Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017

Söngvakeppnin 2017 was the twelfth edition of Söngvakeppnin, the music competition that selects Iceland's entries for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Twelve songs in total competed in Söngvakeppnin 2017 where the winner was determined after two semi-finals and a final. Six songs competed in each semi-final on 25 February 2017 and 4 March 2017. The top three songs from each semi-final, as determined by public televoting qualified to the final which took place on 11 February 2017. In addition to that, an online vote selected a wildcard act for the final out of the remaining non-qualifying acts from both semi-finals. For the first time Iceland had an international jury members who are professionals in the music industry, together with Måns Zelmerlöw, Julia Zemiro, Bruno Berberes, Milica Fajgelj but also Icelandic members as: Snorri Helgason, Þórður Helgi Þórðarson and Andrea Gylfadóttir.[2] The winning entry in the final was determined over two rounds of voting: the first to select the top two via 50/50 public televoting and jury voting and the second to determine the winner with 100% televoting.

RÚV opened a submission period between 20 September 2016 and 28 October 2016 in order for interested parties to submit their entries. The submitted songs were not allowed to exceed three minutes, but had to contain lyrics in Icelandic for the semi-final and were performed in the language they intend to perform the song in at Eurovision in the final. RÚV announced the selected acts on 20 January 2017 with both Icelandic and English versions of each competing entry.

The first semi-final took place on 25 February 2017 where six of the competing acts presented their songs to the public. The top three entries decided solely by televoting advanced to the final.[3]

The second semi-final took place on 4 March 2017 where six of the competing acts will present their songs to the public. The top three entries decided solely by televoting advanced to the final.[3]

The final took place on 11 March 2017 where the six entries that qualified from the preceding two semi-finals and an eliminated act who got a wildcard competed to become Iceland's Eurovision entry. The wildcard was given to Hildur with her song "Bammbramm" which was eliminated in semi-final 1. In the semi-finals, all competing entries were required to be performed in Icelandic; however, entries competing in the final were required to be presented in the language they would compete within the Eurovision Song Contest. In the first round of voting, votes from a jury panel (50%) and public televoting (50%) determined the top two entries: "Is This Love?" performed by Daði Freyr Pétursson and "Paper" performed by Svala. The top two entries advanced to a second round of voting, the superfinal, where the winner, "Paper" performed by Svala, was determined solely by televoting.[4]

Once all the competing songs for the 2017 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Iceland was set to perform in position 13, following the entry from Moldova and before the entry from the Czech Republic.[7]

The following five members comprised the Icelandic jury:[8]

• Hildur Guðný – Chairperson – musician, music teacher
• Helga Möller – singer, represented Iceland in the 1986 contest as part of ICY
• Kristján Viðar Haraldsson (Viddi) – musician
• Pétur Örn – musician
• Stefanía Svavarsdóttir (Stefanía) – musician

Split voting results from Iceland (Semi-final 1)
Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		H. Möller	H. Guðný	Viddi	P. Örn	Stefanía	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Sweden	5	3	4	8	5	3	8	2	10
02	Georgia	3	4	5	10	6	4	7	16
03	Australia	7	5	2	3	2	2	10	5	6
04	Albania	13	8	15	11	16	14		15
05	Belgium	6	9	12	4	12	9	2	4	7
06	Montenegro	16	16	17	17	13	16		9	2
07	Finland	8	11	11	2	11	8	3	8	3
08	Azerbaijan	2	6	10	5	10	5	6	14
09	Portugal	1	1	1	1	1	1	12	1	12
10	Greece	9	13	8	7	8	10	1	11
11	Poland	11	14	9	14	3	12		6	5
12	Moldova	12	10	6	13	9	11		3	8
13	Iceland
14	Czech Republic	4	2	3	12	14	6	5	13
15	Cyprus	10	7	7	6	7	7	4	7	4
16	Armenia	14	15	14	9	4	13		12
17	Slovenia	15	12	13	15	17	15		17
18	Latvia	17	17	16	16	15	17		10	1

Split voting results from Iceland (final)
Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		H. Möller	H. Guðný	Viddi	P. Örn	Stefanía	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Israel	20	21	10	24	5	18		21
02	Poland	16	16	12	11	15	13		8	3
03	Belarus	17	12	11	19	19	17		15
04	Austria	9	9	19	7	16	11		18
05	Armenia	14	23	20	14	10	19		22
06	Netherlands	8	11	21	17	17	16		17
07	Moldova	19	13	7	12	13	12		5	6
08	Hungary	11	7	5	18	4	7	4	9	2
09	Italy	4	2	8	3	14	6	5	4	7
10	Denmark	3	15	9	16	7	8	3	12
11	Portugal	1	1	1	1	1	1	12	1	12
12	Azerbaijan	12	14	22	15	11	15		20
13	Croatia	26	26	17	26	23	25		19
14	Australia	6	4	2	4	3	2	10	11
15	Greece	18	19	15	13	18	20		24
16	Spain	22	17	25	22	26	23		23
17	Norway	7	18	14	9	12	10	1	10	1
18	United Kingdom	10	5	3	2	6	4	7	16
19	Cyprus	21	8	16	6	20	14		13
20	Romania	15	24	13	25	21	21		6	5
21	Germany	24	20	23	21	24	22		25
22	Ukraine	25	22	26	23	25	26		26
23	Belgium	13	10	18	8	9	9	2	2	10
24	Sweden	5	3	4	10	2	3	8	3	8
25	Bulgaria	2	6	6	5	8	5	6	7	4
26	France	23	25	24	20	22	24		14