Post Eurovision depression – it’s a bitch! Eurovision was almost a month ago (*sob*), the next national final won’t be until at least November (*wail*) and Junior Eurovision is still months away (*wah*). And believe us, the team at wiwibloggs are suffering from it just as much as the rest of y’all. But moping is soooo not our style. We’ve decided to shake off the fug and create our own contest. Readers, welcome to the second annual wiwivision – our alternative song contest.
wiwivision 2016 Trailer
In the lead-up to the real thing, everyone on the team analyses all the entries in minute detail. We scoff at song choices, we bemoan the chosen singers and tear apart staging decisions. Now it’s time to turn the tables. Our correspondents have each adopted a country and selected a hypothetical entry for the song contest. In a bid to maintain some degree of reality, we’re keeping the structure used by the EBU in 2016 but with some tweaks — same 42 countries, two semi finals and one grand final of 26 qualifiers. Unlike 2015, there won’t be any automatic qualifiers. No delegations contribute extra towards wiwivision, so they’re all going to have slum it out in the semis. Aside from that, we’re essentially reliving Eurovision 2016 but with our own personal song choices.
Entries
To make things interesting, we’ve banned past Eurovision and national final entrants in so far as possible. We want to go on a new musical journey and hopefully y’all will hop on for the ride. Each act must have some connection to the country they’re representing, although we’re allowing certain countries to borrow from their neighbours if necessary (hi San Marino). When it comes to song selection, we’re a tad more flexible than the EBU. Songs must be original, but we’ve scrapped the three minute rule and the window within which songs must be released is 1 June 2015 to 31 May 2016. Basically, we’ve a year’s worth of great music to choose from. There’s no excuse for us to mess up, but y’all should totally judge us if we do… otherwise we’ll be judging you!
Voting
Just like last year, we’re going to carry out the voting similar to Sweden’s Melodifestivalen and, as of 2016, Eurovision. Who knew we were such trendsetters? The juries (i.e. wiwibloggs correspondents) will give their points in the same manner as at the song contest and then the public vote will be added on at the end. And this is where y’all come into the equation. There will be reader polls for both semis and the grand final. The results from these polls will account for 50% of the total vote, with the Wiwi Jury accounting for the remainder. To paraphrase Queen Loreen – you got the power!
Launch Dates
For those of you wetting yourselves with excitement, stay calm. We’re launching the first semi-final tomorrow, 7 June. The second semi final will follow two days later, on Thursday 9 June. The grand final is set for Saturday 18 June. Forty-two songs will battle it out for your votes, whilst the members of wiwibloggs watch tentatively as y’all rip into our selections. Let’s do this!
wiwivision 2015
Ireland won the inaugural wiwivision with Markus Feehily and “Love Is A Drug”. He only managed to finish ninth with the juries, but a massive televote saw him knock Austrlia’s Dami Im and Georgia’s Tamta into second and third places respectively. Belgium’s Selah Sue and the United Kingdom’s Olly Murs completed the top five.
- wiwivision 2015 semi-final one results
- wiwivision 2015 semi-final two results
- wiwivision 2015 the grand final and results show
There is 13 qualifers in each semi-final?
Gabrielius for Lithuania!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2VXqlKL-oc
@Robin Gallagher,
Can you confirm that wiwibloggs hasn’t chosen Ruth Koleva to represent Bulgaria.(please, she is horrible .Every song from the records company Virginia Records is better than her smooth jazz)!
For Ukraine – VIA GRA “Tak Silno” (so much)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOQ0ZY8h1RE
For Poland:
-Margaret – Heartbeat
-Sylwia Grzeszczak – Tamta dziewczyna
Russia Suggestions
serebro-get lost with me
nyusha-Tseluy
Yuliana Karaulova- Vneorbitn’e
Leningrad-Eskponat
Dawid Podsiadlo – No ! Omg, that would be amazing!
For Poland I’d love to see Dawid Podsiad?o – W dobr? stron?
@Aaran, I want to see Szpak, Dami Im, Freddie and obvious Sergey Lazarev again in next week:). It`s my Eurovision dream. Sergey deserves to win:)
(Romania) INNA – Yalla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7wveOu5hkQ
(UK) Alexa Adair- Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC9qrCMpukQ
(Moldova) Carla’s Dreams- Aripile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4TSaGLuXRc
(Sweden) Zara Larsson – Lush Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD4HCZe-tew
Turkey should be presented by
Mabel Matiz-Sarisin
Gulsen- Dan Dan
Aynur Aydin- Life Goes On
Aynur Aydin- Bi dakika
Simge-Yanki
Edis- Olmamis mi
I want James Bay for UK
Hozier for Ireland(for double)
Sia for Australia
Foureira for Greece
I hope we see lots of new artist to make it fun… No artists like Sia or Adele… Obvious ones where no effort or thought in the entry. Can’t wait to see the first semi final! 🙂
“Mira Sofia sin tu mirada sigo”
“Sin tu mirada sigo”
“Dime Sofia como te mira”
“Dime como te mira”
Oh boy, am I excited for this! Sure beats the post-Eurovision depression I’ve been having ever since this month. I sure do hope that Wiwi chooses someone /really/ good for Australia, but my bet would be on someone like Delta or Sia for us. lol If I can, I’d like to push Montaigne as a potential candidate (both for this and the actual Eurovision). I’ve been listening to her a lot recently, and I think it would be nice for her to get some exposure. How can I explain it in Wiwi terms so that everyone can understand…? Girl. Is.… Read more »
Well Wiwi managed to predict that Michal Szpak, Freddie and Dami Im would go to Eurovision the following year. Maybe it will happen again!
WIWI- You can also choose that amazing Israeli singer- Yuval Dayan – she sing only in Hebrew.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-WQ-fDJD4Q
for Italy Elisa – No Hero
https://youtu.be/Ya2Rl1fiJzw
For The Netherlands: O’G3NE – take the money and run!
@Darren
Happily, I really think that Ireland should return to the game and to win like in the past… Ireland has wonderful music and I love Irish artists , it’s my personal taste, and I think that next year must be a revolution, no more Scandinavia and Eastern Europe states , not even in Israel ( who will not win any way) …. Ireland needs to win, I really hope that Ireland will send a great song , i hope the Irish Producers will Do serious work and choose best song and best staging….
fingers Cross for Ireland 🙂
@OR
Thank you for all of the kind words about Ireland 🙂
A songs is like to see:
Ireland – Kodaline – Raging (feat Kygo) – could also represent Norway.
Sweden – Zara Larrson – Lush Life
United Kingdom – Coldplay – Up & Up/ Anne Marie – Alarm
Australia – Sia – Cheap Thrills
wiwi – Can you choose for Ireland bands like the : Coors or the script ?
Maybe if you do that they will really send one of them next year , i really want Ireland to win because they have amazing pop/rock Industry and they must show to the world how wonderful their music really is.
Any way i support Ireland wining next year i hope they will send amazing song!
I mean TÜNZALE “SÜReT” for Azerbaijan
I mean TÜNZALE “SÜReT”
TÜNZAL?, Samir?, Emiliya, Ramail, ??hriyar – “SÜR?T”-For Azerbaijan
Vasilije Ojdanic for montenegro! LMAO someone even gave him his own wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilije_Ojdani?
Wiwwiblogs please choose Tunzala Agayeva “Bakimin Üzü gülür” for Azerbaijan.
Does anyone know if artists competing at Sanremo will be disallowed from the contest? Would that be part of the “no national final artists” or not considering that it isn’t really a NF but is often used for the entry? Cheers,
And Xavier Naidoo can maybe represent Germany. But this is just suggestion, you can choose another if you want.
Please let Romania compete, with “Moment of Silence”, so you can show EBU that the forced withdrawal was unfair.
Alex Walker- Faded as the Norwegian entry please 🙂 ?
France – This girl (is getting more popular every day across Europe) Belgium – Reality Netherlands – Niemand (Really good song) Germany – Geiles leben or Die immer lacht Italy – Roma Bangkok (Biggest Italian hit of the decade) Spain – Sofía or Hundred Miles Poland – Pomino Burz (really good song and it was so successful in Poland Czechia – Cudzinka v tvojej zemi Norway – Faded (The biggest European hit of the year) Denmark – 7 Years (masterpiece and a massive hit in all Europe) Sweden – Lush life or No money (becuase it’s more current) UK –… Read more »
This is amazing! can’t wait to hear the songs!!!
And just today I was preparing my own online game to select the best song from the Americas I hope wiwibloggs can help me
Please Sasha with “Alive” for France
Any song of Of Monsters and Men for Iceland.
Brodka – Horses for Poland.
Broods – Free for Australia. (They’re actually from NZ…)
Spain:
Alvaro Soler – Sofia
Sorry for the mistake, I missed the fact that we can’t participate…
I would love to have something from Meio-Irmão or Mariza representing my country(Portugal), especially “Ai de Mim” from Meio-Irmão or “Melhor de mim” from Mariza(it’s fado, but it’s a lovely song for me!)
@Elesse: GJan’s “One More Drink” might be too old. I think the Wiwi people are going for songs released, or posted on the Web, during the 2016 Eurovision period (1 Sept. 2015 or later). “One More Drink” was posted in July.
Stromae for Belgium would be nice
Songs I think should be in this:
Albania: Bonbon – Era Istrefi
Sweden: Britney – Emil Berg
UK: Hotter Than Hell – Dua Lipa
Finland: Evelina – Honey
Iceland: Of Monsters and Men – Wolves Without Teeth
Norway: Miia – Dynasty
Lithuania – GJan- One More Drink
@Prediction Guesser: Good choice! That song he sent to Die Entscheidungsshow (Switzerland) would make Vasilije an excellent candidate.
As last year Spanish entry, I imagine the song would be in on of the co-official dialects (Galego, Catala,…). I hope not, I prefer something modern both in English or Spanish.
Well this one might ne perfect for France ! Marina Kaye : Freeze you out. marina is such a talented singer and this song’s chorus is just out of this world! Soul vocals + classe attitude = a winning song ! https://youtu.be/4G9qnfcg1LQ
My proposals:
From Poland: Sylwia Grzeszczak “Tamta dziewczyna” or Bovska “Kaktus” or Daria Zawialow “Malinowy chru?niak”.
From Russia: Alex Sparrow “She`s crazy but she`s mine” or Maksim “Zolotymi rybkami” or Julianna Karaulova “Ti nie takoy”.
Germany- Namika
Croatia- Damir Kedzo, Mejasi
Bosnia- Dubioza Kolektiv, Amel Curic
Bulgaria-Mihaela Marinova
Serbia-Milica Todorovic
Vasilije Ojdanic for Montenegro LOL ????????????
Any guess in which language will Spain be singing? 😛
The amazing ninet tayeb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DxqQ5_fOsM