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It might be a special Danish thing, but just like Kirsten Siggaard participated at the Eurovision Song Contest shortly before giving birth, Annette Heick will be touring with her Christmas show up until three weeks before her second child is set to arrive.

Three times Eurovision Song Contest participant Eiríkur Hauksson starts a mini tour in Russia tonight. Together with his Norwegian rock band Live Fire he will be performing in three Russian cities. The tour ends on Sunday.

Melodifestival veteran Magnus Carlsson, former member of success bands like Alcazar and Barbados, have collected 40 of his biggest hits on a double CD to be released in a few weeks. The album includes all of his seven Melodifestival entries from 2000 to 2007.

After representing Finland on home ground at the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest, Hanna Pakarinen is working on her fourth album which is due to be released in the beginning of next year. The first single from this album can already be heard on the internet.

The deadline to enter a song to the 2009 Dansk Melodi Grand Prix ended yesterday with 684 songs submitted. Four out of ten songs will be specially invited and rumours are indicating comebacks to Anne Herdoff and DQ.

After the European Broadcasting Union sold the format of the Eurovision Song Contest to an Asian company, Asiavision Pte. Ltd, a new paradise of music was created; Asiavision Song Contest.

It looks like 2009 won't be Annette Heick’s third attempt to represent Denmark at the Eurovision Song Contest as she is pregnant and expecting to give birth in February, something that could easily collide with a Danish final.

İstanbul, the biggest city of Turkey, will have big preperations for the marathon "HumanRace", which will be running in 25 cities from all over the world. The biggest prize will be a Kenan Doğulu concert for more than 50.000 people at the end of the race.

After participating in the Norwegian final two years in a row with a 3rd place from 2007 as best result the Norwegian rock band Crash! are now pursuing an international career with the USA and Romania as next stops.