Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Well, it's really  Ozan Doğulu feat. Ajda Pekkan & Kenan Doğulu singing Harika , that translates as Great . Ozan is Kenan's brother who shook it up worth of a fourth place in Helsinki 2007 with Shake it up,  Şekerim . He was and has stayed in top ever since. The brothers are joined by the original Turkish s ü perstar Ajda Pekkan who hasn't aged a bit since her 1980's Pet'r Oil . This trio offers a sing-a-long summer hit with a touch of the 1980's that sticks to your head with some added oriental flavor. This bloggers approves highly. They have also had a chance to perform it live . 

Endless are the ways to select the Eurovision entry. November 2, 2012 a special advisory board will meet with the TRT committee to discuss the next Turkish entry. All this after TRT's general director İbrahim Şahin earlier this year said Turkey is done with Eurovision and will be in Baku 2012 only because it's Baku. He also criticized the televoting system maybe forgetting Turkey is one country that has benefited from it the most perhaps! All this is now past them and Turkey will indeed be in Malmö 2013.  The advisory board includes several previous Turkish represents along with other musicians, TV and radio personalities. I wonder what the outcome will be? I hope Turkey would bring back the real flavor of their music and hopefully also the language! Will they all agree it's time for Tarkan finally? :-) Can Bonomo (2012), Ferhan Akgül (maNga 2010), Harun Tekin (Mor Ve Ötesi 2008), Sertab Erener (2003), Kayahan Acar and Demet Sağır...

Four Turkish Eurovision stars in today's special videopost. Sertab Erener is back with new material and Bir Çaresi Bulunur Elbet is the lead single. Kenan Doğulu's summer hit was Şans Meleğim while Ajda Pekkan's another single of her latest success album is Arada Sırada  and there are various remixes as well, like this .  Hadise released Aşk Kaç Beden Giyer earlier this year.

Some ladies are just ageless, like Turkish diva Ajda Pekkan. At 64 she sounds and looks better than she did back in 1980 when she sung P et'r oil in Eurovision - one of Turkey's finest moments in the contest. And there's even a fab remix of the song here . For her latest success she gets a little help from Tarkan, who is rumoured year after year to do Eurovision and who knows maybe 2012 will be the year? Yakar Geçerim is their joint effort that Tarkan wrote.

esctoday.com has made a list of best selling Eurovision artists. No surprise ABBA tops the list but there are some surprises, who would have thought Nana Mouskouri at the top? But she has been extremely popular at her day. Some names are not in the top-10 like Lara Fabian who might be the 11th. Bucks Fizz might be 12th and Lulu have also sold a lot, including the single To Sir with love , that was the most sold single in the US in 1967. Then we have the outsiders Ajda Pekkan , Samira Bensaid and Albano . Ajda Pekkan is said to have sold some 50 million records but there's no official proof of that. Samira Bensaid is one of the best sellers in the Arabic world and her record sales are said to be anything between 20 to 200 million. But there's no proof either. Albano claims to have sold something like 160 million records but that most likely includes his solo mefferts and the records sold with Romina Power, so... excluded. But then we have also Ricchi e Poveri with record sal...

Tarkan surprised fellow Turkish superstar and Eurovision veteran Ajda Pekkan in her open air concert last week in Harbiye. Apparently the great diva was herself unaware of the surprise while Tarkan's voice was first heard off stage to accompany her singing before he stormed to stage to wild cheer from the crowds. They then ended up singing three songs together.... Watch them here along with Ajda's supermegafabulous Pet'r oil from 1980: http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e5DAuZYqvg , http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WHpgaG_DnY