| Creator: | Simon Cowell |
| Presenter: | David Hellenius |
| Judges: | Orup Andreas Carlsson Ison Marie Serneholt |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Network: | TV4 |
| Runtime: | 60–120 minutes |
| Num Series: | 1 |
| Related: | Idol The Voice Sverige |
X Factor was the Swedish version of The X Factor, with the only season of the series debuting on September 9, 2012 and ending on December 7, 2012. The winner of the series was Awa Santesson-Sey. TV4 announced in January 2013 that Idol, another singing talent show seeking to discover the best singer through nationwide auditions, would return in 2013 and that X Factor would not continue.[1]
Contestant in "Boys" category
Contestant in "Girls" category
Contestant in "Over 25s" category
Contestant in "Groups" category
In the show's only season, each judge was allocated a category to mentor and chose three acts to progress to the live shows. This table shows which category each judge was allocated and which acts he or she put through to the live shows.
Key:
– Winning judge/category. Winners are in bold, eliminated contestants in small font.
| width=6% | Series | width=10% | Orup | width=10% | Andreas Carlsson | width=10% | Ison | width=10% | Marie Serneholt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One | Over 25s Benny Hult Alexander Holmgren Freja Modin | Girls Awa Santesson-Sey Manda Nilsénius Frida Sandén | Boys Isak Danielson Malcolm Brandin Oscar Zia | Groups J.E.M Hey Mary NJOY |
The only season of X Factor premiered on September 9, 2012 and ended on December 7, 2012.[2] Leona Lewis, Axwell and E.M.D. were guest judges of the series at one point. Also, Britney Spears appeared in a video message to the contestants in the Girls category.[3] One Direction and Olly Murs also performed on the live results shows.
24 acts reached judge's houses. Orup was helped by Eric Gadd, Ison by Leona Lewis, Carlsson by Axwell and Marie by E.M.D.
The twelve eliminated acts were:
Key:
– Winner
– Runner-up
| Category (mentor) | Acts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys (Ison) | Malcolm Brandin | Isak Danielson | Oscar Zia | |
| Girls (Carlsson) | Manda Nilsénius | Frida Sandén | Awa Santesson-Sey | |
| Over 25s (Orup) | Alexander Holmgren | Benny Hult | Freja Modin | |
| Groups (Serneholt) | Hey Mary | J.E.M | NJOY | |
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part 1 | Part 2 | ||||||||||
| Awa Santesson-Sey | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner |
| Benny Hult | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Runner-Up |
| Isak Danielson | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 5th | Safe | 3rd | 3rd | Eliminated (Week 10) |
| J.E.M | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 6th | Safe | Bottom two | 4th | Eliminated (Week 9) | |
| Malcolm Brandin | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (Week 8) | ||
| Alexander Holmgren | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 7th | Safe | 6th | Eliminated (Week 7) | |||
| Manda Nilsénius | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | 8th | Safe | 7th | Eliminated (Week 6) | ||||
| Oscar Zia | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | 8th | Eliminated (Week 5) | |||||
| Hey Mary | Safe | Bottom two | Safe | 9th | 9th | Eliminated (Week 5) | |||||
| Frida Sandén | Safe | Safe | Bottom two | Eliminated (Week 3) | |||||||
| Freja Modin | Bottom two | Bottom two | Eliminated (Week 2) | ||||||||
| NJOY | Bottom two | Eliminated (Week 1) | |||||||||
| Bottom two | Freja Modin, NJOY | Freja Modin, Hey Mary | Frida Sandén, Manda Nilsénius | Hey Mary, Manda Nilsénius | Alexander Holmgren, Oscar Zia | J.E.M, Manda Nilsénius | Alexander Holmgren, Isak Danielson | J.E.M, Malcolm Brandin | No judges' vote or final showdown: public votes alone decide who wins | ||
| Ison's vote to eliminate | NJOY | Freja Modin | Frida Sandén | Manda Nilsénius | Alexander Holmgren | Manda Nilsénius | Alexander Holmgren | J.E.M | |||
| Carlsson's vote to eliminate | NJOY | Freja Modin | Frida Sandén | Hey Mary | Oscar Zia | J.E.M | Isak Danielson | Malcolm Brandin | |||
| Serneholt's vote to eliminate | Freja Modin | Freja Modin | Frida Sandén | Manda Nilsénius | Alexander Holmgren | Manda Nilsénius | Alexander Holmgren | Malcolm Brandin | |||
| Orup's Vote to eliminate | NJOY | Hey Mary | Frida Sandén | Hey Mary | Oscar Zia | J.E.M | Isak Danielson | Malcolm Brandin | |||
| Eliminated | |||||||||||
| NJOY 3 of 4 votes Majority | Freja Modin 3 of 4 votes Majority | Frida Sandén 4 of 4 votes Majority | No Elimination | Hey Mary Public Vote | Manda Nilsénius 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Alexander Holmgren 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Malcolm Brandin 3 of 4 votes Majority | J.E.M Bottom | Isak Danielson Third Place | Benny Hult Runner-Up | |
| Oscar Zia 2 of 4 votes Deadlock | Awa Santesson-Sey Winner | ||||||||||
| Order | Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J.E.M | 1 | "Wild Ones" | Safe | |
| Freja Modin | 2 | "Evighet" | Bottom two | |
| Awa Santesson-Sey | 3 | "Call Me Maybe" | Safe | |
| Isak Danielson | 4 | "Somebody That I Used to Know" | Safe | |
| Frida Sandén | 5 | "Teenage Dream" | Safe | |
| Benny Hult | 6 | "Wild Horses" | Safe | |
| Malcolm Brandin | 7 | "Bredängsstil" (original song) | Safe | |
| Hey Mary | 8 | "With Every Heartbeat" | Safe | |
| Manda Nilsénius | 9 | "We Found Love" | Safe | |
| Alexander Holmgren | 10 | "Marry You" | Safe | |
| NJOY | 11 | "La La Love" | Bottom two | |
| Oscar Zia | 12 | "Boyfriend" | Safe | |
| Final showdown details | ||||
| Freja Modin | 1 | "En dröm" | Safe | |
| NJOY | 2 | "Free Your Mind" | Eliminated | |
| Order | Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benny Hult | 1 | "Crazy" | Safe | |
| Oscar Zia | 2 | "DJ Got Us Fallin' in Love" | Safe | |
| Frida Sandén | 3 | "Wherever You Will Go" | Safe | |
| J.E.M | 4 | "Ghetto Supastar (That Is What You Are)" | Safe | |
| Freja Modin | 5 | "Bara Himlen Ser På" | Bottom two | |
| Isak Danielson | 6 | "Keep On Walking" | Safe | |
| Awa Santesson-Sey | 7 | "Mercy" | Safe | |
| Hey Mary | 8 | "I Love It" | Bottom two | |
| Alexander Holmgren | 9 | "The Whole of the Moon" | Safe | |
| Manda Nilsénius | 10 | "One Last Time" | Safe | |
| Malcolm Brandin | 11 | "Galen" (original song) | Safe | |
| Final showdown details | ||||
| Freja Modin | 1 | "Genom Eld" | Eliminated | |
| Hey Mary | 2 | "Emotion" | Safe | |
| Order | Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awa Santesson-Sey | 1 | "MMMBop" | Safe | |
| Alexander Holmgren | 2 | "Turn Me On" | Safe | |
| Hey Mary | 3 | "Nothing Compares 2 U" | Safe | |
| Oscar Zia | 4 | "Danza Kuduro" | Safe | |
| Benny Hult | 5 | "Mad World" | Safe | |
| Manda Nilsénius | 6 | "It Feels So Good" | Bottom two | |
| Malcolm Brandin | 7 | "Here Comes the Hotstepper" | Safe | |
| Isak Danielson | 8 | "You're Beautiful" | Safe | |
| Frida Sandén | 9 | "One of Us" | Bottom two | |
| J.E.M | 10 | "Groove Is in the Heart" | Safe | |
| Final showdown details | ||||
| Manda Nilsénius | 1 | "Wide Awake" | Safe | |
| Frida Sandén | 2 | "Skyscraper" | Eliminated | |
| Order | Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oscar Zia | 1 | "When You Say Nothing At All" | Safe | |
| Benny Hult | 2 | "Bad Things" | Safe | |
| Awa Santesson-Sey | 3 | "Love Story" | Safe | |
| Hey Mary | 4 | "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" | Bottom two | |
| Malcolm Brandin | 5 | "Malcolm B-thoven's femma" (original song) | Safe | |
| Alexander Holmgren | 6 | "Tiny Dancer" | Safe | |
| Manda Nilsénius | 7 | "Bad Romance" | Bottom two | |
| Isak Danielson | 8 | "Skyfall" | Safe | |
| J.E.M | 9 | "Give Me Everything" | Safe | |
| Final showdown details | ||||
| Hey Mary | 1 | "One Night Only" | Safe | |
| Manda Nilsénius | 2 | "No One" | Eliminated | |
Although Manda Nilsénius was eliminated, after checking the votes, it was revealed that Hey Mary had received the fewest votes in that week. Therefore, it was decided that both acts would continue to Week 5; to make up for this, two acts would be eliminated in Week 5.
| Order | Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isak Danielson | 1 | "Dancing on My Own"/"Från och med Du" | Safe | |
| Benny Hult | 2 | "Don't You Worry Child" | Safe | |
| Hey Mary | 3 | "Eternal Flame" | Eliminated | |
| Awa Santesson-Sey | 4 | "Upside Down" | Safe | |
| Malcolm Brandin | 5 | "Fest på röda linjen" (original song) | Safe | |
| Manda Nilsénius | 6 | "If I Were a Boy" | Safe | |
| Alexander Holmgren | 7 | "Lemon Tree" | Bottom two | |
| Oscar Zia | 8 | "Moves Like Jagger" | Bottom two | |
| J.E.M | 9 | "On the Floor" | Safe | |
| Final showdown details | ||||
| Alexander Holmgren | 1 | "All Right Now" | Safe | |
| Oscar Zia | 2 | "It Will Rain" | Eliminated | |
| Order | Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J.E.M | 1 | "Me and My Drum" | Bottom two | |
| Awa Santesson-Sey | 2 | "Måndagsbarn" | Safe | |
| Benny Hult | 3 | "Longing for Lullabies" | Safe | |
| Malcolm Brandin | 4 | "Tar det tillbaka" | Safe | |
| Alexander Holmgren | 5 | "Happyland" | Safe | |
| Manda Nilsénius | 6 | "Listen to Your Heart" | Bottom two | |
| Isak Danielson | 7 | "Silhouettes" | Safe | |
| Final showdown details | ||||
| J.E.M | 1 | "Nothin' on You" | Safe | |
| Manda Nilsénius | 2 | "Oops!... I Did It Again" | Eliminated | |
| Order | Song | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isak Danielson | 1 | "Feeling Good" | Bottom two | |
| Alexander Holmgren | 2 | "Smells Like Teen Spirit" | Bottom two | |
| J.E.M | 3 | "Turn Your Lights Down Low" | Safe | |
| Malcolm Brandin | 4 | "Jag saknar dig" (original song) | Safe | |
| Awa Santesson-Sey | 5 | "Blame It on the Boogie" | Safe | |
| Benny Hult | 6 | "What's Going On" | Safe | |
| Final showdown details | ||||
| Isak Danielson | 1 | "I Was Here" | Safe | |
| Alexander Holmgren | 2 | "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" | Eliminated | |
| Order | First song | Order | Second song | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J.E.M | 1 | "I Gotta Feeling" | 6 | "Starships" | Bottom two |
| Isak Danielson | 2 | "Ordinary People" | 7 | "9 to 5" | Safe |
| Awa Santesson-Sey | 3 | "You Keep Me Hangin' On" | 8 | "Crazy in Love" | Safe |
| Benny Hult | 4 | "If You Don't Know Me by Now" | 9 | "Bed of Roses" | Safe |
| Malcolm Brandin | 5 | "Best I Ever Had" (Swedish) | 10 | "Everything Is Everything" | Bottom two |
| Final showdown details | |||||
| J.E.M | 1 | "Airplanes" | Safe | ||
| Malcolm Brandin | 2 | Original song | Eliminated | ||
Judges' votes to eliminate
| Order | First song | Order | Second song | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J.E.M | 1 | "Wild Ones" | 5 | "Alone Again" | Bottom two |
| Isak Danielson | 2 | "Skyfall" | 6 | "Viva la Vida" | Bottom two |
| Benny Hult | 3 | "Don't You Worry Child" | 7 | "Halo" | Safe |
| Awa Santesson-Sey | 4 | "Mercy" | 8 | "Jump (For My Love)" | Safe |
| Final showdown details | |||||
| J.E.M | 1 | "Written in the Stars" | Eliminated | ||
| Isak Danielson | 2 | Read All About It, Pt. III | Safe | ||
Public votes alone decided who would advance to the final.
| Act | Order | Song | Order | Duet | Order | Song | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awa Santesson-Sey | 1 | "Independent Women" | 4 | "My Heart Is Refusing Me" (with Loreen) | 7 | "You Can't Hurry Love" | Winner | |
| Isak Danielson | 2 | "Titanium" | 5 | "Life is a Rollercoaster" (with Ronan Keating) | N/A | N/A (Already eliminated) | Eliminated | |
| Benny Hult | 3 | "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" | 6 | "Hungry Heart" (with Orup) | 8 | "More Than You'll Ever Know" | Runner-up |
Xtra Factor was an after show which was broadcast after every week's live show and results. It was hosted in season one by Sara Lumholdt and Martin Björk.[4]
In Week 4, David Hellenius incorrectly announced that Manda Nilsénius had received fewer public votes than Hey Mary from deadlock and had to leave the competition. But after checking the votes, it was revealed that Hey Mary had received the fewest votes in that week.[5] Therefore, it was decided that both acts would continue to Week 5; to make up for this, two acts would be eliminated in Week 5.[5]