escflashmalta.com has always represented the best interests of the local music industry, by bringing the public the latest news from songwriters, producers, musicians and artists who have a local heritage whilst also supporting the nations' participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. It has become customary for the portal to organise features in relation to the Malta Eurovision Song Contest and therefore, for the third consecutive year, the escflashmalta.com awards were given, in partnership with ONE Radio 92.7 FM.

Clint on ONE, a flagship programme hosted on Saturday morning by Clint Bajada, the individual who has made the local music scene the centre of his radio strategy, played host to the awards this morning with Marc Calleja Bayliss, Editor-In-Chief of escflashmalta.com appearing on behalf of the portal to hand out the awards and also answer any related questions. The three (3) coveted awards were all given their prime attention, noting that the professional members of the music industry were assigned the preview videos of the songs, making their selection as if being judges of the actual competition, the public who had the right to select only one (1) song per IP Address, and last but not least, members of the media who had to select the best five (5) and the worst two (2) in rank order.
Basically, it is now time to reveal the full results of all three (3) awards, with the Public Award and Media Award having been presented to Trevor Fenech, representative of Daniel Testa whose One Last Ride written by Stephen Rudden and Lawrence Peter Bridge actually finished in third place during the Malta Eurovision Song Contest, and the Critics Award going to Davinia and her entry Brand New Day written by Matt Mercieca to the music of Elton Zarb, who in turn was present to accept the award. This was the first time ever in the history of the escflashmalta.com awards that one (1) artist managed to take home two (2) awards, meaning that there was more of consensus especially when keeping in mind that it was also a track which finished in the top three (3) come the end of the Malta Eurovision Song Contest.
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Media Award; we are proud to have been in contact with almost forty (40) different individuals, each representing a media outlet and each will be noted below. Their aim was simple, to select the most notable five (5) entries and the worst two (2) in rank order. The final tally which you will note below comprises of votes from; Luke Borg (esctoday.com), Eric Nocito (ESC Reporter), Helen C Wood (Radio International), Garrett Mulhall (Eurovision Ireland), Aija Medinika (LTV), Frank Zammit (Stargate Studios), Theofilos Toronidis (ESC Daily), Knut-Oyvind Hagen (NRK), Clint Bajada (ONE Radio 92.7), Ramona Depares (Times of Malta), Samantha Ross (ESC Insight), Tobias Larsson (YLE), Michael Bugeja (Times of Malta), Nathan D (89.7 Bay), Joseph Zammit (escflashmalta.com), Media Team (Insite), Ian Fowell (eurovisionary), Toni Sant (MMI), Patrick Strouk (escflashmalta.com), Alasdair Rendall (escflashmalta.com), Keith Mills (AKOE), David Debono (RTK Radio), Wayne Aquilina (ONE Radio 92.7), Joe Tanti (ONE Radio 92.7), Edward Montebello (eurovisionary), Ian Scerri (escflashmalta.com), Gabriel Ellul (Media.Link Communications), Darragh Reck (RTE), Ruth Frendo (Gwida), Valentina Rossi (V Squared), Belen Garcia (escplus), Liam Clark (escXtra), Deo Grech (ONE Radio 92.7), Alexandru Busa (escflashmalta.com), Emma Backfish (escXtra), Jon Lukas (Channel Radio) and Juergen Boernig (Radio International).
One Last Ride - Daniel Testa : 1460 points
Hypnotica - Jessika : 1040 points
Brand New Day - Davinia : 920 points
Coming Home - Firelight : 840 points
City Lady - Ryan Paul Abela : 680 points
Take Me - Pamela : 640 points
Safe - Miriam Christine : 520 points
Pin the Middle - DeBee : 460 points
Just No Place Like Home - Fabrizio Faniello : 380 points
Love Will Take Me Home - Franklin : 380 points
Because I Have You - Amber : 320 points
Let the Sunshine In - Sophie DeBattista : 320 points
Oblivion - Chris Grech : 260 points
Until We Meet Again - Deborah C : 260 points
Some Kind of Wonderful - Wayne William : 260 points
Addictive - Romina Mamo : 200 points
Lovetricity - Christabelle : 160 points
Ten - Corazon : 20 points
Invisible - Raquel Galdes : -20 points
Now and Forever - Andreana : -220 points
Public Award; due to problems with the server capacity and the award, we had been given the ultimatum to close the poll early, but nevertheless, it was important to note that despite this, almost three thousand (3000) individual votes were submitted. It was a different story to last year when Kevin Borg and Chris Grech had been harshly campaigning against one another through social media, with the latter coming out as the victor. The full results as noted below depict a totally different story with a relatively outright winner and an even more representative top three (3).
One Last Ride - Daniel Testa : 581 votes
Because I Have You - Amber : 479 votes
Addictive - Romina Mamo : 258 votes
Hypnotica - Jessika : 240 votes
Love Will Take Me Home - Franklin : 188 votes
Now and Forever - Andreana : 181 votes
Take Me - Pamela : 142 votes
Just No Place Like Home - Fabrizio Faniello : 122 votes
Invisible - Raquel Galdes : 110 votes
Safe - Miriam Christine : 108 votes
Brand New Day - Davinia : 106 votes
Ten - Corazon : 77 votes
Coming Home - Firelight : 52 votes
Pin the Middle - DeBee : 44 votes
City Lady - Ryan Paul Abela : 30 votes
Lovetricity - Christabelle : 28 votes
Some Kind of Wonderful - Wayne William : 26 votes
Until We Meet Again - Deborah C : 24 votes
Oblivion - Chris Grech: 22 votes
Let the Sunshine In - Sophie DeBattista : 16 votes
Critic Award; the voting of five (5) professional individuals from the international music industry. John Scott, Sharon Vaughn, Martin Isherwood, Stano Simor and Greig Watts have been commissioned to review the competing entries, mark them out of ten (10) and published as a percentage online and finally to vote in Eurovision format and send in their personal scores. The chosen individuals all have multitudes of experience in the industry with John Scott working with the likes of Nicole Scherzinger and Little Mix; Stano Simor co-writing for some of the most familiar faces in Slovakia and the Czech Republic whilst also being the manager of Mista, a former Slovakian selection runner-up; Martin Isherwood being one of the Headmasters at the Liverpool Istitute for Performing Arts; Sharon Vaughn co-writing for Delta Goodrem, Agnes, The Wanted and Jedward and Greig Watts who in turn is an accomplished songwriter/producer and has worked with The Overtones, Natalia and Kate Ryan amongst others.
Brand New Day - Davinia : 38 points
Take Me - Pamela : 31 points
One Last Ride - Daniel Testa : 27 points
Pin the Middle - DeBee : 25 points
Love Will Take Me Home - Franklin : 24 points
Coming Home - Firelight : 22 points
Just No Place Like Home - Fabrizio Faniello : 22 points
Safe - Miriam Christine : 14 points
Until We Meet Again - Deborah C : 14 points
Hypnotica - Jessika : 14 points
Addictive - Romina Mamo : 12 points
Now and Forever - Andreana : 10 points
Invisible - Raquel Galdes : 9 points
Lovetricity - Christabelle : 9 points
Some Kind of Wonderful - Wayne William : 9 points
Because I Have You - Amber : 3 points
Let the Sunshine In - Sophie DeBattista : 2 points
City Lady - Ryan Paul Abela : 2 points
Oblivion - Chris Grech : 0 points
Ten - Corazon : 0 points
At this stage, we would like to thank all of the people involved in making the escflashmalta.com awards presented by ONE Radio 92.7 a success, including none other than Mediterranean Ceramics who designed three (3) beautiful trophies, each owing to the identity and brand that this portal has built in the past five (5) years since it's inception. Collaborating with Clint Bajada and ONE Radio 92.7 was also a pleasure and we hope that this fruitful collaboration continues in the years to come. We urge you to stay tuned to escflashmalta.com for all of the latest news and more exclusive features as the days, months and years go by.
Source: escflashmalta.com, ONE Radio 92.7, Emil Calleja Bayliss (Image)
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