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Remember T.A.T.U? Julia Volkova, one of its member’s has gone solo. Check out her effort here

August 23, 2012 Russia No comments

Let us take you back 11 years ago, when the world was taken by storm in 2001 by Russian female duo T.A.T.U. Their video for ‘All The Things she said’ caused quite a lot of controversy due to members Yulia Volkova and Lena Katina kissing onscreen. The band went on to become one of the biggest Russian music export products but now after three English studio albums, three Russian albums and four compilation albums, T.A.T.U. is no longer.

But don’t be afraid, one of its members Julia Volkova has since set her eyes on going for a solo career, and by the looks of it in her own country she’s been doing very well. Preceded by a first solo release in 2011, and having appeared at the 2012 selection for Eurovision with former winner Dima Bilan, Volkova is aiming now to equal her T.A.T.U with ‘Didn’t Wanna Do It’.

Teaming up with Saeed Molavi, Nadir Benkahla, Taj Jackson Julia has come up with a witty, and a decent pop song which is quite in contrast with the direction of T.A.T.U. Is it any good? We actually like it a lot. The witty riddle in the chorus does work. The track was released digitally worldwide on August 21 through Gala Records. A full studio album is expected in the near studio.

Funky Pop by Russian girl group Serebro.

June 23, 2012 Russia No comments

How can this not be available in its normal radio edit on the UK charts? We’re talking about the latest single of Russian girl trio Serebro. ‘Mama Lover’ was released during the summer of 2011 making it the most successful single of the band so far in Europe.

It’s dancey, uptempo, funky and has got a disco feel to it. Shame shame shame really. But not all is lost. The single was the lead for their new album ‘Mama Lover’ which is to be released this coming week. Let’s hope there is plenty of similar sounding tracks on the album, and an international release at some point for the band who represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007 and came third.

For the fans who haven’t got it yet, and would still like it there is the Gary Caos Remix which is available through iTunes UK Store.

ESC 2012: Full televoting split results announced.

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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

 
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