National Final Award Winners

More results in the 2007 esctoday.com awards are announced: Let's see who won in the categories Best national final, Best national final performance not to qualify for Eurovision, Best male national final performance not to qualify for Eurovision, Best female national final performance not to qualify for Eurovision and Best duo/group national final performance not to qualify for Eurovision.

Best national final

1. Melodifestivalen (Sweden)
2. Misión Eurovisión (Spain)
3. Et si on gagnait? (France)
4. Malta Song for Europe
5. Dansk Melodi Grand Prix (Denmark)

There can be no doubt about the winner with Swedish Melodifestivalen being way in front getting 54.4% of the votes – it is one of only two awards with an absolute majority. The selection including four semi finals, a second chance round and the grand final won the second year running, which might be not the biggest surprise in the 2007 esctoday.com awards. Spanish Misión Euróvision is in second place, the rather complicated national final – a mixture of a talent search style contest and a song search got 17.3% of the votes. Et si on gagnait?, the French selection, was the only "classic" national final nominated and finished third (10.8%) with Malta Song for Europe and Dansk Melodi Grand Prix close behind scoring 9.8% and 7.9% respectively.

Best national final performance not to qualify for Eurovision

1. Mirela with La reina de la noche (Spain)
2. Jannicke Abrahamsen with Rocket ride (Norway)
3. Hele Kõre & Kristjan Kasearu with Romeo ja Julia (Estonia)
4. Hania Stach with Re-group(Poland)
5. Gunars Kalninš & Jolanda Suvorova with What a love can do to me (Latvia)

With 48.9%, it was a very clear victory for Mirela who won ahead of Jannicke Abrahamsen who got 22.9% of the votes. Hele Kõre & Kristjan Kasearuand Hania Stach were very close in third and fourth position with 11.7% and 11.3% while Gunars Kalninš & Jolanda Suvorova were by far less popular getting only 5.1%.

You can enjoy Mirela's performance, voted best national final act not to qualify here:

Best male national final performance not to qualify for Eurovision

1. Måns Zelmerlöw with Cara mia (Sweden)
2. Jónsi with Segðu mér (Iceland)
3. Slobodan Trkulja with Nebo (Serbia)
4. Kevin Borg with Whenever (Malta)
5. Ionuţ Ungureanu with Time (Romania)

In this category, we can find the second absolute majority and again, it is related to Sweden: Måns Zelmerlöw scored 54.2%; previously, he had already won the OGAE second chance contest. 2004 Icelandic representative Jónsi follows in second place with 16.4% ahead of Slobodan Trkulja who reached 12.3% of the votes. Kevin Borg and Ionuţ Ungureanu finished very close with 8.8& and 8.3% respectively.

Mans performing Cara Mia in the Swedish final:

Best female national final performance not to qualify for Eurovision

1. Mirela with La reina de la noche (Spain)
2. Sonja Aldén with För att du finns (Sweden)
3. Hania Stach with Re-group (Poland)
4. Ruta Šciogolevaite with If I ever make you cry (Lithuania)
5. Meri Voskanyan with Carry me in (Armenia)

After her vastly superior victory in the Best national final performance category, it is no surprise that Mirelay also won this prize, even if this time "only" with 41.4%. With 34.8%, Sonja Aldén is a very strong runner-up. The following three acts were by far less popular and Hania Stach, Ruta Šciogolevaite and Meri Voskanyan scored only 9.3%, 9.0% and 5.6% respectively.

Best duo/group national final performance not to qualify for Eurovision

1. Monrose with Even heaven cries (Germany)
2. Crash! with Wannabe (Norway)
3. Medi-T with On and on (France)
4. Hele Kõre & Kristjan Kasearu with Romeo ja Julia (Estonia)
5. Gunars Kalninš & Jolanda Suvorova with What a love can do to me (Latvia)

Monrose from Germany got 39.7% and won way ahead of Crash! from Norway who got 23.4%. Medi-T follow in third place with 20.1% ahead of the two Baltic duos who were by far less popular and scored 10.7% and 6.1% respectively.

Monrose's award winning performance:

More results coming soon.