After four heats and one semi final held over the last five weeks, Sweden’s Melodifestivalen reached its Grand Final which takes place tonight. A total of 12 acts qualified for tonight’s final – the top two acts from each heat, and additional four acts qualified from last week’s Semi Final. These 12 acts will compete to win over the hearts of the Swedish public and the international jury in order to win Melodifestivalen and go on to represent Sweden in Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool.

From the moment all 12 finalists were known, we asked you to let us know which of these are YOUR personal favorites. At the moment of writing this article, the current standings are as follows:

1. Loreen – Tattoo – 57%
2. Marcus & Martinus – Air – 11%
3. Smash Into Pieces – Six Feet Under – 9%
4. Mariette – One Day – 4%
5. Jon Henrik Fjällgren, Arc North feat. Adam Woods – Where Are You (Savezan) – 3%
6. Theoz – Mer av dig – 3%
7. Kiana – Where Did You Go – 3%
8. Tone Sekelius – Rhythm Of My Show – 3%
9. Nordman – Slapp alla sorger – 2%
10. Panetoz – On My Way – 2%
11. Maria Sur – Never Give Up – 2%
12. Paul Rey – Royals – 2%

Our team members also listened to the 12 finalists, and voted. This is how our team members ranked the 12 entries overall:

1. Loreen – Tattoo
2. Smash Into Pieces – Six Feet Under
3. Marcus & Martinus – Air
4. Kiana – Where Did You Go
5. Theoz – Mer av dig
6. Tone Sekelius – Rhythm Of My Show
7. Nordman – Slapp alla sorger 
8. Panetoz – On My Way
9. Mariette – One Day
10. Jon Henrik Fjällgren, Arc North feat. Adam Woods – Where Are You (Savezan)
11. Paul Rey – Royals
12. Maria Sur – Never Give Up

As you can see, the runaway favorite with both our readers (scoring well over 50% of all votes) and with our team members as well is Loreen with her song “Tattoo”, and she is thus ESCBubble’s winner of this year’s Melodifestivalen. You can also check out our interview with her prior to the show right here:

You still have time to cast your vote for YOUR favorite acts, as our poll is going to close at the end of tonight’s show:

Also, you can check out our team’s reactions to all 12 finalists of Sweden’s Melodifestivalen 2023, as well as see who our team members predicted will win tonight, in this video right here: