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Eurovision Song Contest 2011
Country	Sweden
National selection
Selection process	Melodifestivalen 2011
Selection date(s)	Web Jokers 8 November 2010 Semi-finals 5 February 2011 12 February 2011 19 February 2011 26 February 2011 Second Chance 5 March 2011 Final 12 March 2011
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2011

Sweden will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and will select their entry through the national final Melodifestivalen 2011, organised by Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT).

Melodifestivalen 2011

The Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 will be selected through Melodifestivalen contest, the 50th edition of the contest. SVT has announced new rules and changes to the Melodifestivalen 2010 rules.

The format for the contest will remain the same from last year's, the same format that was introduced in 2002. 32 songs will be presented over 4 semi-finals. A public televote will be held to select two songs to progress directly to the final, with the 3rd and 4th placed songs progressing to a Second Chance (Andra Chansen) round. The eight songs in the Second Chance round will battle in duels until two songs are left, which also progress to the final. In the final, the votes of the public will constitute 50% of the total vote, with the remaining 50% coming from 11 juries - 6 international, and 5 Swedish.

There has been a large change in the way that the 32 songs will be selected. In 2010, 27 songs were selected by a selection panel. 4 songs were then selected by SVT in order to diversify the musical quality of the contest. One song was then selected through a "Web wildcard" competition, with members of the public allowed to submit songs onto the SVT website, with the public selecting one song through SMS voting.

For 2011, this will be changed. Only 15 songs will now be selected by the selection panel. 15 songs will then be selected by SVT, from remaining submissions made to the selection panel, or from specially invited artists and songs. The web wildcard competition will now be extended so that two songs will be selected by the public.

The voting of the two web jokers will begin on 11 October. The five best will qualify for a live show where viewers will pick the two lucky ones. The web joker live show will be broadcast on the 8th of November on SVT24.

Other changes introduced to Melodifestivalen 2011 have been revealed by SVT. For the first time, non-Swedish songwriters will be able to enter songs into the contest, as long as there is at least one Swedish songwriter also contributing. Artists will now be able to perform a single instrument live during the TV broadcast.

On 22 September, SVT announced that a record number of 3852 entries have been submitted. 424 of them will go to the web joker selection.

Schedule

Entries

The jury which chose the fifteen songs of the over 3000 submissions, were selected at the end of September 2010. SVT's fifteen wild cards will be revealed during autumn 2010. The two web wild cards will be chosen by viewers on 8 November 2010. On 7 October, SVT announced the first four songs.

Jury's Choice

Wild Cards

At Eurovision

Sweden will compete in one of the two semi-finals of the contest, on 10 or 12 May.

See also

• Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Eurovision Song Contest 2011

References

1. ^ Yalcinkaya, Hakan (2010-07-09). "Changes in Melodifestivalen 2011 announced". ESCToday. Retrieved 2010-07-10. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
2. ^ Juhas, Ervin. "Sweden: Rules of Melodifestivalen 2011". ESCDaily. Retrieved 12 July 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
3. Siim, Jarmo (2010-09-09). "Swedish web jokers to go on TV". Eurovision.tv. Retrieved 2010-09-09. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
4. Hondal, Victor (2010-09-22). "Sweden: Record numbers entering Melodifestivalen". Esctoday.com. Retrieved 2010-09-23. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
5. Siim, Jarmo (2010-10-07). "First four entries for Sweden announced". Eurovision.tv. Retrieved 2010-10-07. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

External links

• Template:Sv icon Melodifestivalen Official Site
• Template:Sv icon Melodifestivalen 2011 competition rules SVT

Template:2011 Eurovision Song Contest entries

• Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011
• 2011 in Sweden
• Melodifestivalen by year