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

This is the full top ten (official spin-offs organised and/or supported by the EBU are put in italics):

1. Festival OTI de la Canción (1972-2000)
   …the Ibero-American Eurovision Song Contest
2. Eurovision Young Musicians (1982-present)
   …the first official spin-off
3. Eurovision Young Dancers (1985-2005)
   …similar to Eurovision Young Musicians – just with dancing
4. Grand Prix der Volkmusik (1986-present)
   …a Eurovision Song Contest full of German "folk" music
5. Baltic Song Contest (1987-present)
   …which is actually not only for Baltic acts
6. World Popular Song Festival (1970-1989)
   …the "Oriental Eurovision"
7. Junior Eurovision Song Contest (2003-present)
   …which made it possible that someone younger than Sandra Kim can win an ESC
8. Liet International (2002-present)
   …which is pretty much like the ESC, just without any songs in English
9. MGP Nordic (2002-2009)
   …Scandinavia's own little JESC
10. Bundesvision Song Contest (2005-present)
    …Stefan Raab's revenge for Max Mutzke's eighth place in Istanbul

There were other attempts of creating an imitation or spin-off of the Eurovision Song Contest, but they did not last for a very long time.

The most famous example in recent times is probably the Eurovision Dance Contest, which aired in 2007 and 2008. Afterlow interest and few countries returning for a third edition, the 2009 edition, which was supposed to be held in Baku, was cancelled. The contest is not expected to return in the near future.

The Intervision Song Contest was held between 1977 and 1980 as part of the Sopot festival in Poland. It was considered Eastern Europe's answer to the Eurovision Song Contest but it never achieved the popularity of its big brother. Remarkable, two of the four winners have a connection to the Eurovision Song Contest: The last winner in 1980 was Marion Rung, who had represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 and 1973. 1978 winner Alla Pugachova would later represent Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1997.

The Castlebar Song Contest was an Irish song contest held between 1966 and 1988. Although it lasted very long, it is does not have as much of the Eurovision spirit as it may seem. Although it was an international contest, it wasn't actually seen as a contest of countries competing against each other. That can be easily seen looking at the list of winners – almost all contests were won by artists representing Ireland. Among the winners is 1992 Eurovision Song Contest winner Linda Martin, who also won the Castlebar Song Contest with a song written by Johnny Logan.

The Asia Pacific Song Contest of course could not have made the list as it will be held for the first time this year. Maybe if we do this list again in in a couple years, it will make the top ten…

This completes the list. Now it is time to reveal next week's topic and as it was promised, this one is a very special one:

Therefore the next top ten list will not be a statistical ranking at all. Instead, it will be a list of Eurovision Song Contest trivia questions, which will get harder every day. Everyone can participate in the quiz and the three readers who do best can win three small prizes.

This is how the quiz will work:

If you want to take part you have to register as a participant. To do that, you have to send us an Email through the contact centre here. Please put the words Quiz registration as subject and pick News to report under concerning (otherwise the registration won't work!).

As a message, please tell us a nickname (this one has not to be identical with your esctoday.com user name), a secret codeword (to avoid someone else submitting answers under your name) and a valid (!) Email address.

To give the quiz kind of a frame, the questions are about the ten countries that had the most entries in the Eurovision Song Contest: France, Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain and Finland. (Portugal and Ireland had as many entries as Finland but as Finland had the earlier debut, we decided to put that country in the top ten). About each country there will be five questions so there will be 50 questions in total. The ranking is based on how hard the questions are! The easiest questions is worth one point, the hardest question is worth 50 points.

You can submit your answers via the contact form above until the next day, 12:00 CET. Please always put Quiz answers as subject and pick News to report under concerning. As a message, tell us your nickname and your codeword as well as your answers to the questions. The answers to the previous questions will always be revealed the next day. A full ranking with all contestants (including the winners of course) will be shown next Saturday.

So start registrating now!