Melodifestivalen

Overview

Melodifestivalen (direct translation: The Melody Festival) is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). The competition is a six part tour (5 heats + the final) with stops in cities across Sweden to determine the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen is also known informally as "Mello", or internationally as "Melfest".

Series details

First air date

1959

Last air date

2026

Status

Returning Series

Seasons

66

Episodes

197

Episode runtime

90 min

Genres

Reality, Family, Talk

Original language

SV

Origin country

SE

Networks

SVT1, SVT

Production

SVT, YouTube

Cast

Carina Berg

Self

Björn Gustafsson

Self

T

Towa Carson

Self

Roger Pontare

Self

Loa Falkman

Self

Ola Lindholm

Self