania
027 Belarus
009 Czech Republic
006 Hungary

*Indicated the jury’s choice.

How can countries vote in portugal for 2nd place and then put him in 13th? This is a scandal. Behind musics like Latvia, seems like europe has not got culture.

I think Portugal should quit the contest or start sending joke songs like Ireland and Spain, no one seems to appreciate a quality song so why try hard when u can send a piece of s**t for people vote?

I start to think countries with few neighbours like Portugal will never win independently of the song.

Even Serbia was much better than Armenia n Greece.

The voting in the semifinals was fair i think, but in the final was a joke.

Yea I like those ballads too, well especially Romania, Albania, Israel, Serbia and Portugal. Norway and Poland ok too 😛 Switzerland too….but it’s not in the final. Same with Hungary.

Of the pop songs my favourites are probably Armenia and Iceland. Maybe Greece too it’s an ok song, the others are quite ok too I suppose.

Haha ok, well here in Sweden everyone has to study English since 3rd grade, and in 7th grade you can choose another language between Spanish, German and French, of which I chose Spanish. I’m in 9th grade now but well I have learnt most of what I know at home by myself anyway 😛 and well I like learning languages a lot 😛

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_BdKRIjeY8

Have a look!!! 😉

I think there is loads of good songs this year, starting from the ballads Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Israel, Norway, Poland (Or polish Celine Dion), Albania.

Good pop musics like Ukraine, Greece, Sweden, Armenia, Russian and Iceland. And even good rock Finalnd n Turkey.

I think its time for the italian to join the group again.

They normally sings in italian which is so pleasunt to listen.

Im am amazed with ur spanish jonti_swe 😉 U are really young and u seem to master two foreign languages without problem. I know english is very popular in nordic countries but never thought that someone so young wd be able to speak spanish? Where did u learn it?

(Sorry to be off topic)

Spooky 😀

Yea I suppose you’re right about Switzerland, I have the song on my computer and my mp3..but I suppose his live performance wasn’t the best and that many people didn’t vote for it cause it had such a similar melody with that Swedish song I had never heard before I heard the video with the plagiarism theory of those two songs 😛

It’s probably not the singer’s fault though, it’s the songwriters, I think he has said he hadn’t even heard about It can only get better before didn’t he? I have heard something about that.

I haven’t heard all the Portuguese songs through the years so I cannot say anything about that, but yea this year it is one of the songs that could deserve a win. Last year’s winner showed that beauty isn’t necessary to win either and that is good.

Yea well I hope there won’t be too much neighbour voting, but I’m afraid there will be….Here in the Nordic countries we will probably too, except some immigrants from different countries who probably will vote for their home countries.
Just one thing btw- you mentioned Italy- and they cannot vote cause they are not in the competition 😛 Which I wish they could do again though, I like their country (even though I have never been there)and the language, they should be able to make some good songs.

We’ll see how things’ll go tonight, I think it might be a close one! There are quite many songs I like and some others that I’m not a very big fan of but that probably will finish high anyway.
Looking forward to it!

I dont want mean that Sweden, Ukraine or Greece sucks! No i like the songs, they are catchy…i wd love to dance them in a party or either sing them along because they all have good rithm, but like i said for its a commercial american-like musics, in europe we have more culture and we can do it better.

About Switzerland, i really like the music n i have it on my phone, but the melody certainly came from “it can onlt get better” its unfair for the people that vote spend their money in a song that was not original, therefore i think they should be out of the competition.

I think Portugal deserves to win this year because:

it undoubtfully has one of the best songs

it has been in the competition for more than 40years and never won, i dont think all these portuguese songs were bad, some maybe 🙂 but others had very good quality… however no one votes for Portugal – that is the true.

How can portugal have votes from countries like:
Finland that sends a rock band
Sweden that love those pop songs (ABBA)
Eastern europe that love disco songs

Who votes for portugal? Spain normally do it because they are culturally connected, France, Italy, UK, Germany part because of the immigrants part for similar musical tastes.

So lets make LISBON 2009, Im sure that YOU will LOVE be there to watch EUROVISION.

Vote for portugal!:p