The 13th edition of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2015 will take place in Arena Armeec in Sofia, Bulgaria, next saturday. This will be the first time that the Bulgarian national broadcaster, Bulgarian National Television (BNT), are organising an Eurovision event after reaching the second place last year in the junior contest.

Seventeen countries will participate, with Australia and Ireland making their debut at the 2015 contest. Albania and Macedonia will return while Croatia and Cyprus withdraws. Sweden, the winner of the senior Song Contest this year, will be withdrawing for the first time since 2008.

Participants and running order:

• 01 Serbia Lena Stamenković "Lenina pesma" (Ленина песма)
• 02 Georgia The Virus "Gabede" (გაბედე)
• 03 Slovenia Lina Kuduzović "Prva ljubezen"
• 04 Italy Chiara & Martina "Viva"
• 05 Netherlands Shalisa "Million Lights"
• 06 Australia Bella Paige "My Girls"
• 07 Ireland Aimee Banks "Réalta na Mara"
• 08 Russia Mikhail Smirnov "Mechta (Dream)" (Мечта)
• 09 Macedonia Ivana Petkovska & Magdalena Aleksovska "Pletenka – Braid of Love" (Плетенка)
• 10 Belarus Ruslan Aslanov "Volshebstvo (Magic)" (Волшебство)
• 11 Armenia Mika "Love"
• 12 Ukraine Anna Trincher "Pochny z sebe" (Почни з себе)
• 13 Bulgaria Gabriela Yordanova & Ivan Stoyanov "Colour of Hope"
• 14 San Marino Kamilla Ismailova "Mirror"
• 15 Malta Destiny Chukunyere "Not My Soul"
• 16 Albania Mishela Rapo "Dambaje"
• 17 Montenegro Jana Mirković "Oluja" (Олуја)
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Georgia, Malta and Slovenia seemed to be the favourite to win.

Norway: an internal product

Last week, Universal Music Group released the CD containing all the songs of Junior ESC. Interesting fact is that the CD from the Melodi Grand Prix Junior from Norway is number 4 in the official Album Charts of the scandinavian country.

The Melodi Grand Prix Junior was the anual event and format used to select the entry for Junior Eurovision when Norway took part on it Between 2003 and 2005, before NRK decided to withdraw from the contest.

Also interesting is the fact that MARCUS & MARTINUS, the winners of MGP Junior from 2012 hitted the album charts at number 1. Definitely, Norway adopted the supposed national final of Junior for internal consumption.

Bulgaria placed second last year and Italy was the previous winner.

The new album of Miro will be out very soon.

Messiah is the title and its release was preceded by a concert with an orchestra. 

Miro performed some of the new songs, one of it in a majestic version of Im nin'alu by Ofra Haza. 

The best is that you can see the full concert in youtube here:

The first single is Hallelujah Amen.

The new album from Miro "Messiah,"  will be released in May and it was presented in a pre-acoustic version.

It is unusual to have an "unplugged" concert from Miro. He sang known songs and new titles from the album, accompanied by a band that was specially formed for this concert.

Special guests of  Miro were Tsvetelina Yaneva and the hip-hop sensation Dim4ou.

The concert and the album "MESSIAH" Volume II "Resurrection" includes many of the best songs written by Miro.

The "Unplugged" concert by Miro  can be watched today, 13th April, Monday at 12:30 in BTV.

source: BGVESTI NET

This week we can find two artists that performed in the Eurovision Stage in the Bulgarian Charts.

At number 1, the leader of the band Kaffe (Bulgaria, 2005) is the number 1 with the song Za Den. We are talking about Orlin Pavlov, one the most popular artists right now in Bulgaria. At number 2, we can find the new single of Miro (2010), Sensation of Love.

This week, we can find three Eurovision artists at the highest place of the Radio Charts in their own countries.

Miro is number one in the Bulgarian charts with Souvenir, a song that reached the 19th position in EOT TOP 20.

Sertab Erener and the first single of her CD Sade reached the number 1 in the turkish radio stations. Iyilesiyorum peaked the third place at EOT TOP 20.

Finally, Mihalis Xatzigiannis is number 1 in Cyprus with I agapi dynamonei, and he is actually at number 9 in EOT TOP 20.