Estonia

Estonia
Artist - Getter Jaani
Song - Rockefeller Street
Draw - Semi-Final 2, Place 15

Getter Jaani was born in 1993, in Tallinn. She rose to fame by participating in the Estonian talent show, "Eesti otsib superstaari" (a show similar to "Pop Idol" and "the X Factor"), singing hits such as "The Climb" by Miley Cyrus and "Happy" by Leona Lewis. In the show, she came 4th, which eventually led her to have a role in "High School Musical" in Tallinn, playing Sharpay Evans. She attends the Centre of Vocational Disciplines, training to be a stylist/tailor.

During February 2011, Getter participated in the Estonian National Selection for Eurovision, "Eesti Laul". She was in the first of the two semi-finals, placing second with the jury and first with the public. In the final, she received 7 points from the jury, along with 10 from the televote. Getter and a group called "Outloudz" proceeded to the super final, with her winning with 62 % of the overall vote.

"Rockefeller Street" was written and composed by Sven Lõhmus, who also wrote previous Estonian entries, "Let's Get Loud" and  "Rändajad".

Current Betting Odds (William Hill) - 6/1
My Prediction - Great catchy song that sticks in your head. I think that this will qualify, placing in the top 10.

                               Õnne!!

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!!!!

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!!