This
year "All Kinds Of Everything" sought the opinions of
visitors to the site, by conducting a poll on all 42 competing songs
competing in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest in Helsinki. Visitors
were asked their opinion on the entries at random, and almost fifty
thousand votes were cast, making it one of the biggest polls on the
internet.
People
could rate songs on a ten scale of 10 ("the best") to 1
("the worst"), with eight rating points inbetween. As
songs gained received over a thousand ratings, they were removed
from the poll and other entries added.
This
is the second successive year that "All Kinds Of
Everything" has conducted this type of poll. In 2006 visitors
chose the Bosnian entry "Lelja" sung by Hari Mata Hari
(left) as their favorite, just ahead of the German entry "No No
Never" performed by Texas Lightning with the Romanian entry "Tornerò"
sung by Mihai Traistariu in third place. Lordi's "Hard Rock
Hallelujah" which won the contest in Athens, finished down in
15th place, while Russia's runner-up "Never Let You Go"
sung by Dima Bilan did slightly better on the poll, finishing 11th.
The song which finished bottom of the poll was the Lithuanian entry
"We Are The Winners" by LT United, which despite its
unpopularity in some circles, still managed to gain a Top 10 result
in Helsinki.
As with last year's poll, a little adjustment had
to be made to counteract people artifically trying to vote songs up
and down. Just like last year, it was necessary to adjust the
ridiculously high number of top and bottom votes, while keeping them
in line with the total number of votes. In one especially bad
example, 55% of people voting for the U.K. had them eight as
"the best" or "the worst", in almost equal
measures.
The adjustment made very little different to the
overall ranking, and left the leading entries unchanged. The clear
winner of "Vote 07" and the favourite entry of visitors to
"All Kinds Of Everything" is the Macedonian entry
"Mojot Svet" (My World) sung by Karolina Goceva (pictured
left).
Second place does to Cyprus and Evridki with
"Comme Ci Comme Ca" which was leading until the last
couple of days of voting, while the Dutch entry completes a
hatrick for female solosists and for songs competing in the
semi-final, with Edsilia Rombley "On Top Of The World".
Remarkably the highest placed automatic finalist is the Bosnian
entry, which finished down in 8th place.
Even after the adjustment, the U.K.'s entry
"Flying The Flag" by Scooch seems to be the "love it
or hate it" song for 2007 and it finishes in 28th position on
the poll, one place ahead of the Irish entry "They Can't Stop
The Spring" sung by Dervish.
As for the bookmakers favourites for victory in
Helsinki, there is mixed news; the Swiss entry "Vampires Are
Alive" sung by DJ Bobo finished in 15th place, considerably
higher than the Swedish entry "The Worrying Kind" by The
Ark which finish 25th. Of the three favourites; it was the entry
from Belarus that did best on the poll, as "Work Your
Magic" by Koldun finished 4th.
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FYR
MACEDONIA |
SCORE : 7.17 |
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| "Mojot Svet" - Karolina Goceva |
RATING :  |
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CYPRUS |
SCORE : 6.65 |
| "Comme Ci Comme Ca" -Evridiki |
RATING :  |
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NETHERLANDS |
SCORE : 6.58 |
| "On Top Of The World" - Edsilia
Rombley |
RATING :  |
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BELARUS |
SCORE : 6.505 |
| "Work Your Magic" - Koldun |
RATING :  |
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SERBIA |
SCORE : 6.50 |
| "Molitva" - Marija Serifovic |
RATING :  |
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SLOVENIA |
SCORE : 6.40 |
| "Cvet z Juga" - Alenka Gotar |
RATING :  |
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BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA |
SCORE : 6.24 |
| "Rijeka bez Imena" - Marija Sestic |
RATING :  |
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RUSSIA |
SCORE : 6.23 |
| "Song #1" - Serebro |
RATING :  |
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SPAIN |
SCORE : 6.18 |
| "I Love You Mi Vida" - d'Nash |
RATING :  |
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GEORGIA |
SCORE : 6.13 |
| "Visionary Dream" - Sopho |
RATING :  |
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GREECE |
SCORE : 6.11 |
| "Yassou Maria" - Sarbel |
RATING :  |
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BULGARIA |
SCORE : 6.09 |
| "Water" - Elitsa Todorova &
Stoyan Yankulov |
RATING :  |
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UKRAINE |
SCORE : 6.05 |
| "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" - Verka
Serducka |
RATING :  |
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GERMANY |
SCORE : 6.04 |
| "Frauen Regier'n die Welt" - Roger
Cicero |
RATING :  |
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SWITZERLAND |
SCORE : 6.02 |
| "Vampires" - DJ Bobo |
RATING :  |
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ICELAND |
SCORE : 6.01 |
| "Valentine Lost" - Eirikur
Hauksson |
RATING :  |
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HUNGARY |
SCORE : 5.96 |
| "Unsubstantial Blues" - Magdi
Ruzsa |
RATING :  |
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MOLDOVA |
SCORE : 5.87 |
| "Fight" - Natalia Barbu |
RATING :  |
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TURKEY |
SCORE : 5.83 |
| "Shake It Up Shekarim" - Kenan
Dogulu |
RATING :  |
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FRANCE |
SCORE : 5.73 |
| "L'amour a la Francaise" - Les
Fatals Picards |
RATING :  |
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ANDORRA |
SCORE : 5.71 |
"Anonymous
Salvem a Mon" - Anonymous |
RATING :  |
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LITHUANIA |
SCORE : 6.67 |
| "Love Or Leave" - 4Fun |
RATING :  |
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DENMARK |
SCORE : 5.63 |
| "Drama Queen" - DQ |
RATING :  |
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MALTA |
SCORE : 5.61 |
| "Vertigo" - Olivia Lewis |
RATING :  |
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FINLAND |
SCORE : 5.57 |
| "Leave Me Alone" - Hanna Pakarinen |
RATING :  |
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SWEDEN |
SCORE : 5.51 |
| "The Worrying Kind" - The Ark |
RATING :  |
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ARMENIA |
SCORE : 5.45 |
| "Anytime You Need" - Hayko |
RATING :  |
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UNITED KINGDOM |
SCORE : 5.43 |
| "Flying The Flag (For You)" - Scooch |
RATING :  |
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IRELAND |
SCORE : 5.29 |
| "They Can't Stop The Spring" - Dervish |
RATING :  |
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ESTONIA |
SCORE : 5.28 |
| "Partners In Crime" - Gerli Padar |
RATING :  |
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ROMANIA |
SCORE : 5.27 |
| "Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" - Todomondo |
RATING :  |
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ISRAEL |
SCORE : 5.15 |
| "Push The Button" - Teapacks |
RATING :  |
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LATVIA |
SCORE : 5.14 |
| "Questa Notte" - bonaparti.lv |
RATING :  |
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AUSTRIA |
SCORE : 5.01 |
| "Get a Life, Get Alive" - Eric
Papilaya |
RATING :  |
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NORWAY |
SCORE : 5.00 |
| "Ven a Bailar Conmigo" - Guri
Schanke |
RATING :  |
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CROATIA |
SCORE : 4.90 |
| "Vjerujem u Ljubav" - Dragonfly
featuring Dado Topic |
RATING :  |
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BELGIUM |
SCORE : 4.87 |
| "Love Power" - The KMGs (Krazy
Mess Groovers) |
RATING :  |
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PORTUGAL |
SCORE : 4.75 |
| "Dança Comigo" - Sabrina |
RATING :  |
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POLAND |
SCORE : 4.71 |
| "Time To Party" - The Jet Set |
RATING :  |
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ALBANIA |
SCORE : 4.62 |
| "Hear My Plea" - Frederik Ndoci
featuring Aida |
RATING :  |
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CZECH REPUBLIC |
SCORE : 4.36 |
| "Mala Dama" - Kabat |
RATING :  |
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MONTENEGRO |
SCORE : 3.95 |
| "Ajde Kroci" - Stevan Faddy |
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