After two unsuccesful attemps of semi internal choices YLE decided to dust off multiartist open call for songs UMK again. Out of 426 entries they picked six (only) for the final to be held in Tampere. The six artists are all rather unknown to the average viewer (except Erika Vikman, but even she isn't known for her music) but having still experience in the music business (except F3M) but the standard of production is very good, and the songs are all good in their own way, and would have been winner candidates in any other UMK in the past. In short this is the best UMK final ever. But there's one hic up now: Cicciolina . The song has broken most every possible UMK record so far: reaching n.o 6 in the official singles chart (a record for any UMK song) and so far four weeks in top-20. Nearly 1,2 million Youtube views so far. That's about the double all the other five put together! The real Cicciolina approves and is interested to be involved in the performance in Ro...
