Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Sometimes one song has a life that continues for years. That's a case of Lauris Reiniks - familiar name from Eurovision - from Latvia. His  Es skrienu was released already in 2010 and went on to become the best selling song in Latvia that year, and the album of the same title won the award for the best pop album. The song also become the first ever Baltic video to reach over one million views on Youtube, but for its Lithuanian version of the song,  Aš bėgu . In 2011 this version wins the song of the year award in Lithuania. In 2011 he also releases a Lithuanian adaption of his album, followed by the Estonian one, Ma jooksen . Meanwhile in Latvia the album goes gold and he wins Radiohit of the year award for the song. The German version Ich renne was also hit in Germany and included on several compilation hit albums. Also versions in Italian ( Correrò da te ), Russian ( Я бегу ), English ( I will run ), Turkish ( Koşuyorum ) and recently released French version Je cou...

Belarus provided this year's "OMG what are they doing" moments along with Ukraine with their song selection. Anastasia Vinnikova was chosen first with Born in Belorussia but eventually ended in Germany with equally horrific I love Belarus .  In Latvia they did have a national final. My favourite Musiqq with Angel in disguise won so no problems there. Except its placing in Germany, it deserved so much more. Lauris Reiniks and Banjo Laura seems to be the fan favourite and indeed it's a jolly silly little number and would propably done well in Germany as Latvia time to time surprisingly does. He may have been sure to win himself as the song has been recorded in many languages like Spanish , My favourite in the end is Jānis Stībelis with Let it be me .