#Tamara Todevska

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #504:

Tamara Todevska's 'Proud,' which placed 7th for North Macedonia in 2019, was dedicated to her two children and "everyone fighting for their dreams and believing in their own greatness."

[Sources]

North Macedonia, Eurovision.tv.

Participants of Tel Aviv 2019: Tamara Todevska, Eurovision.tv.

[escinsight]

Changing Eurovision's Delicate Balance Between Jury And Televote

Changing Eurovision's Delicate Balance Between Jury And Televote

The system for allocating points in the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest has been more-or-less stable since 2016. In that year, the points allocated by televoters and juries were split, with each country’s jury and televote awarding 1-8, 10, and 12 each, rather than having them combined. The televote and jury vote was equally weighted. The introduction of a televote from the rest of the…

[lunlumo]

round 2, group 1, battle 2/8

[eurovision-revisited]

1999 Jerusalem - Number 26 - Tijana Todevska Dapcevic - "Osameni"

My first musical selection for 1999 is not from a national final. It's from Skopje Fest - in a year when North Maceonia had been relegated. Skopje Fest has its own history outside of a national final in a similar manner to the Festival di Sanremo. Like Sanremo, I've included songs from it for consideration.

First up it's future Eurovision act Tijana Dapčević, sister of even more famous and two-time Eurovision performer Tamara Todevska. In 1999 Tijana has graduated from the Faculty of Musical Arts in Skopje, and as she hasn't married yet is still Tijana Todevska. This isn't her first entry into Skopje Fest. She entered in 1996 and managed to finish third.

Unfortunately not only do I not have the lyrics for Osameni (Alone/Lonely), but I don't have the results of Skopje Fest 1999. Other than knowing that Tijana didn't win that year, I don't know how well she did. Osameni is a light, jazz-infused number that makes full use of Tijana's deep, smooth and agile voice as well a funky bassline and whole heap of brass parps and stabs. It harkens back to bygone summers in city heat. Not stereotypical Eurovision music by any means, but Macedonia didn't really care that year - they weren't taking part.

This is here not only because I like it and because it's different, but also to demonstrate that in 1999 no one had a clue what Eurovision was going to be. Anything was possible. Anything could be tried. The Eurovision moulds were cracked and broken.

[letras2wi]

Tamara Todevska – Tornado Lyrics

Tamara Todevska – Tornado Lyrics, Letra Tamara Todevska Moj si klon iz srca grada totalna avangarda Zov, dzungle, parada Ja komad, ti gromada Lom, sve pršti sada Beton se topi, idemo, Fasada pada Sve krotimo! U sred tornadaaaa Mi gorimo U sred tornadaaa Ze volimo DA LI ZNAŠ KAKO LOŽI ME TO TVOJ POGLED ME ZOVE NA TO U sred tornadaaa Mi gorimo Ti si vatra koja budi ono primalno, Ta zver u tebi ze…

[stanley578]

My favourite songs from the Eurovision Song Contest

2018 Albania (Eugent Bushpepa - Mall) Australia (Jessica Mauboy - We Got Love) Hungary (AWS - Viszlát Nyár) Poland (Gromee ft. Lukas Meijer - Light Me Up)

2019 Austria (PÆNDA - Limits) Azerbaijan (Chingiz - Truth) Estonia (Victor Crone - Storm) Iceland (Hatari - Hatrið Mun Sigra) Latvia (Carousel - That Night) Netherlands (Duncan Laurence - Arcade) North Macedonia (Tamara Todevska - Proud) Slovenia (zalagasper - Sebi)

2020 Belarus (VAL - Da Vidna) Germany (Ben Dolic - Violent Thing) Israel (Eden Alene - Feker Libi) Malta (Destiny - All of My Love)

2021 Bulgaria (VICTORIA - Growing Up Is Getting Old) Finland (Blind Channel - Dark Side) France (Barbara Pravi - Voila) Italy (Måneskin - ZITTI E BUONI) Lithuania (THE ROOP - Discoteque) Romania (ROXEN - Amnesia) Russia (Manizha - RUSSIAN WOMAN) San Marino (Senhit ft. Flo Rida - Adrenalina) Switzerland (Gjon's Tears - Tout L'univers)

2022 Czechia (We Are Domi - Lights Off) Greece (Amanda Tenfjord - Die Together) Montenegro (Vladana - Breathe) Portugal (MARO - Saudade, Saudade) Sweden (Cornelia Jakobs - Hold Me Closer) United Kingdom (Sam Ryder - SPACE MAN)

2023 Armenia (Brunette - Future Lover) Moldova (Pasha Parfeni - Soarele Și Luna) Serbia (Luke Black - Samo Mi Se Spava) Spain (Blanca Paloma - Eaea)

2024 Belgium (Mustii - Before The Party's Over) Croatia (Baby Lasagna - Rim Tim Tagi Dim) Cyprus (Silia Kapsis - Liar) Denmark (SABA - Sand) Georgia (Nutsa - Firefighter) Ireland (Bambie Thug - Doomsday Blue) Luxembourg (TALI - Fighter) Norway (Gåte - Ulveham) Ukraine (alyona alyona & Jerry Heil - Teresa & Maria)

[gaymer-hag-stan]

Good evening Europe!

It's that magical time of the year again when we all come together to trash each others' musical tastes!

The point system has changed many times over the years, and as various countries have come and gone, it is hard to determine who did "the best" based on the points they got alone as, since the maximum available points doubled with the jury and televote scores no longer being combined, post 2016 entries would have an obvious advantage and, likewise, the contests with 40+ participants would also have more maximum available points to give so a country getting 200 points in 2004 is not the same as another getting 200 points in 2009 or 2016.

But if we divide the points each entry got by the maximum available points for the respective year it competed, we get a percentage score that can easily be measured against entries from years with differing point systems.

So, for example, in 2009 42 countries participated. The maximum points each country can award is of course 12 and you can't vote for yourself. So 41 × 12 = 492. Let's then take Norway's total of 387 points and divide it by the 492 total of maximum available points. We get 78.6, meaning Norway and Alexander Rybak amassed 78.6% of the total points in 2009!

In the case of tie breaks the entry that placed higher in its respective year wins the tie break and if there's still a tie I used rules similar to the actual contest; the winner of a tie is the entry that received more points from televoting. If there are no split results available to the public, the entry that received points from more countries, then the country that received more 12 points, then 10 points all the way down to 1. If the tie cannot be broken in this way, the entry that performed earlier wins the tie break.

I've set 2004 as the "beginning of time", if you will, because that's when I started watching Eurovision and because there also had to be some sort of limit to how far back I would go with this 🤣

With that very long-winded explanation of my measuring tactics out of the way, shall we see our current Top 100 before new entries are added after the 2023 Grand Final is over?

100. Greece 🇬🇷 - 2010 - Giorgos Alkaios and Friends - Opa - 30.7%

99. Armenia 🇦🇲 - 2010 - Eva Rivas - Apricot Stone - 30.9%

98. Bulgaria 🇧🇬 - 2016 - Poli Genova - If Love Was a Crime - 31.1%

97. Belgium 🇧🇪 - 2010 - Tom Dice - Me and My Guitar - 31.3%

96. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 - 2019 - Chingiz - Truth - 31.4%

95. North Macedonia 🇲🇰 - 2019 - Tamara Todevska - Proud - 31.7%

94. Serbia 🇷🇸 - 2008 - Jelena Tomasevic feat. Bora Duguc - Oro - 31.7%

93. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 - 2010 - Safura - Drip Drop - 31.7%

92. Bulgaria 🇧🇬 - 2007 - Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankoulov - Water - 31.7%

91. Moldova 🇲🇩 - 2005 - Zdob si Zdub - Boonika bate toba - 32.4%

90. Ukraine 🇺🇦 - 2006 - Tina Karol - Show Me Your Love - 32.6%

89. Denmark 🇩🇰 - 2010 - Chanée and N'evergreen - In a Moment like This - 32.6%

88. Finland 🇫🇮 - 2021 - Blind Channel - Dark Side - 33%

87. Hungary 🇭🇺 - 2014 - András Kállay-Saunders - Running - 33.1%

86. Turkey 🇹🇷 - 2007 - Kenan Dogulu - Shake It Up Sekerim - 33.1%

85 Greece 🇬🇷 - 2013 - Koza Mostra feat. Agathon Iakovidis - Alcohol Is Free - 33.3%

84. Serbia 🇷🇸 - 2022 - Konstrakta - In corpore sano - 33.3%

83. Latvia 🇱🇻 - 2005 - Walters and Khaza - The War Is Not Over - 33.5%

82. Israel 🇮🇱 - 2005 - Shiri Maimon - HaSheket SheNish'ar - 33.7%

81. Germany 🇩🇪 - 2008 - Michael Schulte - You Let Me Walk Alone - 33.7%

80. Italy 🇮🇹 - 2017 - Francesco Gabbani - Occidentali's Karma - 33.9%

79. Austria 🇦🇹 - 2018 - Cesár Sampson - Nobody but You - 33.9%

78. Norway 🇳🇴 - 2019 - Keiino - Spirit in the Sky - 34.4%

77. Romania 🇷🇴 - 2007 - Luminita Anghel and Sistem - Let Me Try - 34.6%

76. Sweden 🇸🇪 - 2019 - John Lundvik - Too Late for Love - 34.7%

75. Ukraine 🇺🇦 - 2011 - Mika Newton - Angel - 34.8%

74. Sweden 🇸🇪 - 2017 - Robin Bengtsson - I Can't Go On - 34.9%

73. United Kingdom 🇬🇧 - 2009 - Jade Ewen - It's My Time - 35.1%

72. Romania 🇷🇴 - 2010 - Paula Seling and Ovi - Playing with Fire - 35.5%

71. Turkey 🇹🇷 - 2009 - Hadise - Düm Tek Tek - 35.9%

70. Norway 🇳🇴 - 2008 - Maria - Hold On Be Strong - 36.1%

69. Lithuania 🇱🇹 - 2006 - LT United - We Are the Winners - 36.4%

68. Belgium 🇧🇪 - 2017 - Blanche - City Lights - 36.8%

67. Turkey 🇹🇷 - 2010 - Manga - We Could Be the Same - 37.2%

66. Switzerland 🇨🇭 - 2019 - Luca Hänni - She Got Me - 37.9%

65. Moldova 🇲🇩 - 2017 - SunStroke Project - Hey Mamma - 38%

64. Russia 🇷🇺 - 2013 - Dina Garipova - What If - 38.1%

63. Sweden 🇸🇪 - 2006 - Carola - Invincible - 38.2%

62. Russia 🇷🇺 - 2019 - Sergey Lazarev - Scream - 38.5%

61. Romania 🇷🇴 - 2006 - Mihai Traistariu - Tornerò - 38.7%

60. Armenia 🇦🇲 - 2008 - Sirusho - Qélé, Qélé - 39.4%

59. Latvia 🇱🇻 - 2015 - Aminata - Love Injected - 39.7%

58. Ukraine 🇺🇦 - 2021 - Go_A - Shum - 39.9%

57. Armenia 🇦🇲 - 2014 - Aram Mp3 - Not Alone - 40.3%

56. Sweden 🇸🇪 - 2004 - Lena Philipsson - It Hurts - 40.4%

55. Cyprus 🇨🇾 - 2004 - Lisa Andreas - Stronger Every Minute - 40.4%

54. Sweden 🇸🇪 - 2011 - Eric Saade - Popular - 40.5%

53. Iceland 🇮🇸 - 2021 - Dathi og Gagnamagnith - 10 Years - 41.4%

52. Italy 🇮🇹 - 2011 - Raphael Gualazzi - Madness of Love - 41.4%

51. Australia 🇦🇺 - 2015 - Guy Sebastian - Tonight Again - 41.8%

50. Norway 🇳🇴 - 2013 - Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love - 41.8%

49. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 - 2009 - AySel and Arash - Always - 42%

48. Russia 🇷🇺 - 2007 - Serebro - Song #1 - 42%

47. Malta 🇲🇹 - 2005 - Chiara - Angel - 42.1%

46. Greece 🇬🇷 - 2008 - Kalomira - Secret Combination - 43.2%

45. Cyprus 🇨🇾 - 2018 - Eleni Foureira - Fuego - 43.2%

44. Serbia 🇷🇸 - 2012 - Zeljko Joksimovic - Nije ljubav stvar - 43.4%

43. Iceland 🇮🇸 - 2009 - Yohanna - Is It True? - 44.3%

42. Ukraine 🇺🇦 - 2008 - Ani Lorak - Shady Lady - 45.6%

41. Belgium 🇧🇪 - 2015 - Loïc Nottet - Rhythm Inside - 46.3%

40. Turkey 🇹🇷 - 2004 - Athena - For Real - 46.4%

39. Sweden 🇸🇪 - 2022 - Cornelia Jakobs - Hold Me Closer - 46.7%

38. Ukraine 🇺🇦 - 2013 - Zlata Ognevich - Gravity - 46.9%

37. Switzerland 🇨🇭 - 2021 - Gjon's Tears - Tout l'univers - 47.3%

36. Ukraine 🇺🇦 - 2007 - Verka Serduchka - Dancing Lasha Tumbai - 47.7%

35. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 - 2011 - Ell and Nikki - Running Scared - 48.4%

34. Spain 🇪🇸 - 2022 - Chanel - SloMo - 49%

33. Italy 🇮🇹 - 2019 - Mahmood - Soldi - 49.1%

32. United Kingdom 🇬🇧 - 2022 - Sam Ryder - Space Man - 49.7%

31. Russia 🇷🇺 - 2016 Sergey Lazarev - You Are the Only One - 49.8%

30. Sweden 🇸🇪 - 2014 - Sanna Nielsen - Undo 50.4%

29. Greece 🇬🇷 - 2005 - Helena Paparizou - My Number One - 50.4%

28. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 - 2013 - Farid Mammadov - Hold Me - 51.3%

27. Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 - 2006 - Hari Mata Hari - Lejla - 51.5%

26. Netherlands 🇳🇱 - 2019 - Duncan Lawrence - Arcade - 51.8%

25. Australia 🇦🇺 - 2016 - Dami Im - Sound of Silence - 51.9%

24. Israel 🇮🇱 - 2018 - Netta - Toy - 52.4%

23. Russia 🇷🇺 - 2012 - Buranovskiye Babushki - Party for Everybody - 52.6%

22. Germany 🇩🇪 - 2010 - Lena - Satellite - 53.9%

21. Russia 🇷🇺 - 2008 - Dima Bilan - Believe - 53.9%

20. Ukraine 🇺🇦 - 2016 - Jamala - 1944 - 54.2%

19. Serbia 🇷🇸 - 2007 - Marija Serifovic - Molitva - 54.4%

18. France 🇫🇷 - 2021 - Barbara Pravi - Voilà - 54.7%

17. Netherlands 🇳🇱 - 2014 - The Common Linnets - Calm After the Storm - 55%

Honourable Mention. Turkey 🇹🇷 - 2003 - Sertab Erener - Everyway That I Can - 55.6%

16. Russia 🇷🇺 - 2006 - Dima Bilan - Never Let You Go - 55.8%

15. Italy 🇮🇹 - 2021 - Måneskin - Zitti e Buoni - 57.4%

14. Greece 🇬🇷 - 2004 - Sakis Rouvas - Shake It - 60%

13. Denmark 🇩🇰 - 2013 - Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops - 61.6%

12. Italy 🇮🇹 - 2015 - Il Volo - Grande amore - 62.3%

11. Bulgaria 🇧🇬 - 2017 - Kristian Kostov - Beautiful Mess - 62.5%

10. Serbia and Montenegro 🇷🇸 - 2004 - Zeljko Joksimovic and Ad-Hoc Orchestra - Lane Moje - 62.6%

9. Russia 🇷🇺 - 2015 - Polina Gagarina - A Million Voices - 64.7%

8. Finland 🇫🇮 - 2006 - Lordi - Hard Rock Hallelujah - 65.7%

7. Ukraine 🇺🇦 - 2004 - Ruslana - Wild Dances - 66.6%

6. Austria 🇦🇹 - 2014 - Conchita Wurst - Rise Like a Phoenix - 67.1%

5. Ukraine 🇺🇦 - 2022 - Kalush Orchestra - Stefania - 67.4%

4. Sweden 🇸🇪 - 2012 - Loreen - Euphoria - 75.6%

3. Portugal 🇵🇹 - 2017 - Salvador Sobral - Amar pelos dois - 77%

2. Sweden 🇸🇪 - 2015 - Måns Zelmerlöw - Heroes - 77.9%

1. Norway 🇳🇴 - 2009 - Alexander Rybak - Fairytale - 78.6%

And there it is! The 100 most successful Eurovision entries from 2004 to 2022?

Did your all time fave make the cut?

[aijamisespava]

My Runners-Up, A Third Part

At the end of last week, I gave you a ranking of the runners-up both in the contest and my personal rankings. And now, similar to my personal rankings, I will give you my ranking of my personal runners-up by order of release date.

I will note here that instead of all the asterisks, the date I provide will be the date it became a Eurovision song. If a song was released earlier as a National Final song, only the date it won the National Final will count. Let's get to it!

2017: "Story Of My Life" by NAVIBAND (Belarus) *January 20* 2020: "Universo" by Blas Cantó (Spain) *January 30* 2015: "Goodbye To Yesterday" by Elina Born & Stig Rästa (Estonia) *February 21* 2018: "Under The Ladder" by Mélovin (Ukraine) *February 24* 2022: "Not The Same" by Sheldon Riley (Australia) *February 26* 2024: "Ramonda" by Teya Dora (Serbia) *March 2* 2023: "Samo mi se spava" by Luke Black (Serbia) *March 4* 2021: "Zitti e buoni" by Måneskin (Italy) *March 6* 2019: "Proud" by Tamara Todevska (North Macedonia) *March 8* 2016: "Sound of Silence" by Dami Im (Australia) *March 11*

Not a lot of conclusions that I could pull here. The only thing that I could pull is that all my runners-up from 2015 to now have qualified for the grand final...really wish I could say the same for my winners haha. This was a really interesting thing to look at, though!

[miuimusic]

Tamara Todevska

[welljustmaybe]

This has been a problem since the new voting system was established, it started by giving us Jamala's win in 2016 when the public voted for Russia's Sergey Lazarev (singing "thunder and lightning it's getting exciting" whilst walking/climbing up a wall) which had a 231 point discrepancy between the public and jury votes. The juries voted for Dami Im, who was phenomenal.

The worst it's been was 2019, which I think got swept under the rug a bit because everyone liked Keiino, but I don't think anyone actually expected them to win - also everyone was a bit preoccupied talking about the politics of Israel hosting the competition. They won the televote with 291 points, the jury gave them 40 (251 point difference). The juries favourite to win that year was Tamara Todevska (blonde woman, green and black dress, power ballad) with a song called Proud, the juries gave her 247 points and the public only 58, which of course is how we ended up with Duncan Lawrence winning.

I can't believe I'm about to say something mildly positive about this year's result but at least the juries and televote were within 100 points of each other. The only other time that's happened since the new voting system was brought in was Portugal's win in 2017 where there was only a 6 point difference between the jury and public vote.

If we discount Portugal as an outlier, the average discrepancy between the televote winner and the points that they recieve from the juries is about 195 points! (it's usually over 200)

None of this is to say that none of those who have won under this system have deserved it - they're all incredibly talented artists, but if the system is has a pattern of disregarding public opinion something has to change

Great news! Let's see if more broadcasters agree on this!

[galetargaryen]

4 13 37 52 69 98 🥺🎶🎵🏳️‍🌈

4: Selena Gomez - Love You Like A Love Song

13: Maren Morris - The Feels

37: Konstrakta - In corpore sano

52: Sigala, Ella Eyre - Came Here For Love

69: Philip George, Anton Powers - Alone No More

98: Tamara Todevska - Proud

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #270:

North Macedonia, formerly participating under the title F.Y.R Macedonia, has participated in Eurovision a total of 22 times. The nation has only made it to the Grand Final nine times. Three of those times were prior to the 2004 introduction of semi-finals:

In 1998, Vlado Janevski's 'Ne Zori, Zoro' placed 19th. In 2000, XXL's '100\% Te Ljubam' placed 15th overall, and in 2002 Karolina's 'Od Nas Zavisi' once again took 19th place.

In 2004, the nation made it to the first Grand Final thanks to 'Life' by Tose Proeski, which placed 14th. The following year, Martin Vucic placed 17th with 'Make My Day,' Elena Risteska's 'Ninanajna' took 12th the year after, and in 2007 Karolina took home 14th with 'Mojot Svet.'

Five years later in 2012, North Macedonia made it back to the Grand Final thanks to Kaliopi's 'Crno I Belo' which placed 13th. Another seven years passed before the country saw success again. Tamara Todevska made her nation proud by earning their best result ever in 2019. Her song 'Proud' placed 7th overall.

[Source]

North Macedonia, Eurovision.tv.

[wiktoriatriggvi]

Eurovision 2016-2022: 8th place

What do these artists have in common? Great vocal, beautiful stage and 8th place in ESC

2016: Michał Szpak - What Colour Is Your Life 🇵🇱

2017: Joci Pápai - Origo 🇭🇺

2018: Elina Nechayeva - La Forza 🇪🇪

2019: Tamara Todevska - Proud 🇲🇰

2021: The Roop - Discoteque 🇱🇹

2022: Amanda Tenfjord - Die Together 🇬🇷

[eurovisionder]

Eurovision Home Concerts - Episode 1

1:27 -  Ryan O'Shaughnessy (Ireland 2018) - Together 5:29 - Rasmussen (Denmark 2018) - Higher Ground 10:10 - Tamara Todevska (North Macedonia 2019) - Proud 13:57 - Slavko Kalezić (Montenegro 2017) - Space

Covers: 17:47 - Think About Things (Daði og Gagnamagnið, Iceland 2020) by Ryan 21:34 - Soldi (Mahmood, Italy 2019) by Tamara 25:06 - Fuego (Eleni Foureira, Cyprus 2018) by Slavko 28:49 -  Only Teardrops (Emmelie de Forest, Denmark 2014) by Rasmussen

[women-of-eurovision]

[letras2wi]

Tamara Todevska - Nijagara Lyrics

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