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News Sweden » Music: Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2027 dates confirmed

News channel or source: https://esctoday.com/207566/sweden-melodifestivalen-2027-dates-confirmed/

Published on: Monday 07 September 2026

Sweden is gearing up in full steam for the forthcoming edition of Mellodifestivalen, the Swedish national selection for Eurovision 2027. The dates for ...

News Sweden » Music: Sweden Makes Music: How Diversity, Education and Tech Propel Swedish Artists Onto the World Stage

News channel or source: https://www.billboard.com/pro/sweden-music-diversity-education-tech-swedish-artists/

Published on: Monday 02 September 2019

Sweden may be a small country -- roughly the same size as California, with just one-quarter of that state's population -- but its artistic community has been a dominating force on the Billboard… By ...

News Sweden » Music: Sweden’s STIM Launches the ‘World’s First’ AI Music License, Plans to Usher in ‘The Next Phase of the Music Economy’

News channel or source: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/09/stim-ai-music-license/

Published on: Tuesday 09 September 2025

Against the backdrop of continued rightsholder-AI talks, Sweden’s Stim has taken things a step further by launching the “world’s first collective AI music” license. The Swedish society reached out ...

News Sweden » Music: Music helped Swedish subculture become nationalist political movement

News channel or source: https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2017/05/02/music-helped-swedish-subculture-become-nationalist-political-movement

Published on: Monday 01 May 2017

Scholar went to Sweden in 2010 to study folk music but soon realized that he was studying a genre of music that was being appropriated into a fringe political movement The nationalist Sweden Democrats ...

News Sweden » Music: Swedish Music Festival Offering Free Passes for Those Willing to Give a Kidney

News channel or source: https://www.ticketnews.com/2025/08/swedish-music-fest-free-passes-give-a-kidney/

Published on: Wednesday 06 August 2025

Festivalgoers jokingly say all the time that they’d be willing to “give a kidney” for a ticket to a sold-out show. Well, now one festival in Sweden is taking fans up on that offer. Sweden’s Way Out ...

News Sweden » Music: DIRECT FROM SWEDEN: THE MUSIC OF ABBA Comes to Miami in January

News channel or source: https://www.broadwayworld.com/miami/article/DIRECT-FROM-SWEDEN-THE-MUSIC-OF-ABBA-Comes-to-Miami-in-January-20251218

Published on: Wednesday 17 December 2025

The Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center will present Direct From Sweden: The Music of ABBA on Sunday, January 18, 2026, at 7 p.m. This world-class show delivers the closest ABBA experience audiences ...

News Sweden » Music: Bandcamp and Sweden Hit Back Against AI-Generated Music

News channel or source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-bandcamp-sweden-ai-music/

Published on: Monday 19 January 2026

Bandcamp bans music generated wholly or in substantial part by AI, while Sweden’s official charts remove a hit after ruling it mainly AI-generated. The music industry’s uneasy relationship with ...

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