Eurovision: Most Underestimated Entries of the 2010s Pre-Contest
One of my favourite things when I'm watching Eurovision is when an entry that I previously thought pretty much nothing of is fully brought to life on stage and forces me to love it! For me the one entry that fully embodies this is Aminata from 2015, representing Latvia. I was hence thinking about the entries that people generally underestimated prior to a contest that ended up surprising everyone by BRINGING IT? To answer my question I had a look through the OGAE polls between 2010 and 2019 which are a fairly good, although admittedly not perfect, representation of who the fan favourites were before the contest. I also looked through the betting odds rankings at least one month before each competition to see how much faith the bookies had in each entry. I wanted to include only the entries that were really underestimated by both, so I only included entries where the final place was over 5 places higher than both the OGAE poll rank and the bookies rank. This meant that I excluded entries like Zoë from Austria in 2017 which was seriously underestimated by the bookies but actually did okay-ish in the fan voting. I then gathered the 50 most criminally underrated entries before the contests and ranked them from least to most underrated. The result is this video which may also be known as "how to stage an entry to blow everyone away" or "9 minutes of Lithuania, Moldova and Georgia being underrated". I hope you enjoy the video! Don't forget to subscribe for more content! You can also follow me on social media on my newly created accounts: Instagram: / becauseeurovision Twitter: / becauseesc _________________________________________ FEATURING _________________________________________ Albania | Mall – Eugent Bushpepa Albania | Suus - Rona Nishliu Australia | Zero Gravity - Kate Miller-Heidke Austria | Nobody but You - Cesár Sampson Azerbaijan | When the Music Dies - Sabina Babayeva Belarus | Cheesecake - Teo Belgium | Love Kills - Roberto Bellarosa Belgium | What's the Pressure - Laura Tesoro Bosnia & Herzegovina | Thunder and Lightning – Vukašin Brajić Cyprus | Fuego - Eleni Foureira F.Y.R. Macedonia | Crno i belo - Kaliopi Georgia | Midnight Gold - Nika Kocharov & Young Georgian Lolitaz Georgia | One More Day - Eldrine Georgia | Shine - Sofia Nizharadze Georgia | Warrior - Nina Sublatti Germany | You Let Me Walk Alone - Michael Schulte Greece | Alcohol Is Free - Koza Mostra ft. Agathon Iakovidis Greece | Watch My Dance - Loukas Giorkas ft. Stereo Mike Hungary | Kedvesem (Zoohacker Remix) - ByeAlex Iceland | Coming Home - Sjonni's Friends Iceland | No Prejudice - Pollapönk Israel | Made of Stars - Hovi Star Italy | Madness of Love - Raphael Gualazzi Latvia | Love Injected - Aminata Lithuania | C'est ma vie - Evelina Sašenko Lithuania | I've Been Waiting for This Night - Donny Montell Lithuania | Love Is Blind - Donny Montell Lithuania | Something - Andrius Pojavis Lithuania | When We're Old - Ieva Zasimauskaitė Malta | This Is the Night - Kurt Calleja Malta | Tomorrow - Gianluca Moldova | Hey, Mamma! - SunStroke Project Moldova | Lăutar - Pasha Parfeny Moldova | My Lucky Day - DoReDos Moldova | So Lucky - Zdob și Zdub Netherlands | Calm After the Storm - The Common Linnets Netherlands | Slow Down - Douwe Bob North Macedonia | Proud - Tamara Todevska Norway | Grab the Moment - JOWST Portugal | Há dias assim - Filipa Azevedo Romania | It's My Life - Cezar Romania | Playing with Fire - Paula Seling & Ovi Russia | Lost and Forgotten - Peter Nalitch and Friends Serbia | Beauty Never Lies - Bojana Stamenov Serbia | Čaroban - Nina Serbia | Nova Deca - Sanja Ilić & Balkanika Slovenia | Hvala, ne! - Lea Sirk Switzerland | Hunter of Stars - Sebalter Turkey | Love Me Back - Can Bonomo Ukraine | Angel - Mika Newton Ukraine | Sweet People - Alyosha _________________________________________ #BecauseEurovision #Eurovision #Subscribe #eurovisiontops #eurovisionrankings

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