tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-152283422024-03-17T15:05:08.063+02:00Life after Helsinki 2007 EurovisionAll about Finnish pop, Eurovision song contest and Sanremo festival, il festival della canzone italiana di Sanremo. And more.Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.comBlogger11879125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-78552227671256965992024-02-25T15:50:00.003+02:002024-02-25T15:50:56.822+02:00EUROVISION 2024: MEGARA WINS IN SAN MARINO BEATING LOREDANA BERTÈMegara 11:11From Benidormfest to Una voce per San Marino (and vice versa for Nebulossa) was the winning card for Megara, a Spanish alternative rock band who won last night ahead of Loredana Bertè and La Rua. I had a sneaky feeling La Rua was the pre-contest designed winner with a song co-written/produced by Dardust (who would then have had three entries in Malmö: Luxemburg, Italy and San Marino) Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-53776716397699956992024-02-22T20:10:00.001+02:002024-02-22T20:10:03.068+02:00FINLAND: EUROVISION PARTY IN TAMPERE WITH RYBAK, FOREST, VERKA, KEIINO AND FINNISH EUROVIISON VETERANS!The Eurovision 2024 wannabe host city Tampere that hosted already UMK2024 final isn't done with Eurovision yet. The arena will host a viewing party for Eurovision song contest 2024 on May 11, 2024. But before the Eurovision final on mega screens there's a concert party with Eurovision winners Alexander Rybak and Emmelie De Forest with Eurovision fan favorites Verka Serduchka and KEiiNOIlkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-80970802789211248662024-02-19T23:27:00.010+02:002024-02-24T10:18:22.297+02:00EUROVISION 2024: SAN MARINO GIVES A CHANCE TO LOREDANA BERTE, MARCELLA BELLA AND JALISSEUna voce per San Marino 2024 gives a second chance to Loredana Bertè to get to Eurovision song contest in Malmö, Sweden, as she has declared her wish to go there and annoy her ex-husband Björn Borg in every possible way. SMRTV said they invited her due public demand and her before mentioned wish. The other artists had to apply unlike in previous years when they were invited. However, due to this Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-46186055386938909152024-02-18T14:53:00.001+02:002024-02-18T14:53:16.344+02:00FINLAND: UMK DOMINATED THE EMMA AWARDS WITH KÄÄRIJÄ AND KUUMAAThe Finnish Grammys or Emma Awards were handed out last night in Espoo Metro Areena and as expected Käärijä swept all but one award he was nominated and some more. The one that slipped away scandalously was the Public's award that Lauri Haav's fans fixed for him instead. About 99% of people watching where mouth open with Who?! This blogger was left moth open as well, I know the name but can't sayIlkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-82709187141591194942024-02-15T19:35:00.006+02:002024-02-15T22:24:41.515+02:00ITALY: GET TO KNOW MANGO, ANGELINA'S FATHERAngelina Mango won Sanremo 2024 and is set to represent Italy at the Eurovision song contest 2024 in Malmö with her La noia (Boredom). By winning Sanremo this soon 23-year-old talent managed to achieve what his father (or mother) never did despite being hugely popular and respected musician and singer. In a way at the time he changed Italian pop music the way Mahmood has been doing the past few Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-73085928848928675272024-02-12T19:09:00.001+02:002024-02-12T19:09:45.202+02:00ITALY: AMADEUS & FIORELLO LEFT SANREMO. WHAT NOW?The hugely successful and polar duo has left Sanremo after five years. Whoever follows them has to face a similar situation as UMK2024 artists had to do post-Käärijä. Nothing is good enough. Artic director and host Amadeus and co-host Fiorello, after celebrating Angelina Mango's victory on stage walked out of Teatro Ariston hand in hand, stepped into their Cinderella carriage with horses and Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-38416559817800562262024-02-11T03:37:00.008+02:002024-02-11T22:25:37.956+02:00ITALY: ANGELINA MANGO WINS SANREMO 2024 - AND GOES TO EUROVISION Angelina Mango beats Geolier and has won Sanremo 2024. And there's no reason to think she wouldn't go to Eurovision. The song is co-written and produced by Dardust, just like the Luxembourgian entry.1.Angelina Mango 40,3% (televote 16,1%/Media jury 1./Radio jury 1.)2. Geolier 25,2% (televote 60,0%/ 4./ 5.))3.Annalisa 17,1% (televote 8,0%//2./2.))4.Ghali 10,5% (televote 8,3%Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-32970811942194347792024-02-10T23:37:00.005+02:002024-02-11T12:28:44.138+02:00FINLAND: WINDOWS95MAN WITH NO RULES TO EUROVISIONWell. Well well well..... I must admit I said when this was released "Wait and see Finns will vote this to Malmö!" In between it looked quite, even very unlikely considering polls and streams and charts etc but here we are. Last with international juries (but Uk gave them 12!), first in televote they beat Sara Siipola to second place. To be honest, I never cared for the video but I had grown a Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-79480712035727348332024-02-10T16:25:00.005+02:002024-02-10T17:16:48.801+02:00FINLAND: UMK 2024 FINAL TONIGHT - SARA SIIPOLA VS. THE OTHERSThere's pre-Käärijä and there's post-Käärijä and Finland is kinda having a post-Käärijä hangover now. Most everyone is complaining the songs aren't good. I always tell them go and check some other country's selection, Moldova for example and you see how great it is again. Seven songs, all good or very good in their own way. Maybe there isn't Cha cha cha in there but any song chosen will be betterIlkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-47676039589473115162024-02-10T15:54:00.005+02:002024-02-11T01:18:12.088+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024 FINAL TONIGHT - GEOLIER, ANNALISA OR ANGELINA MANGO?After last night's crowded Teatro Ariston with over 170 performers on stage and about 70 songs presented in one form or another and chaotic end of the show tonight it is back to normal. Last night again record breaking viewing figures: 67,8% share and 11.900.000 viewers!Meanwhile in Spotify Geolier is still #1 but Mahmood took over Annalisa and Irama passed Angelina Mango in Top-5. The most Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-21142937499946914522024-02-10T12:50:00.001+02:002024-02-10T12:57:24.849+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024 - COVERS NIGHT ENDS WITH BOOING AND WHISTLING AS GEOLIER WINS Last nights highly enjoyable night with generally pretty good covers, some great moments (Angelina Mango, Mahmood, Alfa. Mr.Rain, Ricchi e Poveri etc) ended with audience in Teatro Ariston booing and whistling in disapprove when Geolier was revealed as the winner of the evening. A common Eurovision fan watching might wonder why and what happened?He's Napolitan and the music industry in Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-63139569727763036432024-02-10T12:00:00.001+02:002024-02-10T16:47:33.981+02:00FINLAND: HOW HAVE THE UMK 2024 FINALISTS CHARTED? WHAT DO THE POLLS SAY?As in previous years UMK 2024 is also a hit machine. The past three years the most streamed song in Finland has been an UMK entry, last year even Top-2 (and they are still in the Top-40 after one year!) It's funny to think just a few years ago the songs didn't chart at all, sometimes not even the winner and even longer ago some songs were not even recorded and/or released. Here's how the Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-25465749371313019122024-02-09T19:49:00.036+02:002024-02-10T03:08:26.852+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024 - QUARTA SERATA: GABBANI, TOZZI, MORO, META ON STAGE. AND... JALISSE?!Tonight is the cover night. The artists perform songs of their choice with guest stars which means the Eurovision veterans Mahmood, Ricchi e Poveri, Emma, Il Volo will be joined by Francesco Gabbani, Umberto Tozzi, Fabrizio Moro and Ermal Meta (and tomorrow we will have Gigliola Cinquetti but that's another story).Previous years there's been some theme or era to choose songs from but this year Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-69540097287585097572024-02-09T18:28:00.003+02:002024-02-09T18:31:10.195+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024 - ANGELINA , GHALI AND AMOROSO TOP THE THIRD NIGHTThe success continues. I know I am repeating myself but the fact is the third night scored 60,1% share, the second highest share second only to Pippo Baudo's 60,5% in 1995! 60,1% responds to 10.001.000 viewers in average. The first part of the show was watched by 13.243.000 and the second part (after 23.30) by 6.436.000. The most watched moment was when Mahmood was presenting Ghali at 00.08 (67,9Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-68922218390034008122024-02-08T16:24:00.029+02:002024-02-09T02:39:33.486+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024 - TERZA SERATA: ANGELINA MANGO AND DIODATO ON STAGE AGAINTonight the remaining 15 acts will perform, presented by those they presented and who performed last night. That is one wonderful idea and is apparently liked by everyone, the artists included! The voting tonight is just like last night, 50-50 for the radios-televote. Comedian, actress, tv-host and author Teresa Mannio will be co-hosting so this sounds like a step back in time compared to Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-71121749646986078132024-02-08T16:09:00.000+02:002024-02-08T16:09:01.713+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024: SANREMO SONGS OCCUPY THE WHOLE STREAMING TOP-30 AND SUCCESS CONTINUES The total audience for the second night was 60,1% share or 10,9 million, out of which 320,000 were on Raiplay and other devices instead of good old television. The record for those was at 22.37 (670.000) when Mahmood was on. There's an increase of +50% for those other devices compared to last year.The regular television viewers are a bit down in both viewers and share from last year Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-71448131875540065352024-02-08T15:32:00.003+02:002024-02-08T15:36:17.293+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024 - SECONDA SERATA: GEOLIER AND IRAMA TAKE LEAD, TRAVOLTA DID QUA QUALast night 15 acts performed and the voting was 50-50 by radios and televoters and the ranking went all upside down on the top: Geolier first, Irama second. Annalisa, Loredana Berté and Mahmood managed to keep their Top-5 going on. The Fantasanremo thingy is getting very annoying as the artists are collecting points by wearing black, sunglasses, giving flowers to conductors, kissing people Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-35199123141301873512024-02-07T18:14:00.024+02:002024-02-08T02:28:55.133+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024 - SECONDA SERATA: BERTÈ, ANNALISA AND MAHMOOD BACK ON STAGETonight the second Sanremo 2024 night takes place in Teatro Ariston. Next to Amadeus will be singer and Sanremo winner Giorgia who has the hard task of following Marco Mengoni who seems to have convinced everyone last night as a showman, comic and host besides singer. There's already a demand for his own show on Rai1 sometime i the future, or at least his presence every night this year in SanremoIlkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-18482242788817061772024-02-07T17:07:00.000+02:002024-02-07T17:36:11.224+02:00EUROVISION 2024 - UMK FINLAND: MIKAEL GABRIEL, NUBLU - VOX POPULIFinnish (pop) rapper Mikael Gabriel and Estonian nublu join forces for the third time for UMK 2024 and Eurovision with Vox populi. The previous efforts Universum and Vihje have been very different in style though, even between them. When the names were announced most thought this is the one to beat but then Sara Siipola kinda stole their thunder. We'll see how it goes next Saturday.Mikael Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-14478473540903639122024-02-07T12:51:00.002+02:002024-02-07T17:41:02.392+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024 - AMADEUS BEAT HIMSELF WITH 65,1% SHARE, ANNALISA MOST WATCHEDAmadeus did it again! Or he outdid himself. Sanremo 2024 started with a bang. Record breaking shares and viewing figures.65,1% share! That's highest since 1995. Or 10.561.000 viewers in average. The first part was 64,34% or 15.075.000 viewers in average and the second part 66,85% or 6.527.000, mind you the show ended around 2am, actually before than scheduled! Now that's a record, too!The most Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-21072901213320834142024-02-07T12:25:00.003+02:002024-02-07T12:25:43.183+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024 MUSIC VIDEOS - LOREDANA BERTÈ IN LEAD AFTER FIRST NIGHT'S RESULTSSo, the media vote put Loredana Berté's Pazza in lead but quite frankly that feels like an award for career and her rebirth rather than the song. Angelina Mango with La noia second as expected followed by Annalisa, Diodato and Mahmood. Should this go on like this after other voting I see a little trouble in Eurovision. Pazza just isn't for the international audience, La noia has already (and Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-28333411458747533642024-02-06T18:14:00.089+02:002024-02-07T03:02:43.944+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024, LA PRIMA SERATA - THE FIRST NIGHT'S RUNNING ORDER - ALL 30 ACTS Tonight's the first night of the 74th Sanremo and unlike the previous years all 30 acts will perform tonight. Prepaire yourself for a long long night! How the voting is tonight and the coming night you can read in detail here. I will follow tonight and comment and judge the songs live so do come back and join in the fun. Before the live show from Tatro Ariston di Sanremo at 20.40 CET we haveIlkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-15444054166396169622024-02-06T18:11:00.001+02:002024-02-06T18:11:22.634+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024: LAST YEAR'S SANREMO SONGS SOLD OVER 4 MILLION COPIES. WHO DID THE BEST?Amadeus has been not only the King of viewing figures but also a true hitmaker as every year more and more songs have been certificated for their sales, and last year was the best yet. In 2023 22 out of 28 earned at least a gold record (so far). Below is all last year's sales, will 2024 do better?7 x platinum (700.000+) Lazza - Cenere (2nd)5 x platinum (500.000+) Marco Mengoni - Due vite (Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-63291292316439503682024-02-06T13:56:00.000+02:002024-02-06T14:16:03.034+02:00ITALY: SANREMO 2024 KICKS OFF TONIGHT. HOW DOES IT WORK?The 74th Festival della canzone italiana kicks off in legendary Teatro Ariston in Sanremo tonight. The artistic director and main host is once again Amadeus for the 5th year, officially his last but there's demand from Rai for him to do it again next year. His festivals have been not only viewing successes but also an endless source for multiplatinum scoring hits. The first night's co-host is Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15228342.post-12892302404258973402024-02-06T13:32:00.096+02:002024-02-06T13:32:00.261+02:00EUROVISION 2024 - UMK FINLAND: WINDOWS95 MAN - NO RULESEvery UMK seems to have a humor act in the past few years and after Teflon Brothers and Portion Boys here comes Windows95man with Henri Piispanen in vocals and their 1990's Eurodance No rules.Windows95man is no other than Teemu Keisteri (39), a known artist. He created or desgner Ukkeli in 2008 and it soon became a real cultural phenomenom, a sort of Finnish Keith Haring. He has studied Ilkar Blogilkarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543491468173204676noreply@blogger.com0