Melodifestivalen 2011

Melodifestivalen 2011
Dates and venues
Heat 1
  • 5 February 2011
Heat 2
  • 12 February 2011
Heat 3
  • 19 February 2011
Heat 4
  • 26 February 2011
Second chance
  • 5 March 2011
Final
Production
BroadcasterSveriges Television (SVT)
DirectorDaniel Jelinek
Janne Jansson
PresentersMarie Serneholt and Rickard Olsson
Participants
Number of entries32: 8 in each heat; 10 in the final (2 from each heat, 2 from the Second Chance round)
Vote
Voting system50% Jury, 50% SMS and telephone voting
11 international juries give 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 points to their seven favourite songs.
People can vote by televote or SMS. Televoting points are based on percentages, totalling 473 points. If an entry gets 10% of the tele-votes it will be equivalent to 10% of 473 points.
Winning song"Popular" by Eric Saade

Melodifestivalen 2011 was a Swedish song contest held in February and March 2011. It selected Sweden's 51st song to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest, and was the 50th edition of Melodifestivalen. Eric Saade, with the song "Popular", won the contest and thus was selected to represent Sweden in the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest.