esctoday.com TOP TEN: These are the top 50

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The sixth esctoday.com TOP TEN list was presented this week and it was actually a trivia quiz including 50 questions about the ten countries with the most entries in the Eurovision Song Contest to date. Now it is time to reveal the contestants who reached the top 50.

These are thw answers to yesterday's questions:

  1. In 2006, Virginie Pouchain was not happy with the song Nous, c'est vous which she was supposed to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest in Athens. Songwriter Corneille agreed and wrote a new song for her. As all that happened on short notice, the French broadcaster had to ask for a delay. We did not accept the answer 1979, when the national final was not held due to a strike, as the question was when the broadcaster asked for a delay after the song already had been chosen.

    This question was worth 38 points.

  2. The song was called Viens.

    This question wasworth 41 points.
  3. We were looking for singer Dalida here, who performed the song Buenas Noches mi amor, which was also recorded by André Claveau. We also accepted the answer Francis Lemarque, who also performed as part of the interval act in 1958.

    This question was qorth 50 points.

  4. The 1996 entry Diwanit bugale was entirely performed in Breton. Breton is actually no dialect of French but a Celtic language.

    This question was worth 47 points.

  5. Paule Desjardins recorded the song in 1957, the same year when she represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest.

    This question was worth 48 points.

So now is the big moment to reveal the contestants who reached the top fifty. The maximum score was 1275.

Pl.
Contestant
Points
1
Maahniac
1185
2
Constantinos S.
1167
3
danoples
1163
4 Magique d'amour 1124
5 mm227 1116
6 Calderón de Vega 1098
7 jorgetomas 1078
8 Alex B. 1065
9 JKMMOC 1062
10 Mästerkatten 1058
11 Rybakfan1992 1047
12 Jonathan Hendrickxx 1038
13 Waterman 1034
14 MP Jena 1011
15 w s 984
16 esc1963 980
17 finian 964
18 enamilosevic 962
19 Rob_S_ESC 950
20 fitbaws 940
21 Andreas B 928
22 American Andy 896
23 Serduchka Mick 871
24 Pascal B 862
25 Morten Seest 829
26 AJJS5656 819
27 Euroklaus 809
28 enck 802
29 Tom_Pillibi 788
30 em er 756
31 HHStephan 752
32 tasos roukas 730
33 simderuyter 675
34 die sommermelodie 671
35 Stevo_1988 634
36 Nata 15 560
37 Ben (NL) 404
38 adrianmg26 364
39 EuroGary 343
40 kadvolis 341
41 goodeveningeurope 321
42 Friedha 299
43 ESCGoofy 291
44 SamRoss125 280
45 Benedict 274
46 Cristy66 267
47 Gary H. 261
48 Stian M. A. 255
49 TasosV 229
50 keisaj 135

So congratulations to Maahniac, Constantinos S. and danoples!

These are the prizes for the top three:

  1. The winner gets to choose one of the following albums of Eurovision constestants in 2010:

    My cassette player by Lena
    Sehr i hüzün by Manga
    My war by Safura
    Teardrops by Tom Dice

  2. The second and third placed contestants both get a 10 € itunes store gift coupon.

Now we will also reveal the percentages of correct answers submitted per question (ordered by number of points):

Points
Country
Topic
Correct answers
1 UK Emma 96.00%
2 UK James Bond 92.00%
3 Spain OT 2003 88.00%
4 Sweden G:son 78.00%
5 UK Lead singers 98.00%
6 UK Booing 90.00%
7 UK Diane Warren 84.00%
8 Sweden No. 1 hits 78.00%
9 Sweden Family Four 90.00%
10 Sweden Four seasons 80.00%
11 Spain TNT 70.00%
12 Finland Ossi Runne 90.00%
13 Sweden Stig Anderson 88.00%
14 Spain Tango 80.00%
15 Finland Lapponia cover 56.00%
16 Netherlands Airforce 90.00%
17 Switzerland No. 1 hit 80.49%
18 Spain La la la 92.00%
19 Finland Last place 1990 82.00%
20 Spain Two performances 26.00%
21 Netherlands Soundmixshow 12.00%
22 Switzerland David Brandes 34.15%
23 Belgium Minimalistic lyrics 82.93%
24 Norway Anne Karine 97.56%
25 Netherlands Teddy Scholten 82.00%
26 Finland Lyricist award 62.00%
27 Netherlands 1996 scoreboard 92.00%
28 Switzerland Backing singer 92.68%
29 Netherlands 2006 jury 84.00%
30 Norway Language change 75.61%
31 Switzerland Celine Dion 95.12%
32 Belgium Ann Christy 92.68%
33 Switzerland Madonna composer 60.98%
34 Norway Åse Kleveland 75.61%
35 Belgium No first win 1986 78.05%
36 Norway Aldri i livet 100.00%
37 Belgium Sandra Kim 80.49%
38 France Delay 73.68%
39 Belgium Johnny Logan 24.39%
40 Finland Stamps 72.00%
41 France Séverine 60.53%
42 Norway Anita Skorgan 31.71%
43 Germany Booing 65.85%
44 Germany 1978 82.93%
45 Germany Busch postcard 65.85%
46 Germany 2004 CD 85.37%
47 France Song not in French 97.37%
48 France Il est là 65.79%
49 Germany Chancellor impersonator 2.44%
50 France 1958 interval 26.32%

This concludes our sixth esctoday.com TOP TEN list. We hope you enjoyed this quiz and that you will take part again (or for the first time) in the next edition which will be held in early October. Unlike this quiz, it will not be about ten countries but about ten editions of the Eurovision Song Contest which will be determined through a poll. There will be two editions of the 1950s and 1960s as well as two editions of every other decade. The most recent contest will be excluded.

Now it is time to reveal the topic of next week's TOP TEN list, which will be a regular one again. It will be:

  • …the ectoday.com TOP TEN best selling Eurovision Song Contest contestants