NSCers' Annual ESC LL - The Thread

[Fearnavigatr]

The seventeenth annual ESC Live Listening for NSCers will take place on Discord on Sunday April 14th at approximately 18 CEST!

What is the annual ESC LL? We listen to all the songs of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, comment and give them marks out of 10. At the end the scores are tallied and we see which song is the most popular within this community. Will it be the eventual winner of the real deal or will it be someone who falls short in the semis? Always exciting!

To join the NSC Discord, click here.

You are free to join after the listening has started. If you can't make it or if you need to leave early, you can still participate by sending me a PM or private Discord message with your votes. You mark all songs with a score between 0 and 10, with one optional decimal allowed. To have your votes included in the final results, you must have sent me your votes for all 37 entries.

Welcome to anyone who's interested! NSCers, ex-NSCers, WLers and randoms alike!

Previous LL winners (actual ESC result):
2008 - Switzerland (13th in semi)
2009 - Switzerland (14th in semi)
2010 - Turkey (2nd)
2011 - Georgia (9th)
2012 - Russia (2nd)
2013 - Denmark (1st)
2014 - Norway (8th)
2015 - Slovenia (14th)
2016 - Ukraine (1st)
2017 - Italy (6th)
2018 - Israel (1st)
2019 - Icetaly (10th and 2nd)
2020 - Ukraine (N/A)
2021 - Russia (9th)
2022 - Serbia (5th)
2023 - Austria (15th)

 

[Fearnavigatr]

Old results (to be completed)

2008

5 voters, held on MSN on 15 March 2008

2009

6 voters, held on MSN on 16 March 2009

2010

9 voters, held on MSN on 30 March 2010

2011

10 voters, held on MSN on 8 May 2011

2012

12 voters, held on MSN on 11 May 2012

1 - Russia, 94.2
2 - Iceland, 93.4
3 - Italy, 92.4
4 - Netherlands, 88
5 - Cyprus, 85.5
6 - Sweden, 85.2
7 - Macedonia, 82.7
8 - United Kingdom, 82.5
9 - Latvia, 79.6
10 - Turkey, 79.5
11 - Albania, 77.8
12 - Hungary, 77.7
13 - Finland, 77.1
13 - Slovenia, 77.1
15 - San Marino, 76.5
16 - France, 75.6
17 - Romania, 74.7
18 - Israel, 72.1
19 - Denmark, 71.1
20 - Spain, 70.7
21 - Moldova, 68.8
22 - Azerbaijan, 65.3
23 - Montenegro, 63.8
24 - Norway, 63.6
25 - Austria, 61
26 - Switzerland, 60.9
27 - Greece, 60.3
28 - Ukraine, 60.1
29 - Bulgaria, 57.6
30 - Serbia, 54.7
31 - Belgium, 54.3
32 - Estonia, 52.7
33 - Belarus, 49.5
34 - Portugal, 47.2
35 - Slovakia, 46.6
36 - Georgia, 46.4
37 - Bosnia & Herzegovina, 44.6
38 - Malta, 44.1
39 - Croatia, 40.4
40 - Germany, 39.9
41 - Ireland, 35.1
42 - Lithuania, 27.3

2013

15 voters, held on MSN on 6 April 2013

1 Denmark 128,5
2 Norway 121,5
3 Montenegro 119,9
4 Hungary 115,5
5 San Marino 115,1
6 France 114,1
7 Switzerland 107,7
8 Netherlands 106,4
9 Greece 104,8
10 Malta 97,6
11 Austria 96,4
12 Spain 94,9
13 Israel 94,7
14 Iceland 93,8
15 Albania 89,1
16 Germany 88,9
17 Belarus 85,5
18 Lithuania 85,3
19 Slovenia 80,7
19 Sweden 80,7
21 Bulgaria 79,9
22 Italy 79,6
23 Moldova 76,7
24 Finland 73,7
25 United Kingdom 71,7
26 Ukraine 67,9
27 Serbia 64,2
28 Ireland 63,4
29 Russia 62,6
30 Belgium 62,4
31 Romania 61,7
32 Macedonia 60,7
33 Cyprus 58,1
34 Latvia 57,8
35 Georgia 56,6
36 Croatia 52,6
37 Azerbaijan 52,4
38 Armenia 46,2
39 Estonia 43,4

2014

20 voters, held on Skype on 25 April 2014

1 Norway 166.3
2 France 165.5
3 Switzerland 163.5
4 Armenia 161
5 Hungary 157.8
6 Germany 153
7 Netherlands 151.2
8 Finland 148.6
9 United Kingdom 147.9
10 Greece 146.5
11 Iceland 145.2
12 Poland 142.6
13 Austria 141.5
13 Slovenia 141.5
15 Latvia 139.4
16 Lithuania 137.7
17 Azerbaijan 136.8
18 Georgia 135.8
19 Italy 132.1
20 Malta 129.7
21 Montenegro 129.3
22 Sweden 125.3
23 Israel 119.7
24 Albania 117.8
25 Moldova 115.7
26 Ukraine 114.1
27 San Marino 103.8
28 Belarus 103.5
29 Ireland 102.1
30 Estonia 99.5
31 Belgium 97.5
32 Macedonia 91.4
33 Denmark 88.7
34 Portugal 88.5
35 Spain 83.7
36 Russia 70.1
37 Romania 52.5

2015

20 voters, held on Skype on 9 April 2015

1 Slovenia 175.1
2 Estonia 168.6
3 Belgium 166.9
4 Latvia 158.3
5 Germany 149.9
6 Georgia 143.9
7 Norway 141.3
8 Albania 140.5
9 Sweden 132.9
10 Ireland 132.6
11 Israel 129
12 Australia 128.5
13 Lithuania 124.7
14 Azerbaijan 123.5
15 Belarus 120.2
16 Austria 119
17 Czech Republic 118.4
18 Spain 118
19 Cyprus 117.6
20 Macedonia 113.4
21 Romania 112.7
22 Switzerland 112
23 Italy 109.3
24 Hungary 106.8
25 Finland 106.5
26 France 102.6
27 Montenegro 101.6
28 Armenia 97
29 Denmark 95.8
30 Russia 95.3
31 Portugal 94.5
32 Malta 92.3
33 Iceland 90.6
34 Moldova 87.6
35 Netherlands 80.7
36 United Kingdom 79.9
37 Serbia 78.8
38 Poland 77.3
39 San Marino 66.9
40 Greece 48.5

2016

19 voters, held on Skype on 16 April 2016

1 Ukraine 150.5
2 Georgia 142
3 Greece 138.5
4 Iceland 138.2
5 Estonia 137.3
6 Croatia 135.8
7 Latvia 134.4
8 Bulgaria 133.3
9 Italy 128.3
10 France 126
11 Serbia 125.6
12 Czech Republic 123.7
13 Azerbaijan 122.3
14 Spain 121.1
15 Netherlands 117.8
16 Belarus 117.6
17 Armenia 115.8
18 Austria 115.5
19 Russia 110.7
20 Bosnia-Herzegovina 107.6
21 Hungary 106.6
22 Macedonia 104.4
23 Montenegro 103
24 Sweden 101.3
25 Slovenia 100.8
26 Cyprus 100.7
27 Romania 100.2
28 Israel 100
29 San Marino 98.4
30 Poland 98.3
31 Germany 95.5
32 Malta 95,3
33 Switzerland 94.7
34 Finland 94.6
35 Moldova 90
36 Norway 89
37 United Kingdom 88.9
38 Belgium 83.2
39 Australia 83
40 Denmark 74.1
41 Albania 73.7
42 Lithuania 63.8
43 Ireland 51.6
44

Sierra Leone 7.7 (joke inclusion based on one voter mixing up the flag code for Slovenia)

2017

19 voters, held on Skype on 19 April 2017

1 Italy 164
2 Belgium 158.4
3 Finland 158.2
4 Belarus 156.7
5 Latvia 153.5
6 Hungary 145.6
7 Azerbaijan 145
8 Ukraine 144.4
9 Portugal 142.9
10 Macedonia 139.4
11 Armenia 137.7
12 Norway 127.5
13 France 125.9
14 Lithuania 125.6
15 Montenegro 120.4
16 Iceland 117.3
17 Albania 113.9
18 Moldova 107.9
19 Czech Republic 107.4
20 Bulgaria 107.1
21 Switzerland 101.2
22 Serbia 97.4
23 Denmark 96.5
24 United Kingdom 96.2
25 Russia 94.7
26 Sweden 93.8
27 Poland 91.9
28 Australia 86.6
29 Cyprus 83.4
30 Austria 82.7
31 Ireland 82.6
32 San Marino 82.2
33 Israel 82
34 Netherlands 78.5
35 Estonia 71.8
36 Croatia 70.2
37 Romania 70.1
38 Georgia 62.5
39 Germany 55.1
40 Malta 51.6
41 Greece 44.5
42 Spain 43
43 Slovenia 27.3

2018

20 voters, held on Skype on 21 April 2018

1 Israel 171,9
2 Macedonia 160,9
3 Czech Republic 153,9
4 France 149,7
5 Hungary 148,6
6 Slovenia 146,7
7 Italy 144,7
8 Bulgaria 142
9 Portugal 140,2
10 Belgium 135,8
11 Estonia 134,5
12 Switzerland 131,1
13 Lithuania 125,4
14 Finland 125
15 Cyprus 124,9
16 Ukraine 123,6
17 Moldova 122,4
18 Austria 116,8
19 Denmark 116,1
20 Latvia 115,6
21 Albania 115,5
22 Greece 112
23 Malta 111,2
24 Montenegro 108,1
25 Croatia 103,4
26 Ireland 101,2
27 Romania 100,1
28 Poland 99,7
29 Australia 99,6
30 Belarus 97,8
31 Azerbaijan 97,1
32 Sweden 94,5
33 Serbia 91,3
34 Netherlands 88,9
35 Georgia 86,9
36 Germany 86,8
37 Russia 86,1
38 Spain 82,5
39 United Kingdom 77,3
40 San Marino 75,6
41 Norway 68,4
42 Armenia 65,9
43 Iceland 31,3

2019

20 voters, held on Skype on 2 May 2019

1 Iceland 178.6
1 Italy 178.6
3 Portugal 172.6
4 Slovenia 165.4
5 Albania 163.1
6 Malta 152.2
7 Netherlands 142.9
8 San Marino 141.4
9 Latvia 139.8
10 Norway 136,8
11 Poland 135.6
12 Romania 130.6
13 Czech Republic 130.4
14 Greece 130.1
15 Switzerland 129.4
16 Serbia 128.5
17 Armenia 128.3
18 Spain 124.3
19 Cyprus 122.1
20 Ireland 117.2
21 Germany 116
22 Hungary 115.9
23 Azerbaijan 114.1
23 Denmark 114.1
25 Belgium 110.4
26 Belarus 106.9
27 Australia 105.9
28 North Macedonia 101
29 France 99.5
30 Austria 98.2
31 Russia 94.4
32 Sweden 82.1
33 Georgia 81.2
34 Moldova 72
35 Israel 69.8
36 United Kingdom 68.9
37 Montenegro 67.1
38 Estonia 66.3
39 Finland 62.1
40 Lithuania 61
41 Croatia 52

2020

20 voters, held on Skype on 17 April 2020

1 Ukraine 172.9
2 Lithuania 167.5
3 Latvia 161.7
4 Bulgaria 161.5
5 Russia 154.3
6 Azerbaijan 154.1
7 Iceland 152.9
8 Israel 140.7
9 Switzerland 140
10 Georgia 131.9
11 Armenia 130.9
12 Serbia 130.7
13 Australia 129.5
14 Belarus 123
14 Belgium 123
16 Germany 122
17 Greece 121.3
17 Ireland 121.3
19 Denmark 118.1
20 Netherlands 116.6
21 Albania 115.3
22 Sweden 114.2
23 Romania 113.4
24 Czech Republic 112.7
25 Cyprus 107.4
26 Moldova 106.7
27 Italy 104.1
28 Norway 102.2
29 Slovenia 98.3
30 North Macedonia 95.4
31 San Marino 92.2
32 Croatia 88.9
33 Finland 86.5
34 Malta 85.4
35 Portugal 79.1
36 Spain 78.2
37 United Kingdom 75.5
38 Poland 72.5
39 Austria 58.9
40 Estonia 51.6
41 France 33.7

2021

24 voters, held on Discord on 24 April 2021

1 Russia 200,1
2 Italy 199,8
3 Ukraine 191,1
4 San Marino 182,2
5 France 181,9
6 Lithuania 180,9
7 Australia 176
8 Finland 169,5
9 Iceland 168,6
10 Ireland 167,8
10 Malta 167,8
12 Belgium 167,4
13 Azerbaijan 167,1
13 Cyprus 167,1
15 Croatia 159,8
16 Moldova 159,3
17 Switzerland 158,3
18 Latvia 152
19 Bulgaria 146
20 Greece 145
21 Czech Republic 143,2
22 Netherlands 134,6
23 Israel 133,6
24 Denmark 133,2
25 Serbia 133,1
26 Albania 132,2
26 Sweden 132,2
28 Norway 131,4
29 Romania 131
30 Portugal 121,3
31 United Kingdom 117,7
32 Poland 110,7
33 Germany 109,9
34 Georgia 103,3
35 Slovenia 90,7
36 Estonia 71,9
37 Spain 70,4
38 Austria 53,9
39 North Macedonia 45,7

2022

20 voters, held on Discord on 4 May 2022

1 Serbia 175
2 France 170.9
3 Portugal 167.5
4 Lithuania 159.3
5 Ukraine 156.3
6 Sweden 152.4
7 Netherlands 151.1
8 Georgia 149.7
9 Czech Republic 140.3
10 Finland 139.8
11 Austria 136.8
12 Spain 135.5
13 United Kingdom 134.7
14 Albania 132.4
15 San Marino 132.1
16 Slovenia 128.3
17 Iceland 127.1
18 Moldova 125.5
19 Norway 116.1
20 Romania 115.3
21 Cyprus 115.1
22 Italy 113.2
23 Ireland 111.5
24 Denmark 110.5
25 Armenia 109.4
26 Estonia 108.5
26 Greece 108.5
28 Latvia 106.3
29 Poland 95.6
30 Israel 94.6
31 Montenegro 94.2
32 Belgium 90.1
33 North Macedonia 87.4
34 Australia 84.9
35 Croatia 81
36 Germany 76.6
37 Bulgaria 65.9
38 Azerbaijan 64.3
39 Malta 57
40 Switzerland 51.1

2023

23 voters, held on Discord on 24 April 2023

1 Austria 206,8
2 Finland 197,5
3 Czechia 180,1
4 Latvia 180
5 Slovenia 171,3
6 Serbia 169,1
7 Spain 166,4
8 Sweden 161
9 Georgia 158,9
10 Germany 154,3
11 Ukraine 152,6
12 Portugal 152,1
13 Australia 150,8
14 Norway 150,3
15 Moldova 148,6
16 Croatia 147,9
17 France 147,7
18 Malta 146,4
19 Belgium 143,7
20 Armenia 142,6
21 United Kingdom 136,7
22 Azerbaijan 131,1
23 Lithuania 130,4
24 Albania 127,4
25 Israel 126
26 Iceland 113,8
27 San Marino 108,7
28 Netherlands 105,9
29 Estonia 101,8
30 Italy 101,7
31 Ireland 97,5
32 Cyprus 96
33 Denmark 94
34 Switzerland 88,8
35 Greece 83,7
36 Romania 82,3
37 Poland 75,8

2024

24 voters, held on Discord on 14 April 2024

1 Norway 198.9
2 Croatia 180.2
3 Italy 179.3
4 Greece 172.7
5 Armenia 168.9
6 Ukraine 168.5
7 Netherlands 168.3
8 Estonia 168.2
9 Lithuania 165.5
10 Switzerland 162.9
11 Ireland 160.9
12 Czechia 160.6
13 Spain 158.5
14 Austria 156
14 San Marino 156
16 United Kingdom 152
17 Belgium 143.4
18 Serbia 140.1
19 Luxembourg 138.9
20 Azerbaijan 134.6
21 Slovenia 133.3
22 Finland 133
23 Georgia 132.4
24 Sweden 129.9
25 Poland 129.8
26 Portugal 126.1
27 Australia 126
28 Latvia 118
29 Cyprus 109.4
30 France 107.9
31 Moldova 101.3
32 Albania 100.9
32 Denmark 100.9
34 Malta 92
35 Germany 84.8
36 Israel 79.7
37 Iceland 77.5

 

[Fearnavigatr]

The 13th annual Live Listening of ESC for NSCers has finished!
Our apparent golden standard of 20 participants joined us tonight to crown Ukraine as NSC's chosen winner of 2020! Thanks to everyone who joined, and welcome back next year, hopefully with an actual contest to follow!

Full results:
1 Ukraine 172.9
2 Lithuania 167.5
3 Latvia 161.7
4 Bulgaria 161.5
5 Russia 154.3
6 Azerbaijan 154.1
7 Iceland 152.9
8 Israel 140.7
9 Switzerland 140
10 Georgia 131.9
11 Armenia 130.9
12 Serbia 130.7
13 Australia 129.5
14 Belarus 123
14 Belgium 123
16 Germany 122
17 Greece 121.3
17 Ireland 121.3
19 Denmark 118.1
20 Netherlands 116.6
21 Albania 115.3
22 Sweden 114.2
23 Romania 113.4
24 Czech Republic 112.7
25 Cyprus 107.4
26 Moldova 106.7
27 Italy 104.1
28 Norway 102.2
29 Slovenia 98.3
30 North Macedonia 95.4
31 San Marino 92.2
32 Croatia 88.9
33 Finland 86.5
34 Malta 85.4
35 Portugal 79.1
36 Spain 78.2
37 United Kingdom 75.5
38 Poland 72.5
39 Austria 58.9
40 Estonia 51.6
41 France 33.7

 

[doctormalisimo]

You don't know where to go?

 

[takeru]

Thanks for hosting as always Joch.
This was my first listen-through of 2020. My overall impression was that there’s a lack of a high quality personal standout, BUT I did enjoy the general favourites this year.

Further down the ranking are lots of quirky and unique entries. The kind you hear and think “this is definitely a Eurovision entry” (and not in that crappy BBC mentality way, I mean positively). Over the years I’ve really coming to appreciate the weird, the trashy, the slutty, all of that so good that it’s so bad that it’s so good stuff.

On the flipside, my least favourites this year were the songs that sounded generic. Sadly those are the ones that usually do well in the end, especially with the jury. But at least I can hopefully imagine Russia, Iceland and Georgia (in my dreams) storming the televotes.

 

[pyryniemi]

TO GOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Karhu]

JE T’AIMEEEEEEE

 

[doctormalisimo]

ICH LIEBE DICH

 

[nofuxCZ]

Too bad I couldn't join, but Ukraine would have been my #1 as well so great result NSC, once again

 

[94ayd]

Wow, my top 3 is the top 3 in reverse order and completing the top 4, good taste, NSC!

 

[Ewigkeit]

Congratulations Ukraine. I hope you can finally participate at the ESC next year.

 

[Edweis]

Funny, last year were both my #1 and this year it's with in #2. Seems my taste is pretty close to the NSC LL crew

 

[Fearnavigatr]

The fourteenth annual ESC Live Listening for NSCers will take place on Discord on Saturday April 24th at approximately 18 CEST!

New for this year, we will try doing this on our brand spankin' new Discord channel! This will be the third chat client ever to host the LL, following MSN and Skype, and hopefully this change will allow for some new faces to join this tradition!

What is the annual ESC LL? We listen to all the songs of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, comment and give them marks out of 10. At the end the scores are tallied and we see which song is the most popular within this community. Will it be the eventual winner of the real deal or will it be someone who falls short in the semis? Always exciting!

To join the NSC Discord, click here.

You are free to join after the listening has started. If you can't make it or if you need to leave early, you can still participate by sending me a PM or private Discord message with your votes. You mark all songs with a score between 0 and 10, with one optional decimal allowed. To have your votes included in the final results, you must have sent me your votes for all 39 entries.

Welcome to anyone who's interested! NSCers, ex-NSCers, WLers and randoms alike!

Previous LL winners (actual ESC result):
2008 - Switzerland (13th in semi)
2009 - Switzerland (14th in semi)
2010 - Turkey (2nd)
2011 - Georgia (9th)
2012 - Russia (2nd)
2013 - Denmark (1st)
2014 - Norway (8th)
2015 - Slovenia (14th)
2016 - Ukraine (1st)
2017 - Italy (6th)
2018 - Israel (1st)
2019 - Icetaly (10th and 2nd)
2020 - Ukraine (N/A)

 

[My Star]

I still cant get over Era Stupendo's victory

 

[Schlagerman1]

*Boink* Just making an excited post for the annual LL on Discord this saturday, hope to see you all there!

 

[theditz83]

So sorry guys - we can finally go and see my fiancé's mum for the first time in over a year this Saturday as her doctor has given the green light that her immune system is back to full strength, so I won't be able to make it as I doubt we'll be back very early.

Stan and though

 

[Schlagerman1]

So sorry guys - we can finally go and see my fiancé's mum for the first time in over a year this Saturday as her doctor has given the green light that her immune system is back to full strength, so I won't be able to make it as I doubt we'll be back very early.

Stan and though

You can always send your votes to @Fearnavigatr prior to it if you want to. Just write a list with all countries and score them 0-10 with maximum one decimal.

 

[theditz83]

You can always send your votes to @Fearnavigatr prior to it if you want to. Just write a list with all countries and score them 0-10 with maximum one decimal.

If I have the chance tomorrow I'll definitely do that - I already know my ranking more or less so just need to give them scores

 

[pyryniemi]

bump

 

[Fearnavigatr]

LL starting in a bit under two hours! Welcome!

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