First they revealed the song titles, then they gave us the names of this year's participants. We've seen the stage they will stand on and we've heard one minute of each of the eight songs that are going to be presented to us LIVE from Växjö tonight, all of them battling for two places in the Melodifestivalen 2012 Final, to be held in Stockholm on March 10th, with the entries in third and fourth place qualifying through to Andra chansen, the second chance round on March 3rd in Nyköping.

The participants in tonight's semifinal include one Melodifestivalen winner, last year's host and two of last year's much loved participants.

The show will be aired live via the SVT website here from 20:00 CET and will run for 90 minutes until 21:30 CET.

The eight artists and their songs on tonight's show are:

#	Artist	Song
01	Sean Banan	Sean Den Förste Banan
02	Abalone Dots	På väg
03	The Moniker	I Want to Be Chris Isaak (This Is Just the Beginning)
04	Afro-Dite	The Boy Can Dance
05	Dead by April	Mystery
06	Marie Serneholt	Salt & Pepper
07	Thorsten Flinck & Revolutionsorkestern	Jag reser mig igen
08	Loreen	Euphoria

You can follow Melodifestivalen 2012, Semifinal 1 live on escXtra.com tonight!

• By Nathan Waddell on Feb 4, 2012Source: escXtra.com, SVT, Eurovisionary