It’s been a relatively quiet build-up to Eurovision 2016 so far but the first bit of news regarding potential performers has surfaced today – from our host nation Sweden, no less! Today, Sveriges Radio announced the eight finalists of Svensktoppen Nästa, a competition organised to discover the next chart success in Sweden. One of these finalists will win the competition …
Dream Team 2016 – Sweden
Earlier today we found out our second prequalified dream team artist and now we’re already on to the third! Next up is our host nation Sweden, so who would you want to see flying the flag on home turf? That’s right, after repetition finally worked out for Sanna Nielsen and Måns Zelmerlöw, you decided it’s finally time for Alcazar to …
Sweden and Cyprus to withdraw from Junior Eurovision?
Some sad news for fans of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest today as the official JESC EBU Twitter feed seemingly confirmed two withdrawals for the contest in Bulgaria. Sweden (who will host the main Eurovision in 2016) and Cyprus both seem unlikely to participate in the 2015 contest, with SVT’s children programming going through restructuring and the Cypriot broadcaster CyBC …
Belgium: Kate Ryan to return for second try at Eurovision.
It’s been just over a week since Eurovision 2015 in Vienna, but the rumour mill has already started for Sweden 2016. Kate Ryan, who represented Belgium in 2006 with her song Je t’adore is going for it again. Despite being such a fan favourite in Athens, she could only manage 12th place in the semi final, and crashed out before …
LIVE COVERAGE: Rehearsal Day 4
We’ve now seen most of the semi finalists performing, so it’s going to be very interesting to find out how the remaining ones are staged. Once again we are covering everything LIVE from the press centre at Wiener Stadthalle, Vienna. So far we’ve had a full run-through of all semi 1 participants and the first set of semi 2. Today, …
OGAE: What will Sweden’s votes do?
Four more clubs today including two nations in the Top 10! The clubs of Spain and Sweden vote today alongside Germany and Finland, so let’s see what they can do… Spain 12 Italy 10 Norway 8 Estonia 7 Sweden 6 Slovenia 5 Australia 4 Israel 3 Russia 2 France 1 Albania Germany 12 Estonia 10 Sweden 8 Norway 7 Slovenia …
The 2015 “Expert” Panel – SWEDEN
The ESC United “Expert” Panel is back once again reviewing all Eurovision songs and rank them accordingly. You are probably asking yourself on how we pick our panel and the criteria. We looked at people from all walks of life to bring together a unique group of panelists with a wide range in taste. They all bring different skills and …
Sweden: Måns changes his performance
Måns Zelmerlöw will be changing his performance of the Swedish Eurovision entry “Heroes” after a copyright claim was filed against him. Aftonbladet reports that the stick figure (pictured above) used in Måns’ winning Melodifestivalen performance was adapted from “The Alchemy of Light”, a projection mapping video dating back to 2012 by “A dandypunk”. The performance director for “Heroes”, Fredrik ‘Benke’ …
Sweden: Lynda Woodruff returns
Sarah Dawn Finer’s popular character from Melodifestivalen 2012 is back – Lynda Woodruff will be the red carpet reporter for the Swedish broadcast of Eurovision’s Greatest Hits! Melodifestivalen fans and those who watched Eurovision 2013 will be familiar with her character, an EBU ‘representative’ who was unable to pronounce Azerbaijan and made various other mistakes. She will be making a …
Melodifestivalen: How did the Swedish people vote?
Saturday final of Melodifestivalen resulted in Måns Zelmerlöw winning with the song “Heroes” but how did the Swedish people and international jury really vote? SVT just released the full status of the voting of each semifinal, andra chansen and the final. To follow are some fun facts about this years voting in Melodifestivalen, in the end of the article you …