Idol 2004

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Idol 2004

Idol 2004 Finalists (with dates of elimination)
Season 1 (2004)

Daniel Lindström	Winner
Darin Zanyar	26 November
Fillip Williams	19 November 23 September
Lorén Talhaoui	12 November
Stina Joelsson	5 November
Geraldo Sandell	29 October
Paul Lötberg	22 October
Nathalie Schmeikal	15 October
Cornelia Dahlgren	8 October
Alex Falk	1 October
Angel J. Hansson	Dropped out

The Swedish version of the worldwide TV format Idol, called Idol 2004. A jury of 4 music insiders visited 5 cities around Sweden: Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö, Umeå and Karlstad. Many contestants were sad and angry about the jury's words about their talents and the Swedish press wrote scandals about their comments. One was about a poor girl was told: "You could sing in a choir on a boat, actually in Estonia, when it sank".

The jury took 40 contestants, that the public could vote on in 5 days, in the semi-finals. 5 groups of 8 contestants sang to the public and the 2 contestants with the highest phone and SMS votes were through to the finals on the same night. After the choosing of the 10 finalists, the jury also picked 1 "wildcard" of their choice, which this time was Lorén Talhaoui.

In the middle of the season, BMG released the album Det Bästa Från Idol 2004 which included covers of songs that the contestants had sang in an earlier show. That album became a big success and gained a Gold accreditation in Sweden.

The 2 big finalists were Daniel Lindström, 26, from Umeå, and Darin Zanyar, 17, from Vällingby. In the final, both men sang their versions of the newly written song Coming True, written by the Swedish composer Jörgen Elofsson. Daniel took the first victory and released the single on the same night, and it becamed the most biggest selling single in Sweden in 2004 (Double Platinum). In the beginning of 2005, Darin also signed a contract with BMG, and has since become a big popstar in Sweden and Finland, just like Daniel. Later that year, also Nathalie, one of the contestants who were voted out first, released her debutsingle Did You Love Me. In 2006, she has released her debtalbum Here With Me.

[edit] Jury

Daniel Breitholtz
Peter Swartling
Kishti Tomita
Claes af Geijerstam

[edit] Hosts

David Hellenius
Peter Magnusson

[edit] Bottom three statistic

Date	Bottom Three
September 23	Fillip Williams	Alex Falk	Angel J. Hansson
October 1	Alex Falk(2)	Geraldo Sandell	Lorén Talhaoui
October 8	Cornelia Dahlgren	Nathalie Schmeikal	Fillip Williams(2)
October 15	Nathalie Schmeikal(2)	Geraldo Sandell(2)	Fillip Williams(3)
October 22	Paul Lötberg	Geraldo Sandell(3)	Stina Joelsson
October 29	Geraldo Sandell(4)	Stina Joelsson(2)	Darin Zanyar
	Bottom Two
November 5	Stina Joelsson(3)	Lorén Talhaoui(2)
November 12	Lorén Talhaoui(3)	Fillip Williams(4)
November 19	Fillip Williams(5)
November 26	Darin Zanyar	Daniel Lindström