The interval acts included Helena Paparizou, Charlotte Perrelli and Sertab Erener performing their respective winning songs - "My Number One" (Greece 2005), "Take Me to Your Heaven" (Sweden 1999) and "Everyway That I Can" (Turkey 2003) - with the audience taking part in a sing-along.
In the second semi-final "We Just Love Eurovision Too Much", a musical number performed by Mede that satirised various aspects of the contest and Sweden's success in the event, with appearances by Perrelli, Sarah Dawn Finer reprising her role as Lynda Woodruff, and 2023 Finnish representative Käärijä performing an excerpt of his competing song "Cha Cha Cha".
In the second semi-final 1984 winners for Sweden, Herreys, performed their winning song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" after the qualifiers were announced.
The second semi-final was opened by a pre-recorded segment in which presenters Petra Mede and Malin Åkerman performed the 2023 winning song "Tattoo" with lyrical changes that described how to reach Malmö from Stockholm.