[Trending News] 🇸🇪 Sweden: and To Eurovision 2025 – Eurovoix

KAJ has won Melodifestivalen 2025, and will represent Sweden in Basel, Switzerland at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with “Bara bada bastu”. This will be the first Swedish entry in the Swedish language at Eurovision since 1998.

The grand final of Melodifestivalen 2025 took place this evening in Stockholm’s Strawberry Arena, following 6 weeks of competition and was hosted by Edvin Törnblom and Kristina Petrushina. A total of 12 acts competed to represent Sweden, in Basel in May. The final results were as follows (jury + televote):

1. Quay – “just bathe sauna” (74 + 90 = 164)
2. Måns Zelmerlöw – “Revolution” (76 + 81 = 157)
3. Greczula – “Believe Me” (47 + 56 = 103)
4. Klara Hammarström – “On and on and on” (34 + 43 = 77)
5. Dolly Style – “Yihaa” (48 + 27 = 75)
6. John Lundvik – “Voice of the Silent” (49 + 25 = 74)
7. Scarlet – “Sweet N’ Psycho” (31 + 33 = 64)
8. Annika Wickihalder – “Life Again” (36 + 18 = 54)
9. Erik Segerstedt – “Show Me What Love Is” (24 + 27 = 51)
10. Meira Omar – “Hush Hush” (26 + 24 = 50)
11. Maja Ivarsoon – “Camicaze Life” (2 + 30 = 32)
12. Saga Ludvigsson – “Hate You So Much” (17 + 10 = 27)

The results were decided by a 50-50 split between international juries and a public vote. The international juries voting tonight were:

• Serbia
• Lithuania
• France
• Greece
• Norway
• Switzerland
• Italy
• Ireland

KAJ are a Finnish music and comedy group. Despite finishing second in their heat behind hot favourite Måns Zelmerlöw, KAJ managed to gain traction on streaming and online views in the subsequent weeks, securing them the win. This marks the first Melodifestivalen debutant to win since Tusse in 2021 and coincidentally the second time in a row that a non-Swedish, but Nordic group have represented Sweden.

Having previously won the 2023 contest with Loreen’s Tattoo, last year Sweden were represented on home soil by Marcus and Martinus with “Unforgettable”. They managed to receive a respectable 9th place but without a win, Sweden will now return to the semi finals. Sweden will be performing in the first half of the first semi final on Tuesday the 13th of May.

Image Source: Daniel Stridh

Posted by:Alistair Brown

News Editor