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Before Eurovision

Melodifestivalen 1999

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1999 was the selection for the 39th song to represent

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at the

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. 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

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on 27 February 1999, presented by

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and Vendela Kirsebom Thommesen, and was broadcast on

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and

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's P4 network. The winner was chosen through a 50/50 jury/televoting method, which was

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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.

Competing entries

Final

Spokespersons *

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Christer Holmqvist *

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Jenny Eklund *

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Per Dahlberg *

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Henrik Johnsson * Växjö

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Pernilla Månsson *

Sten Söderberg

At Eurovision

Ahead of the contest the Sweden were considered one of the favourites to win among bookmakers, alongside the entries from , and . The song was translated into

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for Eurovision as "

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". Nilsson performed 15th on the night of the contest. At the end of the voting Sweden received 163 points (12 points from

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and the

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), taking their fourth victory.

Voting

References

External links

TV broadcastings at SVT's open archive
{{Melodifestivalen

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Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999

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