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Waterloo Station, London. This morning. #ABBAVoyage
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This reaction. A moment. #BenidormFest
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Today it's exactly 10 years since Loreen won the #Eurovision Song Contest and everyone had to change the "what's your favourite Eurovision song of all time?" question to include "aside from 'Euphoria', obviously".
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Käärijä's' 'Cha Cha Cha' is a new entry in the UK singles chart this week at number 6. 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮 It's the first Finnish-language song to enter the UK Top 10 in the history of the chart. And it beats Lordi's peak of 25 back in 2006. 📸 Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU
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How it started / How it finished
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Omar Rudberg has collaborated with fellow Swedish pop greats Jubël - 'Off My Mind' is out next Friday.
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Today, 'Tattoo' becomes Loreen's most streamed song on Spotify, surpassing her iconic #Eurovision 2012 winner 'Euphoria'. Whatever your thoughts were when her return was announced last November, I don't think anyone foresaw this. Yet another incredible achievement for her.
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Finland's #Eurovision 2023 artist is an #MTVEMA winner 🇫🇮 Käärijä has tonight won Best Nordic Act, over Alessandra, Loreen, Swedish House Mafia and Zara Larsson.
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The nominations for the MTV European Music Awards are out, with these five artists up for Best Nordic Act: ✨ Alessandra ✨ Käärijä ✨ Loreen ✨ Swedish House Mafia ✨ Zara Larsson Voting is open now:
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🇸🇪 🤝🏽 🇳🇴 When Loreen met Alessandra
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Shout out to Cazzi Opeia who became a Eurovision Song Contest winning songwriter in 2023 after becoming an American Song Contest winning songwriter in 2022. That's some achievement. 👑
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Starting in Ireland and ending in Lithuania, Loreen is heading out on a European tour this November. Tickets go on sale Friday morning.
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2023 is a year of celebration in Sweden. 🇸🇪 The country turns 500 years old 🇸🇪 It's the 50th anniversary of King Charles XVI on the throne 🇸🇪 Loreen has just won #Eurovision for them, meaning they now tie with Ireland for most Contest wins
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#Eurovision winner Alexander Rybak just casually graduating with a master's degree in film music 👨‍🎓
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Missing her today tbh
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Loreen's 'Tattoo' is a new entry in the UK singles chart this week at number 2. 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪 It's the highest charting Swedish #Eurovision entry in the UK since ABBA's 'Waterloo' in 1974. And it out-peaks her own 'Euphoria', no.3 in 2012. 📸 Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU
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Ten years ago today, Loreen had her first rehearsal of 'Euphoria' on the Melodifestivalen stage in Växjö.
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'Voyage' by #ABBA is number 1 on iTunes in 59 countries. #ABBAVoyage
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The artist Dotter will be revealing Sweden's 12 points at #Eurovision in May, SVT has revealed this morning.
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A first look at Loreen's mega Melodifestivalen comeback. She's got some things planned... 📸: Alma Bengtsson/SVT #Melfest
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YouTube views of the #Melfest finalists after 12 hours of going online: Loreen: 225k Marcus & Martinus: 51k Smash Into Pieces: 34k Tone Sekelius: 15k Jon-Henrik Fjällgren: 14k Maria Sur: 13k Panetoz: 10k Paul Rey: 6k
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The Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian #Eurovision entries all feature on the new album of the iconic NOW series. I honestly never thought I'd see the day 🤯 Out July 28th in the UK.
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Looking at Tattoo's run on the UK singles chart so far, in comparison to Euphoria's at this same point... you really appreciate what a MASSIVE GREAT BIG HIT this year's Eurovision winner has been in the UK! Tattoo: 2-4-10-7-11-12 Euphoria: 3-13-20-30-41-42
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Congrats to Doctor Anna Bergendahl who, after 7 years of studying medicine (and all while releasing top-tier pop, let's not forget), has today passed her exams and made it official.
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‘Voyage’ feels like the closing chapter that we never got from #ABBA . An album of ten swan songs, albeit 40 years later. But it also very much feels like it is paying homage to every chapter they wrote before it, now with the added benefit of hindsight.
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So in 2012, when Loreen won Eurovision with Euphoria in May, Marcus & Martinus won Norway's Melodi Grand Prix Junior four months later. They were 10 years old.
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I've heard Spain is beautiful at this time of year. Stunning.
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Loreen will next week follow up her Eurovision-winning summer smash 'Tattoo' with new single 'Is It Love'. Out Friday October 13th.
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This week's official Swedish singles chart is out - with 'Tattoo' by Loreen a new entry straight in at number 1. It's Loreen's first number 1 single in Sweden since 'Euphoria' in 2012.
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Time it took 'Statements' by Loreen to hit 10.1 million streams on Spotify: 6️⃣ years and 2️⃣ weeks. Time it took 'Tattoo' by Loreen to pass 10.1 million streams on Spotify: 2️⃣ weeks.
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10 years ago the Melodifestivalen 2014 final gave us THE most iconic Top 4 🇸🇪 1️⃣ Sanna Nielsen wins on her 7th attempt 2️⃣ Ace Wilder's very first participation 3️⃣ Alcazar's very last participation 4️⃣ Greece's Eurovision winner embraces her Swedish heritage History was made.
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Alessandra's 'Queen of Kings' is a new entry in the UK singles chart this week at number 10. 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴 It's the first time a Norwegian #Eurovision entry has made the UK Top 10 since Alexander Rybak's winner 'Fairytale' in 2009. 📸: Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU
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Loreen's big Melodifestivalen comeback then... A pounding, string-laden dance track that mixes elements of recent single 'Neon Lights', with the greatest hits of her 'Heal' album. It's her representing her sound today, while paying a respectful nod to what we all love her for.
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Topical.
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░M░O░T░H░E░R░I░N░B░I░O░ #Melfest
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Despite only being available to stream for a couple of hours yesterday, Loreen's 'Tattoo' has entered today's Spotify Sweden Top 50 at number 40. For comparison, last year's #Melfest winner 'Hold Me Closer' charted at number 161 the morning after its first few hours of streams.
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3,419,000 viewers watched the Melodifestivalen final on Saturday night, for an 82.85% audience share 🇸🇪 Both the viewer numbers and the audience share are up on 2022. #Melfest
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Petra Mede is making a comeback to TV again after having to take a step back due to health issues. Great news that she's feeling better and great news that she's able to say yes to any particular jobs that she might be asked to do.
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Today is the 50th anniversary of ABBA winning Melodifestivalen 1974 with 'Waterloo' 🇸🇪 🥹 📸: Leif R Jansson
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Dotter has given birth to a daughter! ❤️
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Erika Vikman & Käärijä. Now THIS is a collab we've been waiting for.
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The trailer for Drag Race Sverige has dropped 🇸🇪 As has the reveal that Loreen will be a guest judge. [cheers], indeed. 📺:
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Gone from the competition. But not from all our dreams. #Eurovision
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'Ram Pam Pam' by BESS - the song that finished 3rd in Finland's #Eurovision pre-selection in February - has been named by Spotify as the most listened to song of 2022 in Finland.
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24 hours from now - they're coming to Spotify.
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It's very difficult to argue with this, truth be told.
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Hang on. Norway WON the televote! Spirit In The Sky won the televote! 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴 #Eurovision
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Oh there she is. There she is!
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Most streamed female songs on Spotify in 2023:
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Swedish artist Anna Sahlene (who represented Estonia at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002) is player number 1️⃣4️⃣2️⃣ in Squid Game: The Challenge, which dropped on Netflix today.
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Omar Rudberg releases his debut album next week. 'OMR' comes out Friday May 27th.
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"One day we'll ride out the storm... ...We'll take the chance, the power is our own" After navigating an intensive IVF journey, Mariette has announced today that she's expecting her second child with wife Isabelle 💞
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Good morning to the person who armographed this armography.
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19 years after finishing in 4th place on its very first series, Loreen returned to Idol Sverige tonight to perform her new single 'Is It Love'.
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This will be our first Melodifestivalen since 2019 without Klara Hammarström competing. Truly uncertain times we're surviving in.
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Hang it in The Louvre? No, hang The Louvre in THAT. #Melfest
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Chanel arriving in Italy three months early. Into it.
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SVT have just confirmed the first interval act for the first semi final of Melodifestivalen, which takes place in Malmö the first week of February. A*Teens are reuniting to celebrate their 25th anniversary!
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This is the week we get the final part of what she says is the trilogy.
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#Eurovision winner 'Tattoo' by Loreen obviously took up residency at the top after its Melodifestivalen win in March. But today, the Swedish singles chart has a new number 1. Eurovision runner-up 'Cha Cha Cha' by Käärijä!
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3.3 million TV viewers tuned in to watch Cornelia Jakobs win Melodifestivalen on Saturday night 🏆 Just shy of a third of Sweden's entire population 🇸🇪
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Ryley is hype for new Los Campesinos!
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What’s a still from a movie or TV show that will completely devastate anyone who has seen it, but seem completely unremarkable to anyone who hasn’t?
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Rolling Stone speaks to Loreen:
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Loreen lands back in Sweden later today and SVT are throwing her a homecoming gig at Kungsträdgården. It's streaming live on at 16:30 CEST. 📸: Corinne Cumming / EBU
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The nominations for the MTV European Music Awards are out, with these five artists up for Best Nordic Act: ✨ Alessandra ✨ Käärijä ✨ Loreen ✨ Swedish House Mafia ✨ Zara Larsson Voting is open now:
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Pray for Cornelia Jakobs 🙏🏼
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In a parallel universe, this was a victory lap performance celebrating Eric bringing Eurovision to Stockholm in 2022. #Melfest
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Oh wow Zara Larsson wow
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Sweden's biggest commercial radio station Rix FM are throwing all their support behind Cornelia Jakobs this week. 'Hold Me Closer' is their new hit of the week 📻
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Two of Sweden's best young ambassadors met for the first time this morning and are really happy about it ❤️
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'Tattoo' overtaking the streams of last year's 'Neon Lights' in just 2 days 🔥 Personally, I'm streaming both on repeat right now. Would recommend!
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The Top 10 on Spotify Sweden is looking pretty decent today 🇸🇪
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Sweden did it! They're sending Loreen back to the Eurovision Song Contest in May with the song 'Tattoo' - the winner of Melodifestivalen 2023. #Melfest
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'Tattoo' by Loreen has been climbing back up the Spotify Global Top 50 for two consecutive days now, and has started climbing back up the UK Spotify Top 10 too. This hit has legs ✨
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It's gone Top 10 on the UK iTunes chart 🇬🇧
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Wholesome HATARI news. Einar and Sólbjört got engaged yesterday. 💍❤️
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The power that these two could have if they joined forces. #Melfest
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Loreen is the cover star of Vogue Scandinavia's newest issue. And they've interviewed her too:
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SONG: Sweden's Omar Rudberg takes a momentary break from the ballad blues - to give us the altogether more bop-worthy 'Happier'!
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Aqua are back with a new single this Friday! It's a cover of the BIG GAY CLASSIC 'I Am What I Am'. And it's the official song of Copenhagen Pride 2021. 🏳️‍🌈🇩🇰🏳️‍🌈🇩🇰🏳️‍🌈🇩🇰🏳️‍🌈🇩🇰
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Sweden's #Eurovision winners on the UK singles chart: 1️⃣: Waterloo 4️⃣6️⃣: Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley *️⃣*️⃣: Fångad Av En Stormvind 2️⃣0️⃣: Take Me To Your Heaven 3️⃣: Euphoria 1️⃣1️⃣: Heroes 2️⃣: Tattoo 📸: Corinne Cumming / EBU
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Cover Girl. It suits her 📸
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The Melodifestivalen artist rumour mill has coughed up its first murmur for 2021. Loreen is in talks to compete again, with a song called 'DNA', apparently.
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Today, 'Tattoo' by Loreen - almost five months after it won the Eurovision Song Contest - spends its 150th day on the Global Spotify daily Top 200 chart. An incredible achievement and testament to the popularity of this song beyond that night in May.
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Cornelia Jakobs picking up her triple platinum discs for 'Hold Me Closer' today. 💿💿💿
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Loreen on the cover of Vogue Arabia. She stuns. STUNS!!!
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All the love and support to Darin today, who has this morning publicly come out as gay. ❤️
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Big changes for #Melfest 2024 🇸🇪 30 songs compete, up from 28 🇸🇪 5 heats, up from 4 🇸🇪 6 songs compete in each heat, with 2 progressing to a 12-song final 🇸🇪 Second-chance round scrapped in favour of a short vote for a Top 2 during the 5th heat, amongst all 3rd and 4th-placers
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On Friday December 1st, at 11:00 CET, SVT are unveiling the full line-up of artists that will be performing the 30 songs competing in Melodifestivalen 2024. One of them will be representing Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö next May 🇸🇪
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If you want to bring your 6 Eurovision wins up to a record-matching 7, Sweden... #Melfest
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The band, their avatars and their new 3,000 capacity home in London. #ABBAVoyage
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#Eurovision winner 'Tattoo' by Loreen was the number 5 most streamed song on Spotify Global yesterday 🌍 📸: Sarah Louise Bennett / EBU
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The brand-new number 1 in this week's Swedish singles chart 🇸🇪
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I just want to be able to go into Spotify and listen to 'Hold Me Closer'.
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So there is an ABBA-related press conference happening this afternoon in Stockholm 👀
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Sweden has a new number 1 today 🇸🇪
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The Oscar nominees are currently being announced, and it's good news! 'Husavik', performed by Molly Sandén and from the Eurovision film The Story of Fire Saga, has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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'Ram Pam Pam' by Bess - the song that came 3rd in Finland's #Eurovision pre-selection in February - has just become the longest-running consecutive radio airplay number 1 in Finnish history. 19 weeks and counting. Incredible.
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When Benjamin Ingrosso met Angelina Mango 🥭
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