Melodifestivalen 2011 Dates Semi-final 5 February 2011 12 February 2011 19 February 2011 26 February 2011 Second chance 5 March 2011 Final 12 March 2011 Venue,, Presenter(s) and Participants Number of entries 32: 8 in each semi-final; 10 in the final (2 from each semi-final, 2 from the Second Chance round) Vote Voting system 50% 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 ' by • • • Melodifestivalen 2011 was a song contest held between February and March 2011. It selected Sweden's 51st song to represent, and was the 50th edition of., with the song ', won the contest and thus was selected to represent Sweden in the.

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1, the album Eric Saades 2nd album is out on Roxy recordings since June 29. Multi Texture Map Plugin. It's titled Saade Vol. 1 and it's the follow up of Masquerade from 2010. The album includes Popular (album remix and original) and follow up single Hearts In The Air.

The album enters the Swedish album charts at #1 and gets Gold status in just one week. The album gained platinum status in seven weeks. Still in 2011, Saade also released Saade Vol. 2, a new album with 10 new songs in December.

It also enters the Swedish charts at #1. 2012 Update: Helena Paparizou, 2005 Eurovision winner, has performed a jazzed up swing version of Popular in the 2012 Melodifestivalen final. It's a bit of a tradition that the winner of last year is performed in a different style by a different artist in the interval of MF. Helena's Popular is released on iTunes and possibly other digital sources. Other interval versions that have also been officially released in the past few years are: 2010 - This Is My Life (Anna Bergendahl) in a rock version by Dynazty (in MF 2011) 2009 - La Voix (Malena Ernman) rock version by Casablanca with Malena (in MF 2010) 2008 - Hero (Charlotte Perrelli) Moto Boy with Charlotte Perrelli*, ballad version (in MF 2009) 2007 - The Worrying kind (The Ark) - Acoustic version by Maya Hirasawa (in MF 2008) 2006 - Invincible (Carola) - Acoustic ballad version by Thomas Andersson Wij (in MF 2007) * Charlotte does not feature on the studio version.