Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

The Finnish Grammys aka Emma awards were handed out this weekend in Espoo's Metro Areena and between performances by likes of Jenni Vartiainen, JVG, Haloo Helsinki!, Antti Tuisku and other cream of the cream of Finnish music business right now the awards were handed out. Haloo Helsinki! picked up seveal ones, as did Cheek and Antti Tuisku. Eveliina - female artist of the year Antti Tuisku - Male artist of the year Leo - Newcomer of the year Haloo Helsinki! - Band of the year Alma - Chasing hights - Song of the year Reino Nordin - Antaudun - Most streamed song of the year (oveer 11 million) Cheek - Enkelit - Video fo the year (Public's choice) Cheek - Artist of the year (Publics choice) Haloo Helsinki! - Hulluuden highway - Album of the year Haloo Helsinki! - Hulluuden highway - Rock album of the year Haloo Helsinki! - Hulluuden highway - Most sold album of the year (51.000) Antti Tuisku - Anatude - Pop album of the year JVG - Pop...

The Emma Gaala (aka Finnish Grammys) nominations are out. The People's choice and the best video are voted by the people, the other awards handed out by a jury. The gala will take place February 4, 2017 in Metro Arena in Espoo, the week after UMK2017... same stage.  This year's nomination queen is Vesala or Paula Vesala, ex-PMMP. She scored seven nominations: album, song, female artist, pop artist, producer, people's choice and video. Lauri Tähkä is the king with five: album, song, schlager album, male artist and people's choice. Below are the ones with the most nominations: Alma (song, pop artist, newcomer, people's choice, video), Sanni (album, song, female artist, pop artist, video)  and Evelina (pop artist, newcomer, people's choice) Nikke Ankara (hip hop, male artist, people's choice, video), JVG (song, hip hop, group, people's choice) and   Mikael Gabriel (hip hop, male artist, people's choice) Ellinoora (song, pop ar...

Some years ago MTV and Eurovision were living in a parallel realities never even getting close. Then slowly some Eurovision entrants or wannabes started popping up in the nominees or even winning awards (maNga, Marco Mengoni, Lena, Dima Bilan...) This year is no exception, as many as six Eurovision stars are nominated in their home countries to be the one and only for the race for the ultimate award: in Italy we have Francesca Michielin and Emma , in France Amir , in Belgium Laura Tesoro , in the Netherlands Douwe Bob and finally in Poland Cleo , who battles it out with wannabe Margaret .  In Romania this year's runner up Vanotek is nominated. Special mention for Spain's Alvaro Soler who would be pefect for Eurovision.... who knows? In Finland it might be in pack for Antti Tuisku this year crowning his newfound megasuccess. The other nominees are Eveliina who has taken the spotlight from her girlfriend Sanni a bit (last week the girls were in the singles top-...