esctoday.com is currently searching for the best Eurovision Song Contest entry of this decade. The polls for the first semi final are closed and now it is time to reveal the line-up for the second 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 | Estonia | 2009 | Urban Symphony | Rändajad |
| 2 | Ukraine | 2008 | Ani Lorak | Shady lady |
| 3 | Monaco | 2005 | Lise Darly | Tout de moi |
| 4 | Israel | 2005 | Shiri Maimon |
Hasheket sheni'shar |
| 5 | Slovenia | 2007 | Alenka Gotar | Cvet z juga |
| 6 | Denmark | 2000 | The Olsen Brothers |
Fly on the wings of love |
| 7 | Belgium | 2006 | Kate Ryan | Je t'adore |
| 8 | Austria | 2000 | The Rounder Girls | All to you |
| 9 | Iceland | 2009 | Yohanna | Is it true? |
| 10 | Andorra | 2007 | Anonymous | Salvem el món |
| 11 | Russia | 2007 | Serebro | Song #1 |
| 12 | Poland | 2003 | Ich Troje | Keine Grenzen – Zadnic granic |
| 13 | Finland | 2006 | Lordi | Hard rock hallelujah |
| 14 | Belarus | 2007 | Koldun | Work your magic |
| 15 | San Marino | 2008 | Miodio | Complice |
| 16 | Armenia | 2008 | Sirusho | Qele qele |
| 17 | Greece | 2005 | Helena Paparizou | My number one |
| 18 | Azerbaijan | 2009 | Aysel & Arash | Always |
| 19 | Turkey | 2003 | Sertab Erener | Everyway that I can |
| 20 | Spain | 2003 | Beth | Dime |
| 21 | Ireland | 2006 | Brian Kennedy | Every song is a cry for love |
| 22 | FYR Macedonia | 2007 | Karolina Goceva | Mojot svet |
| 23 | Sweden | 2006 | Carola | Invincible |
Update: Video recap
Many thanks to Aaron Way for creating this video!
Vote
You can vote here. Anyone has just one single vote to give, so choose wisely! The poll will close on 26th September at 23:59 CET. The line-up for the final will be revealed shortly after midnight.
Complete results
Here you can find the complete results for 22 of the 23 countries above in the first round. San Marino's entry was directly qualified for the second round as it was the country's only entry in this decade.
Estonia:
- 2009 (50.53%)
- 2000 (17.89%)
- 2002 (14.74%)
- 2006 (4.33%)
- 2004 (3.51%)
- 2007 (3.16%)
- 2001 (2.22%)
- 2003 (1.87%)
- 2005 (1.52%)
- 2008 (0.23%)
Ukraine:
- 2008 (42.63%)
- 2004 (20.62%)
- 2007 (14.75%)
- 2006 (12.79%)
- 2009 (6.34%)
- 2005 (1.50%)
- 2003 (1.38%)
Monaco:
- 2005 (49.47%)
- 2006 (31.18%)
- 2004 (19.34%)
Israel:
- 2005 (51.46%)
- 2008 (23.92%)
- 2009 (8.17%)
- 2002 (5.37%)
- 2004 (2.57%)
- 2007 (2.57%)
- 2000 (2.45%)
- 2001 (2.33%)
- 2003 (0.70%)
- 2006 (0.47%)
Slovenia:
- 2007 (27.30%)
- 2001 (23.90%)
- 2005 (15.60%)
- 2006 (9.69%)
- 2008 (9.69%)
- 2002 (5.66%)
- 2009 (4.91%)
- 2003 (2.14%)
- 2004 (1.13%)
Denmark:
- 2000 (22.28%)
- 2001 (14.13%)
- 2009 (14.13%)
- 2007 (11.86%)
- 2005 (11.14%)
- 2002 (10.78%)
- 2008 (8.02%)
- 2006 (4.31%)
- 2004 (3.35%)
Belgium:
- 2006 (40.34%)
- 2003 (29.60%)
- 2004 (17.14%)
- 2008 (6.63%)
- 2005 (2.06%)
- 2007 (1.60%)
- 2009 (1.14%)
- 2000 (1.03%)
- 2002 (0.46%)
Austria:
- 2000 (19.83%)
- 2007 (19.58%)
- 2005 (19.45%)
- 2002 (16.36%)
- 2003 (15.865)
- 2004 (8.92%)
Iceland:
- 2009 (41.88%)
- 2008 (24.14%)
- 2003 (10.64%)
- 2005 (6.52%)
- 2006 (6.18%)
- 2007 (6.06%)
- 2004 (2.17%)
- 2000 (1.95%)
- 2001 (0.46%)
Andorra:
- 2007 (31.08%)
- 2009 (18.28%)
- 2008 (17.93%)
- 2005 (12.46%)
- 2006 (11.87%)
- 2004 (8.38%)
Russia:
- 2007 (22.14%)
- 2006 (20.60%)
- 2000 (19.17%)
- 2003 (13.10%)
- 2009 (7.38%)
- 2008 (6.67%)
- 2004 (3.21%)
- 2001 (2.86%)
- 2005 (2.50%)
- 2002 (2.38%)
Poland:
- 2003 (24.13%)
- 2008 (23.25%)
- 2006 (18.38%)
- 2009 (10.13%)
- 2004 (9.25%)
- 2007 (7.88%)
- 2005 (4.00%)
- 2001 (3.00%)
Finland:
- 2006 (31.13%)
- 2007 (27.95%)
- 2009 (15.80%)
- 2002 (12.38%)
- 2005 (3.89%)
- 2004 (3.54%)
- 2008 (3.07%)
- 2000 (2.24%)
Belarus:
- 2007 (60.10%)
- 2005 (17.20%)
- 2004 (12.43%)
- 2009 (5.85%)
- 2008 (2.75%)
- 2006 (1.67%)
Armenia:
- 2008 (56.95%)
- 2009 (21.64%)
- 2006 (13.45%)
- 2007 (7.96%)
Greece:
- 2005 (32.82%)
- 2001 (24.86%)
- 2006 (17.90%)
- 2008 (9.06%)
- 2004 (4.20%)
- 2007 (3.54%)
- 2009 (3.54%)
- 2003 (2.43%)
- 2002 (1.66%)
Azerbaijan:
- 2009 (80.11%)
- 2008 (19.89%)
Turkey:
- 2003 (43.07%)
- 2008 (12.97%)
- 2009 (12.18%)
- 2004 (11.27%)
- 2006 (9.24%)
- 2007 (4.85%)
- 2000 (2.48%)
- 2005 (2.25%)
- 2002 (0.90%)
- 2001 (0.79%)
Spain:
- 2003 (33.33%)
- 2009 (16.49%)
- 2007 (12.69%)
- 2002 (11.39%)
- 2001 (10.91%)
- 2004 (3.91%)
- 2008 (3.56%)
- 2006 (3.32%)
- 2005 (2.85%)
- 2000 (1.45%)
Ireland:
- 2006 (23.79%)
- 2003 (21.19%)
- 2009 (20.57%)
- 2007 (10.66%)
- 2008 (8.67%)
- 2005 (7.06%)
- 2004 (3.97%)
- 2000 (3.10%)
- 2001 (0.99%)
FYR Macedonia:
- 2007 (24.38%)
- 2006 (22.03%)
- 2004 (19.68%)
- 2002 (10.40%)
- 2008 (8.29%)
- 2005 (6.31%)
- 2009 (4.58%)
- 2000 (4.33%)
Sweden:
- 2006 (26.61%)
- 2008 (19.93%)
- 2004 (16.24%)
- 2009 (12.10%)
- 2007 (5.99%)
- 2000 (5.18%)
- 2003 (3.92%)
- 2002 (3.80%)
- 2005 (3.34%)
- 2001 (2.88%)
Some statistics
Now that the complete results of the first round are revealed, we want to take look at the statistics.
Qualified entries by year:
| Year | Qualifiers | Entries in total |
% |
| 2000 | 3 | 24 | 12.5% |
| 2001 | 23 | 0% | |
| 2002 | 24 | 0% | |
| 2003 | 3 | 26 | 11.5% |
| 2004 | 2 | 36 | 5.6% |
| 2005 | 6 | 39 | 15.4% |
| 2006 | 8 | 37 | 21.6% |
| 2007 | 10 | 42 | 23.8% |
| 2008 | 6 | 43 | 14.0% |
| 2009 | 8 | 42 | 19.0% |
The most popular year therefore appears to be 2007. Only six songs out of years without semi finals qualified for the second round, but it has to be mentioned that on the one hand many countries only took part from 2004 onwards and on the other hand that by far less entries were performed in the first four years: 97 compared to 239 between 2004 and 2009. No songs from 2001 and 2002 qualified for the second round but some rather strong runner-ups from these years could be seen.
Winners:
Five of the ten winning songs of this decade made the second round. The ones that did not qualify were Everybody (Estonia 2001), I wanna (Latvia 2002), Wild dances (2004), Believe (Russia 2008) and Fairytale (2009). However, the winning songs of 2004 and 2009 placed second in the polls of their countries.
