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esctoday.com Awards 2009
Lovebugs win Best semi final act award
The 2009 esctoday.com Award for Best act not to qualify from the semi finals goes to...
- ...Lovebugs of Switzerland with the song The highest heights
Lovebugs represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest this year and and finished 14th in the first semi final with the song The highest heights.
The winners
Switzerland wins the award in this category for the second year in a row following Paolo Meneguzzi's victory last year with Era stupendo. It is therefore also the second esctoday.com award for Switzerland overall. The other previous winner of this award, which has been held since 2007, was Evridiki of Cyprus in 2007.
Lovebugs originate from Basel and the band was founded in the early nineties, when the members found each other through an ad in a record store. After a change in the line-up, their first album Fluff was released in 1994 to minor success. In 1995, they went on tour through Switzerland and other European countries and also recorded their second album, which did not reach the album charts. The year after, their third album was the first one to reach the charts, where it peaked at number 44. However, their major breakthrough came not before 2000, when their fourth album Transatlantic flight reached number two. It was followed by Awaydays, their first of three number one albums, the year after.
While the albums by Lovebugs were major successes from 2000 onwards, the band had only minor success on the single charts. However, this changed in 2006 when the band released the song Avalon with Norwegian singer Lene Marlin. It was their first top ten hit and it also peaked at number 13 in Norway. Shortly after, they took a break and lead singer Adrian Sieber released his first solo album, which reached the top ten in Switzerland.
The band returned to the spotlight with the announcement that they would represent Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. The song that was chosen was the title track of the new album The highest heights, which had been released in the mean time. The album peaked at number two in the charts. Currently, the band consists of Adrian Sieber (vocals), Thomas Rechberger (guitar), Florian Senn (bass guitar), Stefan Wagner (keyborads) and Simon Ramseier (drums). Recently, the band's first 'greatest hits' album has been released.
The complete results
Lovebugs won this category with one third of the votes exactly followed by Andrea of Montenegro.
- Lovebugs (Switzerland) - 33.3%
- Andrea (Montegro) - 23.5%
- Sinéad Mulvey & Black Daisy (Ireland) - 17.1%
- Susanne Georgi (Andorra) - 13.7%
- Christina Metaxa (Cyprus) - 12.4%
The winning performance
The next award winners to be introduced today will be those in the category Best backing performers.
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- Malta: Vote for your favourite act in the final of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2012
- Hungary: Vote for your favourite act in the second semifinal of A Dal
- Norway: Vote for your favourite song in the third semifinal of Melodi Grand Prix
- Sweden: Vote for your favourite act in the first semifinal of Melodifestivalen
- Malta: Vote for your favourite act in the semifinal of Malta Eurovision Song Contest 2012
- Bulgaria: Vote for your favourite act in the Bulgarian national final 2012
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- Belarus: Vote for your favourite act in the final of EuroFest 2012
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Damn right best of the semis. Eurovision needs more songs like this!
Switzerland king of the semis..... unfortunatelly they never can show all this in the finals :-((
Hmm .. I think Montenegro deserved to win that one =S
Yeah I also agree that Macedonia should have been nominated here. Personally, I thought Belarus should have won this. How that didn't make it through is still shocking to me.
I agree that Macedonia should have qualified for this category (great song). They finished tenth, but the juries chose Finland (which went on to finish LAST) instead.
Well done! The most actual song, sorry for the poor performance and the wild "cuts" to shorten it within three minutes, but the album version is definitely a great great pop song.
A fantastic song I can still listen to!
i don't get how Macedonia did not get qualify here, it was the only other great song to not be in the final. The other huge unfair result was indeed Switzerland's elimination. The live was a disappointment, vocally, but visually it was like the other entries and songwise it was in the top 5 for sure. Glad people agreed with this.
A great song, I love it. Sinéad Mulvey & Black Daisy were my favourites though 
Montenegro second? Talk about tasteless. Andorra should have won.
IMO it's undeserved. The song is great, I love it, but the live performance was very disappointing and poor.
That's great, I voted for them... but I'd rather just have seen them in the final! 
Maybe they were too cool for ESC at the moment.
VERY WELL deserved. They should defently have been in the final.
Great song!
Should have been the winner instead of the fiddleman....
Again Montenegro is robbed!
I have heared, that when Economy is bad, People like to listen boring Music...but I never thought, that Economy is THAT bad:-(
bleh! they were boring. Should have been Montenegro
Probably one of the best songs to have ever participated in ESC. The performance was far from perfect, but the whole package was still miles above the other four entries. Well deserved winner once more!
perfect result.
Excellent song, I listen to it every day and never loses the freshness- I wish the best for the Lovebugs
Every other winner in this category would be an insult. Very well deserved.
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