By Neil Durham

WHEN?: Saturday 22 February 2025 7pm UK time

WHERE?: Malmö Arena, Malmö

Zelmerlöw is the big favourite to win MF for a 2nd time after triumphing in 2015 with Heroes which finished 3rd in the Eurovision televote behind Italy and Russia but went on to triumph.

• Read on for reasons including Andreas Lundstedt from Alcazar & Tennessee Tears

6. Måns Zelmerlöw Revolution (David Lindgren Zacharias, Måns Zelmerlöw, Ola Svensson, Sebastian Atas)

Zelmerlöw won Eurovision convincingly in 2015 with Heroes and went on to co-host it in Stockholm the following year performing comedy interval song Love, Love, Peace, Peace with Petra Mede.

His MF debut was in 2007 when Cara Mia finished 3rd and the album it was from Stand By For … went on to top the Swedish charts.

Zelmerlöw returned again in 2009 when Hope and Glory won the jury vote but could only finish 4th overall.

1. Andreas Lundstedt Vicious (Andreas Lundstedt, Dino Medanhodzic, Laurell Barker, Liamoo)

Lundstedt has competed in MF 4 times as a solo artist and 5 times as a member of disco act Alcazar. He represented Switzerland at Eurovision in Athens, Greece we were in the audience for in 2006 when his group Six4one finished 16th with the anaemic If We All Give A Little.

Lundstedt’s most successful solo entry was as runner-up in 1996 with Driver dagg faller regn (Driving dew, falling rain).

Alcazar twice finished 3rd in MF with 2 of Eurovision’s best songs that never made it to the final, or second cherries if you will.

Not A Sinner Nor A Saint topped the Swedish singles charts in 2003 as did Alcastar in 2005.

Not A Sinner is number 1 in our 5 greatest Andra Chansen songs list and is arguably our most favourite MF moment ever.

3. Tennessee Tears Yours (Gavin Jones, Jonas Hermansson, Pär Westerlund, Tilda Feuk)

Tennessee Tears are a Swedish country music duo consisting of Tilda Feuk and Jonas Hermansson who co-wrote this return after debuting in MF in 2023 with the catchy Now I Know which went out in andra chansen.

2. Ella Tiritello Bara du är där (Only you are there) (Adam “Rymdpojken” Englund, David Björk, Loreen Talhaoui)

Co-written by twice Eurovision and MF winner Loreen, Tiritello is known for portraying Roxette lead singer Marie Fredriksson in the movie Sommartider (Summer times).

4. Kaj Bara bada bastu (Just take a sauna) (Anderz Wrethov, Axel Åhman, Jakob Norrgård, Kevin Holmström, Kristoffer Strandberg, Robert Skowronski)

5. AmenA Do Good Be Better (AmenA, Sandra Bjurman, Stefan Örn)

Bjurman and Örn co-wrote unlikely Eurovision winner for Azerbaijan Running Scared in the 2011 contest we attended in Dusseldorf, Germany.

• Keep an eye on monstagigz.com during January as we’ll be previewing 2025’s 30 entries.
• During February this site will predict how each heat will go on the Friday after we’ve heard the songs before the Saturday events. Heat 1 preview  Heat 2 preview Heat 3 preview Heat 4 preview Heat 5 preview Heat 1 predictions Heat 2 predictions Heat 3 predictions Heat 4 predictions Heat 5 predictions Finalen predictions
• In March we’ll forecast how the finalen will go and how each of the 12 qualifiers would do in May in Basle at Eurovision.
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