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| Eurovision Song Contest 1999 | ||||
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| Country |  Sweden | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Melodifestivalen 1999 | |||
| Selection date(s) | 27 February 1999 | |||
| Selected entrant | Charlotte Nilsson | |||
| Selected song | "Take Me to Your Heaven" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) |
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| Finals performance | ||||
| Final result | 1st, 163 points | |||
| Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Sweden was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, held in Jerusalem.
Melodifestivalen 1999 was the selection for the 39th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 38th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1,315 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition, with ten songs selected to compete. The final was held in the Victoriahallen in Stockholm on 27 February 1999, presented by Anders Lundin and Vendela Kirsebom Thommesen, and was broadcast on SVT2 and Sveriges Radio's P4 network. The winner was chosen through a 50/50 jury/televoting method, which was Charlotte Nilsson with the song "Tusen och en natt", written by Gert Lengstrand and Lars Diedricsson. It got the highest number of points from both the 11 juries and the televoters. A total of 630,339 votes were cast. [1]
| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Ai | "Bilder av dig" | Stephan Berg |
| Arvingarna | "Det svär jag på" | Torgny Söderberg, Lena Philipsson |
| Cleo | "Natten är min vän" | Thomas G:son |
| Charlotte Nilsson | "Tusen och en natt" | Gert Lengstrand, Lars "Dille" Diedricson |
| Christer Björkman | "Välkommen hem" | Lasse Sahlin, Jan Lundkvist |
| Crosstalk | "Det gäller dig och mig" | Lars Edvall, Mattias Reimer |
| Drömhus | "Stjärna på himmelen" | Per Andréassen, Anders Dannvik |
| Janica | "Jag kan se dig" | Anders Dannvik, Pär Olsson |
| Martin | "(Du är så) Yeah Yeah Wow Wow" | Martin Svensson |
| Roger Pontare | "Som av is" | Lasse Johansson, Staffan Stavert |
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place | |
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| Votes | Points | ||||||
| 1 | Charlotte Nilsson | "Tusen och en natt" | 85 | 124,947 | 132 | 217 | 1 |
| 2 | Crosstalk | "Det gäller dig och mig" | 65 | 73,600 | 22 | 87 | 6 |
| 3 | Janica | "Jag kan se dig" | 66 | 22,106 | 0 | 66 | 7 |
| 4 | Drömhus | "Stjärna på himmelen" | 38 | 86,999 | 110 | 148 | 2 |
| 5 | Roger Pontare | "Som av is" | 54 | 73,744 | 44 | 98 | 5 |
| 6 | Martin | "(Du är så) Yeah Yeah Wow Wow" | 43 | 75,354 | 66 | 109 | 4 |
| 7 | Christer Björkman | "Välkommen hem" | 6 | 16,523 | 0 | 6 | 10 |
| 8 | Ai | "Bilder av dig" | 31 | 56,890 | 11 | 42 | 9 |
| 9 | Arvingarna | "Det svär jag på" | 26 | 75,654 | 88 | 114 | 3 |
| 10 | Cleo | "Natten är min vän" | 59 | 24,522 | 0 | 59 | 8 |
| Song | ||||||||||||
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| "Tusen och en natt" | 10 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 85 |
| "Det gäller dig och mig" | 12 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 65 | |
| "Jag kan se dig" | 8 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 66 | |
| "Stjärna på himmelen" | 8 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 38 | |||
| "Som av is" | 2 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 54 | ||||
| "(Du är så) Yeah Yeah Wow Wow" | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 43 | ||
| "Välkommen hem" | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||
| "Bilder av dig" | 4 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 31 | ||||||
| "Det svär jag på" | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 26 | ||||
| "Natten är min vän" | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 59 |
Spokespersons
Ahead of the contest the Sweden were considered one of the favourites to win among bookmakers, alongside the entries from United Kingdom, Iceland and Cyprus. [2] [3] [4] The song was translated into English for Eurovision as "Take Me To Your Heaven". Nilsson performed 15th on the night of the contest. At the end of the voting Sweden received 163 points (12 points from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Malta, Norway and the United Kingdom), taking their fourth victory. [5]
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