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***FINAL RESULTS NOW AVAILABLE! CLICK HERE***

Last year more than 35,000 people voted in Wiwi’s poll to determine who should win Eurovision. Now that all 39 countries have revealed their participants for 2010, it’s time to start voting again. You can cast your vote between now and May 22 at midnight. Wiwi will provide weekly updates on the standings.

Be sure to watch all of the contestants on Wiwi’s Eurovision Video Player before voting. You can also read the lyrics (including English translations of non-English songs) on Wiwi’s lyrics and translations page. It’s up to you, Europe! Start voting!

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Three weeks and 7,600 votes later, Lithuania’s ivory-tickling Sasha Son has climbed to the top of Wiwi’s ongoing poll to determine which Eurovision song fans are listening to the most. Sasha, whose surname means ‘dreamy’ in Russian, now claims 43% of all votes, putting him just ahead of Azeri duo Arash and Aysel, who stand at 41%. Romania’s Elena Gheorghe, the most voluptuous daughter of a priest ever to perform at Eurovision, is a distant third with 5%. Elena and Sasha, who finished 19th and 23rd at Eurovision, must wish that voting could take place two months after-the-fact.

Elsewhere, Eurovision winner Alexander Rybak jumps from seventh to fourth position, and Ukraine’s Svetlana Loboda, a.k.a “the stripper in a hamster wheel,” finally cracks the Top 10. Iceland’s Yohanna, one of Eurovision’s fashion casualties in 2009, drops out of the Top 10 and lands in twelfth position.

Review the most up-to-date results by clicking here, and visit Wiwi’s polling central to cast your vote! Polls close July 1 at midnight.

Results as of Saturday, June 27 at 6:20pm:

(1)  Lithuania, Sasha Son, “Love,” 43% (2)  Azerbaijan, Arash & Aysel, “Always,”41% (3)  Romania, Elena Gheorghe, “The Balkan Girls,” 5% (4)  Norway, Alexander Rybak, “Fairytale,” 3% (5)  Turkey, Hadise, “Düm Tek Tek,” 2% (6)  Greece, Sakis Rouvas, “This Is Our Night,” 2% (7)  Estonia, Urban Symphony, “Rändajad,” 1% (8)  Malta, Chiara, “What If We,” 1% (9)  Albania, Kejsi Tola, “Carry Me In Your Dreams,” < 1% (10) Ukraine, Svetlana Loboda, “Be My Valentine (Anti-Crisis Girl),” <1%

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Photo by: Nick Druzyakin

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Wiwi’s friends at The House of Eurovision have chosen Hungary’s Zoli Adok as this year’s recipient of the Barbara Dex Award, the infamous prize that honors Eurovision’s most heinous dresser. Adok, who looked like a graffiti artist vomited on him, won with 199 points, finishing well ahead of the Czech Republic’s Gipsy.cz (159), Bulgaria’s Krassimir Avramov (140) and Albania’s Kejsi Tola (115). The award is named after the 1993 Eurovision contestant from Belgium, who made the unfortunate decision to sew her own dress. She placed last in the song contest.

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Wiwi’s Eurovision poll opened on May 1 and closed on May 15 at 11:59pm. During that time voters cast a total of 35,802 votes, making this one of the largest Eurovision polls in the world. The results are:

(1) Turkey: 22% (7,809)

(2) Greece: 22% (7,807)

(3) Romania: 16% (5,825)

(4) Albania: 14% (5,133)

(5) Malta: 7% (2,503)

(6) Lithuania: 3% (1,024)

(7) Azerbaijan: 2% (841)

(8) Armenia: 2% (660)

(9) Norway: 2% (650)

(10) France: 1% (517)

Turkey’s Hadise edged out Greece’s Sakis Rouvas by just two votes, essentially placing the two in a deadlock. Romania fell to third following Greece’s showing in the second semi-final. Albania, who was a pleasant surprise on Thursday, overtook Malta’s Chiara for the first time. Lithuania and Azerbaijan held steady, while Armenia finally passed Norway, who may be suffering in the poll due to months of overexposure. France once again placed in the Top 10, suggested it may do the best of the Big 4 (despite oddsmakers backing Britain).

These predictions should be taken seriously. In addition to its size, Wiwi’s poll has proven incredibly accurate. On May 14, it predicted nine of the nine countries advancing from the second semi-final, matching its success during the first semi-final on May 12. (In both cases, the tenth country was selected by a jury of producers). Click here to review Wiwi’s live blog of the first Eurovision semi-final and click here to review the second semi-final.

On May 9 Wiwi Bloggs met with Europe’s top modeling agencies to determine which Eurovision contestants had the beauty and charm to succeed as international superstars. After heated deliberations and a few broken stilettos, Wiwi narrowed the field to 12 contestants—Azerbaijan, Estonia, France, Iceland, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine and the U.K.—and opened voting to the public. One week and 9,360 votes later, Wiwi can now reveal that Eurovision’s Next Top Model . . is. . . .Romania’s Elena Gheorghe.

Elena, the daughter of a priest, knows how to work the dance floor as well as the church sanctuary: she finished third on Dansez Pentru Tine, Romania’s version of Dancing With The Stars. She believes that family is the most important thing in the world. Fortunately for her, as she says in her standout tune The Balkan Girls, her hips “are ready to glow,” so Wiwi is sure she’ll be bearing her own children soon enough. Congratulations, Elena!

The final results, complied at 12:48am on Saturday, May 16 were as follows:

(1)  Romania: 43% (3,984 votes)

(2)  Turkey: 27% (2,481)

(3)  Azerbaijan: 8% (717)

(4)  Spain: 7% (678)

(5)  Malta: 5% (504)

(6)  Ukraine: 3% (300)

(7)  Iceland: 3% (284)

(8)  United Kingdom: 2% (166)

(9)  Estonia: 1% (112)

(10) Moldova: 0.9% (84)

(11) France: 0.3% (30)

(12) Montenegro: 0.2% (20)

Elena’s Winning Portfolio

And her song: