Idol 2010
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The seventh season of Swedish Idol
premiered on September 7, 2010 and concluded in December 2010 and was broadcasted by TV4. Judges Anders Bagge
, Laila Bagge Wahlgren and Andreas Carlsson
continued to judge the show's contestants for their third year, along with, for the fourth consecutive year, Peter Jihde
as host.
Idol (Sweden)
Idol is a Swedish reality-competition talent show airing on TV4. It debuted in August 2004, and it has since become one of the most popular shows on Swedish television...
premiered on September 7, 2010 and concluded in December 2010 and was broadcasted by TV4. Judges Anders Bagge
Anders Bagge
Sven Anders Bagge is a Swedish composer, lyricist, musician and record producer and partner with Peer Åström. The two songwriters / producers are known as Bagge & Peer...
, Laila Bagge Wahlgren and Andreas Carlsson
Andreas Carlsson
Andreas Carlsson is a Swedish music producer, composer, and pop songwriter.-Biography:Carlsson was part of the Cheiron Studios team until the studio was closed down in 2001....
continued to judge the show's contestants for their third year, along with, for the fourth consecutive year, Peter Jihde
Peter Jihde
Peter Jihde is a Swedish television host and sports reporter on TV4.Jihde was born in Malmö, Sweden. He has hosted "Sporten", "Fotbollskväll", and has presented Olympic games and football world championships. Jihde has also hosted his own talk show "Hos Jihde" on SVT and is a former floorball...
as host.
Changes from Season 6
- The ten finals will be held on Fridays, 5 of them in a studio in Stockholm and the other five one each at Göteborg, Karlstad, Malmö and Luleå. The finals will be again at the Globe Arena in Stockholm. It is only the second year that the show is on tour in various cities, and this year, the tour is more extended than last year and it will be the fewest shows from studio in the capital Stockholm.
- The official trailer was released in mid-August and the theme for it is "Aiming for the stars". The video features the three judges entering a spaceship and heading for the stars, searching for the next Swedish Idol. Former contestants, AgnesAgnes CarlssonAgnes Emilia Carlsson, also known mononymously as Agnes , is a Swedish recording artist. She rose to fame as the winner of Idol 2005, the second season of the Swedish Idol series...
and Amanda Jensen is also featured in the video.
Regional auditions phase
The large number of applicants to the Idol in both Göteborg and Stockholm prompted the organizers to extended auditions by one day. According to TV4, it was also a record number who sought to Idol in the other urban areas. So far, around 11,700 people applied for Idol in 2010, which is a record for Swedish Idol.| Episode Air Date | Audition City | Date | Audition Venue | Golden Tickets |
| September 9th/10th, 2010 | Göteborg | April 10-11, 2010 | Svenska Mässan Svenska Mässan Svenska Mässan or, in English, Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre is an exhibition and convention centre in Gothenburg, Sweden and is one of Scandinavia's biggest assembly points which attracts around one million visitors every year... |
23 |
| September 10th, 2010 | Karlstad Karlstad Karlstad is a city, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city had 61,685 inhabitants in 2010 out of a municipal total that during the first quarter 2010 was 84,885 inhabitants... |
April 18, 2010 | Nöjesfabriken | 19 |
| September 15th, 2010 | Malmö Malmö Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County... |
April 24, 2008 | Folkets Park | 33 |
| September 14th, 2010 | Luleå Luleå - Transportation :Local buses are run by .A passenger train service is available from Luleå Centralstation on Sweden's national SJ railway service northbound to Narvik on the Norwegian coast, or southbound to Stockholm. See Rail transport in Sweden.... |
May 2, 2010 | Coop Arena | 12 |
| September 7/8th, 2010 | Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area... |
May 8-9, 2010 | Kulturhuset | 30 |
| Total Golden Tickets | 128 | |||
Elimination Chart
| Did Not Perform | Female | Male | Top 24 | Wild Card | Top 11 | Winner |
| Safe | Save Last | Eliminated |
| Stage: | Quarter | Semi | Finals | |||||||||||||||
| Week: | 09/27 | 09/28 | 09/29 | 09/30 | 10/01 | 10/08 | 10/15 | 10/22 | 10/29 | 11/05 | 11/12 | 11/18 | 11/26 | 12/03 | 12/10 | |||
| Place | Contestant | Result | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jay Smith | Top 13 | Winner | |||||||||||||||
| Minnah Karlsson | Top 13 | Saved | Runner Up | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | Olle Hedberg | Elim | VC | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | Linnea Henriksson | Top 13 | Elim | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | Andreas Weise | Top 13 | Elim | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | Elin Blom | Elim | JC | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| 7 | Geir Rönning Geir Rönning Geir Rönning is a professional singer-songwriter from Ålesund, Norway. He later moved to the capital Oslo in the 1980s, and later on to Stockholm, Sweden, where he found opportunity to start a musical career. He later moved to Finland, which he represented in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005... |
Top 13 | Elim | |||||||||||||||
| 8 | Daniel Norberg | Elim | JC | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | Linda Varg | Top 13 | Elim | |||||||||||||||
| 10 | Alice Hagenbrant | Top 13 | Wdrw | |||||||||||||||
| 11 | Sassa Bodensjö | Elim | JC | Elim | ||||||||||||||
| 12-13 | Chris Andersen | Top 13 | Elim | |||||||||||||||
| Madeleine Finck-Björgen | Elim | JC | ||||||||||||||||
| Heat 4 | Alicia Francke Bocio | Elim | ||||||||||||||||
| Freja Sterner | ||||||||||||||||||
| Jimmy Claeson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Heat 3 | Malin Brännlund | Elim | ||||||||||||||||
| Michaela Osberg Dalja | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simon Lingmerth | ||||||||||||||||||
| Heat 2 | Björn Nagander | Elim | ||||||||||||||||
| Emil Carlsson | ||||||||||||||||||
| Heat 1 | Janine Nyman | Elim | ||||||||||||||||
| Jonathan Garcés | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sebastian Krantz | ||||||||||||||||||
- On October 15 Minnah Karlsson and Alice Hagenbrant were the bottom two with Minnah being eliminated. However since Alice withdrew shortly after Minnah was allowed to return.