" You're Making Me Hot-Hot-Hot" is a successful English language single by Swedish singer Linda Pritchard. She sang the song written by Pritchard took part in the Melodifestivalen 2010 in a bid to represent Sweden in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo.
| "You're Making Me Hot-Hot-Hot" | ||||
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| Single by Linda Pritchard | ||||
| Released | February 2010 | |||
| Recorded | 2009 | |||
| Genre | Pop Dance | |||
| Label | Universal Sweden | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Tobias Lundgren Johan Fransson Tim Larsson | |||
| Linda Pritchard singles chronology | ||||
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| "You're Making Me Hot-Hot-Hot" on YouTube | ||||
On 14 October 2009 SVT had revealed the first 27 entries which the jury had selected, of a total of 2860 submissions to the contest. However, on 15 October 2009, it was announced that the song "Never Heard of Him", composed by Figge Boström and Anna Engh, was disqualified after it appeared briefly on Figge Boström's MySpace page.[1][2] The song was replaced on 20 October 2009 by this song "You're Making Me Hot-Hot-Hot", written by Tobias Lundgren, Johan Fransson and Tim Larsson.[3][4]
Pritchard performed the song live on the first semi-final held on 6 February 2010 in Fjällräven Center, Örnsköldsvik in a strong dance number, joined on stage by six female backing dancers, with dancing typically being an integral part of her stage performance. The song however did not qualify for the finals coming 5th of 8 acts in the first semi-final.
Chart performance
editDespite the fact that the song didn't pass through to the finals, it proved popular with the public and was released on Universal Sweden reaching #8 on the Sverigetopplistan, the official Swedish Singles Chart on the chart dated 26 February 2010. It stayed a total of 6 weeks on the chart.
| Year (2010) | Top position |
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| Swedish Singles Chart | 8 |
References
edit- ^ Viniker, Barry (2009-10-15). "Disqualification in Melodifestivalen". ESCToday. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
- ^ "Melodifestivalbidrag diskat" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 2009-10-15. Archived from the original on 2 December 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
- ^ Viniker, Barry (2009-10-20). "Melodifestivalen gets Hot Hot Hot". ESCToday. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
- ^ "Örebrotrio ersätter diskat bidrag" (in Swedish). Sveriges Television. 2009-10-20. Archived from the original on 30 November 2009. Retrieved 27 November 2009.