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Play's ex-participant Janet Leon has become bright spot of 2009 when together with Kim Fransson she has taken part in the first season of the show "Made in Sweden" arranged by Meriola team consisted of becoming popular Idol jury - Andreas Karlsson, Anders and Laila Bagge. Janet's debut single "Let Go" reached Top-3 and debut solo-album reached #14, not bad at all! 2010 has passed without hint on getting new releases from Janet, singer was involved in musical Grease with Marie Serneholt and Sebastian Karlsson but we've caught some interesting unreleased Janet's stuff on youtube instead.
First song that made me rotate it like hundred times in a row is "Get Loose" - modern commercial dance-pop track (dance in more American way rather than Swedish dance-pop) with awesome hook and tasty production that makes us wondering why this song never was released. "No Gravity" is unexpectedly pure Swedish dance-pop track with electronic production making whole track sound like intended for September. And finally "Running" - beautiful power-ballad perfectly fitting r'n'b manner of Janet, classic and very fresh at the same time, I'm sure Rihanna wouldn't refuse to get it.

Music theme "Famous" of TV-show "Made in Sweden" has got a chance to become a real hit in USA as it was borrowed by new Nickelodeon's American series "Big Time Rush" and will be promoted as a single and included in album planned to be released this August.

Sweden can enjoy this song already year since the first season of "Made In Sweden". Swedish Idol juries Anders Bagge, Andreas Carlsson and Laila Bagge being really creative producing team decided to make this new show demonstrating all required work made by producers with some new stars and main faces of the first season were Janet Leon (ex-member of girls band Play) and Kim Fransson. Results of both were quite impressive, Kim's single "3 Floors Down" has reached #1 and the album - #14, Janet's single "Let Go" entered Top-3 and the album surprisingly peaked at the same 14th place. Later Kim has left team of "Made in Sweden" being unsatisfied with management and Janet is currently has some plans to release her album in USA. However first season left this brilliant rock-soundtrack written by Andreas Carlsson and Desmond Child (charted only one week at #56) that was later changed to a more pop-sound for the next season devoted to comeback of band Play with old members Faye Hamlin, Anaïs Lameche and newcomer (but not new person for Swedish audience) Sanne Karlsson who was main vocalist of last E-Type's album replacing Nana Hedin. This time single "Famous" reached #1 and girls' comeback-album "Under My Skin" has entered Top-10 (#7), Play announced "Not The One" as another single but recently performed another song "Trash" from their album at LOVE Stockholm 2010 festival.