Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Husky and sassy Amandine Bourgeois (33) will represent France in Malmö 2013 with L'enfer et moi , a song written for her by David Salkin and Boris Bergman who returns to the Eurovision for the third time. She hopes to relaunch her career that started with a bang after she won La nouvelle Star in 2008 and delivered an album that sold gold in France and hit the charts also in other French speaking countries. This is the moment for the girl who studied flute and learned the profession singing in covers bands while dreaming a duet with Whitney Houston but ended up dueting with Scorpions in Still loving you instead and working with Amy Winehouse's team in London for her second album. She has already done Royal Albert Hall, soon she will rock Malmö Arena. Recently she also took part in the musical phenomenon of the year in France, Génération Goldman singing Jean Jacques Goldman's Au bout de mes rêves with Emmanuel Moire. Her other songs include Envie d'un manque des pr...

Norway is doing well in polls this year but will the televoters go for it? A lot depends on Stella's vocals when it counts as they're rather limited, even said by herself. It's fun when you hear it but easily forgettable in the end. Anyways here's a video for the Haba-affair now. In a few weeks we will know if it will follow the footsteps of another Norwegian fan favourite, or Stella's twinsister some 20 years ago. With a very different results.

France's mission in Eurovision 2010 was rather than winning to score a megasummerhit and at least that's done in France, it seems, as Allez ola olé hits number one in the Top-100. That's the first time since 1984 (since the charts have been counted the same way and therefor usable) a French Eurovision song goes to number one. Both Je n'ai que mon ame (2001) and White and black blues (1990) went to number two. And that's for the pysical single that debuted in France last week at #11 and went to #1 in the second week. And as the football world cup is starting next week it's easy to predict song's success will just continue et voilá here's our summerhit! Meanwhile the digital single is in Top-5 on iTunes in Germany, Greece, Luxembourg and Finland, and in Top-10 also in Norway and Belgium. Pretty good for a French entry and considering the huge success of another Big4 country (and winner) Germany no one can blame anymore that they can't do well for wh...