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Loreen's Japanese fans have turned to be real lucky having few wonderful bonus-tracks on singer's debut album "Heal" - along with radio-versions of "Euphoria" also 2 acoustic version - guitar and strings have entered the edition.
You heard the strings-version many times during the summer but guitar-version has turned to be a very nice surprise with a mystic feeling and almost post-apocalyptic sadness, incredibly beautiful track!

The last Darin's Så Mycket Bättre has arrived and this time it was made for The Sounds' "Seven Days a Week". Darin has basically come back to what he has started from. I mean electropop-sound he has made debut at Så Mycket Bättre performing "Stockholm". But while "Stockholm" was utterly dramatic track "Seven Days a Week" appeals to a much lighter and happier side of Darin. Just like the most of covers it sounds like nothing you heard from this singer before but is undeniably another great gem of Darin's collection.
Currently Darin reigns in the top-3 of Swedish iTunes-chart with "Astrologen", "Seven Days A Week" and "En Apa Som Liknar Dig" which officially makes him a king of this season (while Petra Marklund and Laleh can be considred as queens of previous ones).
This Saturday we'll hear the last bunch of covers and it will be the night of Darin's music, if you want to know which songs will be performed by whom check Schlagerprofilerna's post.

On the way to Japanese audience Ulrik Munther releases a nice Christmas pack made of CD including English cover of "Tänd Ett Ljus" - "Shine A Light" (which was originally released by the band Triad in 80s and has become a classic Christmas song in Sweden) and remixes of his previous singles which you can prelisten here with DVD containing nice documentary and other goodies. Ulrik's version of "Tänd Ett Ljus" has become very warm, acoustic and sing-along with a lot of artist's own personality in it and you can already listen to it below.
I should remind you that Ulrik participates in Melodifestivalen this winter. He's going to perform the song "Tell The World I'm Here" co-written by Thomas G:son and Peter Boström and he's already odds favorite so who knows? Maybe it's Ulrik who will be representing Sweden at Eurovision next year.

Daniel Lindström who has won the very first Idol season over Loreen and Darin and was even Loreen's boyfriend after Idol is back with new Christmas stuff.
This is EP "My Christmas Wish" containing three songs written by Daniel and Joakim Holgersson, expectedly quite soul-inspired which sound properly for Christmas atmosphere making.
Below you can check cut of songs and here you can listen to full versions.

Junior Eurovision is back as a small entertainment of ESC-fans between actual contest for adults and SVT has taken part again. Sweden was represented by Lova Sönnerbo who has won national selection with her ballad "Mitt Mod" which could be in theory perfomed by both Sonja Aldén and Melissa Horn, it sounded like a bridge between classic schlager-ballad and some indie acoustic stuff. The song has taken 6th place at the contest which is the second successful result of Sweden after Molly Sandén's 3rd place at Junior Eurovision-2006 and just like Mimmi Sandén being 6th in 2009.
Check Lova's beautiful performances at summer selection and at Eurovision below. I'm sure we'll hear about this talented girl in future.