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In the end of August debut Andreas Weise's album "Andreas Weise" should be released and as a sneak peek we've already got his single "Another Saturday Night" and the track "Shine" performed at Lotta på Liseberg.
This weekend Andreas has already premiered another song from the album - "Something Beautiful" which has become jazz-pop meets pop-rock sing-a-long happy track sounding a bit like jazzy brother of Andreas Johnson's "Lovelight".
Below you can watch performance of all three Andreas' songs in Nyhetsmorgon.

Andreas Weise - Another Saturday Night
Andreas Weise - Shine

I've lost a path of latest few weeks of Allsång på Skansen and Lotta På Liseberg shows so I've decided to summarize them in one post if you've missed.
Andreas Weise has presented his solo-stuff on both shows - "Another Saturday Night" and his own song "Shine".
Really was nice to see Christer Björkman doing "I morgon är en annan dag" that he was singing back in 1992 at Eurovision in Malmö. Hopefully next year's Melodifestivalen winner will be much more lucky than Christer was.
Icona Pop definitely was on fire and after their Allsång performance were praised by iTunes #1.
Tomas Ledin had a tribute at Allsång and not just Sarah Dawn Finer has come out on stage with him but David Lindgren, Niklas Strömstedt, E-Type and Måns have joined to sing Tomas' Melodifestivalen history here at 47.16. Later you can also watch Tomas singing with Eva Dahlgren.
Sonja Alden has come back on TV to perform lovely summer schlager "Våga" from her latest album in Liseberg, Björn Ranelid has brought sweet Sara Li to Skansen and Caroline af Ugglas doesn't miss summer TV-season since her Melodifestivalen breakthrough.

Hagsätra Sport - Hagsätra IP
Andreas Weise - Another Saturday Night
Christer Björkman - I morgon är en annan dag
Fibes, Oh Fibes! - Goodbye To Love
Tomas Ledin - Lika hopplöst förälskad
Tomas Ledin - Sensuella Isabella
Tomas Ledin - Hitmedley
Tomas Ledin - I natt är jag din
Tomas Ledin och Timbuktu - En del av mitt hjärta
Markus Krunegård - Askan är den bästa jorden
Miss Li - It It Ain't Over
Miss Li - My Heart Goes Boom
Herreys - Hitmedley
The Original Band - Mamma Mia
The Original Band - Dancing Queen
Ann-Louise Hanson - Satellit
Herreys - Diggi-Loo-Diggi-Ley
Markus Krunegård - Sthlm Skyline
The Original Band - Voulez Vous
Tooji - Stay
Tooji - If it wasn't for you
Elisabeth Andreassen - Kärleken och livet
Elisabeth Andreassen - La de swinge
Elisabeth Andreassen - Rör vid min själ
Kikki Danielsson - Bra vibrationer
Sonja Aldén - Våga
Sonja Aldén - Närmre
Andreas Weise - Shine
Andreas Weise - Another saturday night
Caroline af Ugglas - Mitt mentala gevär
Caroline af Ugglas - När orden tagit slut

Another Idol-2010 alumni (after Linnea Henriksson) releases solo-album and unexpectedly (as there was no sign of making new music from him) this is Andreas Weise coming 4th in that season.
Andreas' debut album "Andreas Weise" (containing 8 new songs and 4 covers) is out on August 24th and it's Figge Boström who stands behind it. You should know Figge's Melodifestivalen history well - "You're My World", "In The Club", "Spring För Livet", "The Boy Can Dance", "Salt & Pepper", "Amazing". While we hardly imagine Andreas with Danny-sounding stuff something in "Salt & Pepper" or "You're My World" style should sound perfect for his music image that he presents with a new single - cover of Sam Cooke's "Another Saturday Night" that has turned to latino-track with a nice retro-feeling.
Tomorrow we're going to see Andreas in Alsång På Skansen. Too many Melodifestivalen-2013 signs?

Idol-2010 has finished few weeks ago but right now gang packs their bags for a new tour around Sweden with favorite songs and best performances but without jury and voting, not like competitors but friends and we hope that it means audience will fall for more of them and will give them their hearts and artisitic future.
Speculations flow about next Idol season to be the last because of catastrophically low viewing numbers of Idol-2010 and as well possibility of showing Swedish version of X-Factor instead. Peter Jihde has announced that he's not going to be host of the show next year, it's unclear yet who will be next jury but I pray this amazing show that gave so many amazing artists to Sweden won't be closed and will get a new breathe next Autumn.
In the last week of December Idol runner-up Minnah Karlsson has entered with her debut album at #5 of Swedish chart, the winner Jay Smith has stayed at #1 and what about the rest of talented participants? Many of them were invited to some tv- and radio-shows to demonstrate their talents one more time. For example Linnea, Olle, Geir and Andreas Weise have become guests of morning show on tv to sing acoustic cover of Bob Sinclar's "World, Hold On" putting loads of personality in every vocal part. Also third place of Idol - Olle Hedberg has come to Förkväll to perform his version of "Talking about a revolution" covered by him on Idol and also "Christmas in Washington" in acoustic.

New season of popular "Let's Dance" show has collected mass of famous faces again and as we've got a lot of musicians I should undoubtfully give you a tip about this show if some of your faves participates there.
To be more exact we've got Jessica Andersson, Hannah Graaf, Idol-jury Anders Bagge, Idol-participant Andreas Weise, not really Swedish Alexander Rybak and loads of live music (Taio Cruz, Robyn, Donkeyboy, Salem al Fakir, Cee Lo Green, etc.) with bright-coloured dance-show. Sure this sort of shows isn't beloved by anyone but it's still stays popular in many countries and it's quite enjoyable to watch some well-known charecters trying to do their best in dance. Jessica Andersson looked gorgeous in her long purple dress and Andreas Weise's funny facial expressions haven't left anyone cold, check it yourself below.
By the way Da Buzz's new re-released version of latest single "U Gotta Dance" has become soundtrack for "Let's Dance" trailer but it's another story that I'll tell you as soon as we'll get this new version online.

Few days ago I told about first two Idol participants who were selected by audience and got their tickets to Friday shows stage. Here we have another 4 successful contestants.
This year contest from the first sight from audition looked in my opinion lacking unique commercial characters but on pre-final stage it turned so that vocal level of chosen artists was very stable and strong so many who deserved to go further couldn't do it. However they still have hope to get through as jury's wildcards and we'll know these lucky contestants already this Friday.
Huge favorites Alice Hagenbrant and Jay Smith haven't deceived expectations of public and got to the final together with Andreas Weise (son of popular tv-host Arne Weise) and Minnah Karlsson - girl with one of the best auditions this year in my opinion. However I should mention as well amazing performance of Daniel Norberg, loveliest Elin Blom and very nice performances of Simon Lingmerth, Sassa Bodensjö and Michaela Osberg who unfortunately haven't qualified but hope will be supported by jury.
Watch second evening-show here and third here.