Since Tuesday, 16 entries have been battling it out in the first semi-final of wiwivision 2015 – our alternative song contest. In just two days, over 2,000 votes have already been cast. Y’all are clearly hungry for the music, so let semi-final two commence! The country list is the same as Eurovision 2015, but this time the songs and acts have been chosen by the wiwibloggs team. The 17 entries below all want a spot in the grand final. However, we can only let ten progress.
wiwivision 2015 trailer
Who goes and who stays will be determined by a 50/50 split between readers and the Wiwi Jury. For more details on the voting rules and song selection criteria, click HERE.
You can listen to the 17 semi-finalists below. This isn’t a tv show, so we’ve decided to move away from the producer-led running order favoured by the EBU. The draw is completely random. Obviously, y’all can ignore it and pick and choose who you want to hear first. It’s up to you!
Once you’re ready, vote in our poll. You can vote for as many entries as you like, but you can only vote ONE time. Be sure to check the box next to every entry you want to support before submitting your votes. Voting ends on Monday 29 June and the ten qualifiers will be revealed on Thurday 2 July.
Of course, y’all can do more than just vote. We have a comment box for a reason – what do you think of our choices? Would you have chosen differently? Who would you have picked instead? And how do our choices rate compared to the “real” Eurovision entries? Let us know!
1. Norway: Kygo feat. Parson James “Stole The Show”
Selected by Colin
2. Malta: Red Electrick feat. MPO “Young Again”
Selected by Patrick
3. Montenegro: Anita Popovic “Dotakni me vjetrom”
Selected by Dayana
4. Switzerland: Stefanie Heinzmann “In The End”
Selected by Mikhail
https://youtu.be/ELWChjEe7v0
5. Israel: Hank & Cupcakes “Bat Your Eyelids”
Selected by Sopon
Selected by Diego
7. San Marino: Helia “No Future”
Selected by Angus
8. Czech Republic: Lukas Landa “This Is This”
Selected by Luis
9. Lithuania: GJan “Nobody Around”
Selected by Liam
10. Poland: Michal Szpak “Real Hero”
Selected by Jason
11. Slovenia: Alice Blue “Hot Air”
Selected by Zach
12. Ireland: Markus Feehily “Love Is a Drug”
Selected by William Cahill
13. Sweden: Zara Larsson “Weak Heart”
Selected by Denise
14. Latvia: Rassell & Edvards Grieze “Fire Inside”
Selected by Mario
15. Azerbaijan: Gunay Ibrahimli “Huzur”
Selected by Max
https://youtu.be/NZ39juAPQcE
16. Iceland: AmabAdamA “GAIA”
Selected by Kristín
17. Cyprus: Tulisa “Living Without You”
Selected by Chris
WIWIVISION SEMI FINAL TWO PLAYLIST
Wiwivision Semi Final Two Poll
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Check back tomorrow when we’ll reveal the seven automatic qualifiers.
GJan is my favorite artist of all time! 🙂 She’ll easily make it to the top 10. 🙂
this set is way better now for my qualifiers 1. Ireland this guy would of brought us to the final love his voice and song 2. Lithuania this is a million times better than this time 3. Switzerland again , a million times better 4.Cyprus I was expecting another boring balkan but no this is amazing 5.Sweden she has a beautiful voice :] 6.Portugal in 2015 portugal was in my bottom three now look at it 7.Poland this guy is so emotionaly amazing good job 8.Slovenia well… every now and then I like a bit of rock 9.Malta when I… Read more »
Can’t believe when I saw Tulisa’s pic in the main photo! Love her song ‘young’, only recently discovered it since it wasn’t discovered here in Australia. It’s sad that things went downhill (e.g. drugs and surgery), I hope she can recover, her new sound seems promising. Good choice, Chris!
01) Montenegro *
02) Cyprus *
03) Czech Republic
04) Sweden
05) Azerbaijan
06) San Marino
07) Portugal
08) Switzerland
09) Ireland
10) Lithuania
11) Israel
12) Norway
13) Slovenia
14) Poland
15) Latvia
16) Iceland
17) Malta
* = Voted For
The large majority of the songs presented in both semi-finals are too similar, designed with the same flavour of indie pop / indietronica.
You chose one of the worst azeri singers. I think one of followings would be fine:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UDHEX9JfNV4
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1vz1p7MfklE-you know her from ESC 2011
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VLlpF5X67gM
Third one-that handsome guy-a lot of times tried to attend ESC, but was not very successful in national elections(((
I love the music of PORTUGAL.
Another great semi final from WiwiVision. Y’all put on a good show.
My 10 songs to go through to the final, in random order are:
Malta
Switzerland
Latvia
Portugal
Czech Republic
Norway
Montenegro
Ireland
Poland
Cyprus
Don’t reveal the winners of the final fan vote immediately. Are you going to countdown the final song rankings in a video?? Make it exciting.
My top 7 of these I didn’t voted for
11. Cyprus
12. Portugal
13. Slovenia
14. San Marino
15. Iceland
16. Montenegro
17. Azerbaijan
Oh my wow, Switzerland, why did you guys not send this to the contest this year?! IT’S SO GOOD 😀
Definitely my choice now.
I really like Switzerland’s, Cyprus’ (elements of Kiesza in there,) Ireland’s, Lithuania’s and Portugal’s… all of course not as good as my current favorite which is Belgium
PORTUGAL!!!!!!!!!
YAAAAS SLAY QUEEN GJAN!
GJAN IS EVERYTHING EUROVISION NEEDS TBH.
Mark Feehily …period.
Everything else couldn’t care less.
I voted for these:
Ireland
Switzerland
Lithuania
Latvia
Czech republic
Norway
Malta
Sweden
Poland
Israel
After listening to these for the first time, here are my 10: NOR, SWI, POR, CZE, LIT, POL, SLO, IRE, SWE and ICE. Norway is my #1 in this group, and Belgium is my #1 in the first group.
On my break at work, to continue listening to this lineup; and I’m absolutely astonished. Icelandic reggae?! They did their homework, no doubt. How long have they been at it?
Stefanie Heinzmann is amazing, I love her latest album. She’s my favourite from this bunch along with Norway and Lithuania. Weak heart, coincendentially, has to be the weakest Zara Larsson song I’ve ever heard.
Overall, much better than semi 1, like in the real contest.
What’s funnier, Icelandic reggae, Macedonian caribbean rythm or Samarinese poor attempt at hard rock?
As a metalhead I have to say thanks to Angus for choosing Helia! Go San Marino!
What a collection of boring songs
GJAN IS THE ULTIMATE GODDESS
Ireland!!!
Cant believe it’s only ninth
The Czech Republic has a beautiful song. I really like it. It is NOT only because it’s the Czech Republic!
Norway: DAAAYUMMM! If they had sent this instead of Mørland and Debrah, I think Måns would have been in BIG trouble!
Tulisa’s father is apparently Greek-Cypriot. She has family based in Cyprus too. And believe me, I looked *hard* for some good Cypriot music from non-ESC artists.
Plus, I figure there’s no way in hell that she’d ever do it for the UK but her pride might take enough of a beating that she’d probably go do it for Cyprus some time 😛
@ Eugene
Yes…I was surprised my self tooto see Tulisa being used 4 Cyprus’s choice…I really thought that Tulisa was from Greece instead..
And i believed that Chris was English boy as he lives in England..
Well i guess that he used Tulisa when Greek Cypriots are from Greece so its kinda the same although different..
Okay any love the Czech song is getting is only because its the Czech Republic, if it was anyone else’s in the semi ( baring San Marino and Israel ) then it would be one of the lowest in the semi.
Yes! For once I can have high expectations for our entry ( Ireland ) 😛
In the end this is basically the same as eurovision the only difference is CR and San Marino tend to qualify.
Dang for montenegro you gt the right singer, wrong song! Shoud’ve chose Svoja so much better. But cmon Czech Republic its a great song without a doubt!! An latvia!
OMG Ireland is soooo good! And again, the second semi-final is better.
Cyprus 2nd? Why am I not surprised 🙂 Let’s say it is because of music 😉
A lot of really nice choices here.
MICHA? SZPAK WANT TO REPRESENT POLAND IN 2016!!!
guy from Poland has one hell of a voice… I keep hearing “Glory, Bon Jovi” tho, dunno why
My Bottom 5
17) Montenegro
16) Azerbaijan
15) Iceland
14) Poland
13) San Marino
My top 5:
1) Lithuania
2) Norway
3) Sweden
4) Switzerland
5) Ireland
Strong 2nd semi final! Much stronger than the first one in my opinion, though there were some exceptions in the first one.
My votes go to the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Poland, Lithuania and Ireland.
In the first semi I liked Finnland a lot (still probably my overall favourite) but also Estonia, Denmark and Hungary.
Oh my god, Kygo! I am OBSESSED with Kygo! Thank you for picking him 😀 I haven’t even seen the rest but i know one vote atleast is for Kygo! 😀
I voted for Norway, Lithuania, Switzerland, Czech Republic, San Marino and Ireland
Switzerland, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Ireland and Latvia.
icelandic reggae has confused me a lot @.@
Switzerland; Portugal; Lithuania; Poland; Ireland; Sweden, my favourites
Norway, Switzerland, Latvia, Azerbaijan and Cyprus were really good, and I’ll add a vote in for Montenegro, Portugal and Ireland for also being interesting. Overall I liked this semi more than the first, but Belgium and Selah Sue still remain my favourite.
Cyprus gets my vote! 🙂
Montenegro is the only one I like.
stefanie heinzmann would be a good choice for switzerland she performed with the common linnets once.
I just knew when i saw the picture of Gjan i was going to choose her. No matter how good the others songs are. Been a fan of her for years now, she is just amazing. Hope she is going to win this thing. Also like Helia from San Marino 🙂
Well, GJan from Lithuania has a unique voice and her videos score millions of views on YouTube, so… I’ll vote for LTU 😉
And next goes Sweden.