Vladislav Yakovlev – The Executive Supervisor for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Eurovision Young Dancers and Eurovision Young Musicians – was “fired today” by the EBU. Vladislav took to social media this morning to share this news and to state the reasons why he felt he was fired by […]
SVT have made their announcement for the Melodifestivalen Hosts for 2016. As expected Gina Diwawi, who the good people at Aftonbladet said would got the call, indeed got named first as the main hostess. However in two surprise announcements Petra Mede and Charlotte Perrelli have been announced as co hosts for […]
Swedish news agency Aftonbladet yesterday posted a list of acts that they claim will be announced as Melodifestivalen 2015 contestants. Today and tomorrow SVT will announce the singers that will compete at Melodifestivalen 2015 in the hope of reaching Eurovision 2015 in Vienna. In the list of acts that […]
Sweden – Can the ‘Manboy’ be ‘Popular’ again at Eurovision 2015? Eric Saade rumoured for Melodifestivalen 2015 according to Swedish agency Aftonbladet. They paper reports that the 2011 ‘Popular’ singer is one of the 28 acts to be announced next Monday and Tuesday as a contestant in Melodifestivalen 2015. […]
Melodifestivalen 2014 is shaping up to be a serious “name dropping” event according to Swedish news reports today. Greek Eurovision winner Elena Paparizou along with Elisa Lindström, Yohio and Dr Alban have been cited as being ready to participate in the Swedish Eurovision Selection for 2014. According to Swedish […]
Norway came a very respectable 4th at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with Margaret Berger’s electro-pop song “I Feed You My Love”. She has recently recorded a 20 minute live set in Sweden for Aftonbladet that you can see here. Also she has released the the “I Feed […]
The original – and the best – line up of Swedish pop group legends “Army of Lovers”, reformed for Melodifestivalen this year and brought us the highly underrated “Rockin the Ride”. It was a teenage dream come true to see Alexander Bard, La Camilla and Jean-Pierre Barda back together […]
The EBU are set to drop their investigation into vote-buying allegations at Eurovision 2013, according to Swedish Media outlet Aftonbladet. Lithuanian media 15.min had posted an alleged video showing an attempt to purchase tele votes for Azerbaijan at this year’s Eurovision. Just a few weeks ago Eurovision Supervisor […]