As we prepare to go into Eurovision week spare a thought for those that came so close to representing their countries at this year's contest but ultimately didn't win their national finals.
Denmark
Denmark had a very strong national final line-up. Ultimately won by Brinck, Hera Björk came 2nd with her song 'Someday'.
Despite losing out to Brinck, Hera will still be on the Eurovision stage this year as a backing singer for Iceland's entry. She even got to perform 'Someday' at the Icelandic party held at the Icelandic Ambassador's Residence in Moscow.
Norway
Norway also had a strong national final. Although thoroughly beaten into 2nd place (Alexander Rybak got 747,888 votes to her 121,856) Tone Damli Aaberge's song 'Butterflies' was a great song in its own right.
Sweden
The voting in this year's Melodifestivalen final was possibly the most dramatic ever. If the juries had had their way Måns Zelmerlöw would have gone to Moscow with 'Hope & Glory'.
Ultimately once the televotes were added to the scoreboard Malena Ernmann shot up to 1st place and Caroline af Ugglas ended in 2nd place with 'Snälla snälla', a song that only made it to the final through the Andra Chansen round.
Russia
Although the 3 super-finalists were chosen by televoting the ultimate winner was determined by a jury. Losing out to Anastasiya Prikhodko by 6 votes to 5 Valeriya was seen by many as a much better contender with her song 'Back To love'.
United Kingdom
After a string of poor results the UK opted for a different method of choosing their entry this year. After the popularity of Andrew Lloyd Webber's prime-time talent shows to choose lead roles for his west end musicals it was decided to use a similar format to choose the UK entrant. All 3 finalists sang 'My Time', the song written by ALW and Dianne Warren. Jade won and 'The Twins' Francine and Nicola Gleadall came second.
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