According to sources in Sweden, singer John Lundvik is likely to return to participate in the Swedish Eurovision selection, Melodifestivalen 2025, which will choose the country’s representative for Eurovision 2025 in Basel, Switzerland. If the information is indeed correct, this would mark Lundvik’s fourth time participating in the Swedish Melodifeesttivalen as a singer and fifth time overall.

The report about Lundvik comes from the Swedish newspaper “Expressen,” which in the past two weeks also reported that singer Klara Hammarström and Eurovision 2015 winner Måns Zelmerlöw are potential artists for the upcoming Melodifestivalen. Among other things, anonymous sources told that Måns has a song that is “nothing less than a hit” in his pocket, and to bring the song to the Melodifestivalen stage properly, he intends to collaborate with Fredrik Rydman, who was responsible for the choreography of his winning Eurovision performance.

John Lundvik’s Eurovision Journey

John Lundvik started his Eurovision journey in 2014 when he composed the song “Natural” performed by Anton Ewald, which advanced directly to the final of Melodifestivalen. Lundvik competed as a singer in 2018 when he first participated in Melodifestivalen with the song “My Turn.” A year later, Lundvik returned and won the national final with the song “Too Late for Love,” with which he represented Sweden at Eurovision and finished fifth in the grand final with 334 points! In 2022, Lundvik returned to Melodifestivalen, this time with a song in Swedish, “Änglavakt.” In all his Melodifestivalen participations, John managed to advance directly to the competition’s final.

Lundvik was also one of the writers of the song that represented the UK at Eurovision 2019 and finished last, “Bigger than Us.”

Melodifestivalen 2025 – What We Know So Far

This year, the Swedish Eurovision selection has attracted many artists, with reports of no fewer than 2,794 songs submitted for consideration. Thirty songs will compete in the contest, divided into five heats. In each heat, six songs will compete, with the top two songs advancing directly to the final. The songs ranked third will move to the Second Chance round, from which two more songs will be chosen. The Melodifestivalen final will feature 12 songs in total. The winner will be determined by a combination of international jury votes (50%) and public votes (50%). The heats will be held in different locations across Sweden over several weeks, as follows: