12 Melodifestivalen Final Running Order

SWEDEN : Melodifestivalen Final running order announced BUT it confuses us!

Ok well it doesn’t take a lot for me to get confused but I am. SVT announced the running order of next Saturday’s grand final of Melodifestivalen following the results from Andra Chansen last night.
http://youtu.be/WX_8Zj7d4rk
12 songs will contest the final which should make for an interesting show.

Running Order

Samir & Viktor – Groupie
JTR – Building it up
Dinah Nah – Make me La la la
Jon Henrik Fjällgren – Jag är fri (Manne Leam Frijje)
Jessica Andersson – Can’t hurt me now
Måns Zelmerlöw – Heroes
Linus Svenning – Forever starts today
Isa – Don’t stop
Magnus Carlsson – Möt mig i gamla stan
Eric Saade – Sting
Mariette – Don’t stop believing
Hasse Andersson – Guld och gröna skogar

Now here is why we are confused. Why would you put your 2 hot favourites performing very close together and at the start of the show? Jon Henrik Fjällgren and Måns Zelmerlöw are the 2 favourites. They have both stormed the Swedish Charts with their songs yet they will be in the first half of the draw and close to each other.

http://youtu.be/_jdYpbZ4oQE

Meanwhile former winner Eric Saade has been given a great slot #10 towards the end – good for him. With 3 slow/midtempo songs in the mainly pop/schlager dominated final who wouldn’t you disperse them throughout the final?

Jon Henrik Fjällgren and Jessica Andersson are back to back in position 4 and 5 and then Mariette is second last in position 11. It just seems like an odd running order where most Melodifestivalen’s you see the logic and variety in the songs a lot more clearly.

What do you think? Does the running order seen strange to you? How would you have arranged the final?

Let us know.

Author/Edit in Chief Garrett Mulhall

Source : SVT and Eurovision Ireland