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The line-up for the final round of esctoday.com's search for the Best song of the decade is now complete. The 336 songs that competed over the last ten years have been narrowed down to 24 which will now compete in the grand final.

The line-up

The running order is completely random and was based on a computer-aided draw.

No.
Country
Year
Performer(s) Song
1Romania2006Mihai Traistariu Tornerò
2Switzerland2005Vanilla Ninja Cool Vibes
3Hungary2005NOX Forogj, világ!
4Serbia2007MarijaŠerifovicMolitva
5Malta2005Chiara Angel
6Belgium2006Kate Ryan Je t'adore
7Norway2008Maria Haukaas Storeng Hold on be strong
8Turkey2003Sertab Erener Everyway that I can
9Latvia2000BrainstormMy star
10Israel2005Shiri Maimon Hasheket sheni'shar
11Spain2003Beth Dime
12United Kingdom2009Jade Ewen It's my time
13Estonia2009Urban Symphony Rändajad
14Sweden2006Carola Invincible
15Portugal2008Vânia FernandesSenhora do mar
16Iceland2009Yohanna Is it true?
17Greece2005Helena Paparizou My number one
18Finland2006Lordi Hard rock hallelujah
19Slovenia2007Alenka Gotar Cvet z juga
20Azerbaijan2009Aysel & Arash Always
21Ukraine2008Ani Lorak Shady lady
22Germany2006Texas Lightning No no never
23France2009Patricia Kaas Et s'il fallait le faire
24Bosnia & Herzegovina2006Hari Mata Hari Lejla

Another great video recap produced by Aaron Way. Many thanks to him!

How to vote

The wining song will be chosen in a "BigPoll" style voting. You will be able to arrange the songs from 1-24 and based on those results and where you are voting from, 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 points will be given per country. Of course, no country will be able to vote for itself. We want to give you some more time to think about how you are going to vote but the poll will open in the upcoming days.

How the finalists were chosen

  1. In the first round, the best song of each country was chosen. San Marino and Slovakia both only had one song taking part in this decade so those two were directly qualified for the second round. Having been submitted by the Serbian broadcaster, the 2004 entry from Serbia & Montenegro was added to the list of Serbia while the 2005 entry was added to the list of Montenegro.
  2. The 46 songs that reach the second round were allocated in two semi finals. A poll was held, where every reader can choose his or her favourite song. The top eleven of each semi final went forward to the grand final. A twelfth song for each semi final was chosen by an esctoday.com jury. The jury consisted of 15 members and each member could rate all songs with 1-5 points.