As one of the best known and most popular pre-selections for the Eurovision Song Contest takes place, esctoday.com have no less than three editors on the ground in Stockholm to bring you all the news from Melodifestivalen 2005. The event is becoming even more intriguing with a new poll showing less than 6% between the top six acts.
In a poll of over 73,000 people, national newspaper Aftonbladets , Nanne Gronvall has come out top of the list, with less than a three percent lead. Although broadly following the bookies� odds, the songs in second and third are separated by just 0.1% and there are three songs that cannot be separated sharing fourth place. Despite Alcazar hitting top spot in the singles chart with Alcastar , they are lagging behind in 8th place in the poll.
The full result of the poll is shown below:
1. Nanne Gronvall Hall on mig 17.6 %
2. Caroline Wennergren A different kind of love 14.2 %
3. Nordman Odet van min vag 14.1 %
4. Linda Bengtzing Alla flickor 11.2 %
4. Martin Stenmark Las Vegas 11.2 %
4. Shirley Clamp Att alska dig 11.2 %
7. Jimmy Jansson Vi kan gunga 6.6 %
8. Alcazar Alcastar 6.3 %
9. Sanne Salomonsen Higher ground 4.2 %
10. Sanna Nielsen & Fredrik Kempe Du och jag mot varlden 3.4 %
Current Betting odds:
Nanne Gronvall Hall on mig 6/4
Shirley Clamp Att alska dig 2/1
Caroline Wennergren A different kind of love 5/1
Martin Stenmark Las Vegas 5/1
Nordman Odet van min vag 9/1
Linda Bengtzing Alla flickor 16/1
Alcazar Alcastar 20/1
Sanna Nielsen & Fredrik Kempe Du och jag mot varlden 20/1
Jimmy Jansson Vi kan gunga 25/1
Sanne Salomonsen Higher ground 50/1
