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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.

This year's Niklas Strömstedt's series of TV shows "Tack för musiken" has started with Lena Philipsson. So we've got a hour of nice friendly chats, spontaneus acoustic covers and sure a lot of Lena's hits made with live band. Below you can check the list of performed songs and the opening one - "Kärleken är evig". Next weeks you'll be able to see Plura, Darin, Lisa Nilsson, Tomas Ledin and Anna Ternheim visiting Niklas but now you can check the whole show here.

Recent Swedish electropop-discovery Kate Boy announces release of debut "Northern Lights" EP to be out on 22nd January. Except same-titled track presented few weeks ago EP will include another song "In Your Eyes" that you can already check online.
"In Your Eyes" sounds quite in a vein of "Northern Lights", it's a bit lighter and straight-forward electropop-magic with a slight Niki & The Dove atmosphere mostly bringing by expressive vocal maner. Anyway this is another really promising sneak peek of Kate Boy's stuff so I hope we'll get more of it soon.

Can there be anything more exciting than newcomer standing in a row with artists like Tove Styrke and Lykke Li already with debut single?
Swedish radio has premiered Julia Vero's debut track "Hollow" yesterday and it's basically a good bridge between Tove's and Lykke's stuff sounding tougher and more indie than Tove's music but not as dark and experimental like Lykke's. "Hollow" is epic electropop-track with big percussion and wonderful melody, haunting, mystic and very beautiful.

Bosson keeps promoting his new single "10.000 Feet" that I still consider one of his best singles and do hope it will become a big hit. Crew has decided not to put a high budget on video but has made it with a maximum of joy. You can also see a lot of Andreas Moe in it as a part of Bosson's band on tour.