One of the favourite days of the year for statistics freaks and playlist-makers is here: the running orders for the two semi-finals of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest have been released!
The first semi-final on Tuesday 18 May will kick off with The Roop from Lithuania, whose “Discoteque” is on many people’s radars for a good result in Rotterdam. While first spot in the running order isn’t always seen as ideal, songs predicted to do well have been placed there in a semi-final before: Robin Bengtsson in 2017 and Aram Mp3 in 2014 spring immediately to mind, and The Roop should similarly have no problems making it through to the grand final – whereas Ana Sokliฤ from Slovenia, who is on second, will surely face something of an uphill battle.
At the other end, there are a lot of female up-tempos in the second half of the semi-final but it’s perhaps predictable that Destiny from Malta should be chosen to close the show – while the consecutive run of Israel, Romania and Azerbaijan perhaps suggests that the producers know the staging choices are going to be sufficiently different to stop that section of the draw from feeling a bit samey.
And we know we aren’t the only ones smiling at “El Diablo” and “Fallen Angel” being placed back to back…
The full draw for semi 1:
| 1. Lithuania ๐ฑ๐น 2. Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ 3. Russia ๐ท๐บ 4. Sweden ๐ธ๐ช 5. Australia ๐ฆ๐บ 6. North Macedonia ๐ฒ๐ฐ 7. Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช 8. Cyprus ๐จ๐พ |
9. Norway ๐ณ๐ด 10. Croatia ๐ญ๐ท 11. Belgium ๐ง๐ช 12. Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ 13. Romania ๐ท๐ด 14. Azerbaijan ๐ฆ๐ฟ 15. Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ 16. Malta ๐ฒ๐น |
Viewers of the second semi-final on Thursday 20 May will quickly find out whether Flo Rida has been persuaded to join Senhit in Rotterdam, because San Marino will start the show with their “Adrenalina” – before Uku Suviste from Estonia gets to be the (un)lucky one in second slot.
Elsewhere in the draw, social media darling Daรฐi from Iceland gets about as good a draw as he could have hoped for, while two of the slow songs that are riding high in the betting right now – Bulgaria and Switzerland – are well positioned towards the end of the show. Finally, proceedings will close with an explosion of 1980s glitter from Danish duo Fyr & Flamme!
The full draw for semi 2:
| 1. San Marino ๐ธ๐ฒ 2. Estonia ๐ช๐ช 3. Czech Republic ๐จ๐ฟ 4. Greece ๐ฌ๐ท 5. Austria ๐ฆ๐น 6. Poland ๐ต๐ฑ 7. Moldova ๐ฒ๐ฉ 8. Iceland ๐ฎ๐ธ 9. Serbia ๐ท๐ธ |
10. Georgia ๐ฌ๐ช 11. Albania ๐ฆ๐ฑ 12. Portugal ๐ต๐น 13. Bulgaria ๐ง๐ฌ 14. Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ 15. Latvia ๐ฑ๐ป 16. Switzerland ๐จ๐ญ 17. Denmark ๐ฉ๐ฐ |
This means we now also have a running order for our line-up check series, so stay tuned for that!
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