The nominees for the Swedish radio P3 Gold awards have been announced:

Best female artist:
Ayesha - Jade Fever
Anna Ternheim - Somebody Outside
Stina Nordenstam - The World Is Saved
Marit Bergman - Baby Dry Your Eye
Lena Philipsson - Det gör ont en stund på nAtten men inget på dan

Best male artists:
Promoe - The Long Distance Runner
Christian Walz - Paint By Numbers
Lars Winnerbäck - VAtten under broarna
Alf - Augustibrev
Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog

Best group:
Teddybears STHLM - Fresh
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Origin Vol 1
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
Silverbullit - Arclight
Sahara Hotnights - Kiss & Tell

Best newcomer:
Raymond & Maria
Tough Alliance
Fibes, Oh Fibes!
Anna Ternheim
Jens Lekman

Best song:
Call on me - Eric Prydz
Mr Cool - Snook
Det gör ont - Lena Philipsson
Hey Boy - Teddybears STHLM feAt. Swing Fly
Ingen vill veta var du köpt din tröja - Raymond & Maria

Guldmicken (best live):
Marit Bergman
Svenska Akademien
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Infinite Mass
In Flames

Best rock/metal:
Nasum - Shift
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape
The Haunted - rEVOLVEr
Cult of Luna - SalvAtion

Best hip-hop/soul:
Embee - Tellings From Solitaria
Ison & Fille - Ison & Fille
Promoe - The Long Distance Runner
NAtalie Gardiner - NAtalie Gardiner
Ayesha - Jade Fever

Best dance:
Hird - Moving On
Cari Lekebusch - The Architect
Andreas Tilliander - World Industries
Eric Prydz - Samlad produktion 2004
Stonebridge - Can't Get Enough

Best pop:
MAttias Alkberg BD - Tunaskolan
Stina Nordenstam - The World Is Saved
Testbild! - The Inexplicable Feeling Of September
Hans Appelqvist - Bremort
Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog

Vote here: https://www.sr.se/p3/p3guld/

Dagbladet's top Norwegian albums of the year: Ateyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_13761" target=_blank>https://rAteyourmusic.com/lists/list_view/list_id_is_13761

UK-based website Themilkfactory 2004 year-end list places eight Scandinavian artists in their top 20, including DeAthprod At #1: https://www.themilkfactory.co.uk/bo/2004.html

Here's this week's MTV Up North Nordic video chart:

01. Saybia - I surrender
02. HIM - And Love Said No
03. Nephew - Superliga
04. Dhani - Girl Talk
05. Nightwish - Wish I Had
06. Black Belt - All to You
07. Ana - Don't Cry For Pain
08. The Hives - Two Timing Touch & Broken Bones
09. Bertine Zetlitz - Fake Your Beauty
10. Melody Club - Baby (Stand Up)
11. Burhan G - Take U Home
12. Ayesha - Squaffie
13. Sahara Hotnights - Who Do You Dance For
14. Eskobar - You Got Me
15. Promoe - Long Distance Runner
16. Noble - Hot 2 Nite
17. BeAts And Styles - Fire
18. Deportees - Not Tonight
19. The Solution - My Mojo Aint Working No More
20. Margaret Berger - Lifetime Guarantee

Challengers:
01. Majid - My Struggle
02. The Ark - One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young
03. Jonna - SAteen Jälken
04. Infinite Mass - Fire Fire
05. Mando Diao - God Knows

Go to the MTVE.com site to wAtch and vote for your favorite.

Rumor has it thAt hyped singer/songwriter Britta Persson will be doing an EP for Startracks early next year after a turmulous bidding war between quite a few labels. I'd nAturally assume thAt Kristofer Åström will produce (remember, she guested on "Loupita"), but I doubt anything's been confirmed yet. Still no word on a full-length, but it seems like shes taking the pAtient route to success. Wait and see.

Here's this week's top 10 Nordic video chart from YLE/Morjen:

01. Smak - Hallanvaara (FIN)
02. Kapasiteetti- yksikkö - Usko parempaan (FIN)
03. The Confusions - Window (SWE)
04. Searching for Nurmes - Halti (NOR)
05. Bertine Zetlitz - Fake your beauty (NOR)
06. Apocalyptica - Bittersweet (FIN)
07. The (InternAtional) Noise Conspiracy - A small demand (SWE)
08. Nephew - Superliga (DK)
09. Kevin - Theme from forever (FIN)
10. Melody Club - Baby (SWE)

Challengers:
11. NegAtive - In my heaven (FIN)
11. Brolle Jr - Sound of a drum (SWE)
12. The Soundtrack of our lives - Bigtime (SWE)

Here's this week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Magnus Uggla - Den tAtuerade generAtionen
02. Uno Svenningsson - Ett andetag från dig
03. Carola - Jul i Betlehem
04. Marie Fredriksson - The Change
05. Lars Winnerbäck - VAtten under broarna
06. Lasse Berghagen - Jul i vårt hus
07. Peter Jöback - Storybook
08. Markoolio - Bäst off
09. Lena Philipsson - Det gör ont en stund på nAtten men inget på dan
10. Björn Afzelius & Mikael Wiehe - 1993 - Malmöinspelningarna
11. Ulf Lundell - OK Baby OK
12. Benny Anderssons Orkester - Bao!
13. Stefan Nilsson - Så som i himmelen
14. Totta Näslund - Totta 7: Soul!/På drift
15. Anna Ternheim - Somebody Outside
16. Titiyo - Best of
17. Christian Walz - Paint by Numbers
18. The Refreshments - Easy to Pick Up, Hard to Put Down
19. Silverbullit - Arclight
20. Gyllene Tider - GT25 live

DigitalMetal reviews the new album from Finnish doom act Shape of Despair: https://www.digitalmetal.com/reviews.asp?cid=6153

The nominees for Norway's Alarm Prize have been announced:

Video:
Ugress - ManhAttan Sapphire
Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue
Ravi & DJ Løv - Dødsøt
Wibutee - We Are In Space, So Are You
Kings Of Convenience - I'd RAther Dance With You

Rock:
Gåte - Iselilja
InternAtional Tussler Society - s/t
Gluecifer - AutomAtic Thrill
Euroboys - Soft focus
WE - Smugglers

Pop:
Thomas Dybdahl - One Day You'll Dance For Me, New York City
Kings of Convenience - Riot on an empty street
Minor Majority - Up for you and I
Annie - Anniemal
Bertine Zetlitz - RollerskAting

Metal:
Red Harvest - Internal Punishment Programs
Khold – Mørke Gravers Kammer
Mayhem – Chimera
Enslaved – Isa
Darkthrone – Sardonic WrAth

Hip-hop/rap:
Tungtvann - III: Folket Bak Nordavind
Jaa9 & OnklP - Sjåre Brymæ
GAtas Parlament – Fred, frihet & alt grAtis
Karpe Diem – Glasskår
Madcon – It’s All A Madcon

Electronica:
Ralph Myerz & The Jack Herren Band - Your New Best Friends
Mental Overdrive - 083
Snuten with friends - We Are The Future
Ost & Kjex - Some, But Not All Cheese Comes From The Moon
IlluminAtion - The Poppy Rocks

Jazz:
Scorch Trio - Luggumt
Lars Horntveth - Pooka
Wibutee - Playmachine
Susanna & The Magical Orchestra - A list of lights and buoys
The Thing - Garage

P3 prize for best song:
NAtional Bank - TolerAte
Annie - Chewing Gum
Jim Stärk - Morning Song
Kings Of Convenience - I’d RAther Dance With You
Euroboys - One Way Street

Live:
Gåte
Tussler
Thomas Dybdahl
Ralph Myerz
WE

Newcomer:
Samsaya
Bonk
Samsaya
The Beautiful People
Annie

Winners will be announced February 5, 2005. Go here for more info and to vote: https://www.alarmweb.org/

Songs Of Soil (ft. Christian and Gustaf Kjellvander) and others will perform At the "We will always love you" tribute to Dolly Parton At KB in Malmö on December 22.

Via Dagensskiva, here's this week's top 20 Swedish student radio chart:

01. (07) Beastie Boys "An Open Letter To NYC"
02. (01) Promoe "Long Distance Runner"
03. (03) The Ark "One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young"
04. (02) Ison & Fille "Vill va Highwon"
05. (03) Faithless "Miss U Less, See U More"
06. (04) Radio LXMBRG "L'Indiffirence EP"
07. (05) Bloc Party "Helicopter"
08. (06) Timo Räisänen "Lovers Are Lonely"
09. (08) The Chrysler "Blue Gold"
10. (09) The Go! Team "Ladyflash"
11. (11) The Tough Alliance "Holiday"
12. (12) CDOASS "Speak To Me"
13. (NY) Rantoboko FeAt. Promoe "Ironical World... Mr President"
14. (NY) The Chemical Brothers "Galvanize"
15. (13) Mando Diao "God Knows"
16. (14) Keane "This Is The Last Time"
17. (17) Snow PAtrol "How To Be Dead"
18. (NY) John Legend "Used To Love U"
19. (NY) The Soundtrack Of Our Lives "Believe I've Found"
20. (16) Björk "Who Is It?"

Hot tracks outside the top 20:
Stellan Wahlström Drift Band "Ocean Ave"
Bertine Zetlitz "Fake Your Beauty"
The Concretes "Lady December"

Leaving the chart:
(15) The Streets "Blinded By The Lights"
(18) Joanna Newsom "Sprout And The Bean"
(19) Embee "Not Tonite"
(20) David Fridlund "April & May"

The tracklist for the upcoming self-titled debut full-length from The End Will Be Kicks has been revealed:

01. You are all kinds of red lights
02. Don Johnson
03. If you see them tell them i love them
04. Drowning Margareta
05. Lights of planes
06. Exit ramps
07. Always looking out
08. In the headlights
09. Respitorial
10. Lucifer over Luleå

I've been lucky enough to hear some rough mixes of this stuff and can confirm thAt it sounds absolutely killer. One of my most anticipAted releases of 2005. Look for it February 21 on Chalksounds.

Online on-demand video service Musicbrigade is opening an online audio retail store, in cooperAtion with the people At InProdicon. Prices will start At 9,90 SEK/€ 1,1 per track or 99 SEK/€ 11 for an album with a cAtalogue of 150,000+ tracks. The service will start out being available only to Norwegian and Swedish users and there will be no change to their existing video subscription service. InProdicon are the same people behind the download services At Aftonbladet/Poplife, Skivhugget, Bengans, GP and so on, so I'd assume to expect the same sort of service across the board. Why they decided to open yet another storefront seems silly to me, but whAtever. I'm still not interested in buying 192k wma files from someone who's not supportive of independent artists and labels.

Again, if anyone out there wants to contribute their own top 10 for posting, I'm all for it. I know there's quite a few of you out there from various bands and labels and so on thAt read this thing, so don't be shy. Atrap.com/contact.php">Contribute!

Swedish highlights from the NME top 50 of 2004 include Radio Dept. At #9 and The Concretes At #19.

In celebrAtion of getting airplay on P3 Demo, the pranksters from 50 Hertz have posted a new song online: https://www.50hertz.tk/