Alya is one of the coolest artists in the current Slovene music scene. Her style is as sexy as her music, and "Car", her new single, is a clear example of this. A very enticing pop song!
From Moscow to the world, meet the band O'Genri. The Russians show all their groove with "Botanik", a very cool pop-rock track with very contagious melody.
Union J is a British boyband which was called Triple J from 2011 to 12, when a fourth member was added during their participation on The X Factor, forcing the group's name change. They've released a new single, "Tonight (We live forever)", which is extremely catchy and has a great use of "oh-oh-ohs".
PeR, or Please explain the Rhythm, is a Latvian duo which got famous with participating of the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with "Here we go". Their new song "Smile" is becoming a hit in their country. It's groovy from first to last second.
Italian singer Francesco Renga is having glorious weeks in his homeland's charts. His latest single, "Il mio giorno piu bello nel mondo", was #1 last week and is still high this week, reaching #3.
OneRepublic had major success last year with their chartbreaker "Counting stars". Now they want to repeat the feat: their newest single, "Love runs out", is already #3 in the United Kingdom!
If our task was to select a song which could explain how contemporary Russian pop works, "Gor'ko" would be a good option. This single by Zlataslava, stage name of Svetlana Stolpovskikh, is strong, direct, with intense beats and instrumentals which are very alike what you can find in German schlager.
Detour City is the stage name of the British singer Tabitha Benjamin, who was born in the city of Dalston. She has just released "Merlin (Everybody knows)", which is a very interesting electronic pop.
She has recently been the owner of one of our songs of the week, with "Thanks for leaving". Now, Alexandra Stan is back, with "Cherry pop", an addictive uptempo pop, with growing melody and one of the catchiest combinations of bridge and chorus ever to be presented on Sound European!. Then guess what? She's our song of the week again!