I find it so strange to see the Melodifestivalen winner at #2 on UK iTunes! It's like a best kept secret that's suddenly been let loose on an unsuspecting public!

And behind a song that was available for listening since LAST YEAR and released a month ago. Talk about Britain being so much behind :lol:

To think we were all worried (Robot aside who was hoping) that Danny would win MF a couple of months back and now Euphoria is #1 on UK iTunes, proving once again that Scandipop needs UK promotion.

It's hardly Scandipop at its most quintessential though - as others have observed, it could easily have passed for a remake of We Found Love. I LOVE IT TO BITS but it's stylistically little different to the pop by Swedish writers which already dominates most radio anyway - it's not exactly up there with Agnes (or someone like Linda Bengtzing) doing well as an excuse for radio to push what stylistically would normally be referred to as Scandipop. Most people could easily hear Euphoria without any idea that it was Swedish, whereas that probably wouldn't pass for something like Release Me or Jag ljuger så bra...

True but it's rather bizarre to think that Thomas G:Son wrote the current UK iTunes #1! And I DO think that Scandipop has a huge potential market here, Call Me Maybe might as well be Scandipop for a start...

Woah it's #1? AMAZING!

 

 

And fine, Tyron. It is a life changing moment. You happy now?

 

 

 

 

Euphoria is a sheer moment and Radio/TV just can't snub something this brilliant.

Surely this will prove to the BBC what a fantastic platform this is for a great modern song? I don't see why UK artists feel that it's 'beneath them' to do Eurovision, when with the right song they could score a mammoth hit across Europe.

And fine, Tyron. It is a life changing moment. You happy now?

Indubitably so *.*

'We know it's only week 1 and as such it's RIDICULOUS to be saying such a thing, but this doesn't just sound like a Melodifestivalen winner, but a Eurovision winner too.'

Until Danny steps onto the stage, without Saade standing in his way this year :drama:

 

 

It sounds OK. Not a Eurovision winner. Probably not even a Melodifestivalen winner.

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I DID make that comment before hearing it Tirren. Although granted it wasn't until she leapt to #1 on iTunes in Sweden that I thought that she could realistically win MF.

Oh I know, it's just LOVELY reading back to see how it all went SO RIGHT in the face of every obstacle!

 

ASIDE, let's RELIVE. Who'd have thought this woman would've ever crossed over to the big time?

 

I'm glad she didn't win MF with that, I still maintain that Popular is far better. And her style and persona has come on leaps and bounds in the past year, she comes across as a slightly eccentric but very sincere and charming woman now. Would she have even returned with Euphoria had MHIRM come 4th or 5th in Melodifestivalen. Fate :D

 

Keith Mills must be fuming today :lol: If I was Christer, I'd genuinely not give him accreditation for next year for the bile he spits out at Sweden at every opportunity, humble pie.

 

Just realised that it's the third time in four years that my ultimate favourite has won :D 2011 really was a completely awful contest in retrospect, thank god the sensible juries returned this year.

As much as it pains me to say, the 2011 flop was NEEDED. If she participated in the Final then I don't think she'd have returned. Plus it kind of built the platform, along with a (relatively small but still) fanbase for her participation in 2012.

 

Danny must be thinking of SUICIDE now, since he once rejected Euphoria. :D

As much as it pains me to say, the 2011 flop was NEEDED. If she participated in the Final then I don't think she'd have returned. Plus it kind of built the platform, along with a (relatively small but still) fanbase for her participation in 2012.

 

Danny must be thinking of SUICIDE now, since he once rejected Euphoria. :D

 

I thought Danny had rejected Shout It Out, not Euphoria. However I cannot imagine Danny singing Euphoria at all, it wouldn't work on so many levels.

I still SHUDDER to imagine Danny singing Euphoria...

 

I agree on MHIRM's flop, I love the song but it did set up a return and that's how we got Euphoria, which I've been loving and living for for 4 months now!

Danny did reject Euphoria but according to G:Son it was a fairly standard four-to-the-floor Eurodisco affair when he did. The song got transformed loads by working with Loreen - I don't imagine we'd have had the middle eight in its current form if Danny had done Euphoria, for example.

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I'm not too bothered about saying it probably wasn't a Melodifestivalen winner, I'm more horrified at calling it only "OK". How things change, I must've listened to it about 20 times on repeat on my iPod earlier.

 

To try and get out of this hole though, I did predict it to landslide Eurovision when JamesP was 'calling it' to not even win. :kink:

I love how JamesP charges in here for his solitary post in the Eurovision forum about a week before the contest and 'calls it' completely wrong every year <3

Loreen has sort of followed a similar pattern to ABBA. I know Ring Ring did far better in MF than My Heart Is Refusing Me, but it's interesting to see that an artist who returned the following year after failure has gone on to win it for Sweden and now Euphoria is starting to gain success levels similar to that of Waterloo! Let's hope an era of international hits follows! :kink:

Yeah, I was going to say - when Sweden win Eurovision they do it in quite some style!

 

I doubted us ever having a winner as big as Fairytale again but success wise this definitely is, and the points weren't far off at all!