Social media was abuzz with #EurovisionAgain on Saturday, as Eurovision fans settled in for an evening rewatching yet another song contest from the vaults. This time, it was the turn of Eurovision 2007.
And while all the performances remained the exact same, viewers voted for a new winner — Ukraine’s Verka Serduchka with “Dancing Lasha Tumbai”. The real-life champion — Serbia’s Marija Šerifović with “Molitva” — finished in second place.
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Verka Serduchka wins #EurovisionAgain 2007
Listed below are the results for #EurovisionAgain 2007. The rankings are based on the votes of more than 4,000 people who decided to vote for their favourites while rewatching the Eurovision 2007 grand final on Saturday 25 April.
In brackets, we’ve included the differences between the new fan vote and the original result from 13 years ago.
And it’s all change! Not one entry stayed in the same position. Many only rose or fell a handful of places. But others enjoyed significant gains.
The biggest climbers were Finland and the UK. Both moved up 14 spots compared to their original placings in Helsinki. The biggest loser was Armenia, tumbling 16 places down to last place.
#EurovisionAgain 2007 results
- Ukraine: Verka Serduchka “Dancing Lasha Tumbai” (+1)
- Serbia: Marija Šerifović “Molitva” (-1)
- Finland: Hanna Pakarinen “Leave Me Alone” (+14)
- Greece: Sarbel “Yassou Maria” (+3)
- Turkey: Kenan Doğulu “Shake It Up Şekerim” (-1)
- Russia: Serebro “Song #1” (-3)
- Georgia: Sopho Khalvashi “Visionary Dream” (+5)
- United Kingdom: Scooch “Flying the Flag (For You)” (+14)
- Sweden: The Ark “The Worrying Kind” (+9)
- Bulgaria: Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankoulov “Water” (-5)
- Spain: D’NASH “I Love You Mi Vida” (+9)
- Slovenia: Alenka Gotar “Cvet z juga” (+3)
- Belarus: Dmitry Koldun “Work Your Magic” (-7)
- France: Les Fatals Picards “L’amour à la française” (+8)
- Moldova: Natalia Barbu “Fight” (-5)
- Germany Roger Cicero “Frauen regier’n die Welt” (+3)
- Hungary: Magdi Rúzsa “Unsubstantial Blues” (-8)
- FYR Macedonia: Karolina “Mojot svet” (-4)
- Romania: Todomondo “Liubi, Liubi, I Love You” (-6)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Marija Šestić “Rijeka bez imena” (-9)
- Latvia: Bonaparti.lv “Questa notte” (-5)
- Ireland: Dervish “They Can’t Stop the Spring” (+2)
- Lithuania: 4Fun “Love or Leave” (-2)
- Armenia: Hayko “Anytime You Need” (-16)
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Watch Eurovision 2007 online
#EurovisionAgain may be over for now, but the Eurovision 2007 grand final remains online. You can watch the full show on the official Eurovision YouTube channel.
Unlike last week’s 1997 contest, it is not due to expire in the near future.
#EurovisionAgain is scheduled to return on Saturday 2 May at 21:00 CEST.
What is #EurovisionAgain
For the past several weeks, since the COVID-19 pandemic first took hold, the Eurovision Again team has been organising mass rewatchings of classic contests on Saturday evenings. The EBU soon came on board and began publishing previously unavailable entire show uploads on its YouTube channel.
As well as organising rewatches, the Eurovision Again team has also added a fundraising element for various LGBT+ charities. Details can be found here.
What do you think? Did Verka deserve to win the rewatch? Has “Dancing Lasha Tumbai” aged better than “Molitva”? Let us know in the comments.
Absolute crap. How did it get 2nd again? Did one of her minions take over voting??
Wirklich Großartig.
Roger Cidero – RIP.
Exactly! Georgia was tremendously underrated that year, easily in my top 3, if not the best of all. As to Verka, it was, and has remained (to me), just a big embarrasment.
I don’t have any problem with the singing – but if not a joke entry, what was it, then? (Unless you agree that it was all about the “Russia goodbye” line?)
I get it. I agree that musically it isn’t bad (it is undoubtedly catchy), I just never found it funny. When I read the lyrics, I find absolutely nothing funny in them – and I cannot consider an act funny simply based on the visuals.
I have very mixed feelings about this year. The standard of songs is pretty good, and the production is fantastic. But there seems an air of unpleasantness around it. In my perception anyway. I still unhappy Scooch were sent, they reinforced a negative view of the contest that still lingers a bit now. It was a very thin joke and even H from Steps has said that it was awful/lame/embarrassing. I remember Charlotte Church called it ‘absoute shit’ in her blog at the time, which they got a bit shitty about (like they can’t handle being critized). This year really… Read more »
It was a massive middle finger to the contest and the UK people loved it at the time – it won the national final. There was a lot of questionable voting at the time and the UK audience was losing its love for the contest, so it captured that moment quite well.
Well the United Kingdom doing so well makes sense with a mostly british audience taking part, and I seriously cannot recall what Lithuania sent that year so I’m not shocked we came second to last. I grew up with Verka’s music so I’m always happy to see her appeal outside the Russian speaking community, would’ve been a great winner! On the other hand I’m sad that Serebro are always so underrated by fans, I think this is one of times where Russia is actually underrated.
Just like in 2010 and 2014, my top3 that year is the same as the actual top3:
1. Serbia (one of my all-time ESC favourites)
2. Ukraine (it takes a hell of a lot of talent to make a satirical entry that speaks to eveyone like this one did)
3. Russia (the most current of the crop)
Bulgaria, Moldova and Belarus were the best of the rest.
Haven’t watched the contest since 2007, but I remember Finland being my favourite at the time and being over looked in the voting.
R I P Roger Cicero. Wonderful artist who left us much too soon. Nice to see him climbing up 3 places.
Why no one is talking about Russia? I think their song in 2007 was an absolute bop!!! My winner!
Bulgaria was also mesmerizing!
Also I much loved Georgia! What an elegant and classy song. Their first entry still is their best.
Best from Spain
I must say I really enjoyed Moldova, Finland and Sweden last night, it reminded me about how much rock has died since 2007.
Verka was fun, as were Scoosh, it is good to see them both doing so well in the poll.
Honorable mentions for France and Turkey too, those were good as well.
Justice for Verka at last. Attending the Eurovision in Helsinki was amazing and I’ll always remember arriving at our hotel and seeing Verka coming out and jumping into a cab. The sun shone and the city had an amazing vibe, happy days.
Molitva is one of the best ESC winners in the history of Eurovision <3
Georgia, Bulgaria and Slovenia are my absolute winners of the final, and Cyprus too if it had qualified. I am amazed by the love the Finnish entry has. I wasn’t a fan of the contest back then and I didn’t even watch the 2007 edition live, but in every ranking or comment about 2007 everyone loves Finland’s entry. Is quite nice imo, deserved a lot better.
People complain about the song quality and call the contest a joke and then they go and vote for the UK?!
I’m from the UK and have to agree with you. It’s a song that only strengthens the case for all those people who poke fun at the contest. I’m all for uplifting songs but they should have a credibility about them.
Credibility. Now there is an interesting criteria. Using that word throws up all sorts of questions about what you consider the contest to be about. If this were a contest purely for music professionals to determine which song had the most technical prowess, then perhaps I could agree with you. But this is a contest watched by 200 million people across the continent and beyond – at those levels, it can only be a popularity contest, and as such I am not sure that credibility (whatever that is btw) actually comes into it. Surely music at the general populace level… Read more »
To me, Scooch was one of the most cringeworthy and off-putting things to ever hit Eurovision. I still can’t get over the fact that this actually finished higher than Andy Abraham, Engelbert Humperdinck, Javine and Jake & Joe. This song basically was like the UK flipping the rest of Europe off. Yet, some people somehow voted for this. Personally, I deem Scooch even worse than Jemini – yes, Jemini failed badly, but at least they tried to create a song that could have existed in its own right, without having to rely on that wonderfully weird thing that is Eurovision.… Read more »
Ukraine was super fun, but imo Molitva was one of the most gorgeous entries of all times. Marija deserves her title <3
Finland should’ve won 2 years in a row
New results are much better than the originals, seems to have taken out all the neighbourly political voting that blighted that year. I do like Molitiva, deeply, but anyone being honest knows Ukraine was the rightful winner that year. People are still Dancing Lasha Tumbai even now its truly iconic.
“Rightful winner” means no more than “I preferred it.” Fine. But it won clearly, and it wasn’t even a close finish. Serbia attracted more support across nearly all the forty odd countries. Deserved and much heralded winner!
Definitely prefer the original results but hey, it’s just a bit of fun.
I wish they included the semifinals
UK’s improved result is because a lot (most) of the voters are in the UK, right?
That’s the only way it makes sense to me.
Considering the overwhelming majority of Brits don’t like Flying the Flag…
It was a hit song in the UK so I am not sure that’s true.
I do believe that Ukraine’s entry would’ve won if it had competed the following year. I can’t believe it got very few points from the televoting of many countries, it’s a classic that everyone is enjoying listening to. Balkan countries really voted it down in favor of Serbia. Serbia had a very strong ballad but Ukraine had the ultimate party song. In general, ESC 2007 had a mess of entries in the final. Voting was geopolitical (lots of diaspora votes that i DO NOT miss nowadays). More than expected joke entries, whilst the semifinal had stronger songs. If the new… Read more »
Armenia last ?
Are you kidding me
Deserved