YouTube Top 5s from Eurovision Rehearsals

So all artists have been rehearsing this week and we've been treated to a stream of commentary, ratings and blurry crowd recordings.

It's been hard to make out how exactly these were going to exactly translate until the Eurovision YouTube channel began releasing snippets of how the acts would appear on TV.

Now these are only 30-45 seconds snippets but does give an indication of the all important staging, camera shots and vocals. YouTube users have reacted in their views, their likes and dislikes. We've run our eyes over the data of the 23 acts so far and here are the Top 5s.....

Views

1. Belgium - 136,037 views

2. Greece - 94,411

3. Sweden - 86,455

4. Poland - 78,810

5. Portugal - 74,211

10. Australia 56,039

Likes

1. Greece - 2,527 likes

2. Poland - 2,340

3. Belgium - 2,263

4. Finland - 1,976

5. Armenia - 1,905

18. Australia - 1,120

Dislikes

1. Belgium - 1,935

2. Montenegro - 1,417

3. Greece - 789

4. Serbia - 741

5. Australia - 736

Percentage of likes to dislikes

1. Finland - 88.1%

2. Austria - 88.1%

3. Poland - 87.2%

4. Iceland - 83.9%

5. Latvia - 80.6%

19. Australia - 60.3%

So you can read much from this. If you love a song like Belgium and Greece, you might be happy from their views and likes. But if you dislike them you might assume people watching because of staging or vocal issues. And then does a high % really matter if not many people are watching?

Basically you want to cmoe out with a healthy number of views, a good number of likes with a healthy percentage. And for us the big winners of this are:

Poland - 2nd in Likes, 3rd in percentage and 4th in views

Portugal - 5th in views, 7th in likes and 12th in percentage

Armenia - 5th in likes, 8th in percentage and 9th in views

Let's see if this translates into actual results in the semi finals.