The names of the artists selected to compete in Melodifestivalen 2025, the national final through which Sweden’s entry for the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel, Switzerland, will be selected, have just been announced. Read more
Scarlet made their debut last spring, when the metal band came very close to reaching the final of Melodifestivalen 2024 with their song “Circus X”.
Many sources have reported to the newspaper Expressen that the band is set to return to Melodifestivalen 2025, the Swedish national final.
A few months ago, the competition’s project manager, Anders Wistbacka, spoke about the variety of entries in the competition.
“We want different types of songs and rhythms – both ballads and up-tempo tracks. It’s important to include pieces that immediately grab attention, but also those that might require one or more listens to fully appreciate,” he said.
According to Expressen, Scarlet fits well into the diversity that Melodifestivalen aims to create.
In total, nearly 2,800 songs have been submitted for Melodifestivalen 2025, and rumours suggest that several established artists are among the contestants. The final list of contestants is expected to be announced in December, but until then, many things can change.
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Source: expressen.se
Last year, she performed at the final, but not as a contestant, rather as a guest artist. Now, there’s strong speculation that Klara Hammarström, 24, will return to Melodifestivalen as one of the contestants next year.
Several sources have informed Expressen that the star will be included when the lineup is revealed before the end of the year. The song is described in several places as “powerful,” and one source confirms that Klara Hammarström “feels like an obvious choice for the competition next spring.”
The podcast “Schlagerfesten” reported last week that Måns Zelmerlöw is almost confirmed for Melodifestivalen next year, something that several sources have also confirmed to Expressen. After Expressen’s report on Zelmerlöw, several other media outlets, including Aftonbladet and Omni, also followed up.
For Hammarström, this would mean her fourth participation in Melodifestivalen – at just 24 years old. She competed in 2020, 2021, and 2022 with the entries “Nobody,” “Beat of Broken Hearts,” and “Run to the Hills.”
After being eliminated in the semi-finals in 2020, she followed it up with two straight finals appearances, finishing sixth both times.
Nearly 2,800 entries have been submitted for Melodifestivalen 2025, and among the applicants are several established artists, according to reports from Expressen. The path from submission to confirmation looks different for each artist and song, and the final lineup of contestants is typically announced in December. Until then, many things can change.
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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.
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.
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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Eden Golan faced boos from the audience during a rehearsal, as you have read in one of our previous articles, the Israeli broadcaster Kan filed a formal complaint with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) ahead of tonight’s broadcast.
During rehearsals, where the arena audience was limited, there was both imposed applause and a sound carpet added to the broadcast in the press center. This sound carpet created the illusion of a large audience in the arena, even though it wasn’t the case.
Eden Golan, Photo: Andreas Papagiannakis
In previous years, Russian artists in the Eurovision contest experienced loud protests and boos during their performances. In 2015, the Austrian TV channel that produced Eurovision in Vienna chose to censor the boos by adding fake shouts during the broadcast.
Aftonbladet‘s Tobbe Ek reached out to SVT’s executive producer, Ebba Adielsson, with a detailed question and she clarified the situation:
“As with any major TV production with an audience, we work with broadcast audio to level the playing field for the TV audience. It is only to get as balanced a soundscape as possible for the viewers, we do not censor sound from the audience in the arena. It’s the same principle for all competing entries, including opening and intermediate acts.“
Let’s see what will happen at tonight’s Second Semi Final which is already on-air!
Source: Schlagerbloggen/Tobbe Ek/Aftonbladet
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The running order for the Opening Ceremony of Eurovision 2024 has been revealed. The EBU has revealed the order in which the Eurovision 2024 artists will appear on the Turquoise Carpet tomorrow Read more
We’re already almost halfway through rehearsals for Eurovision 2024, and with the Contest being just a week away, SVT, Sweden’s public broadcaster, has revealed the theme of this year’s postcards! Read more
Today, Friday April the 19th, SVT, the Swedish national broadcaster, has announced who will be involved in the Swedish commentary of the three shows of the contest, on a press release.
When the Eurovision Song Contest is held for the 68th time, viewers in Sweden will be guided by Tina Mehrafzoon and Edward af Sillén.
This is the thirteenth year that the experienced and knowledgeable Edward af Sillén takes place in Eurovision’s commentary booth. For the music journalist and media profile Tina Mehrafzoon, who during the spring had a commentating expert role during the Melodifestivalen, it is the premiere.
Tina Mehrafzoon expresses:
“To be able to do this together with Edward is an honour and a dream come true. The fact that Sweden is the host country makes it all the more special. I know which professionals make the show so my job will be very pleasurable and easy!”
This host year, Edward af Sillén is also involved as a director and screenwriter. The whole spring is filled with intense work, but Edward is very much looking forward to the assignment as a commentator.
“It feels both honorable and very fun. The viewers will be in safe and warm hands with Tina in the driver’s seat, while I will split my time between being backstage and working with the presenters and being by Tina’s side as much as possible during the shows. It’s going to be really exciting,”
says Edward af Sillén.
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Source: media.melodifestivalen.se/SVT
Photo: SVT/Dan Danielsson
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One of the most well-known radio producers on Israeli public radio, Yigal Ravid, mentioned today on a KAN radio program that members of the Swedish broadcaster admitted to the Israeli delegation that Malmö’s selection as the 2024 Eurovision host city was apparently a mistake.
For SVT and the EBU, choosing Malmö to host the 68th Eurovision Song Contest is turning out to be a major security risk. With over 70,000 Muslims calling this city home, it is widely regarded as the most pro-Palestinian city in the nation, with numerous anti-Israel demonstrations occurring literally every day.
When the host city was chosen, the events of October 7th had obviously not occurred. But now that the situation is tense, this option appears dangerous.
On the other hand, Stockholm was out of the running due to Taylor Swift’s concerts which coincide with Eurovision, as well as the refusal of the city’s football teams. Hence, there was no arena available, making Malmö the only choice for hosting the event.
Eurovision 2024 approaches, with security measures tighter than ever before, as the EBU and Swedish organizers face their most difficult challenge.
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