While the eyes of the world were firmly fixed on Hampden this weekend for Dundee Utd’s participation in the CIS cup final, the attention in Sweden was on another event.
Saturday saw the climax of this years Melodifestivalen which is more or less Sweden’s biggest sporting event. Unfortunately, the whole event is designed to pick Sweden’s entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest. Over the last few weeks 3500 entrants were whittled down to 10 that performed in front of 13000 people at Globen last night and 3million TV viewers (a third of the country). At the end, the winner was Charlotte Perrelli…
Obviously the fact that she looks like a fox/weasel/foxy-weasel didn’t hold Charlotte back and she will be carrying the hopes of a nation into the semi-finals in Belgrade. Here’s the song…
Was reading today that the actual viewing figures were…
Melodifestivalen, lördag, 4 045 000
4 million out of a population of 9 million is not bad, maybe I should enter a song for next year…
Would you actually sing it or just write it? That may effect the viewing figures.