Can Molly do it for the UK? (Picture: AP Photo)

After two incredibly tough Eurovision Song Contest semi finals this week, we at last know who will battle it out in the grand final tomorrow night. As always, there have been some major surprises.

Israel and seven time winners Ireland are goners while FYR Macedonia’s entry To the Sky left them heading to the airport early than planned. But who are we likely to see at the top of the scoreboard when Europe starts voting?

Here are six of the best to watch out for during the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest.

AUSTRIA


Singer Conchita Wurst representing Austria performs the song Rise Like a Phoenix (Picture: AP Photo)

Conchita Wurst – Rise Like A Phoenix

Starting Position: 11



Odds: 3/1

Previous wins: 1966

Prediction: 2nd place

Yesterday morning, very few people had heard of Austria’s Conchita Wurst. Today she is probably the most famous Austrian musician since Mozart (er, possibly). The lady with a beard stormed through last night’s semi final with a perfect performance of her entry Rise Like a Phoenix.

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The vocals working seamlessly with the big orchestra music and James Bond styled song. There’s more fire on stage than you’d see across London on Bonfire Night and voting for Austria is suddenly more fashionable than the songstress’s evening dress.

Europe, watch out, Queen Conchita’s about!

GREECE

Freaky Fortune of Greece perform Rise Up (Picture: Getty Images)

Freaky Fortune Feat. RiskyKidd – Rise Up

Starting Position: 10

Odds: 20/1

Previous wins: 2005

Prediction: 6th place

It took Greece a long time to get their Eurovision act together, in fact 25 years to finish in the top three for the first time, yet since 2004 they have never finished outside the top 10.

They are a contender again this year with Freaky Fortune and Londoner RiskyKidd. Their song Rise Up is a hip-hop/rap/dance entry that will appeal to the younger audience.

Performing on a trampoline is one of the gimmicks of this year’s Eurovision and will give their position on the scoreboard a decent bounce. If this song wins the Eurovision Song Contest, expect it to be the summer hit of 2014 across the continent.

THE NETHERLANDS

Common Linnets representing The Netherlands perform the song Calm After The Storm (Picture: Getty Images)

The Common Linnets – Calm After the Storm

Starting position: 24

Odds: 3/1

Previous wins: 1957, 1959, 1969, 1975

Prediction: 1st place

The Netherlands has been anything but calm since qualifying for the Eurovision Song Contest final in Tuesday night’s semi final. It’s been 39 long years since the Dutch last captured the Eurovision crown and they’ve only reached the top five since 1987.

That’s all set to change with Calm After the Storm. This is the simplest song in the show with just three country chords, two guitars and the performers not moving around the stage at all.

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They simply sing into each other’s eyes but there is a magic between the duo that flies through the television screen. The running order has been kind to The Netherlands and it is more than likely that the Eurovision Song Contest will be sliding South West along the North Sea shoreline to Amsterdam next year.



SWEDEN

Singer Sanna Nielsen representing Sweden performs the song Undo (Picture: AP)

Sanna Nielsen – Undo

Starting position: 13

Odds: 2/1

Previous wins: 1974, 1984, 1991, 1999, 2012

Prediction: 4th place

Sweden are chomping at the bit to win for a second time in three years.

Adding to the hunger is a singer who has tried seven times to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. Sanna is a superstar in Sweden and a massive favourite of Eurovision fans around the continent.

She won the Swedish final televote in 2008 only to miss out because of the jury vote to former Swedish Eurovision winner Charlotte Pirelli that year.

She is set to Undo the pain of missing out that year with a big finish on the scoreboard in Copenhagen.

Undo is a power ballad the likes of Beyonce and Rihanna would be happy to record. Her vocals are some of the strongest to ever grace the Eurovision stage and the use of spotlights in the staging adds to the strength of Sweden’s chances.

Going against Sweden is the high number of rival ballads that could split their vote. It remains the bookies favourite though and can’t be ruled out.

UKRAINE

Singer Mariya Yaremchuk representing Ukraine performs the song Tick-Tock (Picture: AP Photo)

Mariya Yaremchuk – Tick Tock

Starting position: 1st

Odds: 12/1

Previous wins: 2004

Prediction: 5th place

Mariya from Ukraine has been given the task of opening the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. Singing from first place was once an advantage but with 26 songs in a three and a half hour show, that is no longer the case.

The performance features a man in a hamster wheel and the song is ridiculously catchy. Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest in the aftermath of the Orange Revolution a decade ago, they have a real chance of winning again this year and keeping the international spotlight firmly on Ukraine.


UNITED KINGDOM

Singer Molly representing the United Kingdom performs the song Children of the Universe (Picture: AP)

Molly – Children of the Universe

Starting position: 26

Odds: 9/1

Previous wins: 1967, 1969, 1976, 1981, 1997

Prediction: 3rd place

Yes, after two live semi finals and all the talk, the United Kingdom still has a great chance to add to the prestigious list of previous winners this time around.

Children of the Universe is the ideal song to close the show bringing a fire curtain down on the 2014 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. With a catchy hook, scratchy yet perfect vocal and gorgeous stage setting, expect to hear neighbours shouting at their television sets around 11pm on Saturday night.

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We know it’s going to be a rollercoaster ride on the scoreboard and we’ve gone down to the wire only to be pipped at the post many times before. But Molly has the ability to win.

Whether it happens or not is down to the 180 million people watching on the night and the expert juries across Europe – who should give the United Kingdom a fighting chance to win Eurovision for a sixth time.