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Melodifestivalen is the Swedish national preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest . It has been staged by Sveriges Radio / Sveriges Television since 1958 . TABLE OF PAST WINNERS Key to superscripts:
HISTORY The competition was originally known as “Say It With Music: Great-Hit Songcontest”, and was called "Swedish Songfestival" from 1960 until 1966. It has been known as Melodifestival(en) since 1967. Milestones
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CURRENT FORMAT AND RULES The songs for the competition are decided upon by an “expert” jury made up of people from the music industry, Swedish broadcasting and members of the public from all age groups. There is also a “joker” system whereby four songs/artists (one in each semifinal) are directly invited by SVT. Semi finals Semi finals were reintroduced to Melodifestivalen in 2002, although they had been used previously in the 1960s and 1970s. In the current format, eight songs participate in each of four semifinals and the top two automatically qualify for the final. The third and fourth placed songs go forward to the “Andra Chansen” (second chance) where they try to win the final two places in the final show. There are no juries in the semifinals, which are held in different towns and cities around Sweden. Final The final has traditionally been held at Globen , Stockholm , however SVT wish to hold the final in Gothenburg in the near future. The current voting format has been in use since 1999. Eleven juries based in eleven towns and cities around Sweden award 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 points for their seven favourite songs, with televoting points from the Swedish public being given an equivalent weighting. Yet from 2006 SVT have decided that the televoting points will be awarded by virtue of the percentage of the total votes a song has received, in a response to the 2005 result. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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