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Ik ben verliefd (sha-la-lie) is #1
The Netherlands: Sieneke shoots to the top!
Last week we already reported that Sieneke made an impressive debut by entering the charts at #13. This week the 17 year old singer finds her name back on top of the list. Not even former Dutch Eurovision winners like Lenny Kuhr's De Troubadour (1969) and Teach In's Ding a dong (1975) managed to become #1 hits in the Netherlands.
After alot of criticism from fans and press, all regional radio stations decided to support Sieneke and her song, which is probably one of the main reasons for this success in the Dutch charts. Ik ben verliefd (sha-la-lie) was written by 74 year old Pierre Kartner, who's responsible for many (inter)national hit singles in the past like The Smurf Song and The Red Rose Café.
Sieneke will represent the Netherlands in the second semifinal of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, which will take place on Thursday May 27th.
Ik ben verliefd (sha-la-lie)
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@ purple cow: maybe you should look at the top40 chart again: Sieneke enters this chart at number 13!! So she is a hit in all the dutch charts now ... also in the one and only top 40!!
@purple cow
thats so nice of you...but lets face it..in general, every dutch diaspora would vote for his/her own country...not only dutch but also armenian greek german...etc
and and i dont think that Netherlands always achieves its goals in a way fair way...last year,in 2005,2008, 2009you should should have reached the final imo....but as we all know eurovision is kinda political game...
Only Sieneke from Netherlands of 50 years is my favoruite! TOP 10! Congratulations! :-D
@Angelic
Of course I know, but the person I reacted to mentioned only diaspora, so that's what I did too in my reply. Honestly I don't care that much.
@Danny T
we agree as I remember..as always!
paul cl
@yerevan
but at least jury gives us some kind of balance voting, good or bad, which means we don't (IMO) get another winner like 2008 and also that the "jury" was an essential part in Eurovision voting since the beginning (and gave us some fantastic winners), so to combine the two things IMO is at least a "fair" option, and in Eurovision history the jury gave us both good and bad winners, as well as the only televote gave us good and bad winners, so with a "mix" of both Europe should now not complain so much...
@ paul c
i completely agree! you aren't ever goona get the bad out of either but having both can at least mitigate them 
@Purple Cow
It is not only diaspora which is present within Eurovision. Block voting is another common feature in the contest 
I personally can predict who is going to vote for who on the night. Alot of us have this discussion every year, and every year it is the same damn fiasco. Neighbours voting for neighbours or friendship/political votes.
So in reality most countries in the contest gain there votes via ill or dishonest measures. It is very rare for the songs themselves to gain points.
paul cl
Jury is also good tool for neighbour and politic voting!
@Danny T
the idea of juries brings some kind of balance to the final result, if (in future years when they produce internet books about it) they will say " and so xx Eurovision won because etc etc" at least they will say: "and X won from both the jury AND the televote, or X won from the televote + xx from the jury vote", which IMO disperses diaspora and leads to a better contest as we saw from last year that Norway was both favourite in jury and televote..so fine!! in effect, the ideal option would be that case! paulcl
@Let there be Hope
I think everyone in the Netherlands perfectly understands that the Turkish diaspora is voting like crazy on Eurovision night. And I'm proud to say that I'm from a country who can achieve its results in a fair way instead of buying it with patriotism.
I would never ever vote for Edsilia, Hind (even though I liked them) and not for de Toppers and not at all for Sieneke, liking your country and voting for it in Eurovision is not the same actually.
I should also add that I am a big fan of the juries that give Western countries a chance again. Remember Germany 07 - quality entry that got screwed I could name loads of others
@CC L
Germany was better than Russia and Armenia. Just because something is 'cultural' doesn't mean it is good.
@paul cl:
I'd like to agree with ya but that's nonsense.
"Juries" are discriminating against songs with a cultural and high-quality constituent, at least those from western european countries do with eastern entries.
last year russia finnished 17th, armenia 16th and germany 14th in "juries's voting" - a complete joke.
so it is just 'bout moving points to traditional eurovision-countries in order that they not withdraw because of continuing bad results. it may be holland will profit by them (like france did last year), but then really not owing to the song respectively a "national relation".
Thus I'm just gonna be interested in televoting-results.
Omg the Dutch really are stoners! Can't wait to visit haha!!!
I am really happy that this song is a hit in the Netherlands. They chose it and they are buying it. Congrats! It is waaaay better than that lovely piece hailing from Belarus. I am going to listen to it a few more times.
just my opinion, but I think 2010 is a "turning point" in Eurovision, it has a sense of going back to its original roots when songs like the Netherlands (in original language whether you like it or not), were judged on their own merits (get the audience singing etc in whatever language), just like the Spanish or Slovenian song, with so many years of terrible songs in so called "English", which is usually quite horrible both with lyrics (e.g Poland) or pronunciation (e.g Belarus), with the introduction of a jury (which I agree with 100%) it is possible to have some kind of balance, and so the Dutch entry is in Dutch and not contemporary, well hey..it represents the Netherlands , and let's see if both European juries and voters think the same (maybe before it would have been completely eliminated), so I am a happy fan with less "pseudo English crap songs e.g Belarus" clear, probably not!
@Big BB
you are soo funny..Do u still think that dutch ppl gives 12 point to Turkey? lol..everyone knows that Turks have a numerous diaspora around Europe..(everyone envies&jealous i am sure)
and guys..stop blaming Turkey...but EBU.....if u were a diaspora, would not you vote for your own country???
anyway...
THIS SONGS SUCKS...!!! ))
It's the quintessential "so bad it is good". It is the complete package. And it is impossible to not like Sieneke.
Well the reason of its popularity is still not because people like it so much, in the media everyone and on the radio and twitter everyone is joking about it. Of course I'll get the whole 'wtf you don't know nothing about it, my neighbours like it..' thing back by some on here. If I may speak for teens, everyone laughs about it and thinks it's horribly bad.
Regardless of the accuracy of whatever chart, the song is becoming quite popular. I can't remember a Dutch eurovision song that was covered, let alone covered several times within weeks. And at the moment she is 25th in the Dutch iTunes. So her song is sold more at the moment then David Guetta, Anouk, Tiesto, Timbaland and Snow Patrol.
Joining the Ro L. team!
http://www.top40.nl/(...)p;maand=2&week=8
Official site of the Dutch Top 40.. NO SIGNS OF SHALALIE.
On the same site an article explaining that the Single Top 100, which Sieneke does lead, is 'passed glory'
"Sieneke is number one in the Single Top 100, but that doesn't mean that her song leads the hit lists of the nation
The Single Top 100 only reflects the Single selling numbers of the week. In the 90ies you needed to sell 30.000 singles to lead, when you sell 150 now, you're on top.
It's nice for recording companies to hold onto "look we sold some singles" but for these times it's not relevant any more whether you sold some singles or not. " Freely translated.
OMG, enough already! She looks her age.
What??? 17 years old!!!!! I thought she was more older, but who cares... Well the song is growing in me, it's really akward that's happening to me, but well that's what's happening, I can't control myself of listen that tune, I think in this moment I'm loving the oldies and this one has that "je ne sais quoi" that captivates you!
I'll be very disappointed if the Netherlands doesn't make the final this year
Typical carnival song for people like my mother (70+) or after drinking too much. Horrible.
ahmmm....ahmmm..... 17 YEARS OLD???!!!
she looks more. way more......
but the song is cute and in my top 5 for this year.
1.SPAIN
2.DENAMRK
3.ARMENIA
4.NORWAY
5.NETHERLANDS AND I ALSO LIKE FINLAND.
this top 5 is so far of corse. (out of the 15 choosen songs so far)
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