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ESC13: Those Who Didn’t Make It; Belarus – Switzerland and Belgium

December 16, 2012 Belarus, Belgium, Eurovision, Switzerland No comments

eurovision_song_contest_2013_logo_by_lazaric-d51dij3Believe it or not, but not even 8 months after Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest many countries have already started their quest for their nation’s hopeful in the 2013 event. Even though it’s still waiting for a final list of its participants, which according to various reports won’t have Slovakia, Portugal, Poland and Turkey included, the Eurovision season is full on.

As last year we’re not going to spoil the suspense by presenting you the winner songs, but we kick off with our ‘those who didn’t make it’ chapter where we present you some of the tracks, we think would have made a pretty good chance. We’re kicking off with Belarus who chose their entry last week, and finish with Switzerland and Belgium, who both made their choices yesterday and today.

Belarus: Daria – Catch Me Again

Last week, Belarus kicked off the Eurovision season with their Eurofest final. Belarus is one of the most intriguing countries when it comes to Eurovision as their selections seem to be rather interesting with most of the times the winner and its song being changed more than usual. However we don’t think that would have been a necessity if Belarus had chosen Daria to represent Belarus in Sweden with ‘Catch Me Again’. It’s old school, sixities and jazzy. Lovely lovely!

Switzerland:

Last night saw Switzerland choose its representative for the contest and going unanimously for the salvation army. Listening to the other candidates this fella caught our attention the most. With a track that sounds a bit like a Coldplay track, but sung by a singer with a voice timbre of Roch Voisine, Nicolas Fraissinet’s Lève-toi would have been a decent entry for Malmo in our opinion. A bit baffled this ended fairly low in the overall ranking. Never the less still very enjoyable.

Belgium:

Just barely a month ago, Belgian broadcaster RTBF announced the winner of their first season of the Voice, Robert Bellarossi would defend the nation at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. This morning during a radio show, the young performer presented three songs of which one was selected to be the entry. One of the tracks, coming from his latest album ‘Reste Toi’ has to be our favourite though as it’s catchy fresh and reminds us a little bit one particular Swedish pop star who went to third place back in Germany, now two years ago in the Eurovision Song Contest.

What do you make of these songs, and what were your favourites? We’d love to hear!

Kicking of our brand new ‘Track of the Day’ chapter: ”Out at Sea” by Tom Dice

August 31, 2012 Belgium No comments

Track of the Day is a brand new chapter on GloPopmusic where we pay particular attention to one artist and a song which is stuck in our head, and makes us press the replay button over and over and over again. Add some facts about the artist and bang… a new chapter is born. Different artist and track every day.

Kicking off as the first is Belgian singer songwriter Tom Dice and his song ‘Out At Sea’. With his distinctive voice, Tom’s ‘Out at Sea’ is a highlight on his second album ‘Heart For Sale’ and one of those tunes which does not leave your head.

Facts: Tom Dice (born Tom Eeckhout in Eeklo, Belgium on 25 November 1989) is a Belgian singer-songwriter, who finished second in the Flemish version of The X Factor in 2008 and represented Belgium in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest where he became 6th with 143 points (Germany won with 246 points). Since he’s released two albums; ‘Teardrops’ (2010) and ‘Heart For Sale’ (2012). Dice has since his appearance at Eurovision been a regular music guest in several Central European countries ( amongst them Germany and France) doing rather well in the charts.

Biggest Hits: ‘Me & My Guitar’ (2010), ‘Il Nous Faut’ ft Elisa Tovati (2011)

Is out on Itunes? Yes and on Spotify, in fact both Dice’s albums are available for purchase.

Upcoming new material? He certainly has. ‘Drive me to Paris’ has been announced as the next single. We did a review for it just over a week ago. Look in our archive for that.

 

 

Tom Dice confirms ‘Drive Me To Paris’ as new single

August 22, 2012 Belgium No comments

Tom Dice, the Belgian representative in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest, has since his appareance at the festival become a rather renown name in several European countries.  After scoring a huge hit in the German-speaking countries and his native Belgium with ‘Me and My Guitar’ in 2010, and the duet ‘Il Nous Faut’ with French singer Elisa Tovati (a smash hit in France last year) the singer’s been releasing his second album ‘Heart for Sale’ spanning 2 hit singles to date; ‘Utopia’ and ‘Out at Sea’.

While ‘Out at Sea’ is currently doing extremely well in the Belgian charts , Tom Dice has confirmed during the annual Summer hit event in Belgium this weekend, his new single. The next single is to be called ‘Drive Me To Paris’ and can be heard below. It’s turned out to be a mid tempo track, and one we actually like a lot as well.

An official date for the single is yet to be confirmed, same for the video, but good luck for those in the UK. The track ‘Drive Me To Paris’ is already available to buy on iTunes through the album ‘Heart for Sale’, which is great to buy as well.

Listen to the song through this Fan made video below:

Album Review: ‘Electroshock’ by Kate Ryan

June 28, 2012 Album Review, Belgium 3 comments

Belgian dance diva, Kate Ryan has officially presented her new album Electroshock to the press last Monday. ‘Electroshock’ contains 14 new tracks, all of them mainly in English, is the singers final full studio album.

If the alarm bells start ringing of Kate withdrawing from the music scene, let us tell you, Belgian’s finest dance export is not leaving the music industry but is well aware of the growing popularity of services like Spotify and iTunes where fans buy the songs they like rather than purchasing the full album.

The album, which was originally expected in September last year, has been well worth the wait. As the queen of dance, with a huge popularity scale in Europe, Kate’s transformed ‘Electroshock’ in the party album for this summer, with an incredible amount of songs which could well turn out to be big smash hits all over Europe.

Opening the album is ‘Lovelife’,  the first single featuring a sample of Liquido’s ‘Narcotic’, released in 2011, which is followed by the beat-heavy dance track ‘believer’. The latter has a very international sound which shows the first glimpse of a return to the top of the dance charts throughout Europe.

Electroshock has so far seen three single releases. All three tracks have made the final cut of the album, also ‘Broken’ which was released towards the end of last year.  The track features British rapper Narco and follows last year’s trend of producers and singers collaborating with artists from the rapper world. Though its intentions were noble, Narco doesn’t really own his part in the song and in all honesty ‘Broken’ would have been better off as a Kate only track. Good news for the fans though, Kate allows everybody to download her version for free as a big thank you. Also current single ‘Robots’  is featured and comes closest ,alongside’ Leave it Alone’, to her previous work from the ‘Alive’-era.

Overall ‘Electroshock’ is a very solid, international sounding album which exposures some jams, similar to Goldfrapp. ‘Walk To The Beat’, ‘One More Time’ and ‘Everytime’ are the perfect examples of that comparison. Those three tracks do not only sound perfect for international recognition but proof Kate is much more than the ‘lady from the French covers’ and more than worth her title of Eurodance queen. ‘Madness’, is probably the most laid back track from the album and its Electro R&B midtempo arrangement is simply astonishing

And just when you think it couldn’t get any better, Kate does provide us with French lyrics as she’s gearing up her schlager duet ‘Little Braveheart’ with former Swedish  Eurovision winner Charlotte Perelli. Both ladies have a Eurovision past, and this cheeky, uptempo track wouldn’t have been misplaced for a second try at Eurovision itself, which Kate confirmed she would be more than happy to take on. The best is saved for last however with ‘Run Away’. The track, which is produced by the man behind Avicii, Tim Berg, is a cracker of a tune which complements two of the biggest stars on the scene, and is bound to conquer the world. Kudos!

As a final studio album, Kate has outdone herself again. ‘Electroshock’ is the biggest dance album of 2012!

‘Electroshock’ is out now in Belgium and is scheduled to be released in several European countries over the next few days. The album can also be bought through the official Kate Ryan website.

Listen to ‘Little Braveheart’ below

ESC 2012: Full televoting split results announced.

June 18, 2012 Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Eurovision, Finland, France, FYR Macedonia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK, Ukraine No comments

It’s been three weeks since Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Many fans of the event are now in anticipation to find out the split votes between the juries and televoting, announced by the 42 participating broadcasters.

Eurovision.tv has today published the ranking after all 42 broadcasters voted in the final. As expected the televoters and juries agreed on the eventual winner, Sweden, while there was clear disagreement with its runner up Russia. Three of the big five countries Italy, France and Spain have all benefited from the juries as Italy and Spain both made it into the top ten, while France would have ended up with a nil point based on televoting only. A nil points hasn’t occurred occurred in the final since the introduction of the current system in 2004.

Country Combined Televote Jury vote
- # Pts # Pts # Pts
Sweden 1 372 1 343 1 296
Russia 2 259 2 332 11 94
Serbia 3 214 3 211 2 173
Azerbaijan 4 150 5 151 8 118
Albania 5 146 8 106 3 157
Estonia 6 120 12 78 6 152
Turkey 7 112 4 176 22 50
Germany 8 110 6 125 10 98
Italy 9 101 17 56 4 157
Spain 10 97 18 45 5 154
Moldova 11 81 13 75 9 104
F.Y.R.Macedonia 12 71 11 79 17 69
Romania 13 71 7 117 20 53
Lithuania 14 70 14 68 14 82
Cyprus 15 65 15 63 12 85
Ukraine 16 65 20 37 7 125
Greece 17 64 9 89 18 60
Bosnia & Herzegovina 18 55 16 57 15 71
Iceland 19 46 19 39 19 53
Ireland 20 46 10 89 25 14
Malta 21 41 25 10 16 70
Denmark 22 21 23 18 21 51
France 23 21 26 0 13 85
Hungary 24 19 22 20 23 30
United Kingdom 25 12 21 36 26 11
Norway 26 7 24 16 24 24

The results of both semi finals have also been revealed as follows:

Semifinal 1:

Country Combined Televote Jury vote
- # Pts # Pts # Pts
Russia 1 152 1 189 8 75
Albania 2 146 3 131 1 131
Romania 3 120 2 132 5 87
Greece 4 116 5 110 3 103
Moldova 5 100 7 85 2 107
Ireland 6 92 4 116 10 72
Cyprus 7 91 6 99 4 90
Iceland 8 75 8 79 11 70
Denmark 9 63 9 53 6 81
Hungary 10 52 11 39 7 76
Switzerland 11 45 10 49 13 45
Finland 12 41 12 36 12 57
Israel 13 33 16 16 9 72
San Marino 14 31 13 25 14 42
Montenegro 15 20 14 24 16 28
Latvia 16 17 15 18 18 17
Belgium 17 16 18 2 15 38
Austria 18 8 17 15 17 27

Semifinal 2:

Country Combined Televote Jury vote
- # Pts # Pts # Pts
Sweden 1 181 1 180 1 145
Serbia 2 159 2 148 2 141
Lithuania 3 104 3 128 10 55
Estonia 4 100 5 88 4 102
Turkey 5 80 4 114 13 42
Bosnia & Herzegovina 6 77 7 70 6 77
Malta 7 70 11 39 5 97
Ukraine 8 64 17 24 3 109
F.Y.R. Macedonia 9 53 8 63 9 58
Bulgaria 11 45 9 59 17 27
Norway 10 45 6 72 18 25
Croatia 12 42 14 34 7 66
Portugal 13 39 13 37 12 49
Georgia 14 36 18 15 8 62
Belarus 16 35 12 37 11 52
The Netherlands 15 35 10 51 16 31
Slovenia 17 31 16 27 14 40
Slovakia 18 22 15 32 15 40

Source: Escextra.com, Eurovision.tv

Due to Loreen winning the contest for Sweden with ‘Euphoria’ the Eurovision Song Contest is moving to Sweden since it’s victory in 1999 when the Swedish broadcaster hosted the very first contest of the millennium in 2000.

Watch the full recap of this years Eurovision Song Contest Final below

ESC 2012: Jury votes in from Slovenia, Ireland, Belgium and Bosnia Herzegovina.

June 15, 2012 Albania, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Eurovision, Ireland, Slovenia No comments

It’s been three weeks since Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden, in Baku, Azerbaijan. Many fans of the event are now in anticipation to find out the split votes between the juries and televoting, announced by the 42 participating broadcasters.

4 of them have announced their results already: Slovenia, Ireland, Belgium and Bosnia Herzegovina are the latest edition.

The system of 50% televoting and 50% juries was introduced in 2010, as an answer to claims of political voting in the past.

Semi 2   Slovenia 1       Ireland 1        Belgium 2       Bosnia H.

1 point

Estonia

Switzerland

Romania

Slovenia

2 points

Turkey

Albania

Cyprus

Turkey

3 points

Georgia

Hungary

Finland

Malta

4 points

Norway

Israel

Iceland

Portugal

5 points

Portugal

Denmark

Greece

Ukraine

6 points

Malta

Cyprus

Ireland

Bulgaria

7 points

Lithuania

Greece

Austria

Serbia

8 points

Croatia

Finland

Albania

FYR Macedonia

10 points

Serbia

Romania

Hungary

Sweden

12 points

Sweden

Belgium

Russia

Croatia
Final

1 point

Spain

France

Greece

Iceland

2 points

Cyprus

Spain

Germany

Estonia

3 points

Germany

Denmark

Iceland

Ukraine

4 points

Russia

Romania

Hungary

Azerbaijan

5 points

Moldova

Azerbaijan

Ireland

France

6 points

Bosnia

Italy

Russia

Serbia

7 points

Iceland

Ukraine

Spain

Spain

8 points

Italy

Sweden

Serbia

Albania

10 points

Serbia

Germany

Sweden

Sweden

12 points

Sweden

Estonia

Albania

FYR Macedonia

The jury results for the final see Sweden and Albania receiving the most amount of 12 points. Albania was represented by Rona Nishliu and her ballad ‘Suus’. Loreen from Sweden won the contest with ‘Euphoria’.

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