Showing posts with label Vinyl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vinyl. Show all posts

Saturday, April 26, 2025

Let's Get Physical

Let's Get Physical is the page to see who has stuff you can actually hold in your hands. Promo info, if any, can be found at each country's page
It's a bit quiet here for now of course...

Physical Single Releases:
Netherlands - early cdsingle
Switzerland - cdsingle with stuff
Poland - 12" inch red vinyl
U.K. - cds, 7"and USB singles 
Slovenia - 5 track EP on 12" vinyl
Finland - 6 track EP cds

Promo's are spotted of Italy and France

National Finals:
Italy's Sanremo 2CD is out on February 9.
Sweden's Melodifestivalen 2CD is out on March 3.
Portugal Festival da Canção CD available now
Spain's Benidorm fest songs CD
Serbia's 28 songs out on 2CD now

Artists albums:
San Marino: Megara 2026 CD
Poland: No Rest CD out now
France: Triple CD for Slimane
Italy: Angelina Mango's debut album on CD, LP and Picture Disc
Estonia: Album out on 26-4
Czechia: Aiko's acclaimed album has a vinyl release. a second LP has other versions of the ESC entry.
Norway: A long version of Ulveham was already released on LP
+ New LP/CD compolation with ESC version of Ulveham on June 16
Armenia: Ladaniva's album is out on CD and LP
Latvia: Dons' CD has the original Latvian version of Hollow
Greece: Marina goes P.O.P.

The Official Album:
2CD out on 19-4 (digital is earlier)
Alternative versions / edits can be (only*)found on this album for Ireland, Spain, Serbia, France, Germany, Lithuania and Italy
* at the moment of writing.

The digital album with karaokes/instrumentals is out now (12-4)
- Note: Info in each country's section has the tracks as karaoke when there's backing vocal support, it qualifies as instrumental even if there's an minor ooh, aah or hey in the track. 
Coloured vinyl 3LP  out on 24-5
The DVD set is expected on June 28.
pre-release image from Eurovision.tv

Some interesting National Final artists' physical releases are mentioned at their country's pages:
ItalyNorway

Poland - Luna - The Tower

12 - 35 pts in semi 1
The Tower by Luna was the Polish entry for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest.
The song was announced on February 19 but was already released as a digital single on January 23.

The Tower is written by Luna herself with Fyfe (Paul Dixon) and Maxwell Cooke.
An acoustic version was released on March 27.

Luna (Aleksandra Wielgomas) released her debut album Nocne Zmory in 2022.
If you want to hear some more I can recommend her English language EP Caught In The Night from 2021, lovely stuff.

12"inch vinyl
A 12"inch red vinyl single is released (Universal, April 30)
It features four versions of The Tower.
A1 The Tower
A2 The Tower (Acoustic)
B1 The Tower (Revamp)
B2 The Tower (Radio edit)
It's here but this shop only sells in Poland. It comes with a bag.
Let us know if you know a shop that sells internationally.....
UPDATE: now available internationally here.now available internationally here.
Thanks Marcin, Thanks Jan G.
(Universal/Polydor 656046-6)
No Rest
In February 2025 Luna released her album No Rest. This is released on CD and includes the revamped version of The Tower + the acoustic version.
Thanks Roy!

Versions:
The Tower - single version
- digital - 23-1
The Tower - Acoustic
- digital 27-3, CD No Rest
The Tower - Revamp
- also on CD No Rest
The Tower - Radio edit
- All above on 12"inch vinyl
The Tower - karaoke
- Official karaoke album (digital)

Charts:
Lithuania top 100 (AGATA): 60

Links and sources:
Luna FBInsta
TVP Eurowizja PagesFB


Monday, March 10, 2025

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. It's also on the LP Aikonic as Romantic version

Aikonic
Aiko's album Aikonic was released on June 28. It includes the ESC version and the Romantic version. The album is released digital and on vinyl LP available here.

Versions
Pedestal - Eurovision version
- digital 22-3, Official Malmö album, also on LP Aikonic
Pedestal - original version
- album Fortune's Child (LP/Digital)
Pedestal - Stripped a.k.a. Romantic version
- digital 17-5, also on LP Aikonic
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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