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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

The winners of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, the Finnish hard-rock monster-band Lordi, have released a new iPhone game, called Lordi The Game.  Its about 'banishing the undead from the underworld',  and is categorized as a rhythm-based action game. It features music from their upcoming album Babez for Breakfast. You can download it in the iTunes store.

Fud Leclerc, the man who represented Belgium four times at the Eurovision Song Contest, passed away on September 21, 2010. 

Despite widespread discontent about "political voting" at the ESC do not hold your breath as it is not about to change. Greece and Cyprus had always given each other 12 points, as well as among the Nordic countries. In an effort to stem this activity the ESC replaced national juries with national televotes. While it is definitely a change it is not a solution. Large immigrant populations in other nations have a tendency to vote for their homeland en masse. It is a fact of life, political voting is the norm in the contemporary ESC. So get over it, and just enjoy the wonderful music!










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!