Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989

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Eurovision Song Contest 1989
Country Sweden
National selection
Selection processMelodifestivalen 1989
Selection date(s)11 March 1989
Selected entrantTommy Nilsson
Selected song"En dag"
Selected songwriter(s)
Finals performance
Final result4th, 110 points
Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Sweden chose their song and singer for the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 in the national preselection Melodifestivalen 1989. With a small margin, the winner was Tommy Nilsson with the power ballad "En dag", written by Tim Norell, Ola Håkansson and Alexander Bard.

Before Eurovision

Melodifestivalen 1989

Melodifestivalen 1989 was the selection for the 29th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 28th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1,223 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The hostess, Yvonne Ryding, was the 1984 Miss Universe. The final was held in the Globe Arena in Stockholm on 11 March 1989, was broadcast on SVT1 and was not broadcast on radio. The show was watched by 5,328,000 people.

Draw Artist Song Songwriter(s) Points Place
1 Lili & Sussie "Okey okey" Tim Norell, Ola Håkansson 67 5th
2 Catrin Olsson "När stormen går" Andreas Nilsson, Staffan Odenhall 21 9th
3 True Blue "Jorden är din" Tomas Ledin, Lars Andersson 19 10th
4 Visitors and Sofia Källgren "Världen är vår" Göran Danielsson, Svante Persson 50 7th
5 Eriksson-Glenmark "Upp över mina öron" Thomas 'Orup' Eriksson, Anders Glenmark 108 2nd
6 Tommy Nilsson "En dag" Tim Norell, Ola Håkansson, Alexander Bard 113 1st
7 Lisa Nilsson "Du (öppnar min värld)" Ingela 'Pling' Forsman, Bobby Ljunggren, Håkan Almqvist 74 4th
8 Fingerprints "Mitt ibland änglar" Thomas 'Orup' Eriksson, Anders Glenmark 80 3rd
9 Haakon Pedersen and Elisabeth Berg "Nattens drottning" Ingela 'Pling' Forsman, Lasse Holm 67 5th
10 Cajsa Bergström "Genom eld" Ulf Söderberg 39 8th

Voting

Song
Luleå
Umeå
Sundsvall
Falun
Örebro
Karlstad
Gothenburg
Malmö
Växjö
Norrköping
Stockholm
Total score
"Okey okey" 5 6 6 7 8 5 8 5 6 5 6 67
"När stormen går" 2 2 2 2 3 2 1 1 2 2 2 21
"Jorden är din" 1 1 4 1 1 1 2 3 1 1 3 19
"Världen är vår" 7 4 5 3 6 4 5 4 4 3 5 50
"Upp över mina öron" 10 10 8 10 10 12 12 10 12 6 8 108
"En dag" 12 8 12 12 7 10 10 12 8 12 10 113
"Du (öppnar min värld)" 8 7 7 4 4 6 3 8 7 8 12 74
"Mitt ibland änglar" 4 5 10 6 12 8 7 7 10 4 7 80
"Nattens drottning" 6 12 3 8 5 7 6 6 3 10 1 67
"Genom eld" 3 3 1 5 2 3 4 2 5 7 4 39

At Eurovision

The song was drawn #10 at the contest in Lausanne, Switzerland. It scored very well, receiving a total of 110 points, making Sweden finish 4th, only 1 point behind their 3rd-placed neighbour Denmark.[1]

Voting

References

  1. ^ "Final of Lausanne 1989". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Results of the Final of Lausanne 1989". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 17 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2021.

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