After the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was cancelled as a result of coronavirus precautions, several broadcasters have come up with replacement shows to air over the coming weeks. Austria’s alternative show Der kleine Song Contest, where all 41 Eurovision 2020 entries will be shown and reviewed, kicked off earlier this week.
The two episodes broadcast so far saw a jury of former Eurovision participants scoring two sets of 14 songs. In the end, it was Iceland and Malta that earned the most points and topped the scoreboard in their respective episodes.
The final batch of songs will be presented on Saturday. After this, the Austrian public will get the chance to vote for their favourite song between Iceland, Malta and the final jury winner.
Der kleine Song Contest: Results
Episode 1
- Iceland (75 points)
- The Netherlands (71 points)
- Bulgaria (71 points)
- United Kingdom (66 points)
- Belgium (63 points)
- Poland (61 points)
- Romania (61 points)
- Israel (60 points)
- Spain (55 points)
- Cyprus (50 points)
- Georgia (49 points)
- Armenia (42 points)
- San Marino (35 points)
- Belarus (17 points)
You can re-watch episode one here
Episode 2
- Malta (97 points)
- Sweden (86 points)
- France (69 points)
- Russia (67 points)
- Switzerland (64 points)
- Lithuania (57 points)
- Finland (56 points)
- Ireland (55 points)
- Azerbaijan (50 points)
- Slovenia (50 points)
- Croatia (45 points)
- Latvia (36 points)
- Portugal (30 points)
- Moldova (28 points)
You can re-watch episode two here
Episode 3
The third episode of Der kleine Song Contest will be broadcast on Saturday 18 April. The jury will review the following 13 countries:
- Albania
- Australia
- Austria
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Germany
- Greece
- Italy
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Serbia
- Ukraine
Der kleine Song Contest – How does it work?
Der kleine Song Contest will be broadcast on 14, 16 and 18 April on ORF 1 at 20:15 CET. The three shows will pay tribute to the Eurovision 2020 entries and artists. Andi Knoll will present the official music videos of the 41 selected Eurovision 2020 entries to the Austrian audience over the three nights.
The show will have a competitive aspect too. A special jury consisting of 10 former Austrian Eurovision representatives will rate each song on a scale of 1 to 12 points (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12). They can award the same amount of points to different countries several times during the broadcast. Each night a winner will be determined by the jury. Then on the last night, the Austrian public will be invited to vote for their favourite out of the three jury winners.
Der kleine Song Contest jury:
- Waterloo (represented Austria in 1976 together with Robinson with “My Little World”)
- Simone (represented Austria in 1990 with “Keine Mauen Mehr”)
- Petra Frey (represented Austria in 1994 with “Für den Frieden der Welt”)
- Manuel Ortega (represented Austria in 2002 with “Say a Word”)
- Alf Poier (represented Austria in 2003 with “Weil der Mensch zählt”)
- Eric Papilaya (represented Austria in 2007 with “Get a Life – Get Alive”)
- Nadine Beiler (represented Austria in 2011 with “The Secret Is Love”)
- Conchita (won in 2014 with “Rise Like a Phoenix”)
- ZOE (represented Austria in 2016 with “Loin d’ici”)
- Cesár Sampson (represented Austria in 2018 with “Nobody but You”)
What do you make of the results so far? Who do you think will win the final show on Saturday? Let us know in the comments below!
BTW, while summarising Latvia’s recent results on Thursday, they showed a short snippet of Jurijus’ “Run With The Lions” XD Well, ORF, not quite this country…
And the winner is: ICELAND!
Interesting that Austria didn’t win 😀
But well deserved, well deserved!
Current Standings:
76 – Austria (surprise!)
66 – Germany
62 – Norway
59 – Italy
51 – Czechia
51 – Greece
48 – Estonia
35 – Serbia
35 – Australia
Austria first and Australia last – ok…
Current Standings:
68 – Germany
63 – Norway
51 – Greece
35 – Australia
sorry, Germany and Norway were wrong 😉
The final heat is live guys: https://tvthek.orf.at/live/ZIB-1/14061798
Thank you for providing the links to the replay of the previous episodes.
To make wiwibloggs community of haters more angry, France is doing pretty well too in Eurojury, yeah again some people esc related (but out of wiwibloggs bubble) have voted for Tom’ s song,
Keep crying guys but the facts are the facts, sorry the drama queens.
I love France this year. I wont cry at all then.
In German speaking countries you would call a song like France’s entry “Schlager” and yes, there is an audience for this kind of songs.
Lol why are y’all you shocked at the results, you realise this is basically a jury vote and this happens every year at the contest with the jury vote anyway? At least they’re staying true to their odd tastes hahah.
Well, look at the pathetic reactions here…..
These results prove and show there’s an audience for the non fan favorites, and fortunately. You can’t live with that?
Pure fans have not the universal good taste, and fan favorites don’t always do well in esc. So stop denigrate the non fan favorites, and the jury, it’s too easy, and childish….. accept the truth you will appear more clever….. sorry william and his army of haters.
I think these people should be banned from music, tv, and career if they have any
Just because they don’t have the same taste as you and as the extremist eurofans? Lol the stupidity has definetely no limits here…..
The fact that France, Belgium and the UK got higher than fan favourites like Lithuania, Romania, Russia, Azerbaijan and Switzerland shows how weird the voting in this “contest” was
Also Azerbaijan, Romania and Israel are extremely robbed 🙁
Russia got more points than expected from juries
Malta seems to be loved everywhere. Not only on shows but on online voting too. Everyone rates it high. I don’t get it. For me it is nothing more than a generic gospel soul song we hear all the time, performed by better artists. Bland and forgettable. What’s worse is that 17 year old Destiny is dressed up to look like she is a 55 year old soul legend. Why just not let her look her age?
So very true!
I would rather call Germany’s, Cyprus or Austria’s entries generic dance tracks, that you have heard many time before. For me Malta stands out with Destiny’s astonishing, rich voice and the song doesn’t bore me a second – which is not too often the case with Eurovision songs.
Malta, Sweden and FRANCE coming ahead of Switzerland sums it up – totally farcical
Switzerland is inspired by Arcade as Cesár Sampson put it, therefore he gave 10 instead of 12 points. And the song is slightly depressing.
I’m lost for words when seeing The Netherlands, Belgium and France got so many votes. Alright, again the juries didn’t make a right choice…
The right choice? What is the right choice? They made their choices, period.
France above Switzerland in the second episode? PARDON? This is not right…
Waiting for “Sweden’s Eurovision” and “Australia’s Eurovision” to have better results (I love Iceland and Malta, but the rest of the lists are weird for me)
The Australian results will probably put Iceland, Malta, The UK and Denmark highest. Like we do every year and like we did every year before we were in Eurovision.
I was just about to watch it but now, I’ve gone and spoilt the results for myself. These results are terrible though. They’re the exact same sort of results you’d get at an actual Eurovision that makes fans want juries to just go away. That top two is just so uninspired.
Finally a sweet Eurovision show in my mother language. I like it, but the results are quite weird. Can live with the two finalists so far though. Hoping for Australia to be the third. But I wouldn’t be surprised if this Austrian jury gives Austria the most points in the third semi, lol. Greece, Norway and Italy might have good chances too.
At least Cesár Sampson showed that he has taste.
3rd heat is too weak for Austria not to win, it is set up. But relax, it’s just for fun.
Wait a second we are just not gonna talk about the fact that one jury member wrote a song for one of the 41 countries right?
And that country is in the final. What a surprise.
One person can’t get a song into the final.
If Cesár would have given zero points, Malta would have still won,
The votes are by juries. The public can only vote in the grand final with the three winner songs of the semis.
I st show
overrated Iceland, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, Poland
underrated Georgia, Romania, Armenia
2 nd show
overrated Malta, Sweden, France, Finland
underrated Lithuania, Switzerland, Moldova, Azerbaijan , Slovenia
The results of Episode 2 are very weird to say the least but Malta being the top is understandable because it’s a great song. I think Norway will win the last episode or come very high at least.
Austria will win the last show that is why ORF put all the big favourites in the other semifinals and lets Vincent sail through on home soil. Which I find ridiculous and embarrassing, and unnecessary.
The actual Top 3 actually are Malta, Sweden, Iceland. There is no real competition between the heats, the jurors are the same. I doubt a country from the third heat can catch up with Iceland.
How in the world in France above Switzerland and Lithuania????
Perfect in my world. Tom, call me!
Ew
The ladies were just fascinated by Tom’s look and didn’t care about the song. You call the “jury”, right?
Seeing Switzerland 5th and France 3rd made me realise something. No show can replace Eurovision.
I felt a little bit of sick in my mouth when I saw the result of Episode 2.
It would be weird result in Eurovision by juries, when we saw this result from 1,2 show. Did that mean that Russia would got many points from
juries and chanceto won