Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Euroviisut artists go on strong in the official Finnish Top-40 when 6 out of the Top-10 are Euroviisut artists' new releases! Kari Tapio 's latest album enters the chart at no 2 and Cristal Snow at no 10. Teräsbetoni drops to no 3 and Movetron to no 5. Also Vuokko Hovatta is on her way down at no 6. Further down Aikakone climbs to no 23 and Mikael Konttinen re-enters at no 36. In the singles Top-10 there are no Euroviisut singles but in the compilations Melodifestivalen 2008 enters at no 4! It is worth mentioning Kari Tapio's CD does not include the Euroviisut song Valaise yö!

The combilation with all the songs from Euroviisut 2008 has been released for the second year. Also Aikakone has their greatest hits CD out with three new songs. Movetron has done the same. Hanna Marsh has released her second album and Vuokko Hovatta her debut. Teräsbetoni 's new album is on the way as well as debuts from Cristal Snow and Mikael Konttinen , and Jippu 's follow up to her award winning debut in 2006.

Mikael Konttinen did it and scored 46,1% of the votes and deserved each of them but when will Finns learn to appreciate a little bit of camp and vote for acts like Ninja? Instead they preferred Kristian Meurman (26,8%) with his forgettable, boring, dull mediocre song that looked like taken from some Balkan finals (no offence, folks!). Jippu unfortunately lost the race before it started but once again she was wonderful and proved less is more and filled the stage all alone (well, with a little help of her red wool socks!) and delivered a song full of emotion and feelings. So, guys to the finals and girls to the second chance.... See & Hear here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=draN99SL7Ps , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luYpw0nB-0M , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0UQrS746d8 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ie1f2WKaQI

Now that we have heard 8 of the 12 songs in Finland let's see what the fans in Viisukuppila forum have to say. The infamous "viisupuntari" ranks the songs as only diehard fans can. To make things simplier I have added the percentages of 4-5 stars given to songs (5 being the best) and 1-2 points to see who's in the lead and who's on the bottom. Let's start with the bottom: Kristian Meurman reigns here as 82% of voters gave him only 1 or 2 stars. Jippu comes close with 65%. However Meurman has no 5 stars and Jippu has no 4 OR 5 stars! Crumbland comes third on the bottom with 54% of low votes. Mikael Konttinen (who talks a lot about everything here http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/10479 ) leads the poll now as he has got 57% of top votes but only 6% of bottom votes. Movetron comes second with 49% top votes but scores also 28% of bottom votes. Ninja has 48% top and 16% bottom votes. In total taking off the bottom votes from top votes and ignoring the middle (3 s...