THE FINAL RANKINGS FOR EUROVISION 2016... As eager Eurovision fans await the start of this year's contest, let's look back on where last year's competing nations finished up:

How did last year’s 42 countries finish up ? Here is the final ranking of the 26 Grand Finalists and the 8 songs culled in each of the 2 Semi-Finals: THE RESULTS OF EUROVISION   2016

1.          UKRAINE   2.          AUSTRALIA   3.          RUSSIA 4.          BULGARIA   5.          SWEDEN 6.          FRANCE   7.          ARMENIA 8.          POLAND 9.          LITHUANIA  10.     BELGIUM 11.     NETHERLANDS 12.     MALTA 13.     AUSTRIA 14.     ISRAEL 15.     LATVIA 16.     ITALY 17.     AZERBAIJAN 18.     SERBIA 19.     HUNGARY 20.     GEORGIA 21.     CYPRUS 22.     SPAIN 23.     CROATIA 24.     UNITED KINGDOM 25.     CZECH REPUBLIC 26.     GERMANY 27.     Bosnia-Herzegovina 28.     FYR Macedonia 29.     Belarus 30.     San Marino 31.     Norway 32.     Montenegro 33.     Slovenia 34.     Iceland 35.     Finland 36.     Ireland 37.     Albania 38.     Greece 39.     Denmark 40. Moldova 41.     Switzerland 42.     Estonia