Romania’s Ilinca & Alex mixed Alpine yodelling with inspirational hip-hop. Bulgaria’s Kristian Kostov sang amid a monochrome dreamscape. And The Netherlands’ OG3NE served Wilson Phillips realness with their pitch-perfect harmonies. And in the end of Semi-Final 2 all three of them qualified for the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. They’ll be joined by seven other finalists from: Belarus, Croatia, Hungary, Denmark, Israel, Norway and Austria.
Semi-Final 2 Results (Reaction video)
Eurovision 2017: Semi-Final 2 qualifiers
- Bulgaria: Kristian Kostov – “Beautiful Mess” (second half)
- Belarus: Naviband – “Story of My Life” (first half)
- Croatia: Jacques Houdek – “My Friend” (first half)
- Hungary: Joci Pápai – “Origo” (first half)
- Denmark: Anja – “Where I Am” (first half)
- Israel: Imri – “I Feel Alive” (first half)
- Romania: Ilinca and Alex Florea – “Yodel It!” (second half)
- Norway: JOWST – “Grab the Moment” (second half)
- Netherlands: OG3NE – “Lights and Shadows” (first half)
- Austria: Nathan Trent – “Running on Air” (first half)
Semi-Final 2: Eliminated acts
- FYR Macedonia: Jana Burceska – “Dance Alone”
- Estonia: Koit Toome and Laura – “Verona”
- Serbia: Tijana Bogicevic – “In Too Deep”
- Switzerland: Timebelle – “Apollo”
- Ireland: Brendan Murray – “Dying to Try”
- San Marino: Valentina Monetta and Jimmie Wilson – “Spirit of the Night”
- Malta: Claudia Faniello – “Breathlessly”
- Lithuania: Fusedmarc – “Rain of Revolution”
Grand final line-up
The grand final line-up is now set. The running order will be revealed later this evening after the Semi-Final 2 qualifiers draw “first half” or “second half” during the qualifiers’ press conference. Producers will then determine the precise running order to create the most entertaining final possible (and to avoid putting too many shrieking women one after the others).
The 26 countries that will compete in the grand final are:
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belgium
- Belarus
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Denmark
- Greece
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Israel
- Italy
- Moldova
- The Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Spain
- Sweden
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
This may be late, because I stayed up all night watching the recorded broadcast (I was at work during the live broadcast); but here is how I scored the 2nd semifinal: 9.58 Hungary (Joci Pápai: “Origo”)+ 9.53 Romania (Ilinca Bacila and Alex Florea: “Yodel It!”)+ 9.51 Bulgaria (Kristian Kostov: “Beautiful Mess”)+ 9.50 Denmark (Anja Nissen: “Where I Am”)+ 9.44 Estonia (Koit Toome and Laura Põldvere: “Verona”) 9.43 Netherlands (O’G3NE: “Lights And Shadows”)+ 9.41 Austria (Nathan Trent: “Walking On Air”)+ 9.36 Norway (JOWST and Aleksander Walmann: “Grab The Moment”)+ 9.35 Israel (Imri Ziv: “I Feel Alive”)+ 9.34 Malta (Claudia Faniello: “Breathlessly”)… Read more »
I’m just shocked for ESTONIA!!! :O 🙁 :'(
A much better semi-final than the first one. Firstly, everybody sang their song well, we didn’t have poor vocals, like 2-3 acts from the first one. Than, much more staging for lots of entries. Biggest winners of this semi-final: Austria (impressive interpretation and charisma from that guy), Romania (maybe the greatest show from this semi-final and the most energy), Hungary (so emotional and strong interpretation), Ireland (the guy did all he could with the song, but the song itself didn’t have enough power) and Croatia (no words, simply impressive). Bulrgaria, Belarus, Norway… exactly the acts we’ve expected, no plus on… Read more »
I had 9/10. I was totally sure Ireland would make it instead of Croatia. Estonia was totally non qualifier to me
9/10 but pretty big mistake about Croatia and Ireland :)) Let’s be honest, Ireland had no chance in the beginning. The live interpretation got a bug plus, but it would have still been a surprise to go through. While Croatia was a certain favourite to qualify from start, such an unique moment can’t go unoticed, I think it was top 3 in televoting, if not even the winner. I have to admit, I didn’t think that Estonia wouldn’t go through, I thought it can win the semi-final :))
And so they`ve killed our Verona. Ukrainians did it with their technical blunder. Koit did it with probably the weakest performance and biggest smile of his life. Koit`s girlfriend did it with the awful make-up for both of them but Laura seriously suffered. It hurts me as a fan to say it but they`ve ruined their performance themselves. Their song is still beautiful. The main reason of their elimination was a very unclucky draw. Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Sweden and Russia, who usually give Estonia decent points were all missing and that meant doom for the Estonian entry.
Whoa! Estonia needed THAT many countries to get through? I always knew they needed Finland real bad, just as Finland needed Estonia real bad. That being the case, this makes it back-to-back years that Estonia has sent fairly-decent (and qualification-worthy) songs, only to come up on the short end, 3 of the last 4. Finland is another story. Norma John’s “Blackbird” was definitely worthy of qualifying, while Sandhja’s “Sing It Away” was dead on arrival. This makes it 3 years in a row (a hard-rock trainwreck, a retro-R&B clunker and a chamber-pop dark ballad) that Finland has failed to qualify.… Read more »
Serbia, Switzerland and Macedonia were my favourites of the semi. You should probably know how I felt afterwards…….
Serbia was my favourite out of the entire contest and I cried a little when I noticed she didn’t make it.
For everyone surprised/outraged by the elimiation of Estonia: On a hear-to-heart level, I am sorry, as I know how bad it felt when Finland was eliminated. On a level-headed level, I am not as surprised and definitely not outraged. They have no chemistry, never had and it was obvious. Vocally, they were good and the song itself is nice, but in a competition as strong as this, they weren’t in my top 10 either. Koit especially came off cheesy on stage and it all seemed like some sort of telenovela tribute act. I don’t think they wanted to present it… Read more »
THANK. YOU.
After yesterday’s results, I think Estonia won’t even bother staging Eesti Laul next year, they’ll just internally select Kerli! As for Latvia and Lithuania, they’ll be fighting over Aminata! 😀
Actually… Eesti Laul 2018 has already been announced and they’re even selling tickets.
I was joking, I know Eesti Laul has become something of a tradition in Estonia so I wasn’t really expecting them to ditch it. In any case, if Kerli participates again, I think she’ll win easily because of the perceived injustice against her this year. Same for Aminata, if she tries to represent Latvia or Lithuania again.
Kerli needs to win over the public. If she enters again, and someone else brings a song and a stage presentation that had proven to be successful at Eurovision in the past (as was the case this year, with Koit and Laura emulating Mørland and Debrah), she might find herself 2nd yet again. Once more, she needs to worry about Rasmus Rändvee, who nearly crashed both their parties at Eesti Laul with his energetic performance.
What is happening this year? First Finland, now Estonia?? This is insane! It’s my 2nd shock after what happened at semi final 1! I mean… Croatia qualified and Estonia didn’t? We’re obviously speaking about an open 2nd semi, so everything was possible! There would be surprises! I’m really happy for Belarus and Hungary! More countries singing in their language on Saturday and that can only be good! I’m also happy for Nathan! It was such a good song and so well made! Imri was also the best ever last night! No suprise Bulgaria and Romania! I’m ok with Norway, Denmark… Read more »
Romania and Hungary the two worst and most annoying songs of the contesrt qualified while switzerland , serbia and fyr macedonia didn’t make it . what a shame
Still shocked that Serbia and Switzerland didnt qualify but i can tell why. Switzerland had perfect vocals and a nice song. But the staging cost them the qualification…what were they thinking? Bright yellow dont match with that song. Serbia was kinda weak and again thr dress and staging were poor. And Fyrom (btw thanks for puting “fyr”, you respect Greeks that way) had a good song and staging but it was pretty clear that the song was dragged by the backing vocalists. Even countries with no neighbour voting -like Switzerland and Fyrom- can get to the final with the right… Read more »
Hungary and Romania had special shows and interpretetions. Serbia, Macedonia, even Switzerland… way too monotones. Big difference, who deserved qualified.
Boyz, same opinion as me !!!
My sums. Yesterday my <3 couldn't watch it with me so I've got just friend and mother (she's in her golden age <3) finally coming after Malta. She did listen to almost all songs before so she's got Hungary, Norway and Netherlands as favourites and was very glad for them. So was I, I loved that we shared these as favs before contest. Serbia. Yikes, this is worst staging and cameras ever for them. Tijana also looked depressed and nervous. Pity but understandable non-qf. Driving song that lost all potentials. Austria. Not much action but it was good. I was… Read more »
Estonia was a guilty pleasure – unbelievable cringe-cheese, but it will be missed in the final. I thought FYR Macedonia had the best song of the competition by far – admittedly it was a flat performance, however still worthy of a place in the final as the second semi-final was full of so many dreadful, dreadful songs. And Switzerland? She was robbed! How did that annoying wet song from Austria qualify over these three?
Having said all that – yay that Romania went through as it’s so much fun – and those cuties from Belarus were amazing.
Polegend Godgarina whera er you??? Your Verona is out !!!!
So happy for Kristian, go boy for the GOLD <3
where are*
Polegando godgarina Where are you??? Israel in the final in your face lol
He’s fine. I messaged him last night. He’s looking forward to Azerbaijan’s Skeletons doing well in the final. And Italy of course. 🙂
Norway and Denmark qualified. This is great. it means that Nordics points will split.
Seems that this year it is between Italy, Portugal and Bulgaria for the win.
Too many Swedish composers like songs. They ruin Serbia, Greece, Azerbaijan and countless others that have much more interesting songs that what they send lately. And more countries should dump English, it is very much worn already and if the singer is mumbling or chewing English – not knowing it perfectly… hmm. Really not works.
Rome 2018!
Lisbon 2018 honeeey.
This semi final was soooooooooo much better then the first one, omg. My country The Netherlands was announced 9th, and I understand the pain Belgium was in one tuesday XD We together with Romania, B ulgaria and Hungary where 100% trough, and I was really happy with all of them. Belarus, Norway and denmark where also amazing last night, I wanted them all to qualify last night, and I voted for all of them. Israel, Croatia and Austria should have been swapped with Estonia, F.Y.R. Macedonia and Switzerland. I do NOT know how Croatia is in and Estonia is out.… Read more »
You wrong israel was the best so shut up..im going to vote for the Netherlands in the final from israel .
I am so glad Hungary qualified, I thought their stage show maybe wouldn´t cut it. i am happy for roma people. The songs´ lyrics are so much better than Italy´s, cause they are sincere at least, contain real emotion and heartache. as to us – Estonia – not qualifying, wow, do you realize we can have a Baltic pity party now with Lithuania and Latvia and invite Finland the rich boss to pay for the booze (but we´ll kick them out in time for a song-writing camp, cause Finland tends to steal songs from other peoples´ folk culture and present… Read more »
we did this to ourselves when not choosing Kerli. When the international jury had her as a clear winner…
Kerli would have qualified and probably Rasmus Randvee too.
last year people said if only we had chosen Laura… and look how she did this year. this year they say if only we had chosen Kerli – but Kerlis pronunciation is worse than Lauras´and she probably would have ended up saying something WTF in interviews like she tends to. truthfully, she is kind of embarrassing.
Please vote for Armenia in the final for Armenia Genocide sake.
Wow! Are you serious?
Really? All of you just bought this bs so easily.. Haha
Don’t you see this moron is an azeri hater. Pleasee :’)
No Armenian would ever say something like that. It’s completely irrelevant.
I wonder how old are you guys.. Seriously, you look stu.. uhm… not really smart right now.
I’m sick and tired of these braindead azeri haters. They are everywhere using Western, Russian you name it names demonizing Armenia and Armenians. And guess what? Sometimes It works, the naive ones buying it.
If it means less comments like this I will vote for Azerbaijan …… GLADLY.
Yes, you do that smarty))
I would vote for Armenia for only one reason: they had the best song and best staging…
In SF1: UK commentator speaks over Finland’s song. Finland fails to qualify.
In SF2: UK commentator speaks over Ireland’s song. Ireland fails to qualify.
A coincidence?
What type of voodoo are you implying?
The kind that only Scott Mills and Mel Giederoyc can channel. 😀
Fortunately on Saturday we’ll have Graham Norton instead.
With a logjam of favorites at the beginning (Italy,Denmark, Portugal) and at the end (Belgium, Bulgaria, Sweden, France) UK is really in fantastic position with 18 spot. Im starting to think they can win this, there is so much crap around them (Greece, Germany, Cyrpus, Ukraine it will stand out big time
Croatia and Romania were hilarious and needed to qualify for the entertainment value, not so much for song or staging..
And sorry all, but it was pretty clear from the start Estonia was just a fan-wank and nothing more.
Koit creeped me out, just as he did with Europe apparently. There were like 2 shots where he sort of stared at the camera after looking at the ground and it looked really weird. Then he kept staring and he had a weird look in his eyes. It might have ruined the performance.
Seriously. I was watching with a group of friends and everybody thought it was creepy.
The best of Koitface:
Omg thank you for this ??
oh my god i am laughing so hard
Plus this made me laugh
Creepy 100%
I watched their performance again. Yeah, Koitface kinda ruined it for me!
Voted for Israel 5 times, glad they made it. Otherwise lots of mediocre songs in this semi. Serbia, Switzerland, Estonia should have qualified. Austria, Denmark, Croatia were boring and should not have qualified, and Hungary’s “jalla balla balla jalla” gargling was terrible too. Romania and Israel were the only ones to cheer us up. Great performance by the Dutch girls but a very mediocre song.
This was always going to be a tough semi-final and I’m pretty happy except for Estonia…I can’t believe they missed out! This was one of my favourite songs and I thought it would finish in the Top 10 for sure. As much as I love Norway, I would take them out and replace them with Estonia as I thought their song fell a bit flat tonight. Very happy that Austria, Belarus and Croatia all got through. Sad for Macedonia as her song is one of my favourites of the year but just didn’t sound good live compared to the studio… Read more »
At least she’s got the wedding and the baby to look forward to!
One thing about the running order from the 2nd semi-final : since 2013 and the influence of producers on the running order, draws n°6 & n°18 (or the last country to perform in a SF 2) are the best ones for countries in order to qualify for the final. These spots have a 100% qualifying record (since 2013) and this years the 6th country to perform was The Netherlands and the last country to perform (18th) was Israel. And even better, for the last country to perform in a SF 2 of a ESC : the last time that a… Read more »
1. Israel
2. Poland
3. Belarus
4. Austria
5. Armenia
6. The Netherlands
7. Moldova
8. Hungary
9. Italy
10. Denmark
11. Portugal
12. Azerbaijan
13. Croatia
14. Australia
15. Greece
16. Spain
17. Norway
18. United Kingdom
19. Cyprus
20. Romania
21. Germany
22. Ukraine
23. Belgium
24. Sweden
25. Bulgaria
26. France
Why they’re always doing this
Belgium 2016 last in the semi final ,first in the Final and now Israel
Frack!
That running order is really weird.
Completely agree!
At the end of the running order are too many favorites
Yeah 4 favourites one after the other is weird.
Hungary-Italy is annoying too.
Azerbaijan is gonna be lost after Portugal
But look at this way, Belgium finished in the top 10 despite kicking off the Final. If he plays his cards right, he can finish in the Top 10 too!
Greece Spain Norway snore and then boom the UK? Lucie has been given the biggest kindness by the producers. And Spot 18 to boot!!
Yeah, 17-22 is usually the money spots! UK and Romania won the jackpot!
I dont think running order is very important. But UK has great position, really great, i would not be surprise if they win
Is Estonia the new Poland (2016). People liked it but jury didn’t and treated as outdated song ?
The official Final running order is up!
1. Israel
2. Poland
3. Belarus
4. Austria
5. Armenia
6. The Netherlands
7. Moldova
8. Hungary
9. Italy
10. Denmark
11. Portugal
12. Azerbaijan
13. Croatia
14. Australia
15. Greece
16. Spain
17. Norway
18. United Kingdom
19. Cyprus
20. Romania
21. Germany
22. Ukraine
23. Belgium
24. Sweden
25. Bulgaria
26. France
Sweden got a great place……. But as Björkman always try to help Sweden what does that say about Belgium and Bulgaria?
Imri is getting the Laura Tesoro treatment and starting the show while Alma is closing.
Hmm Anja sandwiched between the favorites? Yikes!
And Poland got screwed being placed second… But anyway
I predicted that was getting the death spot!
I think I did a great job predicting the running order lineup.
U.K. got a very good spot at 18!
Wow! Yes, UK got the best spot! Top 5?
My personal top 16 non-qualifiers, considering both the studio songs and performances:
1. Finland
2. Ireland
3. Switzerland
4. Macedonia
5. Malta
6. Latvia
7. Georgia
8. Estonia
9. Slovenia
10. Czech Republic
11. Albania
12. Iceland
13. San Marino
14. Serbia
15. Lithuania
16. Montenegro
Top 13 are nice. Top 6 are awesome. The first one is a winning material.
Goooo Sweden! 24th in the running order!! Great!
Well I was off by 1. I predicted he’ll go 25th.
Sweden is in between Belgium and Bulgaria. And considering that Björkman will do whatever to help Sweden i wonder what he knows about the results
Sweden will most likely win! Robin has a great stage act and his song stands out!
Goooo Sweden
Running order out now!!!!!!
https://eurovision.tv/story/running-order-grand-final-2017
As much as I like the Swiss song I knew it wasn’t going to qualify during Belarus’ performance when I realized that I couldn’t remember what song came before them. I thought it was Norway but then I realized it wasn’t and even though the song only ended 3 minutes previously I could not remember it. I had to look up the running order to figure it out because even going through all the countries I could not remember Switzerland, which is unfortunate.
ISRAEL WAS THE BEST!
It would pretty bold of the producers to make Italy open the show, they would definitely get accused of being biased toward the odds-on favorite. I think Portugal will be performing #9 and Italy #12. Moldova will open the show and Spain/Romania will close it.
I think Moldova will open but Italy opening it would give a good yet bold decision. I mean if it’s the heavy favorite, it can win at any position even if it means opening the show.
Agreed. Wouldn’t Moldova make a great opening?
Spain closing the show would be so dull.
Romania would be awesome.
Thanks to Ukraine for giving us another great show.
Estonia won’t be happy that every televoter missed the first few seconds of Laura’s vocal….. will there be an official complaint?
There bloody better be!
That ruined Estonia’s chances.
Also, in the UK (where I live now), the first 20 minutes of the show had serious sound difficulties (the presenters apologised for it) and it ruined the first 2 songs.
Same in Serbia. Many tehnicsl problem on RTS and RTCG sat.
I think that may have only been on Sky (my friend had sound problems), on Virgin there were no problems at all so it seems localised rather than Europe-wide
2 seconds is nothing, people see through something like that, it didn’t bother me.
It bothered me and I think it bothered them, did you see all the faces Koit was making? Michelle Obama’s stink eye on Trump Inauguration Day all over again.
I don’t think it was a big deal. it was like one second. You heard every other lyric and note afterward. You just couldn’t hear the Sl in the word sleeping.
the head of our delegation was just talking on the radio and they had quickly tried to decide during the song f they should file a complaint and have it repeated but they thought after Koit and Laura already gave their all it is not fair to them to let them go on stage again and give 100%, it will no longer be 100% anyway. something like that
My personal Top 26
1. Portugal
2. Italy
3. Bulgaria
4. United Kingdom
5. Romania
6. Israel
7. Armenia
8. Netherlands
9. Norway
10. Sweden
11. Australia
12. Austria
13. France
14. Belgium
15. Ukraine
16. Belarus
17. Azerbaijan
18. Cyprus
19. Spain
20. Moldova
21. Greece
22. Denmark
23. Croatia
24. Poland
25. Hungary
26. Germany
Comments Please. But keep it clean and any nasty comments you can keep to yourselves
My Top3 exactly! GO Portugal!!!
What do you think of the UK’S chances I think it’s the best entry the UK has sent since Jessica Garlick in 2002
I see the UK getting a TOP10 this year. But let’s wait for the running order to be revealed! 😉
Bulgaria has a huge chance to win. I think he will get most 12 points from Eastern Europe as he is supported by stars like Dima Bilan…….
“Stars like Dima Bilan”? No one remembers who the hell that is, and those who remember know he’s the worst Eurovision winner ever. Who would vote for Bulgaria based on that? No one is even aware of that.
Word.
Still you make a big deal out of it. So? We will have to wait and see. But Bulgaria will be a force to reckon with.
Generally predictable results, I personally got 9/10. I only missed on Norway which I thought was borderline and thought that Estonia would qualify with ease. But I must say, I wasn’t very surprised as their performance wasn’t one of the 10 best ones. Laura was vocally a bit off and Koit’s look was between creepy and hilarious. It deserved it as a song but not as a performance. Got it right with Belarus and Croatia which were not surefire qualifiers. After Jacques killing that performance Croatia couldn’t have missed out. Fantastic. Really happy for Austria too, and I was hoping… Read more »
I love the Estonian song, was sure it would qualify, saw it in the top10 in the final. But their performance today was really bad: it was too staged, completely unnatural, their looks and smiles. I believe if they just stood there nearby singing the song with not so much camera work, they would have qualified. I also like their dressing in their official video or in the video of the italian version of the song much much better than on todays night. What a pitty, they messed it really up with that staging today.
I suspected it might miss out but I really wanted them to shock with a top 5 final finish. Their performance was incredibly cheesy but so was Croatia. I couldn’t vote to save it as Australia wasn’t in this semi.
My personal running order:
1) Israel
2) Hungary
3) Belarus
4) Poland
5) Azerbaijan
6) Croatia
7) Netherlands
8) Denmark
9) Armenia
10) Moldova
11) Portugal
12) Austria
13) Italy
14) Spain
15) Australia
16) Cyprus
17) France
18) Norway
19) Sweden
20) Germany
21) United Kingdom
22) Ukraine
23) Romania
24) Bulgaria
25) Greece
26) Belgium
No haha. No way that they put Netherlands and Denmark just after each other
Swap Croatia and Hungary for Switzerland and Estonia!!!
If Italy doesn’t win the whole thing, there is no justice in this world.
Agree so much! Switzerland is ROBBED! Croatia out, Switzerland in!
Re: Press Conference
The guy asking Kristian what his “secret” is, just a rude and pointless innuendo. Let the boy be, he performed amazingly!
Also: Nathan Trent, so so cute! So glad he is through.
I hope Estonia make a complaint to the EBU and somehow make it to the final! A man can dream
Well done incredible Kristian, what a voice and performance, truly AMAZING!!!
Joci Papai congratulations, true genuine entry, straight from the heart, well done!
I’m so happy for Nathan, well deserved! <3 <3
Imri was great too, truly improved his performance and stage presence, good job!
So is there anybody here among us people who comment, that likes/loves Croatia (besides me)??? Most comments are pure hate or simply dislike.
Well he sings very good but lyrics are sooo cheesy
Belgium has the best song, hope she will win
My cousin and I laughed at the funny staging and the acting. :p But, actually it is an impressive vocal achievement to sing this song; I would like to try to sing it myself some day. So yes, I do like it. 🙂
I like Croatia performance, song is actually not my cup of tea, but I’m not surprised at all with their qualification, well deserved.
I love Croatia and i wanted so much to qualify
I LOVED Croatia tonight. They were in my top 3 alongside Bulgaria and Austria. He totally deserved the place in the final!
Yes I love Croatia, have them ranked 3rd behind Israel and San Marino
I like the Croatian song too, tommy you are not alone 🙂
The song is underrated…mostly ppl laugh at him because of the staging (his face on the background etc etc) They sounded much better than any other entry tonight, they were flawless !!! I don’t get why they hate him so much….it’s much better than Portugal…
Potential Final Lineup, if I was the producer:
1. Moldova
2. Poland
3. Azerbaijan
4. Hungary
5. Armenia
6. Netherlands
7. Italy
8. Denmark
9. Belarus
10. Austria
11. Israel
12. Portugal
13. Croatia
14. Germany
15. Australia
16. Norway
17. Greece
18. France
19. Bulgaria
20. Cyprus
21. U.K.
22. Ukraine
23. Belgium
24. Spain
25. Sweden
26. Romania
Seriously. If apollo didn’t take Switzerland into the final then I don’t know what will?
Hunter of Stars did.
I know what will: maybe a song that is not a reject from the Azeri national selection from 2 years ago (which Apollo was)?
Though they wanted Apollo back then, they just couldn’t find a singer.
True. What a travesty! Sad day in Eurovision history.