A high number of submissions were received at SVT, the Swedish broadcaster for the upcoming Melodifestivalen. A total of 2067 of the submissions were submitted by mail, while the rest 561 were submitted online.

Time’s up!

Wednesday 18 September, 09:00 CET was the deadline for composers and authors to submit their songs to the Swedish broadcaster.

“The submissions number is on par with last year and we had probably hoped for less.” commented Mr Christer Björkman, producer of Melodifestivalen 2014. “It’s fun to see the the commitment [of the songwriters] and although there are few more entries than last year, it is a manageable number of submission” Mr Björkman concluded.

The process

A jury panel will now select 15 songs out of the 2628 submissions. 16 more contestants will be decided by SVT. One name which is already confirmed out of those 16 is the trio band EKO who won the Svensktoppen Nästa 2013.

Announcement of the Melodifestivalen 2014 participations is expected later in the fall.

The dates of the shows

Last week, SVT released the dates, cities and arenas of the Melodifestivalen 2014 shows. You can find out more information here

01/02: Semifinal 1 – Malmö
08/02: Semifinal 2 – Linköping
15/02: Semifinal 3 – Gothenburg
22/02: Semifinal 4 – Örnsköldsvik
01/03: Second chance – Lidköping
08/03: Final – Stockholm

Past records

year	songs	year	songs
1995	981	2005	3131
1996	1475	2006	3326
1997	1223	2007	3234
1998	1121	2008	3489
1999	1315	2009	3440
2000	1394	2010	2860
2001	1567	2011	3832
2002	1831	2012	3485
2003	2630	2013	2549
2004	3228	2014	2628

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