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The program for SVT’s popular series of open air sing along concerts offers many familiar names in the 2008 edition, where Arja Saijonmaa, Sanna Nielsen, BWO, Christer Sjögren and Maria Haukaas Storeng are among the many who will be performing at Skansen during the summer.

2008 Melodifestival participants are still well represented on the Swedish single top 60 where several names from the Eurovision Song Contest now have entered as well. Kate Ryan, who represented Belgium in 2006, is this week ranked higher than any of them though all are beaten by football songs!

This week seven of the participants from the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest are to be found on the Danish charts. The winner, Dima Bilan, is nowhere to be found on the Top-40 while Sebastien Tellier and Kalomira joins the Nordic participants in a success in Denmark.

EuroVisionary presents here a video where you can watch such performances from San Marino, Slovenia, Belgium and Norway.

It is quite common that the participants performs a bit at their press conferences. Some present their own entry, maybe in another version while others gives the audience a taste of what else they have to offer.

The new album from the Norwegian representative Maria Haukaas Storeng will be released earlier than first announced. The record company will release the single in Denmark and Sweden as well, but the album only in Norway.

It appears like the Bulgarian participants become the eight 2008 Eurovision Song Contest act to be revealed as part of the line up for the UK Eurovision Preview party. The event, which is being billed as the biggest Eurovision event in London since 1977, will take place on Friday 25th April.

While preparing for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest the Norwegian representative Maria Haukaas Storeng has also been in the studio to finish an album, which will be released shortly before her departure for Belgrade.

Maria Haukaas Storeng who is representing Norway in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest is selling well in Norway, something she has in common with Jahn Teigen who has represented the country three times.

Maria Haukaas Storeng became a clear winner of the 2008 Norwegian final and the song which is called "Hold on, Be Strong" has already become a big hit on the Norwegian single charts.