Many of our visitors contacted esctoday.com with questions about the Big Poll and downloading songs of the Eurovision Song Contest 2003. In this news item we'll try to give a brief answer to your questions.

The Big Poll 2003 will be officially open as soon as all songs for the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 are available for listening. We decided to launch the poll at that specific time and not earlier as some sites do, because it's not fair in our opinion to vote for songs that are not available. As you might know, the whole concept behind the Big Poll is not to vote for your favorites, but to predict the points your country will give! For one of the right predictors we have a surprise!

Due to very strict copyright rules made up by record companies, esctoday.com will not offer the songs of the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 for downloading. Instead of that we will co-operate with the official Eurovision 2003 website eurovision.tv to provide you with streaming sound files. That means that you can only listen to the songs online, but not download them.

We expect to offer the sound files and the official launch of the Big Poll 2003 in the upcoming week!

Some already found the Big Poll 2003 and voted too. This message is a short reminder that the votes will be reset when the Big Poll opens officially.