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Smash Hit’s “20 Eurovision Belters…”

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Back in October, UK music TV station Smash Hits ran one of their many themed portions, but this time with a Eurovision bent. Entitles “20 Eurovision Belters….” it was always going to be interesting to see what tracks they decided to play on a decidedly mainstream UK channel. Amazingly (for the UK) they were pretty good about the picks. There was UK bias in choosing some runners up from the BBC National Finals, and while the debate over Jemini’s inclusion should be obvious (it was a poor performance on the night, but the song itself is a a reasonably good

Last.FM and the True Eurovision Song Contest 2008 Winner

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Time to revisit Eurovision 2008, for no reason whatsoever, and to snipe at this “isn’t the block vote horrible, isn’t meant to be a Song Contest?” OKay then, let’s see what the better songs from this year were. And I shall use the highly scientifc method of searching for the songs on Last.FM and seeing the number of people that are actually listening to them. Yes it’s a small sample, but any survey is. And it’s not specifically looking for Eurovision, it’s looking at people playing music in general. How I’m working this – I find the song on Last.FM,