All 28 Melodifestivalen 2021 entries officially became available to purchase and stream last weekend. And as usual, the contest has flooded Sweden’s official single chart.
The latest Sverigetopplistan top 100 published on Friday 5 March features a total of 22 songs from the country’s Eurovision selection process.
Of these, three have broken the top 10, with Tusse being the highest-charting finalist.
Melodifestivalen 2021 in the charts
Tusse enters the chart at #8 with “Voices”. However, he’s not the highest place Melfest act. That honour goes to Emil Assergård and “Om allting skiter sig”. Despite being eliminated in semi-final three, Emil currently sits at #7 in the chart, climbing from #21. However, it should be noted that the chart runs from Friday to Thursday. This means that Emil enjoyed a lead of almost two days over Tusse. As with all the direct finalists, “Voices” was only commercially released after semi-final four on Saturday night.
Even though he was dominating the Spotify charts earlier in the week, Eric Saade must make do with #10 in the overall chart.
The only other Melodifestivalen act to crack the top 20 is WAHL feat Sami. They too were eliminated earlier in the competition. “90-talet” sits at #15.
You can check out the full chart positions of Melodifestivalen 2021 acts below.
Sweden’s Sverigetopplistan 5 March 2021
7. Emil Assergård and “Om allting skiter sig” (up from #21)
8. Tusse “Voices” (new entry)
10. Eric Saade “Every Minute” (new entry)
15. Wahl feat. Sami “90-talet” (down from 13)
21. Danny Saucedo “Dandi Dansa” (new entry)
24. Alvaro Estrella “Bailá Bailá” (up from 49)
25. The Mamas “In The Middle” (new entry)
27. Dotter “Little Tot” (new entry)
31. Clara Klingenström “Behöver inte dig idag” (new entry)
35. Lillasyster “Pretender” (down from #33)
41. Lovad “Allting är precis likadant” (new entry)
42. Anton Ewald “New Religion” (new entry)
43. Efraim Leo “Best Of Me” (new entry)
50. Charlotte Perrelli “Still Young” (new entry)
55. Klara Hammarström “Beat of Broken Hearts” (up from #82)
62. Eva Rydberg & Ewa Roos “Rena rama ding dong” (down from #54)
65. Arvingarna “Tänker inte alls gå hem” (new entry)
67. Paul Rey “The Missing Piece” (up from #87)
77. Patrik Jean “Tears Run Dry” (down from #62)
83. Kadiatou “One Touch” (up from #97)
85. Sannex “All Inclusive” (new entry)
98. Frida Green “The Silence” (new entry)
Of course, the Melodifestivalen 2021 winner won’t be determined by the charts. Nevertheless, they can potentially offer an insight as to what songs the Swedish public are backing.
What do you think? Do you agree with the chart rankings? How did your favourites do? Let us know in the comments below.
Why is Dotter so underrated?
Because her song is not as good as last year…
The reason that Tusse and even Emil are up there is because their songs grows, they sing them well and they have songs that can be played on repeat several times.
Eric on the other hand has a modern song but man you get so tired of it after 2-3 listens and the fact that the dude doesn’t have any good vocals makes it even worse. Sure I still want Eric to win Melodifestivalen but I will not listen to his song because I am already tired of it haha.
I’m rooting for Eric, seriously. The song is catchy, the staging is very original and he has an amazing stage presence. It could do very well at Eurovision. This contest is about show. I don’t get the hype with Tusse and I’m hoping he doesn’t get high with juries (I don’t dislike the song, but I don’t think he will stand out at ESC…).
not them streaming this basic flavorless song… c’mon sweden do better lol
the irony of Sweden picking a Love Love Peace Peace song if Tusse gets chosen…I think juris would be all over this (like they are with every song from Sweden) but this might struggle with public voting at Eurovision
Ten is the magic number here. I think if Eric Saade has more than a ten point cushion from the jury vote, Eric will win melodifestivalen.
If I must be more specific (as if anyone cares) about why I like the SONG is the rythm. The verses and the repeat of a “million voices” in the chorus has such a nice rythm and is such an ear worm. And when performed it gets elevated by the performance. A sob story is not why I like it.
What you do on stage and how you interact with people infront of the camera is so much of an importance. If you are left cold and the artist is not liked then it can turn really bad. Benjamin and Robin was to much like robots imo and cringy at times. I really supported Eric with Popular ha ha, but in some odd way his voice has gotten worse and worse. How is that possible? Now it’s so bad that I can’t enjoy Every minute as much as I would like to. I think Eric could go the same way… Read more »
I can’t stand songs about “the haters”.
Same it’s so cringe
right? it’s getting tiring.
I really hope Tusse doesn’t win Melfest. He’ll end up being Benjamin Ingrosso 2.0 (doing well with juries but then getting crucified by televoters) if he goes to Eurovision. Sweden would be much better off sending either Eric Saade, Dotter, or The Mamas to Eurovision. All three of them have much stronger songs and would give Sweden a much better Eurovision result than Tusse. (Dotter is my personal favorite and I think she’ll do incredibly well with both Eurovision televoters and juries)
I agree with everything you just said, but I just want to emphasize I *do like* Tusse himself. He seems really nice and I would want him to compete with a stronger song. Voices is a decent. Actually, it’s much less bland than what Estonia will likely pick tomorrow. Still, both Sweden and Tusse can do even better.
What’s similar between Tusse and Benjamin? Their songs and performance couldn’t be more opposite. We can’t know how Tusse would do with televote or juries yet.
Benjamin had special stage and was him doing moves for 3 minute. Eric is more close to that if we compare to this Melfest
Oh my.. Tusse and Voices is a much warmer song and performance than Ingrosso’s though..
I love Dotter, but The Mamas, no no no
I’m not hoping for Tusse to win, but there’s no way he’ll do as bad as Benjamin with the televote. Benjamin came off really aloof and borderline arrogant in the staging, and a fair amount of viewers were confused as to whether he was in the same space as everyone. Tusse is a lot more approachable and the song itself is more anthemic – he’d probably finish mid table with the televote.
Go Alvaro!!!
yes go home
Why fans are acting this way against Sweden is beyond me. Are you some kind of experts to say that an entry is liked only because of the person and not the song?? What IF people actually do like the song as well? Like me. And I’m sure others do that as well, and will. Maybe that’s why Tusse is doing so well? Still they call Voices jury bait.. What’s it gonna be?? Can’t you make up your mind about it? It really is such a questionable behaviour! I support Dotter and Tusse. I really hope one of them will… Read more »
Oh yes! Soooo muuch better. And with a message in them actually. They are not written by a genious, but I can’t find many songs that are in this years eurovision so far. So it will not stand out as exceptionally bad. But Eric’s IS really bad.
lol intercourse haha 😀
Look, I think it’s fair to say that neither song has great lyrics so you have a to focus on stage show and vocals. I think in terms of stage show Eric’s song is more interesting but, I think it could be a Benjamin Ingrosso 2.0. I really liked Benjamin in 2018 but I have think the fact that people didn’t know if he was on the same stage as the other acts and how he was on his own didn’t sit well wtih televoters. Imo televoters underrated tf out of him bit I suppose juries overrated a bit. I… Read more »
I actually liked quite a few entries in this year’s Melfest. The obvious ”full package” for ESC would be Dotter – she sings well, her song has a strong message, the staging is well done (totally unrelated to the message, though, but I’m not complaining much) and she gives me the vibes of someone who could do well with both the juries and the televote. Tusse has a decent, well executed inspirational mid-tempo power ballad, but come on, it’s basically on the same level as Jessica Andersson’s song of similar characteristics. It’s good, but not great. The juries would eat… Read more »
Tusse is a very talented guy and his story is very emotional indeed. His song, also, is not very bad but he definitely can do much better if we think about how beautiful his voice is and his stage presence. Even though Dandi Dansa is my favourite song, I think Sweden will do better in eurovision if they send Eric or after him Dotter or Mamas. About Eric, everything about his entry is not limited to eurovision- standars so he will probably stand out. Plus Popular is a very famous eurovision act so random people who watch eurovision could remember… Read more »
I know this might sound a bit controversial but I’d love it if two jury countries just decided to give zero points to tusse and give the douze points to Eric. For the greater good.
Yeah, that would be awesome
yikes not you wanting the juries to sabotage tusse’s basic song for eric’s basic song
The thing with Tusse is not only his story! It’s that Tusse overall is warm and inviitng, while Dotter and Eric comes off as cold and dark. We can’t relate to them and for Mello you have to relate! That is why Tusse will win and we will have another year of “Sweden, 55 points”, while ESC fansites will take joy in calling us Jury darlings and Swedish media will once again come up with shady excuses like “Eastern Europe” don’t like that”. The only thing that can stop him is if the juries give him low score, but frankly… Read more »
I can see Eastern European juries at melodifestivalen rigging it for Eric and I’d love to see it.
Tell me if this is not the best running order ever (christer take notes):
1. Mamas
2. Tusse
3. Dotter
4. Danny
5. Paul
6. Evas
7. Anton
8. Klara/Efraim
9. Charlotte
10. Eric
11. Arvingarna
12. Alvaro
Also, all of the jury countries should be from Eastern Europe.
But Clara is gonna win against the Evas :/
Why tusse second?
I will probably get a lot of thumbs down for this opinion however I can’t help but want Sweden to vote for Danny Saucedo with “Dandi Dansa” to go to Eurovision. I won’t lie it has been a grower since the first time I heard the song. There is something about the song which I find very catchy and you can’t deny his whole performance at Melodifestivalen is first class plus his personality shines in this song. I also think it would be awesome to see a Swedish language song be at Eurovision for the first time since 1998. I… Read more »
Here is an upvote (I personally try to avoid downvotes unless someone is just writing something nasty).
As for Danny, I’ve also found myself singing it to myself over and over again. Personally I would love to see Danny finally go to Eurovision. While I don’t think this is his year, I’m fully in support of a Swedish language song at Eurovision (I wish all countries made more of an effort to send their own national language songs to the contest, but I understand that it isn’t as appealing for viewers).
I totally agree with you about Danny and countries sending songs in their own language to Eurovision. When it comes to Danny song then I personally think it has this memorable hook to the song and it does make you want to toe tap to the beat of the song which has to be a good sign. When it comes to countries sending songs in their own languages then I would definitely champion that idea because hearing singers sing in their fluent language can sound absolutely sensational because you feel their emotions plus sometimes when songs are translated and sung… Read more »
I would absolutely happy if Dotter did go to Eurovision because it is a very well written song and it is placed number two in my Melodifestivalen song however I have to be honest I’m not really a fan of Eric song because the part he keep repeating “Oh Nanananana” does get on my nerves but I do think he is a good music artist but I think his song let him down. Funny enough I think “Sting” was a criminal underrated song however it was up against some tough songs that year.
I really wish this song didn’t feel like a washed down version of “Human” cause Tusse absolutely deserves a better song.
I’m kinda rooting for him to not win this year, come back in following years and win then with a much better song. It’s pretty common for Melfest to work like that anyways and I wish him the best either ways, as much as I wish this wasn’t the song he’d win with.
Meanwhile, Evas are leading the YouTube views 🙂
That’s cool, but I think that’s more because that song was out longer due to the direct finalist not getting their songs out on YouTube until all four semi finals are over.
I would like to argue that the live version sounds far better than the official audio. It feels like they abused the autotune on the mp3 version to the point that the charm doesn’t come through.
Eric will probably stroll past them on Youtube soon enough.
I lowkey would not be mad if the Evas win!! They are awesome!
I think Tusse is a fantastic performer, and he is an amazing vocalist. With that said, the song is distinctly average and is the sort of song that would score 50 points on the televote and would just get lost. I’m personally rooting for Dotter and Eric Saade, I’m not ruling The Mama’s out yet either!
Ewwwww not this song … please.. the singer is fire but this song is SO average
not this
As a swede, I can say That the only thing who could stop Tusse from going to Rotterdam is the juries. Tusse is known from Swedish Idol, where he won, so he is not unknown for the swedish public. I find “Voices” decent but I think Tusse is better than the song itself. Here is the main reason why Sweden will pick Tusse: They like HIM. In The semifinal, where he qualified for the final, he basically told us his lifestory. A young guy, coming to Sweden as a refugee, bullied during school and moving around to different families for… Read more »
ok now I get the hype, it’s basically around the story, which is sad and sending love to their him, but still kinda unfair, I don’t think they should be mentioning their personal life during the show, keep it down to music alone. 🙁 hope the juries put him like 4th or something..:(
I hope so too!
What if they place him first or second?
Or just give Eric a 15 point cushion in the jury vote since the televote difference won’t be more than ten. I think that could very well happen since Eric’s song and staging is the most jury friendly I have ever experienced.
So a TIX situation….
Honestly its not bad in a kinda bad year for MFest but I feel like Dotter deserves it way more
Bra sammanfattning. Min bild är att svenskarna föredrar Tusse. Dotter tävlar inte mot elva andra bidrag. Hon tävlar mot Bulletprof. Artister som haft ett succebidrag har svårt när de kommer tillbaka nära inpå. Tänker på Ace Wilder, Mariett, Yohio mfl. När artisterna kommit med nya låtar så blir besvikelsen stor om det inte låter likadant typ. Synd för dotter. Hon skulle ha störst chans i ESC tror jag och har flest internationella fans.
She really does have a huge non-Swedish following which is why it is, in a way, too bad that she is so underestimated at home. You are also spot on with respect to previous successful acts having trouble winning when they return to Melo. Still, Sanna Nielsen did manage to pull it off eventually. Here’s to hoping.
In light of the end result with Norway, I keep trying to tell fans to have an open mind and not get so fixated on one singer from a national final. In this case, I know this fandom loves Dottir, but There is a possibility she might not win and we have to prepare for that. I don’t want to see a massive temper tantrum thrown to any melfest winner other than dottir like we saw Tix won over Keiino. But ultimately, this is out of our hands. We can’t control what the Swedish populace will do anymore than we… Read more »
Totally agree. While I am hopeful, I am fully prepared for her not to win, and I can live with that. I think it’s too bad Tix had so much ire directed his way.
Malou <3 I think juries are essential especially to prevent things like this.
hahah yes I know haha, but I sometimes still love an artist and the song even if they don’t have a deeper meaning, and Malou is one of them:) Tusse.. I love him, I really like the song, but I don’t see the massive appeal of it and as you said I find this message to be rather generic to the point it meaningless especially done in this way.. (for example Belgium has a unique story this year, Romania and the netherlands have kind of used topics, but still developed differently.. Tusse however.. I get the feeling we all heard… Read more »
That’s why the best form of government is a constitutional monarchy. Think about how dumb the average person is, then try to comprehend that half of the world is dumber. Put it simply, I do not condone how North Korea is treating its people, however, they are the country that’s handled the pandemic the best, by far. Why? Since they are not letting their dumb people do their thing without real consequences. The Ancient Greek were brilliant at only letting the highly educated make decisions. We need to return to these basic principles and the juries can be the first… Read more »
Yeah, but if we just isolate the issue to the handling of the pandemic you know.
It is a little funny that a conversation on Eurovision juries has turned into one about living in North Korea. XD
Yeah ikr.
Jeez, don’t you realize that North Korea is simply faking the statistics of Covid ?
yep true. I mean in ancient Greece education meant something.. today not really.
Thanks for this explanation! It makes better sense to me now. Part of me does feel sympathetic towards Tusse. Who doesn’t like it when the underdog overcomes adversity and the odds to land on top.
On the other hand, I do wish he came with a different song, and one he also participated in writing at least. This is no hate to him. Tusse is talented and Voices is certainly not a bad song, but I’d like to see something stronger from him – but that is just my opinion.
Not only the story: It’s that Tusse overall is warm and inviitng, while Dotter and Eric comes off as cold and dark. We can’t relate to them and for Mello you have to relate! That is why Tusse will win and we will have another year of “Sweden, 55 points”, while ESC fansites will take joy in calling us Jury darlings and Swedish media will once again come up with shady excuses like “Eastern Europe” don’t like that”.
Again, most winners win because they touch our hearts. Like Bergendahl in 2010. Or Lundvik. Dark songs cant touch our hearts and thats what Swedes look for in winners. So Dotter might work better for ESC but she has to warm our hearts first! It only worked for Loreen because she had a story to tell, and the song was that good!
2018 was a weird year:)
It really was the best song that year.And again, it wasn’t dark..
I cannot stand for a person winning due to a sob story. We need Eric to win for the good of the contest, for it to forever be based on the quality of music. We need you juries, you have already saved us so many times. I urgently beg you all to do it again. Please give Eric Saade all of the twelve points and save our beloved contest.
I thought Sweden was a friendly and welcome country…Bullied in school for his color?
Overall Sweden IS indeed a friendly country, but ofc we havet racism too..
The only entry I see doing well at Eurovision is Dotter’s. The rest would flop either with the jury or with the televoting, if not both.
My top 5 out of the remaining acts:
Eric’s act is the most pretentious thing I have seen from Sweden since Benjamin Ingrosso.
If the song wins, Sweden is canceled this year, especially the televote.
Tusse is a recent Talent show winner and hence has quite a few fans from that show itself. I don’t think the international juries will favour him heavily but combined he might win.
This doesn’t bode well for Dotter. I think it comes down to staging—her song last year is not any better than this year’s track but the staging was monumental
André Harris in Eurovision? It’s very bland. I hope the Swedes don’t choose this for Eurovision.
I think Voices is good, but there are seriously like 4 better options imo (Dotter and Eric Saade, and than also Paul Rey, Danny Saucedo, even the Mamas).. like what is the hype about Tusse? I don’t get it, he is not even famous, so what is so special about the entry ahah?.. don’t know. I still think Sweden could do lower top 10 with Tusse, but like why do that when you can do top 5 with Eric and Dotter.
If Tusse is not that famous and still Voices is doing well and people like and connect to him.. might mean something.
As always, fandom is one thing, locals is another. And jury is another.
If there is one thing we learnt this season: don’t be toxic to Swedes and Tusse if he wins. Let’s not play a Norway round 2 ok? Thanks.
Exactly, let’s not make the same mistake. Yes, I wasn’t happy that Keiino lost, but I eventually made peace with it.
Dotter Fans are so annoying.
Still any song has been able to repeat what Frans did in 2016. Debuting at #1 with only 5 days out.
Bring back Emil so we can send him to Eurovision!!!
Kidding. In all seriousness, I find it truly interesting how Tusse appears to be a fair bit more popular than Eric Saade and Dotter in Sweden, whereas these last two seem to appeal more to an international/Eurovision fans. His song is not bad of course, it is not my personal favourite, but I wonder why ‘Voices’ is so popular there.
Personally, I’ll be cheering on Dotter from the sidelines, but I send positive vibes to whoever wins Melodifestivalen this year.
yeah same, can any of the Swedes please enlighten us what is the hype about Tusse haha? Like everything is average (for Sweden that is, the song is still very good) about it.. staging, voice, the song..
Voices is a good song tho
It’s boring and bland
Amen sister