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12points's fan reporter Martin was in Amsterdam this weekend. This is his review of the biggest Eurovision preview event around! .

This Saturday the fourth edition of Eurovision in Concert took place in a sold-out Melkweg in Amsterdam. 24 of this years participating artists were announced. 23 eventually made it! Prior to the show the artists had loads of press moments and a tour on the Amsterdam canals.

It hurts, oh it still hurts that we didn't know about LenaPh's new CD before. 12points.tv reviews Världen snurrar. 

Lena Ph - Världen snurrar (2012) *****

Sweden has slowly but steadily been able to get used to la Ph's comeback. After her duet album, together with Orup (2008) everything remained silent around Lena for two years. In the beginning of last year she released the single Idiot, last summer she participated in Så Mycket Bättre, a popular cover show on Swedish TV and at the end of 2011 she was the star in her intimate dream circus concerts.

The world has kept moving around Lena Ph, and that exactly is the title of her new album: Världen snurrar. Obviously Idiot is included, but also some of the marvelous cover version from Så Mycket Bättre; Laleh - Live Tommorrow and Timbuktu - Botten Is Nådd, they're both there. Unfortunately Tomas Ledin's Sensuella Isabella did not make it, a very sexy version Lena made out of that one. If I would have been to decide, I'd rather have had that song on the CD, in stead of the slightly old fashioned Ett Hjärta.

La Ph. anno 2012, is fully exposed on this album. We have to say that: Lena Ph. is delivering a nice mature dance cd which just makes it impossible not to move. The mix of 80's tunes and electro fit like a glove. Lena sounds fresh, is dance-able, rocks and is intimate and lively at the same time. Lena knows what good pop music should be and how she fits in the scene. Conclusion: this lady knows exactly what she wants and she knows what we want: Världen Snurrar. Definitely an instant hit!!

You're my lover, undercover - We would like to share this newest 12points.tv CD review: Helena Paprizou's compilation album. 

Helena Paparizou - Greatest Hits & More (2011) ****

It´s December, so it is litterally raining compilation albums, and when it comes to Eurovision artists this is an excellent oportunity to take notice of the essentials.

I cannot say it anyway else: Helena Paparizou's work is quite something! For her early work, when she was still part of Antique, you'd have to get your hands on another compilation CD, the Very Best (2004), that is quite pleasant too. Greatest Hits & More, that was released recently, comes as a very nice follow up to complete your La Paparizou collection!

Let's start with the More-CD. The first track, Baby It's Over, impresses. What a delightful song with such a lot of European hit potential, that it might even compensate for the Greek deficits. Play the song once and it will be in your head for at least three days. And if this for any reason wouldn't work for you (impossible if you ask me), then there still is Love Me Crazy, which is so eey-eey-eey great and just as easily gets stuck in your head.

The compilation part of this album presents us 40 of Helena's hits. Well, there was some cheating going on there, as not all songs really made it to the charts. Where Antique was a bit predictable now and then, Solo-Helena sounds grown-up like a pop diva should: always dramatical (she is Greek after all), sometimes luciously bombastic, sometimes rocky, sometimes in English, sometimes in Greek and sometimes just a sweet little nothing inbetween. It seems rock is very popular in Greece though, in my ears that part seems a bit empty and dated. My advise: Helena, more europop, less rock, please!

But anyway, Helena offers quite some variation on these three discs, showing she is the real pop diva from Greece with still quite some potential for the rest of Europe. As far as I'm concerned she should do a Carola or a Charlotte and just make a comeback on the Eurovision stage. She also has her roots in Sweden too after all. Just get some advice from the other two ladies...

Helena, come back!!!

Yet another 12points.tv CD review: Jedward's Victory, without any doubt the most successful Eurovision act this year. 

Jedward - Victory - Ireland***

It's quite an achievement to have two handsome boys sound like Britney! Okay, maybe I exagerate a bit, but the songs sound pretty stylisch .... or should I say, a bit overproduced? Lipstick was pretty progressive even a bit cheeky-British-like. This unfortunately doesn't go for the rest of the album, which makes it a bit bland  and superficial (like we were used to with the Backstreet Boys too) . On Victory, Jedward's new album, the twins sing about all kinds of everything appealing to the imagination, and most of these themes seem to be mostly meant for teaanagers. Bad behavior sounds a bit like Gaga, the album ends with a remix of that song. No wonder, if you know that this song is the follow up song to Lipstick. As long as the Jedward guys themselves are no superstars yet, all they can do is sing about them, who wouldn't want "the boom boom" Britney has?! The music will undoubtedly cheer up many Irish / English teenage rooms and that is exactly where the music belongs. Will Jedward conquer Europe with their repertoire? Personally I don't think so.

My opinion about the CD? No real high flyer, but it offers enough pop-electro fun, to be enjoyable anyway! And if we are to compare with Eric Saade's last album (Vol. 1), Eric clearly wins on originality. Bad behavior, Superstar, Girl Techno and Celeberty are definitely enjoyable when they pass by (when shuffling), but the CD won't be 'on repeat' at my place. But well okey, it's not easy, but I have to confess I am no teenager anymore (but don't tell anyone!)