Swedish broadcaster SVT has revealed the 25 countries that will compete in Sveriges 12:a (Sweden’s 12 points) this Thursday at 21:00 CET. In the show we’ll find out who will receive Sweden’s 12 points.
Saturday May 9: Eurovision: Inför ESC
The first show, Inför ESC aired on Saturday.
Snippets from all the 41 songs competing in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest were presented to the Swedish audience but only the 34 semi-finalists competed against each other.
Unlike at Eurovision all 34 competing countries from semi-final 1 and 2 competed in the same show.
Between May 5 to 9 the Swedish audience could vote on their favourite countries from both semi-final 1 and 2 using the Melodifestivalen app. Each person could vote a maximum of five times per country.
On Monday May 11 SVT revealed the nineteen songs that received the most votes from the Swedish audience. There were nine from semi-final 1 and ten from semi-final 2. These are the following countries that qualified to the final:
From semi-final 1:
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Belgium
- Ireland
- Israel
- Lithuania
- Malta
- Norway
- Russia
From semi-final 2:
- Austria
- Bulgaria
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- Georgia
- Greece
- Iceland
- Poland
- Switzerland
In the final on Thursday all the 25 songs will be played in their full version.
Thursday May 14: Sveriges 12:a
The final will be held this Thursday on May 14 at 21:00 CET and will be hosted by Melodifestivalen veteran Sarah Dawn Finer. Sarah has both competed in Melodifestivalen and hosted the show as well. To Eurovision fans she is also known as Lynda Woodruff.
In the final 25 countries will compete against each other, that is the 19 countries that qualified from the two semi-finals and the six automatic qualifiers (United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Germany, France and The Netherlands). When the final starts on May 14 the votes will be reset to zero and a new voting process starts. Same rules apply, each person can vote a maximun of five times per country. Similar to Eurovision 50 % of the votes will come from the audience and 50% from a jury group. The jury will give their 1-12 points and the Swedish audience will give their 1-12 points. The jury consist of well-known faces such as Melodifestivalen 2020 runner-up Dotter, Swedish Eurovision star Charlotte Perrelli and Eric Saade, Eurovision songwriter Fredrik Kempe, and Alcazar singer — and Melfest 2020 host Lina Hedlund.
When all the points from both the audience and the jury has been handed out we will find out which country that will receive Sweden´s 12 points and win. Note also that Sweden’s The Mamas do not compete in any of the shows as SVT decided to stick to the Eurovision rule that you cannot vote on your own country. This also makes the result more fair. However The Mamas will perform in the final with their song “Move”.
The running order on Thursday May 14:
- Azerbaijan
- United Kingdom
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Australia
- Lithuania
- The Netherlands
- Spain
- Poland
- Germany
- Belgium
- Iceland
- Norway
- Ireland
- France
- Malta
- Finland
- Bulgaria
- Georgia
- Greece
- Switzerland
- Austria
- Israel
- Italy
- Russia
Beyond crowning the winner, SVT will also highlight some of the most talked-about Eurovision memories, especially from Eurovision 2013 and 2016 when Sweden hosted the contest. And for those of you who don’t live in Sweden don’t you worry. The final show will be streamed live on Svt Play just like all Melodifestivalen shows. But you will not be able to vote.
Will you watch the show? And what do you think of the qualifying countries? Let us know in the comment field below!
Currently watching. I must say I really appreciate SVT doing this. This has become my replacement Eurovision show. Much appreciated 🙂
In all honesty Swedes didn’t get the chance to get familiar with the songs before voting because these so called “experts” (many of them have nothing to do with the music industry) talked over all the songs and wouldn’t shut up. They were also kinda disrespectful.
It¨’s not like these songs would have qualified in real life either.. They usually send much better stuff
Tastes vary from country to country and region to region. I’m not going to hate that some of my personal top ten aren’t represented from either Semifinal. Enjoy Sweden and SVT!!
Weren’t the netherlands performing at place 23? I see what bjorkman did there.
Exactly. That’s what I say.
On saturday Björkman said more than once Switzerland is his favorite.
Yes like 100000000 times
Last time I looked at a map, Bulgaria and Greece were in the Balkan Peninsula
…..Romania ?? Romania would qualify sorry but Sweden is only helping it’s Nordic friend and they are a afraid of Romania And Serbia…. HASTA LA VISTA SWEDEN
Swedes did not like their songs, deal with it!
Ah so UK is 2nd in the running order…..too early to win unfortunately
I wonder if song 23 will win…..
It wouldn’t have won any ways. It is not a winning song.
Lol, OK? And why is that a reason to not watch?
Your loss really..
Where I can watch semifinal?
Svt Play!
if ur referring to the Balkans I guess that the songs this year just wasn’t liked by the Swedish public, they did not leave someone out, all songs were shown and the balkan countries this year didn’t make the cut 🙁
Can someone explain me why there are only 9 qualifiers from Semi-final 1? They were so sure that they would be this 10th finalist?
I guess it’s because they don’t rank their own song so semi final 1 had 2 countries less for them than semi final 2, so it’d be fair to have less qualifiers from there.
Where are Latvia, Romania, Serbia and Armenia!
Great to see Ireland, Belgium and Georgia in the Final
From that draw, I think Finland could win.
I agree with most of their qualifiers, they have good taste
Good that they’re doing something like this but seriously, those SF results are just horrible. 😉
Romania ?
Ukraine, Serbia, Albania, Armenia…there’s quite a few.
Well done to Sweden for trying to come up with a program that shows all the chosen songs and attempts to present them in a competitive format. Not ideal many people will comment but at least it’s a decent effort by Sweden.
sad to see no Serbia, Latvia, Ukraine, Albania, Armenia, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia. not everyone could qualify haha wish the UK did something like this
Romania probably didn’t qualify since they showed the live performance which wasn’t the best tbh, probably would have done better if people heard her studio version!!
Latvia is not in the Final
TASTE!
I don’t hate the song, but it looked like a sure bottom 3 in the semi for me
She wouldn’t have qualified in real ESC either. She was always a borderline qualifier