The wonderful Melodifestvialen will have its climax saturday. The final show will determine the Swedish representative for the ESC in Turin

One of the most famous national finals is the one from Sweden called “Melodifestivalen”. This is also called “Sweden’s Fest” as it celebrates new Swedish music every over six weeks with very entertaining shows, a lot of excitement and fun. This shows enjoy very high viewing figures. This year there were two voting rounds in each of the first four heats the entry with the highest televotes has been directly qualified for the final on 12th March in the Friends Arena in Sollentuna close to Stockholm. In every of these four heats the second qualifier has been announced in new way, sorted by age groups. That’s was interesting to see how children or elderly people voted differently. The former “Andra Chansen” show (second chance) has been replace by a semi-final, where the third and fourth placed songs have been reviewed another time and the four best songs qualified for the final as well. In tonight’s final there will be 50% televoting and 50% international jury voting.

Due to the corona pandemic all the shows have been held in the Avicii Arena (Globen) in Stockholm, unlike the previous years when different Swedish cities have been host cities as well.

The host of this year’s Melodifestivalen is Oscar Zia, who has participated two times as a singer 2014 with “Yes We Can” 8th place and 2016 with “Human” 2nd place .
Three of this year’s finalists have already won the Melodifestivalen and represented Sweden at Eurovision: Anna Bergendahl with “This Is My Life”  (11th place in the Semi-Final, Oslo 2010), John Lundvik with “Too Late For Love”  (5th place, Tel Aviv 2019) and Robin Bengtsson with “I Can’t Go On”  (5th place, Kyiv 2017).

This is the running order:

1. Klara Hammarström - "Run to the Hills" 
2. Theoz - "Som du vill" 
3. Anna Bergendahl - "Higher Power" 
4. John Lundvik - "Änglavakt" 
5. Tone Sekelius - "My Way" 
6. Anders Bagge - "Bigger Than The Universe" 
7. Robin Bengtsson - "Innocent Love" 
8. Faith Kakembo - "Freedom" 
9. Liamoo - "Bluffin" 
10. Cornelia Jakobs - "Hold Me Closer" 
11. Cazzi Opeia - "I Can’t Get Enough" 
12. MEDINA - "In i dimman" 

• You can watch the Melodifestivalen Saturday at 20.00 CET 

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As one of the founders of eurovisionlive.com I am responsible for the interviews with the singers and the editorial content. My passion for the Eurovision Song Contest exists since my early childhood. The exotic music, different cultures and languages have given a lot of inspiration to me. Since my very first ESC in Dublin 1994 I particularly appreciate the get together and friendship of all the nationalities and Riverdance was a thrill!