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Melodifestivalen 2020 Semi-Final 1 takes place this weekend in Linköping.
Seven acts will take to the stage. Two will advance direct to the final in Stockholm. Two will live to fight another day in the duels at Andra Chansen. And three acts will advance no further than the stage of the Saab Arena.
SVT has now released 1-minute snippets of all the songs that you can listen to.
Melodifestivalen 2020 Semi-Final One
Song Snippets
Click on each act to hear their entry.
- The Mamas – “Move”
- Suzi P – “Moves”
- Robin Bengtsson – “Take a Chance”
- Malou Prytz – “Ballerina”
- OVÖ – “Inga problem”
- Sonja Aldén – “Sluta aldrig gå”
- Felix Sandman – “Boys with Emotions”
Clips from rehearsals will follow tonight at 21:00 CET. They’ll give a first impression of the staging for Saturday night’s semi-final. The full songs will be revealed during the performances.
Semi-Final 1 running order
The Mamas will kick off the competition with “Move”. They’re followed by upcoming star Suzi P with “Moves” in second and Eurovision veteran Robin Bengtsson with “Take a Chance” in third.
Fourth on stage is Malou Prytz. She’s back for her second attempt with her entry “Ballerina”. OVÖ are on fifth with “Inga problem”. Melfest veteran Sonja Aldén follows in sixth with “Sluta aldrig gå”.
And closing the semi-final is Felix Sandman. He placed runner-up in 2018 and ends Semi-Final 1 with “Boys with Emotions”.
Saturday night will also be the first road test for this year’s stage. It is the biggest in the history of Melodifestivalen and boasts innovative lighting technology. In a change from recent years, there is no LED wall, and instead there will be projections on a huge fabric backdrop.
International fans will be able to watch the show live through SVT Play. The show starts at 8pm CET.
Who are you most excited for in Melodifestivalen 2020 Semi-Final 1? Let us know in the comments below!
Get more Sweden Eurovision 2020 news here.
Photo Credit: SVT
Sweden…. 93 points! ???
Felix look like caillou
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Felix performance is awesome!
Gut feel is Malou and Robyn will be direct to final, Felix and the Mamas Andra Chanson….
Sweden again shows it is an ESC powerhouse!
Ballerina is somewhat promising but the overall semi is extremely boring.
Sweden, you will definitely take a spot in the final. At least send a good song so the qualification won’t be undeserved.
Vanessa Amorosi – “Lessons of Love” and Malou Prytz – “Ballerina” are my two favorites nowadays.
I never really comment, but my personal ranking from the snippets:
1) The Mamas
2) Malou Prytz
3) Felix Sandman
4) OVÖ
5) Suzi P
6) Robin Bengtsson
7) Sonja Aldén
I have read that some people call ALL Swedens,Norways,Denmarks,Estonias,Latvias,Finlands,Australias,Lithuanias,Icelands songs generic and commercial. Im really tired of these people now. Cant you comment on other sites instead? All songs cant be generic and commercial. Its impossible! Should we all have african drums? or middle eastern singing ? I dont get it.
Felix Sandman – “Boys with Emotions” is sizzlingly erotic in my view
Robin has this one in the bag it’s a good song can see this going well into the final it could be the Swedish winner it’s cool
Typical MF stuff. Nothing terrible, but nothing standing out either. I’m skipping this one on Saturday.
Who asked?
“Who are you most excited for in Melodifestivalen 2020 Semi-Final 1? Let us know in the comments below!”
Angus asked. It’s literally the last line of the article. You’re just sour that not everybody agrees with you. You look foolish, Davve.
Nothing spectacular or memorable, the yearly generic Pop songs from Sweden. Basically… Spotify music
Same brainless comments
You just post the same brainless comment to everyone who doesn’t like what they hear.
My first opinion: (Not prediction)
DTF: Felix and Suzi P
AC: Mamas and OVO or Malou (can’t rlly choose)
Pretty decent songs! I’d love Malou directly to be in the final and the Mama’s or Felix as well. And maybe even OVÖ in andra chansen, it’s something different from what I’d expect Sweden to send. I was underwhelmed by Robin, but I didn’t like ”I Can’t Go On” either, so that’s not big loss for me
As usual with MF we have to wait until staging to really get it. Sometimes songs sounds Good from snippets but disappoints in staging and vice versa.
I can hear the potential for great stuff in four entries, and thats more than the first semi usually gets: Mamas, Malou, Sandman and Bengtsson. If staging is on point these 4 will make it through somehow..
But again, wait until staging!
they’re all garbage
If any of these were part of other NFs, they will be slaughtered
Over here, they r praised.
Hipocrisy in its finest.
haha dont watch is my tip
Then you are in good garbage company
I actually have 3 people I want to qualify I don’t hate any of those song s but I have to say that Robin his song disappointed me the most. Suzy P, Malou & Felix are my favs here. The Mamas would be the safest choice to send.
The song of Felix Sandman sounds like Billie Eilish (at least the chorus does). And Robin Bengtson’s sounds like every Shawn Mendes song ever.
Malou’s song is the best, not into the others. I hope the other semis are better. I don’t know what those journalists were thinking saying Robin was a potential winner and Malou was weak.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about Melfest is that you need to wait and see how it will look in TV before picking favorites. That said, snippets can be deceiving, but I appreciate what Felix is trying to do. The “non-chorus” will be divisive, but will also separate him from the pack. Curious to see how it will play along the 3 minutes.
Decent, well-polished songs. However none of these made me hit that play button again. So replay, replay, replay… No.
Sweden seems to be off to a good start! About 4 songs disappointed me but the rest I was pretty much fine with. Robin, Malou, The Mamas and Suzi P are my top 4~! Since Felix was the most hyped, I might just say what I thought. What was that “chorus”? It’s so bad… everything else before it was pretty good. I was enjoying the song until that “chorus” started. I really hope it doesn’t qualify to the finals or the second chance round. Unless the full version is somehow a masterpiece despite that “chorus”, I don’t want it to… Read more »
Well, obviously, most of the songs sound as expected in terms of the over-production and generally familiar sound etc. If you can accept that, some of these actually do it quite well. Malou’s seems strong and Robin’s seems interesting. I think, aside from Suzi’s, there’s nothing here I actually dislike.
I don’t think any of these songs would get into the top five of what we’ve heard from Norway so far but it’s a good start.
Felix Sand man. Malou and The mamas
I was never a big fan of Felix, but here he stands out. Love his ‘non-chorus’!
The 4 I want in the final that I know isn’t going to happen:
Malou Prytz
Felix Sandman
Suzi P
OVO or The Mamas
I had high hopes for Felix but his song sounds like a Troye Sivan reject… Anyways Malou and Suzy stand out of the rest even though I couldn’t remember any song nor melody after the first and second listen, only that those 2 stood out.. I’ll wait for the full songs I guess..
Going ti the final to see suzi p so vote her!
1) Felix
2) Sonja
3) Robin
4) The Mamas
5) no thx to the rest
‘Boys with Emotions’ actually sounds like something I prefer to every Eurovision winner since 2008. I am so pleasantly surprised. I love Felix and Sonja’s songs. I like Robin and The Mamas’ songs. How ironic, Sweden is my saving grace in this year’s NF season. I’ll gladly take it.
Sweden, please get Sonja at least to AC. It would be (will be lol) rather painful if someone like Malou got through and an actual musician like Sonja had no chance.
Sonja I dont take has Any chance. Third time with the same entry and sound. Plus her fanbase( if she has one) doesn’t vote..
She’s Good but okd fashioned schlager isn’t really a thing any more
Lina made it to the final so ints not true:)
Wasn¨t it different though?Lina had a different sound,and while it was schalger it was pretty modern. This is just Sonja sounding the same again. I’m not even sure she has a fanbase outside those who have her songs as wedding songs:)
I think it could be difficult for Sonja to go to AC … unless she is really emotional. Like Sanna whith Empty rooms and Felix last year.
LOVE suzi p from Spain
Felix’s song is meh but so was ‘If I Were Sorry’ so it will probably still win
Really hard to decide my winner of this semi with these clips but I wanna say I did not like Robins song in 2017 at all. I like this years entry much more. But I still don’t know how to feel about it. My top 3 are Malou, Robin and Felix in no specific order
Suzi p direkt till final!
Wow the Mamassss
People complaining about how unoriginal Spain’s song is… and now this. Everything sounds like someof the bestselling singers today, 0% genuine. I won’t bother listening to the whole songs. Well, the mammas are great at least.
This is a very strong semi….i think malou and robin to the final.
I guess it’s just me then but I’m honestly quite happy with the snippets. I like Felix and Robin, but my direct qualifiers would be Malou & The Mamas. Sweden is off to a great start in my opinion. 🙂
agreed, for now, we have the same dtf and ac songs.
My favorite is Suzi P.
Felix is so overrated, nothing special.
Robin sounds ok.
Malou and The Mama’s straight to the final, Robin & Felix to andra chansen.
Mamas direkt till final! I’m a sucker for gospel entries and oh boy, do they deliver. No winner alerts, but this is a solid semi. I’m a bit let down by Felix’s and Malou’s songs, but maybe I’ll change my mind after the live performances. Also, am I the only one getting Roxette’s “It Must Have Been Love” vibes from Sonja’s number?
My top 7 after first listen :
7.Sanja
6.OVO
5.Robin
4.Suzi
3.Felix
2.The Mamas
1.Malou
Most of them are so generic and boring!
Having that kind of pop song is fine, but all of them together makes it so boring to listen to…
Doesn’t make me emotional, doesn’t make me wanna dance, they all exist
I don’t know why Robin and Felix are favourites now
My biggest disappointment is Felix, whose 2018 entry made me cry and now I don’t feel anything
In my opinion, The Mamas should win this semi final
Then I don’t actually care which one of these songs qualify as well
All songs in every selection is generic because it has been done before. So whats your point with that? Spains song have been done before, Albanias song have been done before etc.
generic does not mean what you think it means lmao.
Based on that previous article I really expected more of Robin Bengtsson. I thought that was really boring, but I’ve never understood why people like Ed Sheeran either so I might just have bad taste. Malou Prydz was better than I thought, there’s a slight Margaret feel to it, especially in the way she pronounces things. I don’t feel like it’s a winner though. The Mama’s were great but it sounds like what I as a European think ‘American music’ sounds like. Not that that’s bad, but… Felix Sandman… On one hand I feel like it’s underwhelming, on the other… Read more »
Malou has the song with the biggest impact with the first listen, not surprisingly she and Felix are my finalists
Robin’s snippet is fine but it is a total let down compared to the current #1 Hit in Sweden, “Svag” by Victor Leskell. Both kinda acoustic pop but the difference is notorious to me and Svag is doing over 500k streams daily in Sweden so Idk.
I really like Felix’ snippet but need to hear more.
Also pleased to see some Urban/Trap in Swedish.
Victor Leksell was 13th in Idol and is not a great live artist. He is a better studio singer. And Melfest is for live singers so i dont get your point.
I think Alex means that Svag is a better song than Take a Chance. Not so much that one artist is better than the other in terms of singing talent. Personally, I haven’t heard Svag (yet) so cant speak on that.
Oh wow…. Based on hypes this is the most disappointing thing ever, based on the 1 minute clips. But hopefully they are much better live… I cannot understand from that one minute why Felix Sandman is the big favorite!! Are the rest of the semifinals that bad?!?
yes all 28 songs are bad and they are all a last place material in a semifinal.
And yet you bark at everyone who dares to not be impressed by the Norwegian selection.
I will not look at the comments on saturday. I want to have smile on my face before i watch 🙂
Oh the first semi of Norway was way better than this. 3 good songs and 1 okish song. 2nd semi was horrible though. Out of these clips there are only a couple of ok’ish songs. That said…. I need to hear the full versions of these songs because the 1 minute clips didn’t do anything. I might change my mind afterwards. For now only the Mamas sounded like something catchy, pleasent and fun…eventhough it still sounds like they have a gospel choir of a 100 people behind them. Oh and Robin Bengtsson is so far okish as well… But so… Read more »
Gotta listen to the full songs, but I think Sweden is off to a good start. In fact, their first semi will be the first NF I’m gonna watch this season. I’ve always been completely indifferent to Felix and I still couldn’t care less, so I think I’m qualified to say this: this could potentially turn out to be a very good song! If it’s the best one, he absolutely should win. Robin ain’t bad, need to hear it in full. Sonja has a style that just speaks to me so much, I still adore it, so it pains me… Read more »
We have age categories who votes so i feel Sonja get more points from the over 40s then under.
I think Robin is the best. But winning Melodifestivalen with that song? I don’t know. The snippet is too short and I need to see it live. The same goes for Felix. Bold song. I’s modern, I give Felix credit for that. Perhaps too modern for bringing to Esc . The Mama’s are screaming too much. I like Malou’s song but it sounds like Sia and that is not very smart.