Iceland are another one of Eurovision's less successful nations.  In their earlier days they failed to achieve well, and even recently their results have been rather touch and go.  1999 saw them at their highest, coming in second place with Selma's 'All Out Of Luck' - and she proved to be just that.  She missed out to the wonderful Charlotte Nilsson, another one of my fave songs, deserving of the victory it received.  2000, they had a great tune, but could only muster up 12th and in 2001 came last with what I thought was one of the best songs of the Contest that year.  Back in 2003 saw them secure 8th place with 'Open Your Heart' by Birgitta - a wonderful song which gave the show a strong opening.  2004's Jonsi was a male ballad amid lots of other boring male ballads and scored very poorly, so Iceland found themselves in the 2005 Semi-Final.  Everyone was delighted to hear Selma was back to try and secure Iceland's first victory, or at least try and get Iceland into the 2006 Final, but with the perfect performance and great song, Europe still didn't take to it and she failed to qualify. So Iceland found themselves in the 2006 Semi-Final and hopes were very high (and rightly so) with novelty entry Silvia Night, but her elaborate performance wasn't enough to make up for a dodgy vocal and angry Greek crowd, and she consequently failed to qualify.  2007 saw a fantastic rock ballad, which stunned many when it finished 13th - higher than was expected.  This year however, Iceland are desperate to at least make the Final, they certainly deserve to by now.