Melodifestivalen (direct translation: The Melody Festival) is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). The competition is a six part tour (5 heats + the final) with stops in cities across Sweden to determine the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen is also known informally as "Mello", or internationally as "Melfest".
Melodifestivalen (Season 57)
Semi-final 1 (Episode 1) 2.0
Air date: 2018-02-03
Runtime: 90 min
Overview: The first semi-final took place on the 3rd of February 2018 at the Löfbergs Arena in Karlstad. A total of 6,617,451 votes were cast throughout the show with a total of 452,906 SEK collected for Radiohjälpen.
Semi-final 2 (Episode 2) 2.0
Air date: 2018-02-10
Runtime: 90 min
Semi-final 3 (Episode 3) 2.0
Air date: 2018-02-17
Runtime: 90 min
Semi-final 4 (Episode 4) 2.0
Air date: 2018-02-24
Runtime: 90 min
Second Chance Round (Episode 5) 2.0
Air date: 2018-03-03
Runtime: 90 min
Finale (Episode 6) 2.0
Air date: 2018-03-10
Runtime: 120 min
