Adam Sandahl Grupp gets our Joker vote ; )

Melodifestivalen's New Webjoker entry, has now been narrowed down to

8 songs and Web clip artists. On first viewing the enry's all look and sounded very amateurish

.. to be honest, so many of them sounded like they did not have a chance

to even qualify for 2nd chance. .. so we waited for the final 10, now two songs

have been disqualified. One song stands out among the rest, and I know you

think -its got alot to do with the semi nude camera man in the mirror.

Actually the song is rather excellent as well 'Karleken vander allt' also the other swedish -Johan Skoog tune, is a not bad at all-

as well Siberia - however they sounds too much like an Eastern European entry, and the fact

they have no visuals in the video is a real disadvantage for them.

Not long to go now til 12 th Nov when SVT will finally reveal the winner

and Melodifestivalen's first ever Web Joker... meanwhile, there is still time to vote for Adam Sandahl Group

A1 take on Norway's Melodi Grand Prix 2010

Christian from A1

A1 the boyband are set for a comeback in Decemeber with some comeback concerts at the Christiania Theater in Oslo. Now it has also been confirmed they will be competing in

Norway Melodi Grand Prix 2010. Certainly they will be hot favourites to win. Christian Ingebrigtsen is from Oslo, Norway and with Brits Ben Adams & Mark Read, they are the three original band members, Paul Marazzi was the fourth member back in 1999, who quit the band

back in 2002. Shortly after this the band broke-up.

Since then Ben Adams has been part of Celebrity Big Brother. While Christian had a successful solo album in Norway in 2003 'Take Back Yesterday'

Christian wrote one of the best MGP entry's in 2008- 'Eastern Wind' sung by Torstein Sodal- Let's hope he will do the same for A1 in 2010.

They had big success in the U K charts with two number #1s and eight top 10 hits. In fact they did better in UK than in Norway.They won "British Breakthrough Act" at Brit Awards 2001. Plus A1's manager is Tim Byrne, who was responsible for Steps UK success!

-Here is a photo shoot for Norway's own Red Nose Day recently, and new single 'Take you home' playing during their Tea break- bless...

Search Update - MELODIFESTIVALeN Song of the DECADE

Nanne Grönvall Leads the vote- in

wonderful company of Shirley Clamp too

Have you voted yet - just pick your two favourites.

'there's a new sensation, a dancable solution.. ' called Whore's Mascara

New York underground band Whore's Mascara have just released their new single "Monogamous,"

which is set to storm on the glam-pop world.

This New York Village Band are described as

post-electroclash neue wave eurotrash coked-up dance party!

With their own brand Electro Trash Pop

that certainly brings together we think elements of Human League, Army of Lovers & Alcazar.

They do make the Sisscor Sisters sound like Nuns! They may not be ready

for Eurovision or Melodifestivalen just yet but check out the Vid' see what you think?

if you like the single be sure to give the whole album a spin at the Whore's Mascara site

Darin is in- For MELODIFESTIVALEN 2010 he is the first Joker !

Darin's song in Melodifestivalen 10 will be 'Out of My Life' wrote by Tony Nilsson and Henrik Janson.

The same two writers who gave us ‘The Queen’, by Velvet Darin has also confirmed that it’s a

mid tempo ballad. Tony has wrote two other confirmed songs in the competion "Doctor Doctor' & 'Headlines' See list of other tunes here

Here is the Star, creating all the buzz- with a few choosen svenska words.

first a Splash Tour Now Less BUCKS, More Fizz- With a new Platimum CD

The Original Buck Fizz band have been performing in U K on their Splash tour recently- and we have heard some excelllent reviews of the new show.

At last bringing back Jay Aston to the Fizz fold.

Its sad as many of us overseas fans won't get a chance to see more than the odd u-tube clips.

But don't dispare a new Box-set called 'the Platinum Collection' has a release date of 16th Nov 2009- this is a 4 Cd set of 73 tracks, of Hits, some rare B sides + unreleased song all in one Remastered set. With so much in this CD set, this Sounds a lot like the 80's Hi-Fi Ads they did way back when...

LESS Bucks, MORE FIZZ..( it was a Sharp ad) Anyone remember that one?

Here is the low down on the track-lists of all 4 discs....

Disc 1

Making Your Mind Up I'd Like To Say I Love You Cold War London Town Taking Me Higher I Used To Love The Radio Easy Love Talking In Your Sleep Shine On Oh Suzanne (Cheryl Lead Original Version)Took It To The Limit Tears On The Ballroom Floor (Original Version) Running Out Of Time You & Your Heart So Blue (Original Version) Another Night (Original Version) Love Dies Hard When We Were At War 20th Century Hero (Album Version) Rules Of The Game

Disc 2

Land Of Make Believe When The Love Has Gone 10.9.8.7.6.5.4 Alibi Are You Ready Piece Of The Action She Cries (Album Version) Love In A World Gone Mad (Rca Version)Thief In The Night Now Those Days Are Gone Here's Looking At You Magical (The Rock Mix) I Do It All For You Midnight Reservation Where Do I Go Now January's Gone One Way Love Run For Your Life

Disc 3

My Camera Never Lies Breaking Me Up (Extended Version) Censored Young Hearts Indebted To You (Album Version) If You Can't Stand The Heat Invisible Don't StopThe Right Situation What Am I Gonna Do? Yo Se Que Es Amor (It's Got To Be Love) One Of Those Nights One Touch (Don't Mean Devotion) Stepping Out Lady Of The Night What's Love Got To Do With It Shot Me Thru The Heart Heart Of Stone

Disc 4

Every Dream Has Broken Braking And Entering It's All For Jan When We Were Young Getting Kinda Lonely Surrender Your Heart Golden Days Don't Pay The Ferryman (Live) Identity Now You're Gone Where The Ending Starts Evil Man Pulling Me Under One Touch Too Much Oh Suzanne (Jay Aston Extended Version) I Hear Talk (7" Version) You Love, Love Heart Of Stone (2009 Acoustic Version)

Here is a flashback to Rules of the game one of the best vids the Fizz did! back when Jay's hair was bigger than big

There is some Electro' Stonking EURO Beats going down in N Y C ?

These - Sisters Are Doin it for themselves,

they are Whore's Mascara

more on this x-citing band coming soon?

first MELODIFESTIVALEN Joker 2010- is Darin

..DRUM - Roll, on Tuesday the first Joker' will be announced for

Melodifestivalen 2010. All over the swedish press rumours are flying as

to who will be first name made public.

Lena Philipsson, is once again a HOT favourite, yet we think this fantastic News may

not come til later on? if its true at all.

Then the other big name from Sweden's very first Idol 2004 & now confirmed as Joker no:1

Darin

He was runner-up in Idol to Daniel Lindstrom, then Darin went on to have a huge No:1 hit with 'Money for Nothing'

in sweden. Now three huge albums later, and a string of massive hits like

'Step up' & 'Breathing your Love' he is the simply the best selling artist from Song BMG Sweden.

Unlike E M D Ola & Sibel, Darin has never been in Melodifestivalen although he did sing

'Se pa Mig' as an interval act last year. Darin is back, and this week climbs back up to No: 1

with a rather excellent cover of Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida'

We glad Darin with make his Melodifestivalen debut in 2010.

Search UPDATE - Most popular Non-Finalist 2000-2009

So as the search continues...... for the Melodifestivalen Song of the last

- 10 years. We have looked at the Swed-TeleVotes, the final chart we have

compiled is the songs that really got away- Althrough the songs became

popular hits of the time, they failed to make the Globen final 10.

Its almost the underdog 10! On top came BWO's 2009 ballad entry

'You're Not Alone' with over 80,000 in one round- this song along with Carola's

'One Love' -I always felt these 2 should have been in the final. In fact the results

show with this year's new 'duel' selection process. Alot of high scoring Artists & Tunes

seem to miss out on the Final placing. No less than 5 x 2009 songs scored

among the decades Top 10 televotes ! does this mean this 2009 process is losing

excellent songs lost in the duel loop?

Okey, Okey Next up we will set up a 'Super 12 Melodifestivalen Songs' using

our 'Schlager analyst Calulator' we will feed in all the charts & results of

2000 - 2009. So stay tuned for the Super 12 poll -

to vote choose 2 songs you luv from the

NEW Melodifestivalen Poll.. above just look for the super twelve..

TOP 10 - Most popular Non-Finalist

Melodifestivalen 2000-2009

1 BWO You're not Alone (80 414)

charts- No: 11 ( 5 wks on chart )

2 CAROLA (Johnson & Häggkvist) One Love (79 106)

charts- No: 11 ( 8 wks on chart )

3 AMY DIAMOND Its my life (77 571)

charts- No: 14 ( 6 wks on chart )

4 SCOTTS Jag trot pa oss (73 455)

charts- No: 32 ( 3 wks on chart )

5 LILI & SUSIE Show me love (70 081)

charts- No: 6 ( 9 wks on chart )

6 NANNE Jag maste kyssa dig (65 791)

charts- No: 14 ( 11 wks on chart )

7 STAR PILOTS Higher (58 751)

charts- No: 6 ( 11 wks on chart )

8 KARL MARTINDAHL Love turns water into wine (52 923)

charts- No: 14 ( 9 wks on chart )

9 OLA Love in stereo (52 615)

charts- No: 2 ( 11 wks on chart )

10MAGNUS UGGLA For kung och fosterland (46 293 )

charts- No: 11 ( 7 wks on chart )

Note- the songs in this chart missed out on a place in

Globen Final -during 2nd Chance Round: knocked

out! & still scored the most votes in their Semi- Final.

MELODIFESTIVALEN Song of the Decade Winners TeleVote Results

The Winners Televote - TOP 10

the decade - 2000-2009

1 The Worring kind - The Ark

Melodifestivalen 2007 [492 180]

Charts- 4 wks at No:1 (20 wks in total)

2 Evighet - Carola

Melodifestivalen 2006 [437 876]

Charts- 2 wks at No:1 (24 wks in total)

3 Hero - Charlotte Perrelli

Melodifestivalen 2008 (397 907)

Charts- 5 wks at No:1 (19 wks in total)

4 La Voix - Malena Ernman

Melodifestivalen 2009 (322 657)

Charts- No: 2 (18 wks in total)

5 Det gor ont - Lena Philipsson

Melodifestivalen 2004 [298 722]

Charts- 7 wks at No: 1 (37 wks in total)

6 Give me your Love - Fame

Melodifestivalen 2003 (229 753)

Charts- 3 wks at No: 1 (18 wks in total)

7 Las Vegas- Martin Stenmarck

Melodifestivalen 2005 [208 716]

Charts- 1 wk at No: 1 (17 wks in total)

8 Nar vindarna viskar mitt namn-Roger Pontare

Melodifestivalen 2000 (173 641)

Charts- No: 2 (22 wks in total)

9 Never let you go - Afro dite

Melodifestivalen 2002 [162 612]

Charts- 1 wks at No:1 (17 wks in total)

10 Listen to your heartbeat- Friends

Melodifestivalen 2001 (96 380)

Charts- made No: 2 (22 wks in total)