Sweden: Tusse wins Melodifestivalen 2021 with "Voices" and is off to Rotterdam

Sweden: Tusse wins Melodifestivalen 2021 with
Saturday, 13 March 2021

  • The Swedish national selection concluded  with the Melodifestivalen 2021 Grand Final show during which Tusse was crowned winner and Sweden's Eurovision 2021 hopeful with his song "Voices" .

    After 4 qualifying semi final heats and a second chance round, the Melfest final took place in Stockhlom, at the Annexet venue, the place where the ESC 2016 press center was located.  Christer Björkan along with Måns Zelmerlöw (Eurovision 2015 winner with the song “Heroes”) & Shima Niavarani (singer and actress)  hosted this evening's show. 

    In the previous qualifying semi finals we saw a total of 28 acts compete. Seven acts in each semi final , from which the top 2 qualified directly to the final, whilst the third and fourth in votes to the second chance round. In the second chance round 8 acts took the stage performing in 4 Duels with the  winner in votes from each duel qualifying to the final show.

     

    In the final show will saw 12 contestants take the stage and perform in the following running order: 

    1. Danny Saucedo – Dandi dansa

     

    2. Klara Hammarström – Beat Of Broken Hearts

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    3. Anton Ewald - New Religion

     

    4. The Mamas – In The Middle

    THE MAMAS

     

    5. Paul Rey – The Missing Piece 

     

    6. Charlotte Perrelli – Still Young

     

    7. Tusse – Voices

     

    8. Alvaro Estrella – Baila Baila

     

    9. Clara Klingenström – Behöver inte dig idag

     

    10. Eric Saade – Every Minute

    11. Dotter – Little Tot

     

    12. Arvingarna -Tänker inte alls gå hem   

      

     

    The results

    The result was influenced 50% by the viewers and the other 50% by the votes of the international juries, each one of which had a set of points to award simliar to the Eurovision scale. The jury votes came from the following countries: 

    1. Albania
    2. Cyprus
    3. France
    4. United Kingdom
    5. Iceland
    6. Israel
    7. The Netherlands
    8. Switzerland

    Once the jury votes were counted the scoreboard looked like this: 

    Juryresutls

     

    The public votes followe which crowned winnner Tusse topping the televoting  leaving second behind Eric Saade who came 4th in the public vote, with The Mamas closing the top 3 places receiving the 2nd best amount of points in the televoting. Check out below the overall scoreboard: 

     Final score

     

    SVT has already released vote figures for the final

    1. Tusse, 2964269 votes
    2. Eric Saade, 1471324 votes
    3. The Mamas, 1646198 votes
    4. Dotter, 1488599 votes
    5. Clara Klingenström, 1455605 votes
    6. Klara Hammarström, 1341566 votes
    7. Danny Saucedo, 1309741 votes
    8. Charlotte Perrelli. 1016557 votes
    9. Arvingarna, 923022 votes
    10. Alvaro Estrella, 1071188 votes
    11. Anton Ewald, 1066340 votes
    12. Paul Rey, 998030 votes

    Thus Tusse was the well deserved winner of the final by topping both votings (jury and public) and will be the act to represent Sweden at Eurovision 2021 next May in Rotterdam with his song "Voices". Tusee will perform in the first hald of the 1st semi final show on May 18, 2021. 

     

    News Source: SVT

    Cover photo: Photos: Stina Stjernkvist / SVT

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