Eurovision Song Contest 2024 (Mod warning, see OP updated 10/05 and post #3477 11/05)

Some very interesting stats coming out from YouTube : Ireland is trending ahead of Croatia in many European markets. The near 2m views for Baby Lasagna may not be quite as impressive as it looks (a large swathe might be Balkan people or Balkan diaspora around Europe).

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I liked it too but let it go, kicking my self now, still think its a great song , really great song but thats getting a little lost now, good luck with bet.

Could be a difficult night for the two presenters when its Israels turn, you can't really control what happening during a live broadcast unless the organisers have some kind of a plan in place we don't know about.

Hopefully protesters don't try and storm the stage, as that would be a bit ugly for Eurovision but the audience are free to do whatever they like during the performance.

(and I'm saying that as someone who thinks Israel should have been kicked out of the Contest months ago).

My suspicion for a while has been that Israel will perform live on stage tomorrow night, but television viewers will be shown dress rehearsal footage, so if something does happen, the audience at home won't witness it. And if nothing happens, then it'll never be revealed that we saw dress rehearsal footage.

I was a little disappointed last night that the 10 qualifiers weren't brought on stage, as is custom, at the end of the show. I realised earlier today why this was - it's because of tomorrow night, so there is no chance that someone could storm the stage and attack Eden. Safer to keep her up in the green room, and they had to do that last night too, because people would notice the difference.

Yeah they might try that but it would be a bit pointless really because when everyone in the audience has a smartphone whatever happened would be posted on Tiktok within minutes.

I seem to recall in 2018 there was some fanciful talk that we could be dark horses to win it, once we qualified from the semi. I think we ended up finishing 17th. I hope something similar doesn't happen on Saturday, although all the indications are that we will do very well.

Current YouTube trending of the performance looks like this across the world:

#1 Ireland

#1 Malta

#2 UK

#2 Croatia

#2 Greece

#3 Finland

#3 Netherlands

#3 Serbia

#3 Slovenia

#3 Spain

#4 Austria

#5 Cyprus

#7 Bosnia and Herzegovina (non-participant)

#15 Italy

#18 North Macedonia (non-participant)

#19 Poland

#21 Belgium

#21 Latvia

#23 Australia

#24 Norway

#24 Sweden

#26 Lithuania

#30 Estonia

#30 France

Keep in mind this is of all videos, not just of music

Goodness gracious….very unlikely anything that comes out of Semi 2 will do this (not unless France, Switz or NL pull off the most spectacular performance ever and something that looks even better than Bambie).

The 'United in Music' thing could be turned on it's head a bit alright. Whatever about live or recorded Israel, the crowd will surely boo at some stage.

Attitudes to Israel aren't the same throughout Europe. Israel has a lot of fans.

And many people have no opinion either way.

Honestly, if any post is out of touch it's this one. And national/governmental support does not equate to individual citizens support.

are half the crowd looking at the side and back of the stage?