Dutch 2002 final now! 5 days to vote 7 songs to choose 1 great entry

The finalists in search of the dutch entrant of the USC 2002 are known:

Di-rect - Inside my head

Hermes House Band - Country Roads

K-otic - I Surrender

Krezip - Promise

Marco Borsato - Zij

Romeo - The answer is yes

Within Temptation - Mother Earth

songs can be found on soulseek at 'hebbuzz' or here

votes 10 - 7 - 5 - 3 - 2 - 1 style to: rollercoasterslow at hotmail dot com

Dutch NF semi's for Summer 2007 USC started!

The semi's for the dutch final have started in search of a great entry for Summer USC 2007: TOP 5 of every semifinal will go to final! votes to be casted in ESC style (12-10-etc) of in top 5 to rollercoasterslow@hotmail.com

SEMI A:

Dennis - No can do
Do - Beautiful thing
Dolly Dots - S.T.O.P.
Floortje - You're no good
Good Things End - I Know
Jeroen van der Boom - Jij bent zo
Mai Tai - Am I Losing You Forever
Sharon Kips - Heaven knows
The Partysquad - Ben Je Down (TMF Awards 2006 Anthem)
Tiesto ft. Christian Burns - In The Dark
Toontje lager - Stiekum gedanst

SEMI B:

City To City - The Road Ahead
Paul de Leeuw & Raffa‰la - Mijn houten hart
Petra Berger - Terra Promessa
Racoon - Close your eyes
Rafaella - Right here right now
Robby Valentine - Over and over again
Toontje lager - Vroeg of laat
Twarres - She couldn't laugh
Valensia - Kosmos
Van Velzen - Burn
Vandenberg - Burning heart

SEMI C:

André Hazes & Gerard Joling - Blijf bij mij
BZN - Goodbye
Champagne - Oh Me Oh My Goodbye
Georgina & Janet - Ritmo!
Guillermo & Tropical Danny - Toppertje!
Jannes - Als het zonnetje schijnt
Jim - Doe dit, doe dat
LUV - You are always welcome to my party
Marco Borsato & Lucie Silvas - Everytime I think of you
Millionaires - Fantasy Island
Monique Smit - Wild

All songs can be found on soulseek and here:

semi A http://s25.quicksharing.com/v/6353659/semi_A_vote_7_5_3_2_1_or_12_10_esc_style_rollercoasterslow_hotma.zip.html semi B http://s25.quicksharing.com/v/3310987/semi_B_vote_7_5_3_2_1_or_12_10_esc_style_to_rollercoasterslow_ho.zip.html semi C http://rapidshare.com/files/44976452/semi_C-vote_7-5-3-2-1_or_12-10-esc-style_to_rollercoasterslow_hotmail.zip

Elvis is alive in dutch semi's to the 2002 USC !!

These are the songs entering the dutch national final to choose the dutch 2002 USC entrant:

Semi A
(http://s25.quicksharing.com/v/7136875/semiA.zip.html)

Junkie XL & Elvis Presely - A little less conversation
Anouk - Everything (acoustic)
Within Temptation - Mother Earth (picture)
Soulvation - Summer In The City
Romeo - The answer is yes
Kane - Rain down on me
Sita - Hello

Krezip - You can say
K-otic - I surrender
DJ Jurgen - One step away
Belle Perez & Jody Bernal - Me & You
Marco Borsato & Sita - Lopen over water

Semi B:

(http://s25.quicksharing.com/v/8373504/semiB.zip.html )
Hermes House Band - Country roads
Lois Lane - When I'm with you
Leona - Zomer op je radio / Summer on your radio
Krezip - Promise
Within Temptation - Ice queen (picture)
Ties - Denk aan mij
Sita - Selfish
Marco Borsato - Zij
K-otic - Falling
DJ Sammy & Do - Heaven
Di-rect - Inside my head

From both semi's the top 3 and best number 4 will enter the final.

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

USC History a success - Rule changes

The USC history has turned into a success with a lot of players. There has been some requests that all that want to be in should be allowed in. Management has had a meeting and desided on the subject that countries that exist today ALL also can participate in history USC but under a slightly different name. The reason for this is that management want everyone who want to participate do so. These rule changes takes effect immedeatly and therefor 1968 is effected. Countries that no longer exist after a certain year can not compete after this date. Some examples of what is allowed in USC history is Yugoslavia-Macedonia, Yugoslavia-Croatia, USSR-Latvia, USSR-Ukraine etc.

USC NEWS in UBU Headquarters

GERMANY SONG DISQUALIFIED - Crisis in Münich

Chock and sadness has occured in Germany tonight as the management of Countdown GP themselves discovered their fatal mistake to send DJ Ötzi and "Einen Stern (der deinen Namen trägt)" as they found out he and all the song writers are from Austria. USC management (greg & Jörgen) insisted to allow Germany to send a new song instead since DJ Ötzi can't enter for Germany. As Germany send Jeanette's "Right now" to 2nd chance the new german song is Rosenstolz with "Auch im Regen" - the song that finished 3rd in german nf.

Link to dl NEW GERMANY:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/k3mmze

USC NEWS

LOGO 1968

The old logo of USC 1968 was recently rediscovered in the UBU vaults in Lausanne by a clerk who lost his way back up and stumled on a pile of old cardboard boxes. It was considered to be a treasure by UBU board and will be displayed in the USC museum in Paris at the time of The Spring Final in Riga.

USC news

The Netherlands win USC 1995

In a hilariously nerve-wrecking voting Ruth Jacott - the dutch entrant to the USC 1995 - ran away with the victory. She had sang her song 'Ik ga door' (I'll survive/go on) and managed to collect the most points (86) from the juries all over Europe. Voting was exciting till the last vote was cast by the Luxemburg jury. The Netherlands were in the lead with a 6 point margin over Portugal who was still pointless in the last vote, but with a douze points would grap the victory.

Drama to the max
Luxemburg left Portugal in 2nd spot with 80 points and gave thier 12p to (France) Celine Dion's song, leaving Pedro Migueis with "As Coisas Que Nao Esqueci" (The things one doesn't hope for) as runner up. After the voting made it clear beloved Ruth was the winner the crowd went wild and Ruth couldn't stop thanking the people that voted her.

Prophetical
At the pressconference, she sang especially for the fans to thank them, her 1993 preselection entry "Ik hou van jou" ( I love you) and Ruth expressed that she hoped her song title ('which can be translated as I'll go on, I'll survive or I'll pass) would be prophetical for both her fans and the chances of her fellowdutch singer Anita Meyer who is in the semi's at the 2007 USC Winter Edition. With her song "Why tell me why"

HARDER RULES IN VOTING

UBU held a press conference in UBU headquarters today informing about some rule changes concerning VOTING in USC.

All participants (in this contest 41) must vote in BOTH the semifinal AND the final or serious consequenses will happen.

For the country that compete it is the same - 50% reduction of points.

Finalists that fail to vote in semifinal will be DQ from final and leave place for another semi-finalist instead.

Semi-finalists that do not vote in final will see their country available for another manager.

UBU explained also to the international press that the reason is that voting is a very important thing in the contest and should be the concern of all participants.

USC News, Stockholm

RECORD IN PARTICIPANTS

As many as 41 songs and counties will compete for the gold medal in the 5th United Song Contest. 15 of them are allready in the Final. Semifinal will have 26 songs of which 11 will pass to final.

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