Finland: Results of First Semi-final

Finland – The Finnish national broadcaster YLE has hosted the first of two semi-finals tonight with 6 songs competing to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. One song qualified straight to the final and one song got kicked out! Find out which…

After YLE presented the twelve songs competing in this year’s Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, the national final hosted in Finland for Eurovision 2014, in the past few weeks, six songs competed tonight in the first semi-final.

Here was tonight’s line-up (you can click on the song’s title to watch tonight’s performances):

1. Miau with “God/Drug” (Anu Kaukola, Henna Juvonen)
2. Dennis Fagerström with “My Little Honey Bee” (Dennis Fagerström, Michael James Down, Niklas Hast, Andreas Anastasiou, Primoz Poglajen)
3. Lili Lambert with “Let Me Take You There” (Lili Lambert, Joonas Kaikko, Lasse Piirainen)
4. Hukka Ja Mama with “Selja” (Lasse Hukka
5. Softengine with “Something Better” (Topi Latukka, Henri Oskár)
6. Jasmin Michaela with “Kertakäyttösydän” (Mikko Kierikki, Jasmin Michaela, Jutta Annala, Johanna Viksten)

After that, the four jury members took time to vote, freely between 1 and 10pts to the songs based on what they thougt of the official production of the songs and this first live performance with an audience. It was a very close race between Softengine and Hukka Ja Mama, but this was ultimately their result:

1. (36) Softengine “Something Better”
2. (35) Hukka Ja Mama “Selja”
3. (29) Jasmin Michaela “Kertakäyttösydän”
4. (23) Miau “God/Drug”
5. (19) Dennis Fagerström “My Little Honey Bee”
6. (18) Lili Lambert “Let Me Take You There”

(You can also check tonight’s performances again on this page.) After an interval act where Arion, last year’s UMK first semi winner with “Lost”, performed their latest song “Seven”, the full results were revealed with the televotes added on (but no details on the televote results to keep the suspense alive):

Qualified straight to the final:

• Softengine “Something Better”

Qualified to the second chance:

• Hukka Ja Mama “Selja”
• Jasmin Michaela “Kertakäyttösydän”
• Miau “God/Drug”
• Dennis Fagerström “My Little Honey Bee”

Eliminted completely from UMK 2014:

• Lili Lambert “Let Me Take You There”

Next week 6 more songs will compete and again one song will qualify to the final, four to second chance and one will be eliminated. On January 25th the second chance will take place and a week after that the final with 6 songs all together.