The original Semi Final hell, Melodifestivalen, is back for the 2023 edition marketing itself as “Mello Cirkus” – and if you can’t translate that, why on earth have you got a computer?.
The first Semi Final was held in the Scandinavium in Gothenburg, home of the best Eurovision ever no comebacks, and had the usual seven songs fighting it out for a place in the next round.
Those Seven songs were:
| Song | Performer(s) | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhythm of my show | Tone Sekelius | F |
| Inga sorger | Loulou LaMotte | |
| Haunted | Rejhan | |
| Raggen går | Elov & Beny | SF |
| Diamonds | Victor Crone | SF |
| Länge leve livet | Eva Rydberg & Ewa Roos | |
| Where you are (Sávežan) | Jon Henrik Fjällgren & Arc North feat. Adam Woods | F |
As an aide memoire, the top song from the voting go direct till Solna for the final in five weeks time, the remaining 6 then had a properly scored battle for the next three places and, therefore a second round of voting, to get to the Semi Final. Looks like Jon was a run away winner – Hopefully SVT will release the results soonish.