Olivia Lewis’
“Vertigo” secured 24% of all votes
submitted in MaltaSong for
Europe’s semifinal.
The results, published by the Maltasong Board on Monday showed how the singer
yielded almost a quarter of all televotes and votes submitted by the judges’
panel during the semi-final selection on Thursday.
Trilogy’s
“Starlight” and Klinsmann Coleiro’s
“She Gives Me
Wings”, which placed second and third respectively during the semi-final, were
reconfirmed on the final night on Saturday.
“Starlight” garnered 11% of votes,
while “She Gives Me Wings” acquired 9%.
Pamela’s
“All About A Life”, SCAR’s
“As Long As You Know”
and Kevin Borg’s
“Whenever” made it into the final with 7% of the votes each.
“Unite”, performed by Mauro secured 1% of the publics’ and
judges’ votes, while Julie Pomorski’s
“Look at Me” yielded 2%.
“Ice Queen” by Julia,
“Little Islands in Your Heart”
by Daniel Delicata and
“Night Wish” by AnnaBelle won over 3% of voters each.
“Forever
Mine” by former festival winner William Mangion tied with Isabelle’s
“My Love”, obtaining 10% of votes.
Claudia Faniello’s “L-Imħabba Għamja”, Tarcisio Barbara’s “Places
to Go” and Rosman Pace’s “Rollercoaster Ride” were each awarded 5% of votes.
Commenting on these results,
MaltaMedia’s own Toni Sant said "These semifinal voting details show that the final vote was redundant. It was clearly obvious to anyone who had access to these voting results on Thursday that Olivia would win this year. Second and third place came as no surprise either if you saw this data before Saturday's final vote."
The general feeling amongst Maltese Eurovision fans is that it was high time
that Olivia Lewis represented
Malta
at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). Olivia has participated in the Malta Song
For Europe for many years and made it to second place during the past three
editions of the local contest. On Sunday public comment echoed the opinion that
Olivia is an excellent singer,
“Vertigo” a powerful song and the whole
performance package excellent.
Speaking of this year's MaltaSong winner,
Toni Sant said
"My feeling is that this is a really good time for Olivia to sing
Malta’s Eurovision entry. Last year's dismal result needs to be followed by the sort of performance package that
"Vertigo" has. I'd be very surprised if it doesn't make it through the May 10 semi-final to the May 12 final in
Finland."
The MaltaSong Board also published the names of the the judges’ panel for
the semi-finals. These included Danish singer and songwriter Helle Henning,
Danish singer and music teacher Trine Dansgaard, British producer and composer
John Themis, Dutch composer and EMI publishing director Jan Van Dijck, Cypriot
singer and songwriter Lia Vissi, Cypriot pianist and composer Savvas Savva and
Spanish DJ Victor Escudero.
In turn, on Monday the Mala Labour
Party congratulated the singer on her win, along with all other participants of
the festival for their respective successes.
For more detailed information about
Malta's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest see EurovisionMalta.com.
