Best Semi-Final Non-Qualifiers – In our poll of the week you decided that our next ranking will concern the best songs that failed to qualify from the semi-final in Eurovision. Eligible are all songs that failed to qualify to the final in 1993, 1996 and from 2004 to 2012. As usual, each reader can vote for his personal Top 5. Your first place will get 5 points, the second place 4 points and so on. VOTE NOW:
Please vote for your Top 5 and name “Country” and “Year”
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Glad to see so much support for Slovenia 2005
It’s very hard to pick 5 songs but if I had to pick one country, it would be Switzerland. I love every single entry they sent from 2007 to 2012, except the 2011 one (the only one that qualified ¬¬)
Haha, that’ so true:D
I too liked most of the Belorussian Entries, except of 2010, which made it to the Final, too:D
1. Estonia 10
2. Monaco 05
3. Belgium 11
4. Slovakia 09
5. Estonia 04
yay for Estonia 2010!
x2!
Generally, I agree with most non-qualifications, but there are obviously some exceptions.
1: San Marino 2008
2: Ireland 2009
3: Finland 2012
4: Lithuania 2010
5: Switzerland 2012
Other songs that I really like: Iceland 2006, Andorra 2007, Bulgaria 2008, Switzerland 2009, Slovenia 2009, The Netherlands 2009, The Netherlands 2010, Norway 2011, Malta 2011, San Marino 2011, The Netherlands 2011, Cyprus 2011, Latvia 2011, Israel 2012, The Netherlands 2012 (my winner!), Bulgaria 2012, Croatia 2012 and Slovakia 2012.
My apologies for voting twice, but I forgot what year it was and named Switzerland 2011 instead of 2012, whoops
These are my favourites:
1: Finland 2012
2: Israel 2012
3: Portugal 2012
4: Slovenia 2009
5: Belgium 2011
If I could vote for ten songs, Czech Repubic 2009 (yes, Czech Republic 2009) would probably be on the list as well. I know it got nul points, and that it is one of the most hated ESC-songs, but somehow I like it. Of course it’s no masterpiece, but the melody is not bad. I have actually caught myself humming it a couple of times.
Romania 1996 and Macedonia 1996 should have made the final of 96
FYR Macedonia 2008
San Marino 2008
Poland 2006
Albania 2006
Finland 2010
Those would be my top 5. But there are a few others too; Iceland 07, Monaco 05, Austria 05, Germany 96, Cyprus (06, 07, 08, 09), Belarus 04, Netherlands 12 and Switzerland 12. Looking back through the years with the semi-finals, there was only one contest where I was relatively content with the songs that had stayed behind (2011). But in every other year there’s been at least one song that I felt should have made it.
Andorra 2007
Austria 2005
Netherlands 2007
Sweden 2010
Norway 2011
Hmm. Not as easy as one would think so here goes
1 Sweden 2010
2 Ireland 2009
3 Slovenia 2005
4 Portugal 2012
5 Andorra 2006
It will be difficult but I will make a try :
1.Century of love ( Moldova 2008 )
2.Complice ( San Marino 2008 )
3.Siren ( Estonia 2010 )
4.Stop ( Slovenia 2005 )
5.Let’tmou ( Slovakia 2009 )
6.This is my life ( Sweden 2010 )
7.Horehronie ( Slovakia 2010 )
8.Valentine lost ( Iceland 2007 )
9.Lorraine ( Bulgaria 2005 )
10.Feel the passion ( Albania 2011 )
11.Verjamem ( Slovenia 2012 )
12.Lako je sve ( Croatia 2010 )
13.You and me ( Netherlands 2012 )
14.Time ( Israel 2012 )
15.Nebo ( Croatia 2012 )
16.Vida minha ( Portugal 2012 )
17.Tii ( Estonia 2004 )
18.Push the button ( Israel 2007 )
19.Sense tu ( Andorra 2006 )
20.Femme fatale ( Cyprus 2008 )
21.Partners in crime ( Estonia 2007 )
22.Firefly ( Cyprus 2009 )
23.Probka ( Latvia 2009 )
24.Jas ja imam silata ( FYROM 2010 )
25.Legenda ( Poland 2010 )
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Tough task. My votes went as following.
1st Croatia 2009
2nd Estonia 2004
3rd Austria 2012
4th Albania 2006
5th Netherlands 2010
6th Portugal 2007*
7th Portugal 2012 (lower than it should be due to non-native composer)
8th Poland 2005
9th Slovakia 2009
10th Portugal 2011
11th Cyprus 2011
12th Georgia 2012
13th Belgum 2005
14th Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 2010
15th Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 2011
16th Cyprus 2008
17th Albania 2011
18th Monaco 2005
19th Ireland 2010
20th Switzerland 2008
* Only semi-final-non-qualifiers since 2004 counted as I do not remember the 1993 and 1996 songs that well and at the moment I am not really fancy going through them again to give them a fair placing. However, I can assure that none would of made it to my Top5.
Er, you do realize Croatia actually qualified in 2009 (via Jury Wildcard)?
ohhh I have many… Sweden 2010, Cyprus 2011, Slovakia 2010, Bulgaria 2011 +2012.. I just remember these now but I have too many to make a list I guess
Okay, this was a difficult one but I could handle five out of them:
1. Andorra 2005 Marian van de Wal
2. Norway 2011 Stella Mwangi
3. Netherlands 2012 Joan Franka
4. Belgium 2008 Ishtar
5. Austria 2005 Global.Kryner
Monaco 2005′s entry Lise Darly was close as well, just like Andorra 2007′s Anonymous and Bulgaria’s 2011 Polly Genova…
oh and Sweden 2010 Anna Bergendahl of course… I forgot about her, she would have been on fifth place of my list, I guess…
ΟΚ, i will post here my list from each year and then I will try to shorten it so to become applicable to the poll.
2004: Israel.
2005: The Netherlands, Iceland and Slovenia.
2006: Belgium
2007: Cyprus, Iceland and Andorra
2008: Moldova, Belgium, (The Netherlands) and (Switzerland).
2009: FYR Macedonia, Poland and (Cyprus).
2010: Sweden, Estonia, Slovakia and Finland.
2011: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Norway, Albania and Turkey.
2012: (Switzerland), Finland, The Netherlands, Slovenia, and (Slovakia).
Ultimate five: Israel (2004), Slovenia (2005), Iceland (2007), Moldova (2008), Sweden (2010).
Just-missing-out: The Netherlands (2012), Norway (2011) and Slovakia (2010).
8 unique songs that left out in expense of some ordinary and poorly permformed entries.
After several hours of making tricky decisions, here my top 5 (and voted by the way).
1. Slovenia 2006
2. Malta 2008
3. Slovenia 2012
4. Croatia 2012
5. Poland 2009
There are so many beautiful and powerful songs in the past that didn’t qualify for the finals, but that should’ve done.
2004: Andorra, Denmark, Israel and Belarus
2005: Andorra, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Iceland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia and Belarus
2006: Andorra, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia
2007: Cyprus, Denmark, Iceland, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Austria and Switzerland
2008: Andorra, Hungary, Lithuania, Montenegro, Slovenia, FYR Macedonia, Belarus and Switzerland
2009: Andorra, Ireland, Montenegro, Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, FYR Macedonia and Belarus
2010: Bulgaria, Croatia, Malta, Slovakia, FYR Macedonia and Switzerland
2011: Bulgaria, Israel, Croatia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, San Marino and Belarus
2012: Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Portugal, San Marino and Belarus
Oh and I forgot to add Slovenia 2012 to the list.
All my votes went to songs from 2007 (Malta, Croatia, Czech Rep) and 2009 (Serbia and Slovenia)… those years were quite strong
1. Croatia 2012
2. Bulgaria 2012
3. Slovenia 2012
4. Belarus 2012
5. Sweden 2010