On March 20 we asked our readers to let us know who will win the second semi-final of Eurovision 2014. You guys were eager to vote for your favourites. In just two weeks we have recorded a total of 8,216 votes.
At the moment Eurovision veterans Paula Seling & Ovi have a commanding lead with 1,722 votes, or around 21%. In recent weeks they released a folk version and an acoustic version of their song “Miracle”. Both were stunning. Is it possible they will improve on their third place finish from Oslo?
Greece’s Freaky Fortune feat. Riskykidd are currently second with their song “Rise Up”. They earned 946 votes, or nearly 12%. They recently released their own acoustic video. But rather than covering their own track, they covered a series of Eurovision winners including “Only Teardrops”, “Euphoria” and “Wild Dances”. Check ’em out and be blown away.
Slovenia’s Tinakra Kovach—perhaps the only woman in Eurovision history to sexualise the flute—is in third with her number “Spet/Round and Round.” She’s sitting pretty with 698 votes, or around 9%.
Based on our poll, the other seven qualifiers for the final will be: Ireland, Israel, Norway, Malta, Austria, Poland and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. Based our current standings, Finland, Switzerland, Lithuania, Georgia, and Belarus will not qualify.
You still have several weeks to vote in our poll, so share the link and support your favourites! You can also read our reviews of all 37 songs on the Wiwi Jury page.
Second semi-final poll standings
- Romania: Paula Seling & Ovi with “Miracle”: 1,722 votes, 20.98%
- Greece: Freaky Fortune feat. Riskykidd with “Rise Up”: 946 votes, 11.53%
- Slovenia: Tinkara Kovach with “Spet/Round and Round”: 709 votes, 8.64%
- Ireland: Can-linn feat Kasey Smith with “Heartbeat”: 698 votes, 8.5%
- Israel: Mei Finegold with “Same Heart”: 600 votes, 7.31%
- Norway: Carl Espen with “Silent Storm”: 573 votes, 6.98%
- Malta: Firelight with “Coming Home”: 501 votes, 6.1%
- Austria: Conchita Wurst with “Rise like a Phoenix”: 499 votes, 6.08%
- Poland: Donatan and Cleo with “Slavic Girls”: 482 votes, 5.87%
- FYR Macedonia: Tijana Dapcevic with “To the Sky”: 361 votes, 4.4%
- Finland: Softengine with “Something Better”: 314 votes, 3.83%
- Switzerland: Sebalter with “Hunter of Stars”: 256 votes, 3.12%
- Lithuania: Vilija Mataciunaite with “Attention”: 201 votes, 2.45%
- Georgia: The Shin with “Three Minutes to Earth”: 187 votes, 2.28%
- Belarus: Teo with “Cheesecake”: 158 votes, 1.93%
Are our readers crazy? Do you think that Finland, Switzerland, Lithuania, Georgia and Belarus still have a shot? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Belarus is last here and 4th in your overall Top 37 Polls… Something weird… I so wanna TEO to qualify but mainstream tastes and politics will loose him, SADLY. Whatever, he’s my winner forever !!
All the songs at the bottom deserves to be there except Switzerland which will qualify instead of Romania which sucks ass! How can people like that shit??? It’s so cheap n tasteless. Israel should be the clear winner in this semi final followed by Austria, Switzerland and then Greece. Everything else should disqualify for being absolute shit! Okay, maybe ,maybe Poland should not be disqualified as well.
Ireland gets 12 points from me. Well done Ireland. You are also 2nd in the overall poll and the favourite in many countries to win. We all love your song this year.
Goodevening from Belarus
we love you malta 🙂 my favorite song this year and has my vote well 20 time vote
Go malta team #Firelight
My qualifies
Romania
Greece
Poland
Ireland
Israel
Norway
Lithuania
Slovenia
Switzerland
Austria
Slovenia fake polls
my number 1 IS THE MALTESE SONG ,,
Going by audio tracks alone on my first listen, I see it this way:
1. Norway
2. Macedonia
3. Romania
4. Israel
5. Austria
6. Poland
7. Slovenia
8. Malta
9. Belarus
10. Ireland
Some of these are bound to change after my 3rd and final listen and video viewing the week before the contest.
1- Israel
2- Slovenia
3- Belarus
4- Poland
5- Austria
6- Ireland
7- Greece
8- Switzerland
9- Finland
10- Romania
malta, Ireland my tops
Conchita Wurst all the way! And if you don’t like it, you can eat my gravel soup!!!
Greece has what it takes to win semi 2!
NORWAY & ITALY. 1 BALLAD 1 UPBEAT 4 ME
lets be honest, there are only 6 songs that the eurovision public really want to see go through and they are in running order : Israel,Norway,Finland,Ireland,Greece and Romania. i know some people obviously have different taste and don’t want toe ee some of the above qualify but when you look at everyone top 10 to qualify these are generally the songs you see there. i think you can rule out Belarus (very little voting strength in this semi when pretty much everyone in this semi has allies) and Georgia (the song is just so bad that i don’t think even… Read more »
Romania / Ireland / Greece / Slovenia / Macedonia
Just these. All the others could stay on the semi 2 and give rise to much better songs that won’t qualify on semi 1.
My prediction: 1. Romania: Paula Seling & Ovi with “Miracle” 2. Norway: Carl Espen with “Silent Storm” 3. Greece: Freaky Fortune feat. Riskykidd with “Rise Up” 4. Ireland: Can-linn feat Kasey Smith with “Heartbeat” 5. Finland: Softengine with “Something Better” 6. Poland: Donatan and Cleo with “Slavic Girls” 7. Slovenia: Tinkara Kovach with “Spet/Round and Round” 8. Israel: Mei Finegold with “Same Heart” 9. FYR Macedonia: Tijana Dapcevic with “To the Sky” 10.Malta: Firelight with “Coming Home” ——————————————————– 11.Austria: Conchita Wurst with “Rise like a Phoenix” 12.Switzerland: Sebalter with “Hunter of Stars” 13.Lithuania: Vilija Mataciunaite with “Attention” 14.Belarus: Teo with… Read more »
1- Finland
2- Slovenia
3- Macedonia
4- Poland
5- Lithuania
6- Ireland
7- Greece
8- Switzerland
9- Israel
10- Georgia
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11- Austria
12- Norway
13- Romania
14- Malta
15- Belarus
I highly doubt that will happen though, no matter how much I hope it does.
Funny this positioning does not really match the overall-betting odds. Anyway, neither the hardcore eurofans nor the bets alone will decide the results on the actual nights.
I would, however, place Israel and Austria higher.
Greece has the best song this year!
Get ready to PARTYYY!
SUMMER 2014 ! ! !
Best of luck!
To BIONDA
I agree with the fact that Eurovision wants something different every year but I don’t think the time is right for Greece. Sorry.
1. Romania 2. Norway 3.Ireland 4. Israel 5. Greece
Think Slovenia rigged, worst or badest, all not have english as mother language but we understand each orher from even east to west
1. Greece
2. Israel
The rest “yawn” sorry :/
Sorry, Slovenian song can’t be BADEST 😉 But can’t be worst, either 😛 You should study English in your free time, instead of writting stupid comments 😉
XXX :-*
TO DEVEN O’KEARNEY
SO.YOU THINK THAT GREECE’S SONG IS NOT FOR EUROVISION?EUPHORIA WAS FOR EUROVISION?AND WHAT’S THE RECIPE?ONLY BORING BALLADS?SO I GUESS THAT ARMENIA CAN’T WIN WITH DUBSTEP AS THE BETS SHOW?
I TOTALLY DISAGREE.EVERY YEAR THEY’RE SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND NOT COPY PASTE.
1. Romania
2. Norway
3. Greece
4. Ireland
5. Israel
6. Austria
7. F.Y.R Macedonia
8. Finland
9. Belarus
10. Poland
I think Slovenia polls are rigged
Not Slovenia i think they should change place with Belarus! I think Slovenia’s song is the badest in this semi final! 0 points from Denmark!
I think that Ireland or Romania will win this semi final. Greece’s song is NOT a song for the Eurovision Song Contest and the juries will detest their entry.
Greece, Romania or Norway wili win the second semi final.
Romania: Paula Seling & Ovi with “Miracle is the best song for me in second semi final and i loved them in 2010 year, Paula Seling is very much beautiful girl. in the final may be Romania or United Kingdom will be winner good luck from Azerbaijan
Stranger things have happened cathal. And I’m glad there’s SLOVEnia to my Tinkara!
Slovenia is fantastic! Haters step away from the computer!!
I’m mostly agree with these results, in my book I just would switch Malta and Macedonia with Switzerland and Finland. Also, Greece is my favourite from this semi.
dave they are third, slovenia votes were rigged and yet they still only just held onto third.
Ireland really is a dark horse in Eurovision 2014. They are VERY close to 3rd place in this poll at the moment.
look, i like slovenia a lot and really want it to qualify, but cmon there is no way in hell it came third on its own. more vote rigging…
MY TOP FROM SEMI2
1.GREECE
2.IRELAND
3.ISRAEL
I still can’t forget last year, when Montenegro placed 4th in the tele voting, and 14th with the juries. And then got the 12th place? That makes no sense. If it was 50% with both, it would have placed around 8th place overall. It’s ridiculous.
Poland is the best!! I really want Poland to qualify cause i think it’s the best this year!! I know it can’t win, and it’s probably going to do well in the tele votes, but the jury’s will place it around last, like Montenegro last year because we still have the weird horrible voting system like last year!!! I would also like to see some countries, who usually not gets in to the final, qualify. It have become too predictable with almost the same countries every year getting into the final , and the same countries every year not qualifying.… Read more »