United Kingdom: 'Tomorrow' Makes Official Chart

During this years' edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, Malta finished in eighth place thanks to an astonishing performance of the song Tomorrow co-written by Boris Cezek and Dean Muscat with vocals provided by Gianluca. In the official mid-weeks posted by the British Broadcasting Corporation, responsible for the charts in the United Kingdom, the track is the second highest entry from the Eurovision Song Contest, just behind the winner of the event, that being Only Teardrops by Emmelie de Forest for Denmark. The mid-weeks are a fair reflection of the official charts which will be posted on Saturday evening and whilst the track will hopefully remain in the top forty, we'll be upbeat with a top fifty finish.  Tomorrow, which received seven (7) points from the United Kingdom, most likely a perfect mixture of both jury and tele-voting has received positive reviews from all across the board. Malta and the United Kingdom have a mutual relationship due to the colonisation of the former in the years gone by and with one of the nations' official languages being English. At this point in time, the track has managed to peak at number #37 and whilst hoping that it goes higher, the influx of sales has already taken place. Indeed, this will mark one of the rare occasions in which a Maltese artist entered the foreign charts noting that Fabrizio Faniello had conquered Sweden and Denmark, Jon Lukas Woodenman had managed Lebanon and the United Kingdom and Kevin Borg entered those in Sweden following his Idol victory. In the meantime, Joseph Calleja remains the most successful export but his genre is predominantly classical as opposed to the mainstream seen above. Tomorrow, released by Sony Music United Kingdom and distributed by Believe Digital was promoted through Facebook and Twitter by Alan Bambrough, Neil Busato and Darren Hemmings apart from promotion by Daniel D'Anastasi, Peter Carbonaro, Joseph Mizzi and Anton Attard during the actual Eurovision Song Contest. We would like to wish every success towards all of those who made this years' participation a successful one. Stay tuned to escflashmalta.com for more of the latest news.  Source: Official UK Charts You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Netherlands: Anouk Riding Wave of Success

At the end of the voting of this years' Eurovision Song Contest, one country which was undoubtely happy with the result was definitely The Netherlands who returned to the top ten for the first time in twelve years apart from qualifying for the first time in eight years respectively. Anouk is one of the most successful recording stars in The Netherlands and support towards her entry Birds came from all across the continent especially from the Scandinavians with Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Norway awarding her eight (8) points and Denmark ten (10) points respectively.  As part of the promotion towards the competition, Anouk in collaboration with Universal Music released a brand new studio album, the eighth in total and bearing the name Sad Singalong Songs. Following the ninth place at the esteemed music event, the album has already gone platinum in less than a week whilst the single is scaling the top of the charts. This means that Anouk has managed to rekindle her success in The Netherlands whilst also doing well in Belgium. The Netherlands is one of the twelve countries to have confirmed participation in next years' edition of the Eurovision Song Contest alongside Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Norway and San Marino. Stay tuned to escflashmalta.com for all of the latest news.  Source: escflashmalta.com You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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Malta: Eurovision 2014 Participation Confirmed

Anton Attard, Chief Executive Officer of the Public Broadcasting Services as well as the Head of Delegation for the past three years confirmed that Malta will be returning to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014 following a guest appearance on the daily evening talkshow, TV Hemm produced by Where's Everybody. In light of the success achieved at the esteemed international competition in 2013 thanks to Tomorrow co-written by Boris Cezek and Dean Muscat to the vocals of Gianluca, Attard stated this exposure for the country has been important even towards giving exposure to the professionality of the local music scene.  Malta has been competing in the Eurovision Song Contest every year since 1991 and has never missed the contest due to the initial relegation rules that had been set in place noting consecutive top ten results from 1991 until 1998 and then from 2000 until 2002. Since the introduction of the semi-final system, Malta has managed to qualify on four out of eight occasions, these being in 2004 with On Again .. Off Again performed by Julie & Ludwig, in 2009 with Chiara and her entry What If We, in 2012 with This is the Night sung by Kurt Calleja and of course, last week with Tomorrow performed by Gianluca. Anton Attard, currently Head of Delegation and Chief Executive Officer at the Public Broadcasting Services has helped rebrand our participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, working hard with his team to achieve the best possible production quality and the best results both locally and abroad. He states, that he will be putting forward a proposal to the Board of Directors at the broadcaster about his plans for the 2014 selection process but more will be revealed in due course. Stay tuned to escflashmalta.com, even on Facebook and Twitter for all of the latest news with regards to next years' edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Denmark.  Source: TV Hemm, Emil Calleja Bayliss (image) You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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