Friday, June 27, 2014

SWEDEN: Broadcaster SVT invites song writers for Melodifestivalen 2015


One of the most spectacular song finding process - The Melodifestivalen in Sweden - starts for their competition for Swedens Song in Austria next year. 

Swedens Broadcaster just published this years rules. After their third place in Kopenhagen the executive producent of the Melodifestivalen - Christer Björkman - made the statement, that they will implement the proud of this good result into their work for finding the best Swedish Song for Wien, Graz or Innsbruck. 

Last year the rules included that at least 20% of the song writers has to be female. For next years competition SVT even rise this percentage up to 50%. Song writers may now start to find their songs since from 1st of September on they can submit the song with the deadline being the 16th of September.

More information you can find on SVT1 homepage for the Melodifestivalen 2015, an english download of the rules is available:

Sweden is one on the most sucessful country in the ESC. With only one time not reaching the final (2010 in Oslo) they always participating in the final. 

Here you can see once more some of the most popular and successful songs in ESC history: 

1966 - Lill Lindfors & Svante Thuresson  

Nygammal vals eller hip man svinaherde - 2nd place 


1974 - ABBA

Waterloo - Winner

1983 - Carola Häggkvist 

Främling - 3rd place 


1984 - Herreys

Diggi-loo diggi-ley - Winner


1985 - Kikki Danielsson

Bra vibrationer - 3rd place


1991 - Carola 

Fångad av en stormvind - winner


1995 - Jan Johansen

Se på mej - 3rd place 


1996 - One More Time

Den vilda - 3rd place 


1999 - Charlotte Nilsson

Take Me To The Heaven - winner


2011 - Eric Saade 

Popular - 3rd place


2012 - Loreen

Euphoria - winner


2014 - Sanna Nielsen

Undo - 3rd place


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