Only a month after winning the contest, the home country for 2013, set the rules for the next edition of the very popular Melodifestivalen.
From 3rd until 17th September songwriters can upload songs to the website of SVT.
One of these songs will go to Melodifestivalen directly.
These songs must be written by composers who have never published any other work.
Another 15 songs will be chosen through the Regular contest, where any composer can bring on songs and the remaining 16 songs will be invited by SVT itself.
Also foreign composers are allowed to write songs, ONLY if they work together with a Swedish composer.
A little change next year is the disappearance of the Web Joker.
