Results of the Mediterranean and Former Soviet Polls!!!!

The results of our 4th and 5th Poll are in!! Here are what they look like -

Mediterranean
France - 40%
Israel - 21%
Spain - 20%
Greece - 16%
Turkey - 16%
Malta - 10%
Portugal - 4%
Cyprus - 2%
                               (Overall amount of votes - 83)
So Amaury Vassili from France and Dana International from Israel will proceed to our Big Poll!

Former Soviet
Estonia - 47%
Azerbaijan - 26%
Russia - 19%
Belarus - 15%
Georgia - 9%
Latvia - 9%
Armenia - 6%
Lithuania - 5%
Ukraine - 5%
Moldova - 1%
                                  (Overall amount of votes - 72)
The qualifiers of the Former Soviet Poll are Getter Jaani from Estonia, and Eldar & Nigar from Azerbaijan.

So here is what our Big Poll line-up looks like now -

Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Serbia & Sweden

Our last two polls are "Remaining Eastern Countries" and "Remaining Western Countries". This is the line up for those two polls -

Remaining Eastern - Albania, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania and Slovakia
Remaining Western - Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, The Netherlands and The United Kingdom.

Make sure you vote on our last two polls!!!!

France

France
Artist - Amaury Vassili
Song - Sognu
Draw - Final, Place 11

One of the youngest contenders this year, is 21 year old, Amaury Vassili, who is also the youngest professional tenor in the world. He started singing at around 9 years of age, and was enrolled, by his mother, to a musical school in Rouen.

Amaury became famous in 2009, by releasing his debut album, "Vincero". After a world wide release, this album was certified Double Platinum. In November 2010, he released his second album "Cantero".

On the 27th January 2011, it was announced that France would be represented by Amaury.

"Sognu" will be sung in Corsican and will be the first French entry in 18 years to be sung in the language. The song was composed by Daniel Moyne and Quentin Bachelet, and written by Jean-Pierre Marcellesi.

Current Betting Odds (William Hill) - 5/1 (Favourite to win)
My Prediction - I love it, and I think France will do very well this year, definitely top 6. But does it have that special something to win? I'm not sure....

                                       Bonne chance!!

A New Top Ten??

Betting agents across Europe have been sticking to the same pattern this year when it comes to who they think will be in the top ten.

Unusually, normal Eurovision favourites such as Turkey, Greece and Ukraine, have all been ranked fairly low, with Turkey at 40/1 and with Greece and the Ukraine at a rather suprising 100/1. Also the tope ten is being largly dominated by Western countries this year. Are we starting to see a comeback for the Western nations, after wins from Norway and Germany?

Take a look at the new top ten (William Hill) -

France 5/1
United Kingdom 6/1
Estonia 6/1
Norway 10/1
Azerbaijan 10/1
Bosnia-Herzegovina 10/1
Sweden 12/1
Germany 12/1
Hungary 14/1
Denmark 14/1

Just missing out on the tope ten are Ireland, Russia and comeback nation, Austria.

Yet again, Portugal are dominating the bottom of the leaderboard, with a rather dismal 250/1.

So what do you think of these predictions? Will we be saying Bonjour Paris in 2012??

Check back later today when we'll be taking a look at Nina and Caroban from Serbia!!

Who are the favourites so far??

After a few weeks of knowing all of the participating songs in this years Eurovision, betting agents and Eurovision websites have been quick to reveal who they think has the winning formula to win this year.

Amaury Vassili, the
French
Representative

        

 
William Hill (A UK bookmaker) favours France to win, with the UK, Estonia, Azerbaijan, Sweden and Germany close behind. They also predict FYR Macedonia, Malta and Portugal being at the bottom. A prediction that I don't think will be far wrong!!

Eurovision fan site, The Eurovision Times, favour Estonia to be the front runner, with Amaury Vassili from France in a close second. Eric Saade of Sweden is in third with the UK in a steady fourth with boyband, Blue. Last years winner Lena, completes the top 5.

Estonian, Getter Jaani, is
one of the favourites on
ESC Nation 

ESC Nation, has a poll running for each country to award points to others, in the traditional Eurovision fashion. Since the poll opened a few weeks ago, the top three have not yet changed, with Kati Wolfe, Eric Saade and Getter Jaani, from Hungary, Sweden and Estonia respectively, changing from positions 1 to 3. The UK are in fourth with Germany and France battling it out for the 5th place.

 


ESC Today have their tradtional "Big Poll". Here is whats predicted by the European public, as to which ten countries will make it through to the final.

Semi-final 1 (participants in alphabetical order)

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Russia & Turkey

Semi-final 2 (participants in alphabetical order)

Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Denmark, Estonia, Ireland, Israel, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden & The Netherlands


So do these predictions match what you think will happen?

Stay tuned for Croatia's profile blog, later today.