No update last night (Friday), as I was far too busy watching Molly's prerecorded appearance on The Graham Norton Show and drooling over James McAvoy and Hugh Jackman on the same programme.
Molly's 'Children Of The Universe' had at last begun to make progress on iTunes during the day on Friday. It cracked the top 100 in the 'almost real time' sales listings and was at #74 by mid afternoon. Last night's TV appearance (possibly assisted by yesterday's launch of the BBC's TV trailer for the Eurovision final too) has finally seen the single's sales take off. It has ended Saturday night at #32 for the single version, and the album version has reappeared at #146, after disappearing from the iTunes top 200 listing on Tuesday.
I'm writing this after midnight on Saturday, so we've passed the chart sales cut-off point for Sunday's official chart. We'll see tomorrow if this late surge has been enough for the song to crack the Official Chart top 100 and at least give Molly a chart position in advance of her Eurovision performance in seven days' time.
More urgently for Molly, today (Stars Wars day) sees her first rehearsal on the Copenhagen stage, so we'll at last get to see how it's being presented, what the stage backdrop is and how she and all the other vocalists sound together. Power to the people, or 'may the force be with you'.
The other five automatic finalists also have their first rehearsals on Sunday, so we may get to see if the EBU intends to make Germany look ridiculous, by insisting they caption their song (which should be 'Is It Right?') without the necessary question mark. Jon Ola Sand, Eurovision's Executive Supervisor, confirmed to me on twitter that the German delegation made that mistake when they submitted their entry. However, instead of just correcting it, they've printed the error on the official album. I won't be surprised if it's wrong on Germany's caption too. All over Europe, intelligent people will be saying, "That title's a question. Why have they missed off the question mark?" And then they will be talking and taking even less notice of the German song. That's something they can ill afford, because it's already one of the least arresting and least fancied songs anyway. We shall see.
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