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Eurovision Song Contest 2011
Country	Sweden
National selection
Selection process	Melodifestivalen 2011
Selection date(s)	Web Wildcard Final 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 in Düsseldorf, Germany 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. Now only 15 songs will be selected by the selection panel. Another 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 expanded so that two songs will be selected by the public.

The voting to determine the two web wild cards began on 11 October. The five best will qualify for a live show where viewers will pick the two lucky ones. The web wild card 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 wildcard 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, and on 19 October they announced another eight songs. However, it is not determined whether it is the jury's or SVT's songs that have been revealed.

Web wild cards

Exactly as in Melodifestivalen 2010 SVT hold a web wild card competition. The difference this year is there will be two web wild cards instead of just one. Musicians who hasn't have or had any contract with a music publishing house or never had any of their work published could enter songs onto SVT's Melodifestivalen website from 9 juli to 21 September. From 11 October to 5 November 2010, the qualifying songs are voted for by SMS voting in Sweden, with the winning song being decided on 8 November 2010.

A total of 424 entries were submitted for the web wildcard, with 232 selected to compete in the competition, after disqualifying those that did not meet the rules of the contest. Over the following weeks the bottom songs in the public SMS vote were eliminated from the contest, leaving 10 songs left:

• 11 October 2010 - all 232 entries were made available for voting.
• 18 October 2010 - 100 entries went on to the next round
• 25 October 2010 - 50 entries went on to the next round
• 27 October 2010 - 20 entries went on to the next round
• 29 October 2010 - 15 entries went on to the next round
• 31 October-5 November 2010 - ten entries left, one will be voted out every day
• 8 November 2010 - The final there the five remaining entries will be voted and two of them will be the two web wild cards in Melodifestivalen 2011

On 31 October the top ten songs were announced by SVT. Each day, until 5 November 2010, one song will be eliminated from the competition, with only five songs left. The two winners will be announced on 8 November at 9:00 PM in a live show final on SVT24.

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)
6. http://www.oikotimes.com/v2/index.php?file=articles&id=8980

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