The Eurovision 2016 promotional tour has now come to an end. On Sunday the London Eurovision Party closed the pre-party season with a bang, with a respectable 18 participants previewing their Eurovision entries for the British audience at Cafe de Paris in London. The overall standard of performances was quite high, but we want to know who you thought performed best.

Did fan favourite Amir from France blow the roof off? Did Eurovision pre-party virgins Nicky Byrne from Ireland and Frans from Sweden rock your socks? Let us know in our poll! And no: You cannot vote for Destiny Chukunyere (but you can watch her live performance in our YouTube playlist).

Below are the 18 Eurovision 2016 acts that performed at the London Eurovision Party. After you’ve viewed them all, vote for your favourites. You can vote for as many acts as you’d like, but you can only vote ONE time. Be sure to click the box next to each act you want to support before pressing submit.

London Eurovision Party: Recap (All 18 Performances)

ALBANIA – ENEDA TARIFA WITH “FAIRYTALE”

AUSTRIA – ZOË WITH “LOIN D’ICI”

BULGARIA – POLI GENOVA WITH “IF LOVE WAS A CRIME”

CROATIA – NINA KRALJIC WITH “LIGHTHOUSE”

CYPRUS – MINUS ONE WITH “ALTER EGO”

FRANCE – AMIR WITH “J’AI CHERCHÉ”

FYR MACEDONIA – KALIOPI WITH “DONA”

ICELAND – GRETA SALÓME WITH “HEAR THEM CALLING”

IRELAND – NICKY BYRNE WITH “SUNLIGHT”

ITALY – FRANCESCA MICHIELIN WITH “NO DEGREE OF SEPARATION”

LATVIA – JUSTS WITH “HEARTBEAT”

MALTA – IRA LOSCO WITH “WALK ON WATER”

MONTENEGRO – HIGHWAY WITH “THE REAL THING”

POLAND – MICHAL SZPAK WITH “COLOUR OF YOUR LIFE”

ROMANIA – OVIDIU ANTON WITH “MOMENT OF SILENCE”

SPAIN – BAREI WITH “SAY YAY!”

SWEDEN – FRANS WITH “IF I WERE SORRY”

UNITED KINGDOM – JOE AND JAKE WITH “YOU’RE NOT ALONE”

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12 cung hoang dao nu
7 years ago

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Jessica
Jessica
7 years ago

I like Poland the most then Bulgaria and erm prolly France

Miki
Miki
7 years ago

In my opinion Sweden`s entry is a rip off of Matt Simons` song “Catch and release”. The tune through the entire song is much too similar to Matt`s song. Even the rhythmic structure is almost identical. I hope there will be an investigation about that.

BeataS
BeataS
7 years ago

@ w?sinska to mi?o, ?e sprostowa?as, ?e to ty nie lubisz tej piosenki. Widz?, ?e sobie odpu?ci? nie mo?ecie, wy fani Margaret. Mia?a jechac…? ale jakim cudem skoro przegra?a, bo nie umie ?piewa? na ?ywo tym swoim p?askim wokalem. Poza tym to spekulowanie,?e Micha? nie wygra jest co najmniej niestosowne i nie na miejscu. A ty skoro tak kibicujesz Micha?owi to kibicuj dalej i nie wyskakuj tu z Margaret. To tyle.

w?sinska
w?sinska
7 years ago

BeataS nie lubi? tej piosenki i nikt nikomu nie ur?ga ja mu kibicuje dlatego jest ten top ale on nie wygra jestem fank? Eurowizji a jecha? mia?a Margaret to tyle .

BeataS
BeataS
7 years ago

@ w?sinska a mo?e raczej Anulkaaa ( haha ,zdradzi? Ci? znaczek, ) ty mnie nie u?wiadamiaj i zastanów si? co piszesz , bo najpierw umieszczasz Micha?a na pierwszym miejscu w swoim top, po czym wyje?d?asz z komentarzem , który ur?ga Micha?owi. A sk?d Ty mo?esz wiedzie? ,co kto my?li o piosence Micha?a, po co wyje?d?asz z takim tekstem. Przecie? to nie tajemnica , ?e wi?kszo?? tu g?osuj?ca to rodacy, którzy oddaj? swój g?os na reprezentanta w?asnego kraju. A pozycja Micha?a wynika z tego, ?e nam tu rodacy troch? przysn?li 😉 Ja tych ankiet do ko?ca na serio nie bior?, bo… Read more »

w?sinska
w?sinska
7 years ago

@Beatas zdaj sobie spraw? w ko?cu ,?e piosenka Micha?a nie jest lubiana zeby nie wasze nabijanie mia?by mniej niz zero

BeataS
BeataS
7 years ago

Poland on the ninth place??? is it a joke??? even a boring performance Iceland is on the higher place ! OMG 🙁

Anulkaaa
Anulkaaa
7 years ago

@Lilo This is my top

Lilo
Lilo
7 years ago

@Anulkaaa

Russia wasn’t even there, FYI. So how can you tell it was the best performance of LEP?

Anulkaaa
Anulkaaa
7 years ago

1. Poland 2 .Russia 3. Spain 4.France 5.Poli.

AurelianTamisan
AurelianTamisan
7 years ago

The questio in the poll is ‘who had the best live performance’, not which is your favourite song. So, I understand that people think that Anton and Kaliopi were almost the worst?! Good job then!

bella
bella
7 years ago

Sorry for my mistake.Amir on itunes is 21 in Armenia,24 in Israel and 127 in France.

bella
bella
7 years ago

Frans is doing well on itunes in Estonia he is 4, in Sweden 6 and 21 in Lithuania.Amir is 96 in France and 127 in Armenia,21 in another country but I dont remember the country.

Did027
Did027
7 years ago

@bella. It’s ok bella. I know u r not a bad person but you must know, those moments are still so difficult In France as it is in Belgium , UK, Spain etc….. . Ok bella good luck to your country and let’s celebrate life during the contest

lenny
lenny
7 years ago

1.Poland 2.Latvia 3.Croatia ?

lenny
lenny
7 years ago

Poland ????

Happy
Happy
7 years ago

Shame on me – I forgot to mention Kaliopi! Honestly, wasn’t a fan of her and wasn’t paying attention to her and her song when getting to know other this years performers on YouTube. And it’s shame on me twice! What a beautiful lady inside and out she is!! Bubbly personality, pure and honest! And UK absolutely adores her and now I really get why! After the show she stayed and chatted with EVERY single person who approached her (and trust me there was and incredible queue!) did pictures, gave his and signed autographs and was honestly interested in EVERY… Read more »

Happy
Happy
7 years ago

Poli was mind blowing at LEP! She has a great voice, stunning looks and absolutely radiant personality! She is like a ball of energy! When she performed on Sunday you couldn’t do anything apart from watching her on stage and smile all the way through! And when she went to perform with Amir was like a cherry on top – it was so adorable and funny how they tried to sing each other’s songs. And that hug at the end, aww… Also I surprisingly liked Amir. When was going to LEP he wasn’t even in my top 10, but now… Read more »

bella
bella
7 years ago

DidO27 I said that I am sorry.Im not a bad person.I was angry that’s why I said what I was said.Im really sorry .Of course I didnt mean what I said.

Jeremsback
Jeremsback
7 years ago

DavidWho, Did027, COMPLETELY AGREE WITH YOU !!!! ^^

David Who
David Who
7 years ago

Well France and Belgium are not alone in being attacked. I grew up in the UK, and I have lived through several terror attacks on this country, first by the IRA (for decades) and then by Islamic extremists (in 2005). Spain has been attacked by ETA in the past, as well as islamic extremists; Norway had the Brevik bombings; Bulgaria had a suicide bombing in 2012; even Austria was attacked by the ‘Bavarian Liberation army’ in 1995! If you really want a full list of those attacks (at least in the EU), here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_European_Union Of course, this has… Read more »

edmed
edmed
7 years ago

for me , Francesca from Italy was the best.

Did027
Did027
7 years ago

@bella. Shame on you !!!!!!! We are in a song contest so please respect those who died during those attacks. Leave us alone . We just want to have fun and play music during the contest even if France is not the winner

NL
NL
7 years ago

Iceland was really great!!!! Latvia, Malta, Bulgaria and Spain aswell but thats nothing new

Nicky91
Nicky91
7 years ago

my top 5 in London Party:

1. Ira Losco

2. Michal Szpak

3. Poli Genova

4. Barei

5. Amir

Jeremsback
Jeremsback
7 years ago

Bella, this is not a matter of considering to deserve the win or not. I will be pleased if France will win this year after so many time and bad performances, but in any case, we can use the terrible events happening last year and this year as an argument not to vote for a country such as France or Belgium as exemple.

Good to see you agree now !
Bye

bella
bella
7 years ago

I have to admit that it was very bad that comment that I wrote before.Im so sorry.I didnt mean that.France really deserve the win.I know that.

Jeremsback
Jeremsback
7 years ago

@Bella, put Terrors attack in the balance for choice of best singer on a simple song contest is not only stupid but mainly shocking, especially for the french guy I am ….

Please turn you tongue (or fingers) seven times to think before to write a comment like this ! or just don’t write anything rather than that !

What a shame !

adriana
adriana
7 years ago

Lovely agree with everything you said

Lovely
Lovely
7 years ago

In my opinion Michal from Poland is one of the best singers this year,he delivers on every live,he is got incredible voice. Poli – great song,great stage presence but bad voice live. Eneda Ovidiu Kaliopi/ great voices ,terrible songs.

boyan08
boyan08
7 years ago

Kaliopi sing like she is on the live show!She is the best!The other singers are nothing for her!
1.Macedonia
[….after 9898977 places……]
9898978.Poland
9898979.Croatia
9898980.Iceland
9898981.France
[All others were Bad]

bella
bella
7 years ago

All of you are so jealous of Sweden.For all of you every artist had charisma except from Frans all can win except from Frans.if I were sorry doing exyremely well in spotify.Why you dont buy your favourite jai cherche? I hope Sweden win both juryand televote to prove you that ypu are all wrong! Eurovision os a bit political and why should we send the contest in a country with terror attacks? Even on Russia is better.

Nicky91
Nicky91
7 years ago

@adriana

hi my friend, and is Ira one of them who impresses you? 🙂

and how’s the weather in essex?

Carly
Carly
7 years ago

I voted for Kaliopi and Nina. I really don’t get it the ones who says than Nina lacks of the stage presence. Nina is a different kind of artist. You will not see her dancing or jumping. She stands and sings but with such grace and unique beauty. I like those kind of artists. She doesn’t try too much to be unique – she is who she is and That’s beautiful. I just hope that people will recognize that and vote for Croatia. It would be a horrible mistake that great performer like Nina herself and masterpiece like “Lighthouse” stay… Read more »

Tim
Tim
7 years ago

Zoë got the biggest applause, she has great charisma – that hopefully can be transportrd during ESC as well.

adriana
adriana
7 years ago

There are quite few who never fail to impress live and thats im gonna vote ,not because the song is catchy…The real live performances we will see at Stolchom and then we will know who is good…I dont care if the song isnt catchy or memorable if live your not good for me your done and im sure millions think just the way i do.

Nicky91
Nicky91
7 years ago

for me Ira Losco sang great and she’s now the third most viewed entry this year on YouTube

she made it sound easy, while it isn’t easy to sing like this, she seemed also the most comfortable on that stage, also loved the duet with Destiny of her song 7th wonder 🙂

so i voted for Poli and Ira 🙂 🙂

David Who
David Who
7 years ago

Amir appeared to be hitting the notes just fine, so I don’t know why others are concerned. Here is the official London live link if you wanna hear for yourselves:
http://youtu.be/jSonlZYSF3o

MS
MS
7 years ago

Amir sang “j’ai cherché” very well and he was fabulous on stage singing “golden boy”.
No problem for stockholm , Amir will be ready to deliver his performance.it’s a great contender for the victory .
Michal Szpak has a wonderful voice as always but the song is so boring!
i like nina’s voice and her song but her presence on stage is not good enough and the dress is awful.
I like Spain and Italy too.

Hedvig
Hedvig
7 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvLSFOB6Ps8

We’re gonna have some fun this year, don’t we? (??-)

bella
bella
7 years ago

Loo Sergey is losing momentum but Sweden doesnt gain any momentum. I hope agter rehearsal people to change mind about Frans.

Stan
Stan
7 years ago

Amir hit the high notes very well 😉

and as for Saint Petersburg 2017: Let’s call out to all broadcasters to make it the gayest ever 😉

adriana
adriana
7 years ago

France
Poland
Romania
Croatia
These was the best in my opinion

Krerma
Krerma
7 years ago

Spain, france, croatia and iceland

Strumpf
Strumpf
7 years ago

Amir can’t hit the high notes yet. Don’t think he has them in him. Too much auto-tune in the studio version, I fear.

This could become a massive failure from one of the favorites in the great final day, considering how clear the sound goes through our TV speakers…”Le coq français”

Angel
7 years ago

@Landi: Only a interview in spanish of Barei.
@David Who: I thought like you, but now I’m not sure. I think Russia could censor a lot of things in the ESC or change others. Anyway my favourite this year is France so I will vote for Amir. I want to say to everybody that if you want to vote for Russia I hope you will, thinking that things can change in a good way. But I think that we couldn’t forget this incident and Hovi deserves respect and support of the eurofans.

David Who
David Who
7 years ago

Just about the London Eurovision Party: I really enjoyed Barei’s performance for Spain. Looks like she might do better than expected. 🙂

Lanti
7 years ago

@Angel
Are there any other articles about the incident?

David Who
David Who
7 years ago

@Angel: I understand your point of view, and what happened is very hurtful. I would please ask that you hear my point of view before boycotting Russia in the voting. My view is that if Russia is left to its own devices, things will get worse rather than better. People of any culture need to be reminded that we all live together on one planet, called Earth. We are all different, but we all have to live together. Bringing the ESC to Russia again can help remind its culture of the true diversity of the world. One man (Hovi Star)… Read more »