March 11, 2023

Loreen wins Melodifestivalen 2023 in Sweden

The one and only Loreen has just made even more history than she already has. The 39 year old singer has won Melodifestivalen 2023, and will represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool. Two weeks ago, when Loreen rehearsed “Tattoo” for the first time, she skyrocketed in the Melodifestivalen odds to first place. Not only did she get herself to first place, she also made a magnificent impact on the Eurovision odds. For months Ukraine was first, but as of writing Sweden holds the first place with a 38% chance of winning. We all know Loreen, as she has won Eurovision before in 2012 with her pop hit “Euphoria”. The song remains one of the most popular Eurovision songs of all time. Loreen has participated 3 times in Melodifestivalen before. Her first time was in 2010, where she took part with “My Heart Is Refusing Me”. In the end she only got to the Andra Chansen round. In 2017 she took part another time with “Statements”. However the past repeated itself and she got to the Andra Chansen round again, where she failed to qualify. Tonight she has won Melodifestivalen with “Tattoo”, and you can watch the performance here: We will see Loreen perform “Tattoo”in the first Semi Final on May 9th. Can she win it all again in Liverpool 2023? You can see the combined jury & televote results of Melodifestivalen 2023 here:

Portugal: Festival da Canção, the last national final

Festival da Canção will reach it’s final tonight. That makes the Portuguese national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest the last one for this year. Only a few internal selected songs are not published yet. Festival da Canção has 13 songs this year. There were supposed to be twelve, but due to technichal issues an extra song had been added from the first semifinal. The finalists are: 1 Cláudia Pascoal Nasci Maria 2 Churky Encruzilhada 3 Esse Povo Sapatos de cimento 4 Bárbara Tinoco Goodnight 5 You Can’t Win Charlie Brown Contraste Mudou 6 Voodoo Marmalade Tormento 7 Inês Apenas Fim do mundo 8 Mimicat Ai coração 9 Dapunksportif World needs therapy 10 Neon Soho Endless world 11 Ivandro Povo 12 Edmundo Inácio A festa 13 Sal Viver Cláudia Pascoal won Festival Da Canção in 2018 and represented Portugal at the festival in Lisbon with the song “O jardim”.Bárbara Tinoco was 2nd in the 2020 national final.

Sweden: Loreen favourite in Melodifestivalen

Loreen is the huge favourite to win Melodifestivalen 2023 with her song “Tattoo”. Bookmakers give the singer a chance of 86% to win the contest. As soon as her song was presented two weeks ago, Sweden is the top favourite even to win the entire contest. But…. nothing has been decided yet. The show starts at 20:00 CET and you can watch it here. These are the twelve contestants: 1 Jon Hendrik Fjällgren, Arc North feat. Adam Woods Where you are (Sávežan) 2 Tone Sekelius Rythm of my show 3 Mariette One day 4 Marcus & Martinus Air 5 Panetoz On my way 6 Maria Sur Never give up 7 Smash Into Pieces Six feet under 8 Kiana Where did you go? 9 Nordman Släpp alla sorger 10 Loreen Tattoo 11 Theoz Mer av dig 12 Paul Rey Royals Jon Henrik Fjällgren became 2nd in 2015, 3rd in 2017 and 4th in 2019. Tone Sekelius became 5th last year.Mariette became 3rd in 2015, 4th in 2017, 5th in 2018 and 10th in 2020.Panetoz became 9th in 2014 and 8th in 2016.Nordman became 5th in 2005 and 6th in 2008.Loreen reached Andra Chancen in 2011, won Melodifestivalen 2012 and reached Andra Chancen in 2017. Loreen won the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the legendary song “Euphoria”!Theoz became 7th last year.Paul Rey became 6th in the 2020 final. A year later he became 12th.