I finally got round to listening to the 43 Eurovision entries this year and I ranked them all based on the initial vibes I got from them.
1. Israel
2. Finland
3. Poland
4. Germany
5. Czech Republic
6. Australia
7. Armenia
8. Cyprus
9. Switzerland
10. Lithuania
11. Latvia
12. Belarus
13. Moldova
14. Russia
15. Denmark
16. Ukraine
17. Azerbaijan
18. Greece
19. Austria
20. Belgium
21. Portugal
22. France
23. Ireland
24. Romania
25. Malta
26. Italy
27. Norway
28. Sweden
29. San Marino
30. Serbia
31. FYR Macedonia
32. United Kingdom
33. Bulgaria
34. Slovenia
35. The Netherlands
36. Iceland
37. Croatia
38. Estonia
39. Spain
40. Georgia
41. Montenegro
42. Albania
43. Hungary
I still cannot believe Alexander Rybak is representing Norway after winning, I ADORE Fairytale but his new song doesn't do much for me. I was a huge supporter of Saara on the X Factor UK. I know Eurovision has been a big goal of hers for a long time so I'm totally backing her. Australia super strong once again, Israel is quirky and a really amazing surprise, I heard it was a big favourite too. Germany + Czech Republic were also pleasant surprises. I prefer Russia's 2017 entry, this one sounded massively autotuned but it was okay. I'd already heard the UK's entry and I'm pretty bored of it by this point, and I also thought there was an increase in non-english entries, which was nice to see, despite only few of them appealing to me. I'm excited to see how it goes!
Keep in mind these are solely based on me watching each music video just once, so my opinions are bound to change as I listen to them more over the course of the week. What does everyone else think? :)
Israel is my 8th and finland is also my 2nd :)
Australia is also my 6th and lithuania is also in my top 10 :)
Same last as well! I don't hate rock though so albania is quite high up