43 songs, reviewed and rated by the OnEurope panel. Sometimes slack-jawed with disbelief, but often with a smile upon their faces. It’s a love it or hate it year – and as always we rarely agree.
Here’s how Monty, Phil and Mo rated the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest Songs – click the scores if you want to read the reviews behind the numbers – and the table is totally sortable.
Although we try to offer a bit of support to our home team, it’s the first time in ages that the UK has ended our Countdown in first place.
Putting aside the SuRie love, it looks very much like our 2018 kiss of death goes to multi-talented Mikolas from the Czech Republic. Let’s hope he doesn’t peak too soon with his backflipping acrobatics in rehearsals. And to be clear, none of us think the UK stands a hope of winning, but left hand side of the board would be nice. Heck, ‘not last’ would do.
Obviously, all of this will change when we see the acts on stage next week, so enjoy our blissful ignorance. The calm before the storm.
(Each song has 36 points available, 12 from each OnEuropean – we converted Mo’s votes taking 5 as 12, 4.5 as 10, 4 as 8 and so on, rounding up, so 3.3 would be 4. Where the score was 0.5, and in theory 1 point, we asked Mo, if he’d rather award zero.)
| Country | Performer | Sample lyric | Concept |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | Melovin Under the ladder | Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh, yeah | Conjunctivitis |
| Spain | Amaia & Alfred Tu canción | I never got to imagine that traveling to the moon would be for real | Manchego |
| Slovenia | Lea Sirk Hvala, ne | True art cannot have a price tag | Fake break |
| Lithuania | Ieva Zasimauskaitė When we're old | From your very first smile I knew that I’d walk a mile | Early John Lewis Xmas ad |
| Austria | Cesár Sampson Nobody but you | Lord I’m gonna get so high tonight | Hammertime |
| Estonia | Elina Nechayeva La forza | I would like it to be a fairy tale around us | Say yes to the dress |
| Norway | Alexander Rybak That's how you write a a song | Shubidubi-dab-dab Shubidubi-dab-dab Shubaduba-hey Shubaduba-hey Say | Violin |
| Portugal | Cláudia Pascoal O Jardim | I’ll take care of your garden | High school musical angst |
| UK | SuRie Storm | Am I making you proud or could I do better? | Annie Lennox sings Nicki French |
| Serbia | Sanja Ilić & Balkanika Nova Deca | Happiness is achievable, grab it | Balkania |
| Germany | Michael Schulte You let me walk alone | We were three kids and a loving mum | Sheeran |
| Albania | Eugent Bushpepa Mall | This yearning that burns knows no distance, no bounds in this world | Gruffalo |
| France | Madame Monsieur Mercy | Merci, merci, merci, merci | Turtle necks |
| Czech Republic | Mikolas Josef Lie to me | The way she moved got me making a puddle | Back-brace Bieber |
| Denmark | Rasmussen Higher ground | Call it surrender, still won't feel like defeat | Boaty McBeardface |
| Australia | Jessica Mauboy We got love | Don’t you think it’s just a waste of time when we’re always fighting over material, trivial things in this life? | Drunken auntie at wedding |
| Finland | Saara Aalto Monsters | I’m gonna roll the dice, you better believe it | Gay Nazi chic |
| Bulgaria | Equinox Bones | Love is like a black hole | Sia +4 |
| Moldova | DoReDoS My lucky day | And something tells me we ain’t gonna loose it | Flatpack fun |
| Sweden | Benjamin Ingrosso Dance you off | I dug you like you were treasure | Tanning salon |
| Hungary | AWS Viszlát Nyár | My blood will keep running in your veins | The one with all the shouting |
| Israel | Netta Toy | You're stupid just like your smart phone | Family bag of Skittles, two litres of Fanta |
| Netherlands | Waylon Outlaw in 'em | A new tattoo that you can’t keep hidden | Blacksploitation |
| Ireland | Ryan O'Shaughnessy Together | We were drifting like two icebergs out on the ocean | Snowbound gayzers |
| Cyprus | Eleni Foureira Fuego | You got me pelican fly-fly-flyin' | Yeah, yeah, fire |
| Italy | Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro Non mi avete fatto niente | In London it always rains | Ill-judged holiday romance that won't stop calling |
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