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
1985 - Kikki Danielsson
Bra vibrationer - 3rd place
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