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2010 Eurovision contenders – Album survey, Part 2

We start the second part of our album survey with Croatia’s girl trio Feminnem, no strangers to the Eurovision Song Contest having represented Bosnia & Herzegovina in the 2005 contest with the song Call Me (placed 14th). The girls returned to Eurovision this year to perform Lako Je Sve for Croatia in the second semi-final, where they came 13th. A full album with the same title as their ESC entry, Lako Je Sve, was released already before the contest. It was made in collaboration with Branimir Mihaljevic, who deserves credit for music and production of their hits in recent years. An international version of the album, Easy To See, came out in mid June. The album includes collaborations…

We start the second part of our album survey with Croatia’s girl trio Feminnem, no strangers to the Eurovision Song Contest having represented Bosnia & Herzegovina in the 2005 contest with the song Call Me (placed 14th). The girls returned to Eurovision this year to perform Lako Je Sve for Croatia in the second semi-final, where they came 13th. A full album with the same title as their ESC entry, Lako Je Sve, was released already before the contest. It was made in collaboration with Branimir Mihaljevic, who deserves credit for music and production of their hits in recent years. An international version of the album, Easy To See, came out in mid June. The album includes collaborations with Miro (Bulgaria 2010) for the song Mil Amantes, and with Spanish teen star Alex Manga for the catchy sing-along track Oye, Oye, Oye (Alex Manga had entered a song in this year’s Spanish preselection Tu país te necesita!, entitled Después de ti no hay más). Easy To See also contains an English version of Feminnem’s entry to the 2009 Croatian national final Poljupci U Boji,  adapted as Where I Need You.  For more info on Feminnem please visit http://www.myspace.com/feminnemofficial or their official website http://www.feminnem.com (Croatian).

Tracklisting:
1. Easy To See (Lako je sve)
2. I’m Having A Good Time (Baš mi je dobro)
3. Chanel No. 5 (Chanel 5)
4. Freak (Neki lik)
5. Don’t Ask Me Why (feat. Big Freddie C) (Sve što ostaje)
6. Over Again (Ovisna)
7. Mil Amantes (feat. Miro & Sir Jam) (Milijun razloga)
8. Oye, Oye Oye (feat. Alex Manga)
9. Cry (Srce se bori)
10. Where I Need You (Poljupci u boji) (Dora 2009)
11. Lako Je Sve

The original Croatian album Lako Je Sve includes 14 tracks, among them Poljupci U Boji (Dora 2009, 3rd place) and a new version of Navika (Dora 2007, 9th place).

Tracklisting:
1. Sve što ostaje (feat. Big Freddie C)
2. Baš mi je dobro
3. Lako je sve (Eurovision 2010)
4. Neki lik
5. Srce se bori
6. Ovisna intro
7. Ovisna
8. Chanel 5
9. Oye, oye, oye (feat. Alex Manga)
10. Poljupci u boji (Dora 2009)
11. 1 000 000 razloga
12. Nije moje srce nije
13. Još jedna božicna pjesma
14. Navika (Dora 2007)

Malcolm Lincoln, who represented Estonia with the song Siren (placed 14th in the first semi-final), released their debut album Loaded With Zoal on 20th May. It was produced by Malcolm Lincoln frontman Robin Juhkental together with Vaiko Eplik who was the lead singer of the band Ruffus, Estonia’s representative in the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Eighties Coming Back. All songs on the album were written by Robin Juhkental, except Wake Me Up, co-written by Juhkental and Reigo Vilbiks. For more info on Malcolm Lincoln please visit http://www.myspace.com/malcolmlincoln

Tracklisting:
1. Loaded With Zoul
2. Where Did We Loze Our Way?
3. I Wanna
4. Wake Me Up
5. I’m Ztill Ztanding
6. Du Ya Du Ya Du Ya
7. Funkzhite
8. Danz And Wadz Da Cloudz
9. Uu Monica
10. Siren
11. Body of Da Chrizt
12. Found A Way

My Cassette Player, the debut album of Germany’s ESC winner Lena Meyer-Landrut, came out on 7th May and shot straight to No. 1 on the German album charts, in a first run only for one week, but after winning the contest Lena reconquered the No. 1 position for another four weeks. On the European Top 100 Albums Chart, My Cassette Player peaked at No. 5. Seven songs on the album were written by Stefan Raab, some of them co-written with Lena herself. Included you find two songs that Lena performed during the “Unser Star für Oslo” pre-selection process, My Same, a cover version of the Adele song, and Mr. Curiosity, originally sung by Jason Mraz, plus the songs Love Me and Bee from the German national final. For more info please visit Lena’s official website http://www.lena-meyer-landrut.com

Tracklisting:
1. Satellite
2. My Cassette Player
3. Not Following
4. I Like To Bang My Head
5. My Same
6. Caterpillar In The Rain
7. Love Me
8. Touch A New Day
9. Bee
10. You Can’t Stop Me
11. Mr. Curiosity
12. I Just Want To Kiss
13. Wonderful Dreaming

Denmark’s duo Chanée & N’evergreen released their album In A Moment Like This on 24th May, during the week of rehearsals in Oslo. And if you felt their Eurovision entry In A Moment Like This (placed 5th in the second semi-final, 4th in the final) somehow sounded familiar, a touch of Roxette, a touch of  Starship, the whole album will give you a familiar feel. Most songs on the album were written by the duo themselves. For more info on Chanée & N’evergreen please visit their official website http://www.chaneeandnevergreen.com

Tracklisting (digital version):
1. In A Moment  Like This
2. See You The Same Time Tomorrow
3. Everytime I Look Into Your Eyes
4. Head Over Heels
5. All You’ll Ever Need
6. Here Comes The Rain
7. You’re Not In Love
8. One More Try
9. Give Me Back My Heart
10. How Can I Make You Love Me
11. Pick Up The Phone
12. Life Goes On
13. Sleepless
14. Making Miracles

The debut album of Safura from Azerbaijan, It’s My War, was produced and recorded in Sweden and came out on 18th June. The album of course includes Safura’s Eurovision entry Drip Drop (placed 2nd in the second semi-final, 5th in the final), two remixes of the song, and also Soulless, the song that came second in Azerbaijan’s internal preselection for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest.

Tracklisting:
1. Drip Drop
2. March On
3. Runway
4. Something Bigger
5. Glass House
6. From Her From Love
7. Too Many Times
8. Gonna Let You Know
9. Soulless
10. That Means You Don´t
11. It´s My War
12. Drip Drop (St. Destiny Remix)
13. Drip Drop (Success Remix)

In interviews with ESCradio.com (see our interview section) several other contenders from the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest talked about their plans to release albums later this year, for example Paula Seling & Ovi (Romania), Giorgos Alkaios (Greece), Vukašin Brajic (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Sofia Nizharadze (Georgia), maNga (Turkey), Didrik Solli-Tangen (Norway), and Michael von der Heide (Switzerland).

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  1. I love esc radio its the best i like it a lot you play all my favourite songs keep up the good work.i love eurovision im many years fun, of that big event. i hope to go to someday.

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