As pals of the Euro Hit 40 show on Facebook and Euro Hit 40 show listeners already know, we held the first just-for-fun music fest: the EH40 World Pop Contest in 2010. We have now launched a NEW one in for 2011 - yes, with prizes yet again! 

Stay up to date by getting our monthly newsletter - or join 800 other friends on our page on Facebook. Below, check the humble contest we held in 2010, and enjoy the SONGS too!****************************************************************************************
2010 - introduction

In 2010, we first asked you to suggest songs, then we put together the line up (2 songs per country). Later you were all invited to vote for the 17 (18 at the start) songs in July and August. The national jury votes were posted here in September.

Below, you'll find the final scoreboard first, then external links to the video/audio files for the 17 songs,  then the 12 versions of the scoreboard that were published throughout September, then some notes on the contest.

CLICK ON THE SCOREBOARD to see the LARGE VERSION with ALL the POINTS and the FINAL RESULT

 

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THE SONGS - A to Q
presented via public internet websites, including - but not limited to - YouTube.
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SONG A - represented GERMANY
Title: Dieses Ende Wird Ein Afang Sein
By: Virginia Jetzt
Suggested by: Daniel Kähler

FINAL POSITION: 2nd

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SONG B - represented The PHILIPPINES
Title: Ayuz
By: Rico Blanco
Suggested by: Aaron Tiu  

FINAL POSITION: 16th

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SONG C - represented AUSTRALIA
Title: Better Than
By: John Butler Trio
Suggested by: Yvon Davis

FINAL POSITION: 10th

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SONG D - represented GREECE
Title: An Isoun Agapi
By: Elena Paparizou
Suggested by: Chris Fitbaws 

FINAL POSITION: 14th

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SONG E - represented The NETHERLANDS
Title: Mirror Mirror
By: Dennis
Suggested by: Tim Luigjes

FINAL POSITION: 3rd

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SONG F - represented INDIA
Title: Uff Teri Ada
By: Alyssa Mendonsa, Shankar Mahadevan & Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Suggested by: Shibani Roy 

FINAL POSITION: 7th

Alternative link to a different video for this song

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SONG G - represented The UNITED KINGDOM
Title: Soul School
By: Cornershop
Suggested by: Eric Barr

FINAL POSITION 11th

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SONG H - represented NEW ZEALAND
Title: Hey Ho
By: Gin Wigmore
Suggested by: Bea Selwood 

FINAL POSITION: 15th

Alternative link to live version

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SONG I - represented The UNITED STATES of AMERICA
Title: I Gotta Feeling
By: Black-Eyed Peas
Suggested by: Shibani Roy 

FINAL POSITION: 4th

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SONG J - represented GERMANY
Title: Electric Island
By: Timid Tiger
Suggested by: Daniel Kähler

FINAL POSITION: 6th

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SONG K - represented The PHILIPPINES
Title: Your Universe
By: Rico Blanco
Suggested by: Aaron Tiu 

FINAL POSITION: 17th

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DISQUALIFIED (16 July 2010)
SONG L - represented AUSTRALIA
Title: Il Cuore E Un Zingaro

PLEASE NOTE: This song was first released in 1971 and is by Italian Singer/songwriter Nicola di Bari. It is not an Australian product. The singer and production are, of course, Australian (our thanks to Gonzalo Andres Caceres for this information - we are sorry we were not able to check all songs in advance).

By:
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SONG M - represented GREECE
Title: 1-2-3
By: Thanos Petrelis
Suggested by: Chris Fitbaws

FINAL POSITION: 12th

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SONG N - represented The NETHERLANDS
Title: A Night Like This
By: Caro Emerald
Suggested by: Tim Luigjes 

FINAL POSITION: 1st (FIRST!!!)

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SONG O - represented INDIA
Title: Tu Jaane Na
By: Atif Aslam - Ajab Prem - Ghazab Kahani - Shan Malik
Suggested by: Aloka Chatterjea

FINAL POSITION: 13th

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SONG P - represented The UNITED KINGDOM
Title: Bulletproof
By: La Roux
Suggested by: Alan Beebe 

FINAL POSITION: 9th

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SONG Q - represented NEW ZEALAND
Title: All Of This
By: The Naked and Famous
Suggested by: Patrick T. Vissch

FINAL POSITION: 8th

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SONG R - represented The UNITED STATES of AMERICA
Title: Fireflies
By: Owl City
Suggested by: Shibani Roy 

FINAL POSITION: 5th

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GREECE voted first on 1 September 2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ECUADOR voted second

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

USA voted third

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CANADA voted fourth
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHILIPPINES voted fifth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NETHERLANDS voted sixth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GERMANY voted seventh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUSTRALIA voted eighth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEW ZEALAND voted ninth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BANGLADESH voted tenth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UNITED KINGDOM voted eleventh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INDIA voted twelfth and last on 30 September - see below

 

 

 

 

 

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Voting is closed, but from 1 July to 31 August 2010 people were invited to cast their votes for 10 of the 17 songs chosen by our pals on Facebook.

People were invited to vote as a representative of their native country, or the one in which they now live. 

Visit our page on Facebook.com for full details of the competition. There was a main prize for the person who suggested the winning song, and also prizes for the person(s) whose votes most accurately reflected the final outcome. 

Updates after 1 July:

16 July: SONG L withdrawn (song more than 2 years old)
19 July: alternative link for SONG H added.
31 July: alternative link for SONG F added.
31 August: Voting ended at 00.00 CET
2 September: Scoreboard corrected, Greece gave 2 points to New Zealand (H), not 1 to Netherlands
(E) and 1 to New Zealand (Q).

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Voting and points:

A total of 12 countries - including the 9 participants - awarded points in the contest.

Each country awarded 10 sets of points: 20-18-16-14-12-10-8-6-4-2  based on the totals awarded by the member or members of the national jury for that country.

A draw was held on 1 September to decide the voting order of the countries.

Procedure when votes tied:
In the event of two or more songs obtaining equal votes from members of a national jury, the song with the biggest single vote from one member will take priority over the other (e.g. 4+4 will score lower than 8+0 or 6+2).

If the members' votes are exactly the same (eg 4 votes for song X and 4 votes for song Y) both songs will score the same points - hence 20 and 18 points would become 2 x 19 points, with the next song obtaining 16 points. In this way the grand total number of points awarded by all juries will be constant.