Sweden made its Eurovision debut in 1958, missing only three contests since then (1964, 1970 and 1976).
Sweden is one of the most successful competing nations at the Eurovision, with a total of six victories in the contest, only behind Ireland who have seven wins.
Sweden is also the contest’s most successful country of the 21st century, with two wins from nine top five results. In total, Sweden has achieved 24 top five results in the contest. Since 1959, the Swedish entry has been chosen through an annual televised competition, known since 1967 as Melodifestivalen.
Sweden has hosted the Eurovision Song Contest six times and is the only country to have hosted the event in five different decades.
Sweden was one of the first five countries to adopt televoting in the 1997 contest.
[…] to latch onto a broadcaster who is open and "friendly" believe anything they say. They believe that the Melodifestivalen selection is better than anything offered by other broadcasters. AGAIN! How have they done this? – by not […]
A minor point (a cut and paste error perhaps) there are seven songs in each semi final not eight as stated in your “how it works paragraph”.
The announcement of the Mello contestants is for me the start of the ESC season. Mello has it’s fans and enemies but it’s one of the national finals we’d secretly all like to have.
*dofs cap*
I have amended this forthwith!