Bundesvision Song Contest 2008

The Bundesvision Song Contest 2008 was the fourth edition of the annual Bundesvision Song Contest musical event. The contest was held on 14 February 2008 at the TUI Arena in Hanover, Lower Saxony,[1] following Oomph! feat. Marta Jandová's win in the 2007 contest in Berlin with the song "Träumst Du?".[2] The show was hosted by Stefan Raab, Johanna Klum, and Elton in the green room.[3] At the beginning of the contest, the Minister President of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff was welcomed into the arena and presented as a "patron" of the contest.[4]

Bundesvision Song Contest 2008
Dates
Grand final14 February 2008
VenueTUI Arena, Hanover, Lower Saxony
Presenter(s)
Participants
Vote
Voting systemEach state awards 12, 10, 8–1 point(s) to their top 10 songs.
Winning song Brandenburg
"Auf Kiel" by Subway to Sally

The participants and their states were announced between 21 January and 13 February 2008 on TV total.[5]

The winner of the Bundesvision Song Contest 2008 was Subway to Sally with the song "Auf Kiel", representing Brandenburg. In second place was Clueso representing Thuringia, and third place to Down Below representing Saxony-Anhalt.[6][7]

Returning artists include: Clueso who participated for Thuringia for a second time after the 2005 contest. Peter Brugger returns as a member of Sportfreunde Stiller, having previously appeared in the band TipTop in 2006, both for Bavaria. Mamadee, who took part in 2005 with Gentleman, returns as part of the band Sisters, both for North Rhine-Westphalia. Favourites, established groups, and artists such as Sportfreunde Stiller, Laith Al-Deen, and Culcha Candela did not fare well compared to many newcomers to the contest.

15 of the 16 states awarded themselves the maximum of 12 points, with North Rhine-Westphalia awarding themselves 10 points.

The contest was broadcast by ProSieben and watched by 1.58 million people (8% market share).[1] In the 14-49 age range 1.31 million people watched the contest (15% market share). Since the first competition in 2005, the number of viewers has fallen continuously, but the market share has increased from 7.6% in 2007,[2] to 8% in 2008.[8]

On 29 February 2008, 12 of the 16 songs placed in the top 100 of the German charts, with eight in the top 50. Clueso, and Das Bo's songs went straight to numbers 15 and 16 respectively.[9]

Results

Draw State Artist Song English translation Radio station Place Points[7]
01  Hamburg Das Bo "Ohne Bo" Without Bo Energy Hamburg 12 19
02  Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Jennifer Rostock "Kopf oder Zahl" Heads or tails Antenne MV 5 79
03  Hesse Rapsoul "König der Welt" King of the world Hit Radio FFH 8 51
04  Saarland Casino Zero "Gib mir einen Blick" Give me a look Radio Salü 15 12
05  Saxony Far East Band feat. Dean Dawson "Unfassbar" Unfathomably Leipzig 91 Punkt 3 15 12
06  Saxony-Anhalt Down Below "Sand in meiner Hand" Sand in my hand Rockland 3 96
07  Bremen Paulsrekorder "Anna" Energy Bremen 11 20
08  Schleswig-Holstein Panik "Was würdest du tun?" What would you do? Radio Flensburg 6 75
09  Brandenburg Subway to Sally "Auf Kiel" On keel 94.5 Radio Cottbus 1 147
10  North Rhine-Westphalia Sisters "Unite" Radio NRW 14 16
11  Rhineland-Palatinate Peilomat "Jenny" RPR1 13 17
12  Thuringia Clueso "Keinen Zentimeter" No centimetre Radio Top 40 2 146
13  Bavaria Sportfreunde Stiller "Antinazibund" Anti-Nazi alliance Energy 10 32
14  Berlin Culcha Candela "Chica" Energy Berlin 7 66
15  Baden-Württemberg Laith Al-Deen "Du" You Radio Regenbogen 9 46
16  Lower Saxony Madsen "Nachtbaden" Night bathing radio ffn 4 94

Scoreboard

Voting results
Hamburg 191216
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 797123356477272671
Hesse 51312718122411216
Saarland 1212
Saxony 1212
Saxony-Anhalt 964765756125786567
Bremen 2031214
Schleswig-Holstein 7554243312456254745
Brandenburg 14768108105101281210101010810
North Rhine-Westphalia 161110112
Rhineland-Palatinate 172312
Thuringia 146101081081081010881288108
Bavaria 3222633412
Berlin 662542438445353122
Baden-Württemberg 467112116271233
Lower Saxony 9486564775673634512

References

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