Rotterdam 2021 – This is it! Finally! After two long years, and what felt a never-ending Eurovision season, tonight we will finally watch the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021.
The hosts are Chantal Janzen, Jan Smit, Edsilia Rombley and Nikkie de Jager (NikkieTutorials) and the show will take place in Rotterdam Ahoy in the Netherlands. The voting will use last year’s format: only juries results will be announced first, with only the 12pts revealed by the spokeperson. Then they will reveal how many each song got in televote, starting at whoever is ranked 26th by juries all the way to the juries’ winner!
This is tonight’s running-order:
- 🇨🇾 Cyprus / Elena Tsagrinou – El Diablo
- 🇦🇱 Albania / Anxhela Peristeri – Karma
- 🇮🇱 Israel / Eden Alene – Set Me Free
- 🇧🇪 Belgium / Hooverphonic – The Wrong Place
- 🇷🇺 Russia / Manizha – Russian Woman
- 🇲🇹 Malta / Destiny – Je Me Casse
- 🇵🇹 Portugal / The Black Mamba – Love Is On My Side
- 🇷🇸 Serbia / Hurricane – Loco Loco
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom / James Newman – Embers
- 🇬🇷 Greece / Stefania – Last Dance
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland / Gjon’s Tears – Tout l’Univers
- 🇮🇸 Iceland / Da∂i Freyr og Gagnamagni∂ – 10 Years
- 🇪🇸 Spain / Blas Cantó – Voy A Querdarme
- 🇲🇩 Moldova / Natalia Gordienko – SUGAR
- 🇩🇪 Germany / Jendrik – I Don’t Feel Hate
- 🇫🇮 Finland / Blind Channel – Dark Side
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria / Victoria – Growing Up is Getting Old
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania / The Roop – Discoteque
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine / Go_A – Shum
- 🇫🇷 France / Barbara Pravi – Voilà
- 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan / Efendi – Mata Hari
- 🇳🇴 Norway / TIX – Fallen Angel
- 🇳🇱 The Netherlands (Hosts) / Jeangu Macrooy – Birth of a New Age
- 🇮🇹 Italy / Måneskin – Zitti E Buoni
- 🇸🇪 Sweden / Tusse – Voices
- 🇸🇲 San Marino / Senhit – Adrenalina
We’ve waited long enough. Let’s put all differences aside and enjoy it all together!
The Eurovision Times 
Got out for a walk to vent off. I lost my day 1 raiding and having fun with my fireteam for what? To see each televoting getting its way once again? I regret the time I wasted honestly. This contest sends a clear message to people like me : we don’t want you. I should not have let 2019 fool me. Duncan did not win either set of votes and televoting was won in another landslide by an esc by the numbers mediocre act. I should have skipped the final and go game instead.
Surprisingly, San Marino would have almost been an NQ without its jury support. Unsurprisingly, Denmark was destroyed by its jury vote after being 7th with televoting. Moldova getting 4th with televotes and STILL qualifying at 10th with juries will never make sense to me.
Senhit’s revenge to me? LOL
Actually, pretty outrageous.
Denmark got 80 televoting pts and 9 jury pts. Hmm I was right
now the big question, with what we know now, would “Répondez-moi”, “On Fire” or more importantly “Think About Things” win esc 2020? Both Italy and France did better with these artists than the 2020 artists would have gotten!
I always felt Repondez-Moi was the better song, but Tout L’Univers was the more attractive for votes. At least for me, I’d choose the latter always, it’s just more of my style, that Woodkid epic.
Of these three I would say On Fire would have won. Répondez-moi would have won juries, but probably done worse in televoting than Tout l’Univers.
They were all much better imo than their 2021 entries.. Especially Iceland and Lithuania. They could have won. I wanted so much to see how Tears Getting Sobber would have scored.. :( We will never know.
Btw until last minute I was hopping that France will win :( My mother too. Italy was ok, but France was more well deserved imo..
I stand by this. Think About Things would have won. On Fire would have done better than Discoteque. Répondez-moi would have gotten top ten but not top five.
Almost certain Iceland would’ve won 2020. I think they managed 4th this year based on the hype carried over from 2020 alone. 10 years was not in the same league.
I think Iceland would have won, with Lithuania second.
Yup, probably!
I think Iceland would’ve won doing top 3 both in jury and televoting, with Swiss close 2nd ? but it would’ve been close between these 3.
Our jury gave 12 to France.. Only 1 to Switzerland.. :O
Milan Stanković (SRB 2010) and Tijana BOGIĆEVIĆ (SRB 2017) were in our jury, Milan placed France 1st, Tijana placed it 3rd in the final..
Tijana placed Italy 1st, Milan placed them 6th..
How is possible that we gave 12 to Moldova in semi with telvoting and in the final 0? :/
MILAN IS AMAZING <3
:D
btw it is true, Ukraine and Finland won televote in their semis and were both revealed last enveloppe ;)
Hahahahaha that is set for Ilona Shamanka The Latgalian legend to get a heart attack! :P :D
Samanta Tina last in semi 2 ;)
:(
And they pretend like the order is random lol
actually they dont! they used to say it (again in 2013-2015 they said it) but stopped since Stockholm 2016 :o they dont say it, so it’s obvious it’s not random anymore ;)
Don’t think it’s been random since 2012, when Azerbaijan added that “golden ticket” gimmick to announce act 10 and it was Jedward and Turkey.
They shouldn’t make that a habit or they’ll reveal too much in the future.
I think my French boy fell asleep after France performed lmao
Nuša Derenda placed Iceland 1st in the final.. :P
Maja Keuc (Amaya) placed them 1st too.. :D
Russian jury gave 0 to France, I really didnt expect this….
Dina Garipova (Russia 2013) placed France the highest of all jurors, 14th..
well Macron and Putin is what it is :/
My bf just discovered French televote gave 12 to Ukraine like he did! I KNEW it would: it was THE only song that got MASSIVE reaction on French twitter! Also we gave 1pt to Finland so one of my televotes mattered too :p
I have an official TOP 10 for ESC 2021. 😀
1 pt – FIN
2 pts – NLD
3 pts – BGR
4 pts – PRT
5 pts – LTU
6 pts – ISL
7 pts – RUS
8 pts – ITA
10 pts – UKR
12 pts – FRA
Sorry, shake shakes …
We’ll see if you do another run of esc 2021 songs before Aftermath ;)
I most certainly will … 3 post-contest listenings is the minimum before Aftermath. Plus, with a week distance or so, things might look and sound differently.
I hope not we have 8/10 in common, including the big ones (same top 3 exactly) :p
I want to squeeze in at least one shaky one … 😉😎
they just dont deserve it, but Europe felt the same and went with Greece (admittedly the best looking/sounding one)