We are heading into week 3 in Sweden, and for Melodifestivalen 2025 heat 3 it’s a trip to Västerås and ABB Arena Syd. 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 each song now in full length, which means it’s time for one thing: To name your favourite.
You can also watch 30 second rehearsal snippets 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 3
- Greczula – “Believe Me”
Authors: Amanda Nordelius, John Russel, Kristofer Greczula
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Malou Prytz – “24K Gold”
Authors: Anderz Wrethov, Jimmy ”Joker” Thörnfeldt, Julie ”Kill J” Aagaard, Malou Prytz
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Björn Holmgren – “Rädda mig”
Authors: Björn Holmgren, David Lindgren Zacharias, Jens Hult
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Dolly Style – “YIHAA”
Authors: Caroline Aronsson, David Lindgren Zacharias, Herman Gardarfve, Melanie Wehbe, Mikaela Samuelsson, Patrik Jean
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Angelino – “Teardrops”
Authors: Jimmy ”Joker” Thörnfeldt, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Tusse Chiza
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Annika Wickihalder – “Life Again”
Authors: Annika Wickihalder, Herman Gardarfve, Patrik Jean
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.
My qualifiers would be Angelino and Dolly Style. With Malou Prytz or Greczula to the second chance. I could not tell you why Yihaa works for me and 24K Gold does not, but there we are I guess.
Every outcome that has Greczula out of the final would be a shame. They guy is miles above the competition. The entry has a Billy Idol vibe that ozes quality and personality.
There’s nothing here I like. A week year!
Waiting for Måns…
This is the worst heat. Four songs are complete garbage. And I mean garbage. Even as a swede I sometimes wonder how long some songs have been in someones drawer. Angelino’s song sound like an old Justin Timberlake song. And to put rain and pain in the lyrics is so done and generic that my ears bleed. Annika looks and sound like an old lady. Just because you’re bigger you can act and look like a young woman. I hate that genre! Dolly Style is done. Fake pop group for kids. Oh my! The best out of this is Grezcula… Read more »
24k gold remimds me (even staging) of Marcus & Martinus last year. But deff going to final. I bet Mans will win this year unless the song is meh 🙂
I don’t know why I was surprised to check the comments here and see how few people actually recognised how good “believe me” is as an option for sweden – and fail to see what’s made it shoot to third in the mello odds. He can perform live, it’s catchy, it’s fun, it’ll shine on a stage, and it’s VERY unlike what sweden has sent the last few years.
For real. “Believe me” is the best from the bunch we’ve heard already.
I dont care about this heat, but next week we will finally see the great Finnish band KAJ.
I feel like everyone is overly harsh as is custom when it is anything melfest (quelle surprise). I think the third heat is stronger than the previous two, with five out of six songs fighting for the tickets (only rädda mig being left solidly at the bottom)! My favourite is Malou but im not convinced by her stage precense, after her Annikas performance just makes me happy even if it is a bit simple. Greczula is gonna be lapped up by the 30-50s people and Dolly style will be loved by the youngest. Angellos song is a Tusse reject for… Read more »
Seeing Greczula’s performance I think he can convince a majority
No one
Why is Greczula favourite to win this heat?? It’s awful!!
? awful? not at all.
What’s the point? We already know who’s gonna win…
Heard the full version of the song none of them are good actually. I wouldn’t surprise if Dolly Style qualify to final but depend on staging and name right??
They are not actually that big…
Okay, I know I’m going to be in the minority here… Dolly Style is a complete hillbilly hot mess… but I’m kind of living for it!
That said, at the moment, I think Klara and Meira are still Sweden’s two best options.
I agree, Yihaa is both my guilty pleasure and my favourite of this week!
Winner are not from 1. and this 3. heat.
Heat 2 didn’t host a winner either. The winner is most likely from the heat 4. Heat 4 – 99%, heat 5 – 1%.
Klara is a winner candidate though
Why heat five 1%? They usually save one of the best songs for last, which looks promising for Scarlet. It’s going to be either Klara or someone from heat 4 or 5.
Mediocrefestivalen going strong, by the listen of it…
With the rubbish served so far, Sweden is at risk of being a NQ this year.
So far it looks like a repeat of 2023. Throughout semifinal 1 to 4, we thought Sweden would NQ. Until Loreen dropped her song.
It only takes one really good song, one. If Mans has a song as awesome as he claims it to be, we’ll have to count on Sweden once again. And if he is the only one with a good song in the Melodifestivalen, it’s going to be an easy win.
OMG. This Semi is proving Melodifestivalen should cut its number of entries. All six are just… bland. It is a waste of time and resources – like mine and theirs.
I don’t like any of these and the whole festival is the worst in recent years
Idk why everyone likes Malous song. The chorus I think is very weak.
I’ve been listening to Klara’s song on repeat since last week. It’s such a grower.. I’m obsessed.
Agree, i hope she overcome Mans….No one really wants Mans to go…
If the song is EUROVISION winner potential, he should go. If not, Klara all the way
You mean YOU don’t want Mans to go to Eurovision. I don’t care one way or the other.
Yes I mean me and Swedish people.
Is that the word on the street? Who would you rather send?
Yes; that is the word of the street. She is rhe favourite so far. And some, like me, doubt Måns will win. It’s to early after Loreen to send another winner.
I’m Swedish and I’d like to send Scarlet if their song is good. Rumour says it is.
As for Swedish people in general, I think it’s 50% “We HAVE to send Måns!” and 50% ”Not Måns again, anyone but him please”
I like Teardrops the most here, 24k gold is interesting, Björn song is touching but I haven’t heard a Melfest winner or a potential Esc winner in the first 3 heats…
Are we in the same situation as 2023, but with Mans this time? Or maybe not at all and it’s Scarlet or somebody else from the 4th and 5th heat who has the winning song, we’ll see but my feeling so far is everything is done to help Mans like it was done for Loreen.
Answer in 1 or 2 weeks, we will know that soon.
That’s my feeling too, but what if his song isn’t as good or better than Heroes? That would be really embarrassing. We’ll have to find out next week.
He said himself his song this year is better than Heroes… we’ll see if we can trust him.
We’ll see if he can back up his big claim.
I think Klara Hammarström had a winners vibe to her. So far she is the one to beat
I can’t feel this winner vibe with Klara honestly, I find On and on pretty average, nothing original and nothing outstanding, even the staging has nothing screaming winner…
To be honest if I was obliged to choose one song from the first 3 heats to win Melfest this year it would be Erik so far but without big conviction.
Erik has no chance. Especially with international juries.
?! But why? The song is good, it has a hook, Erik is a great performer, with a natural charisma, nothing feels forced in his performance compared to others and his great voice is the cherry on the cake, so I don’t see why the international juries couldn’t vote for him.
I would add, I got more pleasure to see Erik performing rather than with Klara or John, Erik feels more natural.
Because it does not stand out. Not original enough. To generic. Going by how the international juries voted in the past they always have something spectacular. Plus if the point is to find the best song for Sweden to Basel you have to look at how well it might do in ESC, and this would struggle
Wow, you are so annoying with your picky picky picky picky picky
Then don’t comment
Only Malou that was ok. Hope for a Great show to compensate the bad songs this week….
I like the GOLD song, it’s what we expect from Sweden, but to be honest, it’s more catchy than Strobe Light and Ich Komme, I try to like those songs but the love is simply not coming.
Dull …. same same same… Måns is going to win with ease ….cant see anyone else taking the victory…
Klara can win. Easily
Easily?! No I don’t think.
But she still can win it.
Maybe if the last 12 songs to be revealed don’t let a good impression, or are not impactful enough, but she has already big competition with Erik and John.
I don’t feel it’s Klara year honestly…maybe I’m wrong.
Erik is not really a competetor. He has no chance to win. Especially with international juries
For me he is the one to beat so far, don’t rule him out already.
She couldn’t win the semi, and that says it all 🙂
Last year Jaqline won her heat and still got beaten by the runner up. People can vote differently in final plus more people watch and vote in the final. Plus we don’t know how many more points Erik won with. Plus he got more support but Klara got more votes
It is rigged… if his song is good then why not?
Greczula abd Malou.
Greczula has been a favourite by the bookies (top 3 in the final). Lets see about that…
Waiting for the whole performance.
We already know that the best ones will never qualify cause they are not generic enough. Feel ashamed to be from Sweden
Really trying to stay positive about Melodifestivalen this year, but the snippets each week are making it difficult. This week’s reveal in particular…
Pop, pop but in Swedish and cowboy country music.
It shows how Melodifestivalen lacks diversity of music as per usual..
If the UK entry has the same vibe as Dolly Style – then I’m sure all the nativity will be retracted!
For me is Malu (1st), Anika (2nd) and Dolly Style to FQ.
100% this!
No really big names, which is good for the mix. That said I do think this is the weakest heat so far based on snippets. Maybe full versions will sound different.
I actually enyoed Dolly Style the most. Fun and catchy. Then Malou Prytz, nice that she found her sound.
But so far Klara Hammarström is the winners candidate