Pop the champagne, crank up your wind machine and get ready to vote, because it is game on in Finland. Eighteen acts competed in the semi-finals of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK) 2016 — Finland’s national selection for Eurovision — and nine acts have made it to the February 27 final. They will sing-to-the-death with the winner decided by a televote and ten juries made of different Finnish groups. Those juries have not yet been revealed, but last year they included juries of Eurovision fans and cab drivers. Finland is quirky, y’all….
Even though all of you non-Finns won’t have an impact on the actual winner, you can voice your opinion in our poll. Vote for your favourite(s) by clicking the box next to their name(s). You can vote for as many songs as you like, but you can only vote one time. We will go through the results before Saturday’s final.
UMK 2016: Finalists
Stella Christine with “Ain’t Got Time for Boys”
https://youtu.be/NmN5f6HJhOQ
Eini with “Draamaa”
https://youtu.be/yKvmYbxOHjo
Saara Aalto with “No Fear”
Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom with “Good Enough”
https://youtu.be/uvx4PW_EJwc
Mikael Saari with “On It Goes”
https://youtu.be/3_gTaDgx1f0
Cristal Snow with “Love Is Blind”
https://youtu.be/niIJtvqR6l8
Tuuli Okkonen with “Don’t Wake Me Up”
https://youtu.be/A-9f3K7KDEE
Sandhja with “Sing It Away”
https://youtu.be/orJkfJ4LJqc
Barbe-Q-Barbies with “Let Me Out”
https://youtu.be/nrFtwzhN0y8
My top 5:
1. Eini
2. Annica Milan & Kimmo Blom
3. Tuuli Okkonen
4. Saara Aalto
5. Cristal Snow
It took me a while to get around to listening to all 9 (original audios); but I must go with Mikael Saari. Beware Cristal Snow as a potential sleeping giant-killer.
Before 3 heat of semifinal, my favorite was Saara Aalto. But , I m not fan after I saw semifinal performance, in one part of song , song is afull in part when sang female back vocals sang uuuuuu, and Saara Aalto did n have good hair style in semifinal. After 3 hear of semifinal my favorites are Tuuli Okkonen and Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom. My TOP 5 1.Tuuli Okkonen 2.Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom 3.Saara Aalto 4.Barbe-Q-Barbies 5.Mikael Saari then Eini and last Stella Christine But I think fight for win wili be between Mikael Saari and Saara… Read more »
i strongly believe that mikael will win because his song and his performance were by far the best ! i just hope finland won’t make the same mistake as denmark which sent lighthouse over simone or anja. i asume that if mikael doesn’t win good enough would be a good song too. all the rest are good but not to good for eurovision
Mikael Saari for the win, by FAR the best choice! Please Finland, don’t let him go again!
Any of these acts could win and I would be happy with the result – that’s how strong this final is. There have been some vocal issues live with some of the acts (Cristal Snow and Annica & Kimmo mainly), but with these sorted out it should be a great final. I like Saara Aalto’s song the best, but Mikael Saari is the strongest performer. Don’t count out the Barbe-Q rock band either – they have a great draw, and Finland has a history of voting for the stand-out acts – that combination could win it for them. Good luck… Read more »
@Colin – Bravo! Perfectly written. Please send that as a suggested script to UMK, or to Krista Siegfried. You might hear it in the final 🙂
This year there is a great final line-up in Finland. The show mostly ain’t got time for boys, though, as this year most contestants are women. Still, all performers, men and women, will sing it away with all the troubles and shine on stage. Dont wake me up till it starts and then I’ll watch it with high interest. I’m sure it will be fun and nobody will be saying let me out as all the drama on the stage starts. Since love is blind, people voting their favorites could make an unexpected decision, but I have no fear that… Read more »
NO FEAR is the only one who deserves to win here
After the great song by PNK last year…what a mediocre set of songs!
So averge…nothing redical, nothing innovative..just dull! Finland often have the best, most daring and innovative and radical entries / NFs of the Nordics..many great rock songs..this year..just meh. A disappointing line uP!
saara alto and her song annoy the c*ap out of me…
Annica & Kimmo is what the heart wants <3
but Mikael is probably going to win. and so let it be. he has a great song and a very nice perfomance. could bring finland back into the top 10.
Mikael Saari hands down.
Also Mikael is the only one without a cringeworthy performance, it’s not perfect but it’s miles ahead of the rest.
My favs: Tuuli Okkonen, Saara Aalto. However, it’s likely to be Mikael Saari and Saara Aalto for the win. 🙂
Saara please!!
Surprisingly, Finland has chose well. I’d be fine with any of these songs winning – I’d prefer not Saara, as her vocals just don’t match the hype, but I think any of these songs can make the final in Stockholm compared to what we’ve seen from other countries so far.
1. Annica and Kimmo
2. Stella
3. Sandhja
4. Tuuli
5. Barbies
6. Mikael
7. Cristal
8. Saara
9. Eini
Saara Aalto
I feel like I’m the only one, but Eini is my fav
Mikael Saari and the Barbies are pretty much the only ones I wouldn’t mind seeing in May… The rest, I’d gladly take PKN over…
I like 5 of these, am neutral on 3, and hate 1. So hopefully it’s not “Love is Blind” 😛
OK with BBQB, AM+KB, and Tuuli; but I’d be happy with Sandhja, Stella Christine, Saara Aalto, Eini or Mikael Saari. Probably Saari as number one at the moment but it shifts 😉
Barbe Q Barbies are my fave
But Good Enough is good enough for me
S T E L L A <3
Mikael Saari – “On It Goes”
1. Saara Aalto
2. Sandja
3. Barbe-Q-Barbies
4. Tuuli Okkonen
Why haven’t you made a poll for Sypernoma. Some of the national selections like A Dal got a poll for each heat, while Supernova got none.
Probably it’s between Mikael and Saara.
On It Goes would be my favorite ESC entry so far. No Fear would be my third, behind Iceland and Italy (if she keeps it in Italian). Everyone else has less chance, although I can see Annica & Kimmo or Tuuli being a dark horse and winning. I love their songs too. Heck, even my last in this final, Stella Christine, would be better than songs Belarus, Bosnia and Denmark sent. So, thank you Finland for an amazing UMK year.
Cristal Snow has the best song if he can fix his vocals.
Sandhja and Saara would be good choices. Anything else would be a big disappointment for me.
9 – Annica & Kimmo (I feel like they’re trying to sing AT me rather than TO me. I don’t appreciate it)
8 to 3 – Everyone else except Saara and Tuuli (and the screaming duo)
2 – Saara Aalto (Repetition became catchy here. Will not always be the case)
1 -Tuuli Okkonen (Simply amazing)
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This is Finland, not Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan who are famous for change the result, singers or songs on national final, buy votes before Eurovision….
My top 9:
1. Saara Aalto
2. Mikael Saari
3. Tuuli Okkonen
4. Eini
5. Annica Milan and Kimmo Blom
6. Sandhja
7. Stella Christine
8. Cristal Snow
9. Barbe-Q-Barbies
Since 2007 Finland is completely invalid in ESC, and this year most probably will not change it.
I am little bit worried, about the YLEs public-voting system. Beside telephone voting, you can pre-vote already now on Saturday night final with “yle-tunnus”. To creating that you need only email address. It actually allows to same person to vote several times with different email addresses. For example some record companies could hire people to create several “yle-tunnus” and affect to the results.
Michael Saari period
@EugeneESC – the running order is not determited yet 🙂
no fear is just AWFUL! the staging is extremely corny and her voice is pitchy, i hope she won´t win in Finland or it will be last in my top 🙁
For me it’s mikael Saari or Saara Aalto, but I prefer mikael
I really hope Mikael wins, he has by far the best instrumental and song, the staging is amazing and he just fills the stage with presence. First time I saw the performance I was literally gobsmacked at how good it was. Whilst I do also love Saara, this one has to go to Mikael.
Whoever wins, it’s solid. All of my top 5 (out of 18) songs are in the final. That said, after all the performances live, I would pick Mikael Saari to represent.
Tuuli! <3 I like Saara and Sandhja too, but I haven't liked their performances. Mikael is a strong candidate to win.
Saara Aalto must win. Anything else would simply be wrong. Those Barbies are almost as good and Eini is fun.
Sandhja and Stella Christine were probably the most impressive live, but the songs just aren’t quite as good.
What a great final, personally I don’t dislike any of the songs, and adore over half of them! But if Tuuli, Annica and Kimmo or Cristal Snow (hopefully he has a better start vocally!) win I’ll be delighted 😀
This is actually one of the finals where I have no idea who should, cause I like most of them. I like Tuuli best, but vocally she wasn’t amazing.
I might be the minority, but I hope Sandhja will win the competition. She has a cool song, cool stage act, and nice live vocal. #TeamSandhja
Before 3 heat of semifinal, my favorite was Saara Aalto. But , I m not fan after I saw semifinal performance, in one part of song , song is afull in part when sang female back vocals sang uuuuuu, and Saara Aalto did n have good hair style in semifinal. After 3 hear of semifinal my favorites are Tuuli Okkonen and Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom. My TOP 5 1.Tuuli Okkonen 2.Annica Milán & Kimmo Blom 3.Saara Aalto 4.Barbe-Q-Barbies 5.Mikael Saari then Eini and last Stella Christine But I think fight for win wili be between Mikael Saari and Saara… Read more »