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It’s official: Malmö will host Eurovision 2024. The three live shows will take place on 7, 9 and 11 May. What follows is the official press release from Sweden’s broadcaster SVT. Directly after Loreen’s historic victory in Liverpool, SVT started work on the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. After dialogue with several cities, the event lands in Malmö. Semifinals and finals take place on 7, 9 and 11 May 2024 in Malmö Arena. |
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“Being able to welcome all the competing countries to Malmö is fantastically fun and meaningful,” says SVT CEO Hanna Stjärne. “Hundreds of millions of TV viewers will follow the broadcasts from Sweden. The Eurovision Song Contest fulfills a particularly important function in these times of war in Europe and it is with great respect that we take on the event. Malmö is a creative city with a rich cultural life that can create a music festival for the whole of Europe in a sustainable way, not least financially, because the arena, communications and logistics are already in place.” |
SVT is responsible for all parts of the television production and Malmö creates festivities for the city and its residents, participating delegations, visiting fans and international press and takes care of logistics solutions.
“We received strong, exciting and creative proposals from several cities, for which we are extremely grateful,” says Ebba Adielsson, executive producer and ultimately responsible for the Eurovision Song Contest 2024.
“The commitment of the municipalities has been outstanding. When we finally had all the options on the table, we made an overall assessment, where many factors had to come into play. Since the organized ESC 2013, Malmö has added efficient and more sustainable flows as well as more and modern meeting places. They are also firmly committed to offering even more than last time to visitors and residents to actively participate in the festivities. It will in many ways be a new experience.”
In connection with Eurovision, delegations from around 40 countries are expected to visit Malmö and around 1,000 accredited journalists and fans are estimated to cover the festivities. When Liverpool hosted Eurovision last spring, half a million people visited the city in connection with the event.
The Eurovision Song Contest is Europe’s largest shared television experience that unites countries and people through music and culture.
Copenhagen’s outsourced parking lot..
Eh, it comes as a surprise how Sweden fails to book Friends/Tele2 for third time. They even talked how Stockholm is the best choice, not looking good as of now.
No, only fans talked about Stockholm, as if that was the only option.
How about giving it a chance, see what else is planned and judge on what you see rather than judging it out as ” not looking good” based on the simple fact it was not the choice you wanted?
Bruh, there’s no need to justify everything Sweden does wrong or fails to achieve
Was Netta wrong again?
Yes, and so was Loreen who yet again said how Stockholm should be the host city. Awkward!
Calling it now. They will implement :O in logo or something like thst
I wonder if given how host countries never win in recent Eurovision—would Sweden be so bold to send a song in Swedish. Their local music scene is so Swedish-forward, even with their biggest stars. Why not take a gamble. Look at Finland this year.
Because none of them are competetive enough. It is very obvious they are simply there to fill the 10% Swedish language criteria. If they are competetive then send it. But to send one only for the sake of it..
because Sweden are the ”Max Verstappen” of ESC, unbeatable
You nailed it, as also Max Verstappen is sheltered by his team, at the expense of his teammate and so is Sweden with EBU at the expense of the rest of Europe
Who’s that?
Some unsympathetic Bulli in motorsport who wins most races due to best engine and best team.
I disagree. Clara Klingenström’s “Behöver inte dig idag”, Medina’s “In i dimman”, and Jon Henrik Fjällgren’s “Where You Are (Savezan)” are my favourite Swedish possible entries of the last decade. Europe is becoming bored of Europop songs too, and I noticed that songs sung by local artists in native or regional languages tend to do better than songs sung by the same artists in English only. That’s because songs in English are generally mainstream and repetitive: same rhyme, same structure, same language. I’m glad Eurovision is turning its head towards promoting local languages more as well. That’s great! And that’s… Read more »
Yes they are exceptions but if you look at the overall Swedish songs there is a reason they almost never make it to final: they are not good enough to be there. And the artists themselves know this, they are there to get promotion..
I disagree, Myra Granberg, Miss Li, Miriam Bryant, Victor Leksell… Heck, even the likes of Adaam and Bolaget could be competitive enough if given the chance
Yes, but none of them wants to do it
Thanks for proving me right about them being “good enough” representatives for Sweden
Regarding why none of them wants to try, well, Mello’s entries sound the same every year, any genre other than pop and songs in Swedish are rarely (relatively speaking) featured at Mello, and the latter ones are often a comical relief, that should change imo
YAWN
Same old re hashed tired comments taken from others I see. Yet you comment about sending the same stuff..
Maybe you should come back with fresh new comments instead of same old re hashs?
Maybe when Sweden comes up with a new (and hopefully more organic and musically inclusive) approach
When has Sweden ever sent anything bold and daring, we look at songs from 2000s and 2010s it’s the most mildest plastic-pop we’ve ever heard.
Their 2001 song “Listen to Your Heartbeat” plagiarized Belgium’s 1996 entry, and that’s the most daring thing they’ve done ever.
Adding this: Even Sweden’s 2016 entry “If I Were Sorry” by Frans was plagiarized from Matt Simon’s “Catch & Release”, these allegations seem to be constant with Swedish entries.
Source: https://www.thelocal.se/20160313/swedish-eurovision-entry-in-plagiarism-storm
Source: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/qneR1w/frans-lat-i-melodifestivalen-utreds-for-plagiat
Ugh, that song was bland af and was criminally overrated back at the time
All of this just means that Sweden is the Olivia Rodrigo of Eurovision
Header photos with Friends Arena and Tele2, broadcaster saying they want Stockholm, Loreen saying the same thing after her win… and we wound up in Malmö.
What was the Euroclub and the Eurovillage in Malmo 2013?
there’ll be no euroclub or eurovillage next year
show length just 2 hours for both semi finals, and only 3 hours for the grand final, everything has to be very tight and scripted
Euroclub was at Slagthuset. Eurovillage at Gustav Adofs Torg. The Eurofan cafe was at Moriska Paviljongen in Folkets Park.
I have a room in Malmo but I fear that most events and fans will be in Copenhagen.
I am not a fan of Malmo bc it has a bad reputation and it is boring.
I also think their bid was not as good as Liverpool so I don’t expect a great Eurovision…
Malmo arena will have the same capacity as Liverpool (or slightly more) if they keep the green room in the standing area.
What kind of bad reputation?
It’s Sweden’s most dangerous city
I like Malmo a lot and I’m quite happy to have another excuse to visit it. But I’ll probably end up staying in Copenhagen too, because the hotel capacity in Scania is simply too low. I mean, the SVT/EBU are apparantely desperate too, since they’ve also booked out some hotels in places like Lund.
I found a hotel in Helsingborg charging 700+ euros per night for a flex reservation during the Eurovision week. Obviously the prices will normalise a bit as the date approaches, like they did in Liverpool, but nevertheless, CPH will likely be a better choice.
Malmö Arena is much bigger than the arena in Liverpool. It has a max capacity for 15.500 people. The arena in Liverpool has a max capacity for 11.000 people.
Congrats, Malmo! It really will feel like a piece of history. Only thing missing is Emmelie de Forrest making a comeback.
Also, so happy to have Luxembourg, and probably North Macedonia back! 🙂
Yesss i’d like to see her return! If I could return one of the past winners, it would be her or Lena
They should Just remain part of History . No need to take away some one else chance of having Victory
no to Emmelie De Forest, no more past winners returning like ever pls, we need all countries in national finals so we can discover lots of new artists, national final season is the best part of this
Wellp I just booked a room in Copenhagen just in case I might have the chance to go next year 😀 Malmö isn’t necessarily the most charming city but it’s location is really an asset.
Please no more Zlatan Ibrahimovi?
Zlatan is the most iconic Swedish footballer of all time and he is from Malmo, respect.
We don’t care about football here
”We” who are we…, many people like Zlatan
Benefiting is Copenhagen, Denmark. If Sweden is smart they price the tickets to shows much higher but people with swedish hotel bookings (and locals) get a huge discount.
And have no visitors at all?
Embarrassing how SVT was pushing Friends Arena/Tele2 for 2013, 2016 and 2024 as a venue and this is the outcome for the 3rd time..
Taylor Swift has taken hold of Friends, and the football teams of Tele2 won’t let their arena go for a few weeks either, Gothenburg has a too old arena which is straight up dangerous. Örnsköldsvik is too small, too much of a gamble very difficult to get to. So Malmö was the only choice left…
Taylor wasn’t taking hold of Friends Arena in 2013 or 2016, SVT & the Football teams still haven’t got a plan for “incase for a win” which is surprising as Sweden has almost won several times and we had this situation already twice, if Gothenburg’s Scandinavium is dangerous then nothing should be held there – not even Melodifestivalen, Örnsköldvik is small, so it’s very narrow chance it’s going to host ever.
Scandinavium still holds events but the roof rigging for ESC would be too heavy for the roof so it can’t be held there, and to renovate it would cost alot of money and also might get delayed as those kind of things do… Taylor just like ESC needs time to set everything up in Friends Arena therefore she probably has booked the Arena for more than a week… There are now 4 football teams from Stockhom in the highest division of the Swedish football league…2 of them in Tele2, 1 in Friends and 1 is a small team.. the 3… Read more »
A lot of reasons why Stockholm wasn’t a reasonable option in the first place, but SVT saying how they prefer Stockholm and even name their first choice of venue (without propper preparing on getting it on three occasions) shows lack of respect for other cities and their efforts, basicly telling us that other cities are never a main choice. Melodifestivalen might be “Hela Sveriges fest”, but they sure show that the number one city in case of a victory will always be Stockholm. Us going to Malmö just seems like a let down, because the broadcaster talked like these cities… Read more »
But yes, too bad they could not push the arenas to host, that is the sponsors loss i would say, Friends are financing anti bullying projects in schools while Tele2 is a telecom network so they both would have benefited of having their name broadcasted more indeed…
Taylor will be performing after the 17th of May.
ESC could have been held in Friends Arena the first week of May. The problem was that the football teams needed the stadium and we all know that EBU needs to book the arena 4-6 weeks in advance which clashes with the football games.
Friends Arena was never pushed in 2016. It was the Globe as it was known then.
And SVT never pushed anything, they gave every city oppurtunity . These four cities were the only ones deemed suitable by EBU.
no surprises I guess
Funny how Malmö hosted after Loreen won in 2012. Looking forward to seeing what the thematic and everything will look like. Hopefully this year the crucial contest info won’t be revealed at a late time like the last 2 years
Denmark’s Copenhagen is the real winner here, last time a lot of fans stayed there, ate there, spent time and money there and only went to Malmö for the live shows.
Yep, I was going to split my accommodation between Copenhagen and Malmo. No accommodation in Malmo so it all went to Copenhagen.
And you can’t blame them looking at the hotel prices.
Sweden cares about Eurovision. They will do a good job.
they literally don’t, i wish Sweden would withdraw from the contest rather sooner than later
who cares about talentless ABBA or crappy loser Loreen
Bad day?
Having a bad day?
They don’t care? They won three times since 2010 and made one, if not the best show back in 2016
Hopefully they don’t have any floating tampons again as staging ?
Ugh. Sweden tries so hard to be American. Not looking forward to next year’s Eurovision tbh
They sure do, Malmö has the highest rate in violent crimes in all of Nordic countries. 9/11 at it’s finest…
And the Netherlands, with their history of country music at the contest, don’t? Although, to be fair, Sweden did have a song about Las Vegas one time 20 years ago.. so OBVIOUSLY they want to be American SOOO bad. Not like Sweden has a thriving music industry separate from the US or anything.
I think It was only fair for it to be Gotenborg turn because they are next In Line . But of course Swedish Broadcasting does not support this , they have their own Motives for doing things …
You all say stockholm is so great yeah yeah yeah they wanted to Building a brand new arena just like Azerbayun has done in 2012 and Abusing workers who have Built it. Stockholm would have done this same thing maybe worse . It is good it is not Stockholm as the Host City
Maybe worse? You know that Sweden isn’t as corrupt as Azerbaijan, right? Unlike Azerbaijan, Sweden doesn’t start war with a different country and call people, that voted for a specific country, terrorist and a “thread for national safety”. You can’t compare a country like Sweden with something like Azerbaijan
Y’all saying Malmö won over Stockholm because of Taylor Swift while the one and only responsible for this is named Netta ! Can’t wait for the Eurovision 2025 prediction aha 🙂
So innovative! Congrats!
How is this innovative, it was the only option?
Do not get this recent obsession fans have over capitals, as if that should be the only choice. There are more than just capitals in a country..
During 90,s, 2000’s and the 10’s there was almost nothing but capitals hosting and people wanting something else. I like this new exploring other cities even if it is only arenas
No idea why you’re downvoted. It’s great to see more than one side to a country!
I’m very happy for Malmo. I’m quite surprised with this decision though as there was a lot of hype around Stockholm, but I’m actually a fan of Malmo Arena so it seems like a solid choice to me!
Well, that was quick. I didn’t expect the host city announcement to happen so soon. The last two times we found out the host city and dates was in October, so Sweden is ahead of schedule here. It’s also an interesting observation that this will be the fifth Eurovision in a row that is not held in a capital city. I don’t think we’ve ever had such a long streak of non-capital cities hosting. I wonder what’s the earliest and latest time a host city was announced in Eurovision history. Time to conduct some research.
It’s insane that Sweden that is so obsessed with ESC has only two venues suitable to host! Globen and Malmö Arena!
I was hoping for Stockholm. When will the trend of secondary cities hosting Eurovision end?
I also feel bad for Gothenburg, they’re always left out. I was sure they were going to get it this year.
For some years people complained about the contrary, saying it was always the capitals that were hosting the contest. During the 20 years pre-covid pandemia (so from 2000 to 2019), only Istanbul 2004, Düsseldorf 2011, Malmö 2013 and Tel Aviv 2019 weren’t the capital of the country (I don’t count 2010 as Baerum is a suburb of Oslo). I think it’s nice to see other cities even though it doesn’t change anything for me.
I think we can both agree it’s nice to have a mix!
YES PLEASE! Eurovision 2013 was exceptional <3
And again there are no rooms left…
Off topic but try #2
Downvote this comment as much as possible.
i just wanted the people to dislike my off topic, non eurovision related comment as much as possible lol
LOL.
I hope Petra Mede will be the hostess!
And I hope she’ll be the solo hostess.
Me too! But I’m sure she said soon after loreen’s victory she didn’t want to host again.
Surprised that Malmo has been picked but not dissapointed. Nice to be able to spend some time in beautiful Copenhagen while away as it’s so close! Fun that’s in the same city when loreen last won also.
When and where can we buy tickets from?
Malmo is just Swedish Liverpool anyway
Maritime, stones throw from a neighboring capital (Copenhagen/Dublin), industrial yet gentrified.
Haven’t had a capital city host since Lisbon in 2018. Why are the countries capitals (and usually better developed cities) not so cool anymore?
Stockholm would have been my choice, maybe because it’s one if my favorite cities ever, but yeah …Sweden will probably win again soon enough anyway so it doesn’t really matter.
Actually I wasn’t too bothered about the host city reveal this year, just because well… Sweden is hosting, nothing we haven’t seen before twice in the last 10 years already
Blame Taylor Swift
Stockholm didn’t have a suitable arena available and EBU wouldn’t like the risk of having to rely on a new (temporary) are to be built.
But Malmö will be a great host too. I love Stockholm as much as you do, but Malmö is very close on my list too 🙂
If EBU reduces the power of jury this might be last ESC held in Sweden in a long time lol
Sweden has won with televotes in the past. And if they send good songs they will win again. Because audience do not care how many points someone got.
Also I doubt jury will change. There will be discussion like it was once. And majority will still vote for status quo .
Jerusalem and Rome both lacked suitable venues, meanwhile Stockholm and Amsterdam both had other events scheduled at Eurovision time which meant they didn’t have venues that were both suitable and free. London was the only capital that was specifically excluded from consideration due to a desire to promote other cities.
Also this means that we haven’t had Eurovision in a country’s capital since Lisbon 2018
I wanted Stockholm but Malmo will do I guess.
So was Lisbon 2018 the last time a capital city/largest city will host? What’s with countries putting ESC in all these B tier towns.
Actually I’d struggle to give Malmo a B. More like Copenhagen’s offsite car park.
Unpopular opinion, but capitals are SO boring and predictable… I’ll take a smaller town any day.
Boring Malmö sucked back in 2013 and will probably suck in 2024. Stockholm or Gothenburg would have been better choices.
Then don’t go??? And let someone else who is genuinely excited and appreciates the opportunity. Sounds like it will suck with your attitude. Go be a fun sponge somewhere else. Xx
So that’s it? No super-comeptitive bidding phase that sees an epic confrontation on TV like last year? Lame. At least it’s not the highly overrated Stockholm! I personally would have prefered Gothenberg or the minor town they were considering having it in to allow for a new location but i’ll take this since it’s been about a decade since Malmo 2013. so it’s comemorating Loreen’s two wins!
Stockholm is stunning. One of my favourite cities ever, I’d love to live there.
But each to their own I guess
I don’t get the diasppointment by ESC fans. Considering how messy Stockholm’s apllication was it was super clear Malmo is getting this. Malmo’s arena isn’t even bad, they deserve to have glow-up in production like Stockholm and the city could manage to keep tourist spend money in Malmo and Sweden.
Tourism board of Denmark is celebrating cause that tourist money will be spent in Copenhagen
If I went to Malmo I would try to spend most money in Sweden that is cheaper than Denmark anyway
Bleehh.. not really liking this. Have to admit though, that it’s a nice touch that after both Loreen’s wins the event is being held in Malmö. Keeping the traditions going I see. As a city it’s not really anything interesting and the arena could be bigger.
Just let Petra and Måns host the competition again and we might in for a good show!
I’m a Swede and I’m soooo disappointed. I went to ESC in Malmö in 2013 and it was great but I hate to say it: Malmö arena is VERY small and underwhelming and not at all befitting of this show. I also am slightly annoyed we’re once again giving away a lot of the tourism to Copenhagen 🙁
Stockholm would have been better!
the high delinquency and crime rate that grips sweden is worrying, at the moment it is the most dangerous country in europe in terms of crime.
Go read the reports on this problem.
Chill, it is not as bad as you make it out to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyDZfYzVGJg&ab_channel=FRANCE24English
Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pochreLwrQs
What a bunch of nonsense. I don’t need to “read reports”, I’ve been to Malmö dozens of times. It’s a very safe city by European standards and I never encountered even a remotely dangerous situation, not even in the middle of the night. Stop spreading nonsense. Does it have its problems? Sure. But it’s still safer than many recent host cities.
First semi final in the first May week, interesting. Satisfied with it!
Copenhagen Hospitality must be delighted with this news…I mean, Me, my friends and like a whole third of the fans had to stay there in 2013 because Malmö didn’t have room space enough. And they didn’t promise SVT not to hike up prices as the bids did. Kaching!
You might be into something! I just checked Malmo on the Booking from May 6 to May 12, and it says there are no empty rooms left already. Copenhagen, on the other hand, has plenty of economic offers on the plate. In addition to that, Copenhagen is way better linked via cheap planes (it takes roughly 45 minutes for me to fly from Vilnius to Copenhagen, for example), and I think Denmark will be the biggest winner of them all.
Here we are! This is what I expected, as it seems Gothenburg’s arena isn’t fit for purpose. I’m sure they’ll build something bigger eventually, then when Sweden wins in the future they’ll take in in turns with that, this and the imported Globen. I doubt in any given year Friends or Tele2 arena will ever host a contest, because the teams can’t afford to lend their stadiums for long enough and they have no alternatives. And wouldn’t it damage their grass? I’ve never been to Sweden, so many consider making the trip next year. For any Swedes reading, what is… Read more »
Malmö is a cute city. Of course it has its ugly places and as someone from Stockholm, i do think Malmö is not as good as the fine old capital city but I actually enjoy it! a daytrip or two to Copenhagen wouldn’t hurt either
Also, for variations sake I was hoping for off the beaten track Örnsköldsvik, but I realise their Arena simply isn’t big enough
I like the beach in Malmö, and the size is probably more suitable for Eurovision than Stockholm, creating a cosier environment. There are some cute parks as well and the city center is okay to stroll around in. From Stockholm myselft.
I said last time if we ever go back to Malmo it will be too soon.
Liverpool 2023, now Malmo 2024, what is with putting Eurovision in this awful cities.
I’d feel much safer in Kyiv than either of these two.
wtf do you know what you’re talking about?
The city itself doesn’t make a contest. Turin is a great city but RAI did basically everything wrong in order to create one of the worst shows.
Malmö is a good choice, also, Malmö already hosted 2013 and 2013 was a good show
One more year of overpriced hotels, tickets sold out in seconds, and a small arena to save costs. Pathetic
It’s only going to go up from here because of inflation and the economic crisis…