Tracks...

2012 will soon be over, and we will say goodbye to what I consider to be one of the worst music years in recent memory (at least when you look at the UK & US singles charts!). Thankfully there are always some treasures to be found, but I for one am hoping for a much more interesting music year in 2013.

Here is my last collection of tracks for 2012:

Euphoria...

Well, the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest is over. Sweden of course owned the evening as I had known for months - it is a true winning song that raked in the votes. Congrats to Loreen - a well deserved victory. And also, major kudos to her for being the only performer this year to publicly voice her concerns about human rights (or the lack of them) in the host country, Azerbaijan.



I was also very pleased that Albania finished in the Top 5. Spain was a nice surprise and ended in 10th place. Serbia landed a well deserved third place. The fact that Iceland, Malta and Denmark did so badly was much appreciated as well.

I was however hoping for a much better place for Cyprus and Greece - these two were my favorites along with Sweden and Albania. I was also a little surprised over how very badly the UK and Norway did. I didn't expect them to win the whole thing, but sitting at the very bottom was a little surprising. The UK performance was good with a beautiful presentation, but the song felt very much out of place. The song from Norway was pretty good but somehow it just didn't work on stage. Still, both these songs should have finished higher...

Azerbaijan finishing in the top 5 was a major surprise, to to say the least! And the less said about the "song" finishing in the second place (Russia), the better!

Overall though, I thought it was a fun final. Most of the worst songs had been removed during the semifinals and the right song won! I am already looking forward to next year - Sweden LOVES Eurovision and I am sure they will put on a fabulous show!

The complete scorecards from each shows:

Semi #1

Semi #2

The Final

The Time Is Near...

The 2012 Eurovision album will be released on May 7th. I have been so busy with school that I havent had any time yet to check out the songs this year - must set aside some time for that!

The only ones I have heard are the ones from Norway (good), Iceland (dreadful) and Sweden (which I suspect might end up winning this year!).

Tracks...

A batch of recent tracks that I like at the moment, including some of the very few tracks from this years Melodifestivalen that arent completely horrible.















And finally: considering the video for the new single from Max Barskih, I´m pretty sure that the national broadcaster in Ukraine are a bit relieved that he came second place in the Eurovision finals this month. Somehow I cant imagine this would go down too well with the EBU - but imagine how this could have looked on stage in Baku...

I tend to like the entries from Ukraine (how can anyone forget Svetlana Loboda)? So hopefully it wont be long before we get another way over the top act from them in Eurovision. In the meantime, do watch the video for "Dance".