Eurovision Song Contest: my top 40 of the last 10 years

Hi all!

Today the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 is exactly 6 months ago. Time for me to reflect on the past 10 years. As you may know by now, I love to make lists out of everything. Therefore I decided to make a top 40 of my favorite Eurovision-songs of the years 2006-2015. I can imagine that even the Eurovision-fans among you may have trouble remembering some of the songs. That's why I made a recap video of my top 10 as well. You can find both this video and the entire top 40 below.

Which are your favorite Eurovision-songs? Feel free to share them in a comment or a personal message. :)

Video:

The complete list:

Rank	Country	Artist	Song	Year	Result
1	Norway	Alexander Rybak	Fairytale	2009	Winner
2	Hungary	Magdi Rúzsa	Unsubstantial Blues	2007	9
3	Finland	Lordi	Hardrock Hallelujah	2006	Winner
4	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Hari Mata Hari	Lejla	2006	3
5	Belgium	Tom Dice	Me And My Guitar	2010	6
6	Sweden	Sanna Nielsen	Undo	2014	3
7	Switzerland	Anna Rossinelli	In Love For A While	2011	25
8	Austria	The Makemakes	I'm Yours	2015	26
9	Lithuania	LT United	We Are The Winners	2006	6
10	Latvia	Aarzemnieki	Cake To Bake	2014	SF13
11	Turkey	Can Bonomo	Love Me Back	2012	7
12	Switzerland	Takasa	You And Me	2013	SF13
13	Finland	Paradise Oskar	Da Da Dam	2011	21
14	Denmark	A Friend In London	New Tomorrow	2011	5
15	Finland	Krista Siegfrieds	Marry Me	2013	24
16	Malta	Gianluca Bezzina	Tomorrow	2013	8
17	Denmark	Simon Matthew	All Night Long	2008	15
18	Finland	Softengine	Something Better	2014	11
19	Estonia	Getter Jaani	Rockefeller Street	2011	24
20	Cyprus	John Karagiannis	One Thing I Should Have Done	2015	22
21	Germany	Lena	Satellite	2010	Winner
22	Ireland	Molly Sterling	Playing With Numbers	2015	SF12
23	Switzerland	Sebalter	Hunter Of Stars	2014	13
24	Azerbaijan	Ell & Nikki	Running Scared	2011	Winner
25	United Kingdom	Electro Velvet	Still In Love With You	2015	24
26	Iceland	Yohanna	Is It True	2009	2
27	Denmark	Basim	Cliche Love Song	2014	9
28	Belgium	Loïc Nottet	Rhythm Inside	2015	4
29	Germany	Roman Loeb	Standing Still	2012	8
30	Russia	Serebro	Song #1	2007	3
31	Sweden	Loreen	Euphoria	2012	Winner
32	Netherlands	The Common Linnets	Calm After The Storm	2014	2
33	Switzerland	SinPlus	Unbreakable	2012	SF11
34	Belarus	Dmitry Koldun	Work Your Magic	2007	6
35	Belarus	Teo	Sweet Cheesecake	2014	16
36	Denmark	Anti Social Media	The Way You Are	2015	SF13
37	Greece	Kalomoira	My Secret Combination	2008	3
38	Hungary	Boggie	Wars For Nothing	2015	20
39	Azerbaijan	Aysel & Arash	Always	2009	3
40	Denmark	Emmelie De Forest	Only Teardrops	2013	Winner

ISC#7: the results

After a very exciting voting process, a winner has been chosen in the seventh edition of the International Song Contest on this blog. Unlike in the real Eurovision Song Contest I didn't manipulate the voting order and yet it was uncertain till the very end who would take home the victory in this contest.

You can check out the voting process and watch which coutry will take victory via this link. Enjoy!

For those of you who like the real Eurovision Song Contest as well, stay tuned to this blog. Soon I will post my top 40 of my favorite songs from Eurovision of the past 10 years, including a recap video of my top 10.

And don't worry, you won't have to vote for your favorites this time. ;)

International Song Contest 7

Hello and welcome to edition 7 of the International Song Contest. This time all of my Facebook-friends got the opportunity to participate and share a song with the world and quite a few of you did. Thank you for that! This makes this edition a very diverse contest with lots of amazing songs. I hope you enjoy listening to them and as always there is a voting section below where I kindly ask you to vote for your favorites in Eurovision-style. Any vote is extremely appreciated. :)

Voting rules:
- Voting goes via the traditional Eurovision-system, see below.
- You can vote for your own country and/or your own entry, as long as you promise to vote honestly. You can also ask one of your friends to vote, as long as this friend votes based on his/her own taste and not on your advice. :)
- You can vote until 17 November 6:00pm CET.
- Voting tip: personally I find it easy to rate the songs I like 1-5* while listening to the recap video and rank them afterwards based on this rating.

After the voting has ended I will publish the results on my blog and make a fancy animation of the voting process, to give the viewer the feeling that he or she is watching the results of the real Eurovision song contest. If you include your e-mailaddress, I will send you an e-mail when the final result is published.

Recap video:


ISC#7 Recap Video door laurensverhoef

List of participants (now with links to YouTube):

1.	Israel	The Young Professionals	Be With You Tonight
2.	Venezuela	Lasso	Libertad
3.	Lithuania	The Ball And Chain	Tu Ateik į Pasimatymą
4.	Croatia	Luminize	Get It Back
5.	Norway	Aurora	Running With The Wolves
6.	Slovakia	Miro Smajda & Terrapie	Každý Deň
7.	Iceland	Dikta	We'll Meet Again
8.	Switzerland	Dania Giò	S'il Nous Plaît
9.	South Africa	Blackbyrd ft. Craig Hinds	From The Bottom Of My Heart
10.	Russia	Gluk'oZa	Vozmi Menya Za Ruku
11.	Finland	Niila	Sorry
12.	Sweden	Novah	When The Storm Arrived
13.	France	Cats On Trees, Calogero	Jimmy
14.	Denmark	Nik & Jay feat. Søren Huss	Ocean Of You
15.	Malta	Red Electrick ft. MPO	Young Again
16.	Hungary	Gábor Alfréd Fehérvári	Mary Joe
17.	Spain	María Villalón	Descalza
18.	Colombia	Esteman ft. Monsieur Periné, Juan Pablo Vega y La Esteband	True Love
19.	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Dubioza Kolektiv	U.S.A.
20.	Netherlands	Kensington	Streets
21.	Moldova	Dima Trofim	Cersesc Iubire
22.	Brazil	Adriana Mezzadri	Marcas De Ayer

Voting section:

Voting is over!