Hallelujah, it’s raining Eurovision songs! In the space of just three days, we’ve had ten new entries for Rotterdam land in our laps. And the coming week seems to be just as hectic in terms of new releases. But before the madness resumes, it’s time to ask — who is your favourite Eurovision 2021 act so far?
Croatia’s Albina topped the last survey — can she hold on with fresh competition from 10 new tracks?
You can listen to the new entries below. Then vote in our poll. Choose wisely, you can only vote ONE time. Voting is only open for about 24 hours or so. We’ll close the poll before Russia and San Marino unveil their songs on Monday.
Eurovision 2021 entries as of 7 March
New entries
Belgium’s Hooverphonic with “The Wrong Place”
They’re the returning act with a new voice. Hooverphonic describes “The Wrong Place” as being about “a one night stand gone wrong” — a woman who wakes up and asks “What the f*** is he doing here?!” The song is more playful than their 2020 entry “Release Me” and has the classic Hooverphonic sound.
Romania’s Roxen with “Amnesia”
“Amnesia” features Roxen’s famous raspy tones, with a slice of modern and stunning energy. The vocals fit perfectly with the tone of the song. Her youthful sound also contributes beautifully to the modern vibe of the song. Fans of her 2020 entry will certainly love “Amnesia” despite its differences. As with “Alcohol You”, there is the same vulnerability and delicate nature.
The Netherlands’ Jeangu Macrooy with “Birth Of A New Age”
He’s the Suriname-born singer who is fast becoming a star in the Netherlands. But Jeangu Macrooy is also a fighter and someone who understands dislocation. Gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, birthplace, belief — there are endless reasons why people may try to push him or anyone else down. His song “Birth of a New Age” acknowledges the difficulties — but inspires people to push past the shade, all to the infectious chant, “Your rhythm is rebellion.”
Moldova’s Natalia Gordienko with “Sugar”
It dropped with sweet indulgence in Moscow, at a seemingly never-ending launch party. But after several hours, fans got to hear Natalia Gordienko “Sugar”. The club-ready, radio-friendly track is about a woman being taken over by desire, all told through the metaphor of craving some sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates. “I can’t explain it, but there’s something going on — a crazy energy inside of me,” she sings. “First just a tingle, then it turned into a burn, like fire in my blood.”
Australia’s Montaigne with “Technicolour”
Montaigne presented first presented her song on the Australian radio station Triple J.“Technicolour” is an upbeat dance-pop song with fun and uplifting lyrics. The song includes a shout-along part where Montaigne asserts, “But I got power, yeah! Midnight is the hour, yeah! Time to take off your cloaks! It builds to the song’s chorus, where Montaigne sings “Techni, technicolour, if we stand together, we can do whatever.” And amid the party spirit, the song also lets Montaigne show off her vocals, even with a speorg note moment.
Serbia’s Hurricane with “Loco Loco”
Serbia’s Eurovision 2021 trio have now released their song “Loco Loco” – and it is indeed crazy crazy! After months of speculation and a few weeks of teasing, we finally know what Hurricane will be performing at the contest this year in Rotterdam. Sanja Vučić, Ivana Nikolić and Ksenija Knežević – the three queens that make up the group – bring a colourful music video with lots of glitter and disco balls.
Estonia’s Uku Suviste with “Lucky One”
Twelve Eesti Laul finalists took to the stage in Tallinn’s Saku Suurhall arena. And in the end, Uku Suviste triumphed once again. He’ll sing “The Lucky One” at Eurovision this May after winning the Estonian selection show for a second consecutive year. Firstly, a 50/50 combination of jury votes and public votes chose the top three songs. Jüri Pootsmann, Uku Suviste and Sissi came out on top overall and progressed to the superfinal. Then, public votes alone decided the winner. Ultimately, the Estonian public loved Uku Suviste the most.
Denmark’s Fyr & Flamme with “Øve os på hinanden”
Saturday saw eight acts take to the stage for Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2021. They were all hoping to take home the trophy and earn the right to represent Denmark at Eurovision 2021. But in the end only one could emerge victorious and that was Fyr & Flamme with their song “Øve os på hinanden”.
Portugal’s The Black Mamba with “Love Is On My Side”
After an intense voting sequence in the Festival da Canção final, that saw Carolina Deslandes top the jury vote with “Por um triz” and NEEV as the televote favourite with “Dancing in the stars”, The Black Mamba came out on top with 20 points — 10 from the jury and 10 from the televote.
Italy’s Måneskin with “Zitti e buoni”
The 71st edition of the Sanremo Music Festival has come to an end with a twist: rock band Måneskin won the crown and the traditional leoncino — the little golden lion awarded to the sanremese winner. The quartet launched by X Factor Italy immediately caught the audience’s attention with electrifying performances of their powerful entry “Zitti e buoni”, but they were not on the podium in the provisional ranking before the start of the final, reached instead thanks to the support of the televote.
Other entries
- Albania: Anxhela Peristeri “Karma”
- Croatia: Albina “Tick-Tock”
- Cyprus: Elena Tsagrinou “El Diablo”
- Czech Republic: Benny Cristo “Omaga”
- Finland: Blind Channel “Dark Side”
- France: Barbara Pravi “Voila”
- Germany: Jendrik “I Don’t Feel Hate”
- Ireland: Lesley Roy “Maps”
- Israel: Eden Alene “Set Me Free”
- Lithuania: The Roop “Discoteque”
- Norway: TIX “Fallen Angel”
- Slovenia: Ana Soklič “Amen”
- Spain: Blas Cantó “Voy a quedarme”
- Ukraine: Go_A “SHUM”
Who is your favourite Eurovision 2021 act so far?
[crowdsignal poll=10765212]Which entry is your favourite? Can any of them win the contest in May? Let us know in the comments.
Finland all the way, 100% with all my dark heart??
Where can I vote btw? I’m from Germany
So far Romania has the best song lyricks ,package lets hope they will bring on stage .
It’s Cyprus year. El Diablo
“Zitti e buoni” is my new favorite! I’ll be voting for Italy in May 🙂
All I will say is that everyone better get onto the bookies right away. Croatia have won every one of these polls and yet they are still 26th favourites with the bookies who are offering as much as 150/1. Go place your bets now people, surely you stand to win a lot of money based on the Wiwibloggs polls?
I love it when the bookies are wrong. 😀 Jacques was somewhere between 30th and 40th place according to them and he finished 13th. xD I do believe they are keeping Croatia this low because they are expecting other countries who haven’t released their songs to deliver, and that they are underrating the Croatian entry…but at the same time, although I’m Croatian and would love to see our entry winning, I doubt it will happen. I can see it in top 10-15. I made a bet on Albina’s win in Dora and won some money haha, but I don’t think… Read more »
Lol, yeah, wiwi polls mean nothing anymore. As someone else said, I wish it was possible to make voting for your own country impossible bassed on IP or something.
Either Croatia as one of the smallest countries in ESC has the biggest wiwibloggs presence or people from other countries like tick-tock. I would put my money on the 2nd one.
For me it is Romania till the end! The lyrics describes best what happened/happens to us for more than 1 year….fear, depressions, loneliness! The video represents exactly what the lyrics express….if they can bring that to the stage (the choreography) , we might have a winner! i just imagine the dancers with fear, depression etc written on their t.shirt! So my votes, as many as i can, go to Romania! best regrads from germany
It’s a bit unrelated but how can I see the overall ranking of the community on “my Eurovision scoreboard” app? I can only see my ranking. Do I have to pay for it?
You have to click on 2021 Rotterdam -> Eurovision All Songs -> click the pic in the very bottom, on the far right.
It’s so complicated, took me about 15 minutes to find it. When I finally found it, I was a bit mad that they put it there and that it’s so complicated to find it. Not intuitional at all. Such a bad user experience. >.<
omg… this is really a bad user experience hahaha
Thank you very much, I found it!!! 🙂
Thank you! I was wondering too!
You’re welcome! :))
I dont u derstan the hype for Italy and Ukrain. I dont thonk Ukraine not go to the final. And Italy only have points from the people, and nothing from the jury
Italy actually got points from the jury, from the orchestra, from the press, and from the televote… they got number one because the sum up of everything made them win so… that is a bit mistaken — actually out of the 26 acts participating they went from 15th position to 10th position, to 5th position to 1st position … Sanremo is not like other National Finals, its a festival in itself. And as for Ukraine… they are definitely underrated, they have one of the most memorable and different songs this year, at least in my opinion!
Ukraine is great for a minute and then gets too repetitive. Something like Croatia and Lithuania. Croatia at least broke it down with croatian part.
San Marino (not on here), France, Croatia and Moldova for me
Same for me.. 🙂
I don’t understand why people are hating on Croatia being no. 1 in polls and acting surprised. I’ve seen many videos on YouTube Eurovision Tops and comments, and people’s tops on Instagram placing Croatia in Top 5, Top 3…. so what’s going on y’all? Albina slay!! Even tho my favorite is France. But go Croatia!
I totally agree with you!
Absolutely agreed in what you said..
okay… there is quality songs among the others this year, no words against that! but let’s be honest only Albina Tick tock is listenable in this ”dark” and boring times! and Finland.., and Cyprus…. lol
I will join the croatian army next poll to avoid the embarrassment of San Marino as leader.
3 songs I love are from Italy, Finland and Lithuania.
It’s all’ about test and emotions so I’ll say that for now my winner is ROXEN’s Amnesia! Goosebumps all over my soul heart and body…..
I really enjoy Ireland and France too.
But I’m seeing myself listening to Amnesia even if I’m emotional or in a club, disco….. dancing and having a good time.
Am I the only one to find this year’s entries to be strangely lackluster? This year there is only one song I have downloaded so far! Usually I would have downloaded at least 8-10 by now (with some to be deleted later as I tire of them or whatever). And while there are a couple of songs that do nothing for me and never will – for the most part I find the songs to just be there –not having made much impression at all. I can’t even bring up the chorus for most. On the other hand, I will… Read more »
Italy joins Ukraine in my TOP 2! ^o^
We have QUALITY Italy, Lithuania, France, Finland and yet some cheap-ass song called “Tick tock” tops the poll. What the hell.
With all these entries thrown at us in just a week, I won’t dare ranking everybody. I’ll just say that I’ve voted for France, Italy, Lithuania, Romania and Ukraine.
Taste
My fav is Finland with Dark Side, it’s so fresh and invigorate. I also love France’s Voilà, Cyprus’ el diablo and Italy’s Zitti e buoni.
I don’t understand the whole fuss around Serbia, I know they are good but not to the level of a top 10 contender.
Serbian song is a total mess this year. I live for the girls and love them but sis.. Song. Is. A. Mess. Hasta la vista was so good last year.
I do not understand this Cyprus hype!
Just saying estonian newspaper just made an article to vote for Uku on this page.
As an estonian i won’t be doing this, as i dont like the song, but thought you guys would like to know 🙂
I dunno why someone decides to downvote you there, like your just telling about an article you saw.
But this is Wiwibloggs I guess.
I think most local papers and websites do that. It would be nice for Wiwibloggs to introduce geoblocked voting, just like real Eurovision.
That’s an amazing idea but I don’t know if it’s possible
From all of these, the only songs I’ll vote for (if Live works out well for them) will be Benny and Roxen. That’s well produced music,current and pleasent.
Still voting for Lithuania. Until next week ?
The Croatia song is growing on me and I really like Ukraine’s entry but the one I keep wanting to listen to again and again is Ireland.
It was a big disappointment for me last night..
10/10 France
9/10 Lithuania, Albania
8/10 Ukraine, Finland
7/10 Germany, Spain, Belgium
6/10 Ireland
5/10 Israel, Serbia, Netherlands
4/10 Denmark, Romania, Slovenia
3/10 Australia, Italy, Estonia
2/10 Czech Republic, Norway
1/10 Portugal, Croatia, Moldova
0/10 Cyprus
I still have to add 6/10 for San Marino in this list
My pre San Marino ranking (San Marino for the time it will be #1) is:
That bottom 6 should be apparently on top 6 and your top 6 (apart from Romania) on the bottom 6. Such a bad taste thinking brokoli song or the sleepy Portugese and Danish songs are better than 5 bops
Eventhough I don’t agree with Whisker, everyone has their own tastes. Bad taste usually doesn’t exist. Only idiots who don’t respect someone’s opinions can have bad taste.
Bad taste doesn’t exist, in terms of music and stuff. You like what you like, and trying to convert people against their own tastes to be like yours is a bit silly.
Balkan and Mediterranean countries (apart from Spain and Israel) are really topping this year. It’s so hard to choose the best one
SAN MARINO
I’m surprised at the support Ireland is getting but it’s still so low in the overall betting odds.
The betting is so random at this stage and has nothing to do with the quality of the songs. Iceland are top of the betting odds because they were top last year. Ireland is low in the odds because they perform badly every year.
Well Croatia is doing very well on other polls like Esc united and many others. So I would take actually Croatia very serious.
Because the history teaches us nothing about polls. Brexit, US 2016 elections…
Tick Tock is good but not that good.
Croatia is still my fav for now, than France, Cyprus and Moldova
Seriously, France and San Marino!? When you have the spellbinding Italy and Lithuania and rhythms of Cyprus and Finland. Of course, all is down to the presentation in Rotterdam.
People have different tastes. France has been my favourite ever since Voilà won. It’s a great song and one that is full of emotions. Italy is awesome, but a lot of eurofans just aren’t that much into rock (including myself). Finland to me sounds like Linkin Park some 10 years ago, I guess I’m too old to be amazed by it. xD Lithuania is great, but it also has so much character that it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. For example, I loved On Fire but this, although a great song, isn’t doing much for me. I’m just not feeling… Read more »
Italy, France, Cyprus, Belgium, Germany atm
Right now France, Ireland, Finland and Lithuania.
Croatians rigging the polls again. Croatia was 5th for two hours and in 10 mins climbed to first place… Guys rig the polls slowly to make it look natural and people like me would never notice that. Go Croatia! (still my 4th!)
Let them have it. She won’t win anyway.
She won’t even qualify lmao
Probably no one cares about top lists, but I want to post one anyways. My top 24 so far (San Marino isn’t included yet): France: Barbara Pravi – Voila (10/10) Finland: Blind Channel – Dark Side (10/10) Italy: Maneskin – Zitti e buoni (10/10) Romania: Roxen – Amnesia (9.5/10) Lithuania: The Roop – Discoteque (9/10) Croatia: Albina – Tick-Tock (8.5/10) Czech Republic: Benny Cristo (8.5/10) Estonia: Uku Suviste – The Lucky One (8.5/10) Ireland: Lesley Roy – Maps (8.5/10) Serbia: Hurricane – Loco Loco (8/10) Netherlands: Jeangu Macrooy (8/10) Albania: Anxhela Peristeri – Karma (8/10) Germany: Jendrik Sigwart – I… Read more »
Croatia, Serbia, Romania for me ?
My favourite is France (partially surprised because I thought it would change over a month later after Voila won but here we are). My runner ups are Finland and Cyprus.
My favorite is France, but I’d be fine with any country except Cyprus winning this poll tbh.
In Greece and Cyprus we have good vinegear. I suggest you get one because you’re getting toxic with no reason at all
Cause haters gonna hate
I might be toxic, but idc. Cyprus is a one trick pony. If they had something out of their comfort zone, I probably would’ve appreciated their entry more.
My list till March 7:
1. Cyprus 12pts
2. Italy 10pts
3. Serbia 8pts
4. Finland 7pts
5. Moldova 6pts
6. France 5pts
7. Lithuania 4pts
8. Romania 3pts
9. Ukraine 2pts
10. Croatia 1pt
Polish entry out on Friday 12th of March. Phew.
Bravo Poland!!!!!
My top 5 so far:
1. ITALY
2. FRANCE
3. CROATIA
4. LITHUANIA
5. THE NETHERLANDS
1. CROATIA
2. UKRAINE
3. ROMANIA
4. FRANCE
5. ITALY
I just woke up and I have the impression to come from another planet lol. Can someone explain me what is happening with San Marino, I thought Senhit’s song will be out on March 8th. And what a surprise in Italy (good one) and Portugal (in another way sadly). It’s CRAZY!!!
Romania surprisingly is now my favourite, with Ukraine as second.
Czech
San marino is at my no1 .
What a good song.
sam marino but it isnt in the poll
Actuallu I do not like any of them, the best is Portugal so far. I might not watch this year if it goes on like this!
A very lackluster year surprisingly, I don’t think there is more ‘awful’ than usual but there also isn’t nearly as much ‘great’ as usual. Just tons of ‘it’s alright I guess’ forgettable songs