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Sweden: The Melodifestivalen 2024 tour is approaching! | Tickets for all shows to be released on the 6th of November!

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Earlier today via their official instagram account, SVT announced that the sale of tickets for all the 6 shows of Melodifestivalen 2024 will start in November the 6th:

 

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After Melodifestivalen 2023 broke audience records and Sweden also claimed the win in the Eurovision Song Contest in May, there is no doubt that expectations are high for the 2024 edition of the Melodifestivalen tour. The tickets go on sale Monday, November 6 at 10:00 a.m. GMT via LiveNation.se. The interest to experience the Swedish national final festival live is expected to be great!

We remind you that Melodifestivalen 2024 is scheduled to take place between February 3rd to March 9th, while SVT has received 2624 songs. The final list of Melodifestivalen participants will be published later this year, between end of November and beginning of December. 

This is the schedule of the six shows of the Melodifestivalen 2024 tour:

  • Heat 1: Saturday 3 February 2024, Malmö Arena, Malmö
  • Heat 2: Saturday 10 February 2024, Scandinavium, Göteborg
  • Heat 3: Saturday 17 February 2024, Vida Arena, Växjö
  • Heat 4: Saturday 24 February 2024, Stiga Sports Arena, Eskiltuna
  • Heat 5: Saturday 2 March 2024, Löfbergs Arena, Karlstad
  • Final: Saturday 9 March 2024, Friends Arena, Stockholm – Solna

The 68th Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Malmö, Sweden in 7, 9 and 11th of May 2024, after the second win of Loreen in Liverpool, with her song “Tattoo”: 

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Sweden: These are the dates for the six shows of Melodifestivalen 2024!

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Five days ago, was the last day of application for Melodifestivalen 2024. Through the contest’s social media accounts, confirmed that a total of 2624 songs were submitted, a tad less than the number of submissions SVT received last year!

Today SVT announced the dates of all six shows of next year’s Melodifestivalen tour!

This is the schedule of the six shows of the Melodifestivalen 2024 tour:

  • Heat 1: Saturday 3 February 2023, Malmö Arena, Malmö
  • Heat 2: Saturday 10 February 2023, Scandinavium, Göteborg
  • Heat 3: Saturday 17 February 2023, Vida Arena, Växjö
  • Heat 4: Saturday 24 February 2023, Stiga Sports Arena, Eskiltuna
  • Heat 5: Saturday 2 March 2023, Löfbergs Arena, Karlstad
  • Final: Saturday 9 March 2023, Stockholm – Solna

The 68th Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Malmö, Sweden in 7, 9 and 11th of May 2024, after the second win of Loreen in Liverpool, with her song “Tattoo”:  

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Sweden: SVT announces format changes for Melodifestivalen 2024!

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More than one month ago Sweden won the Eurovision Song Contest hosted in Liverpool, when Loreen perfmormed the song “Tattoo” and managed to pull off her second victory, rendering her the second person and the first woman to ever score a double victory at the contest!

Sweden knows how to keep our interest warm about their contest that they get to host next year, with several announcements during summer, among which is the announcement of the host city, expected in a bit more than a week from now on the 7th of July.

Same goes for the most loved national selection process, Melodifestivalen, which is highly anticipated this year, following the Swedish victory at the contest. SVT a while ago announced changes in the format of the weekly heats of the show, following the changes that had been announced for the tour of 2023 and 2022 respectively. Project manager of Melodifestivalen, Anders Wistbacka, commented on the announced changes:

“We always want to make Melodifestivalen even better and more exciting for our audience. With this completely new arrangement, we believe we can maintain viewers’ engagement throughout the season. 

It’s no secret that we’ve lost audiences in the semi-finals. Now we hope to keep the excitement up through all the programs”

What are next year’s changes in the format of Melodifestivalen?

Now a total of 30 acts will compete throughout the Melodifestivalen tour, which will be split into five groups of six acts which will compete in each of the five heats of the tour. That is the first change, compared to this years format, where there were four groups of seven acts, 28 in total, which competed in four heats.

In each of the heats, two acts qualify directly to the final, two remain at the competition and two are disqualified. The final show remains the same, will still have twelve competing entries and the final score is calculated 50% by the public vote via the app or sms and 50% of an international jury.

How are the two remaining finalists announced?

SVT has created a completely new program, which will be broadcast live from the arena directly after the 5th heat ends! All the competing artists are in place and the viewers get to see a quick recap of all the ten performances. The result is based on an aggregate score of the number of votes in the heats and the number of votes of the new program.

The entry submission window for Melodifestivalen 2024 opens on the 25th of August at 09:00 CET and ends on the 15th of September at 11:59 CET, when the hopefuls will get the chance to submit their entries at melodifestivalen.se.

Sweden will host the 68th Eurovision Song Contest after Loreen’s iconic second win with the song “Tattoo“:

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American Song Contest: Fifth Qualifier Round’s Results!

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The final qualifier round of American Song Contest just finished with eleven more songs competing for four spots in the semifinals, with the outcome decided by the votes of the judges and the public vote. Jared Lee from Massachusetts, Stela Cole from Georgia and MARi from New Hampshire will join Washington’s Allen Stone from the fourth qualifier round to the semi-finals. Michigan’s Ada LeAnn will follow them as he won the fifth qualifier round’s jury as well as Ryan Charles from Wyoming as he earned one of the two wildcards!

The following artists competed in tonight’s fifth qualifying round:

  1. Illinois: Justin Jesso – “Lifeline“
  2. California: Sweet Taboo – “Keys to the Kingdom“
  3. Idaho: Andrew Sheppard – “Steady Machine“
  4. New Mexico: Khalisol – “Drop“
  5. Missouri: HALIE – “Better Things“
  6. American Samoa: Tenelle – “Full Circle“
  7. North Carolina: John Morgan – “Right in the Middle“
  8. Vermont: Josh Panda – “Rollercoaster“
  9. Guam: Jason J. – “Midnight“
  10. Michigan: Ada LeAnn – “Natalie“
  11. Maryland: Sisqó – “It’s Up“

At the beginning of the night, Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson announced that Jared Lee from Massachusetts, Stela Cole from Georgia and MARi from New Hampshire won the public’s support in the fourth qualifier round. Wyoming’s Ryan Charles was announced later on as one of the two wildcards. Just before the end of the show, the winner of the fifth qualifier round’s jury was announced and therefore Ada LeAnn from Michigan will be in the semi-finals.

The detailed results of the fifth qualifier round’s juries were as follows:

  1. Michigan: Ada LeAnn – “Natalie“
  2. California: Sweet Taboo – “Keys to the Kingdom“
  3. North Carolina: John Morgan – “Right in the Middle“
  4. American Samoa: Tenelle – “Full Circle“
  5. Illinois: Justin Jesso – “Lifeline“
  6. Idaho: Andrew Sheppard – “Steady Machine“
  7. New Mexico: Khalisol – “Drop“
  8. Vermont: Josh Panda – “Rollercoaster“
  9. Maryland: Sisqó – “It’s Up“
  10. Missouri: HALIE – “Better Things“
  11. Guam: Jason J. – “Midnight“

Voting for those not selected by the jury will continue for two days until Wednesday. The public vote will determine the other three artists who will make it to the semi-finals. The semi-finalists will be announced during this week.

This was the fifth of a total of five qualifier rounds. You can also follow the contest from Denmark (DR) at 21:00 CET on Tuesdays, Finland (YLE) on Tuesday evenings, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg (Red Bull) on demand, Greece (ERTFLIX), Iceland (RUV), Montenegro (RTCG) at 21:00 CET on Sundays, Norway (NRK) on Saturday nights, Serbia (RTS), Slovenia (RTV SLO) at 22:00 CET on Saturdays, Spain (RTVE Play) and Sweden (SVT)!

You can check here the performance of the first semifinalist of the 5th qualifying round from Michigan:


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American Song Contest: Listen to snippets of the songs from the 5th qualifier round!

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A few days before the 5th and last qualifier round and most of the participating artists have already released snippets of their songs on TikTok and you can hear them by clicking on the title of each song!

You can listen to the snippets below:

  1. American Samoa: Tenelle – “Full Circle“
  2. California: Sweet Taboo – “Keys to the Kingdom“
  3. Guam: Jason J. – “Midnight“
  4. Idaho: Andrew Sheppard – “Steady Machine“
  5. Illinois: Justin Jesso – “Lifeline“
  6. Maryland: Sisqó – “It’s Up“
  7. Michigan: Ada LeAnn – “Natalie“
  8. Missouri: HALIE – “Better Things“
  9. New Mexico: Khalisol – “Drop“
  10. North Carolina: John Morgan – “Right in the Middle“
  11. Vermont: Josh Panda – “Rollercoaster“

As always, the songs will be released in their entirety only 24 hours before the show. Remember that this will be the fifth out of the five heats and will be broadcast live on Tuesday, April 19, at 2AM CET on NBC.

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American Song Contest: Fourth Qualifier Round’s Results!

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The fourth qualifier round of American Song Contest just finished with eleven more songs competing for four spots in the semifinals, with the outcome decided by the votes of the judges and the public vote. Colorado’s Riker Lynch, Alabama’ Ni/Co and Texas’ Grant Knoche will join Tennessee’s Tyler Braden from the third qualifier round to the semi-finals, while Washington’s Allen Stone will follow them as he won the fourth qualifier round’s jury!

The following artists competed in tonight’s fourth qualifying round:

  1. New Hampshire: MARi – “Fly“
  2. Nevada: The Crystal Method – “Watch Me Now“
  3. Utah: Savannah Keyes – “Sad Girl“
  4. Washington, D.C.: NËITHER – “I Like It“
  5. Massachusetts: Jared Lee – “Shameless“
  6. Georgia: Stela Cole – “DIY“
  7. Hawaii: Bronson Varde – “4 You“
  8. West Virginia: Alexis Cunningham – “Working on a Miracle“
  9. Arizona: Las Marías – “De La Finikera“
  10. Pennsylvania: Bri Steves – “Plenty Love“
  11. Washington: Allen Stone – “A Bit of Both“

At the beginning of the night, Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson announced that Riker Lynch from Colorado, Ni/Co from Alabama and Grant Knoche from Texas won the public’s support in the third qualifier round and will advance to the semifinals.

The detailed results of the third qualifier round were as follows:

  1. Tennessee: Tyler Braden – “Seventeen”
  2. Colorado: Riker Lynch – “Feel the Love”
  3. Alabama: Ni/Co – “The Difference”
  4. Texas: Grant Knoche – “Mr. Independent”
  5. Alaska: Jewel – “The Story”
  6. Florida: Ale Zabala – “Flirt”
  7. New Jersey: Brooke Alexx – “I Don’t Take Pictures Anymore”
  8. Delaware: Nitro Nitra – “Train”
  9. Louisiana: Brittany Pfantz – “Now You Do”
  10. Northern Mariana Islands: Sabyu – “Sunsets and Seaturtles”
  11. South Dakota: Judd Hoos – “Bad Girl”
  12. South Carolina: Jesse LeProtti – “Not Alone”

Just before the end of the show, the winner of the second qualifier round’s jury was announced and therefore Allen Stone from Washington will be in the semi-finals.

The detailed results of the fourth qualifier round’s juries were as follows:

  1. Washington: Allen Stone – “A Bit of Both“
  2. Massachusetts: Jared Lee – “Shameless“
  3. Nevada: The Crystal Method – “Watch Me Now“
  4. Pennsylvania: Bri Steves – “Plenty Love“
  5. West Virginia: Alexis Cunningham – “Working on a Miracle“
  6. Georgia: Stela Cole – “DIY“
  7. Utah: Savannah Keyes – “Sad Girl“
  8. New Hampshire: MARi – “Fly“
  9. Hawaii: Bronson Varde – “4 You“
  10. Arizona: Las Marías – “De La Finikera“
  11. Washington, D.C.: NËITHER – “I Like It“

Voting for those not selected by the jury will continue for two days until Wednesday. The public vote will determine the other three artists who will make it to the semi-finals. The semi-finalists will be announced each time at the start of next week’s show.

This was the fourth of a total of five qualifier rounds. You can also follow the contest from Denmark (DR) at 21:00 CET on Tuesdays, Finland (YLE) on Tuesday evenings, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg (Red Bull) on demand, Greece (ERTFLIX), Iceland (RUV), Montenegro (RTCG) at 21:00 CET on Sundays, Norway (NRK) on Saturday nights, Serbia (RTS), Slovenia (RTV SLO) at 22:00 CET on Saturdays, Spain (RTVE Play) and Sweden (SVT)!

You can check here the performance of the first semifinalist of the 4th qualifying round from Washington:

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