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Annual event Världens Barn is back with a bunch of top pop-artists, fresh names and some new music pop-stuff premiered.
Today we've got Sarah Dawn Finer presenting song "Tårar blir till guld" from new album received pretty well by both critics and iTunes audience. Jill Johnson and Pernilla Andersson were also promoting singles from newest albums. Mando Diao has gone Swedish, Peter Jöback has gone musical. We've got a bit of dansband with Wizex, a bit of summer energy with Panetoz and Nova Delai with Andreas Moe as a fresh blood of Swedish pop. Very-very pleasant concert!

New Pernilla Andersson's single "Judy" has got a nice half studio recording video that you can watch below.
Apart from new album Pernilla has got other great news, she's waiting for a child next January but the first will be her baby "Det är en spricka i allt det är så" to be out on October 17th and we're waiting for it quite a lot.

Melodifestivalen-2011 participant Pernilla Andersson comes back with a new album "Det Är En Spricka I Allt Det Är Så Ljuset Kommer In" to be out on October 17th with following tour starting in November and the first piece of the album is out and it's a new single "Judy" which is already tested on the radio.
It's mentioned in press-review that the new album is going to be more electronic and inspired by 70s and eventually you already can already feel it in "Judy" which contains that special Pernilla's melancholy but basically very light track making a notable step from acoustic sound of the last album.

Few weeks before TV4's classic autumn Idol show TV3 starts its own chase for fresh artists in new programme True Talent. The concept is pretty different comparing with Idol but pretty similar to a new The Voice show becoming popular worldwide. It's all about a vocal, first of all members of jury (Danny, Pernilla Andersson and Tommy Körberg) have chosen candidates by sent demos and yesterday it was a turn of public separated by three sectors (of different age categories - 9-19, 20-49, 50-100) and voting for every of performer to decide how true these talents are.
Personally we were positively shocked to see Anna Nordell (Engh) among performers, we're completely in love with this artist and though yesterday Anna was crying from happiness more than singing, we forgive these emotions and wish loads of luck to her!
Among other candidates we also liked Gonzalo Yanez, Sofia Olsson and Sara Kreft a lot. You can check whole show here.

New week - new pleasant summer evening in Skansen with Måns Zelmerlöw and his star guests.
This time bunch of artists was completely uncategorizable. Bo Kaspers Orkester performed their hits "Undantag", "I Samma Bil" and "En sländas andetag". Melodifestivalen-2011 participant Pernilla Andersson was singing her "Desperados" and "Som en ö". Vocalettes (female trio that you probably haven't heard about but you should know one of its members - schlager-veteran Caroline Jönsson) and Lena-Maria Klingvall were covering old songs. Petter was making "Stockholm i mitt hjärta" with Vanessa Falk. What?! Oh, Vanessa!!! It was unexpected!
Finally fantastic Malena Ernman was as fantastic as she usually is presenting her new single "I det fria" and making fantastic performance with Måns! You can watch whole show here.

Fourth year in a row TV4 has shown Humorgalan as common project with UNICEF to collect money for kids in need around the world and as it happens every year some popular artists visit the show to attract attention of the bigger audience.
This year among guests you could see Tommy Körberg, Ison & Fille with Aleks, Simone Moreno and Jennifer Brown, Divine and Melodifestivalen Pernilla Andersson with cover of "Nothing Else Matters" but what has caught us for real was Stephen Simmonds' performance with MGMT cover of "Kids" - song that we shamelessly completely have missed in its original version but with Stephen's voice it has become so warm and touching. Stephen definitely should appear more often on TV, we can't get enough of this amazing artist.

New day, new Melodifestivalen Andra Chansen participant to make acoustic performance in XL Live. This time it was Pernilla Andersson who visited studio today with her single "Desperados" that she'll try to get her ticket to Globen with already this Saturday. A lot of Pernilla's music is acoustic-based so no surprises it was very comfortable and nice performance. After "Desperados" Pernilla has also performed previous single "Som En Ö". You can check this mini-gig right below.

Don't you mind a bit more Christmas mood from Måns Zelmerlöw?
That's good as I'd like to share some with you. Today Måns album "Christmas With Friends" is gonna be released in Sweden and Warner generously provides a taste of some other tracks. First one is "Vit som en snö" recorded with Pernilla Andersson, both Måns and Pernilla are going to appear on stage of Melodifestivalen next year so this duet looks like something very special but mostly it's all about beautiful original ballad track with utterly charming and gentle atmosphere. Another one is classic hit "Christmas (Baby please come home)", previously it was released by Mariah Carey and U2, not that it's a good decision to compare them. Let's start and stop on that we love them all equally. And don't forget to check another cover of "Winter wonderland" performed by Måns live at Nyhetsmorgon. I guess Sweden has just got new male Christmas-Carola with annual massive winter tours being held every year and not becoming less popular at all!

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.

Today SVT revealed first 4 artists who'll perform at next year Melodifestivalen, all of them are quite popular so undoubtfully you've heard at least few names from list of artists and songwriters. If you didn't I'm gonna present you all artists during Autumn. But giving fast look on a list you can mention schlager-veteran-artist Linda Bengtzing with schlager-veteran-songwriters like Thomas G:Son so if there's someone who has doubs it's gonna be huge schlager, I would advice you to forget about them. Due to Linda's revelation she's fallen for this song from the first listen and she promises that no one will stay unsatisfied, even Bert Karlsson (another hint that song will be very schlageristic). Utterly popular dansband-group Lasse Steffanz will perform with the song of coming back songwriting team from 90s - Norell Oson Bard, actually this team already has huge experience with dansband acts but still it's interesting what Alexander Bard will bring to this song from his huge music portfolio after trio broke up. Probably mostly I'm excited about Swingfly - rap-artist who presented set of pretty nice singles not so along ago mixing hip-hop with fresh sounding pop, I'm gonna tell you about him later.

Another Melodifestivalen-newcomer is Pernilla Andersson who's not newcomer for Swedish audience in common though. She's relatively fresh name on indie stage but has already managed to release 4 albums for 3 years and all of them charted more or less well. Last one "Ö" has debuted 3 weeks ago at #11 of album-chart and right now Pernilla presents new single from it - "Som En Ö". Like the most of Pernilla's stuff this song is gentle guitar pop, a bit melancholic with feeling of light sadness and relaxing mood. You can check live performance of it right below.