The final of the 61st edition of Melodifestivalen, Sweden’s popular music contest and national selection show for Eurovision. Watch the show on broadcaster SVT’s website. Due to pandemic precautions, Melodifestivalen … Continue reading Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2021 final
The “second chances” (Andra Chansen) round of the 61st edition of Melodifestivalen, Sweden’s popular music contest and national selection show for Eurovision, where the 3rd and 4th placed acts in … Continue reading Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2021 Second Chances round
The last of four semi-finals of the 61st edition of Melodifestivalen, Sweden’s popular music contest and national selection show for Eurovision. Watch the show on broadcaster SVT’s website. Due to … Continue reading Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2021 semi-final 4
The third of four semi-finals of the 61st edition of Melodifestivalen, Sweden’s popular music contest and national selection show for Eurovision. Watch the show on broadcaster SVT’s website. Due to … Continue reading Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2021 semi-final 3
The second of four semi-finals of the 61st edition of Melodifestivalen, Sweden’s popular music contest and national selection show for Eurovision. Watch the show on broadcaster SVT’s website. Due to … Continue reading Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2021 semi-final 2
The first of four semi-finals of the 61st edition of Melodifestivalen, Sweden’s popular music contest and national selection show for Eurovision. Watch the show on broadcaster SVT’s website. Due to … Continue reading Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2021 semi-final 1
Closing in the on the top 10, we’re really in the upper echelons of my top 41 countdown, especially given how many songs I have liked for 2020. This is … Continue reading Eurovision 2020 top 41 countdown: #14 to #12
The national selection season finishes with a flourish with four national finals taking place on Saturday 7 March, including three Nordic countries. Sweden is well known as the biggest national … Continue reading Eurovision 2020 national selections: Sweden and Denmark previews
So after the shocks, surprises and disappointments of semi-final 1, we’ve got the second semi-final coming up and once again, my friend and fellow Eurovision fan Clive and I have … Continue reading Eurovision 2019 semi-final 2: predictions and hopes
Just outside my top 10 this year is the undisputed current superpower of Eurovision – Sweden. With 6 wins overall, and 2 within the last decade, a string of top … Continue reading Eurovision 2019 previews countdown: #11 SWEDEN – John Lundvik – “Too Late for Love”
Concluding my two part of best of the rest on the eve of the last Eurofest before Eurovision (always one of my favourites as we watch and score all 41 … Continue reading The nearly songs: national finals 2019 best of the rest part 2
The big daddy of the national finals reaches its culmination this Saturday (9 March) and fittingly is the last national final of the season. 12 finalists have made it through … Continue reading Eurovision 2019 national selections: Melodifestivalen final (Sweden preview)