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ITALY: SUMMER SOUNDS FROM ALESSANDRO CASILLO, GIGI D'ALESSIO ft. GUÉ PEQUENO, VALERIO SCANU, LO STATO SOCIALE ft. ARISA, M¥SS KETA

EUROVISION: NEW SOUNDS FROM JURIJUS, KAZKA, MADAME MONSIEUR, KEIINO

It seems every year some artist does a video of his Eurovision journey and this year it's Jurijus.  Salt to the wounds of unfair non qualification?

FINLAND: NEW SOUNDS FROM ROBIN, ABREU, REINO NORDIN, ANTTI KETONEN

Local teenage superstar aiming for post-army international career with new style.... Half Portuguese Abreu keeps flirting with Latin sounds Title track from his third album that went to #3 in charts following his success, he had the most played song of 2017 in radios with Antaudun  ... ... and this one was the most played song in radios in 2018!

ITALY: SUMMER SOUNDS FROM ANNALISA, SHADE, LIVIO CORI, ROMINA FALCONI

 

EUROVISION: NEW SOUNDS FROM MARGARET, ZLATA OGNEVICH, SEREBRO AND IDAN RAICHEL

MADONNA SCORES HER 9TH #1 US ALBUM WITH MADAME X

Despite her rather unsuccesful performance in the Eurovision song contest's interval in Tel Aviv, string of singles released so far and none of them really making an impact the album Madame X is proving a critical success and also one of her most fortunate ones in charts for a long, long time. It has become her 9th Billboard Top-200 number one album, and it topped the iTunes charts in 58 countries upon its release.  She's now only second to Barbra Streisand (she's got 11)  as a female artist, and above her are only besides Streisand The Beatles (19), Jay-Z (14) and Bruce Springsteen (11). Fun fact is Bruce Springsteen is #2 in the charts, just like in 1985 with their albums Like a virgin and Born in the USA . In UK they also top the charts but Springsteen takes the #1 spot, Madonna #2. Madonna is also the artist with most Top10s in all every Billboard charts combined: 163. This week besides topping the album chart Medellin tops the Hot Dance Club songs, becoming

EUROVISION: NEW SOUNDS FROM UZARI, ERIC SAADE, MASOE, HELENA PAPARIZOU

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EUROVISION: NEW SOUNDS FROM SAKIS ROUVAS, NAVIBAND, ANNA BERGENDAHL, GUY SEBASTIAN

ITALY: SUMMER SOUNDS FROM GIUSY FERRERI, BABY K, ELODIE, FEDERICA ABBATE, LORENZO FRAGOLA

 

ITALY: OVER 100.000.000 TIMES OF SOLDI ON YOUTUBE

  After hitting number one in every possible chart in Italy, breaking also a few all time records what comes to streaming (most streamed Italian song ever with 81 milion) and such, selling multiple platinum at home, platinum in Switzerland and gold in Spain, hitting number on in Israel and Greece and making the official singles charts in over 20 countries the success has no end: the live video from Eurovision song contest has become the most watched Italian entry ever on official Eurovision channel (over 12 milion), and the video itself has reached and passed 100 million mark becoming the fifth (and soon 4th) most watched Eurovision entry ever.  While the winner Duncan Laurence is appearing here and there while prepairing his fall/winter tour around Europe, Mahmood is touring Italy and making appearances in Sweden (also a first!) and Spain where he apparently right now recording a new single. Soon he will be also in Switzerland. Check below his tour dates that have regular addit

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY ANASTASIOS RAMMOS Αναστάσιος Ράμμος

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy.... In the end of this journey I may have found a new favorite :-) and with Έλενα Παπαρίζου

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY GIORGOS LIVANIS Γιώργος Λιβάνης

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy.... In the end of this journey I may have found a new favorite :-)

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY GIORGIOS SABANIS Γιώργος Σαμπάνης

  I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY KOSTAS MARTAKIS Kώστας Μαρτάκης

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY PETROS IAKOVIDIS Πέτρος Ιακωβίδης

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY ATHINA POLITI Αθηνά Πολίτη

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY KAITI GARBI Καίτη Γαρμπή

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY CHRISTOS MASTORAS Χρήστος Μάστορας

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY KONSTANTINOS ARGYROS Κωνσταντίνος Αργυρός

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY ELEFTHERIA ELEFTHERIOU Ελευθερία Ελευθερίου

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY DEMY

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY IVI ADAMOU Ήβη Αδάμου

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY NIKOS OIKONOMOPOULOS Νίκος Οικονομόπουλος

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY ANNA VISSI Άννα Βίσση

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy....

GREECE: HOLIDAY MUSIC BY MICHALIS HATZIGIANNIS Μιχάλης Χατζηγιάννης

I'm off to Greece for holidays so here's meanwhile some Greek artist for you  to discover and enjoy... Off with a goodie but oldie of my all time Greek/Cypriot artist and his summer banger from a long time ago.... hits the mood still every time! 

EUROVISION: NEW SOUNDS FROM LOBODA, LOïC NOTTET, LAURA PõLDVERE, SENNEK

ITALY: SUMMER SOUNDS FROM BOOMDABASH, ALESSANDRA AMOROSO, LIBERATO, LORENZO LICITRA, CORDIO

FINLAND: KASMIR WAS DARUDE'S FIRST CHOICE?

The rumors have been confirmed by Kasmir himself. Namely that he was also approached by Darude to sing in UMK and Eurovision but he said "no thanks" due to other projects like recording new album and releasing a new single and such. After this Darude convinced Sebastian Rejman to take up the opportunity. It's worth remembering the final three songs might and most likely would have been different ones with Kasmir, after all he's a succesful songwriter for many artists besides himself, and Look away was co-written by Sebastian himself... Things could have turned out differently but we will never know... Kasmir has been around since 2014 when he scored a huge hit with Vadelmavene . Before that he was active in EDM trio HeavyWeights so that fits with Darude. He has released two gold selling solo albums and about 30 singles solo or in various collaborations including eight Top-20 ones. 

ITALY: SUMMER SOUNDS FROM LOREDANA BERTÈ, BENJI & FEDE, EINAR, IRAMA

FINLAND: UMK2020 JOIN FORCES WITH YLEX AND GOES OPEN AGAIN

After two disappointing internal choices what comes to success in the Eurovision song contest YLE and UMK are returning to open competition for everyone and no wonder - no one wanted to do UMK the way they were dealing it - but this time they seek help from youthful YleX radio channel, that has been awarded also as the Music Media of the Year. Its music boss Tapio Hakanen will join the team as well. Their aim is to create a new event to unite the whole music branch in the years to come. Good luck with that! Earlier UMK also asked the public how they would like the entrant chosen and 53% of the commentators wanted an open competition back.  The application period for UMK2020 will be from November 1 to 8, 2019. Apparently the radio channel will be in charge choosing the artists and songs.... How that will work? More details will be revealed later. YleX  is one of the major radio stations of the Yle featuring pop music and cultural programming. The station started as Radiomafia