After an exciting voting, Sanna Nielsen wins MF2014 with her song Undo beating Ace Wilder with only two points in a nail-biting finish. The international jury consisting of Denmark, Estonia, France, Israel, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, UK and Germany put Sanna on 2nd place. Final results 1. (212) Sanna Nielsen – Undo 2. (210) Ace Wilder – Busy Doin’ Nothin’ 3. …
Sweden: Interview with Sanna Nielsen
Just one day left until the big final of Melodifestivalen 2014 – and ESC United is counting down by interviewing three of the competing artists. Last but not least we have the talented Sanna Nielsen who has participated in the show seven times before. Her most successful attempt, the song “Empty Room”, came in 2nd place. Will you change anything …
Sweden: Interview with Oscar Zia
As the artists do their first rehearsal in Friends Arena we got the chance to talk to another final participant. Oscar Zia is a 17 year old who started his music career with an 8th place in X Factor 2012. Since then he has come 2nd in the TV show “Let’s Dance” and together with Loulou Lamotte and Behrang Miri …
Sweden: Interview with Ellen Benediktson
As Melodifestivalen is coming to an end, ESC United got the chance to talk to Ellen Benediktson who will compete with the song “Songbird” on Saturday’s final. What is your favourite Eurovision song? – I have to say the French entry from last year. Both her and the song were so cool, sad that it didn’t go too well for …
Sweden: Melodifestivalen final draw revealed
As Melodifestivalen is coming to an end we now got the last running order for the show in Friends Arena next saturday. As usual it’s Christer Björkman with his team that has decided the draw and he says that the thought behind the running order is to make it feel exciting and to have an intensity that goes up and down …
Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2nd chance results
Tonight it was decided which two last acts that will perform the 8th of March in Friends Arena for the chance of representing Sweden in this years Eurovision Song Contest. The first act that made it to the final was: Helena Paparizou – Survivior and the second was: Linus – Broder What do you think of the final lineup for …
Sweden: 3 Former Eurovision winners on Melodifestivalens stage tonight
Tonight the last two finalist for Melodifestivalen 2014 will be decided, it’s the last chance for the artists to get the chance to represent Sweden in Eurovision in May. For the first time ever in Melodifestivalen three former Eurovision winners will perform on stage. Helena Paparizou (2005), Emmelie De Forest (2013) and from Nocturne (1995) Åsa Jinder, Åsa will play …
Sweden: Cheating in Melodifestivalen
As of today new rules have been applied to Melodifestivalen, P4 Sjuhärad (radio station) was able to reveal that representants for an artist in Melodifestivalen had been buying thousands of votes with the help of a telerobot. As an example Bert Karlsson (entrepreneur label manager) can confirm that cheating have existed since the webjoker came along. He was offered to …
Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2nd chance draw
As the result of semifinal 4 was held SVT posted the draw for the 2nd chance next saturday. The following will compete in Lidköping the 1st of March: 1. Ammotrack – ”Raise Your Hands” 2. Linus Svenning – ”Bröder” (Brothers) 3. JEM – ”Love Trigger” 4. State Of Drama – ”All We Are” 5. Ellinore Holmer – ”En himmelsk sång” …
Sweden: Melodifestivalen Semifinal 4 results
The 4th and last semifinal of Melodifestivalen 2014 just ended and we stand with another two artists for final and two for next week’s 2nd chance. After a semifinal with both rock and love ballads we can now congratulate these artists into final and 2nd chance. Final Anton Ewald – Natural Alcazar – Blame It On The Disco 2nd chance …