Melodifestivalen 2014: Reviews and Rankings by the Wiwi Jury

This year’s Melodifestivalen finalists—Ace Wilder, Alcazar, Anton Ewald, Ellen Benedicktson, Helena Paparizou,Oscar Zia, Linus Svenning, Panetoz, Sanna Nielsen, and YOHIO—have already survived their semi-finals and the Andra Chansen. But now they face an even greater challenge: surviving the Wiwi Jury.

All this week our in-house panel of music unprofessionals offered its frank opinion of each of the songs. They assigned them a score from zero to ten, and then the scores were averaged for the Wiwi Jury verdict. Our jury consists of an American, an Australian, an Austrian, several Brits, a Finn and an Irishman—so we are totally international, y’all.

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You’ve already sat through five weeks of Melodifestivalen. Now it’s time to sit through a sixth. But when this one ends we’ll finally have a winner—and Sweden’s Eurovision 2014 singer!

Reviews and Current rankings

1. Helena Paparizou — “Survivor” (8.48)

2. Sanna Nielsen — “Undo” (8.2)

3. Linus Svenning — “Bröder” (Brothers) (6.65)

4. Ace Wilder — “Busy Doing Nothin'” (6.5)

5. YOHIO — “To the End” (5.40)

6. Alcazar — “Blame it on the Disco” (5.3)

7. Panetoz — Efter Solsken (5.25)

8. Oscar Zia — “Yes We Can” (4.85)

9. Anton Ewald — “Natural” (4.75)

10. Ellen Benedicktson — “Songbird” (4.40)

Contestants and Songs left to Review

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