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Rumours abounded over the weekend that Jade Ewen could be the next Sugababe.

Our Girl in Moscow could put the solo career on hold to replace departing 'Babe Amelle Berrabah according to this report here.

However, according to this report here - the whole story is a load of hogwash.

Interesting stuff - but it's also an indication that Jade's solo career post Eurovision hasn't been much to get excited about. Which is a bit of a shame.

UPDATE: It was confirmed this morning that Jade IS a new Sugababe, but taking over from the only remaining original member, Keisha Buchanan and not Amella Berrabah. What do you think? The Sugababes are getting more and more unpopular with each passing album - is it a wise move on Jade's part to sign up?

Intriguing news from one of Boom Bang a Blog's Hull-based correspondents.

This year's UK entrant, Jade Ewen, was at this event at the weekend, where the line-up also included recently nodded-to 1979 competitors Black Lace.

Despite Jade bursting forth onto the world stage with It's My Time via Your Country Needs You, Ms Ewen didn't perform it at the show (fair enough, she's not obliged to), but introduced the song she did perform, My Man, as her first single.

This single has never been on general sale to the public.

First? First? Are we missing something here? This sounds more like a record company banning Jade from mentioning the 'E' word than anything else, but then again, a fair few of the crowd that day would have turned out to see her based on that brief sojourn to Russia four months ago.

If her Twitter feed is anything to go by, Jade Ewen's follow-up single to My Time, called My Man, hasn't made it onto the Radio 1 playlist.

If that's true, it's a bit of a shame, considering her rise to fame is a product of a talent show organised by ther very corporation which runs the station in question.

This does sound like yet another 'don't touch a Eurovision singer with a bargepole' approach that the UK is particularly notorious for. A bit of a shame, as the song is a million miles away from her Andrew Lloyd Webber-penned Contest entry - but stills sounds very MTV-friendly. Perhaps if My Man climbs the charts, they'll change their minds.

We didn't see it, but apparently, 2009 UK entrant Jade Ewen sang the national anthem ahead of the Chelsea/Man U charity shield match at Wembley today.

Hope our girl didn't get prodded by stray violin bow during her latest big moment.

Hopefully, this sort of story will encourage other British acts to have a go at Eurovision next year, proving it's not a complete waste of time to get your face and voice out there in front of several million people.

Wonder if we can get Usher to write the song?

This may seem like an innocuous piece of news, but believe Boom Bang a Blog, it doesn't happen very often. Jade Ewen, the silky-voiced songstress who finished a well-fought fifth for Blighty in Moscow in May is back with her follow-up single. It's rather rare for UK representatives, especially unknowns, to have any sort of new material to come back at the tune-buying public with so soon after their Eurovision adventures.

This couldn't be more different to It's My Time - except both titles do have one word in common. The single is My Man, it got its first play (plus an interview with the lady herself) by Trevor Nelson on his Radio 1 show at the weekend, couldn't be further away than her Eurovision entry in terms of beats per minute - and you can't help but think this is more the type of music our girl wanted to get into the industry to record.

A further report on Jade's latest musical endeavours, plus a link to My Man, can be found here.

What do you think of My Man? Boom Bang a Blog always likes to peruse through your comments, be they good or bad.

Well, who'd have thunk it. This year's Eurovision winner, Fairytale performed by Alexander Rybak, has made the UK Top 10. The pixie-faced fiddler was at number 10 on the official Radio One chart, announced yesterday.

The trophy scooper is wedged between Lady GaGa and Ironik fetauring Chipmunk and Elton John (how nice for him), while Jade Ewen managed number 27 with It's My Time - not bad for a song more suited to the Contest than the charts.

That's two Eurovision entries in the UK top 30. As far as Boom Bang a Blog is aware, you'd have to go back to the event's salad days of the 1970s to find songs from the Contest migrating from the scoreboard into the British charts. The peak was 1974, when the top three songs from the Contest held in Brighton (winners ABBA, Italy's runner-up Gigliola Cinquetti and Mouth & McNeal for the Netherlands) all made the UK Top 10.

We're not quite back to those days, but it's an encouraging sign for any UK songwriter who wants to have a bash next year.

Blimey, this is a real turn-up for the books.

Alexander Rybak is currently at #3 in the UK's midweek charts with Fairytale - and is looking good to stay in the Top 10 when the charts are released on Sunday.

That makes it the first non-UK Eurovision winner to reach the top 10 since Johnny Logan with Hold Me Now in 1987 (which reached #2).

This lad just can't stop breaking records.

Jade is expected to finish somewehre in the top 20 with My Time.

Jade Ewen, Andrew Lloyd Webber and the BBC have a lot to be chuffed about today. If the UK is to win Eurovision in the near future, then it'll take baby steps to show the rest of Europe that we really want to do well - which was what happened last night.

The UK was fourth until the final vote, when the Norwegian result pushed Turkey four points ahead. But it was a pleasure, after so many years of Blighty doing badly, for it to be a surprise when a country actually *didn't* vote for us.

If anyone from Auntie Beeb is reading this - please don't let 2009 be a one-off, if we can keep on pairing up a successful songwriter with a fledgling singer possessing lungs of leather, then we could win this thing within five years.

Norway, of course, scooped their third Contest title with the first Eurovision song to break the 300-point barrier (and very nearly hitting 400 points). It must be said, Alexander's fiddly ditty didn't go down too well with the Aigburth jury (Estonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Ukraine were our picks), but it was fairly obvious from national finals season which performer was taking the trophy home from Russia.

The full results from last night are:

Well can you believe it - today it's the day of the grand final of Eurovision 2009.

Having seen yet another dress rehearsal yesterday - this time the first run through of the final - we have decided to save all the excitement of tonight to, well, tonight.

Apostolos and I are in the apartment, Karen has taken herself off to a museum. We're listening to Eurovision Gold on my iPod, and Apostolos says that it brings back so many good memories. Music can do that, you know.

So all eyes turn to the final and to who will win. As I have said earlier, I can be the kiss of death with Eurovision entries... although I did get 16/20 qualifiers correct - how did you do Jamie? (I got 13/20. I'm not ashamed. Jame)

If you don't want to know what the UK staging will look like - or how Jade Ewen sounds live - before next Saturday, don't click any further.

Here we are - the 40th, 41st and 42nd songs taking part in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. If you've been following our blogbits since we introduced Monentenegro and Czech Republic all those days ago, you should now have your favourites and possibly spotted a winner.

But don't choose until you've heard the last three songs on offer, beginning with our Teutonic chums.

GERMANY
Alex Swings Oscar Sings!: Miss Kiss Kiss Bang

Boom Bang a Blog has a pound each way on this. It's quite possibly the most under-rated entry of the year.

Intriguing news from the BBC today as the first details of the UK's staging of My Time have been revealed.

According to one of the producers, Jade will be accompanied on stage by violinists (who won't be playing live) and Andrew Lloyd Webber at the piano.

There will also be a prop, which is currently winging its way to the Russian capital. If the mystery item doesn't make it to Moscow in time, someone has admitted that their A-Level carpentry may be called upon to save the day.

Very intriguing. And it would be a bit boring if it only turned out to be Lord Andy 's piano.

The official, all-filmed-and-everything promo video for My Time has now been released.

We now expect comments about lighting, editing, and perhaps even clothes and hairdos.

The United Kingdom has been drawn to sing 23rd out of the 25 nations competing in the final of this year's Eurovision Song Contest on May 16.

This is, to be frank, brilliant. If Jade can pull a stirring performance out of the bag with just two songs remaining to follow her, she could sneak into the Top 10.

Aah, twenty-three. Doesn't it have a lovely sound to it?

So, do you want to know who's singing in the other spots?

IF you're reading this in an office somehwere in Europe, look around you at 4pm CET (that's 3pm if you're in Blighty) for people looking a bit twitchy and constantly logging on to a certain website.

That twitchy soul is likely to be a Eurovision fan - because today's the day the draw for this year's running order is decided and it's being streamed live across Europe via the official Eurovision website.

As old-time readers of Boom Bang a Blog will know, last year Andy Abraham was saddled with the doomed slot number two in the final, a wilderness from which no Eurovision winner has ever been seen. Here's hoping that Jade with her crowd-rousing (if her appearances at various national finals are anything to go by) performance of My Time isn't saddled with the same fate. Anything from the teens or twenties will do nicely. Singing last or second-to-last would be even better, but we won't get carried away.

We'll let you know how the UK fares later on today.

To ease the tension, here is the winner of Saturday night's Melodifestivalen - thus Sweden's Eurovision entry for 2009 - to keep you entertained. The lady's name is Malena, the song is La Voix - and just how are they going to reproduce that choral sound backing track on stage in Moscow with the maximum of five backing vocalists?

DOESN'T tempus fugit?

It is now five weeks since the nation decided to send Jade Ewen to Moscow in May with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren's My Time - but our girl certainly hasn't spent the time inbetween eating Pringles and watching Diagnosis Murder.

For a start, here she is performing My Time at the Greek national final. And it may just swell your heart to know that the winner of Your Country Needs You was the only act on the night who didn't mime. Even the Greek entrant used playback for all three of his shortlisted songs.

And after that, we can now present to you...

IT'S not long now before we'll know who is going to represent the UK in Moscow with Lord Andy and Diane Warren's composition My Time.

And just to make sure the British public are in no doubt as to who is the best candidate for Moscow, Mark, Jade and (shudder) The Twins will each give a rendition of the song in tomorrow evening's grand final of Your Country Needs You.

Finger crossed it's the right choice (we're predicting Mark and Jade to do ballad-y versions, with The Twins' rendition getting a Girls Aloud-style makeover).

But is all this effort going to get the UK out of the Euro doldrums?

This 'performance' - plus a shaky version of The Everly Brothers' All I Have to Do is Dream - were enough to put this pair through to next week's Your Country Needs You final.

It's time to start worrying. There is a very real possibility that this shaky twosome will wind up as our entry in Moscow - and there's no guarantee they can last 10 minutes without bursting into tears about "their dream" or handle it out on stage in front of 20,000 people.

This could be Jemini Mark II, even with the added ammo of a song penned by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren (the song is going to be called 'My Time' by the way. It took the Andy and Di just two hours to write once they hit the right formula and we'll be hearing it at Saturdays final).