Iceland // WV 190: aYia - New Moon

[ShoeFlo]

Ísland


No. of Participations – 134
First Participation – WV 01
No. of Wins – 6 (WV 10, 45, 104, 120, 144, 172)
No. of Qualifications – 87 (65%)


Whiteshoes Statistics


No. of Participations – 131
First Participation – WV 39
No. of wins – 6 (WV 45, 103, 120, 139, 154, 172)
Worst Result - 21st out of 22 in SF (WV 156)
No. of Qualifications – 91 (69%)


WV 176 Entry:

Toneron - Life

whiteshoes:

WV 39 || Semifinal: 16th - 047 points | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || Árstiðir - Á meðan jörðin sefur

WV 40 || Semifinal: 15th - 053 points | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || Sin fang - Look at the light

WV 41 || Semifinal: 15th - 052 points | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || I svörtum fötum - Paradís

WV 42 || Semifinal: 03rd - 093 points | Final: 08th - 141 pts || Of Monsters and Men - Dirty Paws

WV 43 || Semifinal: 20th - 042 points | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || Skálmöld - Kvaðning

WV 44 || Semifinal: 04th - 092 points | Final: 12th - 126 pts || Ólafur Arnalds ft. Haukur Heiðar Hauksson - A hundred reasons

WV 45 || Semifinal: 07th - 073 points | Final: 01st - 191 pts || Kaleo - Vor í Vaglaskógi

WV 46 || Semifinal: PREQUALIFIER| Final: 21st - 095 pts || Agent Fresco - Dark Water

WV 47 || Semifinal: 11th - 064 points | Final: 26th - 082 pts || Dikta - Thank You

WV 48 || Semifinal: 15th - 051 points | Final: 21st - 093 pts || Jónsi - Tornado

WV 49 || Semifinal: 04th - 100 points | Final: 19th - 095 pts || Ásgeir - Dýrð i dauðaþögn

WV 50 || Semifinal: 03th - 109 points | Final: 08th - 144 pts || Thorsteinn Einarsson - Leya

WV 51 || Semifinal: 17th - 047 points | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || Tilbury - Tenderloin

WV 52 || Semifinal: 11th - 065 points | Final: 06th - 155 pts || Sigur Rós - Hoppipolla

WV 53 || Semifinal: 02nd - 109 points | Final: 08th - 141 pts || Low Roar - Friends Make Garbage

WV 54 || Semifinal: 06th - 068 points | Final: 26th - 076 pts || Rökkurró - Sjónarspil

WV 55 || Semifinal: 15th - 051 points | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || Ásgeir - Hærra

WV 56 || Semifinal: 15th - 051 points | Final: 05th - 164 pts || Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta

WV 57 || Semifinal: 01st - 091 points | Final: 09th - 141 pts || Árstiðir - Himinhvel

Stäwen:

WV 58 || Semifinal: TBA | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || Svala - The Real Me

WV 59 || Semifinal: TBA | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || Jón ft. Haffi Haff - Hljómsveitin Jón

WV 60 || Semifinal: TBA | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || Sniglabandið - Britney

WV 61 || Semifinal: TBA | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || Thorunn Antonia - Too Late

WV 62 || Semifinal: TBA | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || Unnur Eggerts - Stólin Augnablik

WV 63 || Semifinal: TBA | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || GusGus- Over

WV 64 || Semifinal: TBA | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || JFM ft. Steed Lord - Viva la Brea

WV 65 || Semifinal: TBA | Final: 22nd - ??? pts || Rok & Yohanna - Find a Better Man

whiteshoes:

WV 66 || Semifinal: 08th - 061 pts | Final: 15th - 133 pts || Sólstafir - Miðaftann

WV 67 || Semifinal: 05th - 075 pts | Final: 18th - 119 pts || Rökkurró - Svanur

WV 68 || Semifinal: 10th - 062 pts | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || John Grant - Global Warming

WV 69 || Semifinal: 14th - 052 pts | Final: 18th - 125 pts || Brunaliðið - Ástarsorg

WV 70 || Semifinal: no idea - no idea | Final: 13th - many pts || Sigur Rós - Starálfur

WV 71 || Semifinal: 07th - 076 pts | Final: 18th - 127 pts || Júníus Meyvant - Color Decay

WV 72 || Semifinal: 02nd - 081 pts | Final: 18th - 117 pts || Mono Town - In The Eye of the Storm

WV 73 || Semifinal: 04th - 082 pts | Final: 2nd - 174 pts || Árstíðir - Ró

WV 74 || Semifinal: 10th - 061 pts | Final: 6th - 162 pts || Sigur Rós - Dauðalogn

WV 75 || Semifinal: 17th - 043 pts | Final: DNQ - DNQ pts || Mammút - Ströndin

WV 76 || Semifinal: 1st - 093 pts | Final: 2nd - 224 pts || Kaleo - Way Down We Go

WV 77 || Semifinal: ??? - ??? | Final: 8th - ??? pts || CeaseTone - Humble History Song

WV 78 || Semifinal: ??? - ??? pts | Final: 3rd - ??? pts || Sin Fang, Sóley & Örver Smárason -
Random Haiku Generator

WV 79 || Semifinal: ??? - ??? pts | Final: ??? - ??? pts || Kontinuum - Í Gljúfradal

 

[Gera11]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta

Ólafur Not the song I want by him (again) but still great xD

 

[ShoeFlo]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta

Here we go

Of Monsters and Men – Crystals
Previous WV appearance: 8th place with „Dirty Paws“ in WV 42
Söngvakeppnin 57 starts with some „giants“ of Iceland music industry. Of Monsters and Men are probably Iceland’s 3rd power in music only beaten by Björk and Sigur Rós but at the moment they are Iceland’s hottest export, producing the finest indie rock and got a huge fanbase all over Europe.“Crystals“ isn’t as catchy as Little Talks or as beautiful as Dirty Paws. In general, the new album can’t compete with their amazing previous album. Nevertheless this is a pretty nice song and a nice listening. I’m sure some of you will enjoy it
„Crystals“ is also feautured in the soundtrack of the video game FIFA 16.

Low Roar – Give Up
Previous WV appearance: 8th place with „Friends Make Garbage“ in WV 53
Moreover: „Give Up“ became second place in Söngvakeppnin 53.
Indie rock is followed by enchanting Dream pop. Low Roar is back and they still didn’t gave up „Give Up“. Despite failing in last national final this beautiful little song was well received so it is a worthy participant. I would say this song is a pearl. Haunting, melancholic. Just find good adjectives for this. Hope you enjoy!

Tilbury – Sunblinds
Previous WV appearance: DNQ with Tenderloin in WV 51
Tilbury has some guts. After destroying Icelands precious streak of successive final qualifications in WV 51 they dare to come back to Iceland’s publicity which still bear grudges. Anyway, they are probably underdogs. Sunblinds is a completely unknown song that is in the same album like Tenderloin. It’s so unknown that I had to upload the studio version on Youtube. It’s a nice relaxing song that cheers me up just like every song of this band. I think this is quite well produced and in my opinion it should be a bit more famous. The start of this song reminds me on „Two Weeks“ from „Grizzly Bear“ probably that’s why I imediately liked this.

Kaleo – All The Pretty Girls
Previous WV appearance: Winner with Vor i Vaglaskogi in WV 45
Moreover: Last Place in Söngvakeppnin 51 with „I walk on Water“
Kaleo are back from their tour through USA and wanna enrich the WV again. If Feel-Good-Indie was a country, „All the Pretty girls“ would be ist national anthem. For me this is an exampel for nice Indie music. More specific it is probably a stereotype Indie song which brings out everything what makes this genre nice. The official video says it all.
Lead singer Jökull is one of the most talented and ecletic singers that I know and he proves it in this song… Nice falsetto at first and his typical powerful voice later on.
„All the Pretty Girls“ has been their most successful single and attracted the international attention. Thanks to this song a lable from USA signed them which will hopefully boost their career.

Árstíðir – Himinhvel
Previous WV appearance: DNQ with „Á meðan jörðin sefur“ in WV 39
Now it gets folkish. This sextett (from which everybody has vocal parts) presents a song from their new album and the only entry in Icelandic. „When did you send them???“ Yes, it’s long ago. Árstíðir has been my debut band. It’s already one year ago. I tried my luck with „Á meðan jörðin sefur“ but had to learn on the hard way that songs like this are mostly not obtrusive enough for WV. Maybe this also concerns „Himinhvel“, however I hope you will love it as much as I do. It has some incredibly beautiful parts and it definitely stands out in some way.

Dikta – We’ll Meet again
Previous WV appearance: 26th with „Thank You“ in WV 47
The Indie-Rock/Pop band Dikta delivers another brandnew song that is still in the Icelandic music charts. Just like Thank you this has this kind of explosive chorus that really gets into the ear. It’s less rocking than „Thank You“ but still very catchy and the lyrics video looks fancy. I love the trumpets in that song

One thing about the voting... As mentioned before the voting system is a simple rating system. That means every song has to be rated individually but at least you don't have to rank them. I know that some people if they love a song very much tend to push this song and appearantly you can do this also here by casting a 10-1-1-1-1-1 voting. However, by giving 1 point to a song you basically say this song is shit ... however, if that's not your opinion you should not give 1 to it. What I try to say: Even though you are in love with one song the other songs should be rated fairly accordingly how much you like them. The voting system I use requires it.

Voted: :ugl
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[lavieenrose]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta

Of Monsters and Men I shall vote.

 

[Lupus]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta || CHECK OUT MY NF! #422

I'm going to be spending all of tomorrow doing NFs at this rate! Expect votings from :lond soon!

EDIT: I obviously meant ...

 

[lavieenrose]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta || CHECK OUT MY NF! #422

:lond

 

[Lupus]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta || CHECK OUT MY NF! #422

Oh hush you...

 

[Krishoes]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta || CHECK OUT MY NF! #422

:ugl voted!

for three songs, for one gem!

 

[ShoeFlo]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta || CHECK OUT MY NF! #422

Thank you very much Kris

And yes, I'll vote in your NF xD

 

[DaFlo]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta || CHECK OUT MY NF! #422

Scandalous exclusions of Kaleo's Fifa song, I shall boycott xsnooty

...

Oh what is this, OMAM's Fifa song? I shall vote xsalute

 

[Lupus]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta || CHECK OUT MY NF! #422

Thank you very much Kris

And yes, I'll vote in your NF xD

And mine

 

[JamieBrown]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta || CHECK OUT MY NF! #422

You can give a trillion of points to Kaleo

Will vote very soooon...At least I hope so

 

[ShoeFlo]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta || CHECK OUT MY NF! #422

24 hours from now on
[MENTION=10742]daniels1000[/MENTION] [MENTION=14007]lavieenrose[/MENTION] [MENTION=10674]Staewi[/MENTION]

if you still wanna vote...

I can't wait any longer

 

[ShoeFlo]

Re: ICELAND || WV 56: Ólafur Arnalds - Fyrsta || CHECK OUT MY NF! #422

Deadline is closed and we have a Winner!

By the way, thank you Daniel for your last-minute voting, highly appreciated!

However he couldn't make any change on the top.

This is the final ranking and as you can see the winner is very clear and I'm pretty amazed of this dominance. For me that was unpredictable

1. 75 (7,5 points on average)
2. 65 (6,5 points)
3. 64 (6,4 points)
4. 63 (6,3)
5. 61 (6,1)
6. 51 (5,1)

 

[lavieenrose]

Re: ICELAND || WV 57: I'm not allowed to tell you the song || whiteshoes' territory since WV 39

Gahhhhhhh

Sorry about that dear Flo.

 

[ShoeFlo]

Re: ICELAND || WV 57: I'm not allowed to tell you the song || whiteshoes' territory since WV 39

My Top 50 of Worldvision Finals since WV 39

Following the hype I tried to create my own Top 50 list (Top 50 in general, no discovery list) which was pretty difficult cause I loved more than 50 songs in my time here.
I only inlcluded songs of WV Finals cause otherwise it would be even harder and I would have been forced to make many researches cause I forgot quite a lot songs (and don't have records of my SF votings). So... Saor, Kurt Vile, Fever Ray, Falconer, Father Ted and others: I didn't forget you and you got a place in my heart

Next to the song I wrote the edition and in the gaps I wrote the number of points I gave to this song. So you see my number 1 ironically only got 8 points... I hope Aigars won't be too mad on me cause 53 was a hell of an edition with an amazing Top 5 (all of them are in the list) and I struggled to decide for my top pointer.
It's noticeable that in many cases the 10 or 8 pointers are nowadays better for me than the 12 pointers of the same edition... However, I think it is not unusual while the time is passing by some songs are growing and some are dropping. In general I completely adhere to the way I voted, I just realized that my WV 41 voting was weird. But that's the only remarkable thing.


1. Nightwish – Ghost Love Score 53 (8) [MENTION=10639]as78[/MENTION]
2. Sabaton - Coat of Arms 45 (10) [MENTION=4597]Stargazer[/MENTION]
3. Ennio Morricone & Dulce Pontes – A Rose Among Thorns 40 (12) [MENTION=4724]EurovisionSmile[/MENTION]
4. Neil Finn – Song of the Lonely Mountain 55 (12) [MENTION=12553]Krishoes[/MENTION]
5. Stefan Nilsson & Anna Stadling – Jubelsangen 48 (12) (Stargazer)
6. Chisu - Yksinäisen keijun tarina 47 (12) (as78)
7. Nordman - Pa Mossen 40 (10) (Stargazer)
8. Two Steps from Hell – Star Sky 56 (12) [MENTION=8763]Gera11[/MENTION]
9. Ensemble Elyma - Hanacpachap Cussicuinin 53 (10) (EurovisionSmile)
10. Tuomas Holopainen – The Last Sled 56 (10) [MENTION=6700]Grinch[/MENTION]

11. Madonna - Frozen 49 (12) [MENTION=11728]Alex1211ander[/MENTION]
12. Susanne Sundfor - Delirious 52 (12) [MENTION=15013]Ringdalen[/MENTION]
13. CajsaStina Åkerström – Av längtan til dig 46 (8) (Stargazer)
14. ::losa Scorpions – Wind of Change 52 (10) (Alex1211ander)
15. Herbert „Herman“ Grönemeyer – Der Weg 53 (12) [MENTION=12837]JamieBrown[/MENTION]
16. Savina Yannatou - El Sueño de la Hija Del Rey 51 (10) [MENTION=12033]Nicholas123[/MENTION]
17. Antony and the Johnsons – Hope There’s Someone 50 (7) [MENTION=9441]RainyWoods[/MENTION]
18. Karen Matheson – Amazing Grace 53 (7) [MENTION=10742]daniels1000[/MENTION]
19. Kalle Moraeus - Högfjällspolskan 55 (10) (Stargazer)
20. Sirenia – Fading Star 45 (12) [MENTION=8788]chontono[/MENTION]

21. ::ctln Trobar de Morte – The Sorceress 45 (8) (daniels1000)
22. Kalafina – Hikariful 46 (12) [MENTION=14140]KaterinaHoffer[/MENTION]
23. Ariel Pink – Put Your Number in My Phone 56 (8) (RainyWoods)
24. Survivor – Eye of the Tiger 48 (10) (Alex1211ander)
25. ::ural Evgeniya Sotnikova – Fly Away on the Wings of the Wind 50 (10) [MENTION=13476]Gabe[/MENTION]
26. Luc Arbogast – Vox Clamantis 45 (7) [MENTION=12894]ClassifiedCat[/MENTION]
27. ::na Kitaro & Jane Zhang – Impressions of the West Lake 52 (8) TomCherson
28. Polina Gagarina - Kukushka 46 (10) [MENTION=14174]Koori[/MENTION]
29. Alestorm – Captain’s Morgans Revenge 55 (8) (daniels1000)
30. Diabulus in Musica – Inner Force 43 (10) [MENTION=10351]Trece[/MENTION]

31. Kvtika Cisyk – De ty teper 39 (8) [MENTION=12992]Fierro[/MENTION]
32. Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U 50 (12) (JamieBrown)
33. Kivimetsän Druidi - Tuoppein’nostelulaulu 41 (8) (as78)
34. Hans Zimmer – Time 54 (8) (JamieBrown)
35. Hanie Soraya – Rasa Sayang 39 (12) [MENTION=4743]hawadharma[/MENTION]
36. Cruachan – Ride On 54 (12) @Cruachan
37. Scala & Kolacny Brothers - Seashell 47 (10) [MENTION=11989]Avalon[/MENTION]
38. Kwabs – Walk 53 (6) [MENTION=13314]DaFlo[/MENTION]
39. ::ctln Freddie Mercury - Barcelona 54 (10) (chontono) [MENTION=14965]joubil[/MENTION]
40. Two Steps From Hell – Heart of Couage 51 (8) [MENTION=12078]AshleyWright[/MENTION]

41. Nicole Saravakou – Love O‘Clock 52 (7) (Nicholas123)
42. Carpark North – Burn It 42 (8) [MENTION=11640]vikt0r[/MENTION]
43. Mago de Oz - Cadaveria 41 (7) (Trece)
44. Globus - Europa 40 (8) (JamieBrown)
45. Sheppard - Geronimo 42 (10) [MENTION=4490]Simon87[/MENTION]
46. Ivana Radovnikovic feat. Mozartine – Jutrom Sve Prestaja 48 (8) [MENTION=4911]kopachka[/MENTION]
47. The Dark Tenor ft. Yiruma – River flows on the Edge 44 (12) (Alex1211ander) [MENTION=10674]Staewi[/MENTION]
48. Skippnish - December 51 (12) (daniels1000)
49. Aurora - Runaway 49 (7) (chontono)
50. Lim Hyung Joo – I Hope you’re Happy 43 (8) (TomCherson)

 

[DaFlo]

Re: ICELAND || WV 57: I'm not allowed to tell you the song || whiteshoes' territory since WV 39

on a Pot F list with a non Pot F song xafro #goals

 

[Fierro]

Re: ICELAND || WV 57: I'm not allowed to tell you the song || whiteshoes' territory since WV 39

Gosh you adore my song that placed last in final when i was host I remember you told me you loved it

 

[Nicholas123]

Re: ICELAND || WV 57: I'm not allowed to tell you the song || whiteshoes' territory since WV 39

I see a great list there!!!

Yes, it is also because you included two attican entries in it!

 

[Krishoes]

Re: ICELAND || WV 57: I'm not allowed to tell you the song || whiteshoes' territory since WV 39

Woooooow, so high! Thank you

 

[Amir]

Re: ICELAND || WV 57: I'm not allowed to tell you the song || whiteshoes' territory since WV 39

not even made it xsnooty