The third esctoday.com TOP TEN list was presented this week. Now we will provide a complete overview and we will show you the submissions that did not make the list. Furthermore, next week's topic will be revealed.

The full top ten:

1. International cover versions of Dschinghis Khan
   …which showed that there is hardly any laguage that the song was not covered in
2. Unrockish cover versions of Hard rock hallelujah
   …which showed that the song's melody is suitable for many different music styles
3. Bubblegum dance cover versions of Eurovision classics
   …which brought Eurovision to a younger generation
4. Parodies of winning entries
   …which have always been a popular medium in order to critisise the contest
5. International cover versions of more recent entries
   …which made us often think if they were intentionally bizarre or not
6. Swedish parodies of Eurovision classics
   …which showed that not all Swedes take the contest too serious
7. Different interpretations of Puppet on a string
   …which Sandie Shaw might prefer considering that she hated the original version
8. Metal an rock versions of Greek entries
   …which turned summer pop into hard rock. Halllujah!
9. Slow-down cover versions of Ik ben verliefd, sha-la-lie
   …which had not too much in common with the original idea behind this song
10. Dance cover versions of Fly on the wings of love
    …which were more successful than the original versions in some countries

Now we will introduce those songs that were submitted but did not make the top ten. We will leave out some submissions that were successful but not bizarre, as they might be featured in another top ten list.

Two Turkish cover versions of the 1973 winning song from Luxembourg:

Many thanks to Okan Yılmaz.

Various German phonetic cover versions:

Many thanks to Volker, Berhard Kilb and Baha.

Peeter Oja of Kreisiraadio performing a highly theatrical version of the 2009 Estonian entry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDPMyPoyUys

Many thanks to Niclas Andersson.

Catalan singer Marc Parrot covers the 1978 Israeli winning song:

Many thanks to Ramon Ramos.

Francis Göya with another cover version of Rändaajad:

Many thanks to sanka.

Lounge version of Die for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apuk5Xfn3ZQ

Many thanks to dimitris calling.

The Wurzels with Ooh, aah just a little bit:

Many thanks to p. tiggy.

Sinéad O'Connor and Terry Hall with All kinds of everything:

Many thanks to p. tiggy.

This concludes out third top ten list. Many thanks to all of you who took part in the creation.

Now it is time to reveal next week's topic. After bizarre cover versions, we picked a far more statistical topic again and it will be:

This looks like a top ten which is easy to be created, but the ranking is not as simple as it may seem. The ranking will in fact be based on a mathematical formula that consideres the following criteria:

1. A country's placing
2. The number of countries taking part in a certain year
3. The number of countries having their debut in a certain year
4. The participation of a country under a different name/flag in previous years

Here is a fictive example to show how the raking will work:

Let's say in 1953, ten countries competed in the contest: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J. The countries A, B and C take part for the first time, the other countries have already taken part in previous editions. If country A is the highest placed debuting country finishing second, how impressive is that debut?

Although a second place is always impressive, it is not as impressive for a debuting country as it seems in the first place for the following reasons:

• Only ten countries took part. Therefore every country has a mathematical chance of strong 20% to reach the top two.
• Three debuting countries took part. Therefore, the mathimatical chances of at least one of them reaching the top two stands at about 53%!

For this reason, the seven countries that competed in the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956 are excluded from the top ten. The mathematical chances of a debuting country winning was 100% – Lys Assia's picture in the logo is therefore purely symbolical.