Sweden Melodifestivalen 2020: Hanna Ferm and Victor Crone to the final

Tonight the fourth deltävling (heat) took place, with two winners qualified directly to the final: Hanna Ferm and Victor Crone and two acts for the "second chance": Frida Öhrn and Ellen Benediktson & Simon Peyron.

Tonight's deltävling was held in Malmö Arena, which also hosted Eurovision Song Contest 2013. In 1992 Malmö hosted Eurovision at Malmö Ishall.

Like the previous years the votes will not be unveiled before the Final of Melodifestivalen 7 March 2020.

Melodifestivalen 2020 – Second Chance Lineup

Eskilstuna, 29 February 2020

The Second Chance will consist of four duels, where the winner of each duel will qualify to the final.

Duel 1

• Anis don Demina – "Vem är som oss"
• Ellen Benediktson & Simon Peyron – "Surface"

Duel 2

• Malou Prytz – "Ballerina"
• Paul Rey – "Talking in My Sleep"

Duel 3

• Felix Sandman – "Boys with Emotions"
• Frida Öhrn – "We Are One"

Duel 4

• Méndez feat. Alvaro Estrella – "Vamos amigos"
• Drängarna – "Piga och dräng"

Melodifestivalen 2020

• 1 February: Deltävling 1 (Linköping)
• 8 February: Deltävling 2 (Göteborg)
• 15 February: Deltävling 3 (Luleå)
• 22 February: Deltävling 4 (Malmö)
• 29 February: Second Chance (Eskilstuna)
• 7 March: Final (Stockholm)

The format for Melodifestivalen 2020 is the same as last year: Each of the 4 heats qualifies 2 songs directly to the final and two songs to the "second chance"-show. In the "second chance" 4 songs will be selected for the final.

Hosts of the shows are David Sundin, Lina Hedlund and Linnea Henriksson. Tickets for all the shows are on sale on Livenation.se

Sweden in Eurovision Song Contest

Since 1958 Sweden has participated 59 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 15 out of 16 times! (only skipped the qualification in 2010)