Sweden: The songs for Melodifestivalen 2016 are in
2450 songs submitted for Melodifestivalen 2016. An expert panel will the coming months pick the 27 songs to compete for the honor of representing Sweden on soil ground
The song submission for Melodifestivalen 2016 closed today. A total of 2450 songs have been submitted to the Swedish broadcaster, SVT.
An expert panel appointed by SVT will choose the 27 songs to compete in Melodifestivalen 2016, and the ticket to Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm.
The songs, artists, songwriters and line-up for Melodifestivalen 2016 will be announced in the autumn, when the expert panel at SVT has finished the selection process.
One performer is already known
One of the 28 acts for Melodifestivalen 2016 is already known. The trio "Smajling Swedes" won the bonus prize at the radio competition "Svensktoppen nästa 2015". The trio can't compete with the same song they won with, because all songs must be newly written for Melodifestivalen.
Contributions to Melodifestivalen
- 1995: 981
- 1996: 1475
- 1997: 1223
- 1998: 1121
- 1999: 1315
- 2000: 1394
- 2001: 1567
- 2002: 1831
- 2003: 2630
- 2004: 3228
- 2005: 3131
- 2006: 3326
- 2007: 3234
- 2008: 3489
- 2009: 3440
- 2010: 2860
- 2011: 3832
- 2012: 3485
- 2013: 2549
- 2014: 2628
- 2015: 2177
- 2016: 2450
Melodifestivalen 2016
- 6 February: Melodifestivalen Deltävling 1, Gothenburg (Scandinavium)
- 13 February: Melodifestivalen Deltävling 2, Malmö (Malmö Arena)
- 20 February: Melodifestivalen Deltävling 3, Norrköping (Himmelstalundshallen)
- 27 February: Melodifestivalen Deltävling 4, Gävle (Gavlerinken Arena)
- 5 March: Melodifestivalen Second chance, Halmstad (Halmstad Arena)
- 12 March: Melodifestivalen Final, Stockholm (Friends Arena)
The format for Melodifestivalen 2016 is the same as last year:
Each of the 4 heats qualifies 2 songs directly to the final
Each of the 4 heats qualifies 2 songs to the "second chance"-show
In the "second chance" 4 songs will be selected for the final
Sweden in Eurovision Song Contest
Since 1958 Sweden has participated 55 times in Eurovision Song Contest with great succes. They have won the contest 6 times:
- 1974: Abba - "Waterloo"
- 1984: Herreys - "Diggi-loo Diggy-ley"
- 1991: Carola - "Fångad Av En Stormvind"
- 1999: Charlotte Nilsson - "Take Me To Your Heaven"
- 2012: Loreen - "Euphoria"
- 2015: Måns Zelmerlöw - "Heroes"
They came last two times ( 1963 and 1977), and since the introduction of the Semi-finals in 2004 Sweden managed to qualify for the Grand Final 11 out of 12 times! (only skipped the qualification in 2010).
