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This Sunday has turned to a wonderful TV-comeback of Amanda Jenssen who has performed her latest single "Dry My Soul" along with a slow version of "Happyland" and duo with Björn Skifs.
Though I should say I liked Ken Ring's own "Me And My Drum" - "Nu måste vi dra", Katie Melua, Kalle Moraeus with a piece of celtic music and Björn Skifs with Jörgen Elofsson co-penned song "Break The Spell" were interesting to watch as well.

Unexpectedly fast Måns' already releasing his brand new Christmas album "Christmas With Friends" - album that turned to be collaboration with charity organization World Childhood Foundation and market net ICA and it's coming out already on November 15th. Album will include tracks recorded with Björn Skifs, Lunds Studentsångare, Pauline, Göteborgs symfoniorkester and Pernilla Andersson and produced by Peter Nordahl.
Mostly album contains some popular Christmas hits but also you'll find completely new song "December" written by some biggest Swedish songwriters Jörgen Elofsson, Andreas Carlsson and Niklas Strömstedt. Another new song "Vit som en snö" is written with participation of Måns himself.
Below you can already get the first taste of this album with classic "Christmas Song" recorded in quite classy and very pleasant way with soft Måns' vocal that turned to be much better Christmas treat than I even could imagine.

During Stockholm Pride week Linda Bengtzing, Anna Bergehdahl, Jill Johnson, Sarah Dawn Finer and Magnus Carlsson gave English interviews to oikotimes and great news are that both Magnus and Linda are definitely want to come back to a big spotlight of future Melodifestivalen. Linda seems to be especially eager about comeback. Unfortunately Sarah is not so eager about it but doesn't want to say she'll never do it again. Well, you'd better check it yourself right below.

And you can also check some well-recorded performances during last week. Second record of Rebound's performance is a bit distorted with agonizing dying fans but this is what actually makes me laugh to tears everytime I hear it.

Recently I told you about duet Agnes recorded with Björn Skifs as devotional song for Victoria's marriage and finally today during wedding the song was presented. It's written by Jörgen Elofsson and John Lundvik, Jörgen was responsible for some Idol-winning songs (and the song Agnes won with) and you can hear it well, as the song is beautiful classic Idol-Disney ballad not modern Beyoncish thing like it was rumoured but however fine wedding soundtrack. So we say finally grattis to Victoria and Daniel and you can enjoy the song in their honour.

Incredibly exciting news! Due to Aftonbladet famous songwriter and producer Jörgen Elofsson has written song for Agnes and Björn Skifs, it will be performed in church during wedding of Victoria and Daniel Westling on June 19th. Aftonbladet's source reports that the song is typical Eloffson's Beyoncé-style ballad in English and the single will be released right after wedding (by the way Agnes career has started back in 2005 with amazing Jörgen Elofsson's ballad "Right here Right Now" - song that Agnes won Idol with).

Charlotte Perrelli and Magnus Carlsson keeps promoting their devotional song "Mitt Livs Gemål" for Victoria and finally audience could watch them live on TV, very beautiful performance at it's supposed to be! You can also check interview with them here.