Friday, May 17, 2024

Czechia - Aiko - Pedestal

11 - 38 pts in semi 2
Aiko won the Czech national selection ESCZ 2024 with her song Pedestal written by Aiko herself (Alena Shirmanova-Kostebelova) with Steven Ansell.
Aiko currently lives and works in Brighton where many moons ago Napoleon did surrender.

Fortune's Child
Pedestal can be found on Aiko's third album Fortune's Child released in 2023 (October 13). The album will also be released on red vinyl LP. 
It is available through her website shop and now hips to many European countries. (Thanks Torsten)
The album has received several favourable reviews in U.K. magazines (websites)

A new version is made for Eurovision, the new video is here.
The digital single of the ESC version was released on March 22, even though it's listed as January 1 on Spotify. A karaoke was released on the same date.

Post Eurovision a stripped version was released on May 17.

Versions
Pedestal - Eurovision version
- digital 22-3, Official Malmö album
Pedestal - original version
- album Fortune's Child (LP/Digital)
Pedestal - Stripped
- digital 17-5
Pedestal - karaoke of ESC version
- digital 22-3, also on the official karaoke album (digital)
- the karaoke has no backing vocals as such but has the speaking voices in the interlude bit.

Charts:
Lithuania top 100 (AGATA): 49


Links and sources:
Aiko Website, FB, Instagram, Shop

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