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Azerbaijan: 1.6 million euro spent on Eurovision entry
Following reports in the Russian media about 10 million having been spent on the entire process involved in this year's Azerbaijani entry in the Eurovision Song Contest Mr Adil Kerimli set the record straight explaining to local news portal news.az that the entire budget for his country's Eurovision entry this year was AZN 1,560,000 (1,614,496,37 EUR). The amount covered the national preselection, promotion, video clip and Oslo expenses for the presentation of the song and delegations. The impressive amount did not cover Safura's album which was independently produced by Zaphire Records.
According to Mr Kerimli, three sponsors came to their assistance, one being SOCAR, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan and two more who wished to remain nameless.
Special thanks to Galandar Baghirov for his assistance.
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That is an outrageously high amount of money they spent. I'm sure they could spend all of this money much more wisely! Why not send a simple song without all the promotion? I very much dislike these overpromoted songs. A great song should speak for itself, not because of the money spent on everything else that doesn't have anything to do with music!
Further to my MAIN comment on this specific topic ...
Look for it -------- you know you want to read it!!!!
Here are the Top 10 results:
1.Germany - 246 (ESC 2010 winner -- shared 2/3 with USA and DENMARK --
since "Satellite" was NOT even written by Germans (...still, 1/3 is for Lena 
)
2.Turkey - 170 ( with a whopping -76 points difference from the ESC winning SONG)
3.Romania - 162 ( notable -12 points difference from No. 2)
and these were the Top 3
BUT the rest --each-- could have just as easily placed in
order NO. 4 (or higher) because there is a very SMALL difference in points
---------------------- AS YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE------------------
4.Denmark - 149 ( with a notable -13 points difference from No. 3)
5.Azerbaijan - 145 ... ( - 4 points ONLY from No. 4)
6.Belgium - 143 ....... ( - 6 points ONLY from No. 4)
7.Armenia - 141 ...... ( - 8 points ONLY from No. 4)
8.GREECE - 140 ... ( - 9 points ONLY from No. 4)
----- and this, only because there were absolutely NO votes from Baltic states
and NO votes from ex-Soviets ... whatsoever (!!?!!?!!) 
as in ... 0 point "received" from any one of those countries ...
and I do NOT think that nobody(?) there did not like the song OR, at least, the performance(!!!) ;
I think it was just because "OPAAAAAAA" was a ... STRONG song !!!!!!!
... From Azerbaijan ... 8 points LAST YEAR and ... 0 point, this year!!
... And, as was somehow expected, NO points came from our "neighbour" FYROM ...
You know, it is that country using a ...STOLEN ...historical GREEK name!!!!!!!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So, NOW you can do the math where Greece 
could have placed ...
9.Georgia - 136 ( notable - 13 points difference from No. 4)
10.Ukraine - 108 ( significant - 41 points difference from No. 4)
Manuel (Germany)
r u stupid. is it out of rules? we can pay what we want. its not ur problem. do we ask u how much money u paid? no. we havent right. because its ur pr & work. nobody can say anything about it
I'm not going to accuse the Azeris of anything but the EBU needs to wake up and get tougher in their investigations - in the same way the IOC finally got drug testing sorted.
It is a fact that dicatorships, former soviet-bloc, etc were prepared to cheat in sport to maintain their image at home. Eurovision needs strict policing to remove any suspicions.
It seems almost forgotten that the ESC was meant to be a way of bringing countries together in the spirit of fair competition and sharing their music and culture.
Azerbaijan accused of cheating!!!: http://eurovisiontimes.wordpress.com
Throw them out together with Armenia until they have finally settled their childish conflict. There is no room for those cheaters in Eurovision. A 5 year ban might work wonders for that dictatorship only in Eurovision to polish it's image.
i didnt study music instruments history, and I dont know enough to write about this. And I really dont care about its origin. I just want to listen to good music with has this instrument used in a right way in it.
I hope you will enjoy the music as I do.
Kenan
What do you mean by saying "sadece bu mu" ?
kenan lutfen msnimi ekle
@ORKI APUS
Sana degil, Roselil'e demek istedim.
avatarmenia for u
http://www.youtube.c(...)ature=watch_response
Lina !!!
i didnt say all countries
" there a a lot of christian countries that dont give high points to us albania bosnia and turkey " ..... yes thats why Turkey got 2 place and Azerbaijan 4 th place 
You took that places beacuse Christian countries give you low or nil points ! give me a brake !
avatarmenia
it doesnt prove that this instrument is armenian
i say again russian famous writer Aleksandr Sergeyvich Pushkin's word...
U R COWARD, U R THIEF, U R ARMENIAN !!!
thanks to pushkin because he was geniuses!!! because he knew armenian real face!!!
KeNaN the noble Prince ♥'es his AnGeLiC
anlamadim 
ne demek istedin?
Roselil Denmark
i didnt say all of them
and roselil bak senden hic beklemezdim. kusura bakma ama senin gibiler iste basimizi yakiyor. sende o aletin ismini ermenice yazip da onu ermenilesdirirsen baska sozum yok !!!
Sadece bu mu? 
Fanatics enjoy
Link of NElson Mandela's aniversary consert!! LONDON MILIONS of watchers:
Jivan Gasparyan co-composer of "GLADIATOR" theme:
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=myBOv25k6xk
Links from "WORLD AGAINST HUNGER" consert LONDON MILLIONS of audians-whole over the world:
Jivan Gasparyan and Peter Gabriel /pay attention on Gabriel's speach/:
http://www.youtube.c(...)&feature=related
ESC 2010 /no comment/
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=TsH0YWSG_mg
etc etc etc
and world know group- natig ritm grupu (instrumental group). theey only use azeri instruments
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=U186ghYSKFI
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=Q0qoOMq-_j0
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=XLaMYppv7cs
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=f7gPR6-tY84
http://www.youtube.c(...)aynext=1&index=6
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=K6LObmk7Edo
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=XHjTSbOUgRM
http://www.youtube.c(...)ynext=1&index=51
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=oYJ-jZP2l8c
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=mzjhLni6scI
http://www.youtube.c(...)ecM&translated=1
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=szjHXL5i52s
avatarmenia
and everybodu saw that balaban is azerbaijani instrument in our national final
watch this because everybody saw it and they saw that balaban is azerbaijani instrument
its opening cereminy:
http://www.youtube.c(...)/watch?v=U1Z6Ltg39N8
Maryam Shabanova - I've had enough (with balanan)
http://www.youtube.c(...)ynext=1&index=58
Milk & Kisses - I am on fire (with zurna-yalli)
http://www.youtube.c(...)&feature=related
Elli - Up, Up (with zurna, ud)
http://www.youtube.c(...)&feature=related
azad shabanov - smile (with balaban, zurna)
http://www.youtube.c(...)&feature=related
Ulviyye Rahimova - In Love (NAGARA)
http://www.youtube.c(...)&feature=related
if u r not deaf and blind u can see and hear balaban and zurna alla of our songs
dont try to say a lie
ITS A SUMMER NOW AND SO GET A LIFE !!!!!!!!!
avatarmania
Aleksandr seygeyvich pushkin said true
ti vor ti trus ti armenin
u r coward, u r thief, u r armenian
even u say that sari gelin begong to u but sari gelin - both of this word r turkis
u say that sen gelmez oldun belongs to u - but there r facts that its azerbaijani song
because its composer and writer r azerbaijani
so u r successful to say a lie to all world
conratulations
Roselil Denmark
senin duduk demegin zaten bu aletin onlarin oldugunu soyluyor. yani oyle gosteriyorsun ama degil. o alet azerbaycana mahsus ve onun da gercek adi var balaban
duduk sozu de turkce ama yine de ismi balaban
Sickening that such a poor and desolate country spends so much of it's hard-earned money on ESC
I can't believe some people on this site use "mouldy propaganda" to encourage people to tap into old prejudices.
Absolutely Pathetic!!!
For how long are you planning to play this game on a ESC site?? 
I am afraid the curtain fell a very long time ago.
You just dance to your own music without even realising that the whole world is not even watching you do that.
Oh !! so sweet
Little fanatic didn't like the real name of the instrument On armenian that is TSIRANAPOGH /apricot fleyta/!! I'm so glad that whole the europe once more time heard our wonderful instrument
Goodbi guys
@orki
dont get disturbed by this. This instruments has many names and it differs from country to country. In this case it was duduk.. I wouldnt use the same word if it was in Turkish music
Basimizi yakacak tek sey sazlar olsa keske
Roselil Denmark
i didnt say all of them
and roselil bak senden hic beklemezdim. kusura bakma ama senin gibiler iste basimizi yakiyor. sende o aletin ismini ermenice yazip da onu ermenilesdirirsen baska sozum yok !!!
Orki
3 of my friends voted for the Armenians song too, and they were not Armenians living Turkey!!! As they said they loved the duduk part which is so wellknown instrument in turkish music too.
I think the reason why Turkish jurors didnt give any pts to Armenian song was the rumors about the song lyrics.
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