Eurovision 2017: First results of ESCToday poll are in!

by Stratos Agadellis 13,438 views

After several weeks from the final release of all 42 Eurovision 2017 entries, we have collected the first results from your own rating on Facebook! ESCToday has once again organized a voting process via the Facebook reactions, where each reaction was counting as a set of points just like in the Eurovision Song Contest. 

We have done the math!

With 76 sets of 12 points and 345 sets of 10 points, the overall winner of the poll until now is Italy! The hot favorite for winning this year’s Eurovision has already reached more than 94 million views on YouTube and is the only one who has managed it so far. It is also quite impressing that in your rating the entry notes a huge difference of 1254 points from the runner-up Sweden, while in the rest of the scoreboard we see e.g. Romania to be ahead of the United Kingdom by only 1 point!

The list with the full voting results with the countries in points order derives as follows:

Participant Artist Song title FB Vote
Italy Francesco Gabbani Occidentali’s Karma 6142
Sweden Robin Bengtsson I Can’t Go On 4888
Israel Imri Ziv I Feel Alive 4529
Bulgaria Kristian Kostov Beautiful Mess 4487
France Alma Requiem 4408
 Belgium Blanche City Lights 4062
Portugal Salvador Sobral Amar pelos dois 4005
Romania Ilinca feat. Alex Florea Yodel It! 3624
United Kingdom Lucie Jones Never Give Up on You 3623
FYR Macedonia Jana Burčeska Dance Alone 3524
Estonia Koit Toome & Laura Verona 3514
Denmark Anja Where I am 3338
Iceland Svala Paper 3144
Greece Demy This is Love 3032
Finland Norma John Blackbird 2959
Poland Kasia Moś Flashlight 2887
Switzerland Timebelle Apollo 2820
Ireland Brendan Murray Dying to Try 2806
Azerbaijan Dihaj Skeletons 2758
Montenegro Slavko Kalezić Space 2691
Australia Isaiah Firebrace Don’t Come Easy 2569
Malta Claudia Faniello Breathlessly 2564
Armenia Artsvik Fly With Me 2550
Austria Nathan Trent Running on Air 2438
Cyprus Hovig Gravity 2410
Serbia Tijana Bogićević In Too Deep 2400
The Netherlands OG3NE Lights & Shadows 2261
Hungary Joci Pápai Origo 2246
Moldova SunStroke Project Hey Mamma! 2105
Norway JOWST & Aleksander Walmann Grab the Moment 2023
San Marino Valentina Monetta & Jimmie Wilson Spirit of the Night 1972
Belarus NAVI Historyja majho žyccia 1955
Latvia Triana Park Line 1867
Spain Manel Navarro Do It for Your Lover 1823
Germany Levina Perfect Life 1737
Georgia Tako Gachechiladze Keep the Faith 1635
Croatia Jacques Houdek My Friend 1594
Albania Lindita World 1593
Czech Republic Martina Bárta My Turn 1516
Ukraine O.Torvald Time 1392
Slovenia Omar Naber On My Way 1252
Lithuania Fusedmarc Rain of Revolution 1060

As you can see, the Top 5 is completed with Israel, Bulgaria and France, while Belgium, Portugal, Romania, United Kingdom and FYR Macedonia are the other 5 entries to enter the Top 10, according to your ratings.

Results of the two semi-finals

Presenting the results of the two semi-finals separately, the results come as follows:

Semi-Final 1

Participant Artist Song title FB Vote
Sweden Robin Bengtsson I Can’t Go On 4888
Belgium Blanche City Lights 4062
Portugal Salvador Sobral Amar pelos dois 4005
Iceland Svala Paper 3144
Greece Demy This is Love 3032
Finland Norma John Blackbird 2959
Poland Kasia Moś Flashlight 2887
Azerbaijan Dihaj Skeletons 2758
Montenegro Slavko Kalezić Space 2691
Australia Isaiah Firebrace Don’t Come Easy 2569
Armenia Artsvik Fly With Me 2550
Cyprus Hovig Gravity 2410
Moldova SunStroke Project Hey Mamma 2105
Latvia Triana Park Line 1867
Georgia Tako Gachechiladze Keep the Faith 1635
Albania Lindita World 1593
Czech Republic Martina Bárta My Turn 1516
Slovenia Omar Naber On My Way 1252


Robin Bengtsson
is leading the Facebook poll for the 1st Semi-Final on 9 May. That doesn’t surprise us, as since his announcement as the Swedish entrant in Melodifestivalen 2017, has always been one of the most favorites in all polls and odds. Belgium and Portugal, which also gain high placings in the odds, are 2nd and 3rd respectively.

Semi-Final 2

Participant Artist Song title FB Vote
Israel Imri Ziv I Feel Alive 4529
Bulgaria Kristian Kostov Beautiful Mess 4487
Romania Ilinca feat. Alex Florea Yodel It! 3624
FYR Macedonia Jana Burčeska Dance Alone 3524
Estonia Koit Toome & Laura Verona 3514
Denmark Anja Where I am 3338
Switzerland Timebelle Apollo 2820
Ireland Brendan Murray Dying to Try 2806
Malta Claudia Faniello Breathlessly 2564
Austria Nathan Trent Running on Air 2438
Serbia Tijana Bogićević In Too Deep 2400
The Netherlands O’G3NE Lights & Shadows 2261
Hungary Joci Pápai Origo 2246
Norway JOWST & Aleksander Walmann Grab the Moment 2023
San Marino Valentina Monetta & Jimmie Wilson Spirit of the Night 1972
Belarus NAVI Historyja majho žyccia 1955
Croatia Jacques Houdek My Friend 1594
Lithuania Fusedmarc Rain of Revolution 1060

On the top of the poll for semi-final 2 we find Israel with IMRI and his entry I feel alive with 4529 points. The singer has been awarded 46 shares (12 points) and 230 Love reactions (10 points). In this semi-final, very small differences to the total points are being observed (e.g. only 10 points between FYR Macedonia and Estonia), which can easily change, as the rating process is going on until the contest.

You can see in detail what sets of points has each country received so far in its participant profile in our official webpage.

So now we are waiting for you who haven’t casted your votes yet to do it! You may rate your favorite entries on our official page on Facebook via the participant profiles in esctoday.com.

The complete results from the ESCToday rating will be announced a little bit before the three shows in Kyiv in May.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2017 will be taking place on 9, 11 and 13 May at the IEC in Kyiv, Ukraine.