Molitva video clip shot in Serbian and English

The video clip for this year's Eurovision Song Contest winner song Molitva has been shot in Belgrade, the clip for the English version of the song Destiny will be shot as well.

Marija Serifovic and Beoton have opened a competition for debuting composers and lyricists. The winners will see their song included in Marija's forthcoming album.

The video clip for Molitva was shot in a warehouse in Belgrade. The clip was produced by Moonfish, on a script by Manetu Šijanu.

Beoton and Marija Serifovic have opened a competition for new composers and lyricists. Marija, her executive producers and creative team will choose one of the songs submitted for Marija's forthcoming new album. Songs, lyrics together with the creator's contact details and CV should be sent to :

Beoton

Poštanski fah 987

11 000 Beograd

source:esctoday.com;marijaserifovic.net

Listen Dima Bilan - My number One fan - Audio

Because the video is no longer available you can listen ' My number one fan' and waiting for the videoclip

New “bomb” from Dima Bilan is coming soon.

On 18 June Dima flew to London for the shooting of his new video for thу song “Number one fan”, which he recorded with the producer Timbaland.

The video is going to be shot in the best traditions of western video making, because the director of it is Trudy Bellinger, who is famous for her work with such artists as Sugababes, Girls Around, Sophie Ellis Bextor

Oksana Lavrentieva is going to star there. She already took part in Dima’s video with one of the biggest ratings (“Nevozmozhnoe vozmozhno”). Such a tandem is promising to become an”explosion”.

Listen "My number one fan" here

source: Dima Bilan Official Website

Eurovillage Karaoke My Number One

Eurovillage Karaoke My Number One - Helsinki- Eurovision 2007

Sarbel dancing "My Number 1" at Greek-Cypriot party

Sarbel dancing MN1 at Greek-Cypriot party

Serebro - Final Night

Serebro: Song 1 (Live at Eurovision 2007 - Russia)

ESC a good financial affair?

Eurovision Song Contest a good financial affair?

Well, hosting ESC 2007 gave at least Finnish national broadcaster YLE more than 35 million Swedish crowns or 3,716,879.94 €, newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet reports.

Before Hartwall Areena a lot of people in Finland thought that the event would cause a big black hole in the YLE budget but it all went opposite. All this thanks to the tickets sold over the week mid may this year.

When all charges and incomes/receipts was taking in consider it all ends with a + 3,7 million € for YLE. Not bad to say that you can earn money from such a big event as Eurovision Song Contest !!

source:oikotimes.com

Ciornea Ioana Veronica withdraws from JESC final

The Romanian national broadcaster is ready for the Junior Eurovision national selection which takes place on June 24 at 20:15 CET on TVR 1 and TVR International.

Originally 15 entries were selected by the preliminary jury. For medical reasons Ciornea Ioana Veronica forced to withdraw from the competition. Here is the participants list in the order of appearance:


În jurul lumii (Mera Alexandra, Botoşani)
Fetiţa deocheată (Trupa A+, Bucureşti)
Zbor (Loică Andrei, Oradea)
Bum, bum, bum (Ghiţă Karina, Bucureşti)
Mă dusei ziua la coasă (Trupa Fifty – Fifty, Bucureşti)
Mama nu ştie (Mateiuc Alexandra Gabriela, Botoşani)
Suntem mereu OK (Trupa Chic, Bucureşti)
Duby Duby (Trupa D@D, Bucureşti)
Putem fi prieteni (Lazăr Ovidiu, Oradea)
Rebele (Trupa R.B.L., Iaşi, Bucureşti)
Rock şi Cha Cha (Trupa Iforti, Bucureşti)
Trece (Niculae Norina Sânziana, Urziceni)
Sha-la-la (Trupa 4 Kids, Braşov, Oradea, Botoşani, Buftea)
Asta-s eu (Pânzaru Stănescu Iulian, Brăila)


source:TVR

link:Junior Eurovision Romania

Names of "New Wave 2007" finalists made public

Names of the finalists of the Sixth International contest of young singers of popular music "New Wave 2007" have been made public.

General Director of "ARS" holding company, General Director of the "New Wave" contest Alexander Rumyantsev said, "Eight thousand musical performances from 37 countries have been auditioned.

That's significant for us. These are good figures for the six-year old contest. I admit the fact that it was difficult to single out anyone from the participants. They are becoming better and better every year. It was really difficult to make a choice.

We think that we have selected the most worthy singers, capable of making the contest interesting, attracting attention of the audience and making a big event out of it. This is valuable! We did not want to exclude some of them, so a decision to let 18 persons get through to the final was made.
Performing time was thus cut to 3 minutes. We gave them a chance and I hope we willnot regret it! Formerly the "New Wave" could be watched in other countries by means of satellite communication.

This year the contest will be broadcasted in Europe owing to the contestants who come from European countries. Many countries are going to watch their contestants, make TV programs, and broadcast live from Jurmala.

I wish all the contestants to perform in the "Dzintari" concert hall successfully. Be sure of yourselves and let good luckhelp you to win!"

Finalists of the contest:

Belarus - Polina Smolova
Germany - Francisca
Greece -Kostas Martakis
Georgia - Eleonora
Italy - Alessandro
Kazakhstan - band "Rin Go"
Latvia -Erglis Moldavia - Natalia Gordienko
Poland - MarinaRussia - Nastya Kochetkova; Natasha Vinokur; Masha Novikova
Romania - Mihai Traistariu
USA - Chioma
Ukraine - Vasiliy Lazarovitch, duet "Barcelona"
Czech Republic - Kate, Issa Samer

source:newwavestars.com




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Anatropi - Kostas Martakis

Graham steps up to challenge -Eurovision DANCE Contest

THE BBC is to host the first Eurovision DANCE Contest — with Graham Norton and Claudia Winkleman as presenters.

Dancers from 16 nations will compete in a live show following the Eurovision Song Contest format — including scoreboard, viewer votes and foreign hosts.

Claudia told TV Biz: “I’m so excited I actually feel sick. The dancing promises to be fantastic. I’m secretly hoping for clogs.”

Strictly Come Dancing judges Bruno Tonioli and Len Goodman will be commentators for September’s show.

BBC1 boss Peter Fincham said: “It’ll be an evening full of stars and sequins, glitz and glamour.”


source: The Sun

Serebro vs Verka Serduchka -Dancing # 1

Dancing # 1 (Serebro vs Verka Serduchka ESC 2007 mash-up)

Have fun :))

Verka hits Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Verka Serduchka alias Andrei Danilko

Verka Serduchka, who finished second at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest with the infamous performance of ''Dancing Lasha Tumbai'' will see his/her CD Single released in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland on July 13.

In preparation for this, the video to Verka's Eurovision hit will be being aired on German television station Viva, as part of their 'Neu' show, which airs new video clips every weekend. Verka's clip will start running tomorrow, June 22.

Svante Stockselius meets members of OGAE Serbia

Two days ago, members of OGAE Serbia met the supervisor of Eurovision Song Contest, Mr. Svante Stockselius.

Mr. Stockselius came to Belgrade to get to know with the host city of Eurovision Song Contest 2008. During his stay, Mr. Stockselius visited Belgrade Arena, Sava Centre (potential place for the press area) and Expo Centre (potential place for Euroclub).

Mr. Stockselius expressed his delightment with Belgrade, Arena and Sava centre, saying that there are all conditions for having an event like ESC and added that he thinks that the next year's event will be very successful.

Mr. Stockselius also met the head managers of RTS and the people who will be responsible who organising of the event and had a serie of meetings with them. He said that he thinks that there is a team of professional, creative and capable people in RTS who will be able to bring out such a demanding task like an organisation of ESC.

Members of OGAE Serbia also introduced some ideas to mr. Stockselius and expressed their willingness in organising the events connected with fans. Mr. Stockselius said he's very pleased with the ideas the fans in Serbia have and added that he hopes they'll be brought out in the cooperation of RTS and OGAE Serbia. The head of Serbian delegation and the music editor of RTS, Ms. Anja Rogljic, expressed her satisfaction with the RTS' cooperation with OGAE Serbia in Helsinki and added RTS will its' best for Eurovision Song Contest's good organisation.

Mr. Stockselius also mentioned some general things about the ESC. He said that, in the case of Italy's coming back, there will be BIG 5 and the method of voting will stay the same. As for the infamous theme of "East" and "West", Mr. Stockselius said that former Eastern European countries put much more in the quality of their songs and added he isn't surprised they do very well at the contest.

source:oikotimes.com

JESC 2007: Georgia replaces Bosnia & Herzegovina

Due to withdrawal of Bosnia & Herzegovina for the 2007 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, Georgia - the first country on the waiting list - gets the opportunity to take part.

As announced in May, 19 countries applied for participation. However, the current rules of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest say that the maximum number of participating countries is 18.

Georgia, initially on the waiting list, will now take Bosnia's place in the competition. It is the first time Georgia takes part in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, after successfully taking part in the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest with Sopho's Visionary Dream. This means, the new list of participants for the 2007 Junior Eurovision Song Contest looks like this (in alphabetical order).

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007

. Armenia (ARMTV)
. Belarus (BTRC)
. Belgium (VRT)
. Bulgaria (BNT)
. Cyprus (CyBC)
. FYR Macedonia (MKRTV)
. Georgia (GPB)
. Greece (ERT)
. Lithuania (LRT)
. Malta (MTPBS)
. The Netherlands (AVRO)
. Portugal (RPT) . Romania (TVR)
. Russia (RTR) . Serbia (RTS)
. Spain (TVE)
. Sweden (TV4)
. Ukraine (NTU)

The upcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be hosted by Dutch broadcaster AVRO and takes place on 8th December in the Ahoy' venue in Rotterdam.

source.eurovision.tv