Emmelie de Forest's "Only Teardrops" won the vote on Saturday becoming the third act to win the ESC for Denmark. She joins Grethe and Jorgen Ingmann (1963) and the Olsen Brothers (2000) as the Danish acts to win the world's greatest (and most prestigious) music competition.
The final saw not one entry from the former Yugoslavia in there. Who See Klapa (Montenegro), Hannah Mancini (Slovenia), Klapa s Mora (Croatia) and Moje 3 (Serbia) failed to make it through the first semifinal, while the duo of Vlatko Lozanoski and Esma Redzepova (Macedonia) failed to qualify in the second semifinal. Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was in the grand final at Baku 2012 with MayaSar's "Korake ti Znam," withdrew months ago.
Some good acts including Who See Klapa, Takasa (Heilsarmee) and the duo of Adrian Lulgjuraj and Bledar Sejko (Albania) missed the grand final.
It was an okay competition, but was glad Farid Mammadov (Azerbaijan) didn't win with such a dull song.
Who knows what Copenhagen 2014 will hold? Will some countries come back to the competition? Will some withdraw? Who knows.
Here is Emmelie's performance from the grand final on Saturday:
On Tuesday, I'll try to post the ten best performances of ESC LVIII.
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