It has become an annual tradition for Germany to host its own Eurovision show in the run-up to the contest, with panelists ranking this year’s entries. Back on Sunday, Spain topped the second songcheck. Tonight, Italy‘s Mahmood came out on top.

ABOUT THE GERMAN SONGCHECK

The songcheck has taken place every year since Lena’s triumph with “Satellite” at the 2010 contest. Hosted by Alina Stiegler and Stefan Spiegel, the hosts discuss the entries with a panel of experts, and also bring in comments from readers and viewers.

The 2018 programme sees some familiar faces as show guests. Germany’s commentator Peter Urban, radio host Thomas Mohr, Jan Feddersen, “Dr. Eurovision” Irving Wolther, Marcel Stober, Constantin “Consi” Zöller, singer and actor Isabel Varell, moderator and DJ Larissa Rieß, actress Kathrin Ingendoh, YouTuber Freshtorge and members of the Olivia Jones family join the two hosts. Besides, our very own William Lee Adams and Deban Aderimi are once again part of the programme, too.

A new feature of this year’s songcheck programme is the addition of a fan expert. Back in March, Paul Klur from Dortmund won the voting on their website and thus joins the other guests.

THIRD SHOW RANKINGS

Italy is the new leader of this year’s Songcheck ranking. Coming in with an average score of 10.35, he beats previous leader Tamta from Cyprus by a considerable margin. Switzerland’s Luca Hänni is now in second place with Tamta rounding out the top three. 

  1. Italy 10.35 (9.7 audience / 10 Stefan / 12 Alina)
  2. Switzerland 9.25 (9.5 audience / 8 Stefan / 10 Alina)
  3. Sweden 7.8 (7.6 audience / 10 Stefan / 6 Alina)
  4. Armenia 6.35 (6.7 audience / 6 Stefan / 5 Alina)
  5. United Kingdom 6.35 (5.7 audience / 8 Stefan / 6 Alina)
  6. Denmark 6.2 (5.9 audience / 5 Stefan / 8 Alina)
  7. Ireland 5 (5.5 audience / 3 Stefan / 6 Alina)
  8. Romania 4.9 (5.8 audience / 4 Stefan / 4 Alina)
  9. Austria 4.7 (4.9 audience / 4 Stefan / 5 Alina)
  10. Latvia 3.9 (4.8 audience / 3 Stefan / 3 Alina)
  11. Moldova 2.7 (3.9 audience / 1 Stefan / 2 Alina)

What do you think about the results of the third songcheck? Did Mahmood deserve to top the scoreboard? Comment down below!

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Clara
Clara
4 years ago

Proud of our Alessandro ! Mahmood, all the best for you, I hope you’ll have an international success remaining the nice and talented boy you are !

Zay
Zay
4 years ago

Mahmood can also top me 😛

melody
melody
4 years ago

This is the kind of song the Germans listen to so I think the points are accurate this time

Valentino
Valentino
4 years ago

2 people’s opinion matter that much! And the audience represents how many people 5….

Paul
Paul
4 years ago
Reply to  Valentino

It sounds a bit like the Romanian National Final

Daniel
Daniel
4 years ago

Germany is in the final because it always has the best songs.
100% talent.
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Gert (Songfestivalwerk)

Let’s make Italy these few weeks before the start of the rehearsals the BIGGEST contender for the victory / top-favourite! Mahmood deserves it ;-)!

ESCFan2009
ESCFan2009
4 years ago

Paenda was robbed! I am done XD

Nicolas
Nicolas
4 years ago

I don’t know how it works exactly but how can he go over 10 ?

Skiwalko
Skiwalko
4 years ago
Reply to  Nicolas

From what I know they score the songs Eurovision style (1-12).

Skiwalko
Skiwalko
4 years ago

By the way, I know it’s unrelated, but I have no other way of asking: what’s going on with “Overthinking It”? It’s mid-April already, I miss their dry humor.

nej
nej
4 years ago
Reply to  Skiwalko

They wanted money even for sneezing, so…

Valentino
Valentino
4 years ago
Reply to  nej

Yep…Although they did pretty good videos, it was becoming annoying the way they were begging for money everytime.

Weißbrot
Weißbrot
4 years ago

Fun fact: I’m pretty sure Luca and Mahmood received two of the highest scores EVER given in the songcheck programme by the audience. For comparison, Francesco Gabbani got a 9.3 from the audience. I think Amir still holds the record with 9.8, so Mahmood was extremely close. Let’s see if Duncan can break it, but I doubt it.

Skiwalko
Skiwalko
4 years ago

I’m surprised Switzerland didn’t top that one, since, as I understand, Luca is quite a star in Germany. I guess it only proves “Soldi”‘s potential for a great placing.

Sam
Sam
4 years ago
Reply to  Skiwalko

Couldn’t agree more. Italy will be the big contender for the win vs The Netherlands

Weißbrot
Weißbrot
4 years ago

Dear Florian, there are mistakes in this article: Alina gave 8 to the UK, Stefan gave 6. This also means, that the UK is higher in the ranking than Denmark, the overall score of 5.35 is also wrong. Just wanted to mention this. 🙂

Weißbrot
Weißbrot
4 years ago
Reply to  Weißbrot

Yeah, you also still have the description of the 2nd songcheck in the article.

Weißbrot
Weißbrot
4 years ago
Reply to  Florian Rahn

No… 5.7 + 7.0 (average of Alina and Stefan) divided by 2 is 6.35, which is more than Denmark has. UK shares the 4th place with Armenia.

Breebroo1
4 years ago

Latvia is ROBBED

Marcel
Marcel
4 years ago
Reply to  Breebroo1

It’s just a bad song :/

ESCFan2009
ESCFan2009
4 years ago
Reply to  Marcel

Ah wonderful, you are Marcel from the songcheck, right? So may I ask you politely, why you said (pop)opera wouldn’t be successful at Eurovision (songcheck about KMH)? You have the right to hate the song, but last year Elina was in the Top 10 in televote! I mean, sorry, but Eurovision is about celebrating diversity (!) and of course, (pop)opera could also be successful as this voting shows. Are you just sad about Electric Fields becoming second? Don’t be, Kate will slay! 😀