ESC 2015 SWEDEN: HERE ARE THE ARTISTS FOR MELODIFESTIVALEN SEMIFINALS 1 & 2

Christer Björkman announced the 14 acts for the first two semifinals (the rest tomorrow) in a live webcast this morning. Most of the names were rumored already but there are some surprises not gossiped before like 18-year-old Idol-Molly, the return of Marie Bergman in duet with Sanne Salomonssen, Mariette Hansson and the unknowns Emelie Irewald.

Semifinal 1 - Göteborg, February 7, 2015

Jessica Andersson - Can't hurt me now
Aleena Gibson, Fredrik Thomander

Behrang Miri & Viktor Crone - Det rår vi inte för

Behrang Miri, Albin Johnsén, Måns Zelmerlöw, Tony Nilsson

Dolly Style - Hello hi

Emma Nors, Palle Hammarlund, Jimmy Jansson

Molly Pettersson-Hammar - I'll be fine
Molly Pettersson Hammar, Lisa Desmond, Tim Larsson, Tobias Lundgren, Gavin Jones

Rickard Söderberg & Eliza Ryd - One by one
Elize Ryd, Jimmy Jansson, Karl-Ola Kjellholm, Sharon Vaughn

Daniel Gildenlöw - Pappa
Daniel Gildenlöw

Eric Saade - Sting
Fredrik Kempe, Hamed ”K-one” Pirouzpanah, David Kreuger, Sam Arash Fahmi

Semifinal 2 - Malmö, February 14, 2015

Mariette Hansson - Don't stop bielieving
Miss Li, Sonny Gustafsson

Emelie Irewald - Där och då med mig
Emelie Irewald

Linus Svenning - Forever starts today
Aleena Gibson, Anton Malmberg Hård af Segerstad, Fredrik Kempe

Magnus Carlsson - Möt mig i Gamla Stan
Thomas G:son, Lina Eriksson

Samir Badran & Viktor Frisk - Groupie
Anton Malmberg Hård af Segerstad, Kevin Högdahl, Maria Smith, Viktor Thell

Neverstore - If I was God for one day
Thomas G:son, John Gordon, Jacob Widén

Marie Bergman & Sanne Salomonsen - Nonetheless
Andreas Stone Johansson, Allison Kaplan

Jessica Andersson returns for the sixth time, she won as a part of FAME in 2003 (5th in ESC). Iranian worn Behrang returns for the 2nd time after 2013. Daniel Gildenlöw debuts as a solo artists but already did MF with his band Pain of Salvation. Saade returns for the third time after winning in 2011 (3rd in ESC). Mariette has been guitar to both Magnus Uggla and Ace Wilder. Emelie took part in True Talent tv-show in 2011 and finished 4th. Linus returns for the second year in a row. Magnus is back for the 8th time if you count his solo efforts, Barbados and Alcazar entries. Samir is a reality Tv star and Viktor a fashion blogger - enough said.... Marie Bergman has done ESC already three times, making her the only artist who has won every time she took part (is she? who knows better?) Danish Sanne returns for the second time.

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SONGS OF THE YEAR 2015: #5 KRISTA SIEGFRIDS - ON & OFF

Krista Siegfrids is delivering nice pop tunes one after another and this one is particularly catchy and soon you will be singing along..... Hopefully her Melodifestivalen entry will be equally good!

ESC 2016 WISH LIST: MARGARET FOR POLAND

Małgorzata Jamroży aka Margaret has also been tipped for Eurovision and apparently she did turn it down but she'd be perfect. She's got a look and persona you can't unnotice nor forget, she's got hit songs, she has been voted or nominated for everything from Trendy artist to the Hope of the Year, Fashion Icon and Glamour Woman of the year besides the usual best video, song, album, debut..... Oh she's also a fashion designer! She's very clever with social medias and would surely use it to her advantage if selected for Stockholm 2016. Her debut album is titled Add the blonde , do we need to say more? Except it includes mostly Swedish written pop tunes like Tell me how are ya , Wasted , Start a fire and Heartbeat . And of course her debut single and internationally noticed Thank you very much that you can enjoy below with all its anti-textil feel. I think she's Eurovision perfection, she's cheeky and fun, can we have her?

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Douwe Bob has released a follow up for his fortunate Eurovision entry off the Fool Bar album, How lucky we are . And indeed, we are lucky there's Douwe doing these laid back pop country tracks that give such good vibes.... Sadly I can't say the same about the video (or maybe I just miss the humour in it?) but I can slow down, keep listening the song and not watch the video.....

Boobs for summer: Samantha vs Sabrina!

The old rivals have put their bras (or the lack of them) in peace and entered the studios together to record Blondie's boombastic Call me . Life could be worse.....

TWO POINTS, THREE SOCKS AND TWIN TWIN NUDE

The French Twin Twin may have scored France's first ever last place in the Eurovision with their only two points in the final, but the guys didn't seem to worry that much. They appeared in the French talk show on Sunday night wearing only their socks hiding their privates with the slogan taken from a Celine Dion song: Les derniers seront les premieres . Now that's a good spirit! (Watch it here from 2:33) Having had a bus ride from the Arena back to hotel with these guys I'm not surprised. Oh Yeah!

MALTA: CHIARA AND LUDWIG SHINE AT QORMI WINE FESTIVAL, WITH EYE IN KIEV

I had a pleasure to visit Qormi wine festival and spend a fabulous night. The food was great, the music was great, the wine was great.... and the people were amazing. In between enjoying the music by a duo Gianni & Papps first, and then by Spiteri Lucas Band with singers Kaya, Neville Refalo, Ivan and Eurovision veterans Ludwig Galea and Chiara taking leads (on again.... off again so to speak) and supporting each other through rock and pop classics to today's hits. Highly entertaining evening in every sense of the word. I was lucky enough to have a chat with Chiara and greet also Ludwig, who I saw last in Istanbul 2004. Chiara turned out to be the most lovable and wonderful person - check out the video of Grande amore below to see her blowing kisses just for you! She also sung her very own Angel , but also Euphoria and Waterloo , Dancing queen .... Sadly by dear old Lumia decided not to cooperate at that point anymore :-( But after the jump yo...

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Nina Badrić for Croatia

Croatian TV went for internal selection in the end and chose Nina Badrić. She has been around for almost 20 years and has released ten albums between 1995 and 2011. She has also treid to get to Eurovision four times already without a win (1993, 1994, 1995 and 2003). She is popular also in the other ex-Yogoslavian countries so let those 12s run in.... Listen her here: Moje oci pune ljubavi , Dat ce nam Bog , Nebo and Mama . And lovely Carobno jutro .

CZECH REPUBLIC: MARTINA BÁRTA PRESENTS MY TURN

Czech Republic's internally chosen Martina Bárta has released her entry My turn for the Eurovision as well today. Not sure if I managed to keep my attention level very high for very long when listening to it.... Shame.

SWEDEN: MEDS MAKES MÅNS ZELMERLÖW HARD AND NAKED

Earlier this year Måns Zelmerlöw invested some of his money into web pharmacy MEDS and now he's ready to bare it all for its advertising film, which is.... how to put it? The corniest thing I have seen for a long, long time perhaps? Supposed to be funny the way his Eurovision presenting stunts were I presume, but this falls somewhere between embarassing and uncool. Well, we get to admire some over acrting and a lot of naked Måns riding a horse and sporting a hard on at one point. Maybe that's enough to make MEDS a success.... Where's Edward af Sillen when you need him?

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