Sweden entered the

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, held in

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continued to use the

Melodifestivalen Melodifestivalen (; literally "the Melody Festival") is an annual song competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR). It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song ...

contest to select the Swedish entry.

Before Eurovision

Melodifestivalen 1994

1994 was the selection for the 34th song to represent

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at the

. It was the 33rd time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1,560 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was held in the SVT Studios in

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on 12 March 1994, presented by

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and

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and was broadcast on TV1 and

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's P3 and P4 networks. The show was watched by 3,780,000 people.

At Eurovision

Bergman and Pontare opened the contest, singing 1st of 25 countries, preceding

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. At the close of the voting they had received 48 points, placing 13th.

Voting

References

External links

TV broadcastings at SVT's open archive
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Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1994

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