We have a host, for Melodifestivalen that is. Carina Berg will lead this year’s Melodifestivalen circus from Malmo to Stockholm! Carina Berg is an award-winning presenter and journalist hailing from just outside Stockholm. She began her career on Sveriges Radio in the early 2000s, before starting on TV presenting on Swedish Idol in 2007. She has a wealth of presenting …
Its the first of December, Happy Advent to everyone celebrating, but more importantly it is the day we find out who would be in next years Melodifestivalen. SVT held a special (in-person) press conference in Stockholm, for the first time since 2020, to announce this years artists. We have obviously been covering Aftonbladet’s rumoured artists lists so its now time …
Melfest 2024 preparation is in full swing, we have submissions in and now we have dates. Last week, SVT announced that there were 2624 applications to Melodifestivalen this year. This is a drop from last years over 2800 applications. And today, the organising committee at SVT have announced the locations and dates of the 2024 Melfest competitions. And they are …
One might think that SVT have their hands full, and they clearly do, since this past weekend, we got the number of entries submitted into Melodifestivalen, which lands on 2624 contenders for 2024. Melodifestivalen 2024 As we all should know by now, due to Sweden’s victory earlier this year, the 2024 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest will be held …
For all of us national season and contests lovers, we have a real treat coming our way from Sweden, the host of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024! SVT has announced the the commencement of the song submission period for Melodifestivalen 2024, Sweden’s national selection event for the Eurovision Song Contest, starting August 25 until September 15, 2023. The songs that …
SVT has released the new format for their 2024 national selection, Melodifestivalen, including significant changes to the qualification heats. Since 2007 the 6-week competition consisted of 4 qualification heats of 7 songs each, with the top 2 advancing directly to the final and the 3rd and 4th places of each heat battling through a second chance round for the last …
Last week we had the distinct privilege to sit down with Eurovision 2012 winner and current Eurovision 2023 contestant Loreen from Sweden for a lovely mid-afternoon chat. As you would expect, the entire time was filled with joy, laughter, and extremely thoughtful responses. While the conversation was short in time, we discussed her time on set for Drag Race Sverige’s …
Melodifestivalen 2023 has now come to a close. After 28 songs, across 5 weeks, with 4 heats and 1 semi-final, we finally have a winner! Tonight’s final was broadcast live from Stockholm’s Friends Arena, where thousands of fans crammed in to watch Sweden’s biggest TV show. Farah Abadi and Jesper Rohndahl guided us through the 12 acts vying to compete …
Disclaimer: This is a reviews post: All opinions stated belong to the editor quoted, and do not represent Matt or ESCUnited as a whole. Direct your anger elsewhere. Also, as is the case if opinions, they’re subjective and mostly wrong. Especially mine. We’ve made it! Finally, after weeks of hounding and scouring the selections, national finals season will finally …
This weekend, Sweden’s circus, Melodifestivalen, comes to a close. The final comes live to us from the Friends Arena in Stockholm on Saturday. At the show’s end, we will know who is representing Sweden at Eurovision this year. After 5 weeks, 4 heats and 1 semi-final we now have our final running order. The show will run like; Jon Henrik …
