- Melodifestivalen winners
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This page lists the songs and artists that have won Melodifestivalen, the Swedish preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. There was no competition in 1964, 1970 and 1976.
List of winners
Year Song Translation Artist Songwriter(s) Position in ESC 1958[1] "Lilla stjärna" Little star Alice Babs Åke Gerhard 4th 1959 "Augustin" Siw Malmkvist Åke Gerhard, Harry Sandin 9th (performed by Brita Borg)[2] 1960 "Alla andra får varann" Everyone else gets each other Östen Warnerbring/Inger Berggren Åke Gerhard, Ulf Kjellqvist 10th (performed by Siw Malmkvist) 1961 "April, April" Siw Malmkvist/Gunnar Wiklund Bobbie Ericson, Bo Eneby 14th (performed by Lill-Babs) 1962 "Sol och vår" Sun and spring Inger Berggren/Lily Berglund Åke Gerhard, Ulf Kjellqvist 7th 1963 "En gång i Stockholm" Once, in Stockholm Monica Zetterlund/Carli Tornehave Bobbie Ericson, Beppe Wolgers 13th 1965 "Annorstädes vals" Elsewhere waltz Ingvar Wixell Dag Wirén, Alf Henrikson 10th (as "Absent Friends") 1966 "Nygammal vals" New old-fashioned waltz Lill Lindfors & Svante Thuresson Bengt Arne Wallin, Björn Lindroth 2nd 1967 "Som en dröm" Like a dream Östen Warnerbring Curt Petterson, Marcus Österdahl, Patrice Hellberg 8th 1968 "Det börjar verka kärlek, banne mej" It's starting to look like love, damn right Claes-Göran Hederström Peter Himmelstrand 5th 1969 "Judy, min vän" Judy, my friend Tommy Körberg Roger Wallis, Britt Lindeborg 9th 1971 "Vita vidder" White expanses Family Four Håkan Elmquist 6th 1972 "Härliga sommardag" Glorious summer's day Family Four Håkan Elmquist 13th 1973 "Sommaren som aldrig säger nej" The summer which never says no Malta[3] Monica Dominique, Carl-Axel Dominique, Lars Forssell 5th (as "You're Summer") 1974 "Waterloo" ABBA Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Stikkan Andersson 1st 1975 "Jennie, Jennie" Lasse Berghagen Lasse Berghagen 8th 1977 "Beatles" Forbes Claes Bure, Sven-Olof Bagge 18th 1978 "Det blir alltid värre framåt natten" It's always worse towards the night Björn Skifs Peter Himmelstrand 14th 1979 "Satellit" Satellite Ted Gärdestad Ted Gärdestad, Kenneth Gärdestad 17th 1980 "Just nu!" Right now! Tomas Ledin Tomas Ledin 10th 1981 "Fångad i en dröm" Captured in a dream Björn Skifs Björn Skifs, Bengt Palmers 10th 1982 "Dag efter dag" Day after day Chips Lasse Holm 8th 1983 "Främling" Stranger Carola Häggkvist Monica Forsberg, Lasse Holm 3rd 1984 "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" Herreys Britt Lindeborg, Torgny Söderberg 1st 1985 "Bra vibrationer" Good vibrations Kikki Danielsson Ingela Forsman, Lasse Holm 3rd 1986 "E' de' det här du kallar kärlek?" Is this what you call love? Lasse Holm & Monica Törnell Lasse Holm 5th 1987 "Fyra bugg och en Coca Cola" Four chewing gums and a Coca Cola Lotta Engberg Mikael Wendt, Christer Lundh 12th (as "Boogaloo")[4] 1988 "Stad i ljus" City of light Tommy Körberg Py Bäckman 12th 1989 "En dag" One day Tommy Nilsson Tim Norell, Ola Håkansson, Alexander Bard 4th 1990 "Som en vind" Like a wind Edin-Ådahl Mikael Wendt 16th 1991 "Fångad av en stormvind" Captured by a stormwind Carola Häggkvist Stephan Berg 1st 1992 "I morgon är en annan dag" Tomorrow is another day Christer Björkman Niklas Strömstedt 22nd 1993 "Eloise" Arvingarna Lasse Holm, Gert Lengtstrand 7th 1994 "Stjärnorna" The stars Roger Pontare & Marie Bergman Peter Bertilsson, Mikael Littwold 13th 1995 "Se på mej" Look at me Jan Johansen Ingela Forsman, Bobby Ljunggren, Håkan Almqvist 3rd 1996 "Den vilda" The wild one One More Time Nanne Grönvall, Peter Grönvall 3rd 1997 "Bara hon älskar mig" If only she loves me Blond Stephan Berg 14th 1998 "Kärleken är" Love is Jill Johnson Ingela Forsman, Bobby Ljunggren, Håkan Almqvist 10th 1999 "Tusen och en natt" A thousand and one nights Charlotte Nilsson Gert Längstrand, Lars Diedricsson 1st (as "Take Me to Your Heaven") 2000 "När vindarna viskar mitt namn" When the winds whisper my name Roger Pontare Thomas Holmstrand, Linda Jansson, Peter Dahl 7th (as "When Spirits Are Calling My Name") 2001 "Lyssna till ditt hjärta" Listen to your heart Friends Thomas G:son, Henrik Sethsson 5th (as "Listen To Your Heartbeat") 2002 "Never Let It Go" Afro-Dite Marcos Ubeda 8th 2003 "Give Me Your Love" Fame Calle Kindbom, Carl Lösnitz 5th 2004 "Det gör ont" It hurts Lena Philipsson Thomas Eriksson 5th (as "It Hurts") 2005 "Las Vegas" Martin Stenmarck Niklas Edberger, Johan Fransson, Tim Larsson, Tobias Lundgren 19th 2006 "Evighet" Eternity Carola Carola, Bobby Ljunggren, Thomas G:son, Henrik Wikström 5th (as "Invincible") 2007 "The Worrying Kind" The Ark Ola Salo 18th 2008 "Hero" Charlotte Perrelli Bobby Ljunggren, Fredrik Kempe 18th 2009 "La voix" The voice Malena Ernman Fredrik Kempe, Malena Ernman 21st 2010 "This Is My Life" Anna Bergendahl Bobby Ljunggren, Kristian Lagerström 11th - SF 2011 "Popular" Eric Saade Fredrik Kempe 3rd Notes
- ^ "Lilla stjärna" was chosen in an internal selection between SVT and the Swedish Society of Popular Music Composers, therefore no public competition was held.
- ^ The Swedish Eurovision singers in 1959, 1960 and 1961 were chosen internally by SVT, the songs were performed by different singers at Melodifestivalen.
- ^ ”The band's name was changed to "Nova" for Eurovision in order to avoid confusion between the band and the country of the same name.
- ^ The song's title was changed to "Boogaloo" for Eurovision, due to use of a brand name.
References
- Melodifestival-vinnare (Swedish). SVT.se. Retrieved on 16 August 2008.
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