May 12, 2009 - 22:50 AMT
Armenia will take 8th place in Eurovision Semifinal, forecasts say
Readers and members of independent Eurovision Song Contest website have been predicting the outcome of each Semifinal, and the results are grouped geographically and then worked out based on the Eurovision Song Contest scoring Prediction.

Over 100,000 predictions have been made by more than 6,000 members of esctoday.com.

The 10 countries predicted to qualify from tonight's semi final are:

1. Turkey
2. Bosnia Herzegovina
3. Sweden
4. Iceland
5. Malta
6. Finland
7. Romania
8. Armenia
9. Portugal
10. Switzerland

Contest participants from 18 countries, including Inga and Anush with their song, Nor Par, will be competing for passage to the finals of May 16.

First contest evening will be hosted by supermodel Natalya Vodyanova and TV presenter Andrey Malakhov.

After all songs have been performed, viewers can vote by making a phone call or sending an SMS for their favorite songs. Ten qualified countries will be announced at the end of each Semifinal.