esctoday.com is currently searching for the best Eurovision Song Contest entry of this decade. Polls were held over the last weeks to determine the mos popular song of each competing country. The remaining 46 songs were split into two semi finals and now it is time to reveal the line-up of the first semi final.
Line-up
The semi final allocation and the running order are random and based on a computer-aided draw.
| No. |
Country | Year | Performer | Song |
| 1 | Malta | 2005 | Chiara | Angel |
| 2 | Czech Republic | 2008 | Tereza Kerndlova | Have some fun |
| 3 | Georgia | 2007 | Sopho | Visionary dream |
| 4 | Lithuania | 2009 | Sasha Son | Love |
| 5 | Croatia | 2006 | Severina | Mojaštikla |
| 6 | Portugal | 2008 | Vânia Fernandes | Senhora do mar |
| 7 | Moldova | 2007 | Natalia Barbu |
Fight |
| 8 | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 2006 | Hari Mata Hari | Lejla |
| 9 | Montenegro | 2009 | Andrea Demirovic | Just get out of my life |
| 10 | Cyprus | 2004 | Lisa Andreas | Stronger every minute |
| 11 | Norway | 2008 | Maria Haukaas Storeng | Hold on be strong |
| 12 | Netherlands | 2007 | Edsilia Rombley | On top of the world |
| 13 | Switzerland | 2005 | Vanilla Ninja | Cool vibes |
| 14 | Hungary | 2005 | NOX | Forogj, világ! |
| 15 | Albania | 2004 | Anjeza Shahini | The image of you |
| 16 | Latvia | 2000 | Brainstorm | My star |
| 17 | Bulgaria | 2007 | Elitsa & Stoyan | Water |
| 18 | Slovakia | 2009 | Kamil Mikulcík & Nela Pocisková | Let' tmou |
| 19 | Serbia | 2007 | MarijaŠerifovic | Molitva |
| 20 | France | 2009 | Patricia Kaas | Et s'il fallait le faire |
| 21 | Romania | 2006 | Mihai Traistariu | Tornerò |
| 22 | Germany | 2006 | Texas Lightning |
No no never |
| 23 | United Kingdom | 2009 | Jade Ewen | It's my time |
Vote
You can vote here . Anyone has just one single vote to give, so choose wisely! The poll is open until 24th September, when the polls for the second semi final will be opened.
Complete results
Here you can find the complete results for 22 of the 23 countries above in the first round. Slovakia's entry was directly qualified for the second round as it was the country's only entry in this decade.
Malta:
- 2005 (44.21%)
- 2002 (17.14%)
- 2007 (7.08%)
- 2004 (6.97%)
- 2008 (6.38%)
- 2001 (4.26%)
- 2006 (4.26%)
- 2000 (4.02%)
- 2009 (3.66%)
- 2003 (1.30%)
Czech Republic:
- 2008 (60.08%)
- 2007 (26.05%)
- 2009 (13.87%)
Georgia:
- 2007 (71.93%)
- 2008 (28.07%)
Lithuania:
- 2009 (29.66%)
- 2005 (21.03%)
- 2006 (15.14%)
- 2007 (13.14%)
- 2001 (8.51%)
- 2002 (6.26%)
- 2004 (3.38%)
- 2008 (2.88%)
Croatia:
- 2006 (26.50%)
- 2005 (12.76%)
- 2001 (10.18%)
- 2002 (9.57%)
- 2003 (9.57%)
- 2000 (8.34%)
- 2004 (7.24%)
- 2008 (6.75%)
- 2009 (6.63%)
- 2007 (2.45%)
Portugal:
- 2008 (52.96%)
- 2009 (18.34%)
- 2003 (13.51%)
- 2007 (8.44%)
- 2005 (3.50%)
- 2004 (2.17%)
- 2006 (0.60%
- 2001 (0.48%)
Moldova:
- 2007 (39.39%)
- 2009 (27.06%)
- 2005 (21.09%)
- 2008 (8.13%)
- 2006 (4.32%)
Bosnia & Herzegovina:
- 2006 (36.59%)
- 2009 (18.58%)
- 2008 (11.15%)
- 2005 (9.64%)
- 2004 (9.06%)
- 2007 (9.06%)
- 2003 (3.48%)
- 2001 (1.63%)
- 2002 (0.81%)
Montenegro:
- 2009 (46.22%)
- 2005 as part of Serbia & Montenegro (42.82%)
- 2008 (6.55%)
- 2007 (4.41%)
Cyprus:
- 2004 (38.47%)
- 2007 (30.71%)
- 2005 (6.12%)
- 2002 (6.00%)
- 2009 (5.41%)
- 2008 (5.18%)
- 2000 (4.35%)
- 2006 (3.06%)
- 2003 (0.71%)
Norway:
- 2008 (32.64%)
- 2009 (31.15%)
- 2006 (12.76%)
- 2005 (8.97%)
- 2003 (6.90%)
- 2004 (2.30%)
- 2007 (2.07%)
- 2001 (1.84%)
- 2000 (1.38%)
Netherlands:
- 2007 (22.83%)
- 2005 (19.17%)
- 2003 (14.65%)
- 2000 (11.97%)
- 2008 (10.99%)
- 2001 (7.45%)
- 2004 (4.88%)
- 2006 (4.52%)
- 2009 (3.54%)
Switzerland:
- 2005 (38.48%)
- 2008 (28.77%)
- 2009 (15.44%)
- 2007 (6.97%)
- 2000 (4.98%)
- 2006 (2.62%)
- 2002 (2.37%)
- 2004 (0.37%)
Hungary:
- 2005 (51.90%)
- 2007 (31.04%)
- 2008 (8.71%)
- 2009 (8.34%)
Albania:
- 2004 (39.62%)
- 2009 (22.35%)
- 2008 (21.33%)
- 2005 (8.58%)
- 2006 (4.63%)
- 2007 (3.50%)
Latvia:
- 2000 (38.01%)
- 2005 (15.62%)
- 2002 (13.53%)
- 2003 (9.72%)
- 2007 (8.00%)
- 2008 (7.26%)
- 2006 (3.20%)
- 2004 (2.21%)
- 2009 (1.72%)
- 2001 (0.74%)
Bulgaria:
- 2007 (53.02%)
- 2008 (21.36%)
- 2006 (14.32%)
- 2005 (7.16%)
- 2009 (4.13%)
Serbia:
- 2007 (39.79%)
- 2004 as part of Serbia & Montenegro (38.25%)
- 2008 (18.65%)
- 2009 (3.31%)
France:
- 2009 (29.73%)
- 2001 (26.20%)
- 2002 (11.52%)
- 2008 (7.64%)
- 2005 (6.58%)
- 2004 (6.46%)
- 2007 (5.17%)
- 2003 (4.11%)
- 2006 (1.88%)
- 2000 (0.71%)
Romania:
- 2006 (43.83%)
- 2005 (28.57%)
- 2009 (6.35%)
- 2008 (6.23%)
- 2003 (4.03%)
- 2002 (3.91%)
- 2007 (2.69%)
- 2004 (2.56%)
- 2000 (1.83%)
Germany:
- 2006 (30.34%)
- 2007 (16.17%)
- 2001 (11.22%)
- 2009 (9.86%)
- 2003 (8.15%)
- 2008 (6.73%)
- 2004 (6.49%)
- 2000 (4.25%)
- 2002 (3.78%)
- 2005 (3.19%)
United Kingdom:
- 2009 (39.56%)
- 2002 (23.05%)
- 2005 (9.86%)
- 2001 (6.54%)
- 2000 (5.16%)
- 2006 (4.47%)
- 2003 (3.33%)
- 2007 (3.33%)
- 2004 (2.41%)
- 2008 (2.29%)
Video recap
This video recap was produced by Aaron Way. We want to send him a big thank you!
