#EurovisionAgain: Ukraine with Ani Lorak tops the online voting for the 2008 edition

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#Eurovision Again has given the chance to all Eurovision fans to watch once again past editions of the Eurovision Song Contests and feel the joy and excitement of the contest without any interruptions. Last Saturday night the 2008 edition hit the screens once again, on the ESC Youtube Channel followed by an online voting that crowned Ani Lorak from Ukraine winner of that year's edition with her song 'Shady Lady'.
The first to launch such initiative, was a group of fans that uploaded past events, while EBU followed through its official Eurovision Youtube Channel. Once the competing part of the contest is over, the audience has the chance to cast its votes and make up a new result for each edition.
Eurovision 2008
The EBU chose to rebroadcast Saturday night a contest with so many nice songs and spectacular on stage performances . The 2018 edition hit our screens through the official ESC Youtube channel giving the fans to live again the marvelllous stage performances in Belgrade of “Believe“,“My Secret Combination", “Shady Lady“, “Qele Qele“ and “Oro” and the exciting voting that followed declaring then Dima Bilan from Russia tha winner of the contest with his entry "Believe'.
However the online voting that followed the rebroadcast didn't have the same outcome as Ani Lorak triumphed in the fans' voting while second come Kalomira from Greece with her "Secret Combination" . Third came Iceland with Euroband climbing 11 places from the actual results. Armenia maintained her fourth placing while Sweden with Charlotte Perrelli gained 13 places on the scoreboard closing the top 5. The surprising results was Russia fall from 1st place to 9th losing 8 spots comparing to the actual outcome back in 2008.
Here are the overall results after last night's 'EurovisionAgain' Twitter online voting on the :
Here are the results comparing them to the actual ones back in 2008:
- Ukraine – Ani Lorak -“Shady Lady” (+1)
- Greece – Kalomira -“My Secret Combination” (+1)
- Iceland – Euroband -“This Is My Life” (+11)
- Armenia – Sirusho -"Qélé, Qélé” (-)
- Sweden – Charlotte Perrelli -“Hero” (+13)
- Turkey – Mor ve Ötesi -“Deli” (+1)
- Serbia – Jelena Tomašević feat. Bora Dugić - “Oro” (-1)
- Norway – Maria Haukaas Storeng -“Hold On Be Strong” (-3)
- Russia – Dima Bilan -“Believe” (-8)
- Portugal – Vânia Fernandes -“Senhora do mar (Negras águas)” (+4)
- Israel – Boaz Ma’uda -“The Fire in Your Eyes“ (-2)
- France – Sébastien Tellier -“Divine” (+7)
- Latvia – Pirates of the Sea -“Wolves of the Sea” (-1)
- Bosnia Herzegovina – Laka -“Pokušaj” (-3)
- Azerbaijan – Elnur and Samir - “Day After Day” (-7)
- Finland – Teräsbetoni -“Missä miehet ratsastaa” (+6)
- Spain – Rodolfo Chikilicuatre -“Baila el Chiki-chiki” (-1)
- United Kingdom – Andy Abraham -“Even If” (+7)
- Albania– Olta Boka -“Zemrën e lamë peng” (-2)
- Denmark – Simon Mathew - “All Night Long” (-5)
- Georgia – Diana Gurtskaya -“Peace Will Come” (-9)
- Croatia – Kraljevi ulice and 75 Cents -“Romanca” (-1)
- Poland – Isis Gee -“For Life” (+1)
- Germany – No Angels -“Disappear” (-1)
- Romania – Nico and Vlad -“Pe-o margine de lume” (-5)
#EurovisionAgain results
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On May 2, the 2016 editon of the Eurovision Song Contest was broadcasted again with Dami Im and her entry Sound Of Silence topping the online voting instead of the actual winner Ukraine which came 4th, while in 2nd place we saw Bulgaria with Poli Genova! The following weekend fans had the chance to watch again the 1998 edition with Dana Iternational and her entry "Diva " winning the online voting while United Kingdomg with Imaani confimed its 2nd placing. The Netherlands came 3rd taking Malta's position which was the actual 3rd runner up back in 1998.
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On May 23, just a week after the special show ‘Europe Shine A Light’ , thousands fans had the chance to watch the 2003 edition online on the official ESC Youtube channel. 17 years after that contest that had taken place in Riga, Latvia, the audience crowned once again winner Sertab and her entry "Everyway that i can". Apart from Turkey that maitained its first placing we saw changes in the rest top 3 placings. Spain with Beth and her entry "Dime" displacing Urban Trad from Belgium that were the actual 2nd runner-ups that year. Third came Iceland with Birgitta and her entry "Open your heart" instead of Russia's Tatu .
On May 31, we saw again Eurovision 1991 rebroadcasted with the voting that followed marking no channges on the first three top placings with Sweden and Carola maitaining the first place followed by France 2nd and Israel in 3rd place. This wasn't the case in the next Eurovision Again on June 6 where we had the chance to watcht the 2018 edition and Eleni Foureira triumphing in the online voting leaving behind the actual winner Netta and Madame Monsieur came 3rd.
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