National final losers

[Kairit]

I'd love to find out what are some of the main songs from different national finals over the years that you're still hung up on and wish would've won the right to represent their country? Can be both from your own country or some other.

 

[Carrie]

Darline - "Until Tomorrow" (2016)
Kym Marsh - "Whisper To Me" (2006)

 

[AuroraBorealis]

Darline - Until Tomorrow
Wiktoria - Save Me
Saara Aalto - No Fear
Oscar Zia - Human

just the robbed ones from 2016 that pop to my head

 

[LastDreamer]

Femme Fatale - Decadence (2008)
YVA - Barbie (2005)
YVA - I Dangu (2009)
Mariaana Seppern - My Home is Europe (2010)
Hannah Graaf - Naughty Boy (2006)

 

[blue00eyes]

2003 Blue Café - "You may be in love"

 

[Kairit]

I'm still probably most bitter about the fact that Rolf Junior - One On One didn't win in 2008, because it's one of my favourite songs that has ever graced any national final to this day and a stroke of genius imo since I can't stand his other songs.

 

[Ringdalen]

Fun idea I think this is a thread I will regualry be posting in

I could go on for hours about Melodi Grand Prix and the entries there have been over the years, but I´ll save that for later

2016 Freddy Kalas - Feel Da Rush
2015 Staysman & Lazz - En godt stekt pizza
2014 El Cuero - Ain't No Love In This City No More
2013 Gromth & Emil Solli-Tangen - Alone
2012 Plumbo - Ola Nordmann
2011 Hanne Sørvaag - Like A Melody (Don´t remember most of the songs, so I might have forgotten my favorite)
2010 Didrik was the perfect winner and it´s one of my favorite norwegian Eurovision songs But my favorite as a kid was Yes Man by Bjørn Johan Muri
2008 King of Trolls - Far Away (One of my all time favorite MGP songs)
2007 Crash! - Wannabe or Dusty Cowshit - Chicken Rodeo

 

[Brandt]

2003 Sertab Erener - Here I am
2009 Måns Zelmerlöw - Hope & Glory (I still love the winner song)
2013 Annalisa - Scintille
2015 Alexandra Joner - Cinderella / Staysman & Lazz - En godt stekt pizza (I still love the winner song)
2015 Caroline Wennergren - Black Swan / Dinah Nah - Make Me la la la
2016 Wiktoria - Save Me

 

[GianlucaTomoe]

2003 Sertab Erener - Here I am

Sertab Erener was internally selected in 2003...

 

[Brandt]

Sertab Erener was internally selected in 2003...

TRT requested 2 english & 2 turkish songs from the singer. Here I am was one of the composed songs for Eurovision. Technically it is not a NF entry but in theory it is one of them.

 

[Krishoes]

1961 Mina - Le mille bolle blu / Adriano Celentano - 24mila baci *
1962 Tony Renis - Quando quando quando
1965 Pino Donaggio - Io che non vivo (senza te) *
1966 Caterina Caselli - Nessuno mi può giudicare / Pino Donaggio - Una casa in cima al mondo *
1967 Don Backy - L'immensità / Little Tony - Cuore matto
1968 Tony Del Monaco - La voce del silenzio *
1969 Nada - Ma che freddo fa *
1972 Marcella Bella - Montagne verdi
1989 Mia Martini - Almeno tu nell'universo
1993 Matia Bazar - Dedicato a te
1997 Nek - Laura non c'è / Patty Pravo - …E dimmi che non vuoi morire *
2011 Modà feat. Emma - Arriverà
2012 Nina Zilli - Per sempre / Dolcenera - Ci vediamo a casa *
2015 Nek - Fatti avanti amore / Chiara - Straordinario *
2016 Francesco Gabbani - Amen *

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* I like also the selected entry

 

[Eulaliya]

2009 Georgina & Ruth Casingena - Avalon
2016 Gregorian - Masters of Chant
2016 Christabelle Borg - Kingdom
1998 Georgina - The Morning Rain
2016 Dolcenera - Ora O Mai Piu (Le Cose Cambiano)
1985 Yardena Arazi - Od nagia
1994 Nogu Svelo - Sibirskaya lyubov
2003 Nanne - Evig karlek

 

[EscGeek]

welll...since the thread starter is from Estonia,i'm gonna say this

 

[Kairit]

↑ I wish it would've won as well.

 

[Thorn]

From ... MNTHA - Nefelibata (2015)
But Aminata was amazing as well so I don't have to cry

This one makes me sad tho -
2016 - Robin Bengtsson – Constellation Prize
Imo almost everything was better than Frans

 

[Edward]

Apart from FdC only really started following NFs of other countries more closely since 2015. So not many pop to mind:

2015 - Danica Krstic - Suze za kraj (this one made me really upset considering it lost to that mega-hyped Bojana Stamenov song that ended up flopping big time at ESC in the end. Would have loved to have seen this beautiful ballad in Serbian instead...think it would have done much better - as other Serbian ballads did in the past)

2015 - BeatreeS - Fighter - actually many others come to mind (Band Napoli, Daria, Gunesh, Janet, Tasha Odi) but this was my personal favorite then. I think watching Rybak's Milki girls with Accent would have even been more interesting to see following the My Slowianie great result of 2014. Instead we got that boring violin song..

2000 - Knorkator - Ick wer zu Schwein (These guys are a class act and have been one of those bands I have liked for a long time now so I am not sure what ESC would have done to them career-wise but considering how non-serious/funny songs became a trend a few later years on...they could have pulled a Lordi 6 years earlier. Surely not as easy on the ears and pop friendly as the Kiss inspired band but would have at least created more buzz than the overrated bore that is Stefan Raab. And there was nothing to lose really, considering Germany had sent Guildo Horn just a couple of years earlier..)

Haven't really had the chance to follow Melodifestivalen from that close but still fail to understand how Jenny Silver never managed to get into a NF. At least with "Something in your eyes". So ESC-friendly..

And agreed with Oscar Zia's Human vs. the mumbling kid of a few months ago.

Keep coming with your replies, this is a great source of information for FdN whenever it comes back

 

[GianlucaTomoe]

that mega-hyped Bojana Stamenov song that ended up flopping big time at ESC

How can a 10th place be considered a big flop?

 

[lavieenrose]

How can a 10th place be considered a big flop?

Yeah, especially considering that expectations weren't super high for how it would do until after its semi performance.

 

[Lupus]

2016 Gregorian - Masters of Chant

ESC needed that song Biggest loss of the year for me; nothing else came close.

 

[Edward]

If I remember correctly some people were feeling quite in fever for that kitsch Bojana act and claiming it would be a favorite for the win. I don't remember exactly how the bookies actually placed it but the idea I have is that it didn't differ much from the fanboys...

I was glad when a reality check came in time during SF1 anyway. Europe sort of saw then what I had seen months earlier during the Serbian NF. Who remembers her these days anyway? I mean, her song...she herself might be a memorable figure of recent years for the obvious reasons.

I was reminded of Unheilig in 2014 now...just like Knorkator, old personal favorite but none of their German NF songs were special at all. So in the end I wasn't too bothered that they did not make it in the end. But ofc a bit sad for Der Graf's personal ambitions still.