Composers and song writers can start submitting their songs for Melodifestivalen 2024! Between the 25th August and the 15th of September at 11:59 CET, composers can upload their entries for Melodifestivalen 2024 at www.melodifestivalen.se.
A total of 30 entries will compete in Melodifestivalen and the winner gets to represent Sweden in the Eurovision final in Malmö in May. According to a part of the rules, at least one of the composers should be Swedish. A selection jury will pick 15 songs while the rest 15 will be picked by SVT and a team of experts who have been invited by SVT.
The full set of rules can be downloaded here (in Swedish).
History – number of submitted entries in Melodifestivalen
- 1995: 981
- 1996: 1475
- 1997: 1223
- 1998: 1121
- 1999: 1315
- 2000: 1394
- 2001: 1567
- 2002: 1831
- 2003: 2630
- 2004: 3228
- 2005: 3131
- 2006: 3326
- 2007: 3234
- 2008: 3489
- 2009: 3440
- 2010: 2860
- 2011: 3832
- 2012: 3485
- 2013: 2549
- 2014: 2628
- 2015: 2177
- 2016: 2450
- 2017: 2478
- 2018: 2771
- 2019: 2295
- 2020: 2545
- 2021: 2747
- 2022: 2530
- 2023: 2824