Rehearsals for Eurovision 2017 start in little over a week, but before then, there are more points from the OGAE Poll 2017 to come in. Next up is OGAE Malta and OGAE Denmark, who have some love for Israel and Australia, respectively. Let’s a take a look!
OGAE Malta gave their 12 and ten points to overall favourites Italy and Sweden. But their eight points went to Israel, the highest individual score IMRI has received so far. Malta also had seven points to give to Denmark, with Anja’s song proving to be a favourite.
OGAE Denmark also revealed their votes. Their top three went to overall favourites, with Italy, Belgium and Sweden picking up the 12, ten and eight points. Denmark also had some love to give to Australia, with five points heading down under. And the feeling is mutual — earlier in the week OGAE Australia awarded Denmark four points.
Half the OGAE clubs have now revealed their points, and in the overall scoreboard, Italy holds the lead with 239 points, Belgium is in second with 162 points, while Sweden is closely in third place with 156 points. Denmark is now on 29 points, and now ranks 11th overall, while Australia has taken a big leap from 26th place to 21st.
OGAE Poll 2017: Malta vote
- Italy – 12 points
- Sweden – 10 points
- Israel – 8 points
- Denmark – 7 points
- France – 6 points
- Estonia – 5 points
- Romania – 4 points
- Belgium – 3 points
- Austria – 2 points
- FYR Macedonia – 1 point
OGAE Poll 2017: Denmark vote
- Italy – 12 points
- Belgium – 10 points
- Sweden – 8 points
- Estonia – 7 points
- France – 6 points
- Australia – 5 points
- Bulgaria – 4 points
- Portugal – 3 points
- Finland – 2 points
- Iceland – 1 point
OGAE Poll 2017: Totals so far
- Italy – 239 points
- Belgium – 162 points
- Sweden – 156 points
- France – 124 points
- Estonia – 111 points
- Bulgaria – 58 points
- Portugal – 44 points
- Israel – 42 points
- FYR Macedonia – 38 points
- Finland – 29 points
- Denmark – 29 points
- Switzerland – 27 points
- Norway – 25 points
- Hungary – 19 points
- Azerbaijan – 18 points
- Romania – 15 points
- Belarus – 15 points
- Austria – 9 points
- Cyprus – 9 points
- Latvia – 8 points
- Australia – 7 points
- Armenia – 7 points
- Croatia – 6 points
- Greece – 6 points
- Ireland – 4 points
- Poland – 4 points
- Iceland – 3 points
- Montenegro – 2 points
- Georgia – 1 point
- United Kingdom – 1 point
These countries are yet to receive any points: Albania, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain and Ukraine.
What do you think about the latest lot of OGAE Points? Is it a good indication how the vote will go in Kyiv? Share your thoughts below!
It is really beyond my comprehension as to why UK only has 1 point. That song is beautiful, Lucie knows how to sing, and the lyrics send a wonderful message! This song is in my top 5!
My top 10 favorites (this is not at all a prediction) are in this order:
1. Finland
2. Hungary
3. Italy
4. United Kingdom
5. Portugal
6. Azerbaijan
7. Estonia
8. Romania
9. Lithuania (say what you will but I even like the yeah, yeahs)
10. Australia or Israel. It’s a tie for me.
Thank you Malta for giving israel 8 points 🙂
Never listen to OGAE
They do not predict the continents views, just a minorites.
Jamala didn’t even come top 10 last year with OGAE and she won!!
It’s still all to play for… and i for one am very excited!!
Big love for wiwibloggs x
Actually, Jamala came on top 10, because she was 9th
i have a strange feeling that Russia’s not done with esc 2017 yet.
do you think that Armenia will do well in televote only to ask Russia’s help next year as host???
Shame to see Serbia, Czech Republic and Ukraine all receive nothing yet. While none of them make my top 10 they are all in my top 20 at least, and I don’t think any of them deserves nul points.
Except Serbia who’s song is ok-ish (not so sure about the live version) the other two, Ukraine and Czech Rep. have the worst song of the year. Who would vote for that? Only a minority would vote for them, and obviously it won’t be enough. There are big chances for Ukraine to be like Austria 2015… Last place (0 points)
I, for one, really like Ukraine’s entry. I wish O. Torvald a better fate than Austria 2015. 🙂
I don’t, I find it the worst entry ever by a hosting country… Nothing apealing for the viewers… Simply noise…
Armania should have won last year. I got goosebumps from the intro with the fires and the holograms were cool.
This year I hope Italy as it is a country everybody loves and is good after the mess we had in Ukraine. Would of course love Portugal too but I don’t believe they have a real chance.
(Despite enjoying Sweden I hope they don’t win again)
A shame that the Czech Republic and the Netherlands haven’t received any votes from OGAE members yet. I hope they qualiify, thoug.
Old fashioned songs don’t usually get votes…. But don’t worry, Romania, Israel, Bulgaria and other modern songs will receive plenty of votes, will pass the semifinal and will rank well… Life is sometimes unfair, huh?…
In the end everything will be very different, like last year when until the last moment everybody thought that Russia won, and when it was announced that Ukraine won, everybody was so happy, like that was all they ever wanted.
Bulgarian and Serbian songs are dated. These types of songs have been trendy once.
I don’t care about this voting ,nothing disappointing me here.
It’s sure Estonia, Montenegro,Germany,Austria,Norway gonna do very well
You sure? Germany is a candidate for the last place in the Grand Final, for the 3rd year in a row… Not sure about Austria and Montenegro and their chances of qualification (although I love Slavko’s song more)… Same thing about Norway, though may qualify (50-50 chances)
Guys who has seen the latest photos of the stage. It’s magestic <3 https://twitter.com/esc_ua/status/855519337603584004/photo/1
At first didn't like it at all, but now I'm in loveee
oh thanks for sharing!looks really nice!i want a video so as to curb my anticipation!!????????????
Maybe this one can help 😀
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTJPGkehHp3/?taken-by=eurovision.ua
wow some live action.thank you very much!well i ve heard a lot of bad reviews but the stage seams pretty to me! lets hope for another amazing eurovision year
Agree, hope to enjoy all 3 shows
Best votes Denmark has made ever.
Isaiah doesn’t have enough experience. He gets are too nervous too easily.
Why Moldova doesn’t have any points??
Because it is a bad song
Moldova will get plenty of votes in Eurovision, comparing to the useless OGAE
Estonia is INCINERATING most bookies’ favorites. My fellow #MafiaDiVerona members spreading the gospel through all Europe <3
But the song is horrible
Clean those rusty ears before the #MafiaDiVerona comes for your wig sis
I 100% agree with You Polegend Godgarina!
Because they read the same playbook that Mørland and Debrah (Norway 2015) read, on how to sell a song like this. They are 8th on my scorecard after 2 evaluations.
australia is seriously soo underrated!it deserves more points for such a great song and stellar singer!!
The vast majority of Australians are very disappointed with what SBS agreed to send.
well thank god we the europeans are left to decide about the song and not tha aussie population!Hehehe come on support a little bit your country,dont be so hard!!
Italy is going to win the OGAE poll for sure!
Will it win the contest? I hope so!
In this top, I would probably switch Israel and FYROM with Azerbaijan and Armenia. But nothing is certain.
The actual result may be different than this.
I don’t understand why so many people like the Armenian song. It’s so boring.
Is there a song you like, Mark? If you stan for Italy or Macedonia you’ll be forgiven for insulting Estonia.
I would definitely have Cyprus much higher. If OGAE were to judge the live performances instead of the studio versions, Cyprus should easily be in the top 5. Hovig’s live performances in Amsterdam & Madrid were amazing, he rocked that stage! Thank goodness the final Esc is judged on live performances & live vocal ability. Then I could not see Belgium or Bulgaria scoring as high as in this poll.
Did you saw Blanche live in studio in ” Van Gils & frieds”. She sang her song only with piano. It was beautifull. So pure!! I know that a lot of you see the live performances in Londen,etc. This is not the same. All the singers were nervous. How gonna respond the ordians… this year there are a lot of good songs. The most importent thing is: how is the song in Kiev on stage,background,lightning,camera.voice…… Let the best song win!!!!
ROME 2018
Guys, relax… These annual OGAE polls are ridiculous…. Nothing to do with reality, with the semifinal qualifiers or with the top 10 in the grand final… Iceland 2014 Pollapönk – No Prejudice = OGAE score 7 points | ESC result: 15th (58 pts) Belarus 2014 Teo – Cheesecake = OGAE score 8 points | ESC result: 16th (43 pts) Latvia 2015 Aminata – Love Injected = OGAE score 0 | ESC result: 6th (186 points) Georgia 2015 Nina Sublatti – Warrior = OGAE score 7 points | ESC result: 11th (51 points) Armenia 2015 Genealogy – Face The Shadow =… Read more »
The OGAE poll is not supposed to predict anything. One can only wonder by what standard you judge it to be ‘ridiculous’ or having ‘nothing to do with reality’. It measures exactly what it’s supposed to measure.
If it’s not supposed to predict then what’s the purpose of the polls? It means they are useless…
The name “OGAE poll” should give you a hint about the purpose of the OGAE poll: it’s a poll for all the OGAE fanclubs all around the world to vote for the songs they like, nothing more, nothing less. No one ever said it was supposed to predict the actual ESC; only Eurovision counts and obviously the final ranking will be different from the OGAE’s (just like it’ll be different from the bookies ranking, the Wiwi jury, the online polls, etc.). It just gives an indication of the fan club’s preferences, that’s it. Still, over the last 10 years, the… Read more »
@Danuta
You are right. Why are they so covered is it means nothing?
Slow news day. If OGAE are just some people that say much less than is said in the comments section, then why are we reading what they say?
It’s not that useless, it shows who the fan favourites are. Nor is it a poll either, it’s only fan voting.
It’s not meant to predict a winner(nothing can predict a winner). The final ranking will be different than the OGAE voting, but it’s safe to say that there is a bigger chance for a winner to come from OGAE top 5 than bottom 5.
In the end this is only ranking fans favourite songs. They aren’t pretending they are predicting anything
This is not good enough. That way I can predict too that Slovenia or San Marino will not win this year, but look at the statistic above how wrong they were many times.
They didn’t predict Georgia qualifying last year, yet they did. And Slovenia may surprise everyone and qualify, thanks to the juries…
so every year, they get some wrong, but not even that many… Like Georgia 2016: they didn’t really get that one wrong.
Mei Feingold was out of tune, Greta Salome a staging disaster… Those things are missed by a poll that mostly based on the studio versions. OGAE are fans of the festival and they bias towards traditional Eurovision songs. I’m very surprised that Belgium is scoring any points at all this year…
italy is going to win ogae poll with the highest points. well deserved.
Robyn is woman?
omg yes lol
Australia is modern but meh.
I would beg to differ. It’s a well produced song and the singing is top-notch. I think it should be given a little more merit.
As an Australian I can tell you that the vast majority of Australians are very disappointed with our song.
Mark, you do realise I’m Australian as well. Ballads are not my cup of tea but I do think our entry has a real chance of doing well in the contest.
Robyn never talks about France and the fact that Requiem is doing a good performance in this poll, but apparently only the top three is important for you…. We have impression that France doesn’t exist here… a little bit unfair
But if she added a mention of France in the 3rd paragraph (which is where i’m guessing your problem is) then you can equally say she is ignoring Estonia. If she mentions the whole top 5 then why not the whole top 10? For the sake of efficient delivery and the flow of the article a line has to be drawn somewhere and while Triana Park are confused as to where it should go I for one think highlighting only the traditionally medal winning positions is perfectly acceptable. The full list of results is given f so people can see… Read more »
*4th paragraph.
Australia’s song is underrated BIG time! Thank you Denmark for giving us some well deserved points!