Tonight 8 songs competed for the final 2 places in the Melodifestivalen Final that will take place next week. With Jedward as the Interval act this was an energetic Semi Final. 

The 8 Songs competing were as follows

1. You – Robin Stjernberg
2. Vi kommer aldrig att förlora – Eric Gadd
3. Hon har inte – Caroline af Ugglas
4. Jalla Dansa Sawa – Behrang Miri
5. Hello Goodbye – Erik Segerstedt & Tone Damli
6. Begging – Anton Ewald
7. Burning Flags – Cookies N Beans
8. In And Out Of Love – Martin Rolinski

All songs performed once and a public vote was taken. The bottom 3 acts were eliminated.

This left 5 acts progressing to round 2 voting were

• You – Robin Stjernberg
• Jalla Dansa Sawa – Behrang Miri
• Hello Goodbye – Erik Segerstedt & Tone Damli
•  Begging – Anton Ewald
• In And Out Of Love – Martin Rolinski

Then came Jedward to a huge roar of applause from the Swedish Audience as they dueled Danny and Gina to a rendition of “Lipstick”

Then a second round or televoting took place and 4 acts progressed to the live Duels. The song that came first in the voting will have a sing off with the song that came 4th. Then the song that came second will duel against the 3rd highest scoring song. This led the following duels

Duel 1 – “Jalla Dansa Sawa” – Behrang Miri – VERSUS – “Begging” – Anton Ewald

The winner of this duel and therefore making the final of Melodifestivalen 2013 is

(YouTube Video Courtesy of 2010escmelodi)

Duel 2 – “You” – Robin Stjernberg – VERSUS – “In And Out Of Love” – Martin Rolinski

The winner of this duel and therefore taking the last place in the Melodifestivalen 2013 final is

(YouTube Video courtesy of 2010escmelodi)

Now we have our 10 finalists and we will be opening our “Melodifestivalen Big Poll” shortly so stay tuned and make sure to vote for your Melodifestivalen winner.  

Photograph courtesy of SVT

Source – SVT and Eurovision Ireland