Olta Boka did well in the final, her performance was even better in the semi-final. She got only one 12 pts and it was from Macedonia. Olta ended in pos. 17 with 55 pts.

The winner was Russia, so the ESC 2009 will be held in Russia.

1. Russia - 272
2. Ukraine - 230
3. Greece - 218
4. Armenia - 199
5. Norway - 182
6. Serbia - 160
7. Turkey - 138
8. Azerbaijan - 132
9. Israel - 124
10. Bosnia & Herzegovina - 110
11. Georgia - 83
12. Latvia - 83
13. Portugal - 69
14. Iceland - 64
15. Denmark - 60
16. Spain - 55
17. Albania - 55
18. Sweden - 47
19. France - 47
20. Romania - 45
21. Croatia - 44
22. Finland - 35
23. Germany - 14
24. Poland - 14
25. United Kingdom - 14

Serbs booed when Albania's representative in ESC went on stage during the tests on Friday. The protracted conflict between Serbia and Kosovo are the basis for the outbreaks.

“I think probably she would like to see more booing when we go live out to the whole of Europe,” according to Simon Simonovic, who is working as an advisor to the Norwegian Entranse-SINTEF project in Serbia, and follows the rehearsals together with the Norwegian businessmen.

“This shows that Serbs will never accept Kosovo as a state”, he says.

Will lead to sympathy votes
“I think this will give Albania sympathy votes from the other countries,“ according to Per Sundnes.

“She is so confident and good for being only 16 years, that this fall on its own unreasonableness, and I believe it will lead to sympathy votes from the rest of Europe" he says.

75 Cent from Croatia also experienced booing from the audience during the tests on Friday.

He also believes that Romania, Spain, Bosnia and the Russian Federation will get to experience extraordinary amount of applause from the audience because they have not recognized Kosovo as a state. This will also have an impact on the votes from Serbia in the morning. (source: nrk.no)

After the Second Semi-Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest had finished, representatives of the ten qualifying countries gathered for the official winners press conference. At the same time, their starting positions in the Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday were decided by drawing lots.

The third country to answer questions was Albania. Olta Boka was asked if her dream came true, she said "My heart is beating so fast now, it's a big thing for me to be in the final, and I am so so happy, and I will do my best again in the final, despite certain sections of the crowd booing."Albania was drawn 3rd in the final. [read more]

16 year old Albanian singer Olta Boka is the youngest participant in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision.tv's Glen Webb caught up with Olta earlier today.
Can we begin Olta by getting a little background information on your career so far, from when you began performing right through to now?

Olta: "I started singing at nine years old, with the Choir of Angels led by National Opera Music Master Suzana Turku. I then took part in a lot of childrens festivals both in Albania, and also countries like Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, FYR Macedonia. I also entered a European Song Contest for children, and I came in second place. At age 10 I was part of a concert in Albania called Little Genius where I took the prize for greatest interpretation. My biggest victory was of course in the Albanian national selection, which I won and it got me the ticket here." [read more]

Olta Boka sings for the press at press conference.

Positive reactions after the first rehearsals.
After the first rehearsals of Olta, the positive reactions kept coming. The official Eurovision site eurovision.tv writes today right after the first rehearsals of Olta Boka. The Albanian representative Olta Boka, who is only 16 years old, managed to convince everyone with a heartwarming and professional performance in her rehearsal today.


ESC Today: Olta delivers a very simple and pleasant
version of her song... [read more]

They didn't understand Olta´s song. Lena Ph. "What is that about the blue round circle...???" Read the lyric maybe? Is about clock, clock pointers, clock ticking as heart beating, round as clock etc. Click here to read the lyrics.
Thomas Lundin gave 4 pts highest pts and he liked the video "One of the best videos this year."

The jury gave the points as follow...
Sweden 23 pts
Ukraine 21 pts
Switzerland 21 pts
Iceland 20 pts
Turkey 14 pts
Albania 12 pts
Belarus 10
Czech Republic 07
Lithuania 04
Latvia 02

Next week will SVT (Swedish TV) show the rest of the songs from Semi-final 2.

Result from Semi-final 1 previews
Norway 24 pts
Armenia 23 pts
Romania 20 pts
Greece 19 pts
Azerbaijan 17 pts
Andorra 16 pts
Poland 15 pts
Bosnia & Herzegovina 15 pts
The Netherlands 15 pts
Russia 15 pts

The Albanian delegation's first promotional visit was successfully concluded in Turkey, where Olta Boka appeared on TV and radio and had the chance to meet with this year's Turkish representatives Mor ve otesi. Olta's promo tour will continue to Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Georgia.

Olta Boka had a very busy day in Istanbul where she got the chance to appear on the Show TV news, the Aynadan yansıyanlar music show on TRT and the Michael show on Radyo Mega. Olta also had the opportunity to meet with Mor ve otesi, during a private dinner at a traditional Turkish restaurant... [read more]

After the interview that Olta Boka gave to the daily newspaper Panorama, TVSH reacts with a promo tour that will starts on friday and Turkey is the first stop.
Olta will present the Albanian entry... [read more]

After the interview that Olta Boka gave to "Panorama" and then translated and published at ESC Today, Oikotimes and Evropesma, it is time for OGAE Albania to come with a statement that is specially needed after a comment made on Oikotimes from one readers that comments the article by saying "that's a shame but for me it's not anyone's fault.
OGAE Albania is doing nothing to help her. Therefore how oikotimes or any other site can help her get promoted? I guess all sites write on stuff they have access of... (My view) "... [read more]

The voting is now closed, here are the results.
12 pt Switzerland
10 pt Armenia
08 pt Sweden
07 pt Serbia
06 pt Israel... [read more]

The biggest Eurovision website www.esctoday.com published the article on the interview with Head of Albanian delegation. Immediately after that, many positive reaction have come on the Albanian entry of this year from fans accross Europe.
You can check some of reaction here or read all the reactions at ESC Today.
Anders Sävbark
Country: Sweden
"I think we have a possible winner here! Very good
luck!!
Imagine Tirana 2009!!!!!!!... [read more]

Mrs. Zamira Koleci reveals for OGAE Albania some of the details on the song performance in Belgrade.

Oltas look and performance.
Olta will be accompanied on stage by two guitarists and a drummer. Olta will wear green and white colors, while her hair will have a natural look. This classic style will also apply for the guitarists and
drummer. Basically is the same song that won FIK 46 though we added a light guitar themes to the music and cut it down to 3 minutes, due to Eurovision standards.

Song in Albanian.
The song will be performed in Albanian. The lyrics have many Albanian metaphors which were much difficult to translate and understand,... [read more]

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