Soraya

The results of both semifinals have now been released by the EBU. They make interesting reading. The jury overturned the telephone vote to save countries in each of the semifinals. Quite annoying if your country finished 10th in the phone vote.

In a contest which nobody could call close, Norway won the 54th Eurovision Song Contest in the Olympiyskiy Arena in Moscow. He scored a record 387 points, leaving him a long way in front of Iceland and Azerbaijan in second and third places respectively.

Another scandal has hit the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest the day before the big final. This time it is Spain pushing the rules quite far with not broadcasting the semi-final with the cancellation of televoting as a result – and now they have gone a step further by publishing the result of their jury points.

Today’s rehearsals were the last opportunity for individual rehearsals before attention turns to the first rehearsal of the first semifinal. The countries who automatically qualify for the final were on stage for the second consecutive day.

A week into rehearsals and finally the five countries already in the final took to the stage. Before that, it was the turn of some of the remaining countries in Thursday’s second semifinal to rehearse for the second time.

Over the last couple of weeks, Eurovisionary has assessed the chances of the songs competing in the semifinals. Now it is time to analyse the chances of the ‘big 4’ and the hosts.

Today, Soraya's promotional tour dates have been released. She is starting the tour on 3rd April in her home country and the city of Madrid.