Sweden: Eurovisionfun will be in Stockholm at Allsång på Skansen!

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In the summer of 2023, Allsång på Skansen is back like every year and is held at Skansen in Stockholm, Sweden.

Eurovisionfun of course will be there, accredited! This year the concert is taken over by Pernilla Wahlgren who will lead all the shows and will present this year’s guests, invites the crowd to sing with many surprises on stage.

The story behind Allsång på Skansen

Sven Lilja started the Allsång på Skansen tradition as early as 1935 and was the Allsång leader until 1950. Since 1979, Allsång på Skansen has also been a given feature on swedish television during the summers. Pernilla Wahlgren will be the seventh person to lead Allsång på Skansen since the program began to be televised. Previous presenters are Bosse Larsson (1979-1993), Lasse Berghagen (1994-2003), Anders Lundin (2004-2010), Måns Zelmerlöw (2011-2013), Petra Marklund (2014-2015), Sanna Nielsen (2016-2022) .

Who is Pernilla Wahlgren?

Pernilla Wahlgren is a Swedish singer and actress. She has participated in Melodifestivalen five times in total, with her 1985 entry titled “Piccadilly Circus” being very popular and successful. She has acted in several plays and films, playing roles including Esmeralda in the Academy Award-winning Fanny and Alexander. She has twice received the Guldmasken award for her work in theater.

Participating Artists

In the first day on the 27th of June, the audience can sing along with, among others, Laleh, two-times-Eurovision-winner Loreen and Mando Diao. The summer then offers guests (which include many Melodifestivalen stars who are joining the line-up) such as Zara Larsson, Hooja, Carola, Måns Zelmerlöw, Panetoz, Kiana, Oscar Zia, Nordman, Tomas Stenström, Admira Thunderpussy, Victor Leksell, Helen Sjöholm & Tommy Körberg and Darin.

Allsång på Skansen premieres June 27 at 8 p.m CET. and runs every Tuesday until August 15. Allsång på Skansen is also broadcast live on SVT and SVT Play and you can watch it here.

Allsång på Skansen 2023 Full Schedule

June 27th

  • Mando Diao
  • Laleh
  • Loreen
  • Lasse Stefanz
  • Louisiana Avenue

July 4th

  • Zara Larsson
  • Sven-Ingvar’s
  • Hooja
  • Jackie Mere

July 11th

  • Måns Zelmerlöw
  • Panetoz
  • Olivia Lobato
  • Erika and Cecilia
  • Malena Ernman and Rickard Söderberg

July 18th

  • Carola
  • Hanna Hedlund
  • Lucianoz
  • Lova

July 25th

  • Big
  • Kiana
  • Lancelot
  • Tomas Stenström

August 1st

  • Oscar Zia
  • Stefan Sundström
  • Admira Thunderpussy
  • Johar and Josefin

August 8th

  • Darin
  • Nordman
  • Naod

August 15th

  • Victor Leksell
  • Helen Sjöholm & Tommy Körberg
  • David Ritschard

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Eurovision 2023 Finland: Käärijä’s Tallinn concert featured a voodoo doll and claims about Loreen!

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As Käärijä progresses with his Northern European tour after his Eurovision success,lots of peculiar happenings surround his concerts.The singer’s performance in Tallinn’s Flex Fest some days ago was a huge success and the audience was left in awe.

At some point during the concert,the singer reportedly asked the audience if they had watched Eurovision and what they thought about Loreen winning the contest.The infamous question was followed by a deathly silence,with a couple of people among the audience booing the singer.It is said that Käärijä’s satisfaction with the audience’s response was more than evident.

Later on,a fan threw a voodoo doll to the singer that was dressed just like him,with the audience going mad and dancing to the rhythm of “Cha cha cha” in the end of the concert.

Käärijä represented Finland in this year’s Eurovision with his song “Cha cha cha”,which won him the 1st place in the televote and the 2nd place overall.

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Loreen: This is the appearance of Loreen at the final of Germany’s Next Top Model | “Tattoo” is constantly successful at German charts!

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Last Thursday, the final of the current season of Germany’s Next Top Model took place and ProSieben had invited the two-times-Eurovision-winner Loreen for a guest performance of this year’s winning Swedish entry “Tattoo“. Loreen was not on stage alone performing her song, but was supported by the five GNTM finalists, who did their catwalk in the hopes of getting crowned as Germany’s Next Top Model.

Loreen perfomed “Tattoo” while the five finalists had to go backwards at the beginning of the song and put on a coat and gloves on runway. The stage design with the falling pink leaves reminded of the romantic staging of Zoë‘s “Loi d’ici” at Eurovision Song Contest 2016 but also similar to the way there was snow at Loreen‘s “Euphoria” Eurovision performance! The performance is definitely worth seeing, also because “Tattoo” was presented in an unreleased extended version and Loreen once again was amazing and pitch-perfect!

You can watch Loreen‘s performance at GNTM below:

It goes without saying that the appearance for Loreen has also been worthwhile in terms of chart success. Since the Germany’s Next Top Model final, “Tattoo” has remained steady at No3 in the German iTunes charts while in the German Spotify Top 50 the song is currently constantly at No35.

These figures suggest that Loreen could also go even further up in the German single and radio charts next week, although things are already going well for the singer in both hit lists. In the Single Top 100 released yesterday, “Tattoo” loses only two places and is in 30th place more than a month after her victory at the Eurovision Song Contest. In the German airplay charts, the song continues to rise week after week, after the format radios of the ARD have now also jumped on the bandwagon, which had initially refused the song. In the radio charts  “Tattoo” climbs up 11 places up, from 51st place in the previous week to 40th place as we speak.

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Måns Zelmerlöw: The song Måns was supposed to participate at Melodifestivalen 2015 with, instead of “Heroes” gets released!

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Eight years later than the victory of Sweden with Måns Zelmerlöw and “Heroes“, Warner Music Sweden and Måns release “Running Low“. “Running Low” is a song he was supposed to participate with at Melodifestivalen 2015, as Måns himself admitted on his social media.

Right in the process, Måns was offered “Heroes” and the rest is history! Måns has had “Running Low” in his vault, up until Friday, June 16 when he decided to release it! He had already performed it at some of his tour concerts, the past year.

“Running Low” is featuring The Agreement, is produced by Peter Kvint and is written by Gavin Jones, Mattias Frändå, Oliver Lundström, Johan Asgårde and Måns Zelmerlöw himself.

You can listen to “Running Low” in the Official Audio YouTube clip below:

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Fans shipping for Käärijä/Bojan continues as the BFFs visit Finland!

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Käärijä and Bojan became friends during their Eurovision journeys.  The couple fans like to “ship” the most during Eurovision 2023 keep giving fanservice to the avid viewers.  And the fans are enjoying the content.  Based on the figures, social media has exploded during Bojan’s visit to Helsinki where he shared the stage with Käärijä and he even joined him during the “piggy train” dance

Böörijä

Fans have enjoyed so far the “shipping” between Käärijä and Bojan from Joker Out.  In fans circle shipping means pairing together two characters from reality or fiction and speculating about the possibility of them being a real couple.  The fans have coined the term “Böörijä” to refer to the friendship between Käärijä and Bojan Cvjetićan.

Both Käärijä and Bojan have contributed to the shipping publishing videos on Tiktok and Instagram of them teasing the fans.  In a recent Tiktok video we can see Käärijä and Bojan pumping a flamingo in a suggestive manner.  On an instagram story Käärijä and Bojan are watching Twilight together.

“This is you and me” Käärijä comparing himself and Bojan with Bella and Edward from the Twilight saga

The reaction from the fans has been positive.  Fans have liked this type of fanservice so far and have contributed creating their own video compilation of the fictional couple and even making fanfics.  According to Archive of Our Own, fans have created more than 190 Käärijä/Bojan fanfic stories.

It is important to point out however, that shipping between celebrities is a common practice that helps get engagement from the fans as a publicity stunt.  For instance, manager Gregor Zalokar shared a lot of the content created between Käärijä and Bojan.

 

Whether the Käärijä/Bojan bromance is a publicity stunt or not, the shipping helps the career of the lead singer from Joker Out and the Finnish rapper.  Just to cite an example, Joker Out has its most listeners in Helsinki according to Spotify stats.  Therefore, we can expect that the couple will continue giving their fans more fanservice.

Joker Out will announce their tour dates soon.  One can only speculate if Käärijä will have a special appearance during the Slovenian band tour!

Source: Yle

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Finland: City of Vantaa awards Käärijä with one year rent-free apartment

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Finland continues showing appreciation to their 2023 Eurovision representative.  Käärijä has become a music heroe after his Eurovision participation in Liverpool where he won the televote and overall finished in second place, Finland’s best result in the contest since 2006.

The city of Vantaa announced that it will award Käärijä with a rent-free apartment for one year.  The singer whose real name is Jere Pöyhönen, said previously that he would like to move back to Vantaa where he spent most of his childhood.

The city of Vantaa will give Käärijä a one year rent-free apartment as a recognition for Käärijä’s outstanding services to the City of Vantaa”.  Käärijä received the keys of his new apartment from the Deputy Mayor of the city’s urban environment unity in a special ceremony.

“Home in Vantaa always feels so much more like home” Käärijä

But the celebrations did not end there.  The city has commissioned the painting of a mural that will honor the Finnish representative for Eurovision 2023.  Käärijä was also awarded with “The Vantaa medal” for his achievements.

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Cyprus: Eleni Foureira will attend “Het Grote Songfestivalfeest” concert in Amsterdam this November!

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One of the biggest Eurovision parties, is going to take place this November in Amsterdam, for the third year in a row.

The great concert, which is going to take place in November 16, called Het Grote Songfestivalfeest, is a co-production of the Dutch public broadcaster AVROTROS with PILOTSTUDIO, with many Eurostars as guests!

Earlier today, it was announced that the one and only Eleni Foureira will perform at the big concert in Amsterdam. Eleni represented Cyprus in 2018 with her song “Fuego” and ended in 2nd place, giving Cyprus its best result in the contest so far. She was not able to perform at last year’s concert due to her pregnancy, but now, as part of her “Reborn Tour”, Eleni is ready to set fuego to the stage, once again.

Some other Eurostars that are confirmed to be part of the concert are: Verka Serduchka (Ukraine 2008), Charlotte Perelli (Sweden 1999 & 2008), Emmelie de Forest (Denmark 2013) and Johnny Logan (Ireland 1980 & 1987), with many more to come!

Het Grote Songfestivalfeest will take pace in November 17 in the Ziggo Dome arena in Amsterdam, while it will also be broadcasted by the Dutch public television, at a later time.

The videos are no longer available online, but you can watch the performances from last year’s concert, that we secured for you from the inside of the arena:

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Iceland: Einar Stefánsson from Hatari will be the Icelandic spokesperson for Eurovision 2023!

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A member of the group Hatari, is going to announce the twelve points of the Icelandic Jury. Drummer Einar Stefánsson from the band that represented the country in Tel Aviv in 2019 with the song  Hatrið Mun Sigra is scheduled to be the this year’s Icelandic spokesperson. Hatari managed to finish in the tenth place.

As of now, the following spokespersons have been confirmed for Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool:
  • Albania– Andri Xhahu
  • Austria– Philipp Hansa
  • Azerbaijan– Narmin Salmanova
  • Cyprus– Loukas Hamatsos
  • Estonia – Ragnar Klavan
  • Finland– Bess
  • Greece – Fotis Sergoulopoulos
  • Iceland – Einar Stefánsson
  • Ireland – Niamh Kavanagh
  • Israel – Ilanit
  • Italy – Kaze
  • Latvia– Jānis Pētersons
  • Netherlands– S10
  • Poland– Ida Nowakowska
  • Portugal – Maro
  • Romania– Eda Marcus
  • San Marino – John Kennedy O’Connor
  • Spain – Ruth Lorenzo
  • Sweden– Farah Abadi
  • Switzerland– Chiara Dubey
  • Ukraine– Zlata Ognevich
  • United Kingdom– Catherine Tate

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Ireland: Ryan O’Shaughnessy explains how the country can get better results in the contest!

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The Irish representative from Eurovision 2028, went on to make a prolonged analysis, on the recent negative results of his country and how they can be fixed, on his personal Twitter page.

Since 2014, Ireland, managed to qualify for the Grand Final, only once, in 2018 with Ryan O’Shaughnessy and his song “Together”.

So it was only natural for the singer to make his statement:

He went on to say that he had to take many things on himself, as he didn’t want to go with the plan he was given by the public television:

«In 2018 when I qualified with the song “Together” I stepped in as creative director after refusing to emerge from an exploding cake and pushed hard to have 2 male dancers on stage with me, which was a hard sell at the time… I was responsible for signing off on final production of the track itself, I hired an independent stylist, and made sure the project as a whole had some content to it and it wasn’t just a song, but a message. All these factors helped get Ireland into the final.»

At the end of his post, Ryan named a couple of ways, that can help in order to change the negative image of Ireland in recent years:

«In my opinion, we need to have Irish songwriting camps with the intention of getting a brilliant song. We also need to allocate a large part of the budget to international marketing and should have the song out at least 4 or 5 months in advance of the competition. We have a language, a culture and a sound to offer the world, if we put forward a real Irish song it will resonate.»

Ryan O’Shaughnessy represented Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song “Together”, finishing in 16th place in the Grand Final, which is the country’s best result in the last eleven years:

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Eurovision 2023: Netta and former winners will return as Interval Acts!

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After yesterday’s announcement of the Interval and Opening Acts of the Two Semi-Finals, where, among others, the world-famous popstar Rita Ora will appear, another surprise seems to await the audience of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.

Eurovision 2023: Opening and Interval Acts of the two Semi-Finals!

More specifically, according to the Israeli journalist Eran Swissa, the winner of Eurovision 2018, Netta Barzilai, will appear as an Internal Act, on the stage at the Liverpool Arena.

The journalist also revealed that, Netta will be not the only Eurostar will return to the Eurovision stage, but she will be joined by some other former winners of the Song Contest.

https://twitter.com/ESCdiscord/status/1646817285321965569?s=20

This will not be the first time that former representatives returned as Intvernal Acts to Eurovision, as in 2019 in Tel Aviv, an incredible reunion happened.

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