What a week it’s been! When we wrapped up our last poll on Tuesday, we left you with 12 official confirmed acts for Eurovision 2018. Now, less than seven days later, that number has almost doubled. As of the morning of Monday 26 February, we have 21 named acts and songs for Lisbon.
It all began with Serbia’s revived Beovizija on Tuesday. Then on Thursday Germany rolled out its revamped selection model.
Super Saturday lived up to its “super” moniker as five countries chose their representatives for next May’s contest — Moldova, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia and Latvia.
Finally, national selections in Armenia and Romania brought the weekend to a close.
Checking the Eurovision calendar, it looks like the next few days should offer us some respite. So it’s the perfect time to vote for your favourites.
You can listen to all nine new entries below. Then vote in our poll. Choose wisely, you can only vote ONE time. Voting ends at 23:59 CET on Thursday 1 March — just before Cyprus and the Netherlands reveal their entries on Friday.
Serbia: Sanja Ilic & Balkanika “Nova deca”
Germany: Michael Schulte “You Let Me Walk Alone”
Moldova: DoReDos “My Lucky Day”
Ukraine: Mélovin “Under The Ladder”
Hungary: AWS “Viszlát nyár”
Slovenia: Lea Sirk “Hvala, ne!”
Latvia: Laura Rizzotto “Funny Girl”
Armenia: Sevak Khanagyan “Qami”
Romania: The Humans “Goodbye”
WHO IS YOUR FAVOURITE EUROVISION 2018 ACT SO FAR? VOTE NOW!
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Who is you favourite Eurovision 2018 act so far? Could one of these 21 be the ultimate winner? Let us know in the comments below. And while you’re at it, share your rankings!
spain 12 points. Tu cancion
Hmmm Vote for Norway, I Love you so much…
That’s How You Write the song
Fuego Fuego Ah yeah ah yeah ah yeah yeah ah yeah ah yeah Fuego
eleni foureira-cyprus <3
perfect is cyprus-Eleni Foureira < (Fuego) in europe from LONDON!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!
The UK entry is the best we have had for a long while – good strong voice and knows how to sing!
I’m waiting patiently waiting for Ieva Zasimauskaite “When Were Old” to win in the National Final in Lithuania. She is amazing and I’m very positive that Lithuania can win Eurovision for the very first time. Go Ieva!
My top 5:
1. Spain
2. Germany
3. Czech Republic
4. France
5.Italy
I’m a Chinese Eurovision fan. I love Albania best. Albania released the song first and I love the song very much. After so many countries releasing their songs, I still love Albania best.
For the French audition, I think the song ‘Eva’ and ‘My World’ are the best but ‘Mercy’ is also good, especially its lyrics.
For Sanremo, l love Annalisa and The Kolors best but Fabrizio and Ermal are great too.
This year’s Eurovision has a lot of songs sung in the singer’s mother tongue, and I love these songs very much.
#GoSevak; #GoArmenia??
Hope, you win
#Yerevan2019
1. ITALY
2. SPAIN
3. (another, I hope Portugal with Cláudia Pascoal)
WELCOME ALL TO PORTUGAL!!!
I cant say who is better for me. A lot of good songs, but sometimes I cant remember faces and there are songs that are similar to each other. Do you know what I remember most? France, the Czech Republic, Vikings from Denmark and a mysterious guy from Ukraine. But this is not my top, just interesting performers
I voted for UK and Malta and Denmark, these are the three I am listening to most, and would also vote for Monsters for Finland if it gets chosen. Just personal preference, (which I believe is still allowed) but I cannot stand Czech Republic!!!!! (prepares to be shot down in blaze of angry comments!!!!!)
bless your heart simon
GERMANYYYYY?????????
<3 <3 <3 *
Germany may actually make the left side of the board this year! Far better than expected and so far my second favorite (subject to change). Needs to work on his diction a bit, though.
ARE YOUR EARBUDS OKAY
Belarus – Alekseev – Forever – the best song!
Agree)
ALEKSEEV SUPER
Yes, She is not my type though.
First of all, I´m pretty sure the winner isn´t among the first 21 songs selected, as I don´t find any of them to have quite what it takes to stand out. But so far my list is as follows:
1. Denmark
2. France
3. Czech republic
4. Malta
5. Germany
6. Switzerland
7. Serbia
8. Greece
9. Albania
10. Ukraine
11. Latvia
12. UK
13. Romania
14. Slovenia
15. Italy
16. Slovenia
17. Montenegro
18. Armenia
19. Moldova
20. Spain
21. Hungary
Nice to see a Viking-lover! 😀 Great list, I like you! 🙂
Very GoT, I love that. 🙂
Is really scary or funny how a group of haters saying Spain is so high in this poll for the spanish vote,nobody really believe more this argument, and they are reaaallyyyy doing sh… in his pants thinking that this year Spain can do very good,
Oh, come on! It´s the same thing every year! The Spanish fans always think their song is so good and will win, and they keep being in the bottom. I am almost willing to bet a million Euros, that this will happen again this year.
I find the song boring and it reminds me of a high school concert..
I desagree with you. Spain song it’s so beautiful and has a lot of emotions in the perfomance and the lyrics. If you make an effort to search the lyrics you will see the meaning of all that they say. I hope you do it and you realise that is a possible winner for eurovision 2018.
I hope u understand that this ballad doesn’t suite Eurovision. Not in Top 10 for sure. It is a emotional song but not eurovision material.
It wouldn’t be the first or the last time a ballad or a slow song wins Eurovision. What happened last year? Oh, yes. That was a slow song! Did you forget? But, lemme tell you little bit more. Guess what? Amaia and Alfred are in love, what makes the song and the whole performance 10000000 times more intense. And you still believe they don’t have chances to win? Spain is TRULY going to nail it this year. Fear us bitches! España ha llegado?
I like slovenia, it’s very interesting and it has good vibe, I’m impressed by Lea’s style and her story, they said they gonna change the lyrics in English and Portugal and then decide wich one is best, I mean it’s not the best song but with a little work and a little more singing this could be a masterpiece!!!!! GOOD LUCK S LOVE NIJA
Thank goodness someone things the same I mean slovenia is so loooow just because is small and that’s exactly what Lea told us in interviews “I’m gonna try my best for the great performance and of course to make slovenia proud but we are small country so don’t expect high entry” and that is just true
I VOTED FOR SLOVENIAAA <3
underrated.
I really hope it stays in Slovene, for some reason i just feel it would lose it’s edge in English. The chorus surely has to stay in slovene, the english translation wouldnt sound right
In my heart it is still Sudden Lights for Latvia …. best song ever in the (pre) Eurovisioncompetition <3
From looking at polls, YT videos, twitter posts and general articles, the three to watch currently are GREECE, FRANCE and UKRAINE currently with CZ as an outsider for top 5/10 (which would be an amazing result).
Personally GREECE is the only impressive entry/winner material at the moment.
You heard it from me!
Also does anyone feel like we are back in the early noughties with these entries?
I just translated the lyrics of the italian song.
I think it is a great message.
I read that it was inspired by a letter from a father who lost his wife in the Bataclan’s terroristic attack.
I am not Italian, but living in Italy, so I will surely tell my friends back home to vote for them, since I can’t!
12 points to Greece, from Romania. Michael Schulte tries to copy Ed Sheeran, Italy’s entry, overrated, exactly like “Occidentali’s Karma”, France also overrated, Mikolas Josef’s “Lie To Me” sounds familiar to me, nothing original about it. The rest, I stopped listening somewhere in the middle. Didn’t keep me interested enough.
Greece is so overrated.
We are all different and I definitely don’t expect or need everyone to agree with me.
I forgot to mention that Alekseev’s “Forever” sounds like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpxx9TZgV8Y and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rav-frJx_7w&feature=youtu.be. There is another in english that sounds exactly the same. I will find the name of it.
HI guys, these are my 3 main points from Albania:
8 pts- Spain
10 pts- Italy
12 pts- Greece
Spain
France
Albania
Denmark
More than 1,200 votes for Italy in two hours!
At 4.00 p.m. : Italy (1.483) vs Spain (1,703), France (1,544), Ukraine (1,144), Greece (1,129)…
At 6.00 p.m. : Italy (2,692) vs Spain (1,794), France (1,595), Ukraine (1,254), Greece (1,181)…
Italian’s behaviour make me vomit, they are nostalgic about last year where they had a chance to win but they was too stupid to win in fact. This year they think it’s the same but no way your copied entry is bad but they can’t understand as I said they are too stupid…..
Sorry for you but they deserve their votes !
Be more respectful please . Thanks! By the way they won already they don’t need to win ! And so is the same for all other countries participating!
I barely think that there are 2500 esc followers in Italy. Most of people don’t know anything about ESC. Why don’t you exept the fact that maybe most of people here like the song?
On Twitter Ermal’s fanbase shares the link to this poll.
Can’t you just espress your opinion on the songs without offending an entire nation
Great we have our cheater of the year !! Pathetic italians…..as always…..
The do not cheat in terms of number of votes (because you can only vote once), it’s just that there are a lot of their (Meta/Moro) fans here in Italy that found out about this poll and they think that voting here this song it’s a way to support both the song and the artists. Don’t tell me that Spanish/ French ecc. fans didn’t do the same! That’s why these polls aren’t really reliable, because fans vote for their favourites that quite often are from their country.
A shame !! Just for that they don’t deserve points on may….. They won’t get points from me for sure, too obsessed by their entry even if it’s bad…. it’s scary….
(same for spanish)
Yeah I agree… Like Italy is for me my number 1 at the moment, but it’s disgusting how italians just spam the poll. So message for all the spammers – please stop it, it’s not fun, otherwise you’ll be very disappointed if they will end badly in May.
In Italy’s defence, it’s not like the Spanish and Albanian fans haven’t done the same thing. (Full disclosure; I’m not Italian, but theirs is my favourite song right now).
Go Ukraine !!! The most entertaning and grazy energetic song this year and the best young and unapologetic performer!
Protege of Queen Verka, charmastic and bombastic Melovin – queer Prince of Eurovision should win!
My pressure cinnamon rolls Spain and Italy. And Armenia current #3.
The winner of ESC is definitely not in these 21 songs. I voted for Italy however. Great message, nice melody, excellent voices.
Pathetic to say an
Pathetic to say and to think that, I can guess you are waiting for your country’s entry…..and you are PATHETIC
Bad choice for most country so far. BTW
my Top 3 so far:
1) Germany
2) Greece
3) Denmark, Belarus, Albany
from Italy
FOREVER SUPER
I’m surprised that Hungary hasn’t had a bigger impact on the poll.
Spain (currently leading) is a sweet song, but is it really a clear winner?
This year is so open so far. I feel like the door is being held wide open for Bulgaria, Russia, Azerbaijan, Israel or even Australia to walk through and claim the prize.
That means only that their fans don’t read Wiwibloggs. It will be different in May 😉
Nope. My country is not a clear winner at all, not even for top 10 by now, whatever this poll says. To soon to value what will Spain offer (as every year, just compare national final vs grand final performances)
I think Estonia will be the favorite when “La Forza” wins Eesti Laul, followed by “Lie To Me”. Kinda slow song vs fast song probably “the big debate” until we start to see glimpses of final performances.
Hungary will make on impact live when it maters, when the votes will come. This poll is always weird…spain and italy are always 1st and 2nd and then on the night they are 22nd and 6th and so on…Hungary will storm in Portugal. This will be a contender…just watch…Go HUNGARY
MY TOP 3 :
1. GREECE
2. FRANCE
3. CZECH REPUBLIC
1. SLO 2. HUN 3.UKR 4. ALB 5. LAT 6. GRE 7. SER 8. MON 9. ARM 10. FRA 11. DEN 12. SWI 13. GER 14. BEL 15. MOL 16. CZE 17. ITA 18. MAL 19. ROM 20. UK 21. SPA
Was really not liking this years contest but the majority of the recent winners are actually great and quite a bit of diversity. Maybe we should adopt last year’s motto as it seems to fit 2018 better.
I still dont know who will win for me). There are a lot of good songs, almost everyone liked it. But some countries repeat from year to year, and singers look the same.
I like the Czech Republic. (moderately “sweet,” a stylish song, funny Mykolas), I like France (song for the soul) I like Ukraine (the guy is unusual, the song is simple, but gradually begins to like, and his charisma is amazing) I like Denmark (soundtrack to game or movie) DONT LIKE Moldova. “Greetings since 1998”.
SPAIN my fav! Then Denmark and UK, also checkia. These are my top 4!
Quick thoughts about the new songs:
Romania: unexpected. The song is nice to listen to, but I forget it afterwards.
Latvia: same as Romania.
Slovenia: such meme potential ^^. Nice to hear some rapping in Slovenian!
Ukraine: very nice radio-friendly song. I like it.
Moldova: sounds like something out of Eurovision 2005.
Armenia: very good song, I love the language, Sevak sings it so well.
Hungary: they’re true to their style but the song is very melodic and can appeal to a lot of people that aren’t fans of the genre. Congratulations!
Latvia’s entry is by far my favourite so far. I love it even more every time I listen to it! It sounds just like a song from a James Bond movie and although it’s not my style of music particularly I just love it a lot! I understand how people are saying that it’s not very memorable but I just think that it’s great.
12 points from the UK!
Ok, so I voted for Greece, France, Armenia, Czech Republic and Denmark. The rest are middling to average to poor for me. Can hardly wait for next weekends finals! My top will change for sure!
Most esc fans are like spoilt six year old and i’m TWELVE (NOT LYING), whenever something doesn’t go their way they throw a tantrum, oh, my song didn’t win this song is bottom 5, it’s boring blah blah blah.
Just shut up and grow up accept that your winner didn’t win !!
Anyways, this year’s eurovision is good.
This is a very mature way of thinking. 😉
Atm my top five (in no particular order) are :
France, Czech Republic, Denmark, Moldova and Greece.
Not that I necessarily dislike Spain’s song, I just don’t think I ‘get’ the appeal though. I’ll have to wait and see what the revamp sounds like (only commenting on that since it appears to often get first place on these polls).
1.HUNGARY 2.CZECHIA 3.UKRAINE 4.BELARUS 5.GERMANY 6.DENMARK 7.ARMENIA 8.SWITZERLAND 9.ROMANIA 10.ITALY
My rankings so far: 1 Armenia Outstanding song, my kind of music. Also, sounds very good in Armenian. Will be difficult for another song to overtake this in my rankings. Reminds me a bit of the Danish band De Dødelige, who I love. 2 Greece Loved it from the start. Memorable, haunting, beautiful. Again sounds great in Greek. 3 Romania Might not stay here at #3, but I’m loving it at the moment. Lots of action to keep you for the 3 minutes. 4 Czechia Used to be my #1, but I’m starting to get bored of it, heard it… Read more »
Slovenia’s song is not annoying you just don’t know what is a good song, it’s something new definitely don’t deserve to be last…..
Until now quite mediocre year, only few good entries
For my Nr 10 1pt to Greece
My Nr 9 and 2 pts to Serbia
My Nr 8 and 3 pts to Latvia
Nr 7 and 4 pts to Hungary
Nr 6 and 5 pts to Slovenia
Nr 5 and 6 pts to Spain
Nr 4 and 7 pts to Germany
Nr 3 and 8 pts to Italy
Nr 2 and 10 pts to France
Nr 1 and 12 pts to Czechia
BTW, I am from Austria
None of them!
My top 5:
1. Albania
2. Belarus
3. Switzerland
4. Ukraine
5. Czech Republic
Good luck to all! 🙂
Top 21, here we go: 1. France (still at the top, baby! Song, message and French lyrics. Love it all!) 2. Albania (Eugent’s rock vibes captivated since the start, and they still do today) 3. Italy (The most inspiring and captivating message of all! This song is so good) 4. Romania (One of the my favorites, I love pop-rock so much! Go, Humans!) 5. Czech Republic (Still a favorite, he really delivers with his song and live) 6. Ukraine (Such an interesting performance, great song, it grew on me a lot) 7. Germany (I had another favorite, but this is… Read more »
May I ask: How did you find out about Eurovision/ why do you know it? Just curious:)
Can’t remember, I believe I sometimes stumbled into Wikipedia and always ended up knowing about the Contest at least in name. Then I got into a Skyscrapercity forum, where a lot of people follow Eurovision, so there was the Eurovision thread, there I watched a clip of the voting sequence in Stockholm 2016, then I watched the whole show. I was hooked. That was on March 2017, so my first Eurovision live (from YouTube) was Kyiv 2017, so technically this is my first Eurovision season! Greetings. 🙂
I don’t think we’ve heard the winning song yet, but if I had to give scores based on what we’ve heard so far:
12 pts – Greece
10 pts – France
8 pts – Italy
7 pts – Hungary
6 pts – Albania
5 pts – Belarus
4 pts – Latvia
3 pts – Romania
2 pts – Armenia
1 pt – Slovenia
It is great to see that this year the big 5 ‘s have a quite high quality as a whole. Anyway my favs are Italy Greece.
no offense but i think this is going to be a terrible year in Eurovision
First of all, rude re: Finland (don’t call people ugly). Second, we don’t even know the Dutch and Estonian entries yet.
Very true!