SWEDEN – Welcome to our live rolling blog for the fSECOND Heat of Melodifestivalen 2014 aka The Swedish Eurovision National Selection for Eurovision 2014. Just refresh the page for our live commentary on the show. You can watch the show with us HERE on the SVT Play and tell us if you […]
SWEDEN : This Saturday Melodifestivalen comes from Linköping. The SVT Melodifestivalen website have announced that this weekend will see a celebration to Abba. 2014 is the 40th anniversary of Abba’s win at Eurovision and Sweden’s first Eurovision win. El Refai and Jansson are planning a tribute to ABBA in the […]
RESULT – Tonight saw the highly anticipated return of Melodifestivalen. 8 Acts competed for 2 Direct Finalist Places and then a Further 2 for the Second Chance Round. There will be a shock for some Eurovision fans with the results for Eurovision Winner Helena Paparizou Direct Finalist Qualifiers YOHIO […]
SWEDEN – The first rehearsals for this Saturday’s First heat are in and it is not all plain sailing for Yohio and Helena Paparizou according to the press. The accredited press that have gathered in Malmo have been played the studio versions of the first 8 acts competing in […]
Eurovision 2014 – Your weekly calendar for Eurovision events taking place for Monday January 27th to Sunday February 2nd. This is by far the busiest week that we will have for Eurovision selections in the 2014 season so far. Monday January 27th – NORWAY – Announcement of Artists […]
Sweden – Danny Saucedo gives us a new position in the “Kamasutra”. That mental image will stay with many people today. The Swedish Melodifestivalen runner-up has been uploading some of his new music onto soundcloud over the past few months and some of it has been breaking down the […]
“Bonus Tracks expected from Abba’s record company this year.” 2014 represents the 40th anniversary of Abba’s win at Eurovision with the iconic song “Waterloo”. Universal Records has revealed that to mark the occasion, they “are planning on reissuing a lot of Abba material with bonus tracks”. There are […]
Eurovision Winner and Melodifestivalen 2014 contestant Helena Paparizou releases her new song. This comes in advance of her participation in Sweden’s 2014 Eurovision search. There is much anticipation about how the Greek Eurovision winner will score with the Swedish Public this February. Her new song is entitled “De Thelo […]
SVT – Swedish National Broadcaster – has announced the running order for the 4 Heats of Melodifestivalen 2014. One always looks to what artists are opening and closing each of the shows with much interest. So where have your pre-contest favourites been placed? Semi Final 1: Malmö February […]
Melodifestivalen 2014 will be starting in the new year. We have already met the artists that are hoping to represent Sweden at Eurovision 2014. In case you need a Melodifestivalen fix – then you can pre-order the Melodifestivalen 2014 album now. The album will be released on February […]
Earlier this month we at Eurovision Ireland commented on the coincidence that Eurovision Legend Agnetha Faltskog (of Abba fame) was releasing her latest album in over 9 years on May 13th – just as Eurovision Week began. Rumors began to circulate that Agnetha might be taking part in […]
Eurovision Ireland’s on-line poll closed at midnight and we have the results from the pubic. These we will add to the results from our 6 Juries from Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands and Malta. So who managed to win the public over? We are replicating the 50/50 […]
Eurovision Ireland in association with our European colleagues have come to the final Jury to vote in our Melodifestivalen jury and On-line poll. The last country to vote is that of Malta. So who could we get to review the finalists at Melodifestivalen? There was only one person […]
Eurovision Ireland teams up with International Juries along with our on-line fan poll to predict the winner of Melodifestivalen 2013. Over the next 24 hours we will give you the results from our fan jury who hail from several countries across Europe. To this we will add the results to on on-line poll […]
Eurovision Ireland teams up with International Juries along with our on-line fan poll to predict the winner of Melodifestivalen 2013. Over the next 24 hours we will give you the results from our fan jury who hail from several countries across Europe. To this we will add the results to on on-line poll […]