Here at Eurovision Ireland, we are taking a historical look back on our favourite Contests past and present, on the very day they took place. Today it’s March 9th: Saturday 9th March 2024 On this day in 2024, the 64th edition of Melodifestivalen took place in Stockholm. Marcus […]
The most watched Eurovision national selection across Europe each year is that of Melodifestivalen. Earlier we confirmed to you the dates and venues of the heats, second chance semi final and the Grand Final – see here Every year fans from across Europe make the pilgrimage to Sweden for […]
The Eurovision season really begins when Sweden announce their Melodifestivalen details. Everyone looks at the 6 week national selection show (though some will not admit to it) and EVERYONE has an opinion on the songs. Today our good friends at SVT announced their details for 2014 – thank […]
Danny Saucedo has been runner-up at Melodifestivalen twice now – 2011 and 2012. In 2012 he was second to Loreen with the song “Amazing”. Amazing was a big production of a dance track. However recently he performed a ballad version of the song called “Amazing – The Wedding […]
The original – and the best – line up of Swedish pop group legends “Army of Lovers”, reformed for Melodifestivalen this year and brought us the highly underrated “Rockin the Ride”. It was a teenage dream come true to see Alexander Bard, La Camilla and Jean-Pierre Barda back together […]
Just a month after hosting Eurovision 2013 – SVT – the Swedish National Broadcaster have announced the application process for Melodifestivalen 2014 (the Swedish National Selection Process) Again there will be 32 songs selected for the 4 Heats. How will the 32 songs be selected? Firstly SVT have […]
We reported last week that Melodifestivalen’s favorite “Bridesmaid” Danny Saucedo had a new song about to be released – the summer sounding “Todo El Mundo (Dancing In The Streets)” – which is hoped to launch Danny in South America and further strengthen his place in the Scandinavian Pop Charts. […]
Eurovision stars Johnny Logan (Winner 1980, 1987 and allegedly in drag in 1992) along with Björn Skifs (Sweden 1978,1981) , Lena Philipsson (Sweden 2004), Lotta Engberg (Sweden 1987) , Helena Paparizou (Greece 2001 and 2005), Tommy Nilsson (Sweden 1989) and Bonnie Tyler (UK 2013) will all be taking to the stage […]
Swedish singer and Melodifestivalen presenter – Danny Saucedo – has his sights on making it big in Latin America and the USA. The singer is known to Eurovision fans as being runner-up in the Swedish Eurovision Selection in 2011 and 2012 – however a little known fact is […]
One of our favorite music sites – Scandipop – have announced that they will be hosting a Eurovision/Scandipop night in Malmo on the eve of the Eurovision Final. In cooperation with Moriska Paviljongen (also known as “Moriskan”, and this year’s official Euro Café) they will be hosting a […]
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