We have passed the half way mark in Melodifestivalen 2024, and tonight we rolled on with heat 4 from Volvo CE Arena in Eskilstuna. Six new acts battled it out for two direct qualification spots into the grand final in Stockholm.
Winning the heat was Melfest veteran Danny Saucedo and “Happy That You Found Me”, and he can be happy that he found a heat win, because he has now done that all 5 times he has participated in Melfest. That is also a new Melfest record.
After the second round of voting it was Dotter and “It’s Not Easy To Write A Love Song” that got the second direct ticket for the final. Albin Tingwall and Scarlet progress to the final qualifying round next week.
Melodifestivalen 2024 heat 4 results
- Danny Saucedo – “Happy That You Found Me” – WINNER (direct to final)
- Dotter – “It’s Not Easy to Write a Love Song” – 84 points (direct to final)
- Albin Tingwall – “Done Getting Over You” – 63 points (final qualification)
- SCARLET – “Circus X” – 60 points (final qualification)
- Lia Larsson – “30 km/h” – 49 points (out)
- Lasse Stefanz – “En sång om sommaren” – 48 points (out)
Running order of Melodifestivalen heat 4
- Albin Tingwall – “Done Getting Over You”
- Lia Larsson – “30 km/h”
- Dotter – “It’s Not Easy to Write a Love Song”
- SCARLET – “Circus X”
- Lasse Stefanz – “En sång om sommaren”
- Danny Saucedo – “Happy That You Found Me”
Format of Melodifestivalen 2024
30 acts participate in Melfest 2024 split into 5 heats of six acts each. The number 1 and 2 placed acts from each heat qualify directly to the grand final in Stockholm and the two lowest placed acts are finished in the competition. This make up for the first 10 acts qualifying for the grand final
Number 3 and 4 of each heat will have their fate decided in a Final Qualification held in connection with heat 5. The 10 songs in all will compete for 2 tickets to the grand final decided by the percentage of votes each entry got in their heat plus the amount of votes they get in the Final Qualification.
Who was your favourite tonight? Do you think any of these acts could go on to win the entire thing? Let us know in the comments below.
Poor Dotter, she won’t win 🙁 Her next song be like “It’s Not Easy to Win Melodifestivalen”!
Not a very exciting year for Melodifestivalen. It’s been more predictable than ever so far, with the known names going through even with the most mediocre songs. It seems like they’re trying to push the Norwegian twins considering that in their inability to think outside of their own schemes SVT always leaves their favorite act for last in the last semi, but I’ll be glad to be proven wrong, those two aren’t good singers or performers and there sure are better choices.
Medina is last in the last semi, not M&M
Danny Sausedo sounded so dated with same ‘Amazing’ 2012 hook for a winner of 4 heat.
Let Dotter compete in Eurovision finally, Sweden!
It would be sad for her to compete in ESC with her worst melfest entry 🙁 but well
Her worst entry was Little Tot
Not with that song… Bullet proof was amazing but this one wasn’t very good. I have my hopes for Medina this saturday! I really liked “In i dimman” and hope they will be as good or better this year!
I don’t know why everyone goes crazy about Dotter. I don’t like her voice, I don’t like her looks, I don’t like her music. I never liked her before and never will.
That’s what makes people interesting. We are all different. We like things another dislikes and dislikes things others like. Take you and me for example. You say you dislike Dotter in every way. I’m someone who loves Dotter’s music/voice and appearance. I think she is beautiful. Wife material.
Lets Unite……………
by music!!
uche uche, but wait!! ……………I think…………
Touchee, Bro or Sis!!
Love from the NLDs.
Lets go lets go!!
I liked Bulletproof. But none of her other songs. I thought she would be eliminated this year. The performance seemed like a desperate attempt at being Loreen…
heja,scarlet not directly in the final – it seems that sweden is scared.
😀
Sweden Melodifestivalen24: We go out all witchy.
Ireland: Avada Kedavra
I voted for them! They were easily the best and most interesting this semi.
For me, Dotter is leagues above anything else that we’ve heard and seen.
It’s the only entry (apart from a few Swedish ones that are chanceless anyway or have already been eliminated) that feels sincere and not generic but still mainstream.
Danny, Jacquline, Maria, Liamoo, Smash into Pieces all sound AI-generated, dated, and emotionless…
But I doubt Sweden will see this.
Exciting news: in Israel today the Eurovision team came to the studio to work on the song “October Rain” Apparently a new version of the song with different lyrics will be recorded today. It seems that Israel will eventually participate.
So much for “we’ll rather withdraw then change anything”
Avada Kedavra, I speak to destroy Ireland for the ESC24 win!!
Dancing in the Rain.
Heat 5 is the last hope for something solid. Let’s not pretend these are actually good songs.
Dotter all the way to Eurovision song contest thank you! Loved the staging. Her outfit didn’t remind me that much of Loreen. Loreen was like leatherish, while Dotter had wool that got stuck in a lawn mover. Nice with the piano, smoke and lights. The song was different, you didn’t know what to expect like you usually do like Danny’s song. In the finals the tv votes might change totally, there is no clear winner as it was last year. For example people who voted for Maria Sur might as well give their votes to Dotter (as I will) and… Read more »
Lol poeple must be blind to say Dotter outfir and Loreen are similar lol
Dotter all the way to Eurovision song contest thank you! Loved the staging. Her outfit that didn’t remind that much of Loreen. Loreen was like leather, while Dotter had wool that got stuck in a lawn mover ?. Nice with the piano, smoke and lights. In the finals the tv votes might change totally, there is no clear winner as it was last year. People who voted for Maria Sur might as well give their votes to Dotter (as I will) and the Jury will hopefully vote for Dotter. Danny is cute as always, charming and nice catchy chorus. But… Read more »
Dotter is Tesco Loreen
What a mean thing to say
Dotter all the way to Eurovision song contest thank you! Loved the staging. Her outfit that didn’t remind that much of Loreen. Loreen was like leather, while Dotter had wool that got stuck in a lawn mover ?. Nice with the piano, smoke and lights. In the finals the tv votes might change totally, there is no clear winner as it was last year. People who voted for Maria Sur might as well give their votes to Dotter (as I will) and the Jury will hopefully vote for Dotter. Danny is cute as always, charming and nice catchy chorus. But… Read more »
Really strong heat. Danny was great. I’d have liked Scarlet over Dotter as the other direkt til fina. 30 KM/H was super fun. I’d have liked to have seen it again in whatever we call the andra chansen round now
30 KM/H still my guilty pleasure. 🙂
Scarlet can easily win MGP lol
I think in the witchy genre as they are appearing to be.
Bambie Thug does this much beter.
Avada Kedavra
Or UMK
Scarlet blew away every single act in Melfest so far.
SCARLET was easily the best one in this Heat! <33
Why is M&M competing for Sweden?
It’s like Erling Haaland would play for Sweden or Zlatan would play for Norway.
They wrote the song together with Swedish songwriters and they work a lot in Sweden. And also because they wanted to.
Why did Swedish Victor Crone represent Estonia in Eurovision 2019? Lots of artists have been competing/trying to compete for other countries.
But Victor Crone is some random nobody, not like M&M who are worldfamous ultrapopular big superstars
Well, they are more connected to Sweden than Victor is to Estonia. And he was just the first example I came to think of. You sure they’re that famous?
Cause Norway don’t want them?
Och dom har aldrig sagt det. Det e bara i ditt huvud
Haaland we all know is english then?
I also think it’s a shame if M&M will represent Sweden, you should represent your country.
My guess is that they want to get more connected to the very successful Swedish music industry. The have conquored Norway now they want the rest of the world and Sweden is the road to get there.
Danny Saucedo really stood out from the rest (even Dotter). His song is very nice, love it already. And the staging was effective and elevated the song. He has a natural charisma in performing. Now Dotter is a really good artist, love all her songs (outsider Mello). This song tonight was different from her usual style and not that strong. I felt her performance got her through to the final. She was emotional and natural. Well done to both! Regarding Scarlet, not my thing. I usually like weird or very different songs but i coud not root for them tonight,… Read more »
Agreed about Danny and Dotter but I liked Scarlet.
The uptemp beat in the 2nd half is nice.
Only the first part of the song didnt convince me.
I can’t decide if Danny’s staging is boring or genius. Boring, because it is only him, no choreography or anything and the stage look a bit cheap to be honest. Genius because Sweden usually sends highly choreographed staging where every movement is rehearsed in detail. But Danny is just himself. He trusts his experience and showmanship and he looks very relaxed and sponteneous and like he is just having fun. Boring or genius? It is definately a risk for him!
I would love so much that we could sent Scarlet to Eurovision but it gonna probably never happen…
Thankfully ?
Wow, now im almost ashamed to be Swedish. Weve done it again, almost all Swedes are so tone deaf that the boring pop songs go to the final as usual every year. They hate songs that stand out the most, but the Europeans love them. The same thing happened to Loreen in 2017 when she lost to a Shawn Mendes wannabe. We already know now that Scarlet (who really deserved the last final place) will be eliminated in Finalkvalet
I still get so angry thinking about the 2017 Andra Chansen and it’s been 7 years (and I was watching from the US)
Dotter can still win
Well, a song that finished second in their heat has never won Mello. So if she did she would be the first one ever. But nothing is impossible I guess.
A song that didnt win it’s semi won in 2004, 2013 and 2019.
Nope. Not in Melodifestivalen.
Go to Wikipedia yourself and check how the winners of Mello placed in their heats those years. Then you’ll see that 2004 and 2019 they placed first in their heats. Like all other years.
2013 is the only exception because Robin placed 3rd and went through “the second chance”. But it has never happened that someone who placed second in their heat has won. Not once in the 22 years that there’s been heats.
No act has ever won being second in the heat. But someday that ceiling can be broken. I mean up to 2013 no song that qualified from Andra Chansen won Mello
Problem with Dotter is that she is beloved by juries and fans,but not so much by the audience. Not sure if this new style will change that.
I love her but she can’t even win this heat so it’s impossible for her to win the whole thing
I love Dotter past tracks at Melodifestivalen and It’s Not Easy to Write a Love Song is good and well written, but all I could see in her performance was too much effort, too much planning yet full of clichés… A mix of Cornelia and Loreen on stage. And it was not memorable for something as such.
I’ve heard her say a few times in interviews she had so much vision for how she wanted to stage and perform it, and it wasn’t bad staging, but it’s mad how influenced it seemed by Loreen and Cornelia. Loreen doesn’t own lying down on something, and Cornelia doesn’t own that style of camerawork, but I was expecting a lot more of a vision from Dotter.
Dotter very overrated sorry
Underrated*
A shame Scarlet didn’t make it to the final. Danny’s song and performance is pretty good, but no winner for me. I think Dotter’s song is beautiful, but she’s overdoing her movements and mimics. I can see Danny top 3 in the final though. And if he wins it’s because it’s Danny not because of the song. And then he better think about some other staging and clothes. Next week is the last heat.. Come on Marcus and Martinus and Medina!
Dannys entry, staging and performance were amazing tonight. I wouldn’t change a thing. He is charismatic! Will he win? Not sure but surely a contender for the crown.
Well going by that logic then you can say Loreen won cause she was Loreen
Scarlet deserved to go DTF, I don’t get it…
I loved it personally, the most interesting and impactful of the night.
Danny, Dotter, basically the big favorites DTF no surprise, but Dotter wasn’t among the 2 best of the night imo, sorry really but really nothing against her but her performance was disappointing and these backing vocals so loud really disturbing…
So as apparently Scarlet in Malmo seems impossible now ty Sweden, my hopes are on Medina more than ever.
Danny was 2012 all over again…. the song really felt uoriginal…and the staging was nothing to cheer about either. Dandi dansa was way better in my opinion! Dotter actually had a good song, but I couldnt help feel that she was going all in for becoming CorneliaJacobs.2 this time around…so despite a good song, not a very original entry at all. Scarlet was said to be the hardest song ever in MF by some… barely… pure pop feeling. No hardness at all. I still think this song might grow on me…but it was overall a bit disappointing. Albin, struggled with… Read more »
For me Dotter and Scarlet were the standouts. Dotter has a very natural charisma that makes whatever she’s performing feel expensive and with Scarlet I immediately felt the fantasy . I thought Danny was giving dated.
Lia should have gone through and Dotter should be out!
That’s why snippets don’t do justice, the heats are so much better live.
I think tonight was the first real competetive heat with two potential winners in both Danny and Dotter. Yes, I think both gave me winner wibes, even if Danny had a dress down Saturday.
Though I loved Scarlett and would loved if they made ut, but ok..
Overall great fun
Wow, such a surprise!!!!!! Not, I think everyone was expecting them to qualify
Well, that was underwhelming. No winner candidate in sight and it’s already week four! Next week better deliver. I love Danny but this year’s song and performance was tired and uninspired. Dotter going to the final was undeserved. Poor thing was sick with obvious voice issues but I don’t like her getting through on sing back… If there aren’t enough good songs we don’t need five heats. It is just a festival of mediocre at this point.
Sing back? It was all live..
Very few artists in melodifestivalen do all the vocals live and alone. Dotter was helped by both a backing singer behind stage (Melanie Wehbe) and prerecorded backing vocals. She lip synced parts of the performance because her voice did not hold as she was sick.
Obvious voice issues?? She killed the vocals, she slayed
If you watch the performance it is obvious she lip synced parts of the song. The “slaying” vocals was performed by Melanie Wehbe singing backing vocals behind stage (no secret, she also helped with Lia Larsson’s vocals) and the prerecorded vocals (all allowed in melodifestivalen). As I said, she was sick and could not help it – but I have not seen anyone lip syncing go to the finals before this and I feel it is undeserved.
Congrats Dotter ! Hope to see Scarlet in the final as well.
Dotter going DTF while barely being able to talk. Iconic.
Barely able to talk? How come you say it?
Because her doctor said she was not allowed to speak in order to save her vocal chords. She cancelled all interviews and press meetings
Poor Lasse, last but no surprise there. He did good.
Scarlet only 60? Tragic…
I’m gonna be so gutted if Scarlet don’t make it to the final. Kinda surprised Albin managed to squeak through.
He came third, so he did not squeak! Good for him.
I wasn’t paying much attention, clearly 😛
(I know he didn’t “squeak through” as such, I just forgot about the song as soon as it was over)
Albin squeaking is a pleasant thought, so don’t fret.
Some thoughts:
The beat throughout Albin’s song was overwhelming, the song had a nice Oasis-tinge to it though
Danny and Dotter were both very underwhelming, would have rather had Scarlet and Albin go through, Lia Larsson too actually.
Everyone’s hoping Marcus & Martinus are bringing a winner, I’m actually wondering whether Medina could bring something epic. It’s not been a great year for Mello.
Also why did Carina say a few things in English today, at the very beginning and end?
Disagree. It’s been a great Mello year!
Also, Swedes switch to English when they don’t want their kids to understand what they are saying. That was the whole Carina bit
common thing in Sweden and probably a few other places that parents speak in English to each other to avoid their children overhearing conversations they don’t want them to hear.
Well, we have heard it before, how weak it is. We hear that every year. But all it takes is one song. That’s why we have heats. Much pressure is now on Marcus and Martinus and also Medina. But must it be “epic”? We won last year. The year after winning is especially weak. The songs are not bad, but we have no eurovision winner. If that’s what people are looking for. My hope is that someone can up-grade at last one step from what we have heard and seen these four weeks. I like Marcus and Martinus and Medina.… Read more »
If all it took was one song, they should just do an internal selection. Particularly in Sweden where Mello is supposed to be more than a national selection but a festival in it’s own right. It’s completely valid to voice an opinion that the songs seem weaker than some other years. Literally what is wrong with me wondering Medina bring something epic? I said it because I like them and that describes their style of music, and I’d like some great, sorry epic, songs in the final. I’m not saying it because I want/expect Sweden to win two years in… Read more »
Epic is a great word. Epic songs for me can win eurovision. But that’s me. In general eurovision fans have pretty high expectations when it comes to Sweden. Yes, it’s a festival in Sweden. And the songs that fans don’t like or call overrated get the chance to become hits in Sweden. And I agree that some years are weaker. This year is weaker. I agree. But last year was also weak and the year before that, but all it took was one song. And still Sweden is overrated. I’m just saying it’s just never enough..
Maybe issue is you expecting every song to be “epic? If you constantly expect songs to be epic you will be disappointed. Seems like international fans always expect these shows to be epic, to always deliever strong songs. But that is not the point. The point is to entertain people through music. Not every heat will be epic and not every year will be epic. If SVT wanted epic songs they could just choose 10 massive songs and let them fight
I, as a swede, think that of the 30 songs in Melfest the people selecting the songs think like this: 5 are supposed to have potential for a good results in ESC. The rest are there for other reasons: a place for a new artist to be seen and heard (example: Melina Borglowe), others for pure entertainment (Like Gunilla Persson) and then a groupd that is there to diversify (Lasse Stefanz, Scarlet, Engmans Kapell). So the 5-ish that is supposed to have ESC-potential (according to the people that selects the songs) are (this year): Liamoo, Maria Sur, Danny, Dotter and… Read more »
Carina was speaking Swenglish to parents of young children to give them secret messages. Like if the kids fell asleep watching Mello, you should carry them to their beds and then eat their candy, etc. But many schoolkids in Sweden speak great English, so…
In Sweden parent often use English when talking about things they don’t want little kids to know, so it was a joke about that, her speaking “Swenglish” with a mix of English and Swedish when talking about families.
Ageist that you need to be three to vote. Toddlerist.
Björn Gustafsson’s humour is funnier than Edward af Sillén’s, smarter too. He should have got the job for May, I think. Even if it meant no Petra. He is his own Petra.
He makes me laugh out loud!
I think he gets worse by each heat. Maybe if Edward wrote his scripts?
Oh, no! Please. He made me feel so embarresed tonight. The joke was fun for 20 sec and then it was all downhill.
Marcus and Martinus better come with an unforgettable song next week cause so far Melodifestivalen has been very uninspiring and middle of the road…
Swedish journalist Tobbe Ek was asked in a podcast yesterday if he has heard any of the songs in the last heat, and he said that he has. He didn’t want to say too much but he seemed to think that both Marcus & Martinus and Medina are very good. And that it’s likely the winner will be from the last heat. He has obviously not seen the performances though.
How do you expect them to come with unforgettable song when last year they came with most generic song ever?
This heat was actually a LOT better live! Scarlet gave a good vocal performance twinned with great visuals and dancers akin to Bambie Thug! Danny’s performance didn’t have any dancers, which was the main letdown. However, the visuals were amazing and more importantly, HIS VOICE HASN’T AGED. It’s like this was composed RIGHT AFTER Amazing. I have a feeling the lyrics are referring to how he has made a comback in English. He really did well with the vocals I thought! Dotter was okay, a bit breathy here and there. Lia was fun but didnt actually sing much. But she… Read more »
Albin was also cute!
Don’t repeat the crime of “Cry”. Just don’t. Otherwise, it will be fine.
I don’t know Steps well enough to which of their songs the piano undertune of Danny’s song reminds of, but it is one of them. This is my least favourite part of the song.
Last Thing On My Mind! 🙂
(That was the name of the Steps song, I think)
Which I think itself was heavily inspired by ABBA, so I will allow it.
Dannys reprise made me chills. Better than original staging for me. I felt winning vibes…
I agree that the winner reprise was better! The performance producer/creator is doing something wrong when the song is better without the original performance.
I’m so happy that Danny’s so happy.
He’s so happy that he found it (the fifth heat win)
That was the biggest favourite in all 4 heats to win. Let’s see if it’s Dotter or Scarlet who follows along 🙂
Danny’s staging is gorgeous
Scarlet is a visual feast
Lia has got a banging track
Those were my highlights. A really enjoyable heat.
Dotter stans downvoting those of us who don’t have her in our top, it’s just our opinion. Happy to discuss in replies but unless we’re being rude/unjust (which simple rankings obvs aren’t) I’d downvote really necessary?!?
Hopefully next week we will see the winner song of this years Melfest (Marcus & Martinus).
They will definately win.
Norwegian twin(k)s won’t win in Sweden. Swedes only let it happen.