1000's of Songs pour into NKR office- As over in Sweden a Net Wildcard will be choosen for 2010

It maybe a quiet time for Melodiestivalen & Norsk Melodi Grand Prix,

we can only reflect on some great old entry thats gone by. Yet for some TV stations all across Europe it's a most hectic time. The pressure is still on, as deadlines are met for new songs for

Eurovision 2010- to be put in for each national Pre- Selection TV show, to

find the one song to fly the flag in Oslo next year.

Over in Norsk-land they are calling it the 'Rybak effect' as they have now a record number of

songs and norwegian songwriters- flooding into the office! This will create a lot of international attention to NKR'S Melodi Grand Prix 2010. As well as a more serious and better quaility of music submissions in Norway following last years runaway win. We will track the progress on the blog.

Meanwhile over in Stockholm at Melodifestivalen H.O. plans are just being put in place. Each year Melodifestivalen picks 4 wildcards for the semi-final heats. One these 2010 wildcards will

be choose by a 'new' on-line selection, this has been done by Spain in recent years with

great success.

Sweden has picked unknown performers before for Melodifestivalen back in 2007. They picked up Marie Lindberg took her out of her class room where she was a school teacher. Marie was a singer songwriter and performed her magical 'Trying to Recall' she went on to Globen, became a firm favourite with the public . Which gave her fifth place that year, see this clip- of Marie, or is it a drag queen! its from GayGalan 2008!