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Swedish Stereo is officially delighted with yesterday's winner of Eurovision-2011 - Ell & Nikki who participated with the song "Running Scared" written by Swedish songwriting team - Stefan Örn, Sandra Bjurman and Iain Farguhanson, backing singers - Lisa Stadell, Åsa Engman, Jessica Marberger and Vera Prada and man behind Azeri performance - Rennie Mirro (main person responsible for MF performances). It was fantastic and beautiful victory and we really hope to get to Eurovision in Baku next year as it's gonna be gorgeous by show, fun and low costs for everything.
Sweden came at respectable #3 with Eric Saade who performed "Popular" written by Fredrik Kempe, RedOne's written "Get You" performed by Alexey Vorobjov came #16 and Swedish-Finnish Paradise Oscar with self-written song "Da Da Dam" was #21.
I'm gonna tell you one interesting fact! Before Eric was chosen as the winner of MF-2011 and before Eldar was selected in Azerbaijan I was contacted by OGAE Azerbaijan who communicated with artists and helped them to choose songs and asked if instrumental version of Eric's "Manboy" was ever released - Eldar wanted to sing it in Azerbaijani final as he realy liked the song, it didn't happen as instrumental version of "Manboy" wasn't released but later Eldar could meet with Eric on the stage of Eurovision. Below you can watch Swedish Eurovision road of Azerbaijan to victory supported by Anders Bagge's label and sure Eric's performance of "Popular".

Interesting Facts about Eurovision Song Contest
 
For the first time this year, Eurovision will have two semi-finals.

Serbia participated the first time in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest as an independent country and won the contest the same year.

This year’s Eurovision is to be held on the same day as the first one, on 24th May. The only time this has happened before was in 2003. The earliest Eurovision date was in 1957, on 3rd March and the latest was in 1999 when it was held on 29th May.

There is a rule that limits the number of performers to six.

The number of performers on stage
1 artist        11 times
2 artists        4 times
3 artists        1 time
4 artists        8 times
5 artists      12 times
6 artists      18 times

Since massive Charlotte Perrelli's promo-tour in 2008 Sweden doesn't seem to put loads of efforts in flying across Europe to promote its song for Eurovision to other countries before the contest.
This year wasn't exception but however Eric Saade couldn't refuse to visit Russia having quite active programme of interviews and visits to a few tv-shows. Though Eric hasn't managed to get to popular Stars Factory show (that would be amazing possibility being shown on main country's channel) he has performed "Popular" at Armenian Music Awards and at Sunday show "Central TV".
Both performances were done with playback but looked quite well with Melodifestivalen choreography, here you can check both.

Eric Saade's video for his Melodifestivalen winning song "Popular" is unleashed!
Video was directed by Mikeadelica and as there's no Eric without dances you can expect a lot of dances - bloody dance fights, dance dramas and happy dancing end (sorry for a little spoiler but there's no place for a bad signs when you're going to Eurovision in a few weeks).
Two words about Eurovision. Eric was allowed to blast his glass cube on the stage of Eurovision, actually two cubes will be used for it, we're not sure about details of implementation but very soon as rehearsals will start we'll know from reports more how it will look like and will let you know.

Eurovision-race of melowinner Eric Saade has just started and currently all forces and hopes of Eric's team and team in Dusseldorf are aimed to repeat MF-show on the stage of Eurovision. But as it's whole month before Mr. Saade will start his first rehearsal appointed to May 3rd he has time to get on mini-tour around Sweden that seems to get pretty huge buzz.
Now you can check well-shot Eric's gig in Trelleborg's trade center where he performs "Still Loving It", "It's Gonna Rain" and ballad-version of "Popular" in front of the crowd of happy fans.