On 15 August 2006, SVT announced that the second chance round, which had by then taken place on the Sunday after the last heat, would be turned into a full Saturday night show.
That meant that Melodifestivalen 2007 would become a six-week competition, rather than the five-week event it had been the previous years.
[2] As well as turning the second chance round into a main show in an arena, the voting for it was also changed.
A knock-out system was introduced where each of the eight artists were split into four duels, and the voters voted for their favorite in each one.
[2] Starting in 2004, four out of the 32 participants were selected directly by the contest's producers, in order to increase musical and artistic breadth.
[7] The second chance round took place on 3 March 2007 at the Rosvalla Eventcenter in Nyköping.