The management team of Maltese singer Sophie have announced that members of the UK national press are to travel to Malta at the end of this coming week to interview and photograph Sophie, prior to her UK launch at the end of August.

They will each be spending a few days with her, travelling all over Malta and covering the two performances which Sophie is headlining next weekend at the Coca-Cola Malta Music Festival and at the Farsons Great Beer Festival.

With Sophie’s recording of The Clapping Song having created a lot of interest right across the UK, following its play listing on a number of radio stations, Sophie’s team said that interest from the UK press and media is hot in Malta’s fastest rising young star, and expectations are high there for the release of her second single, K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid), at the end of August.

Sophie’s management team said that her international fan base continues to grow and her web site www.totallysophie.com is now getting an average rate of 47,000 hits per day.

On Monday last week, when Sophie’s management loaded her latest Video Blog, they said that interest from her fans was so intense, that it actually caused the server to crash for a short amount of time due to the amount of traffic it was receiving.

This week, The Clapping Song charted on the Ex-Pat Music Chart, which is followed in 14 countries around the world, and Sophie is the featured artist on a major Nepalese Fan website. Interest in Sophie is truly worldwide.

Sophie’s management team concluded by saying that Sophie and her dancers fly to the UK on August the 30th for a series of appearances, press and media interviews. They have been chosen to headline Rhythm Parties, the largest Under 18’s Music Event in the UK, which takes place in London on August the 31st.

The UK press visit to Malta has been supported by VisitMalta.com, the Island Hotels Group and Air Malta.