🇸🇪 Sweden: 3 million viewers for Melodifestivalen’s semi-final one
3 million viewers saw the first semifinal of the Melodifestivalen 2022, a decrease of 200,000 compared to the first semifinal of 2021.
Melodifestivalen begins its season 2022 and dominates the Swedish TV viewer. Last week’s semi-final saw a total of 3,017,00 viewers live, which corresponded to 76% of all TV viewers in the time slot, with 30.1% of the people in Sweden watching at least part of the program.
However, the show saw a decrease in the total number of viewers who canceled compared to 2021 when over 3.2 million viewers saw the Heirs and Danny Saucedo qualify for the final. The share of the 2021 heat was 74.9%, which means that the 2022 trade fair had a higher market share. The viewing figures for 2022 are an increase compared to the first heat of 2020, which saw 2.85 million viewers.
The result of the heat was:
- Malou Prytz – Bananas – 7th
- THEOZ – As you like – Advanced to the semifinals
- Shirley Clamp – Let there be Angels – 6th
- Omar Rudberg – Moving Like That – 5th
- Danne Stråhed – Hallabaloo – Advanced to the semifinals
- Cornelia Jakobs – Hold Me Closer – First finalist based on the first round of voting
- Robin Bengtsson – Innocent Love – Second finalist based on the second vote
The dates for the remaining Melodifestivalen shows are as follows:
- Heat 2: Avicii Arena (February 12)
- Heat 3: Avicii Arena (February 19)
- Heat 4: Friends Arena (February 26)
- Semifinal: Friends Arena (March 5)
- Final: Friends Arena (March 12)
The winner of the final on March 12 will represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin, Italy.
Source: ESCPlus | Image source: SVT
Sweden debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958 and has continued to be one of the competition’s most successful countries. The country has won the competition six times, the most recent was 2015. Sweden’s first victory came in 1974 when ABBA won the competition in Brighton with “Waterloo”. Since missing in the final in 2010, Sweden has finished third twice and won the competition twice, only in 2013 did the country end up outside the top 10 in the final.