As many in the industry were predicting, Germany has taken out the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Norway. Lena’s song ‘Satellites’ was the favourite all along and bolted across the line in Saturday night’s grand final an incredible 76 points ahead of its nearest competitor Turkey. One of our picks, Romania’s Paula Seling & Ovi, were placed third with their track ‘Playing With Fire’.
But spare a thought for the poor old UK. The British entry – the Pete Waterman penned ‘That Sounds Good To Me’, sung by newcomer Josh Dubovie – finished dead last with a lowly ten points. Even the extraordinarily kitsch Hera Björk from Iceland failed to make too much of an impact, with her drag-anthem-in-waiting ‘Je Ne Sais Quoi’ finishing 19th.
Azerbaijan and Armenia, other favourites to win the prize, finished fifth and seventh respectively.
As a result of Germany’s win, the contest will move there for the 2011 event, but a venue (and indeed a city) are yet to be decided.
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auspOp says
Hey Angus,
His big notes at the end were a little touch and go, but we reckon those backing singers might have been putting him off – one of them was shocking.
That said, we totally agree with your saying it sounds a bit dated;
http://auspop.blogspot.com/2010/05/countdown-to-eurovision-united-kingdom.html
The auspOp team
Angus says
The last few years, the UK has done very poorly in the votes at Eurovision. The song itself wasn’t too bad (appears Stock & Waterman haven’t really progressed much since they worked together last), but the performance of “That Sounds Good To Me” by Josh Dubovie was absolutely dire. Surely they could have found someone in the UK who could actually SING!!!
For what it’s worth, my two favourites were Romania & Iceland.
Aaron says
Even though this was one of the most “solid” Eurovision’s yet – I’m still not TAKEN with the result…Germany was great – but the top 5 should have been UK, France, Denmark, Iceland, Romania – In that order :)