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Melodifestivalen Melodifestivalen (; literally "the Melody Festival") is an annual song competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR). It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song ...
is an event organised by
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public broadcasters
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(SVT) and
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(SR) to determine the country's representative at the
Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...
. The voting procedures to select the entrant for the annual contest have varied over the years since the country's debut in . The Swedish broadcasters have experimented with techniques including splitting the juries by age, regional voting, and using an "expert" jury. Televoting was controversially first introduced in
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, as an unannounced experiment. The Swedish telephone network promptly collapsed under the strain of phone calls being made.ESCtoday.co
Melodifestivalen 1990-2000
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Televoting was permanently reintroduced in 1999, but the regional jury system was retained, and given a 50% weighting in the overall results. In 2011, the regional juries were abolished and their task was given to juries from other countries that participate in the year's Eurovision Song Contest. 2015 saw the introduction of a mobile app that allowed the public to vote for their favourite entries for free. The current voting system has been the subject of controversy on several occasions, as it is possible for the song which receives the most votes from the public not to win, as happened in
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. The current televoting and app-voting record is 23,521,188 votes in the
Melodifestivalen 2023 Melodifestivalen 2023 was the 63rd edition of the Swedish music competition Melodifestivalen, which was organised by Sveriges Television (SVT) and took place over a six-week period between 4 February and 11 March 2023. The winner of the competit ...
final.


Summary of voting systems used


Records

In the event of a tie, the song that received more votes from the public receives the higher position. The closest victories are Tommy Körberg's in 1969 and Björn Skifs' in 1978. In 1969, Körberg tied for first place with Jan Malmsjö before winning after the jury voted for their favourite out of the two. In 1978, Björn Skifs tied for first place with Lasse Holm, Kikki Danielsson and Wizex; but won after each jury was called to vote for their favourite out of the tied songs. Unlike in 1969, each jury ''group'' (rather than individual jury members) counted for one point in the tie-break. Since the current voting system was introduced, results have been more clear-cut. The televoters and juries agreed on the winner in seven out of nine finals between 1999 and 2007. The closest victory is
The Mamas The Mamas are a Sweden, Swedish-United States, American Soul music, soul and Gospel music, gospel group. They won Melodifestivalen 2020 with their single "Move (The Mamas song), Move", which reached number one in Sweden in March 2020. Career Th ...
' one-point win in 2020. The biggest victory by straight-points in the history of the event is
ABBA ABBA ( , , formerly named Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid or Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida) are a Swedish supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's ...
's win in 1974 with 302 points. Under the current voting system the record is 181 points, achieved by
John Lundvik John Lundvik (; born 27 January 1983) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and former sprinter. He was part of the athletic team for IFK Växjö. Lundvik also has a singing and songwriter career having composed songs for films and the Wedding of V ...
in 2019 with the song " Too Late for Love". The winner with the biggest difference of points to the second placed song is Måns Zelmerlöw in 2015 with the song "
Heroes Heroes or Héroes may refer to: * Hero, one who displays courage and self-sacrifice for the greater good Film * ''Heroes'' (1977 film), an American drama * ''Heroes'' (2008 film), an Indian Hindi film Gaming * ''Heroes of Might and Magic'' ...
", who beat
Jon Henrik Fjällgren Jon Henrik Mario Fjällgren (born 26 April 1987) is a Swedish-Sámi singer and ''jojkare'', an interpreter of Sámi joik. He was the winner of ''Talang Sverige 2014'', the Swedish version of ''Got Talent''. Upon winning the competition he relea ...
's "
Jag är fri (Manne leam frijje) "Jag är fri" ( en, I am free) is a joik song performed by Jon Henrik Fjällgren appearing on his album ''Goeksegh - Jag är fri''. The song was co-written by Jon Henrik Fjällgren, Erik Holmberg, Tony Malm and Josef Melin. The 2015 album ''Go ...
" by 149 points in 2015. "Heroes" also garnered the largest number of both jury and viewer points received by an entry since 1999, gathering 122 points and 166 points, respectively. Two songs have scored top marks from each voting region: Carola Häggkvist in 1983 with "Främling", and Arvingarna in 1993 with "Eloise", however, in 1993, experimental televoting was used and the two are not entirely comparable. The biggest victory in terms of points as a percentage of the total possible score is also held by Carola and "Främling", which defeated Kikki Danielsson's " Varför är kärleken röd?" by 43 points, 48% of the total potential mark.


Jury regions

Until 2010, each jury represented one of SVT's news districts. In 2010, six juries were replaced by international juries from different European countries, with the remaining juries coming from Luleå, Umeå, Gothenburg, Malmö and Stockholm. In 2011, the regional juries were all replaced by international juries. In 2013 and 2014, all countries of the " Big Five" in Eurovision cast their votes.


Swedish juries


International juries


References

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