And with that Sanna is toppled off the top of the odds to never return! :(

And with that Sanna is toppled off the top of the odds to never return! :(

Was she ever top? :o

 

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I take it back, that song is actually pretty good, he just sung it like a drunk guy at a football match first time round, that was much better and felt as majestic as it should've done first time round.

I still think that there's enough traditional power ballads in the mix this year that'll eat into the Norweigen votes to prevent it winning and although it could very likely get a similar result to Sognu, I'm thinking more of a low top 10 for this one.

Worth pointing out that while Carl got 53k televotes, Fairytale got 716k televotes back in 2009, which was equivalent to 1 in 6 people in the entire country phoning to vote for it! I really thought that Silent Storm was looking to get well over 100k votes at the very least. It sort of suggests that European televoters might not be that enamoured with it either come May...

Was she ever top? :o

 

She was out of the confirmed entries to date, that's all :P

Woo, Silent Storm won! :D

 

I would have watched but I didn't find a whole lot else that was grabbing me from the entries. Silent Storm however, is one of the best songs this year, even if I don't think it'll win I'm glad to see it representing Norway.

Really excited that Carl Espen won!

 

I guess the low voting numbers are to blamed that MGP was toned down this year, and there have been alot of critizism against NRK. Most viewers probably tuned in on TV2s huge success show where artists cover eachother.

 

EDIT: Not to forget that there wasnt any well known artists.

Here is the official music video:

 

Somewhat predictably I've fallen HEAD OVER TITS for High Hopes. ENTRANCING

Just finished listening to 'Silent Storm' for the first time and I'm an emotional MESS!

 

i don't even know what else to type

 

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goosebumps/tearyeyed/needahug/pleasewin2014

Sony Music, Warner Music and daWorks have taken the bold step of declaring a potential boycott of the Norwegian national final, Melodi Grand Prix next year over a new ruling by the European Broadcasting Union. Together with its record company partner Universal Music, the EBU required for the first time this year that all songs competing in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 be released as part of the official album, but also as single tracks to download. This has caused a storm with some local record companies who will miss out on income derived from the single where the single has been downloaded as part of the official album release.

 

Leif O. Ribe from Sony Music told Norway’s VG that they were effectively forced to sign an agreement to permit the release of the single in this way after Carl Espen had won Melodi Grand Prix 2014 with Silent Storm, stating that “the alternative was that [he]couldn’t represent Norway in Eurovision, something we could not allow.”, declaring that the proposal was something that was not revealed to them before the contest. He goes on to note that the release of songs in this manner damages the ability of record companies to promote Eurovision entries outside home markets, with little incentive for partner record companies in other countries to do so without the possibility of receiving payment for songs downloaded – unless of course they are signed to Universal Music.

 

In response, Jon Ola Sand, Executive Producer of the Eurovision Song Contest has thrown the blame in Norwegian broadcaster NRK’s court: “We sent [this information] out to the European broadcasters last autumn, which NRK signed on to, but it seems NRK neglected to notify Sony Music about the changes. The same happened with the Romanian broadcaster….”. He goes on to say that only Norway, Finland and Romania have reacted to the changes.

 

Stian Malme, from NRK has stated that they are in discussions with the EBU over the changes, which they feel have the potential to damage the contest in many countries.

 

http://escxtra.com/2014/06/record-companie...with-universal/

 

I find this article really interesting because I think having all songs available to download from the compilation album really helped chart sales this year, at least in the UK. I'm glad that the EBU made this ruling so I hope they continue with it in future years seeing as only Norway and a couple of other countries seem to be affected by it.