It’s time to complete our series of takes on this year’s Eurovision entries with the final ten. Let’s dive in!
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After being narrowly beaten to #1 by Carly Rae Jepsen last week, Alessandra is the one who snatches the throne this week. The Italo-Norwegian singer builds on the momentum from her 16-spot climb seven days ago and gets the last push ahead to become the new WMR 100 #1 with her song Queen of Kings. For her part, Jepsen doesn’t go far away from the top, as she only falls down to #2, swapping places with Alessandra. Spanish band Megara rounds out the podium, moving up from the #4 spot to #3 and claiming bronze with Arcadia.
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By Phil Nash from Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 We continue our quick takes of every Eurovision song of the year with the third batch of nine. Let’s see what are the next countries bringing in to Liverpool this year, in hopes of taking that coveted glass microphone:
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It’s been a week of big climbs in the WMR 100, as two songs that were not in the top 10 last week have stormed into this week’s top two. Alessandra soars up sixteen places from #18 to claim this week’s silver medal spot with Queen of Kings, the song with which the Italian-born performer will be flying Norway’s flag this may at the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool; while Carly Rae Jepsen, after just missing the top ten last week landing at #11, closes the distance that separated her from the top of the list and becomes the second Canadian act to claim the WMR 100 #1 with her song Surrender My Heart. Dethroned champion Lost Frequencies rounds out the podium, falling to #3 with Back to You.
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By Phil Nash from Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 After starting our series on this year’s Eurovision Song Contest entries last week, now it’s time for the second round. Let’s take a look at the next nine entries of this year’s contest in Liverpool:
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The triple threat of Lost Frequencies, Elley Duhé and X Ambassadors lays claim to this week’s WMR 100 #1 with their track Back to You, climbing up from the #9 spot in which they debuted in the inaugural chart last week. Blanca Paloma and Danna Paola also shoot up into the podium, taking respectively the 2nd and 3rd places, knocking last weeks #1, La Zarra, down to #4.
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The Liverpool Arena, venue of the contest. – By Phil Nash from Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 The Eurovision Song Contest played a huge part in inspiring the creation of this website, so it’s only fair that we turn our attention to it as the season heats up with just over two months to go before one of our favorite weeks of the year. This is the first of a series of posts where we will be taking a look at the songs and artists who will be flying the national flags in Liverpool, as the United Kingdom assumes hosting duties on Ukraine’s behalf.
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After a careful selection process, we have made our picks for the first-ever weekly WMR 100 list out our favorite tracks in the world. We have spent days going over songs from across the globe, and we can now announce Québec-born and soon-to-be French Eurovision representative La Zarra as our very first top pick. And it is the song that she will be performing in Liverpool, Évidemment (“Obviously”), that has been crowned as the first ever number 1 song in the WMR 100, seeing off rough competition from Australia’s Vera Blue and Italy’s Måneskin, themselves former Eurovision champions in their own right.
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Image by shbs from Pixabay It’s taken us longer than expected, but we’re finally here! Welcome to WMR!
World Music Rankings is about to launch, and with our inaugural WMR 100 list coming in just a few short days, this looks like a perfect moment to let you know what exactly we will be doing here.
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World Music Rankings 