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National Final Awards: The nominations
BEST SONG
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- Ajër (Albania)
performed by Besa Kokedhim
music by Alban Male, lyrics by Olti Curri
video - Someday (Denmark)
performed by Hera Björk
music and lyrics by Christina Schilling, Jonas Gladnikoff, Henrik Szabo & Daniel Nilssonvideo
video - Surrender (Finland)
performed by Passionworks feat. Tony Turunen
music by Harriet Hägglund & Kristian Pihlajaharju, lyrics by Harriet Hägglund
video - Bo'i lirkod iti/Will you dance with me (Israel)
performed by Noa & Mira Awad
music and lyrics by Noa, Mira Awad & Gil Dor
video - Butterflies (Norway)
performed by Tone Damli Aaberge
music by David Eriksen, lyrics by Tone Damli Aaberge & Mats Lie Skåre
video - Juntos vamos conseguir (Yes we can) (Portugal)
performed by Luciana Abreu
music by Carlos Coincas, lyrics by Luciana Abreu & Carlos Coincas
video - Nada es comparable a ti (Spain)
performed by Mirela
music and lyrics by Tony Sanchez Ohlsson, Thomas G:sson & Andreas Rickstrand
video - Stay the night (Sweden)
performed by Alcazar
music and lyrics by Andreas Lundstedt, Therese Merkel, Lina Hedlund, Anders Hansson & Mårten Sandén
video
BEST PERFORMANCE
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- Hera Björk (Denmark)
for her performance of the song Someday
video - Aleksandar Belov (FYR Macedonia)
for his performance of the song Zastani solzi izbrisi
video - Melody (& dancers*) (Spain)
for her performance of the song Amante de la luna
video - Alcazar (Sweden)
for their performance of the song Stay the night
video - The Twins (United Kingdom)
for their performance of the song It's my time
video
BEST BALLAD
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- Ajër (Albania)
performed by Besa Kokedhim
music by Alban Male, lyrics by Olti Curri
video - I wish I could pretend (Ireland)
performed by Krisitina Zaharova
music and lyrics by Lauris Reiniks
video - Bo'i lirkod iti/Will you dance with me (Israel)
performed by Noa & Mira Awad
music and lyrics by Noa, Mira Awad & Gil Dor
video - Nada es comparable a ti (Spain)
performed by Mirela
music and lyrics by Tony Sanchez Ohlsson, Thomas G:sson & Andreas Rickstrand
video (semi final performance) - Snälla, snälla (Sweden)
performed by Caroline af Ugglas
music by Heinz Liljedahl, lyrics by Caroline af Ugglas
video
BEST MID TEMPO SONG
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- Surrender (Finland)
performed by Passionworks feat. Tony Turunen
music by Harriet Hägglund & Kristian Pihlajaharju, lyrics by Harriet Hägglund
video - Butterflies (Norway)
performed by Tone Damli Aaberge
music by David Eriksen, lyrics by Tone Damli Aaberge & Mats Lie Skåre
video - Juntos vamos conseguir (Yes we can) (Portugal)
performed by Luciana Abreu
music by Carlos Coincas, lyrics by Luciana Abreu & Carlos Coincas
video - Amante de la luna (Spain)
performed by Melody
music and lyrics by Fernando Bermudez & Manuel Carrasco
video - You're my world (Sweden)
performed by Emilia
music & Lyrics by Emilia Rydberg & Fredrik Boström
video
BEST UP TEMPO SONG
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- Det' det (Denmark)
performed by Sukkerchok
music & lyrics by Lasse Lindorff, Mogens Binderup & Lise Cabble
video - Destiny (Estonia)
performed by Laura
music & Lyrics by Sven Lõhmus
video - Tricky (Norway)
performed by Velvet inc.
music & lyrics by Hanne Sørvaag, Niklas Bergwall & Niclas Kings
video - Stop (Romania)
performed by Catalin
music by Eduard Carcota, lyrics by Cristian Hriscu-Badea
video - Stay the night (Sweden)
performed by Alcazar
music and lyrics by Andreas Lundstedt, Therese Merkel, Lina Hedlund, Anders Hansson & Mårten Sandén
video
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
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- Ana Bebic (Croatia)
for her performance of the song Mrzim spore stvari
video - Hera Björk (Denmark)
for her performance of the song Someday
video - Tone Damli Aaberge (Norway)
for her performance of the song Butterflies
video - Mirela (Spain)
for her performance of the song Nada es comparable a ti
video (semi final performance) - Sarah Dawn Finer (Sweden)
for her performance of the song Moving on
video
BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
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- Aleksandar Belov (FYR Macedonia)
for his performance of the song Zastani solzi izbrisi
video - Alexander Stenerud (Norway)
for his performance of the song Find my girl
video - Omar Naber (Slovenia)
for his performance of the song I still carry on
video - Måns Zelmerlöw (Sweden)
for his performance of the song Hope & glory
video - Mark Evans (United Kingdom)
for his performance of the song It's my time
video
BEST DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
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- Passionworks feat. Tony Turunen (Finland)
for their performance of the song Surrender
video (semi final performance) - Noa & Mira Awad (Israel)
for their performance of the song Bo'i lirkod iti/Will you dance with me
video - Melody (& dancers*) (Spain)
for their performance of the song Amante de la luna
video - Alcazar (Sweden)
for their performance of the song Stay the night
video - The Twins (United Kingdom)
for their performance of the song It's my time
video
*Melody competed with "los Vivancos" in the semi final, but the group withdrew from the competition before the final. The singer performed in the final with different dancers and although she competed simply as "Melody" this time, we still consider it a group performance as it followed a similar concept as in the semi final.
BEST ACT ELIMINATED IN A SEMI FINAL, QUARTER FINAL OR HEAT
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- Gergana Dimova with Yasno slantse (Bulgaria)
eliminated in the semi final
video - Riika with Meren (Finland)
eliminated in the second chance round
video - Surferosa with U look good (Norway)
eliminated in the second round of the second chance round
video - Besa Kokedhima with Nothin' gonna change (Romania)
eliminated in the second semi final
video - BWO with You're not alone (Sweden)
eliminated in the first round of the second chance round
video
BEST NATIONAL FINAL
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- Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2009 (Denmark)
organised by DR - MGP 2009 (Norway)
organised by NRK - Festival RTP da Canção 2009 (Portugal)
organised by RTP - Melodifestivalen 2009 (Sweden)
organised by SVT - Eurovision: Your Country Needs You (United Kingdom)
organised by BBC
BEST STAGING AND PRESENTATION
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- Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2009 (Denmark)
organised by DR
hosted by Birthe Kjær and Felix Smith the MCH Messecenter in Herning - MGP 2009 (Norway)
organised by NRK
hosted by Maria Haukaas Storeng & Per Sundnes at the Spektrum in Oslo - Piosenka dla Europy 2009 (Poland)
organised by TVP
hosted by Paulina Chylewska & Radek Brzózka at the TVP studios in Warsaw - Melodifestivalen 2009 (Sweden)
organised by SVT
hosted by Petra Mede at the Globe Arena in Stockholm - Eurovision: Your Country Needs You (United Kingdom)
organised by BBC
hosted by Graham Norton at the BBC studios in London
BEST VOTING SYSTEM
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- MGP 2009 (Norway)
Semi finals: 100% televoting selects two acts to move forward to the final. The third and fourth placed entries along with the act in the bottom two of all semi finals that received the most votes and a wildcard advance to the second chance round.
Second chance round: The eight acts compete in pairs. The favourite of each pair (as chosen by televoting) reaches the second round, where the formula is repeated.
Final: The winner is chosen in two rounds of voting. In the first round, televoting alone selects the top four. In the second round, the eventual winner is chosen by four regional juries who gave points before the absolute televoting numbers were added to reach the final score. - Festival RTP da Canção 2009 (Portugal)
20 juries first vote in Eurovision style. The top ten of the jury are then given 1-8, 10 and 12 points. The televoting results are converted in the same style and added to the jury result to decide the winner. - Eurovisión: El retorno (Spain)
Qualification: Songs are presented on the internet in ten different categories and an online voting is held. The top five of each category move on to the next round. The 20 songs with the most votes go directly to the televised semi finals. Another ten are chosen by a jury.
Semi finals: Both a jury and televoting give 1-8, 10 and 12 points to the ten songs. The top four go forward to the final (originally, a second chance round was supposed to be held for the fourth placed entries, but it was cancelled).
Final: The voting was done in the same style as in the semi finals. - Melodifestivalen (Sweden)
Semi finals: The finalists are chosen by televoting in two rounds of voting. In the first round the top four are chosen, but the bottom three are already announced before the close of the voting and eliminated. The top four compete in pairs and the favourite of each pair qualifies for the final. The other two entries enter the second chance round. Furthermore, an international jury chooses its favourite of each heat, which would be in the running for a wildcard in the final.
Second chance round: The eight songs compete in pairs. Televoting chooses the favourite of each pair to move forward to the second round, where the formula is repeated and two finalists are chosen.
Final: An international jury and eleven regional juries all give 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 points to their top seven songs. The top seven of the televoting are then given 24, 48, 72, 96, 120 and 144 points. - Eurovision: Your Country Needs You (United Kingdom)
Six acts compete in three heats. There is a jury that gives advice and televoting selects the bottom two. Andrew Lloyd Webber then decides which act is eliminated from the competition. In the final, televoting alone selects the winner out of the three remaining acts.
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Mans Zelmerlow is the best, I think.
He should win. He deserved it.
Best Webcast: well it's gotta be Melodifestivalen 2009!!! From an Irish viewer
Best song:
Nada es comparable a ti
Best Performance:
The twins
Best Ballad"
I wish i could pretend
Best midtempo:
Butterflies
Best uptempo:
Destiny
Best Female:
Mirela
Best Male:
Omar naber
Best duo/group:
Passionworks feat. Tony Turunen
BEST ACT ELIMINATED IN A SEMI FINAL, QUARTER FINAL OR HEAT:
Youre not alone
Best NF:
Melodifestivalen
Best voting system:
UK
Best song: Will you dance with me?
Best performance: Melody
Best ballad: Snälla, snälla
Best mid-tempo: Surrender
Best up-tempo: Stay the night
Best female: Hera Björk
Best male: Omar Naber
Best duo/group: Noa & Mira Awad
Best eliminated act: BWO
National Final: MGP
Staging and presentation: Melodifestivalen
Voting System: Festival da Cançao (keep it simple!)
HoW CAn Sweden and Spain be nominated to "BEst Voting System" when they did bad in Eurovision so... the voting method they used sucks !
I can say, alcazar will win everything ...
even thou..
Best Song: Nada Es comparable a ti
Best Ballad: Nada es Comparable a ti
My only votes.
Best song: Ajër (Albania)
Best performance: Hera Björk
Best ballad: Ajër
Best up tempo song: Stop
Best female performance: Sarah Dawn Finer
Best duo: Noa & Mira
Best act eliminated in a semi final: Besa Kokedhima with Nothin’ gonna change
Best national final: Melodifestivalen
Ajer from Besa Kokedhima is the best song ever from the NF.
Gergana Dimova LOL! Voted!
Eurovision You Country Needs You got most of my votes.
Reply to Robert Andreasen
No bother !, Norway is a "big" eurovision nation because they have been there since the 60's and have the biggest win ever !
I know how it feels on these dark cold nights as im across the sea in Scotland, getting dark at 4:30pm.... bad times 
Paschalis I am still following the contest from 6 and I still watching it for the same reason as you ;-). On the other hand only few songs can challenge my taste. To give an example, since ''Nocturne'' and ''Voice'' I hardly find any song to catch my interest that much!!!
@ dino and dimmis
I watch the contest since I was 11, so I can't really stop watching it, since it's like a tradition lol. Is that sado-mazohism? 
OK, it's a fact that my taste has changed a lot since then, so I like few songs every year. Thankfully, every year there are 2 or 3 songs that I love and I can listen to even after the contest.
What makes me "angry" is that most people here vote for songs that only the "hardcore" esc-fans like. Those particular songs aren't even hits in their countries. ESC national finals have much more than this recycled plastic schlager-pop and the boring ballads. But ok, whatever I do, this will never change. At least it should be less predictable.
Peace!
Paschalis we are tasteless pile we have just a different taste than you........................... ......On the other hand I still wondering why you spend so much time with the contest since you find the majority of the songs competing as cheap etc. Is there any problem with your personal life??? Is it empty??? I follow your comments and I find that your taste is very unique (besides very ameteurish and sadly booooooring) which however I like very much but please respect other persons opinion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Former TIMSRITNS 
Most ESC/NF Songs have never been in fashion, when was Schlager fashionable ?? So they can't possibly be old-fashioned 
However, I must agree with you on the performance Caroline af Ugglas performance was amazing !!
But saying Emilia - You're My World is crap is completely wrong, and against my religion It certainly doesn't fall under the steroetypical esc fan stuff either, considering 60's motown influnced songs are hardly ESC At least you didn't call it S Club Juniors like someone did before 
I was gonna say something else, but it's gone, I'll tell you when I remember
Layla and Pac. I agree with you 100 % yes I do! I like most NF-songs though, but there's no way those songs are the best. Usually, they are the most contrived, banal, clichéd and tasteless songs, made only for ESC in mind, songs that has nothing to do with other pop/rockmusic, and would sink with a stone outside ESC. So why make it. "Someday" is actually a parody, but I'm sure many have bad enough taste to LIKE that cheap stuff.
My favourite of ALL (?) NF-songs this year: Renton: I don't Know (Poland). Hear that one! That's QUALITY!
The problem with ESC-fan votings (just look at the AWFUL results in most OGAE-Song Contest / Second Chance Contests), is that banal, old-fashioned crap often do well, whilst intelligent, original quality songs often do badly. Just proves the results has NOTHING to do with quality!
Sorry if I insulted anyone....but that's my honest opinion, and I know many will agree. If music experts voted here, the results would be VERY different believe me.
SOME OF THE CRAP SONGS HERE:
Someday
I Wish I Could Pretend
Nada es...
You're My World
GOOD SONGS:
U Look Good (A scandal it didn't go to the final)
Surrender
Butterflies
Destiny
etc.
And most of the songs nomiated are sung by females...why? (Not that I don't like women, I like women more than most of you! )
Performances are actually silly to vote on. ESC is about MUSIC no visuals! But well, there are always glamourgays....! (not that I mind gays in general) The fact that Måns Zemmerløv took the nomination for best performance from Carolina af Ugglas, shows that people don't know how to appreciate GOOD performance. Her performance was so strong, free for glamour (thanfully), totally genuine, honest. She just stood there, lived out her feelings and SUNG., no tasteless distracting gimnicks, just pure honestly and quality! Whilst many of the other MF-performance focus far too much on tacky dancers, silly movements, kitschy apperences etc. That is NOT quality. I so much more respect acts with INSTRUMENTS rather than dancers on stage. Singback or not. It looks more "earnest", more musical, more REAL...showing it's about MUSIC!!
Thats Interesting.
Some very predictable and uninspiring choices made it through to the final round.
@ Paschalis i really wanter it why you follow eurovision song contest? they don t have nothink to do with the style of the music that you like, you are sado mazoh or somethink like that???
Dear David A
Thank you for calling Norway "a big Eurovision nation"!!!
It warms in this godforsaken cold dark Autumn-evening...
WELCOME TO NORWAY May 2010
My votes!!!!
Best song: Will you dance with me?
Best ballad: Nada es comparable a ti.
Best up-tempo: Stay the night.
Best performance: Alcazar.
Best duo/group: The twin sisters.
Best female: Sarah Dawn Faner.
Best male: Mans Zelerlow.
National Final: Melodifestivalen.
Best eliminated from.....: WTO.
No votes to the category of mid-tempo song since I do not find anything interesting!!
Given this nominations I would like to say that Spaniards has proved to be very stupid since they blocked Mirela and advanced Soraya to the ESC. Same goes to Swedes Alcazar, Sarah and Mans Zelmerlow had by far better songs and performances than the plastic doll Malena! UK on the other hand could send the sisters, they were more fresh and unique than the wannabe-star Jade (however juries will always be in favor of UK no matter the singer and song). And last Israel, I liked the Israeli entry but ''Will you dance with me'' is by far better and I think they would have done better with that. Charming, sweet, mediterranean-like and above unique!!!!!
I find here the
I dont pay attention to national finals apart from the UK and Malta but i can see a pattern of big eurovision nations getting all the nominations like Sweden, UK and Norway.
wow israeli entry in 3 catgories... nice=]
99% terrible and predictably gay results... Officially not interested any longer.
My opinion:
- Song: Israel
- Performance: Sweden
- Ballad: Sweden
- Mid tempo song: Spain
- Up tempo song: Sweden
- Female: Denmark
- Male: Slovenia
- Group: Sweden
- Act eliminated: Sweden
- National Final: Norway
- Staging and presentation: Sweden
- Voting system: Norway
Anyway, most of those songs are horrible. The only songs from this year's national finals that I can still listen to are:
Janita - Martian (Finland)
Jimmy Jorgensen - Alice in the wonderland (Denmark)
Johny Deluxe - Sindssyg (Denmark)
Caroline af Ugglas - Snalla snalla (Sweden)
Normativa Vigente - Alejandria (Spain)
Alexander Stenerud - Find my girl (Norway)
Publiners - Te stein (Norway)
Sunny - Carrie (Norway)
THey are all classes above the s**t from Mirela, Hera Bjork and Alcazar which are only liked by tasteless esc-fans.
Nada Es Comparable a TI - Mirela.
I have no idea why this song wasn't chosen to represent Spain. Soooo much better than 'La Noche Es Para Mi'. It's a top 5 song, easily.
Song: Surrender
Performance: Melody
Ballad : Ajer
Mid tempo: Surrender
Best up tempo: No vote
Best female: performance: Sarah dawn finer (uh where's melody?)
Best male performance: Omar Naber
Best duo performance: Noa and Mira Awad (awesome NF, Noa rocks)
Best act eliminated before the NF: BWO
Best NF: Slovenian EMA is out, so it must be Melodifestivalen obv
Best staging: Serbian and Slovenian NFs out, so again Melodifestivalen lol
Best voting system (ahah i love this category): Melodifestivalen , it's 50/50 that gives more power to the televoting favourite , i just love it. The worse is obv the Spanish one.
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