Sweden: Two important changes for Melodifestivalen 2025!

Just before the official start of the Eurovision 2025 season, more and more countries are revealing their intentions and their selection method for their representative in the contest. Sweden will once again of course use Melodifestivalen to highlight the song and the artist that will represent the country in Switzerland. But the Swedish national final comes with two important changes compared to what we knew until now.

Second chance becomes more difficult

From August 23rd until September 14th, interested artists and composers will be able to submit their songs to the Swedish public broadcaster SVT, in order to claim one of the 30 spots in Melodifestivalen 2025.

Melodifestivalen 2025 will again consist of five semi-finals, in which six songs will compete, with the top two in votes advancing to the grand final. So far there is nothing different.

As this year, 12 songs will participate in the final, the ten songs that have qualified from the five semi-finals (the first two in votes from each semi-final) and two more songs that will come from the second chance method.

The first major change of Melodifestivalen 2025 will be about the two songs that will participate in the final and qualify through the second chance. This year, after the fifth semi-final all the songs that had finished in third and fourth place in the five semi-finals were put to a new vote by the television audience, immediately after the end of the fifth semi-final, and the first two songs in votes also qualified for the final. This changes in 2025.

Only those songs that finish third in their semi-final will have a second chance to qualify for the final. In particular, the song that collected the most votes and was in one of the third positions of the five semi-finals, will automatically advance to the final. The twelfth song of the final will be chosen after voting by the TV audience, among the four remaining songs. This whole process will take place like last year after the last semi-final is completed.

Before the semi-finals we will listen to the songs

The second major change has to do with the availability of the songs that automatically qualify for the final on the electronic platforms. Until now these songs became available at the end of the fifth semi-final, when all the songs of the final were known. Now, on the Friday before each semi-final, the songs in their full form will be released to the public and can be made available on electronic music platforms as well.

For more information on the Melodifestivalen 2025 regulations and submission of entries, please see the official SVT website.

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Source: Eurovision.tv