ESC 2012: THE FULL RESULTS AND ANALYZES

Ok, let's have a look at how the countries did with calm after last night's euphoria.

In the first semifinal the winner was Russia as expected with surprisingly Albania close second. On the other hand only Albania didn't give it any points. One could say these two songs are the extreme ends of styles this year. Montenegro scored 12 from Albania and 8 from San Marino and nothing else! Austria came last.

Finland gave 12 to Russia, 10 to Iceland, 8 to Denmark, 7 to Ireland, 6 to Moldova, 5 to Albania, 4 to Hungary, 3 to israel, 2 to Belgium and 1 to Cyprus. Ireland got its only 12 from San Marino.

Finland received 12 from Hungary (!!!), 8 from Denmark, 6 from Latvia, 3 from Ireland, 2 from Israel and one point from Albania, Belgium and Switzerland, a total of 41 points and 12th place. Full results here.

In the second semifinal Sweden and Serbia were clear favorites with Sweden winning. Sweden got points from everyone, Serbia everyone but Turkey! Surprisingly Lithuania came third! Of the "weird" votes we have the 12 from Ukraine to Belarus and the other way round. Croatia scored 12 from both Bosnia & Herzegovina and Serbia, 8 from Slovenia, 7 from Macedonia and not much else really. Norway and Bulgaria tied for the 10th place. Norway was voted by 11 countries against Bulgaria's 10 thus made the final. Slovakia came last. Full results here.

In the final Sweden scored 18 times the full 12 points, a new record! She beat Alexander Rybak got 16 times 12 in 2009. Rybak still holds the total amount of points as Loreen was 15 points short of that record. Italy was the only country NOT to give Sweden any points. Swiss didn't warm up to the Russian grannies and left them without points while they got something from every other country! Serbia was left without points in 10 countries but the other liked it more as it was 14 times in the top-3. Italy made the top-3 only in Malta! Greece and Cyprus, Moldova and Romania exchanged their 12 points as usual Full results here.

Albania scored its best placing to date. Russia its third 2nd place. Azerbaijan its 4th top-5 in a row. Spain its best placing since 2003. Macedonia its second best placing. Lithuania its third best placing. Ukraine its second worst placing. Cyprus its best placing since 2004 - after all! Greece missed the top-10 for the first time in 9 years. Ireland's Jedward fell 11 places down the scoreboard... splash! Iceland is stuck on 19-20th place for the third year in a row - where also Jónsi was back in 2004! Malta got their best result since 2005 :-) France failed once again with their overproduced nonsense on stage. UK failed as well but for all the other reasons. Denmark got its worst placement since 2002 when they came last (with a song I liked as I liked this one! Me and Denmark....) And Norway got its 11th last place in the final! :-o

If we look at how the semifinalists did in the final itself we see there are no big changes in the first one. Moldova climbed from 5th to 3rd, Cyprus from 7th to 5th while Romania, Greece and Ireland dropped.

More changes in the second semifinal where Lithuania dropped from 3rd to 6th and Macedonia climbed from 9th to 5th. Bosnia & Herzegovina and Malta dropped as well while Estonia and Turkey climbed a little. But all in all no dramatica changes this year!

It's also worth noting three songs sung in other than English made the top-6* and all six of them made the top-18, where also the ones from Russia, Italy and Romania are that used English mix. That's 9 out of 18! :-)

FINAL RESULTS VS. SEMIFINAL RESULTS

01. SWEDEN 372 (1st, 181 points)

02. RUSSIA 259 (1st, 152 points)

03. SERBIA 214 (2nd, 159 points)*

04. AZERBAIJAN 150

05. ALBANIA 146 (2nd, 146 points)*

06. ESTONIA 120 (4th, 100 points)*

07. TURKEY 112 (5th, 80 points)

08. GERMANY 110

09. ITALY 101

10. SPAIN 97*

11. MOLDOVA 81 (5th, 100 points)

12. ROMANIA 71 (3rd, 120 points)

13. MACEDONIA 71 (9th, 53 points)*

14. LITHUANIA 70 (3rd, 104)

15. UKRAINE 65 (8th, 64 points)

16. CYPRUS 65 (7th, 91 points)

17. GREECE 64 (4th, 116 points)

18. BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 55 (6th, 77 points)*

19. IRELAND 46 (6th, 92 points)

20. ICELAND 46 (8th, 75 points)

21. MALTA 41 (7th, 70 points)

22. FRANCE 21

23. DENMARK 21 (9th, 63 points)

24. HUNGARY 19 (10th, 52 points)

25. UNITED KINGDOM 12

26. NORWAY 7 (10th, 45 points)

PS. And do we want to talk about the OGAE voting? It got the winner right and 6/10 in the top-10 but the top-10 also included three songs that finished 20-26, one of them even in top-3. So, is Iceland this year's Kate Ryan? Or Norway? Or even France? Or all three of them?

Comments

embry said…

You made the change. With pleasure:)))

14:02

Ilkar Blogilkar said…

Thanks for noting that. If you wrote your comments without insults I would even publish them ;-p (And if those comments were ment to be sarcastic or humorous I didn't get them even if I'm know to have a pretty good sense of humor and self irony)
But thanks for commenting and noting that wrong year! :-)

14:24

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