{"id":427530,"date":"2026-02-15T20:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427530\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:12:11","slug":"%f0%9f%87%aa%f0%9f%87%aa-estonia-vanilla-ninja-won-by-3-of-vote-in-eesti-laul-2026-superfinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427530\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddea Estonia: Vanilla Ninja Won by 3% of Vote in Eesti Laul 2026 Superfinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just four percentage points covered the top three of Eesti Laul 2026, with all three super finalists receiving over 30% of the votes cast.<\/p>\n<p>The Superfinal of Eesti Laul 2026 was one of the closest results in recent national selection history, with all of the top three covered by less than 5 percentage points. In the end the winner was determined by a difference of 3 percentage points, with Vanilla Ninja narrowly beating NO\u00cbP to victory.<\/p>\n<p>ArtistSongResultNO\u00cbP\u201cDays Like This\u201d32%Ollie\u201cSlave\u201d31%Vanilla Ninja\u201cToo Epic to Be True\u201d35%<\/p>\n<p>The full results of Eesti Laul 2026 will be revealed by ERR in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 12 artists competed in the final of Eesti Laul 2026. The results were decided over two rounds of voting. In the first round, an international jury (50%) and public voting (50%) chose three songs to advance to the superfinal. The jurors were:<\/p>\n<p>Renato Milone (Italy) \u2013 Producer, composer and sound engineer<br \/>\nLinnea Deb (Sweden) \u2013 Songwriter for nine entries at the Eurovision Song Contest including 2015 winner \u201cHeroes\u201d<br \/>\nPaul Jordan (United Kingdom) \u2013 Eurovision expert<br \/>\nRosa Linn (Armenia) \u2013 Represented Armenia at Eurovision 2022 with \u201cSnap\u201d, going on to have a viral hit with the song<br \/>\nAndrea Stople (United States) \u2013 Singer and songwriter<br \/>\nKevin Hughes (United Kingdom) \u2013 Music and pop culture expert, currently a radio presenter on Heart Radio<br \/>\nMaria Faust (Estonia) \u2013 Composer and saxophonist<\/p>\n<p>The results of the first round were:<\/p>\n<p>ArtistSongJury PointsTelevote PointsResultClicherik &amp; M\u00e4x\u201cJolly Roger\u201d47117thRobert Linna\u201cMetsik roos\u201d (Wild rose)51611thGrete Paia\u201cTaevas j\u00e4i \u00fcles\u201d16710thLaura Prits\u201cWarrior\u201d6289thUliana Olhyna\u201cRhythm of Nature\u201d3588thOllie\u201cSlave\u201d12UnknownUnknown1stMarta Pikani\u201cKell kuus\u201d23512thNO\u00cbP\u201cDays Like This\u201d9UnknownUnknownSuperfinalistGetter Jaani\u201cThe Game\u201d89175thANT x Minimal Wind\u201cWounds (Don\u2019t Wanna Fall)\u201d104146thVanilla Ninja\u201cToo Epic to Be True\u201d71219SuperfinalistStockholm Cowboys\u201cLast Man Standing\u201d118194th<\/p>\n<p>Vanilla Ninja will perform \u201cToo Epic to Be True\u201d in the second half of the first semi-final on May 12. They will return to the Eurovision Song Contest having represented Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kyiv, Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/eeter.err.ee\/1609941041\/eesti-laul-2026-voitja-on-vanilla-ninja\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ERR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n<p>Estonia debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 alongside six other countries. At the contest in Dublin, they were represented by Silvi Vrait, who finished second last, scoring just 2 points. In 2001, Estonia won the Eurovision Song Contest for the only time to date. They were represented by Tanel Padar, Dave Benton &amp; 2XL, who performed the song \u201cEverybody\u201d and took a surprise victory in Copenhagen. After the success of the late-90s and early 00s, Estonia failed to qualify for the final from 2004-2008. In 2009, Estonia launched a new selection show, Eesti Laul, and has since qualified for the final on 11 out of 16 attempts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just four percentage points covered the top three of Eesti Laul 2026, with all three super finalists receiving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[97988,96,59,33958,56,54,55,156776],"class_list":["post-427530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-eesti-laul-2026","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-headline","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vanilla-ninja"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}