'Are you sitting down? Brace yourself: the United Kingdom is among the frontrunners to win Eurovision' | ✍️ Shaun Kitchener
Crucially, a big plus for us is that this time around we seem to genuinely have a song, a singer and a creative team who are firing on all cylinders.
Last year, James Newman’s likeable earworm Embers was let down by poor staging and a hesitant performance; in 2019, the talented Michael Rice was saddled with a song that wouldn’t even make a decent X Factor winner’s single; and though SuRie put in a great shift with Storm in 2018, the gentle track just couldn’t keep pace with the attention-grabbing frontrunners elsewhere.
And the man’s already a big star – just take a look at his online credentials. In 2021, long before he was announced for the Song Contest, he was already the UK artist with the most followers on TikTok; ahead of Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa and Anne-Marie. Now, he has 12.4million followers to Sheeran’s 11million.
Plus, we shouldn’t ignore the fact that our odds have drifted a bit in the last couple of days: being third favourite is fantastic, but we were actually second over the weekend. We are also one of the only countries in Europe to not send our own song into our domestic Spotify Charts just yet; and it was only two days ago, on Monday, when Iceland became the first country in the world to put us in theirs.
So really, when you weigh it all up, we have lots of reasons to be extremely excited, but a few caveats to stop ourselves getting too carried away.
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