A week ago the Danish TV viewers saw Ida Lohmann, Danish finalist from 2000, make it through to next phase of The Voice in Denmark. Saturday evening another former Melodi Grand Prix participant tried his luck in the same talent show, but lost as the judges were expecting more from the 2008 finalist, Claus Hassing.… Read more
A few days before Chrismas Belarus will pick five songs to go through to their national final. The songs will be selected from a semi-final with a line-up of 15 acts, one of them being Anastasiya Vinnikova, who represented her country in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with the song I Love Belarus. The 5 lucky… Read more
Danish finalist from 11 years ago, Ida Lohmann, was in Saturday’s first episode of Voice – Danmark’s Største Stemme. This is the Danish version of the famous Dutch programme, which is currently running in several countries. Saturday Ida was picked by Lene Nystrøm from Aqua. It started in the Netherlands with John de Mol and Voice of… Read more
After Felix Smith earlier this autumn decided to change jobs Danish broadcaster, DR, was forced to find two new hosts for next year’s Dansk Melodi Grand Prix. Today they announced that it will be Louise Wolff and Emil Thorup to guide people through the national final that takes place on the 21st of January 2012.… Read more
First 161 songs were cut down to 62 which have now been cut down to 24 songs that will participate in the Maltese semi-final, which has been moved to the 3rd of February. Still in the running to represent his country at the Eurovision Song Contest for the third time is Fabrizio Faniello. The Maltese… Read more
A week before the Danish final a gigantic choir will entertain all around the Northern city Aalborg to make sure the city is ready for the Danish final just a week later. Three Danish entries have been chosen for the event that will function as a warm up for the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix and… Read more
Swedish top singer Nanne Grönvall, with a long list of national selections behind her and also one Eurovision Song Contest participation, has been working on a tribute album titled My Rock Favourites. The album, that contains 16 songs, was released today making it a likely Christmas present for many. Nanne, who is actually born Marianne… Read more
Four humble boys are in Canada to make their dream come true – or in other words – A Friend In London is there to record their debut album in surroundings they never imagined. It has taken seven years, but now the time is right and beginning of next year the album will hit the… Read more
On the 16th of November Björn Skifs, double Swedish Eurovision Song Contest participant, will release a new album. The title song from this album has already been well recieved leaving high expectations for the album, that is entirely in English and includes a duet performed at the wedding of the Swedish Crown Princess Viktoria. Four… Read more
Denmark’s rock mama number one, Sanne Salomonsen, is back with a new album titled Tiden Brænder. The album contains 13 songs all in Danish and will be the first in this decade, that is Sanne’s fifth as one of the country’s most popular singers. Sanne Salomonsen took part in the Swedish selection in 2005 with… Read more
When Switzerland on the 10th of December pick its participant for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest it will be from a line-up consisting of 14 entries. One of those are the very first Eurovision Song Contest winner Lys Assia who will try to make it back to the international contest 56 years after her victory.… Read more
Swedish broadcaster has just announced the songtitles and the songwriters who will be participating at the 2012 Swedish selection, Melodifestivalen. The list include quite some familiar names such as Sonja Aldén, Thomas G:son, Fredrik Kempe, Lasse Holm and Andreas Johnson. While Swedish medias are speculating in which names we will see performing the songs SVT, the Swedish… Read more
In four online preliminary heats a total of 31 amateur songwriters have been competing about one spot in next year’s run to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in Baku in May. Minutes ago it was decided that Maria BenHajji won the final of this Webbjoker competion. Swedish broadcaster, SVT’s webbjoker competition is for… Read more
A couple of days ago Jedward announced to MTV that they would be representing Ireland again at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. Now however it turns out that they were speaking a bit too soon as they will have to go through a national final competing against 4 others before they can go to Baku.… Read more
Kirsten & Søren aka Hot Eyes, who represented Denmark a total of three times at the Eurovision Song Contest in the 1980’s, will be reunited for a Christmas song on Kirsten Siggaards next album. This will be the first new recording since the duo came third at the 1988 contest held in Ireland. Kirsten Siggaard… Read more
Is Strictly Come Dancing a dancing programme or is it an entertainment programme? That is up to discussion after Kaya Brüel and her dancing partner Steen Lund was voted out of the Danish edition. He is now so angry that he has decided never to participate again and is supported by other professional dancers. Friday… Read more
A Friend In London left for Canada today for the recording of their debut album. When they in December again will have Danish ground under their feet they want to celebrate with those fans who are there to greet them at the airport. A Friend In London who came 5th at this year’s Eurovision… Read more
According to MTV it is officially confirmed that Jedward will participate again at next year’s Eurovision Song Contest – once again representing Ireland. They are promising to come with a better song that their entry in Düsseldorf, Lipstick. Jedward consist of the two twin boys John and Edward. At this year’s Eurovison Song Contest they… Read more
On her new album Birthe Kjær is showing a rather new side of herself when she diggs into 12 well known international classics to give them new life. For Birthe this album is a dream come true, but is she too much out of her comfort zone here or does she have what it takes? … Read more
Saturday evening it was time for Lulu’s fourth dance in the 9th season of the British Strictly Come Dancing. The 1969 Eurovision Song Contest winner had to improve if she wanted to stay much longer in the tough competition. With plenty of energy she was hoping to break a curse. So far two couples have… Read more
Few days after its release Rasmus Seebach’s cover version of his dad’s third and last Eurovision Song Contest entry Under Stjernerne På Himlen makes it to the Danish charts. With 107 weeks on the list so far his previous album is still among the best selling ones. It is not many who will find… Read more
2010 Danish national finalist Kaya Brüel has so far survived 5 couples being voted out of Vild Med Dans 2011, the danish edition of Strictly Come Dancing, but nerves are high for Friday where she won’t be able to dance live and risk being kicked out while she is in Germany for a theatre performance. … Read more
Despite celebrating her 40 years anniversary on the music scene a couple of years ago Birthe Kjær, who represented Denmark at the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest, is still going strong. On a new album released today she fulfil a dream of hers. The album, that is entirely in English, includes classics such as My Way… Read more
When Rasmus Seebach tomorrow release his next album it will for the first time include a cover version of one of his dad’s Eurovision Song Contest entries. Senior Seebach got to represent Denmark a total of three times, but despite a lot of encouragement Rasmus has so far refused going that way. Tommy Seebach was… Read more
After seven weeks it had come to an end of DR’s new talent show Skjulte Stjerner (Hidden Stars) where A Friend In London’s leadsinger Tim Schou sings together with Gry’s 13 year old son, Thomas. Right from the start this duo has been the favourite to win it all. In tonight’s final they managed to… Read more
First four songs were disqualfied from the Webbjokern selection. Three of them replaced – and now the Swedish broadcaster, SVT, has announced that one of the replacement songs is out again due to yet another disqualification, this time because it should have been submitted for the actual Melodifestivalen instead. The song No Games is… Read more