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Svante Stockselius says goodbye to Eurovision

The Promo video of Eurovision Party Portugal

 Sandra Kim will join Eurovision Party Portugal

The organization of Eurovision Party Portugal just announced that the Eurovision Winner of 1986, Sandra Kim will perform in the night of next September 11th. For more informations about tickets you can contact us or visit the official site http://www.eurovisionpartyportugal.webs.com/.About Sandra Kim: http://www.sandrakim.be/

The organization is waiting for an Eurovision Winner and the name will be announce later today. So far, if you come to Setúbal you will see the performances of:

Novi Fosili, the Croatian band that represented Yugoslavia in 1987, are back with a new single. Lagano Lagano is now number 2 in the radio Charts in Croatia!

Mihalis Xatzigiannis entered the German chart this week with a song in english "Everyone dance". This number 96  is a very shy position but the starting for an international career. In Greece and Cyprus his summer hit "To Kalokairi mou" is a huge success. Good Luck Mihalis!

 Brian Kennedy's 20th Anniversary and Best of CD

"The release of the 'Very Best Of Brian Kennedy' celebrates Brian’s 20 years in the music business with this definitive compilation which showcases the key tracks from his early RCA albums together with 8 tracks from his later years on Curb Records.  These include ‘Get On With Your Short Life’ (Radio 2 single of the week on its release) and ‘Curragh of Kildare’ featuring actor Adrian Dunbar from Brian’s BBC TV series ‘On Song’.  Brian represented Ireland in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest and finished in the Top 10 with ‘Every Song Is A Cry For Love’.  Brian’s biggest hit single ‘You Raise Me Up’ which reached #4 in the UK was released following his specially requested performance at George Best’s televised funeral in 2005. During these 20 years, Brian has opened on Broadway in ‘Riverdance’ performing a specially written set by the show’s composer Bill Whelan, he has been a key member of fellow Belfast man and international legend Van Morrison’s Blues and Soul World Tour for 6 years, and has also performed many live concerts for Bill Clinton together whilst extensively touring globally in his own right. Among the many awards Brian has collected over the years is the Irish Music Industry Award (IRMA) for Best Male Album, the Hot Press/2TV Award for Best Male Artist and earlier this year he was the recipient of Ireland’s coveted Meteor Award for Lifetime Achievement." source: official webpage

Filipa won two awards!

Filipa, this years portuguese singer won the TV and Music awards as best female singer. http://www.tvandmusicawards.pt.to/. "Há dias assim" was also choosen the best song of the year! Congratulations!

A preview event of Eurovision Party Portugal will take place next Saturday at Bar 106 http://www.bar106.com/. OGAE will introduce the confirmed names at the party next September 11. In this event you will feel the Eurovision Experience with ESC Music. If you are in Lisbon next weekend, you are welcome!!

Austria is back to Eurovision

Harel Skaat signed with international label

Harel signed with an agent well considered by his work with great artists in the U.S. -  Barry Platnik - work with Grammy Award´winning vowed Michael Walden. Barry worked with huge artists (Beyonce, John Mayer, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey) and was impressed by the great voice. Harel inherent in international potential as an artist and a number of meetings between the two sides signed a contract for international representation.

Harel is currently in rehearsal for a big show in 7 / 8 and then begin work on the entire album. It would be English. Harel is expected to meet several first-rate writers and composers in the U.S. Harel personally confirmed that he was going to work on the international album. Michael Walden is a vow which is responsible for large number of huge hits of Whitney Houston - I Want to Dance With Somebody ", and Mariah Carey -" I Do not Want to Cry , to George Michael and Aretha Franklin the successful duet - "I Knew You Were Waiting For Me", to Starship - "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" and more.  Source: The Pulse.co.il

Sandra Kim revamped "J'aime la vie" video for Delta Lloyd Life

 Celine Dion is the biggest ESC artist in facebook

Facebook is the biggest virtual comunity in the world. Eurovision.tv announced the most popular ESC artists in facebook based in the number of fans. This is the Top 25:

1. 1,142,969 Celine Dion (winner of the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest)
2. 767,178 maNga (represented Turkey in 2010)
3. 384,351 ABBA (winner of 1974)
4. 365,914 Lena (the reigning queen of Europe's favourite TV-show)
5. 193,802 Sakis Rouvas (represented Greece in 2004, 2009)
6. 106,375 Elena Paparizou (vocalist of the 2001 Greek entry and winner of the 2005 edition)
7. 103,470 Mor ve Ötesi (represented Turkey in 2008)
8. 103,090 Anna Vissi (Greece, 1980, 2006; Cyprus 1982)
9. 98,797 Alexander Rybak (winner in 2009)
10. 78,558 Lordi (winner in 2006)
11. 71,113 Sertab Erener (winner in 2003)
12. 61,069 Arash (Azerbajan, 2009)
13. 57,944 Ronan Keating (wrote the song for Denmark in 2009)
14. 57,780 Lara Fabian (Luxembourg, 1988)
15. Julio Iglesias (Spain, 1970)
16. 37,055 t.A.T.u (Russia, 2003)
17. 28,758 Andrew Lloyd Webber (co-wrote the 2009 UK entry)
18. 25,071 Eva Rivas (Armenia, 2010)
19. 25,069 Giorgos Alkaios & Friends (Greece, 2010)
20. 24,523 Aysel (Azerbaijan, 2009)
21. 22,436 Hadise (Turkey, 2009)
22. 19,911 Tom Dice (Belgium, 2010)
23. 18,778 Dima Bilan (Russia, 2006, winner in 2008)
24. 16,112 Kalomira (Greece, 2008)
25. 16,039 Yohanna (Iceland, 2009)

 Netherlands decided!

As announced by the official website of Eurovision http://www.eurovision.tv/, 3Js will represent The Netherlands in the next edition of Eurovision Song Contest in Germany (May 14th). Germany already announced some weeks ago, that this years winner Lena would represent the coutry.

Karolina Gocheva for Eurovision Party

Karolina Gocheva who represented Macedonia in Eurovision in 2002 and 2007 is the new name to participate in Eurovision Party Portugal next September 11th.

http://www.eurovisionpartyportugal.webs.com/

 Hanna Pakarinen in Eurovision Party Portugal

Finland will be in the Eurovision Party Portugal next September 11th by the hand of Hanna Pakarinen! Hanna was the finish singer in ESC in 2007 after Lordi's victory! Hanna will join Michael Von Der Heide, Nucha, Mihai Traistariu, Hera Bjork, Anabel Conde, Filipa Azevedo, Fridrik Omar from Euroband, Coral, Vanessa, Filipe Delgado, Mosky, Denissa and Pedro Madeira. Two Dj's will be playing music: DJ Ohrmeister from Germany and DJ Camacho from Spain! Everyone is invited! More info about tickets and asrtist can be found at http://eurovisionpartyportugal.webs.com/.

Michael Von Der Heide and Pedro Madeira - Portuguese Eurovision Party in September

 Michael Von Der Haide is the last name to be known for Eurovision Party Portugal next September 11th! Michael represented Switzerland in ESC this year. One more national name is also know, Pedro Madeira was the portuguese artist in Eurojunior in 2006.

Hera Bjork in Eurovision Party Portugal

Hera Bjork is the new name confirmed to perform at Eurovision Party Portugal in Setúbal, next 11th of September. The website of the event is http://www.eurovisionpartyportugal.webs.com/ where you can find all the information related with this event. You can also contact us for more information.

Eurovision 2011 dates and first participant known 

EBU revealed the dates for Eurovision 2011. This is the result of the first meeting in Hamburg with NDR. The final will be in the 14th of May and the semifinals in the 10th and 12th as usual. The host city will be revealed after summer. More than 20 countries already confirmed their participation in Eurovision 2011 but only one choose the participant. It is Germany that will send... Lena again, probably with Stephan Rabb! Now that Satellite is the best seller single in Europe will this be a good oportunitie to have another victory?

Sofia represented Portugal in 2004 in Istambul. After the Eurovision experience Sofia decided to continue studying Jazz. Right now she's working with the well known Folk & Traditional Musician Julio Pereira and she also performs with Luís Figueiredo. Sofia will be in a long tour with these musicians around Italy, Spain and Portugal. Next Friday 25th, she will perform at Clube Espaço Lisboa. www.myspace.com/sofiavitoria

Readers Top 5 - Best singers

During the last weeks, Eurovision On Top readers had the chance to choose the best singers from this years edition of Eurovision Song Contest. You can find the results at the right sidebar. Eva Rivas and Harel Skaat are the favourites for female and male singers. Now its time to decide the best Duo or Band! Let's vote (Poll in the right sidebar).

Eurovision Party Portugal - names announced

Today the first names of the 2010 edition of the Live Show Eurovision Party Portugal were anounced. Mihai Traistariu (Romania 2006), Fridrik Omar from Euroban (Iceland 2008), Nucha (Portugal 1990) and Anabel Conde (Spain 1996) will be performing in the stage of this concert in Setúbal next September 11^th. Also names from National Finals will perform like Coral (Spain 2010) or Filipe Delgado (Portugal 2010). EurovisionOnTop is proud to take part in the organization for the second part. Last year it was a big success with names like Fabrizio Faniello, Jelena Tomasevic, Flor de Lis or Anabela, for example. Information about tickets will be revealed soon in this webpage or in the official page www.eurovisionpartyportugal.webs.com. In the next days, more names will be anounced. From now, we want everyone to come to Setúbal and enjoy this big event. Setúbal is a city close to Lisbon between the river and the ocean. Dennisa, Vanessa and this year portuguese participant, Filipa, will be there too.

 The new Video from Serebro

Filipa, this year singer from Portugal is nominated as Best female singer for the TV and Music Awards in Portugal. The song, Há dias assim, is also nominated in the category Best song. You can vote till the 13th of July through http://www.tvandmusicawards.pt.to/

Eurovision Hits! Back to success?

We are living different days since internet came into our lifes! The number of selling records decreased in all countries due to piracy and ilegal downloads. During the 90's and 00's in general in all over Europe, with some exceptions, performing in the ESC stage was not sinonymous of success. Maybe because in internet you can have your music "à la carte", choosing your favourite videos in youtube for example, the number of Music shows on TV also decreased in a lot of countries, for example, the Portuguese television doesnt have a weekly show or the mythic Top of the Pops ended in the UK . Is true that ilegal downloads are destroying the music industry and in some countries is very difficult to control piracy (Spain for example). In the middle of all this crisis, what we saw these last weeks in the charts seems to be very different. Since the 80's that we couldnt find so many smash hits from ESC in the Charts. EBU is doing a great job releasing the official CD every year and the proof is that the number of people that buy tracks in the internet are increasing for ESC hits. Thanks to EBU we dont have to wait for the release of a physical CD to buy it. Eurovision gained with that! Also the contest continues to be one of the most watched programs on TV every year. Can we talk in crisis for Eurovision? In the middle of so many problems in the music business can we consider that performing at Eurovision is a big opportunitie for a career? Is Eurovision safe? Will Eurovision be so popular as in the 60's, 70's, 80's?

In order to continue this discussion you can send your opinions to eurovisionontop@gmail.com and we will write a report about it.

 Anabela new CD

Anabela, the portuguese singer who performed "A cidade até ser dia" in 1993 (10th place) will release her new CD. The title is "Nós" and will be presented in a concert in Casino Lisboa next Friday 18th.

The annual concert "Eurovision Party Portugal" will be held next September 11th in Setúbal, a city close to Lisbon. In order to invite people to visit Portugal in that period, the organization will make a big promotion in Oslo with several products and merchadising. Last year, severall Eurovision Artists were invited and performed in the biggest party devoted to Eurovision. Check section SPECIALS for last year edition of Eurovision Party.

The Israeli Video

The new single from Jan Johansen i snow out. It is called Till Dig and its part of the CD ”En Ny Bild Av Mig”. It was written by Robert ”Rob” Wåtz, Christian Fast, Cribe Pencheff and Jan Johansen. Last year, the song Fri was the most voted song in the TOP20 chart from Eurovision On Top.

Watch the new video here: http://vimeo.com/groups/canon5d/videos/11620574

Allmost all countries from the official international fã club voted. L'Organization Générale des Amateurs de l'Eurovision decided and choose Denmark to win in Oslo. These are the results so far:

Denmark 197; Israel 160; Germany 154; Norway 136; Armenia 120;  Croatia 115; Iceland 111; Spain 105; Azerbaijan 103; Ireland 95; Slovakia 83; Sweden 63; Switzerland 50; Turkey 49; Greece 41; Belgium 36; Albania 35; Romania 32; France 29; Moldova 14; Lithuania 10; Netherlands 10 ; Serbia 10;  Belarus 9; Latvia 6; FYR Macedonia 5; Bulgaria 4; Georgia 4; Ukraine 4; United Kingdom 4; Finland 3; Poland 1

Alyosha Unveiled Her Video 

Ukrainian Eurovision 2010 entry Alyoshahas unveiled the video for her song SweetPeople. The video will be Alyosha's first step in implementation of her ECOVISION2010 program, within which she plans to roll out a series of projects aimed atpromoting global responsibility for the protection of environment. For the mostpart the projects will be presented to the ESC fans and journalists in Oslolater this month. The video shooting took place in theChernobyl exclusion zone - the place of nuclear power plant explosion in 1986. "Thedisaster at the Chernobylnuclear power plant is one of the darkest pages in the history of my country,but there are "chernobyls" waiting tohappen and calling for urgent action on the global level in many other nationsworldwide. I have used the emotive images of Chernobyl in my video because theyare a very powerful reminder of what negligence, irresponsibility and inactionof "sweet people" can leadto," said Alyosha. The video storyline is complementedwith the Greenpeace footage of the major environmental problems of today, suchas industrial destruction of underwater world, deforestation, and various typesof environmental pollution. Alyosha has expressed her gratitude to Greenpeacefor the support of her environmental initiative. The singer hopes that her ESC 2010song and video will get a message across to those who can use their influenceto accelerate the process of solving environmental problems around the world. "Now the issue ofenvironmental security is at the top of the global agenda. Every day we face largeand small disasters that pose a real threat not only to fauna and flora of ourplanet, but also to the stability of the most powerful world economies. Theexplosion of the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, which led to the massive oilspill, is the top news. Everyone has suffered - underwater world and people. Ihope that my program ECOVISION 2010, which I will present in Oslo, will remindEuropean and world leaders about their responsibilities of not only talkingabout environment protection, but also urging them to take action to solvethem", - Alyosha emphasized.   source: CFC entertainment

More Promotional Videos 

The Ukrainian video is finally out and the Israeli video is yet to come. The video from Milim will be presented in Harel Skaat's press conference in Oslo.

The representative for the Netherlands in 2005 Glennis Grace (My Impossible Dream) recorded a new single in Dutch: Als je mij weer aankijkt (If you look at me again). The single is a preview of the coming cd-album that she recorded with Fluitsma & Van Tijn, the producer duo which composed Vrede (ESC 1993 Ruth Jacott) and Hemel en Aarde (ESC 1998 Edsilia Rombley). Today http://www.eurovisionontop.com/ spotted the premiere of the videoclip of Als je mij weer aankijkt.

Click here for the Official videoclip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjMNYVhjQPs

Eurostars new single covers "Love Shine a Light"

The single Love shine a light of the Dutch group Eurostars (Maxine & Fanklin Brown (ESC '96), Esther Hart (ESC '03), Mandy Huydts (ESC '86) en Marlayne (ESC '99)) is out now! The single can be downloaded via Itunes and other downloadsites. The song is a cover of the winning song of Katrina & The waves in 1997. The benefits of the single will go to the foundation Europe Childhelp (Stichting Europa kinderhulp). 

Click it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gugKyqaVzqo

The official Video from the UK now released!

Deep Zone was voted as "Best Group for 2010" at the prestigious "Bg Radio Music Awards" which was held in Sofia / Bulgaria last week. In the mean time Dian Solo (group's former) is the Official NUMBER 1 in many radio & TV charts with his second solo project called "Rise Again" which is predicted to be one of the biggets summer hits in Bulgaria and countries around.The video was shot in Las Vegas (USA) during his DJ tour in December 2009. You can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G83dZPIQy2s

Source: Deep Zone's facebook official webpage

The spanish girl from Dime (2003) has a new CD. It will be out next 18th of May and the newest thing is that it will be in Català. Segueix-me el fil will have 12 songs and you can watch th enew video from the first single in our video section.

According to Eurovision.TV "The gigantic ash cloud that shut down air traffic in Northern- and Western Europe now also affects the preparations for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. Although the implications are small, it is one team in particular which is making long hours!"

"Every day, camera crews of Host Broadcaster NRK are travelling through Europe to record the 39 postcard videos in all participating countries. Now that air traffic has been suspended in over ten European countries, the team's coordinator Ragnhild Skåle had to come up with some creative schedule changes, not to lose time. While NRK is well on schedule with the preparations for the 2010 running of Europe's favourite TV-show, Mother Nature decided to interfere with the organisers' travel schedule. (...) Ironically, next week's first destination on the postcard team's schedule is... Iceland!"

source: www.eurovision.tv

Eurovision Song Contest winner Teddy Scholten passed away at the age of 83. She won the fourth running of the competition with Een Beetje representing The Netherlands.

Ukrainian entry in Eurovision 2010 Alyoshais planning to make a video for her song SweetPeople in Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear power-plant tragedy. Thesinger is convinced that world leaders are capable of solving most global environmentalproblems but lack political will. Alyosha hopes that her song and moving videowill reach out to the policy and decision makers worldwide and will prompt them to take action on global environment.

The video will be Alyosha's first step in the realization of her Ecovision 2010 programme, within which she plans to roll out aseries of projects aimed at promoting global responsibility for the protectionof environment. For the most part the projects will be presented to theEurovision's fans and journalists during the singer's stay in Oslo later inMay.

"Eurovision isloved by millions of Europeans in over 40 countries. And thanks to itscontinuously growing popularity it is a unique platform for promoting importantglobal issues which affect our daily life and shape our future. I hope our Ecovision 2010  programme will remind European and worldleaders about their duty to not only talk the environmental talk, but also towalk the environmental walk." - said Alyosha, who was born only two weeksafter the disaster at Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986. "The disaster atthe Chornobyl nuclear power plant is one of the darkest pages in the history ofmy country, but there are "Chernobyls"waiting to happen and calling for urgent action on the global level in manyother nations worldwide.  We turned tothe emotive images of Chernobyl in our video because they are a very powerfulreminder of what negligence, irresponsibility and inaction of "sweet people" can lead to."

"Sweet People is a very honest, sincere and emotionalsong. That's why the main aim of the video is to visually amplify the emotionwhich underpins the song. To do justice to Alyosha's beautifully moving song,the video will be very realistic; it will have no special effects, noartificial set - everything will be shot in the abandoned city of Pripyat, homeof the Chernobyl nuclear power-plant" - commented the video's director VictorSkuratovsky. "

The official release ofthe video is planned for April 23.

source: CFC Entertainment PR Service

Like every year, some ESC artists try again. Niahm Kavanagh the Eurovision winner from 1993 will try this year to win again for Ireland. Femminem who represented Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005 with Call me are back again. This time with a ballad representing Croatia!

Rita Guerra, the portuguese singer from 2003 has a new CD. It is called Luar and the most curious thing is the new single which is a cover version of the song that placed 2nd in Portuguese National Final in 1979.

The first part of Eurovision Season is on the way and some of our artists from Eurovision wants to try again their luck in the Contest.

Konstantinos from Cyprus will try again with a song called Angel. If he manage to go to Oslo it will be his 4th time in Eurovision. In Spain, Anabel Conde who reached the second place when Secret Garden won with Nocturne is trying again. Also in the Spanish race, Toñi Moreno form Azucar Moreno is on the run.

In Portugal, Nucha, who represented Portugal before, is competing with Chuva. Maria Haukaas passed the first semifinal in Norway and is on the way.

Lauris Reiniks will try one more time for Latvia and also Martin Freimanis with his new group "Per". From Romania, Luminita Anghel and Save their lives.

Niamh Kavanagh is trying again for Ireland after wining the contest in the 90's.

Good Luck to everyone!