SwedenHaving won less times than Ireland or Luxembourg, Sweden's success in Eurovision stretches beyond their own victories. Swedish artists performed Norway's two and Greece's only winning entry, and Swedish audio, video and lighting technology is a popular choice among hosting countries, although many a fan wonder why. Recently Swedish artists and composers toured national finals all over Europe, apart from their own Melodifestivalen, not always without success. Furthermore, the current boss of the ESC is a Swede.
Sweden's entries may often resemble each other, but as long as the classic Eurovision schlager sound is still going strong with televotes around Europe, this music is likely to continue to remain a popular choice for the biggest of the Nordic countries. Because nobody can make a schlager stromper like the Swedes!
2008
No change of format was announced, and four semifinals and a second chance night will select entries for Melodifestivalen, which took place on March 15th.
Following the humiliating defeat of Carola in the Andra Chansen (wildcard) round, the MF road to victory was all but paved for ESC 1999 winner Charlotte Perrelli (fka Nilsson). With several Message Board folk in attendance, Charlotte won MF after securing the jury vote and losing out on the televote tally, however not by a large enough margin to deny her victory. 2nd place loser (or winner, however you look at it) Sanna Nielsen and her snoozefest aptly named Empty Room was left with 206 points to Charlotte's 224. So along with her never ending legs and catlike facial ticks, Ms Perrelli will head to Belgrade to try and duplicate her 99 victory.
Latest news entries about Sweden
* Stockholm 2016: It's the Globe! - Wed 8 Jul
* New winner, new face - Sun 24 May
* Helena Survives Another Day - Sat 1 Feb
* Swedish televoters aren't into You - Sat 9 Mar
* Interview: Cookies n Beans (Sweden) - Thu 28 Feb
* Exclusive: the REAL reason behind the 2013 withdrawals - Fri 23 Nov
* SVT announce the first 16 Melodifestivalen hopefuls - Mon 19 Nov
* 2,549 Loreen copies in - Tue 18 Sep
* 2013 Melodifestivalen venues and dates announced - Tue 11 Sep
* Artist spotlight: Jill Johnson - Tue 14 Aug
* It's Malmö! - Sun 8 Jul
* Euphoria all around! - Sun 27 May
* Loreen in the snow - Sun 11 Mar
* I challenge Sju (well - åtta) to a duel! - Thu 1 Mar
* Malmö gives us Goosebumps - Mon 27 Feb
* Shout It Out. It Out. Oh oh. Shout It Out. It Out. - Sun 12 Feb
* Meatballs meatballs everywhere - Melodifestivalen interviews - Sat 11 Feb
* Euphoria in Sweden - Sat 4 Feb
* Melodifestivalen - Full ESC Nation Guide! - Fri 2 Dec
* Artists announced for Melodifestivalen 2012 - Semi 3 & 4 - Mon 28 Nov
* Artists announced for Melodifestivalen 2012 - Semi 1 & 2 - Mon 21 Nov
* In MF, MF, MF 2012 - Fri 11 Nov
* SVT announce female trio to host MF 2012 - Mon 31 Oct
* The Jokers on MF - Tue 4 Oct
* MeLindaFestivalen (MF Semi 4, Malmö) - Mon 28 Feb
* Melodi Nummer Luleå - Sun 6 Feb
* Schlagerkaos Countdown begins! - Thu 2 Dec
* This is the life of Anna. - Mon 15 Mar
* We tried to be journalists in Stockholm [for the first time ever!] - Sun 15 Mar
* Sweden is ready for the Grand Schlager Finale - Sat 8 Mar
* Pullan - Sat 1 Mar
* Schlagerfestivalen hits Karlskrona - Thu 28 Feb
* We know nobody cares today - Sat 23 Feb
* This is how we party on a Thursday - Fri 22 Feb
* Hitta Britta - Thu 21 Feb
* Predictable Sweden - Sat 16 Feb
* Behind the scenes. And Alcazar-Tess. - Thu 14 Feb
* In case anyone missed it - Sat 9 Feb
* Sweden takes over the show [Videos] - Thu 7 Feb
* You've got to be Joking? - Tue 15 Jan