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18/Jan 2008 at 12:57

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Identical song titles cause mix up

Romania: VH2 in, Alexandra Badoi out

A mix-up, caused by two songs having the exact same title in the Romanian preselection for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest, was discovered and amended by TVR today. The previously announced semi finalist Follow me by Alexandra Bădoi is replaced in the line up by Follow me by VH2 who were actually the ones to score higher with the jury.

As announced today by TVR, the Romanian broadcaster, the previously announced qualifier Follow me by Alexandra Bădoi, was not the one that had scored higher with the jury. The actual qualifier was VH2 with another song with the exact same title. Alexandra scored 77 points while VH2 131,5 but an error while transferring the results reported Alexandra's song to enter the Romanian semi finals. The mistake was discovered during the manual checking of the results and the rightful winner was restored in the line-up.

What remains to be seen now is what TVR's ongoing investigation regarding allegations about various songs being in violation of the 1st October deadline rule will produce. Read more about it here.


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Vote 4 Romania [44429]
Fri 18 Jan 2008 17:21:45

Listen here ( http://www2.tvr.ro/eurovision/bmedia/ ) to those 24 songs of the romanian national selection...tell me your opinion please...Romania needs your support...


Vote 4 Romania [44429]
Fri 18 Jan 2008 16:16:29

Romania National Selection`s website http://tvr.ro/eurovision


Mircea Ostoia [22510]
Fri 18 Jan 2008 15:26:19

Nico şi Vlad Miriţă: Pe-o margine de lume
http://www.trilulilu(...)Yukky/ad815314ad5c7c


Mircea Ostoia [22510]
Fri 18 Jan 2008 15:22:39

3 Sud-Est Vorbe care dor
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=ZxEv56aOBfM


Mircea Ostoia [22510]
Fri 18 Jan 2008 15:17:56

Zero Come this way
http://www.youtube.c(...)&feature=related


Daniel Stevens [36678]
Fri 18 Jan 2008 14:38:19

thank you romania!

i think you are going to fill my lunch hour boredom again this year. whilst the weather in england is bad, there's always romania's national selection to keep you occupied


Kevin Knight [36876]
Fri 18 Jan 2008 13:42:52

so pathetic!


Ayka F [23816]
Fri 18 Jan 2008 13:39:39

Wow! After the disaster of last year... this year seems to be even "better"!!! What are you doing Romania?


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