News - Serbia: Deutche Welle survey points to Oro | Eurovision Song Contest News - 2008 Belgrade, Serbia 

German World service, Deutsche Welle (DW) have conducted their own internal survey, in collaboration with journalists from other media such as WDR and NDR, SRDRS (Swiss radio), as well as major Eurovision websites, and the journalists' favourites are Serbia, Croatia, Ukraine, Belgium and Ireland.

Just one week before the grand final of the 53 Eurovision Song Contest and polls and surveys are in full swing Europe-wide. German World service, Deutsche Welle (DW), conducted their own survey in collaboration with journalists from other German and Swiss media as well as esctoday.com.

Jelena Tomasevic, the Serbian representantive this year has won the DW survey, receiving points from almost every member of the international jury. "Besides Serbia other favourites in this survey that DW (also a member of EBU) conducted are Croatia, Ukraine, Belgium and Ireland", Nebojsa Jakovljevic, DW Eurovision reporter says. "Despite of comments that Jelena´s song sounds too similar to Serbian song from years before, most of the voters stated that Oro is one of the best songs this time as well, commented many of the participating journalists."

Among the journalists who took part in this survey is Jan Feddersen, NDR Reporter and author of the well know book about Eurovision Song Contest "One Song could be a Bridge"(Ein Lied kann eine Brücke sein in German). Jan gave 12 to Belgium. But he also voted for Serbia.

Other favourites for the Big Final besides those known ones are Portugal, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Norway, Armenia, Iceland and Moldova. The hosts of some special DW Radio shows dedicated to this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade, Sasa Bojic and Nebojsa Jakovljevic voted as well. They gave their twelve points to Bulgaria and Ukraine.

Nebojsa Jakovljevic said: "For some reason I believe that this year some faster and more dynamic song will win. But you have to have in mind that more then a half of Eurovision viewers always have two or three favourites every year. So who is going to win their 12 points is decided after the live performance. That counts most. In most of the cases singing and music production are not the crucial arguments. Marija Serifovic won cause of amazingly emotional performance and message she sent. If the Eurovision viewers decide to support „those "funny songs" we have almost every year now, they are going to vote for Belgium or Ireland. Ana Lorak is my favourite, because I would personally vote for the songs that have potential to be great mainstream Hits after the show. On the other hand, Bulgaria is already a hit in US for example and I know some radio stations in France and UK that are having the song „DJ, Take Me Away" on their Playlists".