Eurovision Song Contest 2012 - Grand Final

The results of the second semi-final are now in so, coupled with the winners of the first semi-final, here is the line up for the not-so-grand final on Saturday.

I've highlighted the ones I like in red. We will see if I managed to predict the top four.

01	United Kingdom	Engelbert Humperdinck	Love Will Set You Free
02	Hungary	Compact Disco	Sound Of Our Hearts
03	Albania	Rona Nishliu	Suus
04	Lithuania	Donny Montell	Love Is Blind
05	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Maya Sar	Korake Ti Znam
06	Russia	Buranovskiye Babushki	Party For Everybody
07	Iceland	Greta Salóme & Jónsi	Never Forget
08	Cyprus	Ivi Adamou	La La Love
09	France	Anggun	Echo (You And I)
10	Italy	Nina Zill	L'Amore È Femmina (Out Of Love)
11	Estonia	Ott Lepland	Kuula
12	Norway	Tooji	Stay
13	Azerbaijan	Sabina Babayeva	When The Music Dies
14	Romania	Mandinga	Zaleilah
15	Denmark	Soluna Samay	Should've Known Better
16	Greece	Eleftheria Eleftheriou	Aphrodisiac
17	Sweden	Loreen	Euphoria
18	Turkey	Can Bonomo	Love Me Back
19	Spain	Pastora Soler	Quédate Conmigo (Stay With Me)
20	Germany	Roman Lob	Standing Still
21	Malta	Kurt Calleja	This Is The Night
22	F.Y.R. Macedonia	Kaliopi	Crno I Belo
23	Ireland	Jedward	Waterline
24	Serbia	Željko Joksimović	Nije Ljubav Stvar
25	Ukraine	Gaitana	Be My Guest
26	Moldova	Pasha Parfeny	Lăutar

Unfortunately, the results of the Eurovision Song Contest are never based on the quality of the music. It will be the usual shenanigans with all the European countries voting for their political allies and neighbours so absolutely anything could happen.

The Grand Final starts on Saturday, May 26th at 8pm (GMT) and ends around 11.15pm. If you don't have access to the BBC, you can watch the whole thing live online at the Eurovision website (presumably by using the Octoshape plugin yet again) or on the official YouTube channel later on.

Of course, if you have no desire to make this your appointment television for the weekend, you can always watch the playlist of all 42 contestants (below) and save yourself from having to listen to Graham Norton babbling and cackling.



They didn't think it through really, did they? Now that we all have the internet, there's no reason to watch what was once Europe's most highly viewed show on TV ever again.

Who do you think will win? More to the point, do you even care?