UMK: What's going on?

In less than three weeks Uuden musiikin kilpailu aka UMK or the new Finnish national selection preplacing good old Euroviisut will start on TV. Today the songs start to play on radio and on Friday January 27 in the first TV-programme we will find out the 12 songs that have been selected for the next stage out of 40 that are online here. Those were selected from 540 songs sent in this year. There