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OK....EuropeCrazy is on another blog break for the next month. See you at the end of April (unless I'm on holiday...will keep you posted!)

See you soon!

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Laura :)))

Interesting Facts about Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision has been broadcast throughout Europe, but also in Australia, Canada, Egypt, Hong Kong, Jordan, Korea, New Zealand and the United States!

It is rare for an entry not to receive any points in all, but it does happen. In fact, since 1978 there have been 15 entries with nul points, two of them in the same year - 1983, Turkey's "Opera" by Çetin Alp and Short Wave and Spain's "¿Quién maneja mi barca?" by Remedios Amaya.

There is still wrangling over which is the worst song ever of Eurovision Song Contest history. My bet is UK's entry, Jemini who sang "Cry Baby" in the 2003 Eurovision.

Six different voting systems were used over the past decades to pick the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Eurovision Song Contest was originally called "Eurovision Grand Prix", chosen by Francophone countries, that is, "Le Grand-Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne"; Then the "Grand Prix" was replaced with "Concours"(contest).










Every day until May 8 I will be posting a music video of each one of the semi-finalists of the Eurovision Song Contest. On May 9, I will post the last three (my top favorites). Enjoy the videos!

Sanna Nielsen who's arranged grand comeback with new melofinalist single "I'm In Love", same-titled album and tour this (which starts right now) year is ready for a new reboot of her career and though we haven't reviewed her album yet (we will, we will!!!) we can enjoy her multiple performances on TV with new stuff, Sanna is one of the most professional and charismatic Swedish live artists so you're gonna like it all, no, you're gonna be IN LOVE with it, won't you?

In this truly hard period for Swedish pop-artists to stick out with their new releases when country hasn't calmed down after melofever and Eric Saade's "Popular" still rules singles-chart staying #1 4th week in a row we get new pop-wonder who has managed to overtake Erik in iTunes-chart already and it's Andreas Wijk - that talented guy we've tipped on casting of Idol-2009.
Andreas is popular fashion blogger and singer who among other has made some brilliant youtube-covers showing his really beautiful vocal and recently he has recorded voice for Fredrik Kempe's song that has become soundtrack to new show "Stylisterna" (Stylists) and now the song is out and obviously gets impressive success immediately climbing to #2 on iTunes.
"Like My Style" from the first listen is nothing you could expect from Fredrik Kempe and I don't mean it's bad, it's really different melodically and by sound, it's still pop but it's more international melodic electropop than schlagerpop that could easily be on Robyn's album, ultra-catchy and incredibly poptastic stuff. Hope it's not the last collaboration of Andreas and Fredrik!