Eurovision 2012 – Sweden’s Loreen is the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012! It is its 5th victory in the contest’s history. The Russian grannies came second, while Zeljko Joksimovic from Serbia came third.
Here is the performance from the semi-final! Stay tuned for the winning performance!
Here is the full scoreboard:
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– Sweden – Loreen – Euphoria – 372 points
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– Russia – Buranovskiye Babushki – Party For Everybody – 259 points
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– Serbia – Zeljko Joksimovic – Nije ljubav stvar -214 points
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– Azerbaijan – Sabina Bayeva – When The Music Dies – 150 points
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– Albania – Rona Nishliu - Suus – 146 points
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– Estonia – Ott Lepland – Kuula – 120 points
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– Turkey – Can Bonomo – Love me back – 112 points
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– Germany – Roman Lob – Standing Still – 110 points
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– Italy – Nina Zilli – L’amore è femmina (Out Of Love) – 101 points
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– Spain – Pastora Soler – Quédate conmigo – 97 points
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– Moldova – Pasha Parfeny- Lăutar – 81 points
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– Romania – Mandinga – Zaleilah – 71 points
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– FYR Macedonia – Kaliopi – Crno i belo – 71 points
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– Lithuania – Donny Montell – Love is blind – 70 points
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– Ukraine – Gaitana – Be my guest – 65 points
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– Cyprus – Ivi Adamou - La La Love – 65 points
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– Greece – Eleftheria Eleftheriou – Aphrodisiac – 64 points
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– Bosnia-Herzegovina – Maya Sar – Korake ti znam – 55 points
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– Ireland – Jedward – Waterline – 46 points
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– Iceland – Gréta Salóme & Jónsi – Never Forget – 46 points
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– Malta – Kurt Calleja – This is the night – 41 points
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– France – Anggun – Echo (You and I) – 21 points
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– Denmark – Soluna Samay – Should’ve Known Better – 21 points
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– Hungary – Compact Disco – Sound of Our Hearts - 19 points
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– United Kingdom – Engelbert Humperdink – Love Will Set You Free – 12 points
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– Norway – Tooji – Stay – 7 points
AND
Please leave your impressions, comments etc. at the end of this post!











The meassage was from me….Sara.
Hugs my dear Sara
Finally, after 5 years one of my favorites win! <3 So happy. I just finished watching the show with friends an hour ago.
Hi there Luis
Loved Sweden !! But loved NorwayGermany and France too !! Englebert did his best but there were actually some good songs snd he got lost in the mix Add that to being first performer and it doesn’t bode well Didn’t understand how Serbia did so well Thought their entry was dreary !! And FYR Macedonia was scary!’ Suppose that’s what keeps us coming back every year-it’s bonkers !! Loved Graham Norton!! Thought Terry Wigan would be a hard act to follow but Graham does it magnificently!! Long live Eurovision!!!!!
Landslide victory for Sweden, I did a quick calculation and they got nearlyy 76% of the available vote (or an average of 9.07 from each country). It wasn’t my favourite song, but I like it at least and that’s an improvement on the last two years.
There were some great performances last night, unfortunately not always recognised. Much of the voting followed the same well worn pattern, it has become embarrassing to watch. Greece and Ukraine both became a bit unstuck (probably because of the jures), but their big supporters still voted or them. Poor Norway ended last for the 11th time. The UK just managed to escape that fate, I didn’t expect it to be anywhere near the top, but second last seemed rather harsh, compared to some of the songs and performances that were higher up. I expected B & H, Denmark and Iceland all to do better and I’m surprised that Lithuania did as well as it did.
Yet more over- produced, mechanical 1990s tat from someone who got a mixing desk for Christmas. Woman does some Japanese horror film moves under a 9000 watt hairdrier and enough lazers to cut through the Earth’s crust. Am I supposed to be impressed with that?
Rona Nishliu; one perfect singer+one outstanding song . No crap. 100% guarranteed.
Congratulations to Loreen and Sweden! Her performance was very good (no surprise there) and therefore a deserved winner I guess.
Now that I take a look once again on the score-board, I can say that this year’s ESC turned out to be so very predictable result-wise, since almost all the pre-contest favourites to win, namely: Sweden, Russia, Serbia, did very well; perhaps only Italy did worse than expected.
For me it was quite a let down in the first place since my absolute favourite entry didn’t compete in the final, but anyway…
I’m so glad for Rona, Can, Ott and for the fact that mi querida España did well after so many years; one observation here though: if Spain, by sending such a great singer as Pastora and a song that, no matter if one likes it or not, has the so called “recipe” to actually win the contest, can only manage to narrowly enter the top10, then I can’t imagine them ever winning (sigh).
The biggest disappointment for me was Iceland; their performance was far from flawless imho. On the other hand, Compact disco and especially Kaliopi deserved a lot more.
Re: my country’s bad result (well, given the song, it was actually a “triumph”), I think that ERT should, at least for once, consider changing their ESC approach, leave aside the record companies (who only care about promoting their own interests), and take advantage of the fact that there are so many great musicians (singers, composers, lyricists) in Greece and give them a chance.
Good luck in hosting ESC 2013 Sverige!
Btw, any guesses on which will the host city be? Probably Stockholm and that new venue they had been building?
Sorry for the long post
On Iceland: they made a serious mistake when they opted for English. The song lost some of its mysterious charm; moreover, Jonsi did not rise to the occasion, he sounded much better in the Incelandic NF.
Exactly Oxi, our Greece has many talents (and musdic diversity of course). I am looking forward to this change! I hope the financial crisis will not prevent seeing Greece in Sweden next year.
I just saw the results of the semis; Sofi missed the last ticket on a tie
I know… and she lost to Tooji… an alledged singer…
…and Lithuania 4th in the semi?!!!!!!!!!!!!… no further comment :S
I’ve read that the venues in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo are considered for hosting in 2013.
Hi, everyone!
These results prove that you have to know how to sing properly live to reach the top 10 and that has made my ESC day. Russia is the shameful (but expected) exception.
Indeed, Oxi, the voting patterns are alive and kicking. We shouted out loud the points before the announcer had the chance to do so. It was way too easy to predict too many points. Macedonia, Spain (hence my saying that Portuagl will never win ESC) were the main victim of this system. Another thing: east votes for east, west for west, north for north and south for south (I am simplifying a bit). The EBU should try to change this. If this carries on indefinitely, some countries may withdraw.
Shevek you can not say that FYR Macedonia was a victim of this system. Almost 90% of their points came from the usual countries…god some of view can not leave aside their music preferences when it comes to analyse the voting.
Also wait to see the split results. There you will see how West has been heavily promoted by the juries. I amsmelling some prejudice and intention from the juries to destroy anything non-western (and in this I am not putting Cyprus).
Dino, I could say the same about you. Look, Kaliopi is a very talented artist. Only her nighbours saw that. Some countries are destined to be ignored (Cyprus is one of them). My point is: had songs like Cyprus 12, Macedonia 12 and Spain 12 been sung by Ukraine, Russia or Turkey they would have ended much higher up.
P.S.: here are the votes of the Portuguese (both sets) in the second semi: (the countries are in Portuguese, but you can see who is who)
12 pontos: Estónia
10 pontos: Suécia
8 pontos: Sérvia
7 pontos: Lituânia
6 pontos: Bulgária
5 pontos: Bósnia & Herzegovina
4 pontos: Eslováquia
3 pontos: Noruega
2 pontos: Ucrânia
1 ponto: Geórgia
We gave 4 points to Slovakia and 10 to Estonia! We are certainly not in the majority side of things. LOOL
But Gaitana was very low!
I meant 12 points to Estonia. Yes, Marko, even the Ukrainian diaspora saw that the song was very bad!
My dad didn’t see that. He had Gaitana in his top 10.
To each his own! He must have focused on her amazing vocals.
Or on her looks perhaps. Nobody’s perfect …
I was trying to be diplomatic.
But you were right for vocals, she had great vocals!
Maybe song is not for everybody but it’s perfect for stadium and football championships which will be held in Poland and Ukraine!
I don’t think so, Arena loved that song and performance, grannies stole all Ukrainian points, they got points from 41 European countries – RESPECT!!!
Where did you find points from semifinals?
Marko, there you go changing your identyty again! LOL I went to Eurovision.tv.
Yes, I’m still impressed with Sabina’s performance and that Mugham singer Alin Qasimov, :O my parents, my friend and me were listening to him with opened mouth!
You were right Azeri culture is so great and should be represented more, how i loved interval acts with their folklore!
Shevek you are wrong I liked Kaliopi…
So did I. We do not vote according to voting patterns. It’s not a question of being right or wrong, Dino.
Me and you maybe, but, the majority of ppl in some countries do not vote this way…
No, they don’t. That’s a fact of ESC life.
I wish Cyprus withdraws, especially if I find out that juries killed us…looking to the results it becomes obvious.
Russia and Sweden got points from all Eastern and all Western countries…
just 4 points made my country to be sorted in the fifth place… and russia the worst place ever….
Congratulations ET for 1,5 million visitors
With the full results of semis out, and all the results we just discovered (and amazing in many cases, I’ll let you guess how I screamed at each fucking-awesome 12 to Albania but seeing Spain, Germany and Italy all making the top 10 pleased my day, if only Rona had 4 more pts to take that “look I pee in my dress” Azerbaijan down…), there’s much to comment, for instance I’m glad I got Lithuania wrong, as it was great and deserved its 3rd place in semi, above Turkey, Estonia or Macedonia who will all beat him in the grand night, due to his 4th draw…
So all my comments and analysis will come, all in good time, for now I refuse to take part in the whole euphoria (hm) that follows esc outcome. Just let me sigh in relief at the fact Russia did not win, that Romania, Greece, Cyprus all failed to make it to the top 10 and that Norway came last, with Germany, Spain and Italy in the top 10 to prove that songs did matter and that, indeed, I will be here again next year. For now, let’s enjoy the weekend and dig into it once all the people online who are not truly fans stop spoiling all around and we can more objectively discuss this esc edition that is already past us.
Although I am happy that Germany and Italy did it (happy with Spain only for tactic reasons) I fear this was the result of jury vote which intentially promoted these three countries.
If you except me out, then I will put your hopes on a lower level!
All 12s for Albania, maybe except San Marino were diaspora – Italy, Macedonia, Switzerland!
I screamed each time she got points, especially more points than Azerbaijan :p
So you are diaspora voting supporter! :/
And I screamed when AWESOME Sabina was 4th and Rona Nishliu 4th!
Rona Nishliu 5th..
So did I. I spilt wine all over my shirt in the process.
Russia got points from 41/42 voting countries yesterday, all Western Europena countries voted for it, except Switzerland, so I hope now hates of babushki will shut up!!
Loreen also, she got points from 41/42 countries, only 0 from Italy!
I ma looking forward to the split result. I am ready for surprises…
I have made it a very brief birthday brunch but my friend understood that I was stil in ESC mode. That’s what friends are for.
Here is my final list for 2012. A commented version will come up in the next days (for those who are interested). I put my pre-contest rankings in brackets. As you can see, live performance matters a lot to me.
1. Albania 12/12 (1)
– such a nice song butchered live, both vocally and visually
2. Estonia 12/12 (4)
3. Macedonia 12/12 (10)
4. Italy 12/12 (7)
5. Azerbaijan 10/12 (9)
6. Israel 10/12 (5)
7. BiH 10/12 (2)
8. Serbia 10/12 (12)
9. Sweden 9/12 (20)
10. Spain 9/12 (25)
11. Iceland 9/12 (3)
12. Finland 9/12 (11)
13. Moldova 8/12 (14)
14. Germany 8/12 (26)
15. Croatia 8/12 (8)
16. Turkey 8/12 (6)
17. Hungary 7/12 (21)
18. Latvia 7/12 (17)
19. Romania 7/12 (27)
20. Portugal 7/12 (16)
21. Switzerland 7/12 (24)
22. Bulgaria 6/12 (15)
23. Montenegro 6/12 (22)
24. Ukraine 6/12 (40!!!)
25. Denmark 6/12 (13)
26. Slovenia 6/12 (19)
27. Belgium 6/12 (30)
28. France 5/12 (28)
29. Cyprus 5/12 (31) – Ivi is back where she started … I don’t know what happened on Tuesday
30. Norway 5/12 (37)
31. Malta 5/12 (36)
32. United Kingdom 4/12 (23)
33. Belarus 4/12 (29)
34. Lithuania 4/12 (32)
35. Netherlands 3/12 (18!!!)
36. Ireland 3/12 (38)
37. Georgia 2/12 (33)
38. Greece 2/12 (39)
39. Slovakia 1/12 (34)
40. San Marino 1/12 (35)
41. Russia 0/12 (41)
42. Austria 0/12 (42)
All in all it was a pretty strong year, and as many people have said, we got rid of almost all silly acts and bad songs in the semis. Unfortunately, the only really bad act that made it to the final came 2nd.
Yes, it was a good year.
I have not yet made my final list. I am waiting for the dust to settle.
close to my top 3, and I still have Russia last, but all of this when my final rankings come up! there will be some disagreeing, but not much, I think only Lithuania and Slovenia will change spot, we almost have the same top 10
Everything in Serbian voting in semifinal was as I expected, we gave 12 points To Nina Badric, then we gave 10 to Eva Boto (jury helped here because her song was written by Molitva’s composer Vladimir Graic), then we gave 8 to Kaliopi and 7 to Loreen! In the final we gave 10 to Loreen and 12 to Kaliopi because many of those who voted Nina Badric then voted for Kaliopi!
i was only surprised to see we gave 6 to Lithuania in semis (that is jury) and only 6 to Maya Sar in semi is not surprise, we gave her 6 again in the final!
Interesting is that Croatia gave us 12 in the final and 10 to Maya, and in semifinal was contrary! I really don’t understand those issues with jury in semi and in final when they vote different for the same songs! How that happens?
Why do you pretend to know how juries and televoters voted? You don’T know for sure!!
LOL because I know for Serbia not 100% but 105% that what I said in my previous comment, please I want peace, you sholdn’t be that harsh with me all the time, just because you dislike my mentality, you have blog where there are visitors of different mentality and you should respect me more! maybe earlier i was rude, but since I appeared few days ago to your blog, i definitely wasn’t!
I know who was our jury and i know how good friends they are with Vladimir Graic, composer of ‘Molitv” and “Verjamem” and I know how it works in Serbia, they simply had to give 12 or 10 to Eva Boto because of him…and i have right to express it here..
Have a nice day!
For example France gave 6 points to Loreen in semifinal and the 12 to Loreen in the final! :S :/ I wonder if anybody in the World has explanation for that..
In the semi-final few people watched!! THe impact of diaspora votes is way higher! People originally from Turkey will watch the second semi-final and vote for their country for example.. There is no interest for a normal French person to watch it. IN the final more people watch and the diaspora impact is much smaller…
OK thanks for polite explanation, for instance..
Grannies stormed the 1st semi, they got 12 from BELGIUM where there aren’t Russians at all, the same goes fro Denmark, they got BIG 12 from Denmark, also Finland!
Grannies actually scored better in Western Europe than in Eastern Europe!
Hahhaha Albanian points in semi are so strange and funny, 10 to San Marino, 12 to Rambo Amadeus! :O