Marcus & Martinus will represent Sweden at Eurovision 2024
The host country of Eurovision 2024 has chosen entry for this year’s contest Five exciting weeks of Melodifestivalen heats have been leading up to tonight’s penultimate finale, where 12 participants sang their hearts with hopes of representing their country at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö this May. Tonight’s sensational Melodifestivalen Finale took place […]
Sweden: Cornelia Jakobs wins Melodifestivalen 2022
Cornelia Jakobs has won ‘Melodifestivalen 2022’ and will represent Sweden in Turin with her song “Hold Me Closer”! After 6 weeks of competition, 12 artists took part in tonight’s show, taking place in the Friends Arena, Stockholm. Like all the heats and semi final, the show was hosted by Melodifestivalen veteran Oscar Zia, and he […]
POLL: Melodifestivalen 2022 – Who should win Sweden’s ticket to Eurovision 2022?
Vote for your winner of Melodifestivalen 2022! After having a qualifying streak that has lasted since 2011, Sweden still wants to keep their momentum by using their long-standing successful national selection, Melodifestivalen 2022! On Saturday, we will see 12 artists in the Friends Arena competing to be Sweden’s representative in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 […]
Melodifestivalen 2022: Faith Kakembo and Anders Bagge qualify to the final!
Here are the finalists from Semi Final 3 The third semi final is now over, and we now know who is going into the final! This week, it was Anders Bagge and Faith Kakembo that emerged victorious! Anders was first to qualify, after coming 1st in the first set of votes. Then Faith ended up […]
Our million voices goes to Tusse
Melodifestivalen 2021 has been an experience with ups and downs, different genres and lots of entertainment. Now we finally have 12 finalists who are ready to battle for the trip to Rotterdam. DJ Trexx from the Swedish humour group Grotesco made a comeback in Melodifestivalen last Saturday. The Russian DJ upset the Russian embassy in […]
Melodifestivalen 2021: We need more chaos!
Last Saturday the audience got to see a show that’s going in the history books: two former Melfest winners in the same semi-final and the entertaining content we haven’t seen for many years! Why aren’t Pernilla Wahlgren and Per Andersson always the hosts for Melodifestivalen? Their presence reminded me of a past time when the […]
Melodifestivalen 2021: We voted for the simple and reliable
Last time two songs in Swedish went directly to the final were in 2007, when Anna Book’s “Samba Sambero” and Tommy Nilsson’s “Jag tror på människan” got the most votes. Last Saturday, it happened again. Danny Saucedo, former Melfest runner-up with “In The Club” (2011) and “Amazing” (2012), had the most star quality in the […]
Melodifestivalen 2021: Getting the show off to a good start
After a long time waiting, the season with Prosecco every Saturday, excited fans and uninteresting interviews with the classic questions “how does it feel?”, “how are the preparations?”, “what is the feeling right before you enter the stage” begins! That’s right, I’m talking about the mother of all national finals, Melodifestivalen! The first heat is […]
SVT revokes new rule, months after its introduction
Swedish broadcaster SVT, has announced this week, that a recently introduced rule regarding gender is to be scrapped. In May 2020, Melodifestivalen producer Karin Gunnarsson announced the new rule, which stated that every entry in the contest from 2022, must have at least one female author. This rule was brought in, after many years of […]
Reports say Melodifestivalen tour in 2021 cancelled, will only be in Stockholm
Melodifestivalen is one of the highlights of the national final season for many Eurovision fans. However, next year’s Melfest may look a bit different than we’re used to. The Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet reported earlier today that Melodifestivalen 2021 will not consist of the usual tour all over Sweden, which has been a tradition since 2002. […]
Nano is taking us on a new musical journey
Today, Swedish artist and former Melodifestivalen fan-favourite, Nano, has released his new single Drive. This track is already his fifth new song of 2020, having previously released a collection of other singles in March, most notably, the track Förblin, where he collaborated with fellow Swede, Alpis. Despite being fairly inactive on social media (as his […]