We start the second part of our album survey with Croatia’s girl trio Feminnem, no strangers to the Eurovision Song Contest having represented Bosnia & Herzegovina in the 2005 contest with the song Call Me (placed 14^th). The girls returned to Eurovision this year to perform Lako Je Sve for Croatia in the second semi-final, where they came 13^th. A full album with the same title as their ESC entry, Lako Je Sve, was released already before the contest. It was made in collaboration with Branimir Mihaljevic, who deserves credit for music and production of their hits in recent years. An international version of the album, Easy To See, came out in mid June. The album includes collaborations…

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A little more than a month has passed since the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest was held in Oslo, Norway. A number of entries from the contest still get a lot of airplay across Europe, several still enjoy chart success, with Jessy Matador’s summer hit Allez Ola Olé (placed 12^th in the final in Oslo) being the most prominent track. The French Eurovision entry has only just reconquered the No. 1 spot on the French Top 100, is listed in the single charts in several other countries and holds up to No. 6 on the European Hot 100 Singles Chart. Meanwhile Jessy has a full album out, entitled Elektro Soukouss, which has climbed to No. 44 on the latest French album run-down. We’d like to take the opportunity to give you a résumé of all the albums released by the 2010 Eurovision contenders over the past few weeks…

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Alexander Rybak, 2009 Eurovision Song Contest winner from Norway and  double ESC Radio Award winner (Best Song award and Best Male Artist award 2009) has his new album out today, called  No Boundaries. A foretaste of the album had already been provided during this year’s national final season, when Alexander performed the track Europe Skies on various tv shows across Europe. As the first official single from the album the track Oah has been released, accompanied by a music video. Read more and check out the video…

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Two weeks have passed since the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest took place in Oslo’s Telenor Arena, time to check which entries managed to make some chart waves. In the latest edition of the European Hot 100 Singles Chart from last weekend, Germany’s Lena and her ESC winning song Satellite climbed to No. 1 as the most selling single in Europe, thanks to #1 positions in Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Denmark, plus Germany for a second non-consecutive run (initially, the song had topped the German singles chart for a whole month right after the national final in March)…

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Congratulations, Germany! Pre-contest favourite Lena swept to an easy victory in the 55th Eurovision Song Contest last night, shaking off the other 24 contestants early in the voting. With a total of 246 points Lena’s “Satellite“, written by Julie Frost and John Gordon, came out the clear winner, followed by “We Could Be The Same“, performed by alternative rock band maNga from Turkey with 170 points, while Romania‘s duo Paula Seling & Ovi with the song “Playing With Fire” came in a close third with 162 points.

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Tonight, 27^th May, at 21:00 CEST, the 2^nd Semi-Final of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest took place. 10 songs managed to qualify for the final this coming Saturday, 29^th May, while 7 entries got eliminated. Read more and check out the qualifiers…

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