Download the Eurovision 2009 album now

The Eurovision Song Contest 2009 album is now available to download from iTunes. It's currently only available in participating countries. The CD will be released 1st May (8th May in Australia).

According to iTunes the top songs are currently:

Be My Valentine (Anti-crisis Girl) - Ukraine
Lose Control - Finland
Illusion - Bulgaria
Is It True? - Iceland
Miss Kiss Kiss Bang - Germany

Eurovision Song Contest 2009 Various Artists Release Date: 17 Apr 2009 Genre: Pop ℗ 2009 The copyright in this compilation is owned by CMC Entertainment A/S

I'm off to Amsterdam - follow me on Twitter

God I haven't had any sleep! I'll shortly be off to Amsterdam for tonight's Eurovision concert. You can follow my updates on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/loveeurovision

UK Eurovision Preview Party

Despite being slightly overshadowed by the huge Eurovision concert taking place in Amsterdam tomorrow the team behind the UK Eurovision Preview Party managed to pull off a fantastic show. Ukraine's Svetlana Loboda was the biggest surprise for me. When I first heard the song I thought it was terrible but they've really worked on the performance and it's very routine-heavy with four muscular Ukrainian men and two backing singers with Amy Winehouse beehives. It's gone from perhaps one of my least favourite entries this year to one of the ones I'm really looking forward to seeing performed in Moscow.

The Romanian and Icelandic acts also pulled off great performances. For me personally Poland, Cyprus and Bulgaria didn't have much impact.

A highlight of the night was the return of Imaani and Jessica Garlick who both performed their past Eurovision entries, 'Where Are You' and 'Come Back'. It was great to see two of our most successful Eurovision acts of recent times and they both gave great performances.

Oh and finally how could I forget Friðrik Ómar. He treated us to a wonderful candlelight/ballad version of 'This Is My Life', before launching back into the eurodance anthem that we know and love.

All in all what I was expecting to be a dull precursor to Amsterdam tomorrow actually turned out to be a great night in its own right.

I've uploaded videos to my Youtube channel:http://www.youtube.com/LoveEurovision

and you can see some photos on my Photobucket page.

You can see Imaani's performance below:

Eurovision In Concert 2009 - Amsterdam

Coming just a day after the UK Eurovision Preview Party this has somewhat stolen London's thunder. Over 20 acts are confirmed to perform, that's nearly half the entries. LoveEurovision will be there and is particularly looking forward to seeing the UK, Bosnia and Måns Zelmerlöw perform.

The following 22 countries have among others already confirmed :

* Denmark: Niels Brinck - Believe
* Belgium: Copycat- Copycat
* Iceland: Jóhanna - Is it true?
* Montenegro: Andrea Demirovic - Get out of my life
* Cyprus: Christina Metaxa - Firefly
* Lithuania: Sasha Son -Love
* Bulgaria: Krassimir - Illusion
* Slovenia: Quartissimo - Love Symphony
* Albania: Kejsi Tola - Carry me in your dreams
* Bosnia and Herzegovina: Regina -Bistra Voda
* Poland: Lidia Kopania - I don't wanna leave
* Armenia: Inga & Anush - Jan jan
* Moldova: Nelly Ciobanu - Hora din Moldova
* Malta: Chiara - What if we
* Spain: Soraya - La noche es para mí
* Romania - Elena Gheorghe - The Balkan Girls
* Belarus - Petr Elfimov - Eyes that never lie
* Ireland - Sinéad Mulvey & Black Daisy - Et cetera
* United Kingdom - Jade - My Time
* Serbia: Marko Kon & Milan Nikolic - Cipela
* Ukraine: Svetlana Loboda - Be my Valentine (Anti-crisis girl)
* Slovakia: Kamil Mikulcík & Nela Pocisková - Let tmou

Special guest
* Swedish popstar Måns Zelmerlöw
* Dutch divas afterparty

The concert begins at 9pm and the whole event last until 5am. Tickets are €20 in advance and €25 on the door.

More information can be found here.

Thingbox.com poll

Only 8 members have voted so far but here are the results. Once again, Norway are in the lead.

1. Norway 88
2. Sweden 84
3. Iceland 54
4. Estonia 49
5. United Kingdom 35
6. France 33
7. Greece 31
8. Switzerland 28
9. Malta 27
10. Montenegro 23
=11. Bosnia & Herzegovina 18
=11. Finland 18
=11. Slovenia 18
14. Spain 15
15. Bulgaria 12
16. Turkey 10
17. Ireland 7
18. Andorra 6
19. Lithuania 5
=20. Albania 4
=20. Moldova 4
=20. Romania 4
=20. Portugal 4
24. Belgium 3
25. Cyprus 1

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UK 2009 - Jade Ewan - My Time

Ooh the BBC have released the official video for 'My Time'. It's rumoured to have taken so long because Andrew Lloyd Webber didn't like the first one and had it re-shot. The video gives us some idea of how the song will be performed in the final, with Jade in a lovely frock and ALW in the background playing the piano. I just hope they don't make use of the other 4 performers they're allowed on stage under Eurovision rules. Four backing singers would really help lift the song. Here's
the video:



JADE's PROMO TOUR

Jade has been busy performing her entry all over Europe. I think it's really helped her develop the live performance. I'm still quite surprised her betting odds are still 18/1. I think it has a good chance of a top 4 finish, especially with it's placing near the end of the final.

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RUSSIA



BOSNIA



GREECE



MALTA



BBC YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU FINAL




CLUB REMIX

The 4 track DJ promo has been doing the rounds of the radio stations and already appeared on Youtube. They've done their best but it's really not the easiest song to do a club remix of:

Semifinal Predictions

Here goes with my predictions for this year's qualifiers. My predictions have generally been quite accurate in the past so let's see how I do this time around.

Semi 1

Turkey
Bosnia
Armenia
Malta
Iceland
Sweden
Portugal
Bulgaria
Romania
Belarus

Semi 2

Norway
Slovenia
Greece
Azerbaijan
Denmark
Ukraine
Moldova
Albania
Latvia
Lithuania