Even though Eurovision 2018 is not until May there has been a tremendous amount of early interesting in the betting market and most of it has been directed towards Israel’s entry. This year’s event is being hosted in Portugal with the big date on May 12th, and it is “Toy,” sung by Netta Barzilai that has risen to be the ante-post favourite.
The song was officially released last week but there was a leak of it released prior to that and it got punters very interested. Just last week you were looking around a 20/1 price on Barzilai song getting the Eurovision title and now she is as short as 13/8 odds with bet365* (betting odds taken on March 20th at 11:08 p.m.)
The song was recorded and filmed just in the last couple of weeks, being written by Doron Medalie and Stav Beger. If you take a look at Wiwibloggs Eurovision song contest blog, it calls the song “authentic”, that it speaks to the current #Metoo movement with its lyrics, and that it is “poppy and catchy”. If Israel gets it, it will be their first win for twenty years.
It is viral on Youtube and it has caught fire with “reaction videos” as well, which are Youtube videos recording the reaction of people watching the video/hearing the song for the first time. Just to give an idea of how far the appeal has gone, a Ugandan group produced a video of a dance choreographed to “Toy”.
Eurovision 2018 Odds*
Israel 13/8, Estonia 6/1, Czech Republic 8/1, Belgium 12/1, Bulgaria 12/1, Australia 16/1, Sweden 18/1, Netherlands 20/1, Norway 20/1, France 20/1, Greece 22/1, Spain 28/1, 40/1 bar
