Sweden: Dates and host cities of Melodifestivalen 2025

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Melodifestivalen 2025: Schedule and Host Cities

SVT, the Swedish national broadcaster, has confirmed the dates and cities that will host Melodifestivalen 2025.

Melodifestivalen 2025 will travel across Sweden, visiting cities such as Luleå, Gothenburg, Västerås, Malmö, Jönköping, and Stockholm. The event will kick off on Saturday, February 1, 2025, and will conclude on Saturday, March 8, 2025.

  • 01/02/2025: Melodifestivalen 2025 – Semi-final #1 – Luleå
  • 08/02/2025: Melodifestivalen 2025 – Semi-final #2 – Gothenburg
  • 15/02/2025: Melodifestivalen 2025 – Semi-final #3 – Västerås
  • 22/02/2025: Melodifestivalen 2025 – Semi-final #4 – Malmö
  • 01/03/2025: Melodifestivalen 2025 – Semi-final #5 – Jönköping
  • 08/03/2025: Melodifestivalen 2025 – Grand Final – Stockholm

Melodifestivalen 2025

Melodifestivalen 2025 will consist of 6 live televised shows: 5 semi-finals and a Grand Final.

A total of 30 songs will compete in the Swedish national selection, with 6 songs participating in each semi-final. In the end, 12 songs will compete in the Grand Final for the chance to represent Sweden at Eurovision 2025 in Switzerland. The winner will be chosen through a combination of public voting and an international jury.

Competition Changes

Several changes will be introduced for Melodifestivalen 2025:

  • As before, the top two songs from each semi-final will directly advance to the Grand Final. However, the 3rd and 4th placed songs will no longer proceed to the Second Chance round.
  • Only the 3rd placed song from each semi-final will have a chance to compete for a spot in the Grand Final.
  • Instead of 10 songs competing in the Second Chance round, only 5 songs will battle for the final 2 spots in the Grand Final.
  • After the 5th semi-final, a special Second Chance round voting will take place: the highest-scoring 3rd placed song will automatically qualify for the Grand Final. The remaining four songs will be subject to a public vote, and the winner will earn the 12th spot in the Grand Final.
  • Another change is that the Melodifestivalen entries will no longer be published after the 5th semi-final. Instead, the 6 songs competing in each semi-final will be released a day before their respective semi-final, on Friday.

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Sweden: 2794 songs submitted for Melodifestivalen 2025!

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As every year, the artist and the song that will represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest will be selected through Melodifestivalen. The submission deadline for the popular Swedish show ended a few hours ago, with a total of 2794 songs vying to represent Sweden in Basel. In fact, the number of entries increased by 170 songs compared to last year.

What comes next?

After the entries have been evaluated, 30 songs will be chosen to qualify for Melodifestivalen 2025. It is anticipated that these 30 entries will be announced within the next months.

As SVT announced, this year’s Melodifestivalen will be conducted differently. You can read our related article for more information.

Last year, Marcus and Martinus represented Sweden with the song “Unforgettable” and took 9th place in the grand final, mainly thanks to the jury vote. In fact, Sweden is one of the most successful countries in the competition. From 2014 to 2024, it has been in the top ten every year, with the exception of Tusse’s 14th place in 2021. Will the series of successes continue in 2025?

Who do you want to represent Sweden in Eurovision 2025?

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Source: ESC Discord

Eric Saade: “I had permission from the SVT to wear the Palestinian keffiyeh”

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Even though the Eurovision 2024 grand final was almost four months ago, the issues surrounding it still bother fans of the competition, demonstrating yet again that it was the most controversial edition in recent memory. In particular, Eric Saade claimed that he had informed the SVT of his plan to wear the Palestinian symbol “keffiyeh”, and that the broadcaster had given its approval.

The Swedish singer, who represented his country at Eurovision 2011 and participated in the opening act of the first semi-final of this year’s contest, stated that Ebba Adielsson, SVT‘s executive producer for the Eurovision Song Contest, gave him permission to wear the Palestinian keffiyeh, telling him that “symbols are not a problem”.

The artist went on to say that he was taken aback by the EBU’s strong response. We remind you that the EBU had denounced the singer’s behaviour as “political” and had declined to upload his appearance on social media.

Ebba Adielsson’s response

Following the aforementioned interview, the executive producer of SVT made the following clarifications:

“I think I was clear about the rules that had to be followed”.

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Source: Dagens Nyheter

Sweden: Two important changes for Melodifestivalen 2025!

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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

Joost Klein and the camerawoman answer to the decision of the Swedish police!

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With yesterday’s announcement made by the Swedish police, one of the issues that marked Eurovision 2024 negatively for many fans, has officially come to an end. Of course, we are talking about the disqualification of Joost Klein from the final of Eurovision 2024.

After the police investigations, yesterday’s announcement stated that Joost Klein will not be prosecuted for the incident at this year’s Eurovision due to a lack of evidence.

A few hours ago Joost Klein himself, spoke about the whole issue for the first time, with an Instagram post:

 

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“The last couple of months were terrible. Even though I love to perform anywhere around the world, something didn’t feel right. Why did we have to wait so long for an answer? Everyday I felt insecure whilst I knew the truth. There is no case against me, because there never was a case.

We should all take care for each other, we should all support each other and we should ALL come together. Companies just want to protect their money and they tried to use me as a shield. A village against the city…

Guess what? LOVE ALWAYS WINS. TRUST THE PROCESS!!!!! EVEN THOUGH I LOST ALL HOPE WE BACK NOW BABY!!! ALBUM MODE!!!!!!!”

At the same time, the camerwoman spoke through her lawyer, Kristoffer Ståhl, about the decision of the police, and indicated that she is thinking of taking further legal actions, in order to be vindicated:

“My client is very saddened by the decision and is considering whether she wants to challenge the decision. She came to Malmö to do her work in a special place where music, inclusion and diversity are central. What happened to her was unexpected and very traumatic. She now has to deal with the consequences of that incident, unfortunately.” 

Lawyer Ståhl adds in his statement that there was no agreement that “the Dutch artist” would not be filmed after his appearance. “My client wants to state clearly that she did not pay more or less attention to the Dutch artist than to other candidates of the festival,” she says.

However, the woman praised the EBU for the way the organization “put the mental and physical safety of its workers first”.

We now await with great interest the reaction of the Dutch public broadcaster, and whether it will participate or not in Eurovision 2025 next May in Switzerland.

Source : Joost Klein, rtl.nl

Sweden: Malmö will not host the Eurovision Song Contest again!

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The organization of this year’s Eurovision turned out to be a difficult “mission”, with the host city declaring that it does not want to host the competition again after this year’s edition.

In an official announcement from the city of Malmö, they stated that this year they were faced with an unprecedented, stressful and costly situation in their effort to maintain security in their city during the competition!

The announcement:

“We can’t say we had a good year, but not a bad one either. It was a year with enough intensity that it cost us dearly to be able to ensure the safety of the participants as well as the visitors! If Sweden wins next year and offers us to host the competition, we will definitely refuse! We don’t have the strength and stamina to host the competition again!”

Eurovision 2024 has come to an end, with Switzerland taking the win. On the aftermath of the contest, many delegations are requesting a meeting with the European Broadcasting Union to discuss incidents at the contest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpMMEDHnwSI

Source: http://superTV24

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Eurovision 2024: Switzerland is the big winner of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest!

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The 68th Eurovision Song Contest has been history for a few minutes now, with the big winner being Switzerland represented by Nemo and the song “The Code“.

In a contest marked by drama and a lot of backstory, Swittzerland emerged as the winner with 591 points.

Twenty-six countries took part in tonight’s show, aiming to succeed Loreen and Sweden as the reigning Eurovision Song Contest champions.

The show

Malmö Arena was the venue for the 68th Eurovision Song Contest in the Swedish city of Malmö.

The presenters of tonight’s show, as of all the shows, were Petra Mede and Malin Åkerman.

The 25 participating countries that took part in the Grand Final of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest were:

 

R/O COUNTRY ARTIST SONG
1 Sweden Marcus & Martinus “Unforgettable”
2 Ukraine alyona alyona & Jerry Heil “Teresa & Maria”
3 Germany Isaak “Always on the Run”
4 Luxembourg Tali “Fighter”
6 Israel Eden Golan “Hurricane”
7 Lithuania Silvester Belt “Luktelk”
8 Spain Nebulossa “Zorra”
9 Estonia 5miinust & Puuluup “(nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi”
10 Ireland Bambie Thug “Doomsday Blue”
11 Latvia Dons “Hollow”
12 Greece Marina Satti “Zari”
13 United Kingdom Olly Alexander “Dizzy”
14 Norway Gåte “Ulveham”
15 Italy Angelina Mango “La noia”
16 Serbia Teya Dora “Ramonda”
17 Finland Windows95man “No Rules!”
18 Portugal Iolanda “Grito”
19 Armenia Ladaniva “Jako”
20 Cyprus Silia Kapsis “Liar”
21 Switzerland Nemo “The Code”
22 Slovenia Raiven “Veronika”
23 Croatia Baby Lasagna “Rim Tim Tagi Dim”
24 Georgia Nutsa Buzaladze “Firefighter”
25 France Slimane “Mon amour”
26 Austria Kaleen “We Will Rave​”

Results

The final ranking of the 25 finalists of Eurovision 2024 was as follows:

The vote of the juries was as follows:

The votes of the public were as follow:

  1. Croatia 337
  2. Israel 327
  3. Ukraine 307
  4. France 227
  5. Switzerland 226
  6. Ireland 136
  7. Italy 104
  8. Greece 85
  9. Armenia 82
  10. Lithuania 58
  11. Sweden 49
  12. Cyprus 44
  13. Estonia 33
  14. Serbia 32
  15. Finland 31
  16. Latvia 28
  17. Luxembourg 20
  18. Georgia 19
  19. Germany 18
  20. Portugal 13
  21. Slovenia 12
  22. Spain 11
  23. Austria 5
  24. Norway 4
  25. United Kingdom 0

Half of the final result came from the votes of the juries who voted last night and half from the TV audiences across Europe who voted for their favourite songs a few hours ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO_qJf-nW0k

What did you think of the final results of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest?

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Bets: The latest odds before the Grand Final!

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The 68th Eurovision Song Contest, which has been marred by drama like no other, will conclude in a few hours from now, culminating in the elimination of the Netherlands from the Grand Final this morning.

Amidst an atmosphere of tension and unprecedented toxicity, we take a look at the betting companies’ odds regarding each country’s chances of winning this year’s contest, as well as their chances of being in the Top 10.

Croatia in pole position

With Croatia as the early favourites, the Eurovision 2024 final will take place this evening. The country that has been in first place more than any other has the best chance of winning just hours before the curtain falls on this year’s contest. The supersonic Baby Lasagna is very close to giving Croatia their first win as an independent nation in their Eurovision appearance. Right now, you can place bets on the Croats’ maiden victory at odds between 1.83 and 2.25.

Second is Israel, which is right on Croatia’s heels and sees its odds of victory remain largely unchanged from our analysis yesterday. Thus, Israel’s Eurovision 2024 win is being played at odds between 2.8 and 4.

In third place, gaining ground after last night’s performance, are Nemo and Switzerland. Switzerland and Nemo‘s victory is now being bet at odds between 4.5 and 5.5, up from 6 to 9 at the time of writing our analysis yesterday.

Up two places for Ireland and down one for France, who complete the top five. The possibility of Ireland winning is now offered between 17 and 23. On the other hand, France‘s odds of victory have risen compared to yesterday, now offered between 15 and 26.

Ukraine has dropped to sixth place, having lost three places in the last two days. With the odds on offer having risen significantly, currently as much as 34 times the stake is returned on a Ukrainian victory in Malmo.

In seventh place is Italy, who lost even more ground after last night’s performance at Jury Rehearsal. Between 21 and 51 is being played on the possibility of Angelina Mango winning.

A one place rise for Greece, which moved up one place compared to our analysis yesterday, “taking advantage” of the exclusion of the Netherlands. A possible victory of “ZARI” and Marina Satti is currently being played at odds between 81 and 251, with no change at all compared to yesterday.

Finland has moved up to ninth place, while Sweden completes the top ten, returning inside the Top 10 for the first time in many months. Both Finland and Sweden are both playing at a maximum odds of 251, exactly the same as ninth-placed Greece as well as the UK and Armenia, who are in 11th and 12th place.

Top 10

Of particular interest is one of the most popular markets for betting companies, that of entering the Top 10. Looking at the table below, it can be seen that bookers largely consider entry into the top 10 to be assured for a large proportion of the countries involved in the Grand Final.

The presence of four countries in the top 10 is considered a given. Croatia, Switzerland, Ukraine and Israel are “given a place” in the top 10, with bookies offering this possibility at odds of under 1.10.

France and Italy are almost taken for granted that they too will have a place in the top 10 at Eurovision 2024, with this possibility returning between 1.14 and 1.20 times the stake.

With the six spots in the Top 10 looking largely taken, four spots remain, with Ireland considered the seventh most likely to take a spot in the top ten at odds of 1.57.

Greece also has a very strong chance of a place inside the Top 10, being eighth in the table below and also the last country to offer odds of less than 2. In fact, a place inside the Top 10 for Marina Satti returns up to 1.91 times the stake.

Beyond that, the Netherlands‘ elimination from the grand final “opens up a spot” within the Top 10 that was considered by many to be a lock. Automatically, it opens the way for two more spots for the top 10 of the ranking. Thus, Sweden is considered the ninth most likely to make the top ten and Armenia the tenth most likely. Both are being played at odds close to 2.5.

Conclusions

We are only a few hours away from the most dramatic final in Eurovision history, which has been tainted by the events of the last few days in Malmö. Leaving aside everything that has marked the contest so far, tonight’s final is the most controversial of all time, where no one can accurately predict what will happen. All possibilities are open and no outcome will come as a surprise.

Which country do you think will win the 68th Eurovision Song Contest?

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Eurovision 2024: This the running order of the announcement of the jury votes!

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In just a few hours, the Grand Final of the 68th European Eurovision Song Contest starts live from Malmö Arena in Malmö. 25 countries compete in tonight’s Grand Final for the coveted prize.

Tonight’s results will come from a combination of the judges’ vote and the public’s vote. First, we’ll watch the judges vote on our screens, and then the combined televote score for each country will be announced.
In the first part of the voting, we will hear the votes of the juries of each country, which will be announced by the spokespersons, while the order of announcing the scores of the juries will be as follows:
  1. Ukraine – Jamala
  2. United Kingdom – Joanna Lumley
  3. Luxembourg – Désirée Nosbusch
  4. Azerbaijan – Aysel
  5. San Marino
  6. Malta – Matt Blxck
  7. Croatian
  8. Albania – Andri Xhahu
  9. Czechia
  10. Israel – Maya Alkulumbre
  11. Australia – Daniel Estrin
  12. Denmark – Stéphanie Surrugue
  13. Spain – Soraya
  14. Norway
  15. Germany – Tina Müller
  16. Armenia – Brunette
  17. Slovenia – Lorella Flego
  18. Georgia – Sopho Khalvashi
  19. Switzerland – Jennifer Bosshard
  20. Moldova
  21. Greece – Elena Paparizou
  22. Estonia – Birgit Sarrap
  23. Netherlands – Nikkie Tutorials
  24. Austria – Philipp Hansa
  25. France – Natasha St-Pier
  26. Italy – Mario Acampa
  27. Finland – Kaarija
  28. Portugal – Marisa Mena
  29. Belgium – Livia Dushkoff
  30. Iceland – Friðrik Ómar
  31. Latvia
  32. Ireland – Paul Harrington
  33. Poland – Viki Gabor
  34. Cyprus – Loukas Hamatsos
  35. Lithuania – Monika Linkite
  36. Serbia – Konstrakta
  37. Sweden – Frans

This year, we start with Ukraine, while the United Kingdom will announce its ranking second. The voting of the juries will close with Sweden, this year’s host country.

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Eurovision 2024: EBU Announcement Regarding Running Order and Televoting!

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In an official announcement made just a few minutes ago, the European Broadcasting Union revealed details about the running order of the Grand Final, the televoting numbers of the countries, and the televoting of the Netherlands!

The forthcoming announcement states:

All of this comes as a result of the expulsion of the Dutch contestant, Joost Klein, due to inappropriate behavior towards a member of the competition’s production team!
The Grand Final kicks off at 21:00 CET, and you can watch it live on the official Eurovision YouTube channel, as well as on various public broadcaster across Europe.

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