This Saturday Sweden will start searching for the artist who will represent the country in Baku at the Eurovision Song Contest in May. Here is a look at the first heat from the town of Växjö where we will see former Eurovision participants and other well known names together with singers who will take part… Read more
Today SVT announced the full details about the rules of Melodifestivalen 2012. One of the news this year is that SVT will go back to a previously used system which means that there won’t be a song that goes straight to the final after the first round of voting anymore and when a semi final… Read more
The full starting field of Melodifestivalen 2012 came clear today when swedish broadcaster SVT announced the final 16 acts at a press conference this morning. Fans of Melodifestivalen will discover several familiar names and amongst these the one perhaps shining brightest is the Eurovision winner Charlotte Perrelli. Charlotte Perrelli, the winner of Eurovison song contest… Read more
Today the swedish broadcaster SVT held a press conference to officially announce the first 16 artists who will compete in semifinal 1 and 2 of Melodifestivalen 2012. Afrodite is back again along with the Moniker, Loreen, Sonja Aldén and Marie Serneholt. Among the newcomers we have names like the experienced Thomas Di Leva and the… Read more
Helena Bergström, Sarah Dawn Finer and Gina Dirawi are the three women that SVT announced will be the hosts of Melodifestivalen – the swedish national selection for the Eurovision song contest that will be broadcasted six Saturdays this winter. There are also some new rumours about possible participants for next years competition. Christer Björkman, the… Read more
The Melodifestivalfever rises as the first eight songs to take part in the webbjoker competition were made available to listen to. The Webbjoker competition consists of four semi-finals with eight songs each. Every Monday two songs will be voted through to the final on 7 November where the winning song will be one of 32… Read more
Big names like Anabel Conde, Pernilla Wahlgren and Jenny Silver were guests at OGAE Swedens annual convention held on Saurday the 1st of October in Stockholm. EuroVisionary show you videos from the meeting that was yet another successful arrangement by the club, in Sweden called Melodifestivalklubben. The convention has year after year attracted a crowd… Read more
The interest for the swedish national final selection Melodifestivalen keeps on being high. When the deadline for sending in songs to SVT passed on Wednesday midnight no less than 3 485 songs had been submitted. This is the third highest number of songs submitted in the history of Melodifestivalen. 3 485 is a number that… Read more
Finnish national broadcaster YLE has announced a new format in the selction of the countrys eurovision entry 2012. The contest is now open for anyone and the selction process will go through different stages. The televised part of the selection will start in January with the final being held in Helsinki in February. The selection… Read more
Big names such as Carola, Eric Saade, Andreas Johnson and Jessica Andersson all took part in the televised annual public celebration of the Swedish Crown Princess Victorias birthday. The celebration of the Swedish Crown Princess took part, as always, in Borgholm on the swedish island of Öland. In a televised program the viewers could follow the people and… Read more
The popular swedish tv program Allsång på Skansen has been aired for decades in Sweden. Many of this years guests has represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest or participated in the swedish national selection Melodifestivalen. The new host for the show is a well known name for those who followed Melodifestivalen in recent years… Read more
A total of 2 880 000 viewers followed Eric Saade in Sweden on Saturday night. Last year had more than one million viewers fewer following the final (much due to the fact that Sweden was not in the final). Several Eurovision participants are currently at the swedish iTunes chart with Jedward taking the number one… Read more
These photos were taken at the winners press conference with Ell/Nikki held after the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Düsseldorf. Read more
Here is a gallery with photos from the first dress rehearsal of the final on the Eurovision Song Contest in Düssledorf. Read more
These photos were taken at the press conference that was held with the 10 qualifiers after semi final 2. Read more
Here is a gallery with photos from the first dress rehearsal of the second semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Düssledorf. Read more
These photos were taken at the press conference that was held with the 10 qualifiers after semi final 1. Read more
At 21.00 it was time for the second dress rehearsal of the first semi final. It was another opportunity for the artists to tweak their performances and the organizers to get all the technical bits into place. Here are some reflections from this rehearsal. Note: The opinion expressed in this article are those of the… Read more
Here are some photos from the San Marino party at a Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf. Read more
Here is a gallery with photos from the first dress rehearsal of the first semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Düssledorf. Read more
The band A Friend In London representing Denmark at their 2nd Press Conference of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. Here is the photo gallery. Read more
Getter Jaani representing Estonia at her 2nd Press Conference of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. Here is the photo gallery. Read more
Maja Keuc representing Slovenia at her 2nd Press Conference of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. Here is the photo gallery. Read more
Here are some photos from the welcome reception that took place at Tonhalle on the 7 of May 2011 in Düsseldorf. Read more
Here is a gallery of photos taken from the Dutch party that was held on the ship Royal Crown on the 6 of May 2011 in Düsseldorf. Read more
Eric Saade representing Sweden at his 2nd Press conference of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. Here is the photo gallery. Read more