VG-lista (or VG-listen) is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by Nielsen Soundscan International and is based on the sales in about 100 shops in Norway. The singles chart started as a top 10 chart in week 42, 1958 and was expanded to a top 20 chart in week 5, 1995. At the same time the albums chart, started as a top 20 chart in week 1, 1967, was expanded to a top 40 chart.

Zara Larsson (born December 16, 1997) is a Swedish singer. She was a contestant on the TV4 talent show Talang 2008, the Swedish version of America's Got Talent, which she finally won. She has her own website which is www.zaralarsson.com which has videos of her. She lives with her mom, dad and her 1 sister.

Zara Larsson was born on 16 December 1997 in Stockholm, Sweden. She used to sing as a little girl, which made her parents notice her talent.

. She was also a finalist of a Swedish talent show Stjämskott 2007.

During Talang 2008 she performed three songs: "The Greatest Love of All" and "One Moment In Time" by Whitney Houston, and "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion. She won the competition at age 10.

Zara has one single: My Heart Will Go On. My Heart Will Go On was the song Zara sang at the Talang finale.

Carpe diem is a phrase from a Latin poem by Horace (see "Source" section below) that has become an aphorism. It is popularly translated as "seize the day". Carpe literally means "to pick, pluck, pluck off, cull, crop, gather, to eat food, to serve, to want", but Ovid used the word in the sense of, "to enjoy, seize, use, make use of".

In Horace, the phrase is part of the longer Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero – "Seize the Day, putting as little trust as possible in the future", and the ode says that the future is unforeseen, and that instead one should scale back one's hopes to a brief future, and drink one's wine. This phrase is usually understood against Horace's Epicurean background.

The phrase ?אם לא עכשיו, אז מתי "And if not now, Then when?" (Pirkei Avoth 1:14) carpe diem- seize the day/נצל את היום

Collige, virgo, rosas [...] ("gather, girl, the roses") appears at the end of the poem De rosis nascentibus (also called Idyllium de rosis) attributed to Ausonius or Virgil. It encourages youth to enjoy life before it is too late; compare Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May from To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.

Kurt Erik Kleppe Nilsen (born September 29, 1978) is a Norwegian pop/country singer. He won the first season of the Norwegian version of the reality television show Pop Idol, which aired on TV 2 in May 2003. He then won a one-off international version of Pop Idol, called World Idol on January 1, 2004, featuring winners of the various national Idol shows.

Upon leaving school, Nilsen made his living as a plumber. Nilsen became the lead singer in the Norwegian band Fenrik Lane. He is a left-handed musician and plays his guitar with the strings upside down. He appeared on and won Norwegian Idol with 54% of the votes against Gaute Ormåsen. He is one of only seven contestants in the Idol (Norway) history who succeeded in staying out of “bottom three/two” places in weekly votes.

His subsequent single, "She's So High", written by Tal Bachman, went straight to number one in the Norwegian singles chart and is among the biggest-selling singles in Norway to date. His debut album was simply called I.

He subsequently won the vote for the World Idol title on January 1, 2004, singing the hit "Beautiful Day" by U2, beating competitors from ten other nations, including the more famous Idols, Britain's Will Young, and favourite Kelly Clarkson of the United States, and scoring the first place in 10 out of 11 countries eligible to vote for him (Norwegian voters being unable to vote for him).

Tone Damli Aaberge (born 12 April 1988 in Sogndal) is a Norwegian singer. She became famous for being a contestant in the Norwegian version of the Idol series.

She was the runner-up in the Norwegian version of Idol in 2005, following Jorun Stiansen in the final. She has released four albums, Bliss, Sweet Fever, I Know, and Cocool.Bliss and I Know have been certified gold in Norway.

She contended in the Norwegian Eurovision Song Contest 2009 finals, with the song Butterflies, and ended up in the runner-up position yet again, this time following Alexander Rybak. She also finished third in the Norwegian version (second season) of Dancing with the Stars in 2006.