USC History goes beyond the limit

The History contest 2002 has now the maximum number of participants (26) but even more countries are interested to join. Unfortunatelly UBU desided not to include a semifinal in the history contests but instead create a reserv list of countries (and songs) that will be take part in the case that some of the signed in participants fail to send their USC 2002 song in time. When USC history returns to a year futher back in time the reserv list will also be used to fill in with countries that leave an open spot.

DJ Ötzi & Nik P. finally in USC - for Austria!

It was the big shock in the USC Spring edition 2007, when DJ Ötzi & Nik P. were disqualified, after winning the German national final by landside. The reason for disqualification was that neither the performer nor the songwriter owned the German citizenship. However now it seems that DJ Ötzi & Nik P. get a second chance: The new Austrian delegation - headed by Mr. Austria Michael - selected the duo internally to perform their hit "Ein Stern (der deinen Namen trägt)" in the Summer edition 2007. After winning the German national final in spring against 9 other competitors there is huge hope, that the two Austrian-born singers will bring back success to Austria. Mr. Austria stated: "We are so proud that we can bring in this great entry for Austria's comeback, that was on the top of the German and Austrian charts for nearly 3 months now". So good luck to DJ Ötzi & Nik P. in the semi final of USC Summer edition 2007!

TONIGHT USC FINAL

WELCOME EVERYONE

Falling Star Radio broadcast the show 18:00-22:00 CET here:
http://radio.gayhellas.gr:8000/listen.pls

Here are some clips from tonights show!!!

And here is the results of the final. The winning song was "För att du finns" with Sonja Aldén who now took the contest back to Sweden. The host city will be the south town of Malmö and the final of USC summer 2007 will be Saturday September the 22nd.

The 15 countries that are directly qualified to final is:
1 Sweden 158
2 Poland 144
3 Greece 139
4 Norway 129
5 Andorra 124
6 Lebanon 114
7 Iceland 114
8 Monaco 104
9 Bulgaria 94
10 Lithuania 93
11 Albania 92
12 Romania 86
13 Israel 86
14 Hungary 73
15 Serbia 70

And the countries that will compete in the semifinal will be....
16 Germany 69
17 Ukraine 64
18 United Kingdom 62
19 France 50
20 Ireland 48
21 Switzerland 43
22 Russia 41
23 Malta 39
24 Estonia 37 (-50%, using backup jury)
25 Vatican State 33
26 Latvia 30 (-50%, using backup jury)

Semifinal is to be one of the largests so far already 27 countries are competing. Only 11 will reach final. Also a special thing happened in this edition. All 3 managers have their countries in the semifinal. The winner was for the 7th time (of 7 contests of editions) was a solo female artist. If you include the old history contests 11 out of 12 contests has has a solo female winner. Only ABBA managed to win as a group in 1975 with Mamma Mia.

USC FINAL spring was for the first time broadcasted LIVE in "Falling star radio" which was a great success with Babis gr and Giorgios as hosts for the show. We hope to see another live broadcast in future USC. Maybe a rebroadcast of USC 1968.

HISTORY USC 2002 has new record - 24 participants

And that gives us only 2 more places left for USC history then it will be full line up of 26 countries so don't hesitate to sign in.

USC 2002 LINK: here

USC GOES ON AIR - LIVE

On Saturday at 18:00 USC FINAL will for the first time also be broadcasted live in internet Radio (not podradio pre recording but LIVE ). Not only the listening to songs will be live but also the referee and commentaire to the LIVE voting will be aired here. AFter a successful prelistening show of final songs and some planning the USC FINAL show will go both VIDEO SHOW, Live show in live internet radio ( Falling Star Radio) directlky from Greece. Thanks to Giorgios, Mr UK, we have this new feature. Plans are to include USC Radio Europe somehow later on. So stay tuned and on saturday at 18:00 CET tune in into "Fallin Star Radio" to listen to the songs pararell to the vodeoshow!

LINK: http://radio.gayhellas.gr:8000/listen.pls

France 2002 National Final

Here are the 16 songs in competition:
01-"Nos différences" A1 & Eve Angeli
02-"J'en ai marre" Alizée
03-"Lila" Faudel
04-"J'attends l'amour" Jenifer
05-"A 20 ans" Lorie
06-"Nos rendez-vous" Natasha St-Pier
07-"Les garçons dans les vestiaires" Clarika
08-"Quand je serai jeune" Priscilla
09-"Quelqu'un m'a dit" Carla Bruni
10-"Les cerfs-volants" Benjamin Biolay
11-"L'important c'est d'aimer" Pascal Obispo
12-"J'ai besoin d'amour" Lorie
13-"J'ai pas 20 ans" Alizée
14-"Tu trouveras" Natasha St-Pier & Pascal Obispo
15-"Ma prière" Eve Angeli
16-"Rue de la Paix" Zazie

Vote in ESC style. Songs will be hared on soulseek at Greg09

"Lechaim!" to the dutch entrant USC 1968!

Lechaim, a toast to live for the dutch entrant in the 1968 USC contest! The dutch will be represented with the song: "Red red wine" performed by Peter Tetteroo.

Peter is the leadsinger of Tee-Set, a landwidefamous dutch group from the 70's (with about 30 top-40 hits). In the final he beated both favourites "Zen - Hair" and "Golden Earing - Just a little bit of peace in my heart" with his song "Red Red Wine". Both Neil Diamond and UB 40 already made coverversions of his entry.

http://s25.quicksharing.com/v/1956487/Peter_Tetteroo_Red_red_wine.mp3.html

Deception in Holland!

People in the Netherlands are in shock! After the results from the 2007 semi were made public, there was great disappointment as it turned out Sharon would have qualified if the voting machine would have worked properly, but whilst the failing of the jury, the entry by Sharon Kips 'Heartbreak away' was robbed it's qualification by the 50% punishmentrule.

It is rumoured that (with the 12th place she now was put back in rank) she would have even made it to the top 3 in the semi's out of 26 songs. Sharon reacted very disappointed, but ... rules must be obeyed.

Some questioned the rule, because punishment is heavy considering the amount of countries competing.

Sharon is willing to enter the summer preselections in the Netherlands with another song. Meanwhile an actiongroup has put up a petition for Sharon to compete in the Second Chance USC for Summer 2007 with "heartbreak away".... to be continued.

USC Spring 2007 semi final results are here

15 countries are now out of the competition ( you can see the non-finalist results starting with Czech republic at 12th position and finishing with Portugal ending last).

The other 11 countries are selected

Order in final will be as follows:

01-France

02-Romania

03-Russia

04-Greece

05-Israël

06-Andorra

07-Bulgaria

08-Poland

09-Sweden

10-Switzerland

11-Iceland

12-Serbia

13-Ireland

14-Lebanon

15-Estonia

16-Malta

17-Hungary

18-Latvia

19-United Kingdom

20-Lithuania

21-Vatican

22-Ukraine

23-Monaco

24-Albania

25-Norway

26-Germany