Note the improved results for UK, France, Malta, Denmark, Israel and Germany which would have scored much less if there were no music industry juries

As expected the diaspora countries Russia, Greece, Ukraine, Armenia and especially Turkey and Azerbaijan all dropped down considerably. The latter 2 clearly owe their lofty positions to diaspora voting as was suspected.

Number after brackets is the difference between the jury vote and the final result

1. Norway (312 points) -75
2. Iceland (260 points) +42
3. United Kingdom (223 points) +50
4. France (164 points) +57
5. Estonia (124 points) -5
6. Denmark (120 points) +46
7. Turkey (114 points) -63
8. Azerbaijan (112 points) -95
9. Israel (107 points)+54
10. Greece (93 points) -27
11. Moldova (93 points) +24
12. Bosnia & Herzegovina (90 points) -19
13. Malta (87 points) +56
14. Germany (73 points) +38
15. Armenia (71 points) -21
16. Ukraine (68 points) -8
17. Russia (67 points) -24
18. Portugal (64 points) +7
19. Croatia (58 points) +13
20. Lithuania (31 points)+8
21. Romania (31 points) -9
22. Sweden (27 points) -6
23. Albania (26 points) -22
24. Finland (12 points) -10
25. Spain (9 points) -14

This system was introduced after Russia only finished 5th on the Jury vote in 2008, though that was public and not music industry professionals. The full results were never made available, although Sweden finished in 4th place, miles away from their final position at the contest.

Shame on those so called experts for placing the lovely songs from Portugal and Bosnia so low.

I've always said the EBU should simply let me decide the winner

Anthony wrote:
Shame on those so called experts for placing the lovely songs from Portugal and Bosnia so low.

I've always said the EBU should simply let me decide the winner

and who was your favourite Anthony ?

The "so called" experts" were probably not so professional in certain countries as I cannot see how musical experts would place a dated 80s Mediterranean disco song - with a guy whose voice was so weak, you could only hear the backing singers- so far away from last place


What this proves is that had Norway not entered this song and had their usual attempt, you would have had an average song (Azerbaijan) winning it thanks to their diaspora vote, plus Armenia, Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and Greece would have all done considerably better. No great surprise to me


I hope they keep these juries in for next year as there may not be a Norway in to save the 2010 contest plus it was nice to see some of those guaranteed 12s turn into 7 and 8.

Welcome home Anthony

Thanks, Mike, not that I'm exactly overjoyed to be home! My personal favourite was Bosnia, but with my objective hat on, I would probably have awarded the title to Iceland, closely followed by France.

It would seem fairly certain that the juries will be kept in for next year.

it seems to me that the juries were ensuring a western victory
you have to go to 7th place to reach an eastern song

mick wrote:
it seems to me that the juries were ensuring a western victory
you have to go to 7th place to reach an eastern song
Yes, it would appear that there was more western bias in the jury votes than there was eastern bias in the televotes. I always believed that the juries may have been "briefed" to bolster the votes of the west, not that it made any difference to the winner.

Anthony wrote:

Yes, it would appear that there was more western bias in the jury votes than there was eastern bias in the televotes. I always believed that the juries may have been "briefed" to bolster the votes of the west, not that it made any difference to the winner.

We all agreed before the contest that the eastern countries all had weak entries and stood little or no chance of doing well.

i personally like the norway song but no way can i see a professional jury giving it top spot
there were a number of better songs both east and west, even that danish or was it irish song was a better constructed song