"This Is My Life" is an

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song by Swedish singer

Anna Bergendahl Anna Henrietta Bergendahl (born 11 December 1991) is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She took part in Swedish TV4 music program ''Super Troupers'' in 2004, and in ''Idol 2008'' where she reached the Final 5 before being eliminated. In 2009, Be ...

, written by Kristian Lagerström and

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. The song won the

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2010 on March 13 and Bergendahl represented Sweden in the

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. It is the first single released from her debut studio album '' Yours Sincerely''. "This Is My Life" was her first number-one single on the

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. It debuted at #1 on the Swedish chart for the week ending 5 March 2010 and stayed on top for four consecutive weeks. This is My Life was the first ballad to win

since 1998 when

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won and was Sweden's 50th entry in the

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. The song did not make it to the final coming 11th with 62 points missing out by just 5 points. This was the first and only time Sweden has not qualified for the Eurovision finals and the first time it has not appeared in them since 1976.

Melodifestivalen and Eurovision

"This Is My Life" participated in the fourth heat of the 2010 Melodifestivalen which was held on 27 February 2010 at the

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. The song was the fifth of the eight competing entries to perform and directly qualified to the contest final as one of the two songs song which received the most telephone votes. On 13 March, during the final held at the

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, Bergendahl were the ninth of the ten competing acts to perform, and "This Is My Life" won the contest with 214 points, receiving the highest number of votes from the viewing public via

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and placing second with the regional and international juries. Sweden participated in the first semi-final of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in

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, Norway on 27 May 2010. Bergendahl was the sixth competing artist to perform and at the end of the broadcast Sweden was not among the ten countries to have qualified for the final on 29 May. It was the first time that Sweden had failed to qualify for the final since the introduction of semi-finals in , and the first time that Sweden did not appear in a contest final since . It was later revealed that Sweden had placed eleventh in the semi-final, receiving a total of 62 points, including the maximum 12 points from Denmark and Norway, and missing the final by just 5 points. Following the announcement of the split jury and televoting results in June 2010, it was revealed that "This Is My Life" had been ranked ninth by the public and eleventh by the juries.

Track listing

Charts

Release history

References

External links

Official music video
- YouTube
Performance
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