It’s the final Super Saturday of 2015 as Norway and Sweden hold the last televised Eurovision selections of the season. It’s down to the Nordic power houses of Eurovision to select their participants for the contest in Vienna.
Sweden – Melodifestivalen 2015 – Final – 20:00 CET:
It’s the final of the biggest and most well known of all of the Eurovision selection process’s Melodifestivalen. Tonight 12 artists will be competing at the Friends Arena in Stockholm for the right to represent Sweden in Vienna.
The running order tonight is as follows:
- Samir & Viktor – Groupie
- JTR – Building it up
- Dinah Nah – Make me La la la
- Jon Henrik Fjällgren – Jag är fri (Manne Leam Frijje)
- Jessica Andersson – Can’t hurt me now
- Måns Zelmerlöw – Heroes
- Linus Svenning – Forever starts today
- Isa – Don’t stop
- Magnus Carlsson – Möt mig i gamla stan
- Eric Saade – Sting
- Mariette – Don’t stop believing
- Hasse Andersson – Guld och gröna skogar
The winner tonight is selected by 50% televote and app vote and 50% international jury vote. The international juries this year are as follows:
- Armenia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Cyprus
- Estonia
- France
- Israel
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Slovenia
- United Kingdom
As always there are 473 points from the juries for grabs, the maximum a song can receive from the juries is 132 points. The points from the televote are worked out as the total points given by the juries divided by percentage of the vote that song receives, so if a song receives 10% of the vote they receive 47 points.
Watch the show live from 20:20 CET here.
Norway – Melodi Grand Prix 2015 – Final – 20:25 CET:
The final of Melodi Grand Prix takes place tonight from 20:25 CET, with 11 artists competing in the Oslo Spektrum to represent Norway in Austria.
The running order for the show is as follows:
- Erlend Bratland – Thunderstruck
- Raylee – Louder
- Tor & Bettan – All Over the World
- Jenny Langlo – Next to You
- Ira Konstantinidis – We Don’t Worry
- Contrazt – Heaven
- Marie Klåpbakken – Ta meg tilbake
- Staysman & Lazz – En godt stekt pizza
- Mørland & Debrah Scarlett – A Monster Like Me
- Alexandra Joner – Cinderella
- Karin Park – Human Beings
This years celebration is a celebration of 30 years since Norway won the contest for the first time and 20 years since Norway won the contest for a second time. This has meant that the orchestra will be making a return to Melodi Grand Prix, all the artists were offered the use of it. The artists that decided to us it are; Erlend Bratland, Tor & Bettan, Marie Klåpbakken, Staysman & Lazz, Mørland & Debrah Scarlett and Alexandra Joner.
The voting works as follows; in the first round all 11 songs will be voted upon by the Norwegian public with four songs going into the super final. In the super final all four songs will perform again and the public will vote again. The votes will then be announced by region, these regions are:
- Eastern Norway
- Northern Norway
- Central Norway
- Southern Norway
- Western Norway
Watch the show live here from 20:25 CET.
