Baku, Azerbaijan (Top40 Charts) Yesterday was the first live show of this year's Eurovision Song Contest! Thousands of fans arrived at the Baku Crystal Hall to watch the First Semi-Final of Europe's Favourite TV Show. The atmosphere built with everyone wondering which ten songs will qualify for Saturday's Final.
The hosts of the show were Nargiz Birk-Petersen, Eldar Gasimov who won the Eurovision last year as part of Ell/Nikki and Leyla Alieva who were all eager to welcome the millions of viewers to Baku!
The 10 qualifiers in the order they were announced:
Romania
Moldova
Iceland
Hungary
Denmark
Albania
Cyprus
Greece
Russia
Ireland
The 18 acts competing in the First Semi-Final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in order of appearance were:
Montenegro: Rambo Amadeus - Euro Neuro
Iceland: Greta Salóme & Jónsi - Never Forget
Greece: Eleftheria Eleftheriou - Aphrodisiac
Latvia: Anmary - Beautiful Song
Albania: Rona Nishliu - Suus
Romania: Mandinga - Zaleilah
Switzerland: Sinplus - Unbreakable
Belgium: Iris - Would You
Finland: Pernilla - När Jag Blundar
Israel: Izabo - Time
San Marino: Valentina Monetta - The Social Network Song (Oh Oh - Uh - Oh Oh)
Cyprus: Ivi Adamou - La La Love
Denmark:
Soluna Samay - Should've Known Better
Russia: Buranovskiye Babushki - Party For Everybody
Hungary: Compact
Disco - Sound Of Our Hearts
Austria:
Trackshittaz - Woki Mit Deim Popo
Moldova: Pasha Parfeny - Lăutar
Ireland:
Jedward - Waterline
