Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Jari Sillanpää turns 52 today. He's been one of the leading figures in the Finnish music business since 1996 and his album sales are nearing 850.000 making him a top-5 best selling Finnish act/artist of all time. His Sinä ansaitset kultaa has spent 119 weeks in the Radio Top-100 already since it was released in 2014.... last week at #80! Congratulations!

Jari Sillanpää's Sinä ansaitset kultaa celebrates 100th consegutive week in the Finnish radio top-100. The ballad climbs again from last week's 84th to this week's 63rd. The song has never made it to number one on radio chart reaching #4 in March 2015 and again in May 2015. It spent four weeks in the official singles chart reaching #13 in January 2015. In download chart it made it to #1 for two weeks in December 2014 and spent there a total of 35 weeks, 12 of them in top-10.  This is no doubt one of the biggest hits of the 2010's in Finland and his biggest one with his debut Satulinna from 1995.... Congratulations!

Jari Sillanpää, one of the most popular Finnish artists of all time, Tango King 1995 and Eurovision 2004 entrant has revealed literally it all in a new biography that hit the stores earlier this month. He describes in detail his first time with a man, his newfound love to dress up in drag as his alter ego Rosa and all sort of things from his father's violence to alcoholism. And if you are into such things, maybe you have seen him on some videochat as Rosa having fun with his boyfriend?! Not all fans have been pleased to know too intimate details about his past life but he wanted to bare it all. Read more after the jump. Jari, who celebrated his 50th birthday in small scale and intimate at the Helsinki Olympic stadium last summer with full house, will be on TV-screen this fall-winter season as one of the Talent judges.  Meanwhile his success has no end. His Sinä ansaitset kultaa has been in the Radioplay Top-100 already 93 consecutive weeks, at no.65 this week, after top...

Next five days I will count down the Top-5 songs of 2015 based simply on my memory. I don't use Spotifys or similar that would just rank down the most played songs or such so it's just me and the songs that have been playing the most in my head over the past year; songs that have ment something special to me, songs that I like and still enjoy to listen to..... the songs that I sing in the shower in short. We start off with a special mention. Jari Sillanpää's Sinä ansaitset kultaa was released already in 2014 but over the year has become propably the biggest hit of his career and deserverly so. It charted for weeks and months, and is still on on Radioplay charts top-50. And it's a great track. It was about the time that he got a hit I like after 20 years of career! 

Jari Sillanpää's metamorphosis from a tango king to a pop singer has been a success. The pre-album single Malagaan was a hit on radio, and the follow up Tanssii kuin John Travolta is playing all the time as well. Besides that it launched his new nickname "Siltsu Bitch" (Siltsu coming from his surname). The album Rakkaudella merkitty mies went #2 in the charts and now he has also launched a video for Sinä ansaitset kultaa , a haunting break up story where he leaves his love free as he's being such a bitch and (s)he deserves better. Here's the touching  live version of it.