Idol 2011 was the Swedish
Idol
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series' eight season and premiered on
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on 4 September 2011.
Pär Lernström
Pär Hugo Gustav Lernström, born 4 September 1980, is a Swedish television presenter, perhaps best known for presenting the Swedish Idol series on TV4.
He has worked for SR Stockholm, Utbildningsradion, MTV:s morningshow "Mycket mer än müsli" ...
was the new host of the series, after
Peter Jihde
Peter Jihde (born 12 July 1971) 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 ...
declined to return as host after
Idol 2010
The seventh season of '' Swedish Idol'' premiered on September 7, 2010 and concluded in December 2010 and was broadcast by TV4. Judges Anders Bagge, Laila Bagge Wahlgren and Andreas Carlsson continued to judge the show's contestants for their thir ...
. Two of the judges from earlier year returned, namely
Anders Bagge
Sven Anders Bagge (; born 16 January 1968) is a Swedish composer, lyricist, musician and record producer and partner with Peer Åström. The two songwriters / producers are known as Bagge & Peer. Bagge is also one of jury members for the TV4 sin ...
and
Laila Bagge Wahlgren
Laila Natali Bagge (born 15 December 1972 in Lund, Sweden, as Laila Natali Cahling), formerly Laila Bagge Wahlgren, is a Palestinian Swedish singer, manager and songwriter.
Biography
Her mother is Swedish and her father is Palestinian.
She was ...
, were joined in with two new judges,
Alexander Bard
Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard (born 17 March 1961) is a Swedish musician, author, lecturer, artist, songwriter, music producer, TV personality, religious and political activist, and one of the founders of the Syntheist religious movement alongside ...
and
Pelle Lidell
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.
Winner of season eight was
Amanda Fondell
Amanda Linnea Fondell (born 29 August 1994, Linderöd, Sweden) is a Swedish singer and winner of the Idol 2011, eighth series of Swedish ''Idol (Swedish TV series), Idol'', which she won on 9 December 2011 with 52% of the votes.
Fondell's first s ...
with
Robin Stjernberg
Robin James Olof Stjernberg (; born 22 February 1991, Hässleholm, Sweden) is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter and producer. He represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 on home soil on 18 May 2013 with the song "You". Stjernberg st ...
as first runner-up and
Moa Lignell
Moa Lignell (born 6 June 1994 in Alingsås, Sweden) is a Swedish singer, who came in third place in ''Idol 2011''. Lignell released her first music single "When I Held Ya" during her time on Idol. She had sung the song during the ''Idol'' competi ...
as second runner-up. Following the completion of this season, TV4 decided to put ''Idol'' on indefinite hiatus.
In January 2013, TV4 announced that Idol would return
in 2013.
Quarter-Finals
Quarter-Final 1
;Original Airdate: 26 September 2011
Quarter-Final 2
;Original Airdate: 27 September 2011
Quarter-Final 3
;Original Airdate: 28 September 2011
Quarter-Final 4
;Original Airdate: 29 September 2011
Semi-Final
;Original Airdate: 30 September
Finals
Finalists
(ages stated at time of contest)
Top 11 – Charts 2011
;Original Airdate: 7 October 2011
Top 10 – Swedish Hits
;Original Airdate: 14 October 2011
Top 9 – Hits from Superstar to Sweden
;Original Airdate: 21 October 2011
Top 8 – Big Band
;Original Airdate: 28 October 2011
Top 7 – Audition Song
;Original Airdate: 4 November 2011
Top 6 – Motown
;Original Airdate: 11 November 2011
Top 5 – My Breakthrough
;Original Airdate: 18 November 2011
Top 4 – Love Songs
;Original Airdate: 25 November 2011
Top 3 – Judge's Choice
;Original Airdate: 2 December 2011
Top 2 – Finale
;Original Airdate: 9 December 2011
Elimination chart
References
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2011 Swedish television seasons
Season 08
2011 in Swedish music