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If Eurovision is one's passion, the contest determines every year where you are going in May for a weekend, a week or even more than two weeks, like we usually do as staff of this website. For us it is about time to get to know this year's winning country: Azerbaijan. We dived into it, these are our Twelve Points about Azerbaijan:

News Round-up of the day. Saade launches new CD, Lordi closes restaurant, 26 May it is.   

Russian main newspaper Pravda reports today that Armenia will most likely be represented by System Of A Down at next Years Eurovision Song Contest. The American band with Armenian roots has been gossiped as a possible name for the country before. Read more about it here if you know any Russian. 

News Round-up of the day. 20 million tourists to Azerbaijan. What about Severina and Brad Pritt?   

Azerbaijan really has high expectations of the contest, earlier on we reported them to expect more than 60,000 Eurovision fans in May, now they even think the contest will lead to 20 million tourists a year. They certainly seem to be flying high and enjoying it!

The real big winners of this years Eurovision Song Contest seem to be the Irish twin brothers Jedward. They managed to make it to the iTunes charts all over Europe and their German tour in September apparently already sold out completely. The guys are overwhelmed.

News Round-up of the day. Cause there is something in your eyes, we love Jenny Silver's remix! Listen below.

The Swedes seem to love Jenny Silver, as do we. Her Something in Your Eyes, didn't do as well as deserved during this years Melodifestivalen though. One of the big summer shows on Swedish television, Lotta på Liseberg staged her this week. If you want to hear the newly produced CJ remix, watch it below.

News Round-up of the day. David Hasselhoff interested to represent the Netherlands.

In Today's Algemeen Dagblad, one of the biggest newspapers in the Netherlands, Knightrider David Hasselhoff has stated he wants to take part in the Nationaal Songfestival, the Dutch selection procedure to the Euroviosion Song Contest. He wants to do this in a duet with a Dutch singer.

News Round-up of the day. Czech republic to return to the contest? Iceland not? We'll see.

According to Azerbaijani press, 42 countries have already confirmed their participation in next year's contest in Baku. Among them we see Italy return once more after their re-entrance this year, we also see the Czech republic returning. Armenia is also on the list, but this has not been confirmed by ARMTV yet. Missing are Iceland, Portugal and Morocco. The latter one has been rumoured to return after 31 years of absence.  We'll wait and see how accurate this list actually is.....

News Round-up of the day. Ani Lorak is going to help her fellow countrymen to find the one for Baku, this year.

Tom Dice managed to reach the first place in the Flemish charts this week. He previously did that with his Eurovision entry Me and my guitar (BE'10). In the Netherlands Elena Gheorghe (RO'09) has two songs in the local charts this week!

Speculation abound as 12points.tv looks deeper into today's reveal of the Melodifestivalen 2012 song entries.

Now it seems the true Eurovision 2012 season has been kicked off when SVT, Sweden's state network, announces more tantalizing information about next year's Melodifestivalen competition.  Yours truly usually watches in anguish as the Swedes vote for the most anondyne boring songs to go to the final and the most fabulous ones to go home... but nevertheless the anticipation is fun and now we can sit and analyze what today's announcement could bring forth.  Here are a few things to ponder over.

News Round-up of the day. Nothing confirmed offically but according to Azerbaijani press this will be the location for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. 

The German company Alpine has started the construction of a 25,000 seat arena located in the sea, just off the coastline of central Baku. We cannot be too sure about this news, though, untill the Azeri authorities have confirmed it. And that has not happened yet.

News Round-up of the day. John de Mol was guest at a popular dutch TV show, he might very well be the saviour of the Dutch Eurovision reputation. 

John de Mol is going to produce the Dutch Nationaal Songfestival this year. He dares to be critical about the Dutch participations in recent years, which is needed to get better ideas to make sure the Netherlands will do better next year. De Mol wants the winning song to be a big hit. There are quite some very good composers in the Netherlands, he is going to try to get them interested in the Eurovision Song Contest. He is also refering to artists that will have to be convinced to take part. New names of artists that have submitted a song to the Nationaal Songfestival, are popping up by the day, not many of them get us very turned on though. Hopefully his ideas will work and his reputation will help the Netherlands get back to the final and maybe even top ten... or winning? In the short interview de Mol is not triggered to reveal much, one name he does metion though. Famous magician Hans Klok is interested to support the act in Baku if it is a promising one.