Melodifestival

Melodifestival ("The Melody Festival") is an annual music competition organised by the Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). It determines the country's representative for the International Music Festival, and has been organized since the thirty-first edition.
Light orchestrated pop songs, known locally as schlager music, are so prevalent that the festival is sometimes referred to as Schlagerfestivalen ("The schlager festival"). However, SVT tries to present other styles of music such as indie, rap and rock.
==Origin==
Melodifestival is based on Melodifestivalen, the Swedish national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Further information: History of Melodifestivalen
==Participation==
Many different songs and performers have entered Melodifestival since its debut. To be eligible, performers must have any connection to Sweden - born there, raised there or have ancestry from Sweden.
==Selection of contestants==
===Songs===
SVT begins looking for songs a few weeks before the start of the first semifinal of the attendant show.
The song can be in any language, any length and any music style. SVT prefers a huge variety of music styles to make the show more exciting.
===Artists===
SVT selects all the performers.
====Notable artists====
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==Hosting==
TBD
===Hosts===
Edn.	Format 	Dates 	Locations 	Hosts 	Voting
#01 	21 songs, 3 semi-finals, one final	31 October 2015 - TBD 2015	Östersund Arena, Östersund 	Marlene	50% Jury, 50% SMS and telephone voting in the final. 100% SMS and telephone voting in the heats and Second Chance round.
==Rounds==
One edition of Melodifestival lasts about one month and consists of four shows: three semifinals, in which seven songs compete and a final, made up by nine qualifiers and a wildcard chosen by SVT.
==Voting==
The current voting format is a positional voting system similar to that used at the Eurovision Song Contest. 11 international juries each award 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 points to their top seven songs, the eleven juries account for 50% of the total score. Televotes account for the remaining 50%; The value of the votes was 2 x 473 points, which meant that tele-votes and jury-votes represent 50/50 each. If an entry is getting 10% of the tele-votes it will be equivalent to 10% of 473 points. The song with the highest number of points at the end of the voting is the winner.
If there is a tie, the song that has received more votes from the public receives the higher position.
===Juries===
Edition	Juries (in running order)
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===History===
The following table shows the amount of countries being selected as international voting jury.
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==Winners==
Edition	Artist	Song	Translation	Points (Fantasifestivalen Final)	Margin	Position in IMF
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Category:National selections