The voting in the fourth annual esctoday.com awards is currently taking place. While the polls are open, we use the time to take a look back at the nominations for these awards 2006-2009.

• You can vote in the 2009 esctoday.com awards here.

The statistics below only refer to the nominations for the awards in the Eurovision Song Contest categories. You can find out more about the nominations in the national final categories here.

Most nominations 2006-2009

Ukraine is the country that got the most nominations over the last four years followed very closely by Iceland with only one nomination less. The only countries that have never received a nomination are Monaco, Austria and San Marino, but those countries also each competed only once between 2006 and 2009. The complete list looks as follows:

1. Ukraine – 21
2. Iceland – 20
3. Norway – 17
4. Turkey – 14
5. Portugal – 12
   Sweden – 12
6. Estonia – 11
   France – 11
   Greece – 11
   United Kingdom – 11
7. Bosnia & Herzegovina – 10
   Israel – 10
8. Finland – 9
   Spain – 9
9. Armenia – 8
   Hungary – 8
   Russia – 8
10. Germany – 7
    Netherlands – 7
    Serbia – 7
11. Andorra – 6
    Bulgaria – 6
12. Azerbaijan – 5
    Denmark – 5
    Lithuania – 5
    Malta – 5
    Romania – 5
    Slovenia – 5
13. Belarus – 4
    Cyprus – 4
    Georgia – 4
    Ireland – 4
    Moldova – 4
    Poland – 4
14. Belgium – 3
    Latvia – 3
    Switzerland – 3
15. Albania – 2
    Croatia – 2
    FYR Macedonia – 2
    Montenegro – 2
16. Czech Republic – 1
    Slovakia – 1
17. Austria – 0
    Monaco – 0
    San Marino – 0

Most nominations per year

So far, the countries getting the most nominations have changed every year. However, Norway and Iceland got the second and third most nominations last year and tie for first place in the statistics this year.

2006	2007	2008	2009
Finland – 5 Sweden – 5 Ukraine – 4 Bosnia & H. – 3 Germany – 3 Belgium – 2 Greece – 2 Ireland – 2 Poland – 2 Romania – 2 Russia – 2 UK – 2 Andorra – 1 Bulgaria – 1 Croatia – 1 Cyprus – 1 Estonia – 1 Iceland – 1 Israel – 1 Latvia – 1 Lithuania – 1 FYR Macedonia – 1 Portugal – 1 Slovenia – 1 Spain – 1 Turkey – 1	Hungary – 6 Serbia – 6 Netherlands – 5 Georgia – 4 Germany – 4 Iceland – 4 Spain – 4 Bulgaria – 3 Moldova – 3 Russia – 3 Slovenia – 3 Turkey – 3 Ukraine – 3 Andorra – 2 Armenia – 2 Israel – 2 Latvia – 2 Malta – 2 Portugal – 2 Albania – 1 Belarus – 1 Bosnia & H. – 1 Cyprus – 1 Denmark – 1 Estonia – 1 Greece – 1 Lithuania – 1 Norway – 1 Sweden – 1 UK – 1	Ukraine – 8 Norway – 7 Iceland – 6 Israel – 5 Portugal – 5 Greece – 4 France – 3 Romania – 3 Russia – 3 Turkey – 3 Andorra – 2 Armenia – 2 Azerbaijan – 2 Denmark – 2 Finland – 2 Malta – 2 Poland – 2 Sweden – 2 Belarus – 1 Belgium – 1 Bosnia & H. – 1 Bulgaria – 1 Estonia – 1 Hungary – 1	Iceland – 9 Norway – 9 Estonia – 8 France – 8 Turkey – 7 UK – 7 Ukraine – 6 Bosnia & H. – 5 Armenia – 4 Greece – 4 Portugal – 4 Sweden – 4 Azerbaijan – 3 Spain – 3 Belarus – 2 Cyprus – 2 Denmark – 2 Finland – 2 Israel – 2 Lithuania – 2 Montenegro – 2 Switzerland – 2 Albania – 1 Andorra – 1 Bulgaria – 1 Croatia – 1 Czech Rep. – 1 Hungary – 1 Ireland – 1 Malta – 1 Moldova – 1 Netherlands – 1 Slovakia- 1

Tomorrow, we will introduce the nominees in the category Song of the year.