Oh Benjamin - the son of two Swedish entertainment legends with a promising Melodifestivalen debut the year before, this young talent became a popular star overnight. But was his sudden fame enough for Eurovision stage?

Upon first listen to “City Lights” it was clear that Belgium had a hit on their hands. This downtempo slice of electropop heaven was definitely the best of 2017.

I am a huge fan of this genre of music. I never expected something this good to grace itself on the Eurovision stage.

This classy, theatrical song from Estonia was the top of the class from a pool of really high quality songs.

The Netherlands continued their new trend of sending high quality, radio ready songs.

Many people ask why countries don't send bigger artists, usually citing British acts but they don't realize that often or not countries really do send their best.

I'm sucker for late 80s/early 90s new-wave music, so this was awesome to get a little of that Depeche Mode sound on the Eurovision stage.

Dino Merlin has had quite the career. He has been recording since the early 80s and in 1993 he wrote the first ever entry for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Eurovision.

This is so good. Channeling David Bowie this glam rock inspired pop track was leagues above the usual Eurovision song.

This is the sort of entry I watch Eurovision for. It’s a new sound in a, new to me, language with a strings section playing over an electronic synthpop arrangement.

This synthpop song received enough criticism to be brought up in the French Parliament with calls for it's withdrawal from the contest. Why?

Georgia was entering the Eurovision song contest for the first time, and I'd definitely never heard any music from the small nation in the Caucasus Mountains.

With an incredible vocal range, Mihai kills on this modern dance-pop track. It's a moody Italo-disco inspired bi-lingual song, with the chorus sung in Italian.

In 2005 I would have put all my money on this to win.