 Sweden was placed into the first semi-final, to be held on 9 May 2017, and was scheduled to perform in the first half of the show.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.Sweden was set to open the show and perform in position 1, before the entry from Georgia.