Posts by Tommy

Lasse Flinckman (After Dark) passes away

Lasse Flinckman, the dragshow artist and former member of the group After Dark, has passed away after a time of illness. Swedish media reports today that he died on th 18th of April. To the Swedish audience and Melodifestivalen fans he is most known for playing a significant role during the performance of the song La Dolce Vita from… Read more

Josefin Nilsson passes away

The singer and actor Josefin Nilsson has passed away in her home. She was most known as singer in the group Ainbusk singers. In 2005 she participated in Melodifestivalen. Josefin became 46 years old. Read more

Carina Jaarnek passes away

Carina Jaarnek, two times participant of Melodifestivalen, passed away at a hospital in Stockholm during the evening on Saturday the 16th of January due to cerebral haemorrhage. Carina became 53 years old. Read more

Melodifestivalen 2016 – The running order

The Swedish broadcaster SVT picked the running order today for its highly popular national selection Melodifestivalen. Samir & Viktor will kick off the party on February 6 while the bookmakers’ favourite to win Molly Sandén is doing the last number in the semifinals on February 27. Read more

The hosting cities of Melodifestivalen 2016

Today the swedish broadcaster SVT revealed the hosting cities of the swedish national selection Melodifestivalen 2016. The final is going to be held at Friends Arena for the fourth consecutive year and Halmstad is making its debut as host city for one of the heats. Read more

Måns Zelmerlöw & Melodifestivalen stars to guest Allsång på Skansen 2015

Eurovision winners Måns Zelmerlöw, Charlotte Perrelli and Carola are some of the big names when SVT announced the guests in the popular Swedish tv-show Allsång på Skansen which kicks off on the 23rd of June and then runs every Tuesday evening until the 11th August. Other well known names include Lena Philipsson, Nanna Grönvall, Alcazar, Danny Saucedo, Magnus Carlsson… Read more

Eurovision songs among the most downloaded in Sweden this week

The swedish radio chart program “DigiListan” has summed up the most downloaded songs to computers, mobile phones and other media players this week. And it’s yet another year where several Eurovision songs enters the charts, a few charted actually already the previous week. Just like in the last years we have one Eurovision song in… Read more

Måns Zelmerlöws victory in Swedish media

Måns Zelmerlöws victory in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 has been all over the news in in Sweden. Here we write about his Sunday, what swedish media wrote, chart success on Itunes and some early rumours about next years hosting of the contest. Read more