Eurovision 2011 who is favourite

With a Lady Gaga-esque third album coming up next month, unfortunately there's no sign the Miley Cyrus pop crap juggernaut is going to slow down just yet. Generic to the point of nausea, her shallow ballads and phoney vocals are nothing short of a travesty.

Arguably the lowest point of her already low career came in the shape of 's 'Do You Know' in which she embraced country music like a duck to an oil slick.

She even tarnished the reputation of Willie Nelson by appearing in a music video with him. Scratch beneath the surface and there's nothing there but millions of screaming teenagers.

They should have introduced minus votes especially for them. On paper they were a watered down, mock Steps, but as soon as they stepped out onto the Latvian stage things got a lot uglier. They were so out of key, a wailing fox would have sung it better. Singer Gemma Abbey now works in a health spa in Liverpool. Geri Halliwell - She was bad enough as part of The Spice Girls, but embarking on a solo career in the ginger one's musical kudos plunged to new almost unparalleled depths.

Humanely, Halliwell's career has now fizzled out. For well over decade, the Irish group have been churning out soppy ballad after soppy ballad with X Factor gimp Louis Walsh at the helm. Their live shows are somewhat of a spectacle too. They involve the foursome sitting down on stool, then standing up, then sitting down on the said stool again. Riveting stuff eh?! Clearly it wasn't the case with Posh Spice.

With the girl group she spent a career sauntering in the background, but it's when she launched a solo career that Victoria's real lack of talent was painfully exposed. From the garage nightmare of the Dane Bowers collaboration 'Out Of Your Mind' to the frankly disgusting 'Not Such An Innocent Girl', easily the best thing about Victoria's solo career was she only released one pathetic album.

Heavily pregnant, she appeared on national TV wearing a skin-tight pink latex outfit and proceeded to murder a track called 'Not Just Anybody'. Rightfully dumped out of the competition, Price didn't learn her lesson and recorded an album of duets with her then husband Peter Andre, 'A Whole New World'.

However, performing first in her semi-final could have played a significant part in Montenegro agonisingly missing out on the first qualification by one place. Yohanna of Iceland was the breakthrough success of the contest, placing a strong second despite being fancied as a mid-table finalist at best. Nevertheless, overall the odds predicted much better than and Was this due to the implementation of the jury vote?

Perhaps it was a result of Eurovision becoming an increasingly bigger deal on the Internet with more information more easily obtainable? Maybe we will find some answers as we continue our journey. These odds were recorded from William Hill on May 6th, 23 days before the final on May 29th.

Only the top 10 ranked countries were recorded in this instance. Germany and Azerbaijan were clear betting leaders in The former matched that expectation by taking victory. Azerbaijan may have been able to put up a closer fight but were drawn to open the show whereas Lena performed four songs from the end. Two outsiders completed the top three with Turkey and Romania not fancied at all prior to the contest. We also saw two key favourites from Croatia and Sweden fail to qualify for the final.

Furthermore, there was an under-performance from returning Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh for Ireland. Both Sakis Rouvas and Chiara would also fit this pattern in These odds were recorded from Paddy Power on April 24th, 20 days before the final on May 14th. Only Sweden lived up to the pre-contest odds of being a contender. Whereas the other countries amongst the top 5 favourites all failed to make the top We have already discovered that returning artists tend to be over-predicted.

Furthermore, fans probably realised that two wins in a row for the same artist does seem quite an unlikely outcome. These odds were recorded from Sky Bet on April 25th, 31 days before the final on May 26th. Sweden were runaway favourites. Thus, it was therefore no surprise Loreen secured a landslide victory in Baku. Russia and Serbia were both tipped to be amongst the front-runners and both finished in the top 3.

Most notably, the other top 6 finishers at Eurovision, Azerbaijan , Albania and Estonia were nowhere to be seen in the top All three were powerful ballads which many agree benefited from live performances. Ireland are the latest to fall into the trap of an overhyped returning artist as Jedward fell way below expectations with their second entry in as many years. Denmark and the United Kingdom were the other countries who failed to live up to their odds.

With the very well-known Engelbert Humperdinck representing the latter, people perhaps expected that name power and the subsequent media coverage to translate into votes. These odds were recorded from Oddschecker on April 18th, 30 days before the final on May 18th. It is important to note that this is the first recording used from Oddschecker. With this website displaying only the best possible odds from a variety of different bookmakers, the range between the odds in the top 15 is much larger.

If just a single bookmaker was recorded as in previous years, it is likely the range would be similar to what we have seen between and This time around Denmark were the runaway favourites and scored a fairly easy victory.

The odds were more reliable than ever in , with only Azerbaijan of the eventual top 5 finishers not amongst the top 5 in the odds. Fan favourite Valentina Monetta was another returning artist to be over-predicted by the odds. The other major talking point was the under-performance of Germany. Both of these acts failed to live up to expectations.

After all, it is a song contest! These odds were recorded from Oddschecker on April 7th, 33 days before the final on May 10th. Both Austria and The Netherlands were outside the top 15 of the odds a month prior to them finishing top 2 in Copenhagen. Furthermore, the live performances of the Austrian and Dutch entries have become leading examples in how to perfectly stage a Eurovision entry. As the years progress, stages have offered more and more options for delegations to enhance their songs.

This is something bookmakers can not predict and was the first year they were truly stung. Elsewhere, Belgium were the key underperformer as Axel Hirsoux failed to progress from his semi-final. Even though these odds are for victory, they perhaps suggested that Ireland and Israel were also expected to make it to the grand final.

Arguably the live performance and running order draw respectively led to the failure of two fan favourites. No big camp numbers to speak of, and a lot of slow, soft songs. And several countries who have been fielding excellent entries over the past several contests — notably Ukraine, Greece and Turkey — have fielded quite bad entries this year. All European countries are participating except the Czech Republic and Montenegro excluding microstates. In the early s the format was modernised and updated, particularly to accommodate all of the new entrants that were coming in from the former soviet bloc.

The lifting of the old requirement that each country has to sing in their national language which was thought to give Ireland, Malta and the UK an unfair advantage has meant most songs are now in English and are more accessible to the broad European public.

The public support for Jedward , as they came to be dubbed by the British press, seemed to be driven by Simon Cowell 's clear distaste for them. The identical twins are horrible dancers and singers, but their hammy gimmick act won the hearts of the British public. The song is catchy but they need to polish their moves. The country that made Jedward famous may be looking at their best chance to win the contest in a decade, fielding Blue , a boyband from the early 's.

This may just be irrational name recognition early in the game, sort of like those early US presidential polls that favour people like Donald Trump and Fred Thompson to win the primaries. I couldn't sit through the whole song, which is a bookie favourite. If they win I'm going to take a bath with my toaster.

The country which perhaps takes Eurovision more seriously than anyone. Popular is an uptempo pop song with slick dance moves and some gimmicky stage theatrics that always goes down well with the audience.