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It’s Here! Loreen unveils music Video for ‘Euphoria’

July 5, 2012 Sweden No comments

Loreen, who won the Eurovision Song Contest back in Baku, has officially unveiled the music video for her winning track ‘Euphoria’. Her winning track is one of the most successful tracks to come from the contest, being in the top of the charts all over Europe since she took victory in Azerbaijan at the end of May.

The video sees the singer in a misty forest, dancing in the rain. It’s all very mysterious and Kate Bush. We so like it!

The singer has also confirmed she will be releasing a new version of her 2011 hit ‘My Heart is Refusing Me’ later this year , which was her first try in the national preselection of Sweden last year . Though it didn’t reach the final, it became a huge fan favorite.

Watch the official Video for ‘Euphoria’ below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5UCZLniMW8

ESC 2013: The Latest Eurovision News from Sweden

June 27, 2012 Daily News, Eurovision, Sweden No comments

The 2012 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest has only finished a month ago, yet news about the forthcoming edition in Sweden is already on its. Here’s a short story of what’s been going on in Eurovision land so far:

SVT, the winning Swedish broadcaster has announced its production team for the contest which is currently scheduled for 14, 16 and 18 May. The broadcaster has opted for an experienced team with Martin Österdahl as executive producer of the show. He will be joined by SVT Malmö head Christel Tholse Willers, who’ll take up the role as head of relations, Johan Bernhagen, Head of Production and Christer Björkman, the current Swedish delegation leader and executive producer of Swedish selection format ‘Melodifestivalen’. He will function as the show’s producer.

The broadcaster has also confirmed the return of its highly successful formula ‘Melodifestivalen’ which will continue to be used as their selection method. SVT has announced a few changes for this year: The web joker system, will not be used any longer, instead the winner of radio show ‘Svensktoppen Nästa 2012′ will be able to take part with a different song. 15 songs will be taken from two websites, where Swedish and foreign composers can upload their material from 3-17 September onwards. Newcomers can do so in the Public contest, while the established producers upload their tracks to the Regular Contest. The remaining 16 songs are to be  written or composed on request by SVT. To read the rules in English click here.

As usual, the composers and song titles are expected to be announced around October/November, while the announcement of performers is expected in December. The actual heats are expected to commence on February 2nd. The different cities to host the heats have not been confirmed yet apart from its final which is taking place on March 9th 2013 in the newly Friends Arena nearby Stockholm.

Stockholm is currently also one of the cities who has bid to host the Eurovision Song Contest, originally alongside Malmö and Gothenburg. The latter however has withdrawn its application. Despite the rumors that the Eurovision Song Contest could take a Melodifestivalen approach and have its two semi finals and final in three different cities, Björkman confirmed that their would only be one host city as, as logistics would be incredibly difficult in such a short time span. The bid is expected to be won, by Stockholm which has two venues with interest: Globen and the new Friends Arena (pictured).

Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest on May 26 with ‘Euphoria’ by Loreen. Watch her winning performance below:

(sources: Youtube, EscToday, EscExtra, Eurovision.tv, SVT.se)

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

ESC 2012: Danish split jury results announced.

June 17, 2012 Denmark, Eurovision 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.

9th country to make their votes public, is the Danish broadcaster. In a nut shell Moldova grabbed the 12 points during the semi final for the juries, while the overall semi result saw Russia being crowned as winner. The jury and Danish public did however agree on their 12 points in the final, which went to… find out below:

Semi

Jury

Combined Vote

1 point

Ireland

Romania

2 points

Austria

Ireland

3 points

Russia

Israel

4 points

Cyprus

Greece

5 points

Finland

Hungary

6 points

Hungary

Moldova

7 points

Greece

Albania

8 points

Albania

Finland

10 points

Israel

Iceland

12 points

Moldova

Russia
Final

1 point

Greece

Romania

2 points

Romania

Turkey

3 points

Spain

Italy

4 points

Italy

Ireland

5 points

Cyprus

Albania

6 points

Russia

Iceland

7 points

Albania

Moldova

8 points

Moldova

Russia

10 points

Germany

Germany

12 points

Sweden

Sweden

(source: ESCextra.com)

Denmark was represented this year by Soluna Samay, with ‘Should’ve Known Better’, receiving 21 points, thus reaching 23rd in the final. More jury votes as expected soon.

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’.

ESC 2012: Jury votes in from Germany, Portugal, Finland and Italy

June 15, 2012 Eurovision, Finland, Germany, Italy, Portugal 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.

The system of 50% televoting and 50% juries was introduced in 2010, as an answer to claims of political voting in the past. First broadcasters to have released their jury votes are coming from Germany, Portugal and to a lesser extent Finland and Italy, who have both only given out the points of their juries in the final.

Find the results below

Semi

2          Germany

2           Portugal

1             Finland

1                 Italy

1 point

Portugal

Slovenia

TBA

TBA

2 points

Malta

Belarus

3 points

Croatia

Malta

4 points

Slovakia

Croatia

5 points

Bosnia

Georgia

6 points

Netherlands

Sweden

7 points

Serbia

Slovakia

8 points

Slovenia

Bosnia

10 points

Estonia

Serbia

12 points

Sweden

Estonia
Final

1 point

Ireland

Russia

Norway

Macedonia

2 points

Italy

Iceland

Albania

Denmark

3 points

Spain

Albania

Germany

Ukraine

4 points

Bosnia

France

France

Moldova

5 points

Serbia

Bosnia

Iceland

Cyprus

6 points

Albania

Italy

Russia

Serbia

7 points

Denmark

Serbia

Spain

Romania

8 points

Iceland

Estonia

Denmark

Germany

10 points

Estonia

Germany

Estonia

Russia

12 points

Sweden

Spain

Sweden

Albania

 

More results are to be made available in the foreseeable future.

Keep coming back to find out more.

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