It is a new week of February and for Melodifestivalen 2025 heat 2 we are travelling to Sweden’s second biggest city Gothenburg and Scandinavium Arena to find two new finalists. The six week Melfest tour of six Swedish cities will eventually decide, who will represent Sweden at Eurovision in Basel in May.
You can listen to the songs in full length now, which means it’s time for one thing: To name your favourite. You can also watch 30 second snippets of the performances here.
Click on the artist’s song title below to listen to their song. Then vote in our poll. You can vote for as many artists as you’d like, but you can only vote one time. Be sure to tick the box next to each act you want to support.
Melodifestivalen 2025 heat 2
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Nomi Tales – “Funniest Thing”
Authors: Adam Breitholtz, Herman Gardarfve, Jacob Lundahl, Nomi Bontegard, Simon Weidersjö
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SCHLAGERZ – “Don Juan”
Authors: Anna Engh, Mikael Karlsson
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Erik Segerstedt – “Show Me What Love Is”
Authors: Erik Segerstedt, Mattias Andréasson, Pontus Söderman
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Klara Hammarström – “On and On and On”
Authors: Dino Medanhodzic, Jimmy Jansson, Klara Hammarström, Moa “Cazzi Opeia” Carlebecker, Peter Boström, Thomas G:son
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Fredrik Lundman – “The Heart of a Swedish Cowboy”
Authors: Erik Bernholm, Maja Francis, Thomas G:son
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Kaliffa – “Salute”
Authors: Anderz Wrethov, Jakob ”Big Brain” Malmlöf, Jimmy “Joker” Thörnfeldt, Kaliffa Karlsson, Robert Skowronski
Format of Melodifestivalen 2025
30 acts participate in Melfest 2025 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 three lowest placed acts are finished in the competition. This make up for the first 10 acts qualifying for the grand final
The number 3 placed entries of each heat will have their fate decided in a Final Qualification held in connection with heat 5. The five songs 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.
12 songs compete in the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen held in Strawberry Arena in Stockholm on 8 March.
Melodifestivalen is hosted by Kristina ”Keyyo” Petrushina and Edvin Törnblom.
Who is your favourite in this heat? Are any of these acts the one you want to see go all the way to Eurovision? Let us know in the comments below.
Fredrik Lundman is country gorgeousness, wow
i expect Klara to not get past this heat, definitely because of fredrik performing after her makes her come across as vanilla
Extremely repetetive
After listning to all songs I think its stronger than the first one. Klara to final
Then I actually liked Nomi Tales most. But will she qualify?
I can see the appeal with all songs and they all have something. But I think Fredrik and the schlager ladies fight for the same crowd, the elders and might end up last.
And Erik has that Robbie Williams feeling to the song that will get millenials worked up.
Truly every act can qualify
– Nomi Tales: Average
– Schlagerz: Last place
– Erik Segerstedt: This sells in Mello
– Klara Hammarström: Too repetitive
– Fredrik Lundman: Swede’s love for
country music might get this to Andra Chansen
– Kaliffa: Another version of Medina
Final: Erik Segerstedt & Kaliffa
Andra: Klara Hammarström
Last place: Schlagerz
Nomi Tales is my favorite!
My guess: Klara and Nomi to the final and Kaliffa to second chance.
I have listened to Klara’s song now, and it has the same type of energy as Shum
Will go directly to my gym playlist for sure, love it!
Omg I just found out that this year at Melo we will not only see Måns (who’s bookies favourite as well) but Victoria Silvstedt …
Seriously, Victoria Silvstedt is going to sing o.O
People said that about Meira aswell and look what happend…she totally crushes the Direct to final songs in the charts
Victoria is a decent singer. Not a fantastic one, but decent. She competed in The Masked Singer Sweden in the first season I think it was.
And had a hit single in 1999. Album even:)
People voting Klara even when the 1 minute clips gave us less than nothing, it even sounded a little bit tired to me, like she is just in melfest cuz she has nothing better to do. Here is hoping the chorus explodes into something great, but from what she has given us in the past im not holding my breath.
All of these songs are bland and generic; dont understand why Sweden rose to the 1st place in the odds :/ Bored with seeing same countries in first positions of the odds.
Sweden have just taken the lead in the odds on the basis of these wonderfully authentic and heartfelt songs 🙂
authentic?
The sarcasm seemed quite obvious to me.
Schlagerz all the way. I like the old school feel.
Nomi Tales sounds intriguing, but I worry the full version may fall flat. We’ll see.
I want that countryman to qualify. I can’t remember any country song on ESC
2014.?
What a god-awful bunch of blandness. Nomi Tales and Klara’s songs sound unironically sound like Suno generations.
My qualifiers would be “Salut” and “Funniest Thing” with either “On and On and On” or “The Heart of a Swedish Cowboy” to second chance. I don’t even really like country music, but I do appreciate that Fredrik did managed to make it sound authentic. I’m an american and so much European country music just sounds subtly wrong. This sounds like something you could play to actual rednecks and then have the mention of being Swedish take them out by the kneecaps. A+ despite not being my taste
Klara’s song ended up to be exactly what i thought it will be – a predictable dancy song, nice for lgbtq fans but not for a general public. She is clearly not the best of these 6. Nomi Tales is head and shoulders abive everyone here, but we know how Sweden vote, so the name they know the best is Klara, so, that being said, the winner over here will not be the best song, the best vocalist, the best staging etc.
But it’s only 30 second snippets. I think there is something more there. Especially with Cazzi Opeia involved
Ah yes, only LGBTQ people like dancey songs of course
THIS kind of dancy songs is usually on most of gay ppls lists, so yeah, it makes it a fact.
Ah I see. So you know what’s on every gay person’s music list? You are a genius!
damn what do you straight people listen to then? “Hello darkness my old friend”…well seeing the state of the world right now, I can see it…typical straight people, not only they have to ruin their own lives, they need to drag everyone else into their misery
Lol. Why are so many people on here so grim and miserable??
Honestly, no one
These are bland? Like serously dull.
Karla’s song has the exact same 3 songwritters as John Lundvik’s song, but Karla has also Cazzi Opeia in her team and it’s a big plus for me.
Cazzi is behind the most recent Swedish victory, it’s not nothing.
Suddenly, PZE seems like one of the best NFs once again. What is this Sweden?
So much better than first semifinal.
On and On and On / Funniest Thing are my favorites.
So much better than semifinal.
On and On and On / Funniest Thing are my favorites.
Song 1: promising
Song 2: not for me
Song 3: my fav of this heat
Song 4: promising
Song 5: not for me
Song 6: cool song, a mix of Medina and Panetoz style, but nothing really original.
So for me song 3 in Final, and after it’s open for song 1, 4 and 6.
Surely this is Klara’s time? She deserves it on sheer steadfastness alone!
I do feel there is something more there than the snippet lets on..
Looks like that Heat 3 might be better because these songs are also a bit average.
What has happened to Melodifestivalen in the last few years, sadly it has gone downhill so much since Christer Bjorkman left. All the fun has gone out of it!!!
I’m glad he’s gone cause he made it even worse from 2015 to 2021
Klara and Nomi to Direckt Final.
That’s my guess as well.
Nomi Tales sounds promising!
I hope she can deliver it live, if so I could see this going places.
Rooting for the cowboy!
I enjoyed Waterloo 2.0!
Snippets don’t do songs justice but it does sound stronger than rhe first one.
Of the bat I say Klara and Eric to final.
These songs are also a bit mediocre; sorry Sweden :/ Anyway, still prefer another singer’s Victory; rather than Mans Zelmerlöw