Semi 2

Welcome to the 2nd semi-final of ETNW 2012!

Below you will find a list of the entries in this semi and a link to downloadthe songs. If there are any problems, hopefully Noah will be good enough to upload them to his site, too. (Thanks again for your help, Noah!)

If anyone has a bone to pick, please email me directly rather than/prior to raising issues on the MB. And take a look below to remind yourself about voting.

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Semi 2

01 Greece 1986 – H stigmi (Eleftheria Arvanitaki)
02 Azerbaijan 1973 – Prisnivshayasya pesenka (Müslüm Məhəmməd oğlu Maqomayev)
03 Belgium 2007 – Mais (Vive La Fête)
04 Hungary 1968 – Rövid az élet (Toldy Mária)
05 France 2011 – Dingue, dingue, dingue (Christophe Mae)
06 Spain 1995 – Oye mi amor (Maná)
07 Czechoslovakia 1972 – Láska je věc kouzelná (Plavci)
08 Italy 2011 – Sembra impossibile (Giorgia)
09 Yugoslavia 2002 – Žena lavica (Nela Bijanic)
10 Denmark 2003 – Pretty Young Thing (Lene Nystrøm) DISQUALIFIED
11 Portugal 1978 – Um Português (Linda de Suza)
12 United Kingdom 1984 – All Cried Out (Alison Moyet)
13 France 1963 – Tout mes copains (Sylvie Vartan)
14 Germany 2001 – Warum?! (Samajona)
15 Sweden 2010 – Lovekiller (Darin)
16 Luxembourg 1987 – Vélomoteur (Les Calamités)
17 Serbia 2009 – Zla barbika (Ana Nikolić)
18 Cyprus 1997 – Pos mperdeftika (Despina Vandi)
19 United Kingdom 1999 – I'm Over You (Martine McCutcheon)
20 United Kingdom 2010 – Planets (Short Stack)
21 Spain 1989 – Los amigos de mis amigas (Objetivo Birmania)
22 Monaco 1967 – Manchester et Liverpool (Marie Laforêt)
23 Germany 1982 – Olé España (Michael Schanze)

Download link: http://www.multiupload.com/OFMZRYREL6

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Voting

1. If your entry is in this semi, you must vote. If you don't, your entry will be disqualified, regardless of whether it would have qualified or not.

2. Voting is also open to sponsors whose entries are in the other semi and non-participants.

3. Voting is in Eurovision style: 1-8, 10 & 12 points. And you can't vote for your own entry, obviously.

4. The email address to send your votes to is the same as the one you submitted your entry to: etnw2012@gmail.com.

5. The deadline for voting in Semi 2 is next Wednesday 25 January.

6. Remember that you are not simply voting for your favourite entries: your main criteria should still be how authentic you feel the entries are (i.e. how good a match they are for the year + country combination). For example, if you listen to one song and think "yep, that sounds exactly like what a Georgian entry in 1999 would have been like" and then another and think "I like that more than the Georgia 1999 entry, but it's not as good a match", Georgia 1999 - or whatever it is - should still get higher points. Then again, you might find 10 entries that you think are all good matches, in which case it then more or less comes down to taste ;)

The top 11 entries from each semi will qualify for the final, plus the highest-scoring 12th placed song, to make a final of 23 songs.

That's everything, I think. Enjoy listening and voting, and good luck to all of the sponsors!