Week 09/2025 - Eurovision Radio International - 26 Feb 2025: Melodifestivalen 2025 - Heat 4 - A Look Back, with Interviews, Mans Zelmerloew, Kaj, Ella, Andreas Lundstedt, News, Birthday File and Cover Spot plus much more - PODCAST AVAILABLE NOW

      

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AT A GLANCE - ON THE SHOW THIS WEEK

• Melodifeativalen 2025 - Heat 4 - A look back:  Interviews with Måns Zelmerlöw, Ella Tiritiello,Tennessee Tears,Ella Tiritiello, Andreas Lundstedt and AmenA 
• Eurovision Spotlight:  Eurovision 2025 - The National Final Season with Ross Bennett
• Eurovision 2025 Song Preview:  Germany
• Eurovision News with Nick van Lith from www.escXtra.com
• Eurovision Birthday File with David Mann
• Eurovision Cover Spot with David Mann
• Eurovision Calendar with Javier Leal
• Eurovision 2025 National Final Updates with Alain Forrotti 
• New Music Releases by Eurovision Artists
• Your music requests

The Eurovision Spotlight - The National Final Season: With the beginning of a New Year is also the start of the National Final Season for the Eurovision Song Contest. Montenegro returns to the contest in 2025 and had already selected their entry in November 2024. 36 countries are taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 which will be taking place on 13 and 15 May 2024 for the two Semi Finals and the Grand Final on 17 May 2025. Radio International will be taking a look at the national finals and showcase the highlights every week in the Eurovision Spotlight as Ross Bennett continues the series looking at the countries' selection shows of the past week.

Eurovision 2025 Song Preview - Germany: In view of the upcoming national final in Germany on 01 Mar 2025, Radio International will be introducing the competing songs on the show this week. Germany is part of the Big Five countries at the Eurovision Song Contest and with that directly qualified for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest  on 17 May 2025. Nine acts are battling it out for the ticket to Basel to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. Let's get to know the songs on the show this week.

 

Melodifestivalen 2025: Sweden's national final is called Melodifestivalen and is the biggest one in the world of the Eurovision Song Contest. It is the 65th edition and is produced by Swedish broadcaster SVT. 30 entries out of 2794 submitted songs made it to the shows. The 30 entries will take part in the competition across five heats. Each heat consists of six songs, with the top two songs directly qualifying for the final. Unlike in the previous edition, only the third-placing song will proceed to a final qualification round at the end of the fifth heat, which will now feature five songs instead of ten. The top two songs in the final qualification will then progress to the final, which will comprise 12 songs. The winner of the final will be determined by the usual 50/50 combination of votes from the public and an international jury. All shows will all be hosted by Edvin Törnblom and Kristina Petrushina.The dates and locations of the shows is shown below:

Heat 1 on 01 Feb 2025 in Luleå
Heat 2 on 08 Feb 2025 in Gothenburg
Heat 3 on 15 Feb 2025 in Västerås
Heat 4 on 22 Feb 2025 in Malmö
Heat 5 on 01 Mar 2025 in Jönköping
Grand Final on 08 Mar 2025 in Stockhoplm's Strawberry (Friends) Arena

More details of the participating artists you can find over at our friends of wikipedia - click here.

Melodifestivalen 2025 - Heat 4 Allstarz

Melodifestivalen 2025 - Heat 4 Interviews:  Congratulations to Måns Zelmerlöw and KAJ who were selected by the Swedish Public to go directly into the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2025 in Stockholm. Ella Tiritiello made it to the Second Chance Round (Final Kval). Radio International was in Malmö and interviewed all the participants. Listen to the chats on the show this week. You can see the Complete Coverage of Melodifestivalen 2025 - Heat 4 by clicking here.


Also JP will be joined by David Mann for the Eurovision Birthday File and Eurovision Coverspot.  Nick will be presenting the Eurovision News courtesy of escXtra.com. There will be a lot of the great new releases of Eurovision artists on the show as well as great Eurovision Classics. Javier will be updating us on the upcoming Eurovision events in the Eurovision Calendar whereas Alain Forrotti updates you where you can watch the Eurovision National Finals for 2025, and and and....

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Melodifestivalen 2025 - Heat 4 in Malmö in Sweden (22 Feb 2025) - Complete Coverage

 

Melodifestivalen is Sweden's selection process to find that song that will represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. Out of 2794 submitted songs 30 entries are being distributed into 5 heats out of which two songs advance to the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2025 in the Strawberry (Friends) Arena on 08 May 2025 and out of each heat 1 song is selected to Final Qualification or second chance round. From that two songs join the ten winners from the heats to have a Grand Final of 12 songs the winner of which will be representing Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, Switzerland.

Radio International's JP is on location of Heat 4 in Malmö to report and interview the artists who are battling it out for a place in the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2025.

Below you find the link to the interviews that were done during the rehearsal days of Heat 4 of Melodifestivalen 2025.

Interviews with the Hosts - Kristina ”Keyyo” Petrushina and Edvin Törnblom, Finalists Måns Zelmerlöw and KAJ and Qaulifier for the Second Chance Round Ella Tiritiello - CLICK HERE


PHOTO ALBUM from the event - click here


Get to know the artists of Melodifestivalen 2025 - Heat 4:
(click on the name of the artists to view the interview)

1.
Måns Zelmerlöw - Revolution

2.
KAJ - Bara Bada Bastu

3.
Ella Tiritiello - Bara du är där




4.
Andreas Lundstedt - Vicious

5.
Tennessee Tears - Yours




6.
AmenA - Do good be better

On Friday, 21 Feb 2025, The JP and Marc of Radio International as well as two other international Media Outlets were invited by Swedish Broadcaster SVT into their Morning Show for an interview about Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest. You can watch the interview session here
Radio International Team on The Morning Show on SVT.

Another report was made for the SVT News Website which you can view here - CLICK HERE

The Results:

(Qualified for the Grand Final of Melodifestivalen 2025 from Heat 4)

1.Måns Zelmerlöw - Revolotion
2. KAJ - Bara Bada Bastu

(Second Chance - Final Kval)

Ella Tiritiello - Bara du är där

(Eliminated)

Andreas Lundstedt - Vicious
Tennessee Tears - Yours
AmenA - Do good be better