Romania Rings in the New Year!

Tonight Romania choose their 2011 entry for Germany aided by international judges Niamh Kavanagh, Johnny Logan and Chiara!

The fan favourite is Claudia Pavel with a powerful song written and produced by a team of Swedes, how could i not be fabulous?!

There are a number of strong songs and 1 rubbish one (Facebook Girl!). Others of interest include:

Dalma (She made it to bootcamp in this years UK X Factor!)
Blaxty Girls (They have made it to the Romanian final a number of times, could this be their year?)

Directia 5
Laeticia
Hotel FM

These are three big contenders with Laeticia's 'Dreaming of You' offering something that could stand out amongst the 13 finalists.

It all kicks off at 8 CET. Happy New Year!!!!

Have a fantastic Christmas Euro Lovers!

What a mix!

This years Swiss selection is certainly different, so far we have Malta's Rosman Pace, Johnny Brady (Eurosong Ireland 2009), Todomondo (Romania '07), Maggie Toal (NF Ireland '90, '95 and '97), American Idol contestant Sarah Burgess and Big Brother's Kemal Zuleyka!

Check them out here.

Bengtzing is Back!

The Bengtzing is back!! Melodifestivalen 2011 is already shaping up to be a cracker with Linda announced in the first four performers with 'E de fel på mig' or 'Wrong with me'
Written and composed by: Pontus Assarsson, Thomas G:son and Jörgen Ringqvist!!

This sounds amazing!

Here she is(Yes, it really is her!) looking like she is ready to release that schlager diva again in 2011!

It is Eurobash weekend here in Dublin.To celebrate here is Pernilla's schlagertastic song submitted for Melodifestivalen 2008. More of this for 2011 Christer!

Happy Friday!

Dusseldorf is espected to be announced as the host city in the coming days according to Bild with the Esprit Arena being the main contender as the venue. It can hold up to 60,000 people!!

In other news, The melodifestivalen deadline passed yesterday with a total of 3832 songs submitted! I want to listen to them all!

This is a record number of songs with a big increase from 2010.

Year Number of Songs

1995 600 songs
1996 1 475 songs
1997 1 223 songs
1998 1 126 songs
1999 1 315 songs
2000 1 394 songs
2001 1 567 songs
2002 1 830 songs
2003 2 620 songs
2004 3 228 songs
2005 3 131 songs
2006 3 326 songs
2007 3 234 songs
2008 3 489 songs
2009 3 440 songs
2010 2 794 songs (incl 180 Web wild cards)
2011 3 832 songs (incl 424 Web wild cards)

The Countdown Begins!