 The "Regular contest" was open for entries that had at least one songwriter that already had a musical work published, while the "Public contest" accepted entries from songwriters without previously published musical work.Entries submitted for the competition were required to be new compositions which had never been published, between 2–3 minutes in length and with at least one songwriter that holds Swedish citizenship.The choice of language was free, however, SVT aims to have 30% of the contest's places reserved for entries sung mainly in Swedish.