The season of national finals is underway – and we’re not just talking about Montenegro, Latvia and Albania. Sweden, host country of Eurovision 2024, is ready to get the glitter ball rolling with perhaps the biggest national final on the continent: Melodifestivalen. It will take place across six cities in February and March 2025.
Among next year’s acts are no less than three former winners in Måns Zelmerlöw (who is also a Eurovision winner), John Lundvik and Arvingarna, as well as two other Melfest winners on the songwriting side in Loreen and Tusse. They join other returning artists such as Klara Hammarström, Dolly Style and Scarlet as well as 17 debuting artists in the competition.
Two acts will qualify from each heat directly to the Grand Final, while the third placed entry will go into the Final Qualification held right after heat 5. The top 2 of the Final Qualification will also be heading to the Grand Final in Strawberry Arena in Stockholm on 8 March.
The songs will be released in full one day prior to each show on all streaming platforms.
Melodifestivalen 2025: The 30 acts revealed
Heat 1: Luleå (1 February)
Linnea Henriksson with “Den känslan” (That feeling)
Authors: David Lindgren Zacharias, Linnea Henriksson, Sebastian Atas
Meira Omar with “Hush Hush”
Authors: Anderz Wrethov, Dino Medanhodzic, Laurell Barker, Meira Omar
Maja Ivarsson with “Kamikaze Life”
Authors: Andreas “Giri” Lindbergh, Jimmy “Joker” Thörnfeldt, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Maja Ivarsson
Albin Johnsén feat. Pa with “Upp i luften” (Up in the air)
Authors: Albin Johnsén, Christoffer Balazik, FERNAND MP, Mattias Andréasson, Pa Modou
John Lundvik with “Voice of the Silent”
Authors: Jimmy Jansson, John Lundvik, Peter Boström, Thomas G:son
Adrian Macéus with “Vår första gång” (Our First Time)
Authors: Adam “Rymdpojken” Englund, Adrian Björklund, Adrian Macéus, Hugo Geijer Persson, William Pärlenskog
Heat 2 – Gothenburg (8 February)
SCHLAGERZ with “Don Juan”
Authors: Anna Engh, Mikael Karlsson
Nomi Tales with “Funniest Thing”
Authors: Adam Breitholtz, Herman Gardarfve, Jacob Lundahl, Nomi Bontegard, Simon Weidersjö
Klara Hammarström with “On and On and On”
Authors: Dino Medanhodzic, Jimmy Jansson, Klara Hammarström, Moa “Cazzi Opeia” Carlebecker, Peter Boström, Thomas G:son
Kaliffa with “Salute”
Authors: Anderz Wrethov, Jakob ”Big Brain” Malmlöf, Jimmy “Joker” Thörnfeldt, Kaliffa Karlsson, Robert Skowronski
Erik Segerstedt with “Show Me What Love Is”
Authors: Erik Segerstedt, Mattias Andréasson, Pontus Söderman
Fredrik Lundman with “The Heart of a Swedish Cowboy”
Authors: Erik Bernholm, Maja Francis, Thomas G:son
Heat 3: Västerås (15 February)
Malou Prytz with “24K Gold”
Authors: Anderz Wrethov, Jimmy ”Joker” Thörnfeldt, Julie ”Kill J” Aagaard, Malou Prytz
Greczula with “Believe Me”
Authors: Amanda Nordelius, John Russel, Kristofer Greczula
Annika Wickihalder with “Life Again”
Authors: Annika Wickihalder, Herman Gardarfve, Patrik Jean
Björn Holmgren with “Rädda mig”
Authors: Björn Holmgren, David Lindgren Zacharias, Jens Hult
Angelino with “Teardrops”
Authors: Jimmy ”Joker” Thörnfeldt, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Tusse Chiza
Dolly Style with “YIHAA”
Authors: Caroline Aronsson, David Lindgren Zacharias, Herman Gardarfve, Melanie Wehbe, Mikaela Samuelsson, Patrik Jean
Heat 4: Malmö (22 February)
KAJ with “Bara bada bastu”
Authors: Anderz Wrethov, Axel Åhman, Jakob Norrgård, Kevin Holmström, Kristoffer Strandberg, Robert Skowronski
Ella Tiritiello with “Bara du är där”
Authors: Adam ”Rymdpojken” Englund, David Björk, Loreen Talhaoui
AmenA with “Do Good Be Better”
Authors: AmenA, Sandra Bjurman, Stefan Örn
Måns Zelmerlöw with “Revolution”
Authors: David Lindgren Zacharias, Måns Zelmerlöw, Ola Svensson, Sebastian Atas
Andreas Lundstedt with “Vicious”
Authors: Andreas Lundstedt, Dino Medanhodzic, Laurell Barker, LIAMOO
Tennessee Tears with “Yours”
Authors: Gavin Jones, Jonas Hermansson, Pär Westerlund, Tilda Feuk
Heat 5: Jönköping (1 March)
Saga Ludvigsson with “Hate You So Much”
Authors: Herman Gardarfve, Lisa Desmond, Saga Ludvigsson
Vilhelm Buchaus with “I’m Yours”
Authors: Elias Edman, Jonatan Lahti, Simon Alexander Ward, Vilhelm Buchaus
Victoria Silvstedt with “Love It!”
Authors: Jimmy Jansson, Thomas G:son
Arvingarna with “Ring baby ring”
Authors: Stefan Brunzell, Thomas G:son
SCARLET with “Sweet N’ Psycho”
Authors: Anderz Wrethov, Dino Medanhodzic, Jimmy ”Joker” Thörnfeldt, Scarlet Hunts, Thirsty
Arwin with “This Dream of Mine”
Authors: Anderz Wrethov, Arwin Ismail, Jimmy ”Joker” Thörnfeldt, Julie ”Kill J” Aagaard, Peter Boström
Are you happy with the lineup? Who do you hope to see take the trophy and represent Sweden in Eurovision? Let us know in the comments below.
What happened to my favorite crypto gay duos?.…… Samir, Viktor, Marcus, Martinus………… :-(((((( …….. 90 per cent of acts are females, SVT has clearly lost the p?ot to the angry feminist lobby.
Do you realize Marcus & Martinus are brothers???
I have a feeling that Måns song is gonna be kinda weak. Because the song is written by Sebastian Atas, David Lindgren Zacharias, Ola Svensson and Måns And if you look at their other songs, it’s not any big masterpieces?? Sebastian wrote Innocent Love (Robin Bengtsson) and Awful Liar (Lisa Ajax) David wrote songs that only got to Andra Chansen or songs that qualified through Andra Chansen Ola have competed as a singer 2 times and qualified to the final in 2010. This is the first time he only wrote a song for Melfest but the other songs he have… Read more »
Maybe revolution won’t be as strong as heroes, but we can’t really determine that until the song is officially out in February. Maybe the songwriters you mentioned might get a lucky break and send something good and strong for once, or maybe Mans might be the only thing elevating it.
Måns winning would be surprising, as I’d assume Sámi people wouldn’t want him to win.
https://www.vk.se/2018-02-26/jannok-lika-illa-som-n-ordet
But Måns didn’t wrote Heroes. The only one of his own songs that he co-wrote was Hope and Glory (2009). Then he also wrote Erik Segerstedt and Tone Damli’s song Hello Goodbye, which competed in 2013
There are certain acts that are pretty much dead weight here and stand no chance on winning: Linnea Henriksson, Albin Johansén ft. Pa, Adrian Macéus, SCHLAGERZ, Nomi Tales, Kaliffa, Erik Segerstedt, Fredrik Lundman, Malou Prytz, Greczula, Annika Wickihalder, Björn Holmgren, Angelino, Dolly Style, KAJ, Ella Tiritiello, AmenA, Andreas Lundstedt, Tennessee Tears, Saga Ludvigsson, Vilhelm Buchaus, Victoria Silvstedt, Arvingarna & Arwin. It’s a long list and some these acts stand a chance on getting into the final so don’t get me wrong, but their main course is to be “Andra Chansen” material. Others have a shot, we all know SVT is… Read more »
I always thought that since SVT gets their money from taxpayers, swedes would like a bit more visibility on why same people are always getting this opportunity on such a big show each year.
Because not everybody is for Melodifestivalen. There are many artists out there who simply we can’t see in Mello because they don’t need it. Can you see Robyn in it? Or Laleh?
There are Melodifestivalen artists and then there are artists. Which is why Linnéa Henriksson is a surprise cause she already is well established.
As for taxpayers, most know what they are getting with these artists. That is what you are paying for
Robyn and Laleh seem like artists who do not want a song from these usual writers, that’s why. For example Smash Into Pieces have very different songs, compared to their Melodifestivalen songs. Problem is that Melodifestivalen simply neglects anything out of the box. If previous fame is the problem, then it really says it all that Melodifestivalen is for those without a real career. Linnéa Henriksson has apeared in Så Mycket Bättre, Best i test, hosted Melodifestivalen and done pretty much all the possible things you can try before accepting that her career never really took off. At this point,… Read more »
Her career never really took off?
Based on what? She is probably the biggest name of them all this year. She is huge and has a following. Sold out tours, hits.
Her only hit is “Lyckligare nu”, which was released 2012, her Så mycket bättre day was least watched personal day of the season. Tours? Hits? She isn’t headlining anything else other than a headstone in her lifetime.
Is charts the only way you define sucess?
Cause that would explain why you think she is far from a hit..
No other songs you know? ” Ingen annan? ” SMS? Her latest ” Ge inte upp på mig
Chart success is important, no matter if we’re talking about an artist, movie or a tv show. No success there means usually that it doesn’t attract people, but I’ll wait and see what sort of a success story we’ll see from Linnéa.
Hopefully she’ll do really well and prove me wrong, otherwise you’d be just full of it.
And this came to the point where we’ll end up seeing Miriam Bryant taking part of UMK instead (if the rumors turn out to be true)
Even the rumour itself is a statement to be noticed.
No one talking about the fact that queen Loreen herself is back as songwriter ? In Swedish? And that we get two ESC winners competing against each other?
I’m pretty sure that Klara Hammarström with a song from the Tattoo team plus Jimmy Janson will win it all. Save this post.
Jimmy Jansson is part of that team too.
But I agree. With that kind of team this is one to watch.
The constant complaining and crying in the comments is actually more entertaining (it’s not that deep)
It’s pretty much legitimate to get mad seeing the same writers and ex-winners again. Having said that, we knew this is not much of a surprise.
The question is, are they applying those gripes to other countries, or is it only Sweden that gets constantly criticized? It’s not to say there are no legitimate things to critique about, but I think there is a double standard regarding Sweden and other countries. Why does Sweden gets flak for having the same songwriters and recurring artists in melfest year after year, when some other countries do the same, particularly those of smaller populations like Latvia and Malta? Why do fans stan returning former participants in other national finals like with Montenegro recently, but roll their eyes when they… Read more »
Sweden’s population is 10+ million, SVT receives almost 3k entries each year, but same songwriters stay.
Returning artists aren’t the problem, it’s the fact that same songwriters are here constantly.
It eats all of the creativity, when biggest show in a year highlights around 10 people constantly and their interest in music.
Adding this: Latvia’s population is only 1,8 million and they’ve received songs in previous years this much: For 2025: 96 For 2024: 108 For 2023: 121 For 2022: 130 For 2021: Internal selection For 2020: 126 For 2019: 83 If we add all the received songs from previous years (2021 excluded) it’s 664 song over 6 years, if we divide overall number with those years, the median for received songs would be 110,6. Let’s say Sweden receives 2,8k entries as a median, let’s divide that with Latvia’s median (110), and we’ll see how many years it takes Latvia to get… Read more »
Sweden is really good at creating bangers, I hope they will go out of the box in 2025, maybe a song in Swedish (a very musical language?)
Nothing stoods out as of now, same people behind most of these songs like always, not really much more than post-Idol contest at the moment.
Dolly style in their 19th formation
I remember them from previous years, surely it’s not the same people at all?
Yes. The original people were part of creating the style, outfits etc. Then the inventor of the concept just didged anyone that had a saying in anythi. It should be like Korean or Japanese acts that are just concepts not specific people. The original members were not really informed about this. Some were just kicked out with short notice.
On the same theme you should look up recent interviews about how Alcazar just got rid of one of their singers. They were extremely unfriendly.
Would like to get through one Eurovision without Mans Zelmerlow popping up in one place or another
Eh? 2023 and 2024 is calling for you!!!
He did appeared in 2023, in a battle of guessing whether past Contest entries were qualifiers or non-qualifiers with Filomena Cautela.
Is he aiming to win the whole contest again?
I think it’s time to change the rules of the Eurovision Song Contest once you enter you cannot come back it’s time for let new artists to have a go not repeating ones it’s getting a bit boring
No
I think once you’ve won you can’t come back would be good.
The Maltese national final selection has a rule that the winner of the previous selection cannot compete again in the next year.
Winners should not return, they had their chance, other artists can return and try again no problem.
Why does the song need to be released in full the day before each heat?
Just let it be a surprise on the night, Sanremo-style.
I also question this decision
It adds more hype and you can have favourites before you vote.
More importantly the radio stations and Spotify can now play them earlier. There was really no need for a music embargo.
I always thought it was done to even up the playing field and not have some songs go far ahead in popularity over others during the semifinal stage.
That is what they said. And that might be true. But there is really no reason to motivate a music embargo these days. Record labels and radio stations still hold a lot of influence and they want to play the songs.
As for even up the field , surely this can even it up just as much if everybody is played before the heat .
Most of the Swedish people doesn’t understand that it is about the SONGS. Some people choose the favorite because of their NAMES. Now they can pick a favorite and vote for it the next day.
Its the same in ESC
On paper it’s about the songs. Most times all acts going to the finals are already known to the audience in advance of the show. Yes. The big names. So you vote for the name for sure. Danny Saucedo got Dandi Sansa to the finals. Loreen went too artsy in 2017 though. It’s not always certain.
Will Mans pull a Loreen and make Eurovision stay in Sweden?
I doubt it. The hardcore repeat voters seem to have lost interest in him a long time ago. He’s already outstayed his Eurovision welcome for a lot of people. Sad.
I’m not sure he’ll even win Mello.
Yes, yes, yes and yes. Even if he does win I would expect a Rybak type result.
Yeah, and his songwriters haven’t wrote any big ”masterpieces” before. Just mediocre songs
Can I just add that I remember the comments here about how dated Loreens song was, that it was forgettable, just a bad copy of Euphoria etc. etc. I also don’t root for Måns, but we cannot know fully. In my mind he’s not taking part to win. He wants to release new music and likes the Swedish competition.
Oh he wants to win. He said so himself. Nothing wrong with that, Mello is a contest after all.
But I also doubt he will win. Loreen and her double win is a rare anomaly. But agree that people said Loreen would not win twice with that copy and what not. But same people also said she would not win in 2012 either cause the song was generic
He also said that he doesn’t think he will win.
We cannot say anything until the songs are out, but none of the songs and artists seem to offer anything truly unexpected. Maybe I’m wrong, let’s see
people say this every year around this time ,,, but every edition tend to be much stronger than the previous one.
I don’t care about who’s in the lineup—all I care about are the songs. That’s when I’ll make my judgments.
Victoria silvstedt. Now that’s a surprise.
I like Mans but how can he say he’s missed the contest? He’s been at every one since 2015 in some capacity!
Maybe he wants to raise his profile in the semi-finals, as opposed to just the main show
He has missed it as a contester.
where is Dotter? WHERE!
Maybe coming last in this year’s final wasn’t the motivation she needed
Come on, some people take a break from competing.
Enough already. Just take a freaking break from her
Same boring acts each year. Also, the same generic pop music from Sweden, it’s either a pop song or a ballad, sung by a male (most definitely) or a female. No groups, no duo’s and definitely taking a risk in sending something different or outstanding. It’s gonna pass into the final, but a big… MEH!
Same boring comment every year blah blah blah, shut up and don’t watch it then
But you still took the effort to research them. Can’t be “mEh” if you care that much lmfao
Can’t you see that there are lots and lots of newcomers next year?
Exciting! Can’t wait to hear all the songs, Sweden always have something good in their lineup
Glad for a lot of newcomers, but stunned by even less diversity of songwriters in Sweden. Can no one write their own music?
Anyways, looking forward to Scarlett and I think being in heat 5 with little competition, I expect them to be heavily hyped and be strong winner contenders. Think they should have won last year.
No other writers really want to send song to the competition really…probably why…
The best one is KAJ,they are my Odds favorites to win the whole Eurovision in May in Basel.
Damn it’s been ten years already since Mans’ victory? Time sure flies by! I am curious what his song will look like, it’s always intriguing seeing past winners returning, since they must be sure of themselves to do it. Nevertheless, the same old Mello all in all. Same songwriter names as previous years, and not much diversity by the looks of it. Well it is what it is I guess!
Fawn rhymes with yawn. Looking forward to Moldova’s auditions!!
Moldova’s auditions are always epic honestly
pretty sure we’ll have returning songwriters there too, like the greeks Nikos Sofis, Georgios Kalpakidis
i hope Mishel and Julia are trying out again tbh (their 2020 entry Tears i still love)
This Esc pre season must be the most packed I’ve ever seen, we have already 26 National Finals, and we will have maybe more, but 26 means 2/3 of the participating countries, it’s huge! Maybe Australia, France, Armenia will do a NF too…
Switzerland, Azerbaidjan, UK, Georgia, Austria will probably use internal selections, as Cyprus already did, and that’s all, all the rest have National Finals, I’ve never seen that, really.
Ah, welcome to the anticlimax of the entire Eurovision season: Mello 2025 acts reveal, and as always: Half of them are returnees. G:son, Wrethov, Jimmy “Joker” Thörnfeldt David Lundgren Zacharias and Dino Medanhozic are involved in 4 to 6 songs each, and lets not forget Linnea Deb, Joy Deb, Laurell Barker, Peter Boström, Jimmy Jansson, Melanie Wehbe and Moa “Cazzi Opeia”, they are also represented – so all the regulars. Like every year Aftonbladet already revealed pretty much all the names beforehand, no big surprises. Now copy this text and reuse for the reveal of Mello 2026 acts! We all… Read more »
Regarding mentioning Tusse and not Sandra Bjurmann: I just focused on the former artists participating as songwriters. If I should include all Eurovision winners in the songwriting teams I would mention Jimmy “Joker”, Jimmy Jansson, Thomas G:son, Peter Boström, Cazzi Opeia, Joy Deb and Linnea Deb as well 🙂
New and rare names are more interesting than the yearly regulars and Sandra Bjurman definitely one of those. And I am going to do some selvcritizm as I didn’t mention Stefan Örn, as he is just as important as Sandra Bjurman in this matter, and who also have only taken part in Melodifestivalen once earlier, together with Bjurman as songwriter in 2013.
Running Scared doesn’t count as a Eurovision winner, let’s be real…
It still gives me goose pimples, Jonas
It still gives me nightmares!
Nice photos!
Winners: Arvingarna and SCARLET
Runners-up: Tennessee Tears
The mud cake award: Erik Segerstedt
Look, I like Mans, but…c’mon, again? And then I hear it when I call Sweden basic.
It’s been ten years since his last participation! Johnny Logan came back and won again only seven years since his first.
I’m always surprised how same names are on almost every entry every year, how bad are all of those songs submitted?
Did you miss all the MANY new ones here?
They have writing camps during the summer with songwriters together with different artists. So the number 4000 doesn’t say much really. The very common names have probably contributed with dozens if not hundreds of songs every year.
Why do I get downvotes. The writing camps are no secret. It’s covered in many places. The deadline is after summer every year. Many of the common songwriters write music together with artists selected by the labels. It’s not an official Melodifestivalen thing. But from these camps comes many of the music that is sent in. I don’t know a certain number. I still wonder about the downvotes when just stating a fact
Now updated with artist pictures 🙂
Will this be Måns Zelmerlöw’s “moment of revolution”, as said in Spain’s JESC 2021 entry?
LOREEN is BACK!!
Does Thomas G’son & Jimmy Joker spend March to Sept each year just writing for Eurovision!
Well, yeah ?
Well, I mean, it is their livelihood… most people spend a month working to put food on the table and pay the rent.
Not a promising list that’s for sure.
Ok the first odds are out and Måns is the clear frontrunner even with odds twice shorter than Marcus and Martinus and 3 times shorter than Loreen at the same time and already 40% chance of winning (Loreen had 13% and M&M had 20%)… It was predictable taking in account his Eurovision and Melfest winning status but 40% is huge!! 2nd but far from Måns it’s John Lundvik with 8%, predictable too as a recent Melfest winner. 3rd it’s Scarlet with 6% and it makes me happy to see that. Klara and Malou completing the top 5 with 5% and… Read more »
I’m so happy that Melodifestivalen comes to my Swedish hometown Jönköping…
Mine town too:)
Tickets?
I think so…You?
Sold out I think:(
Shame. Would be fun to go there and then the bus home:)
The novelty of it all. That breath of fresh air. The tastiness of it all. The next best thing in Sweden after mud cake! PINCH ME!
Tattoo team for Klara!!!!!!!! YASSSSSSS Get In
Mans with the melfest flop Ola Svensson lol
i can see even John Lundvik finishing higher than Mans with all honesty
Måns saw Loreen’s double win and said now hold on just a minute lol
He’ll have to hold on for decades to repeat her success, and even then won’t make it xD
Actually Måns has been saying for many years that his biggest dream is “to win Eurovision twice like Johnny Logan did” so it has nothing to do with Loreen.
However, he also says that he doesn’t believe it will happen.
Did David L. Write half of the finalists?
Glad to see Scarlet. I thought Circus X got robbed out of a spot in the final last year.
I am glad John Lundvik’s song has English lyrics. I do hope Zelmerlöw’s song has them, as well. I cannot remember any good Melo pop song with Swedish lyrics, at least in the past 10 to 15 years.
unga & fria:
Revolution does not have a broad usage in Swedish language. It’s centred around blood shed like the French or Russian revolution. Someone using the word in Swedish is probably very young or very left leaning. Also how the word is pronounced in Swedish with emphasis on the last vowel makes it a very bad choice for a title. I think we can be certain the title is in English.
Israel probably wouldn’t be allowed to submit a song with this title
Why not. The people should go against their current politics
Mans Zelmerlow… oh god
Ok cool for Scarlet! At least all the rumors were true. I see familiar names in the authors: Jimmy”joker” has won the race this year with 6 songs, Thomas G:son 5 songs, Jimmy Janson 3 songs, Laurell Barker and Peter Borström 2 songs each. But I see that 2 Melfest winners have joined the line-up as authors too, Tusse is involved in Angelino’s song and surprise! Loreen too is involved in Ella Tiritiello’s song! It’s interesting. Cazzi Opeïa is back too and is involved in Klara’s song only, it’s interesting too. Now the big names, John Lundvik will appear very… Read more »
The order they were announced in was not in running order but in alphabetical. Running order comes later
Yeah you’re right I just realized it.
Usually they give the running order too when they announce the artists no?
So when we will have it this time?
My bad they usually give the running order at the start of January.
According to SVT they received 2,794 songs, but somehow managed to only get those who already have their connections; *Songwriters that appear on multiple songs + artists who have previously been part of several songs in previous years/participated: 6 – Anderz Wrethov 6 – Jimmy “Joker” Thörnfeldt 5 – Thomas G:son 4 – Dino Medanhodzic 4 – David Lindgren Zacharias 3 – Jimmy Jansson 3 – Peter Boström 2 – Linnea Deb 2 – Joy Deb 2 – Julie ”Kill J” Aagaard 2 – Laurell Barker 2 – Patrik Jean 2 – Mattias Andréasson LIAMOO, Scarlet Hunts, Thirsty, Jonas Hermansson,… Read more »
As a line up this is utterly dissapointing, former Idol contestants, washed out dansbands and same songwriters. Medicore, dull and uninspiring.
*Adding Tusse Chiza to the long list of names
How many unique songwriters do you recon are on those songs? Often Melodifestivalen rejects are sent into other selections of Eurovision for other countries. Not every Swedish songwriter wants their name to be associated with Melodifestivalen. That’s for sure.
Ok. Eat me. I’m not really saying bad stuff. Maybe argue with me if you think differently
I remember when Poets of the Falls were rumored for this. A band like that could have spiced things up. I’m disappointed, Sweden.
Poets of the Fall is a Finnish band, and they’ve been rumoured to participate in UMK, not Melodifestivalen.
I am one of those people who looks forward to returning acts but only when they do not get a good result for the first time and then come back with a better song. (A perfect example is Poli Genova for Bulgaria). She did not qualify for the first time and then came back and ended up 4th. I honestly don’t understand why a previous winner would want to compete and go through that experience one more time. Especially with a bad song (A perfect example is Rybak). I do like it when someone who had an amazing song (or… Read more »
Mans won when spotify wasnt huge like today, so he need a promotion and whats bigger promotion then winning eac. That’s why he is trying to repeat his success now. Same was with Loreen, had to do esc again because her first victory was in a year when social media (spotify and tiktok) couldn’t help her like it can to people of todays esc. Everything is a promotion for them. No one (but crazy Rybak) would come back to esc only for the love they have for esc.
I don’t agree with you and Euphoria was #1 on Spotify globally. Remember hearing her song at random when I was in Germany. Loreen also participated in 2017 and didn’t reach the finals. Charlotte Perelli returned with a self penned song in Swedish. There are hundreds of reasons to return to Melodifestivalen. And the Swedish audience is what this is about. Not every Swedish artist will win ESC. Loreen is an exception.
People join the Melodifestivalen to have fun, to promote their new tour, new album, new style of music, to tell the Swedish audience they are still alive, to enter the Swedish charts and possibly some of them might want to win or even win the ESC. But it’s 30 acts. Some of which will know even in the press conference that they won’t stand a chance of winning. Reaching the Swedish final so you know your song most probably will be a local hit is usually a quite achievable goal. That’s about it. No one is saying Måns is coming… Read more »
Jimmy Joker and Thomas G:son writing half of the songs again… how original, Sweden.
Wonder if any of them were turned away and are now on the “open market” for the likes of Malta to name but one.
Cyprus, Malta, Azerbaidjan, Switzerland often rely on Swedish songmakers for their Eurovision songs or for their National Final songs, even Spain make compete Swedish songs in Benidorm Fest. It’s a big market.
I am expecting there will be at least one G:son composition in Malta NF
It’s largely possible
That doesn’t bother me. I decide I like a song without checking first who wrote it.
You probably have the same mindset as A Rybak in 2018
I really look forward to hearing Maja Ivarssons song! She is quite good! And Scarlet offcourse!! My favorites from last year!
On one hand Im very excited for a Måns return but on the hand is like ‘WHY?’. I mean, he already won the whole thing, he’s a legend… what happened to Loreen is not what usually happens to former winners but anyway I want to know what he is bringing back because he has to be very confident to take this risk
Plus, Mans’s music universe is not as strong as Loreen’s one. She has this unique style and way of singing that made the difference. Mans is a great performer but I don’t see a “basic” pop song do the trick twice. And I say this while he was my ultimate favorite back in 2015. I was addicted to “Heroes”.
Maybe he will come back with something completely different.
From the writers there it looks like it is more folk traditional pop than dance pop. But who knows?
The kind of winning like Loreen did is unique even for Mello and I dubt it will repeat
What you talking about Loreen, she need a good label and a team, thats it. She has Tour 2025 and offcourse the album i bet.