Posts

Sweden: Marcus & Martinus are back at Melodifestvalen 2024!

/0 Comments/in , , /by

Aftonbladet’s Torbjörn Ek and Stina Dahlgren surpised us tonight by revealing a couple more artists that will take part in Melodifestivalen 2024! We remind you that last year, Aftonbladet revealed 24 out of the 28 acts of Melodifestivalen 2023, even before SVT announced the line-up officially.

It seems like we will have a 2023 deja vu next year. Marcus & Martinus and Adam Woods, who impressed everyone with his first-time-on-stage performance with Jon Henrik Fjällgren and Arc North. Also Clara Klingenström returns for a second time after her debut in 2021.

Who are Marcus & Martinus?

They finished second to Loreen , got to sing for Crown Princess Victoria and are going on an arena tour this winter. Now Aftonbladet reveals that the Norwegian twins Marcus & Martinus Gunnarsen, 21, are returning to Melodifestivalen next year to try to repeat, and preferably surpass, this year’s success. Are they back to win the whole thing?

Who is Clara Klingenström?

Clara Klingenström, 28, will also return to the competition next year. She debuted in the competition in 2021 with “Behöver inte dig idag” and was awarded the same year with a Rockbjörn for this year’s breakthrough.

Who is Adam Woods?

In addition, several sources confirm that Adam Allskog, 22, is also ready for Melodifestivalen. In this year’s competition, he was praised for his singing efforts when he competed together with Jon Henrik Fjällgren and Arc North . Now, according to several sources, he has been given a place in Melodifestivalen as a solo artist, under his stage name Adam Woods.

Many artists are still waiting!

The new format of Melodifestivalen starting from 2024, with five sub-competitions and a total of 30 competing artists, is said to be the reason why this year there is a little delay in the announcements. Things are going a little slower this year after the reshuffle, there is probably a risk that some won’t be informed until just days before the press conference. According to sources, there is no deadline. This is how it always is. People feel stressed and wonder when the news will come. But there is no deadline, except for the day when all the names are presented. It’s just for everyone to wait.

We remind you that Melodifestivalen 2023 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.

The list of artist that are reportedly participating at Melodifestivalen 2024 are:

  1. Lasse Stefanz
  2. Smash into pieces
  3. Dotter
  4. Liamoo
  5. Samir & Viktor
  6. Elecktra
  7. Cazzi Opeia
  8. Lisa Ajax
  9. Marcus & Martinus
  10. Clara Klingenström
  11. Adam Woods

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”:

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the most loved Eurovision national final!

Source: Aftonbladet

Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not lose a thing of what’s happening Eurovision:

Sweden: One debutant and two more artists return at Melodifestivalen 2024!

/1 Comment/in , , /by

Aftonbladet’s Torbjörn Ek and Stina Dahlgren just added up to the list of Melodifestivalen 2024 participants with new potential acts! We remind you that last year, Aftonbladet revealed 24 out of the 28 acts of Melodifestivalen 2023, even before SVT announced the line-up officially.

After Samir & Viktor, we have two more returns and a Drag Race Sweden artist that will come in next year’s version of Melodifestivalen! Fans are already familiar with Lisa Ajax, the four-times Melodifestivalen contestant and Cazzi Opeia, who debuted in 2022 with the song “I Can’t Get Enough” and co-wrote “Tattoo” that gave this year’s second victory to Loreen and seventh victory to Sweden! Drag Race Sverige star Elecktra is also added to the list.

Who is Elecktra?

In the SVT series “Drag Race Sweden“, based on Ru Paul’s cult American competition program, Elecktra broke through at the 1st season of the show and placed 4th. Now, according to sources, she has been given a place in Melodifestivalen 2024 and according to sources she is completely ready!

Who is Lisa Ajax?

It will be the former “Idol” winner’s fifth time in the competition, three times she has reached the final, either directly or via the second chance, in 2016 with “My heart wants me dead“, in 2017 with “I don’t give a” and in 2019 with “Torn“. In 2022, she finished last in her heat with ”Tror du att jag bryr mig”, a duet with Niello.

Who is Cazzi Opeia?

Cazzi Opeia (stage name of Moa Carlebecker) debuted in Melodifestivalen 2022, where she finished ninth in the final. Later that spring, she won the American Song Contest, as one of the songwriters for the entry “Wonderland“, performed by the artist AleXa.

In 2023, she returned to Melodifestivalen as one of the songwriters for Loreen‘s “Tattoo“, with which she won the Eurovision Song Contest.

Many artists are still waiting!

The new format of Melodifestivalen starting from 2024, with five sub-competitions and a total of 30 competing artists, is said to be the reason why this year there is a little delay in the announcements. Things are going a little slower this year after the reshuffle, there is probably a risk that some won’t be informed until just days before the press conference. According to sources, there is no deadline. This is how it always is. People feel stressed and wonder when the news will come. But there is no deadline, except for the day when all the names are presented. It’s just for everyone to wait.

We remind you that Melodifestivalen 2023 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.

The list of artist that are reportedly participating at Melodifestivalen 2024 are:

  1. Lasse Stefanz
  2. Smash into pieces
  3. Dotter
  4. Liamoo
  5. Samir & Viktor
  6. Elecktra
  7. Cazzi Opeia
  8. Lisa Ajax

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”:

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the most loved Eurovision national final!

Source: Aftonbladet
Photo: Oscar Appelgren

Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not lose a thing of what’s happening Eurovision:

Sweden: Liverpool inspires Malmö on how Eurovision 2024 should be hosted, Karin Karlsson says!

/0 Comments/in , , /by

Karin Karlsson, who’s in charge of organising the event for Malmö municipality, was part of a group of people representing Malmö who travelled to Liverpool earlier this week, to discuss and evaluate the financial impact on Liverpool, after its hosting of the competition this year. As we had reported in one of our past articles, Liverpool grossed £55 million of profit, that was injected into the local economy and the numbers of visitors exceeded all expectations.

In an interview of Karin with Sveriges Radio, she gave her insight on how Liverpool and their hosting can inspire Malmö next year:

“It’s really inspiring how they worked to develop the brand in the whole city, that is a very very important learning for us to bring in this time. It was really strict last time we co-operated with the EBU and the broadcaster, Liverpool seemed to have pushed it a bit forward and used it more freely which had a marvelous affect on the city and the whole event.”

Malmö has been allocated with the same budget as the one they had back in 2013, a budget of just over €2.5 million for hosting and all the related activities, however, in real numbers this is a smaller budget than a decade ago, Karin comments on that:

“We will have exactly, almost the same budget this time, so with all the inflation the money is actually smaller this time. We will have to cooperate, this is the key factor for us this time, cooperate with companies in the city, all organisers. I think it’s going to be tough for us, we will make it but we need to do exactly the same as Liverpool has done.”

Despite all the challenges posed by the current worldwide inflation, Karin believes that they are in a better position than where they were the last time Malmö hosted the contest:

“We already know what this is, we are in a much better position than we were in last time. We can do it in another way from last time.”

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”:

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the most loved contest!

Source: Sveriges Radio

Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not lose a thing of what’s happening Eurovision:

Sweden: Samir & Viktor return to Melodifestivalen 2024 after six years of absense!

/0 Comments/in , , , /by

Aftonbladet and Torbjörn Ek did it again and just a while ago revealed new potential Melodifestivalen 2024 acts! Last year, Aftonbladet revealed 24 out of the 28 acts of Melodifestivalen 2023, even before SVT announced the line-up officially.

The Swedish duo Samir och Viktor make their return after six years of absence from the contest! The duo adds up to the potential lineup that will compete in the hopes of getting selected to represent Sweden next year, at the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Malmö, Sweden. They are more or less known to the fanbase, having competed more than once at Melodifestivalen in the past.

Who are Samir & Viktor?

Samir & Viktor have competed three times before in Melodifestivalen, in 2015 with “Groupie“, in 2016 with “Bada nakna” and in 2018 with “Shuffla“. The first two times they made it to the final via Second Chance, the third time they went directly to the final where they finished fourth, the duo’s best final position.

But the recession affected both of them with serious income losses, and this summer they chose to reunite and released the song “Skål” together, while they also appeared on this years last show of Allsång på Skansen with Victor Leksell.

Samir Badran, 33, fully invested in his new profession as a broker while Viktor Frisk, 28, continued as a lifestyle influencer while trying to launch a solo career in music. Now they are making their comeback to the contest, after six years!

According to sources, it seems that some record companies and music publishers have received word of mouth about songs and artists, but that SVT has not yet sent out that many official confirmations. As it is still quite early, things can change until the confirmation emails go out to the artists.

We remind you that Melodifestivalen 2023 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.

The list of artist that are reportedly participating at Melodifestivalen 2024 are:

  1. Lasse Stefanz
  2. Smash into pieces
  3. Dotter
  4. Liamoo
  5. Samir & Viktor

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”:

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the most loved Eurovision national final!

Source: Aftonbladet

Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not lose a thing of what’s happening Eurovision:

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

/0 Comments/in , , , /by

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:

 

View this post on Instagram

 

A post shared by Melfest Live (@melfestlive)

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”: 

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the most loved Eurovision national final! 

Source: Melfest Live / SVT

Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not lose a thing of what’s happening Eurovision: 

Sweden: The first names of Melodifestivalen 2024! | Four acts are reportedly coming back to the contest!

/0 Comments/in , , , /by

Aftonbladet’s Torbjörn Ek, revealed a couple of minutes ago the first 4 potential Melodifestivalen 2024 acts! 

Usually, they manage to guess most of the artists that compete each year in the national selection procedure of Sweden for Eurovision Song Contest. 

After this year, when Aftonbladet revealed 24 out of the 28 acts of Melodifestivalen 2023, last year around this period of time, even before SVT announced the line-up officially, the first contestant names for Melodifestivalen 2024 just started to spring up. These artists are adding to the potential lineup that will compete in the hopes of getting selected to represent Sweden next year, at the Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Malmö, Sweden.  

The following artists are, more or less known to the fanbase, each of them having competed more than once at Melfest in the past. 

The rock band “Smash into pieces” 

The experienced rock band “Smash into pieces”, formed in 2008 and since then they have released seven studio albums, are making their comeback at Melodifestivalen, after their massive success this year with the song “Six Feet Under“! Apart from their participation at Melodifestivalen 2023, the band’s guitarist Benjamin Jennebo, had participated as a writer back in 2020, as he co-wrote the song “Troubled waters” which was performed by Victor Crone and made it directly to the final. 

Dotter

Dotter , or Johanna Jansson , 36, as her real name is, competed in 2018 with “Cry” which went out in her heat, in 2020 she came second with “Bulletproof” and in 2021 she finished fourth with “Little tot“. Since then, she has had time to both become a mother and release music in Swedish, but according to information to Aftonbladet, the competition song next year will involve English lyrics once more.

Liamoo

Liamoo , or Liam Cacatian Thomassen , 26, will also appear for the fourth time next year. Liamoo won “Idol” in 2016 and debuted in Mello in 2018 with “Last breath” which finished sixth, in 2019 he competed in a duet with Hanna Ferm and came third with “Hold you” and in 2022 he finished fourth with “Bluffin“. According to information to Aftonbladet, he was also in the final discussions before last year’s competition.

Lasse Stefanz

Lasse Stefanz, with frontman Jönsson, aged 67, has competed once before in the Melodifestivalen, in 2011 with “En blick och nänting händer“, which went out in the second chance.

According to sources, it seems that some record companies and music publishers have received word of mouth about songs and artists, but that SVT has not yet sent out that many official confirmations. As it is still quite early, things can change until the confirmation emails go out to the artists.

We remind you that Melodifestivalen 2023 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. 

The list of artist that are reportedly participating at Melodifestivalen 2024 are:

  1. Lasse Stefanz
  2. Smash into pieces
  3. Dotter
  4. Liamoo

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, 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”: 

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the most loved Eurovision national final! 

Source: Aftonbladet 

Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not lose a thing of what’s happening Eurovision: 

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

/0 Comments/in , , , /by

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”:  

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the most loved Eurovision national final!  

Source: Melodifestivalen/SVT  

Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not lose a thing of what’s happening Eurovision:  

Sweden: 2624 songs submitted for Melodifestivalen 2024!

/0 Comments/in , , /by

Today 15/9 was the last day of application for Melodifestivalen 2024. Through the contest’s social media accounts, SVT posted that the submission window had been closed! A total of 2624 songs were submitted, a tad less than the number of submissions SVT received last year!

Last year, around 2824 applications were submitted to the competition. The final list of Melodifestivalen participants will be published later this year, between end of November and beginning of December.  

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”:  

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the most loved Eurovision national final!  

Source: Melodifestivalen/SVT  

Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not lose a thing of what’s happening Eurovision:  

Sweden: Submission window for Melodifestivalen 2024 closed!

/0 Comments/in , , /by

As we had already reported in one of our past articles, today 15/9 was the last day of application for Melodifestivalen 2024. SVT now informs all the hopefuls that the submission window had been closed. 15 of the proposals submitted will be selected by a professional jury, while 15 more will be invited by SVT to directy participate at the heats. 

Last year, 2824 applications were submitted to the competition. The final list of Melodifestivalen participants will be published later this year, between end of November and beginning of December. 

It seems like Loreen’s success in the contest that brought Sweden their 7th victory, but also post-contest, led so many artist to submit their song for next year’s Melodifestivalen in the hopes of representing Sweden. One of these submissions will be selected next March to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest.

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”: 

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the most loved Eurovision national final! 

Source: Melodifestivalen/SVT 

Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not lose a thing of what’s happening Eurovision: 

Eurovision 2024: The goal is to shorten the Eurovision broadcast, Per Blankens confirms!

/0 Comments/in , , /by

As we have previously reported, Christer Björkman returns as competition producer for Eurovision 2024, together with “American Idol” producer Per Blankens, completing now the Eurovision 2024 core team for Malmö.

As reported by Aftonbladet‘s Törbjorn Ek, Björkman is currently in Berlin for meetings with the EBU. On Tuesday, Björkman‘s and Blanken‘s new roles will be presented both to the reference group, which is the competition’s highest decision-making body, and to all the countries’ heads of delegation who are on site to participate in a workshop about the competition, according to the plans.

Back in June, we had reported reveals by Aftonbladet that the Swedish production, led by executive producer Ebba Adielsson, was planning to shorten the Eurovision broadcast by a full hour.

According to Per Blankens, speaking to Aftonbladet, the cut in the duration of the show is high on the agenda of 2024:

“There may be reasons why the competition is so long, you have to have time to collect and compile all the public votes. But it will be late for those who live in the east and also for us who live in central Europe, so the program has everything to gain from being made shorter, but without shredding or just tearing it off.”

Another rumor circulating among Eurovision fans is that SVT is thinking about introducing some form of Second Chance in the European competition as well.

Per Blankens comments:

“I haven’t heard of it at all so I can’t comment on it, it’s nothing I know about”

Christer Björkman laughs when he hears about the rumour:

“I don’t think that’s really what we’re aiming for. We have a format that is very good and alive and many of the big changes happened in 2013 and 2016 in tonality and with the voting. I don’t think a lot of adjustments are needed right now. What we have to work on is trying to make a tight broadcast, efficient good television that doesn’t take up too much time. That is our big goal.”

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”:

Stay tuned on Eurovisionfun for all the news regarding the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, in Malmö!

Source: Aftonbladet

Follow us in all our social media, so that you’ll not lose a thing of what’s happening Eurovision: