SVT

Swedish broadcaster, SVT has revealed the full results of the public phone vote. Unsurprisingly, Norway came out on top.

This Saturday 6th June, the Swedes will be celebrating their national holiday. There will be various activities from all over Sweden broadcast on SVT, activities such as performances of former participants from Melodifestivalen. There will also be a soccer game where Sweden meets their neighbour Denmark on Saturday night.

On Wednesday night Swedish journalists had the chance to listen to the eight songs that will battle on Saturday for the 2 places in the final. Of course EuroVisionary was there.

SVT has now announced the first eight singers who are going to perform at next years swedish national selection Melodifestivalen. Big and well known names here are Måns Zelmerlöw, BWO and Alcazar.

Swedish broadcaster SVT has now revealed which cities will play host to Melodifestivalen 2009. There are no surprises this year as each of the cities hosted Melodifestivalen semi-finals before.

Swedish broadcaster SVT aims to make a stronger connection between Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest. This will bring better promotion for their participants and, hopefully, better results, although Charlotte Perrelli finished 18th despite a big European tour in private jet.

The program for SVT’s popular series of open air sing along concerts offers many familiar names in the 2008 edition, where Arja Saijonmaa, Sanna Nielsen, BWO, Christer Sjögren and Maria Haukaas Storeng are among the many who will be performing at Skansen during the summer.

Serbia prepares for two major events in the next two weeks, a pre-term parliamentary election on May 11th and, of course, the Eurovision Song Contest, for which rehearsals start the same day. Carl Bildt and Svante Stockselius discussed safety in relation to Belgrade last night on Swedish TV.