SVT has published a sneak peek of the rehearsals of the first Melodifestivalen 2025 heat, which will take place on Saturday, February 1st.
You can have a look below:
1. Albin Johnsén feat. Pa – “Upp i luften”
Text & music: Albin Johnsén, Christoffer Balazik, FERNAND MP, Mattias Andréasson, Pa Modou
2. Maja Ivarsson – “Kamikaze Life”
Text & music: Andreas ”Giri” Lindbergh, Jimmy “Joker” Thörnfeldt, Joy Deb, Linnea Deb, Maja Ivarsson
3. John Lundvik – “Voice of the Silent”
Text & music: Jimmy Jansson, John Lundvik, Peter Boström, Thomas G:son
4. Meira Omar – “Hush Hush”
Text & music: Anderz Wrethov, Dino Medanhodzic, Laurell Barker, Meira Omar
5. Adrian Macéus – “Vår första gång”
Text & music: Adam “Rymdpojken” Englund, Adrian Björklund, Adrian Macéus, Hugo Geijer Persson, William Pärlenskog
6. Linnea Henriksson – “Den känslan”
Text & music: David Lindgren Zacharias, Linnea Henriksson, Sebastian Atas
Full songs are now released to all platforms!
In this year’s edition SVT brings something that the fans were asking for! The release dates of the competing songs! All these years, SVT were very strict about the release of the songs prior to the contest. The viewers were only getting a few seconds of rehearsals and snippets and the finalists were not allowed to be streamed before the last heat was over. This changes for the 2025 edition. All six songs from each heat will be released to all platforms on Friday, one day before their competing heat and will be available throughout the entire competition. So here are the first competing songs in their full studio version!
Albin Johnsén feat. Pa – «Upp i luften»
Maja Ivarsson – «Kamikaze Life»
John Lundvik – «Voice of the Silent»
Meira Omar – «Hush Hush»
Adrian Macéus – «Vår första gång»
Linnea Henriksson – «Den känslan»
Dates and cities of Melodifestivalen 2025
- Heat 1 – LULEÅ, 1st February
- Heat 2 – GOTHENBURG, 8th February
- Heat 3 – VÄSTERÅS, 15th February
- Heat 4 – MALMÖ, 22nd February
- Heat 5 – JÖNKÖPING, 1st March
- Final – STOCKHOLM, 8th March
The 2025 format
Melodifestivalen 2025 will consist of 5 heats with 6 competing acts in each heat. The two acts with the highest points from each heat will advance directly to the final. But, who will get the last two tickets for the final will differ compared to last year’s competition.
In 2024, the acts that got the 3rd and 4th places in the heat, advanced to the “finalkvalet” round (second chance). Next year, only the 3rd-placed act will qualify for this round and thus have a chance to complete the 12-song line up of the final. This means that “finalkvalet” will only have 5 competing songs instead of 10 and a different voting system.
This round will once again take place right after the 5th heat is over. There will be a voting round where the highest scoring act of the five will qualify for the final. A second voting round will begin where the viewers will be able to vote for the remaining four acts and the one with the highest points will take the last ticket for the big final in Stockholm.