A-lister
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Low viewership + televote record = low support?
Sure, the app votes will increase the televote numbers. The app has been out for 4 years now and been in effect for 3 finals now: 2018 had the biggest voting record of all time, beating 2017 and 2016. If more votes come in, that means people engage more because they think at least one song has the quality that it deserves a vote. Indifferent people don’t pick up their phone.
You can’t state Benjamin had weak competition. By that logic: a gold medalist had weak competition if the participants scoring 2nd-5th had a low margin, but the gold medalist had strong competition if he/she won by a landslide. Makes no sense. One can argue about the overall quality of the final, but considering there was a televote record and it was evenly spread, by logic the competition couldn’t have been weak.
As for the quality: the top 3 on Spotify right now are all Melodifestivalen finalists. 6 out of the top 10 including.
If fewer people watches it means that a higher percentage out of the fewer people watching vote, or simply more votes/person which is probably the case due to the app thingy.
I meant that in terms of song quality, I'd say there was weak competition this year generally speaking, and this is more a comment to those who celebrate his victory as some sort of great success and that he himself had this "standout" entry which apparently wasn't the case. I meant that if he was such a standout, how come he couldn't even manage better with the weak competition? Maybe you didn't get my comment, I simply meant that his entry was weak aswell hence why, as you point out, the voting was even more even than usual, and my conclusion is that it was an even low standard this year, not even high.