We had a great week at Melodifestivalen, doing interviews, taking lots of photos, and coming away with a few stories to tell. Here's an overview of our Stockholm 2013 posts! PHOTOS | VIDEOS | ARTICLES Photos: March 12th | FelixK: The complete gallery March 10th |...

Moldova will be the last country to select its entry for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest via a public selection. The grand final this coming Saturday (16th) will be preceded by two semi-finals, the first of which takes place tonight. The list of participating...

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Another eventful Eurovision week has come to a close, so it must be time for our weekly review of all the fun! Monday started with the media bandwagon for Melodifestivalen really picking up steam, with “expert” tabloid commentators Anders Nunstedt in Expressen and...

Let's not waste much time with words... browse through our After Party slideshow 🙂 [wowslider id="5"]

15:15 (Felix) Good morning! (Yes, it's still that for us) After some coffee with friends I'm now back to my room to upload the images from the After Party (gallery is now online here). It was a nice location, spacey (not as "intimate" as the Welcome Party) and modern...

Cezar will represent Romania at the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "It's My Life". At tonight's Romanian national final, Cezar - full name Cezar Florin Ouatu - narrowly won the public vote followed by Casa Presei and Luminita Anghel, with the rest of the...

It was the most open Melodifestivalen in years, they said. Anything could happen, they said. And they weren't wrong. Since the current Melodifestivalen format was introduced in 2002, no song had ever come through the Andra Chansen round to take overall victory,...

(This article will be updated throughout the day) 22:19 (Felix) Sooooo we're back in the press centre and all quite surprised. Many here are happy, though, that Yohio didn't win after all. The show was ok, Gina was amazing ("...that's what we do"), Lynda stole the...

The line-up for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest comes ever closer to completion tonight as Sweden and Romania select their entries. This year's Melodifestivalen process in Sweden has thrown up some surprising results and, more importantly for broadcaster SVT, some...

Hi everybody! esc-chat.com is in Friends Arena and reporting live from the Friday night dress rehearsal for Melodifestivalen 2013, the Swedish selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. This update is self-refreshing every 15 seconds, so you don't have to press...

(This article will be updated throughout the day) 20:08 (Felix) Not much happened today, but now we're back to the press centre with our live blog from the dress rehearsal! Also we are in the chat to comment on the happenings on stage, and we'll also try to answer...