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CD single released, clip on TV
France: El Chiki Chiki, a summer hit?
The CD single is published by M 6 Interactions, the channel’s own label. It includes the 3-minute original version, the video but also a “French version” of the song partly sung in bad French by a certain Pablo Uno and written by someone called “Alias”! It is already placing on 6th spot of the weekly Muzikcast TV 60, a list compiling broadcasts on all musical TV channels in France. You can check this list here.
This is actually no big surprise to see the song commercialized in France. Last year Ukraine’s entrant, Verka, was also released, both on CD single and on CD album, under the same label. The song even placed into the Top 10 of the official sales list. Another Eurovision related song had its single available on the French market: María Isabel’s 2004 Junior Eurovision song, Antes muerta que sencilla, was a real big hit on Summer 2005, reaching the 32th place of the annual TOP 100 French sale lists. This time again, label M6 Interactions signed the deal with the original record company.
Back to Rodolfo, the man had a certain number of articles in the French press right before the contest, all dealing with the funny “coup” made by the man and its producers, as well as on lyrics of the very first version.
A big thank you to Alain.
Here is the Spanish entry at Eurovision 2008:
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why the hell do you use this article to talk about anything but the topic at stake???
if you're bored, go to some forum
So, any idea where this might be available on line to buy?
Thanks
I do like both Elin Lantos 'Money' and Serebros 'Song #1'. And the violet version is just great!
@mina: i agree, i remember feeling like lejla was beautiful, but it didnt hit me like lane moje did. the kaval in lane moje is absolutley haunting!
lejla was quite similar, not as emphatic, but i still loved it!
@marc: good for you if you liked the monster men 
i said in regardsto lejla that it was for me, and purely ONLY IN MY OWN opinion the best song that year... so before u get ur knickers in a twist take that into account..
i didnt mind hard rock hallelujah, but i still liked lejla better... i understand the message of lejla, liked the music and im a big hari mata hari fan...
so yes geez its about the SONG and for me i found it better..
but music is extremely subjective.. so u r more than entitled to like lordi better
for me "leila " and "lane moje" were too similar songs
True, but for me lane moje was 'the real thing' and I really loved it..Leila sounded like a copy..maybe that's why I could never warm up to that song.
well..for me "leila " and "lane moje" were too similar songs..and as for hard rock hallelujah it was better song than lane moje or lejla..i dont care less if they had costymes or not..it s the song that counts not what your wearing..for god sake!
anyway...i liked spanish entry this year..it was funny in positive way and showed people in europe that esc can be fun
Spanish, Latvian and Malta songs were the worst songs in Eurovision 2008.
I got sucked into this after reading everyone's comments. I just listened to the violet version of "Song no.1" and I really love it! For me is better than the original esc version. It's great! 
I also listened to "Money" and I really like it, I don't think it's that similar. It was 2007 melodifestivalen so it can't have been copied anyway (not that anyone said so).
ok im really embarressed to admit this but after an initial overwhelming hatred of el chiki chiki, i eneded up liking it lol... when me and my cuz found the family guy video to the song, well that was it
must say i liked the performance, spesh the girl that was outta sync, i remember all of us in stitches when she was tapping him on the bac lolz
@johnny: i must say in my own personal opinion i would call portugal the moral winner, coz her song was reflective of the native culture, beautifully sung and well performed.. the fact she finished second in the semis only to fall to a shitty position makes her MY moral winner.. but as stated it is is only MY own personal opinion lol..
@ajdin: i agree wit u that bosna i hercegovina shouldve won in 06, i still listen to it.. soo lovely, hari mata hari are great... t me it encaptulates all that is beautiful about the balkans.. but 3rd is still something to be proud of 
Lol I want that single
@ Keith Timmons
I SO agree with you!
I have been trying to send mails to the guys who runs this site, but there are still just the points from the first 4 or 5 countries in the first semi-final..
Isn´t this slightly embarrasing for a site who claims it is the most up to date on the subject?
Does anyone out there know for sure who were the producers (or who was the producer) of this song "Baila el chiki-chiki"?
Mina:
I liked "Dishi" better. Glad you also noticed the similarities between "Song 1" and "Money".
Jonny:
Thanks for the link.
Jonny:
Yes, the girls can sing and Song No.1 is better than "Money". The thing is that I heard "Money" long before I heard the Russian song.
Jonny,
thanks, I just downloaded it, it's one of my most favourite uk entries
ajdin,
i agree with you, for me "Leila", ESC 2006 was by far the best song of the top3 and i must say i had very strongly wished it would win back then. And for me Lordi was, is and will always be(hopefully the only one) an unworthy winner. And i do not agree with you, Johny, that Lordi had put a lot f effort in it. As far as i know they used to dress up like monsters long before the contest, these silly costumes had always been their stage and clip appearance. So i do not see why, you say, they had put a lot of effoert in their act. For me this remains the worst winning act ever
OMG I had no idea who Elin Lanton or Money was so I did a little search....the basic idea, the lyrics, even the voice are similar indeed!
I heard the orange version, I still wasn't impressed..but, I found a song by them on youtube where I like their voices very much. I think with song #1 they probably did it on purpose to sound like that.
Here's the video of the song I found, and actually I like it a lot, although it's in Russian...and they look so much better than they did in eurovision!
http://www.youtube.c(...)&feature=related
Jonny:
I'm afraid it was me who didn't like Serebro or their song. I agree that the violet version is better but the song still reminds me of Elin Lanto's "Money"
Jonny,
I think there's been some misunderstanding here..lol...it's my fault because I didn't explain myself properly.
I DO like the song! As a song. It's modern, I find its music interesting, I can hear it pleasantly. What I didn't like was the girls..the whole presentation, the outfits, it looked..I don't know..cheap to me...and also there was something about their voices I didn't like...it's not the style of voice I like in women..very...like they were meowing..lol
If someone else had sung the song and in a different way, I would probably like it very much.
The Violet version is cool though
its just taste of music i9 disliked russia this year Portugal was great song .... but for me Ukraine had best song ....
Justin is so fucking perfect in everything, and Dima was just bad on stage in Beograd.
I absolutely hate Justin Timberlake and I consider Dima a much better singer (not talking about his Belgrade appearance although I found that very good, too, but I like many of his songs whereas in Justin's case I have never liked any and I can't even recall his voice).
And example of a "moral winner" would be when a country comes second to a country that has cheated its way to victory. Now that would probably never happen (1968 lol!) but if it did, then the country placed second would be a "moral winner
Exactly Jonny....when someone cheats (if for example someone had bribed the juries - if we had juries 
) then we could say the 2nd country was the 'moral' winner.
Keith,
your comment made me laugh...especially the last line...but yes, you're right (not about whether we want to congratulate Dima or not..hahaha)
Off topic:
Isn't it about time ESCtoday put in some info about the 2008 contest in the history section? I would assume that a lot of non-fans come here to find information, and the most relevant show (the latest) is not on our list. Not even in the Eurovision 2008 section do we have comprehensive charts. Are we lazy or have we stopped caring? And while we're at it - why not change the congrats on the front page from Marija Serifovic to Dima Bilan? Provide, of course, that we do wish to congratulate Dima on his victory.
@Zohar
Hehe. Well, I wanted just to say that Dima wasn't original. He reminds me in some parts on Justin Timberlake and thats all.
AJDIN ....
Dima looked like justin timberlake ????
What an insult. Justin is so fucking perfevt in everything, and Dima was just bad on stage in Beograd. Fortunatelly he had such a good song that evn he couldn't screw it up. (well he did take a good producer, but justin wouldn't have had to go down four notes in order to sing it
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