esctoday.com are pleased to announce the winners of the awards categories for Performance of the year and Best act not to qualify from the semi final. Eurovision Song Contest fans have voted Verka Serduchka as the best performance of 2007, meanwhile, Eviridiki has been voted the best act not to qualify from the semi final.

Performance of the year

1. Verka Serduchka of Ukraine for Dancing lasha tumbai
2. Magdi Rúzsa of Hungary for Unsubstantial blues
3. Alenka Gotar of Slovenia for Cvet z juga
4. Marija Šerifovićof Serbia for Molitva
5. Natalia Barbu of Moldova for Fight

Verka Serduchka from Ukraine was the clear favourite of the voters and got 26.6% of the votes for her shrill performance of Dancing lasha tumbai. Magdi Rúzsa finished second for her more simple but effective performance of Unsubstantial blues (21.7%) with Alenka Gotar from Slovenia very close behind in third place getting 21.0% of the votes. Winner Marija Šerifović only finished fourth (17.1%) while Natalia Barbu came fifth with 13.6%.

Watch the 2007 Perfomance of the year here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGMb5PakOQ

Best act not to qualify from the semi final

1. Evridiki of Cyprus with Comme ci, comme ça
2. Edsilia Rombley of the Netherlands with On top of the world
3. Anonymous of Andorra with Salvem el món
4. Sabrina of Portugal with Dança comigo (Vem ser feliz)
5. Eiríkur Haukssonof Iceland with Valentine lost

Three former Eurovision Song Contest participants were nominated in this category and two of them reached the top places with only a small margin in between: Evridiki won the award with23.7% with Edsilia Rombley very close behind getting 23.0%. With a more obvious gap, the Andorran representatives, Anonymous, follow with20.5%. Sabrina from Portugal (who was eleventh in the semi final and the singer who was the closest to being in the final) reached fourth position (16.7%) with Eirikúr Hauksson being close behind (16.0%).

Watch Evridiki's performance here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM9Co0NEfAw

More results coming soon.