No surprises tonight (not sure how to feel about that)!
🇭🇷 - Wasn't my favourite going into Dora and still isn't (Tama was robbed, 3rd to last is undeserved) but its still a solid entry. Fairly obvious that they would win, I prefer their song from last year by quite a distance as well i feel. Solid, just don't massively connect with it (could be a grower for me).
🇬🇷 - Do I fully understand the hype behind this? Nope. Do I like it? I think so. This is a strange one for me, I'm seeing a lot of people thinking this could win Eurovision and I really don't see how but its catchy, he has a good voice and Ferto definitely gets stuck in your head whether you want it to or not.
My Top 10 (So Far):
1. Albania 🇦🇱 2. Luxembourg 🇱🇺 3. Malta 🇲🇹 4. Denmark 🇩🇰 5. Cyprus 🇨🇾 6. Moldova 🇲🇩 7. Greece 🇬🇷 8. Croatia 🇭🇷 9. Estonia 🇪🇪 10. Latvia 🇱🇻
🇪🇪 - Just no, no, no, no. This is a perfectly fine song don't get me wrong but it is so dated and a guaranteed NQ at Eurovision. The superfinal system needs to die I feel. Ollie has been robbed yet again, genuinely feel so bad for him!
🇩🇰 - Probably the only good result of tonight. Infinity was my favourite song but Søren definitely had the best performance of the night and thoroughly deserved the win. Good song and I'm interested to see how this does at the contest!
🇱🇻 - This is the 2nd year in the row where Latvia will end up low in my rankings when there was a song that could have been right towards the top of my ranking. Kautkaili would have easily been my winner (for now) but yet another song won. In terms of the song that did win, I literally have nothing to say, I guess it decent but its quite boring. Not sure it will do well at Eurovision but I guess the juries might like it!
My Top 10 (So Far):
1. Albania 🇦🇱 2. Luxembourg 🇱🇺 3. Malta 🇲🇹 4. Denmark 🇩🇰 5. Cyprus 🇨🇾 6. Moldova 🇲🇩 7. Estonia 🇪🇪 8. Latvia 🇱🇻 9. Montenegro 🇲🇪 10. Ukraine 🇺🇦
This year is quickly turning from strong to meh, the other countries need to choose wisely!
🇺🇦 - Since the Vidbir songs released I have been confused as to why this song is so popular and I am still confused. As someone who loves slow songs I just find this boring and uneventful. She is great vocally but apart from that there is nothing for me here. Molodi was my favourite and still is my favourite song but that performance was disappointing so I'm not surprised that they didnt do that well. LAUD was my 2nd favourite going into the show and deserved the good result for sure, quite frankly should have won!
🇱🇻🇸🇪🇱🇹 - Not really surprised by any of the results so not much to say here. Arwin deserved a better result tho!
My Top 6 (So Far):
1. Albania 🇦🇱 2. Luxembourg 🇱🇺 3. Malta 🇲🇹 4. Moldova 🇲🇩 5. Montenegro 🇲🇪 6. Ukraine 🇺🇦
🇱🇺 - Luzac was my favourite going into the show but as soon as I saw his performance I knew he wouldn't win. Eva was my 2nd favourite so I'm very happy with the result. Great song, not sure how it will do at Eurovision but who cares really. I cant believe 'I am a dog, throw me a bone' got 2nd place but his performance was good so sure.
My Top 5: 1. Albania 🇦🇱 2. Luxembourg 🇱🇺 3. Malta 🇲🇹 4. Moldova 🇲🇩 5. Montenegro 🇲🇪
🇲🇩 - Really fun song and good performance, could definitely do well at Eurovision.
🇲🇹 - Aidan definitely deserved to win and even though I preferred Matt Blxck and Nathan this year, im glad hes got his victory, he was robbed in 2022. Bella is a really solid song and the performance is great!
My Top 4: 1. Albania 🇦🇱 2. Malta 🇲🇹 3. Moldova 🇲🇩 4. Montenegro 🇲🇪
All four songs so far are really good, seems like its going to be a strong year. Shame that the EBU ruined it and messed up the fun!
I did this for Eurovision 2025 and I thought i would do it again for this year as I liked doing it.
🇦🇱 - Wow! Easily one of my favourite Albanian entries ever! Really good winner of FIK!
🇲🇪 - Not my favourite from Montesong, would have preferred a Temperatura or Dominos win but this is decent as well! Wouldn't be surprised to see this get Montenegro out of the semis!
My Top 2: 1. 🇦🇱 2. 🇲🇪
Even though my interest in Eurovision is limited for next year, I am still very excited for National final season and its kicked off well!
Statement on the EBU and plans for Eurovision 2026 following last week's EBU General Assembly:
Sorry it took so long for me to get around to this but ive been really busy with work since it happened and haven't gotten around to it.
First of all I just wanted to say that I am really disappointed by the result of the assembly and that the EBU are prioritising Israel over multiple other countries and still allowing them to blatantly bend the rules of the competition.
The fact that the EBU continues to ignore what Israel is doing is disgusting and I'm glad that some broadcasters have had the backbone to stand up to it and leave the contest until it changes.
In terms of what I plan to do for Eurovision 2026, I am going to continue to cover the National Finals and continue to post rankings for as many of them as I can but for videos directly about Eurovision 2026 will either not make any or I will exclude Israel from them, I'm still not 100% sure which way I will do things but thats the plan.
I have a lot of videos planned that I really want to do so those wont be affected, I love making videos and I don't want to stop that. I just hope that the contest goes back to something great, because its at a real risk of dying soon!
A slight change of plans from me, I was originally going to do a Junior Eurovision Week in a couple of weeks time where I upload my ranking of this years contest along with a couple of other videos.
Instead of doing that, I have now decided to upload my ranking today instead.
Junior Eurovision 2025 - My Top 18 (Before The Show) will be up at 4pm UK time today!
Thank you for the comments on the previous post that I made, it helped a lot.
I've decided to include a song if google says it's genre is a type of Rock song there might be a few questionable ones but I guess Rock is quite a loose genre.
I am currently in the process of making a video based on a viewers request: The Best Rock Song at Eurovision Each Year
I can't work out what songs in 2019 and 2020 would be classed as Rock. It can be any time of Rock song - Pop Rock, Folk Rock, Indie Rock, Heavy Metal etc.
If you could leave a comment saying what songs at Eurovision 2019 and 2020 were Rock then that would be greatly appreciated!
And one more thing: Would you class Finland 2023 as Rock?
ESCDraconian
Thoughts on Tonight's National Final Results:
No surprises tonight (not sure how to feel about that)!
🇭🇷 - Wasn't my favourite going into Dora and still isn't (Tama was robbed, 3rd to last is undeserved) but its still a solid entry. Fairly obvious that they would win, I prefer their song from last year by quite a distance as well i feel. Solid, just don't massively connect with it (could be a grower for me).
🇬🇷 - Do I fully understand the hype behind this? Nope. Do I like it? I think so. This is a strange one for me, I'm seeing a lot of people thinking this could win Eurovision and I really don't see how but its catchy, he has a good voice and Ferto definitely gets stuck in your head whether you want it to or not.
My Top 10 (So Far):
1. Albania 🇦🇱
2. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
3. Malta 🇲🇹
4. Denmark 🇩🇰
5. Cyprus 🇨🇾
6. Moldova 🇲🇩
7. Greece 🇬🇷
8. Croatia 🇭🇷
9. Estonia 🇪🇪
10. Latvia 🇱🇻
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ESCDraconian
Thoughts on Tonight's National Final Results:
Rough night of results to say the least!
🇪🇪 - Just no, no, no, no. This is a perfectly fine song don't get me wrong but it is so dated and a guaranteed NQ at Eurovision. The superfinal system needs to die I feel. Ollie has been robbed yet again, genuinely feel so bad for him!
🇩🇰 - Probably the only good result of tonight. Infinity was my favourite song but Søren definitely had the best performance of the night and thoroughly deserved the win. Good song and I'm interested to see how this does at the contest!
🇱🇻 - This is the 2nd year in the row where Latvia will end up low in my rankings when there was a song that could have been right towards the top of my ranking. Kautkaili would have easily been my winner (for now) but yet another song won. In terms of the song that did win, I literally have nothing to say, I guess it decent but its quite boring. Not sure it will do well at Eurovision but I guess the juries might like it!
My Top 10 (So Far):
1. Albania 🇦🇱
2. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
3. Malta 🇲🇹
4. Denmark 🇩🇰
5. Cyprus 🇨🇾
6. Moldova 🇲🇩
7. Estonia 🇪🇪
8. Latvia 🇱🇻
9. Montenegro 🇲🇪
10. Ukraine 🇺🇦
This year is quickly turning from strong to meh, the other countries need to choose wisely!
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ESCDraconian
Thoughts on Tonight's National Final Results:
🇺🇦 - Since the Vidbir songs released I have been confused as to why this song is so popular and I am still confused. As someone who loves slow songs I just find this boring and uneventful. She is great vocally but apart from that there is nothing for me here. Molodi was my favourite and still is my favourite song but that performance was disappointing so I'm not surprised that they didnt do that well. LAUD was my 2nd favourite going into the show and deserved the good result for sure, quite frankly should have won!
🇱🇻🇸🇪🇱🇹 - Not really surprised by any of the results so not much to say here. Arwin deserved a better result tho!
My Top 6 (So Far):
1. Albania 🇦🇱
2. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
3. Malta 🇲🇹
4. Moldova 🇲🇩
5. Montenegro 🇲🇪
6. Ukraine 🇺🇦
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ESCDraconian
Thoughts on Luxembourg's Result Tonight:
🇱🇺 - Luzac was my favourite going into the show but as soon as I saw his performance I knew he wouldn't win. Eva was my 2nd favourite so I'm very happy with the result. Great song, not sure how it will do at Eurovision but who cares really. I cant believe 'I am a dog, throw me a bone' got 2nd place but his performance was good so sure.
My Top 5:
1. Albania 🇦🇱
2. Luxembourg 🇱🇺
3. Malta 🇲🇹
4. Moldova 🇲🇩
5. Montenegro 🇲🇪
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ESCDraconian
My Thoughts on tonight's National Final Results:
🇲🇩 - Really fun song and good performance, could definitely do well at Eurovision.
🇲🇹 - Aidan definitely deserved to win and even though I preferred Matt Blxck and Nathan this year, im glad hes got his victory, he was robbed in 2022. Bella is a really solid song and the performance is great!
My Top 4:
1. Albania 🇦🇱
2. Malta 🇲🇹
3. Moldova 🇲🇩
4. Montenegro 🇲🇪
All four songs so far are really good, seems like its going to be a strong year. Shame that the EBU ruined it and messed up the fun!
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ESCDraconian
Opinions on this weekends National Final Results:
I did this for Eurovision 2025 and I thought i would do it again for this year as I liked doing it.
🇦🇱 - Wow! Easily one of my favourite Albanian entries ever! Really good winner of FIK!
🇲🇪 - Not my favourite from Montesong, would have preferred a Temperatura or Dominos win but this is decent as well! Wouldn't be surprised to see this get Montenegro out of the semis!
My Top 2:
1. 🇦🇱
2. 🇲🇪
Even though my interest in Eurovision is limited for next year, I am still very excited for National final season and its kicked off well!
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ESCDraconian
Statement on the EBU and plans for Eurovision 2026 following last week's EBU General Assembly:
Sorry it took so long for me to get around to this but ive been really busy with work since it happened and haven't gotten around to it.
First of all I just wanted to say that I am really disappointed by the result of the assembly and that the EBU are prioritising Israel over multiple other countries and still allowing them to blatantly bend the rules of the competition.
The fact that the EBU continues to ignore what Israel is doing is disgusting and I'm glad that some broadcasters have had the backbone to stand up to it and leave the contest until it changes.
In terms of what I plan to do for Eurovision 2026, I am going to continue to cover the National Finals and continue to post rankings for as many of them as I can but for videos directly about Eurovision 2026 will either not make any or I will exclude Israel from them, I'm still not 100% sure which way I will do things but thats the plan.
I have a lot of videos planned that I really want to do so those wont be affected, I love making videos and I don't want to stop that. I just hope that the contest goes back to something great, because its at a real risk of dying soon!
Thank you and Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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ESCDraconian
Hello everyone!
A slight change of plans from me, I was originally going to do a Junior Eurovision Week in a couple of weeks time where I upload my ranking of this years contest along with a couple of other videos.
Instead of doing that, I have now decided to upload my ranking today instead.
Junior Eurovision 2025 - My Top 18 (Before The Show) will be up at 4pm UK time today!
Hope you enjoy it!
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ESCDraconian
Thank you for the comments on the previous post that I made, it helped a lot.
I've decided to include a song if google says it's genre is a type of Rock song there might be a few questionable ones but I guess Rock is quite a loose genre.
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ESCDraconian
Hello everybody!
I am currently in the process of making a video based on a viewers request: The Best Rock Song at Eurovision Each Year
I can't work out what songs in 2019 and 2020 would be classed as Rock.
It can be any time of Rock song - Pop Rock, Folk Rock, Indie Rock, Heavy Metal etc.
If you could leave a comment saying what songs at Eurovision 2019 and 2020 were Rock then that would be greatly appreciated!
And one more thing: Would you class Finland 2023 as Rock?
Take care!
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