Today, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet has shared the first four names that, according to several sources with good insight, are ready for Melodifestivalen 2024. If sources are to be believed, then Dotter, Liamoo, Smash into pieces and Lasse Stefanz will compete in Melodifestivalen 2024.
Aftonbladet has a good track record when it comes to Melodifestivalen predictions. In 2023, sources correctly identified 24 out of 28 artists competing in Sweden’s Eurovision selection show.
Dotter, real name Johanna Jansson, first competed in 2018 with “Cry”. She went out in her heat. In 2020 she came second with “Bulletproof” and in 2021 she finished fourth with “Little Tot“. Since then she has both become a mum and released music in Swedish. However, according to the source, the competing song will be in English.
“If you want to win, you have to compete with a song in English,” the paper’s tipster says. “That’s how it has been in modern times.”
Liamoo, or Liam Cacatian Thomassen, 26, will also appear for the fourth time next year. Liamoo won Swedish “Idol” in 2016 and debuted in Melodifestiavlen in 2018 with “Last Breath,” which finished sixth. In 2019 he competed in a duet with Hanna Ferm and came third with “Hold You” and in 2022 he finished fourth with “Bluffin“.
Smash into pieces, an experienced rock band formed in 2008, made their debut in Melodifestivalen 2023 with the song “Six Feet Under“. The rock band had huge success and ended up third. So far “Six Feet Under“ has received over 19 million streams on Spotify.
Lasse Stefanz, with frontman Jönsson, 67, is a Swedish dansband formed in 1967. The group has competed once before in the Melodifestivalen, in 2011 with “En blick och nänting händer“, however they got knocked out in Andra chansen, second chance.
The Swedish broadcaster SVT is expected to announce the official line up in late November or the beginning of December.