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The first ten names of the Melodifestivalen 2025 have been revealed.

Among the first 10 names of the Melodifestivalen contestants we have previous participants in the Swedish national final including four previous winners of Melodifestivalen and even a former Eurovision winner.

According to Aftonblandet, these are the first 10 contestants we will see next year competing in Melodifestivalen:

Frans: Frans won Melodifestivalen in 2016 and represented Sweden in Stockholm with If I were Sorry
Måns Zelmerlöw: The Eurovision Song Contest 2015 winner will come back next year. According to Aftonbladet, Måns is teaming with songwriter Ola Svensson.
Arvingarna: The Schlager, pop band won Melodifestivalen the first time they participated in the competition in 1993. They have participated a total of six times since.
John Lundvik: John Ludvik has participated three times in Melodifestivalen. He won the Swedish national final in 2019 and represented Sweden with Too Late for Love.
Kaliffa
Andreas Lundstedt: Andreas Lundstedt has competed five times in Melodifestivalen as part of Alcazar and four as a solo act. And next will mark the tenth participation for the disco king.
Dolly-Style: Dolly Style plans to compete in Melodifestivalen with their new line-up. This will be the fourth time that the girl band has taken part in Melodifestivalen. Dolly Style has four members, three of their current members had competed as Dolly Style in Melodifestivalen before.
Malou Prytz: Malou Prytz debuted in Melodifestivalen 2019 with I do me. After having a positive reception she came back in 2020 and 2022. Now she is 21 and is ready for her fourth participation.
Klara Hammarström
Scarlet

Are you looking forward to seeing the return to Melodifestivalen of some of the previous participants? Which act are you most excited to see participating next year?

Source: Aftonbladet

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It will be Frans Jeppsson Wall (Sweden 2016) who will announce Sweden’s votes in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 on Saturday 11 May.

When the Eurovision Song Contest was last held on home soil, in Stockholm in 2016, Frans stood on stage as Sweden‘s representative with the song “If I Were Sorry“. Now the role is completely different, and he expresses:

“Eurovision has been such a big part of my life and I am incredibly honored to have been given this assignment.”

Frans Jeppsson Wall, with the stage name Frans, became nationally known as a seven-year-old with “Whos’s Da Man“, the group Elias‘ tribute song to Zlatan before the 2006 World Cup.

In Melodifestivalen 2016, Frans went straight to the final with the song “If I Were Sorry” written and produced by Oscar Fogelström, Michael Saxell and Fredrik Andersson. As a seventeen-year-old, Frans became the youngest to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest since Carola‘s victory in Melodifestivalen in 1983. Frans and “If I Were Sorry” placed fifth in the Grand Final.

Viewership of Semi-Final 1

In Sweden, over one million viewers tuned in to watch the live broadcast of Semi-Final One of Eurovision 2024. SVT1, the broadcasting channel, reported 1,081,000 viewers for the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, according to TV viewership ratings service MMS. Although it was the most-watched program in Sweden on May 7, it recorded 224,000 fewer viewers compared to last year’s first semi-final, resulting in a 17.8% decrease in viewership. Additionally, the Eurovision Pre-Party program attracted 657,000 viewers.

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Source: SVT & MMS