Italy appeared in semi-final 2 of Eurovision 2024 on Thursday night, with Angelina Mango showcasing her entry “La noia.” During the recap of qualifiers at the end of the evening, broadcaster Rai aired a banner at the bottom of the screen with percentages next to each of the night’s competing countries, which many have taken to be the televote results of the Italian public.
Although Italy is part of the Big Five that gain an automatic spot in the grand final, the nation is permitted to vote in the same semi-final in which the country’s entry is presented.
The reveal of these possible televote results would be a breach of contest rules by Rai. Broadcasters are not permitted to share any results from the semi-finals until after Saturday’s grand final.
Update: 14:25 BST
Rai has issued the following statement in regards to the publication of televote results:
“Regarding the publication of the results of the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, in the closing credits of this semi-final, Rai specifies that it was a technical problem following which some data – completely partial – were mistakenly highlighted in the graphics of the Italian national vote. These results, pursuant to the Regulations of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, can only be made public after the final evening. Rai promptly apologized to the EBU leaders and believes that this inconvenience does not affect the regularity of the final result. The published votes are in fact incomplete. In any case, Rai has already spoken to the EBU, confirming its commitment to full compliance with all the rules for the rest of the event.”
Italy Eurovision 2024 semi-final 2 possible televote results
- Israel: 39.31%
- Netherlands: 7.32%
- Albania: 6.68%
- Georgia: 6.64%
- Switzerland: 6.03%
- Armenia: 5.83%
- Greece: 5.29%
- San Marino: 3.54%
- Denmark: 2.93%
- Latvia: 2.91%
- Austria: 2.84%
- Estonia: 2.80%
- Czechia: 2.48%
- Malta: 2.19%
- Belgium: 1.68%
- Norway: 1.55%
Israel topped the supposed results by a significant margin, earning almost 40% of all the votes cast.
Second place went to the Netherlands, who garnered 7%.
?? Italian broadcaster Rai has accidentally revealed their televoting percentages during tonight's #Eurovision semi-final.
— ESC Discord (@ESCdiscord) May 9, 2024
[? Rai] pic.twitter.com/cykJlZt4Qr
Some had questioned the validity of the voting percentages shown on screen. This is because the broadcasters themselves do not usually know the semi-final voting breakdown of their own country.
Portuguese journalist Bernardo Pereira noted that the votes cast by each nation supposedly go straight to voting company ONCE. The final results are then validated by accounting company Ernst & Young.
It is not known, though, whether Italy’s Rai has a different agreement that allows them access to such information.
Further clarification will be required from the @EBU_HQ but sources tell me that Televote results in the semis do not go through the broadcasters and are directly administered by voting company ONCE, with compliance monitored by EY.#Eurovision2024
— Bernardo Pereira (@bernardontp) May 9, 2024
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The EBU has yet to make any comment on the situation.
Nevertheless, the information has helped Israel climb significantly in the odds to win Eurovision 2024. Eden Golan now sits as the bookies’ second favourite to take home the trophy.
Croatia’s Baby Lasagna remains the clear favourite, with odds as low as 6/5.
40% is an enormous amount considering that were 16 songs were being considered
SVT has some raw videos from the audience during tonight’s rehearsal. Seems pretty good for Israel, very similar to how it was on Thursday live show. I’m starting to think they may actually take it home.
Said no one
sounds like the Israeli lobby paid RAI to publish fake results
Return to Eden
The original miniseries was marvelous. The soapy follow-up uhmmmm not so much.
My mum loved that show
remember last year France and spain both good in odds and finished 16 and 17 in the final,
Now it’s not about odds anymore
THIS JUST IN: Netherlands DQ’d by EBU for Joost hitting Israe1i delegation member after he was bullied.
Fuente: “De Los Deseos”.
He hit a Swedish camera person and the only person who was bullied was Eden by Joost in the press conference.
is this the official party line in Israel? lol
How is that even possible??? Nearly 40%???
The power of Israeli communities
Someone released the results maybe because they saw that Israel got so many votes
In order for Israel not to win, tactical votes may be required.
I don’t like tactical votes but now it may be the only way to stop Israel.
Maybe you should vote more times for countries that have a chance to win the competition and beat Israel
France croatia 🙂
Switzerland better
Or that nobody wote for Israel
tomorrow vote for your favorite songs and not for politics. if the song sucks no need to have votes. it’s eurovision not politics
It is politics, though. If Israel gets a huge televote, that is not down to the quality of the song.
Not Eurovision is political, because Eurovision = EBU = Jury voting. Televoting is political
The competition is more about politics if Israel hosts the competition
If Israel has the ability to forge International passports of other countries, it has the ability to manipulate voting lines.
Israel must have gained a lot of votes because of the protests.
In addition, viewers vote for their favorites and not for which songs they dislike.
For example, 10 percent liking a song and 90 percent disliking it is enough to get high ratings.
Different people may have voted for Israel and they would not have voted otherwise
Yes. I am pretty sure Mosad found the way to hack the lines in the Icelandic selections because they wouldn’t be able to maintain their PR if Europe would massively vote for a Palestinian. That would be such a strong message! Maybe they even tested “their hacking” on Iceland.
Sounds plausible.
They forged international passports of outher countries? ooooh do tell. first time hearing about this. link?
Here you go
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/24/australia-expels-israeli-diplomat
They done it with Irish passports too in order to carry out an assassination in Dubai
Any country with a half decent secret service can forge passports – this is far from being unique to Israel.
I’ll also add that the Irish passports where stolen
I think it’s time for you to take off your tinfoil hat. It’s cutting off blood flow to your brain.
Those who vote for Israel due to the protests will have more time to vote for Israel in the final as voting starts before the first song is performed
If they haven’t changed it for this year or recent years, it used to be that the phone votes/sms voting went to some phone company in the country where the votes came from and then they were automatically forwarded.
For example, in Sweden it has been Telia
It’s not enough for you that most of the Europe hates you. Now most of the liberal ESC community hates you. Congratulations morons. I never wanted something bad to happen to anyone before, but you are so asking for it . Harassing Joost like that, shameless
Hate for what?
Is this allowed? Sådan kan du stemme på Israel i Eurovision – Med Israel for fred – MIFF Danmark it’s various public Israeli groups that asks all “friends of Israel” to vote for Israel. Isn’t this supposed to be non-political and voting for a song you like, not for the country you support?
Well. If we’re honest with ourselves, 1944 was a pretty mediocre song. Unfortunately this happens every year to differing degrees.
True but 1944 won by televote sinking Australia and juries sinking Russia. They caught the lose ball so to speak.
1944 is masterpiece
So everyone is offending israelis now?
https://greekreporter.com/2024/05/10/marina-satti-controversy-eurovision-yawning-israel-contestant/
Good on her! Greece is 100% behind her on this.
haha one point from to Greece just for that!
When you represent a genocidal state internationally, people yawning at you is probably the least of your worries.
She’s half Arab (her father is an Arab settler from Sudan), is someone surprised?
Shame on Wiwibloggs for purposely fueling the fire and only posting articles about Israel that would escalate hateful and bigoted rhetoric. Literally not one article this season about a reaction, recap, review or anything that any other artist would receive. Yet any opportunity to invite bots and antisemitism with a baiting headline (going back to song selection, Icelands NF, comments by other delegations) has been put front and center. This season has been toxic. Unlike other content providers ignoring the Israeli entry, this site manages to be worse by both ignoring and encouraging negativity, toxicity and hate. You have lost… Read more »
Same here. I also noticed, not a pipsqueak about Israel but they quickly ran with the news of the Italian televote.
I stand against antisemitism. A few votes from Israel coming by way too.
RIM TIM TAGI DIGI, RIM TIM TIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This isn’t the Wiwibloggs International Airport. You don’t have to announce your departure.
Someone has put an interesting theory on Twitter about the Italian televote result: Estonia performed from 13th in the running order. They weren’t followed by song 14 Israel, but by automatic qualifier Italy, so some Italian viewers might have thought Italy was song 14 and they tried to vote for themselves. That’s possible this year as it’s the first time Italy performed in the semis – there might have been some confusion.
Doesn’t make any sense at all since you can only vote after all performances are finished and Italy wasn’t in the recap
it’s not my theory! Just mentioning it…remember, in 2004 Croatia awarded itself four points in the semi because so many Croatians voted for themselves…it does happen, despite the warnings.
The 40% implies people are voting multiple times, but you get a response back to confirm what country your vote has been counted for so this theory feels unrealistic.
We’ll see if the other countries that are directly qualified for the final vote in similar ways
Would have liked Wiwibloggs to be a lot quicker with news…did expect an article by now about Joost not turning up on the rehearsal…but, no….
And just because I wrote that, of course it turned up…hahaha
They were doing live reaction to the running order when they received the news about Joost.
I tank you RAI for this; EBU couldnt evin find Who leaked Italy’s stand in rehearsal
If joost will be disqualified… I will believe that croatia can win this thing. But I doubt it, Netherlands broadcaster should solve the situation before grand final. Disqualification of Joost could start chain reaction
That joker is no threat to Marko. Just imagine thinking this… lol
Fans like you make me root against Croatia. Without joost you would get a lot extra Tele votes. But I wish you won’t
I’m very excited about their reactions when they see that Croatia are not in the top three in the jury votes.
*Not in top7
jury top 5 would already be a crime over music
Cue to Joost fans after the violent aggressive bully gets DQ’d!
And now I’m excited for YOUR reactions!!!!
I cannot take you seriously. And btw, don’t you owe me your 2024 ESC top 6 songs fom another thread? I think you do.
Pls vote for us, i Promise a lot of us are very nice!!!
Yeah right – You’ll probably have Thompson band performing the opening ceremony
Is that your only association with Croatia? F****** Thompson?! Jesus!
Zlatko Hasanbegovic will probably be your minister in charge of organising the event.
Haha the hell he will. 🙂
Imaj malo samopoštovanja. Trolovi su tu s razlogom.
I’m waiting for you to show the whole board what non-basic taste looks/sounds like, troll!
This man Marco has been dropping truth bombs all afternoon
Don’t feed it!
IT?!!!!
Sky News now reporting on Joost’s absence.
From Sky: The Netherlands’ Eurovision entry Joost Klein is under investigation by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) due to an unexplained “incident” – and will not be rehearsing again until “further notice”.
It should be solved in couple of hours. I think worst case scenario they will use recording from yesterday ?
Unfortunately, if he’s DQ, he’s out, no rehearsal or semi footage, and maybe no Dutch vote either.
Is it true the Israeli delegation made fun of Joost’s parents dying?
Probably no, just informational war
Worse, it ended in violence backstage.
Ouch! Spill it, please!
Video… I’m ESC starved 🙂 Get ’em Joost… Big Blue Bird getting gnarly… Feathers everywhere.
(and I’m kidding before someone asks for the video)
I saw a video where Israeli delegation was harassing Joost
Send it to the EBU… Stat.
Joost was offender or victim ?
Bit worrying if Joost was the victim but he’s the one under investigation.
Victim…EBU also saw that video
it could be partial in the sense that votes via esc.vote don’t go through Rai at all and they wouldn’t know them
voting though app is more for hardcore fans as it’s not highlighted in the voting graphics, so if Israel supporters are casual viewers the missing esc.vote could be less biased for Israel
Happy Anniversary ABBA
Truly think Israel is the most toxic in Eurovision. Way before this occurred they downvote everything and in BOT masses they upgrade their own ratings in polls.
A self inflated narcissism and where is that derived from? Who teaches that
Many countries did that in the past. Do I need to remember croatians pushing up Roko’s hellish Angel at the polls?
And nope, not a single country is toxic. Politics are toxic, and leaking them in the contest intoxicates everything.
Plus Azerbaijan. Simply now they are kinda off the radar.
Israeli behaviour in this forum alone has been shocking and eye opening to me. I came here to escape their conflict. They brought it with them. They’re out in force on this post too.
Not when we have Sweden rigging the jury vote every year to boost their mediocre songs’ chances, introducing some new bs every time they host and not even being able to host in their best venues
If Marina pulls out tomorrow, I’d support her 100%. I’d actually be proud that she is representing Greece and taking this stand.
Israel should’ve pulled a Armenia 2021, not taking part due to internal conflicts/problems
The president himself wanted Israel to participate. Anyone who claims their participation is totally not political is delusional.
So what is the truth?
But… bwahahahaha certain someone’s odds stopped rising and then dropped.
Evil shall be defeated.
I find it so pathetic that croatians would accept to win just in order to avoid the victory of Israel…
If Italy’s results were not made public, Israel would easily win the contest in the final night.
What?!
Explanation: Israel’s song >>>>> Croatia’s
And I would find it pathetic that Israel or any country for that matter, would accept to win due to political reasons rather than on merit
This is madness. Croatia have been a favourite to win since January! Israel’s song is barely even a song and the performance last night was off key and flat.
The drop of ink already made its mark on Israel, everyone will vote for Croatia.
Panic on board. Many people who have never watched or voted will vote Israel just to show support.and against t% er ro is%m. Stefania 2.0 televote incoming. Save your money it’s not worth it trying to push Croatia against the masses.
If they are voting against terr0rism, they wouldnt be voting for Israel, would they?
don’t compare Israel to Ukraine pls
I love these Israeli bots that are trying to turn people away from Croatia now. If you s**t on Croatia in every other comment don’t come here commenting like “it’s not worth trying to push Croatia against the masses”. You are the masses.
please if there’s a moderator in here, remove these bots, this is annoying af
EBU update (no specific info):
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeQ3cRgo/
unavailable at least for me, what did it say?
We are currently investigating an incident reported to us by the Dutch artist. No rehearsals until it’s investigated. No further comment.
(Paraphrasing as I can’t type for $hit)
Let me rephrase: …investigating an incident by the Dutch artist reported to us…
Yeah… Video is gone now.
RAI statement can be interpreted to say these are partial results. Most likely showing just 1 of the voting methods. Because only %s are shown not raw numbers there is no way to tell which voting method this represented. My guess it would be the most tech advanced method as those numbers are likely more readily available.
“completely partial” is very odd wording. It’s an oxymoron.
How can a partial vote give 40% of votes to one single song? That does not make sense
And why hasnt RAI been punished for violating rules?
a % of a partial total is still a %. When the difference is as big as that, it’s unlikely that the other uncounted part was any different. It’s a total nonsense answer from RAI.
not the EBU becoming similarly awful as the FIA in Formula 1
Eden throwing a Toto Wolff moment now regarding this incident what Joost did, Eden likely said ”no, martin, no” ”joost did something disrespectful to me and my country”
ugh
Copy, we are checking
-EBU
Leclerc: NOOOOOO
She is a cancer, like her scum country
Let’s try and keep it constructive.
There’s a murder in the dancefloor …
Who is the next? Baby Lasagna? Nemo? Bambie? Slimane? Marina?
https://greekreporter.com/2024/05/10/marina-satti-controversy-eurovision-yawning-israel-contestant/
“Daddy Martin, please make the bad man go away.”
There is a rumor on X which says that the israeli delegation made a joke about Joost’s parents death, which explains why he is absent today.
As much as it would suit my dislike of the Israeli delegation – Objectively, that doesn’t sound like a realistic scenario.
Why not?
The video is all over X. Watch it. Joost us nervously smoking and Israeli delegation deliberately mocks him
Technically, Italy broke the rules, whether intentionally or not. The book says it’s a straight red card. There’s still 30 hours to go and we could be down 2 finalists already.
It was done in the past by Italy, no red cards
Never a card for Maldini 😛
I think the EBU is just going to say: “It’s Italy, what do you expect?”
very racist = united by music!
Omg what is all happening? This years Eurovision is not just spilling the tea, its pouring the tea while it’s still boiling hotttt
And I love it!!!
Num num num num… 🙂
eBU needs to respond to the disclosure of results . If it legitimate so be it, but RAI needs to be held accountable for breaking rules . If it’s not then what was the purpose of all of ths ?i. If it’s true I certainly would immediate investigate the source of voting where it came from . Technology and AI and all can easily be manipulated and tampered. Sinister goings on it appears fur now!
One strange thing I remembered is that for the first time ever during a semi-final for me yesterday, I noticed that the responses to my votes were taking a very long time to come. This is something usual in the final where many people vote but not in a semi for as far back as I can remember. This meant that much more people were voting yesterday than usually. The question is if they were really people
And I couldn’t vote via sms from a Dutch number from the arena. Girl from the UK couldn’t vote on Tuesday either.
Moonlanding incoming
You did not hahahaha
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html
Lemme guess, CNN is also H@mas?
Joost drama is a distraction from Israe1 televote riggage.
Fvck the EBU
indeed
Nooo, don’t say that cuz they love that!
What is happening with Joost? Anyone knows something?
I hope Joost is well and not doing anything crazy
Define crazy??
Wtf is up with this year
There’s an official statement by EBU that he won’t be rehearsing until further notice
Omg Joost drama is coming
What about Joost?
a incident last night regarding Israel’s artist Eden Golan, where Joost among other artists had been involved in
EBU showcasing their 110% devotion towards Israel once again, but if they want Israel to win, well i’m already scared for even bigger chaotic riots then
You are just speculating
its what is shown here in our nation, NOS text page
It’s probably more 110% devotion to their precious main sponsor than to Israel, but year, it’s rubbish.
yeah, it’s rubbish*
People, reminder: odds are odds. If some expert says an apple is going to fly away from a tree, there will be people who will bet to that. Israeli rising odds are an obvious consequence, not a premonition. About the voti-leak, I insist: -all the ranking is weird according to italian traditional votes and taste -There’s not a single song in the history of ESC that could win with 40% of votes. That % is ridiculous even coming from Moldova to Romania. -I’m not european, I see things from a different perspective. If Europe supports Israel more than Ukraine in… Read more »
Does anyone knows if Netherlands are disqualified for not showing in rehearahals ? Or worst case scenario they will show recording from semi?
Do we know why Netherlands didn’t rehearse this afternoon ? Like, there’re just hours left before the Jury show, that’s worrying
Latest we know here in the Netherlands is that the EBU has started a investigation because of a incident that was reported to them about Joost.
If joost would be disqualified that would be a gift for croatia lol
It’s tooo much of a coincidence, right?
I’m just upset the contest went from a really open field with lots of winners to everyone obsessing over whether or not israel is going to win because of politics. Regardless of who wins the enjoyment of the final is effectively spoiled for a lot of people and held hostage by this nonsense.
Not everyone… Just the usual bunch. There’s a tight group of contenders with different genre performaces… Odds are indicative but who knows. There’s a lot of long-term winners coming out of this year’s completion… It’s not always (even rarely) the trophy winner that we remember or see again.
Enjoy the final, and follow your favourites as they produce more music 🙂
Yeah… it’s kinda dampened my experience and enjoyment a little, but I still do believe anyone can win. My little metal-loving heart still believes Norway can win 😛
I want to see how the EBU manages the ultimate downfall of Eurovision if Israel wins, I wonder if they would apologize for not taking action sooner. It would be super interesting to witness.
On the other hand, I love this contest too much to see it collapse. As much as I dislike the Croatian entry, it seems like the only act that stands a chance of winning against Israel.
Oh like the downfall they had the last time Israel won 5 years ago? Take your pills, the fact that you dislike a country doesn’t mean that some catastrophe will happen if this country wins or does well in the contest. Israel has been doing pretty well in this contest for decades.
5 years ago there was no conflict?
I believe that after all this years we’re all “faking dementia” and admitting Eleni Foureira as the real winner. Opinion, since Eleni appears sometimes (like this year) and Netta seems kinda forgotten.
Nobody thought the contest would have a downfall when Netta won. The conflict wasn’t half as bad in 2019 as it is now.
The world has become much more educated on the ongoing genoc*de Israel is committing in comparison to 2019. If Israel wins whilst actively committing w*r crimes – the Eurovision we know and love will never be the same.
Switzerland it is