The chat is getting its own weekly charts! Starting from 4th December, you will be able to vote for your current favourite Eurovision-related songs.

Every week on Tuesdays, there will be a poll on our website featuring the Top 7-10 of the previous week and up to three new suggestions. However, the first edition on 4th December will feature ten brand-new suggestions.

How it works – step by step

1. Submit your song suggestions here

You can always submit song suggestions. Submitted songs can be from any year, but they have to be either entries from Eurovision itself or from a national final, including all kinds of semi-finals and preliminary rounds. For the latter, they have to be real entries, and not just songs that were sung in a casting round (for example, Lena’s version of “New Shoes” would not be accepted). JESC songs are allowed as well. You can submit songs at any time, the only limit being that you should nominate no more than three songs per week. For each edition (on Tuesday), the submission deadline is the evening before (Monday, 23:59 CET). If we get more song suggestions than there are spots available (i.e. 3 for a regular edition, 10 for the first edition), then we will firstly take those that were nominated by the most people (if applicable), and then those that are newer (date of first performance). In the case that there are any ties left, the submission time and date will be the deciding factor. Songs that drop out of our charts can be suggested again, and re-enter up to 2 times within the same year.

If we get fewer total suggestions than required for the first edition (10), we will pick some songs ourselves to make up the total of 10 songs. In the subsequent editions, the number of song suggestions in a week will determine the number of songs that have to drop out of the charts. For example: If there are two new suggestions in a week, places 9 and 10 of the previous week can’t be voted for anymore. There may be no new suggestions in a given week; in this case, all of the songs from the previous week will remain in the charts. Songs can re-enter once they are submitted again. Submitted songs that don’t make it into the charts in a given week (because there are too many submissions) are placed on a waiting list sorted by submission date/time and performance date.

2. Vote!

Every Tuesday, a new multiple-choice poll will be held on our site. This will feature 10 songs, consisting of “old” songs (sorted by their places in the previous week) and up to 3 new submissions. For each edition, everyone can vote for up to three songs (one vote each). The polls close on Monday, 23:59 CET, and the next poll will be made up from the results of this poll, etc. In the case of a tie for the critical places 8-10, we’ll hold a quick survey in the chat.

3. And then, and what’s the point?

The main point of the charts is to display our current favourite songs on the website. But it goes further: Every song in the charts collects points. For a number one, a song gets 12 points, for a number two it gets 10, for a 3 it gets 8 points, and so on (you might call it “Eurovision-style”, because that’s what it is!). Towards the end of the year (well, our “on-season” year starting in December and ending in November), we will hold our own Chart of the Year, with all the former weekly results being published again and the reveal of the year’s big favourites. How the charts of the year 2013 will look… well, we’ll see about that in a year or so. 🙂

It all seems so complicated!

It really isn’t, at least not for you. All you have to do is submit your suggestions and vote – the rest is written here for the sake of completeness.

You don’t have to do either of course, and it’s not like a usual fan contest where a song is bound to you as a person –  i.e. the names behind a submission won’t be published, as the users aren’t taking part in a competition or anything like that.

But the more people submit songs and vote, the more these will become “our charts” – and that’s our ultimate goal.

These rules may be changed from time to time, depending on what needs to be fixed or added. We will only be able to tell what needs tweaking once the Chat Charts are underway – it’s a work in progress! – and if anything does change, you’ll see the new version here in this post.