We recently ran a poll of 240 Eurovision fans in Australia and across Europe to find out their favourite entries of this year.
Each fan was given up to 10 televotes to use in any way they like, including voting for an entry more than once.
This was to help replicate the actual public vote, rather than 12, 10, 8 points etc, and to match Eurovision rules Australia was not included (as we are mainly an Aussie related Eurovision site).
240 fans took part with 2,336 individual votes and the results showed some interesting findings when comparing Australia and Europe.
There were many entries we agreed on, but there were many differences in opinion. Let's take a look:
What did Australia like more than Europe?
Latvia: Citi Zēni - 'Eat Your Salad'
Australia: 18th
Europe: 32nd
Slovenia: LPS - 'Disko'
Australia: 24th
Europe: 35th
Israel: Michael Ben David - 'I.M'
Australia: 22nd
Europe: 31st
Which favourites did Australia warm to more?
Poland: Ochman - 'River'
Australia: 7th
Europe: 15th
Italy: Mahmood & Blanco - 'Brividi'
Australia: 3rd
Europe: 8th
What did Europe like more than Australia?
Germany: Malik Harris - 'Rockstars'
Europe: 23rd
Australia: 33rd
Romania: WRS - 'Llámame'
Europe: 18th
Australia: 26th
Denmark: Reddi - 'The Show'
Europe: 28th
Australia: 35th
Lithuania: Monika Liu - 'Sentimentai'
Europe: 13th
Australia: 20th
Which favourites did Europe warm to more?
Netherlands: S10 - 'De Diepte'
Europe: 3rd
Australia: 10th
What did Europe and Australia agree on?
The favourites
Sweden: Cornelia Jakobs - 'Hold Me Closer'
Australia: 1st
Europe: 1st
Spain: Chanel - 'SloMo'
Australia: 2nd
Sweden: 2nd
The bottom dwellers
Bulgaria: Intelligent Music Project - 'Intention'
Australia: 39th
Europe: 39th
Kitsch
Australia usually goes for the more "novelty" based songs than Europe, but on these two there was consensus.
Norway: Subwoolfer - 'Give that Wolf a Banana'
Australia: 5th
Europe: 6th
Moldova: Zdob și Zdub and Frații Advahov - 'Trenulețul'
Australia: 23rd
Europe: 22nd
So there you have it, as expected there was a lot of broad agreement between fans but some rather interesting regional differences.
Will that prove to be the same in Turin? We will have to wait until May to find out!
To see the original poll results for Australia visit our article here.
And to see how Europe voted 39th to 1st, visit those results here.