In an interview with Dagens Nyheter, Eurovision 2012 winner Loreen announced that her new album will be released in February 2021. She also revealed that the album is gonna be in her mother language, Swedish!
Loreen participated in the eleventh season of the famous Swedish TV show Så mycket bättre. Since then she released some new music. In that show famous Swedish artists cover songs of the other competing artists. Each singer has their own episode where the artists sing only songs of one specific participant.
Some other famous artists who participated in the show were Jakob Hellman, Benjamin Ingrosso and Lisa Nilsson.
Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
Since making its debut in the 1958 contest, Sweden has taken part in 59 editions. For every edition since 1959 Sweden has used their popular national final format Melodifestivalen. Sweden has 6 Eurovision wins, in 1974, 1984, 1991, 1999, 2012 and Sweden’s latest win was in 2015 with Måns Zelmerlöw’s Heroes. Sweden hosted the contest 6 times as well, in 1975, 1985, 1992, 2000, 2013 and 2016. Some of Sweden’s most memorable entries include Waterloo (1974), Popular (2011) and Undo (2014). The Mamas won Melodifestivalen 2020 and were due to sing their song Move in Rotterdam before the contest got cancelled.
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