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style="font-size: larger;" | **Melodifestivalen 1969**
Date:	1 March 1969
Presenter:	Pekka Langer
Venue:	Cirkus Cirkus (Stockholm) Cirkus is an arena in Djurgården, Stockholm, that holds 1,650 people. It was built in 1892 and originally used as a circus , but is today mostly used for concerts and musical shows.-External links:*... , Stockholm Stockholm Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
Voting:	Regional juries
Winner:	Judy min vän performed by Tommy Körberg Tommy Körberg Bert Gustav Tommy Körberg is a Swedish singer, actor, and musician. In 1969, he won Swedish Recording Industry Award Grammis in a category Best Debut Performance. English-speaking audiences know him best for his role in the Benny Andersson–Björn Ulvaeus–Tim Rice musical Chess...
Winner's result at Eurovision Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition... :	Ninth place

Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen
Melodifestivalen is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959...

1969 was the selection for the 11th song to represent Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

at the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...

. It was the 10th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 2402 songs were submitted to SVT

Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...

for the competition. The final was broadcast on TV1

SVT1

SVT1 is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden.-History:The channel began broadcasting in 1956 and was known as Radiotjänst TV, A year later, it was renamed Sveriges Radio TV. In 1969, the second television station TV2 was launched and...

but was not broadcast on radio. This was the first time a tie occurred for first place in the competition.

Results

Place	Artist	Song	Songwriters	Points (Tie-break)
1st	Tommy Körberg Tommy Körberg Bert Gustav Tommy Körberg is a Swedish singer, actor, and musician. In 1969, he won Swedish Recording Industry Award Grammis in a category Best Debut Performance. English-speaking audiences know him best for his role in the Benny Andersson–Björn Ulvaeus–Tim Rice musical Chess...	Judy min vän	Roger Wallis, Britt Lindeborg	31 (54)
2nd	Jan Malmsjö Jan Malmsjö Jan Wilhelm Malmsjö is a Swedish stage and actor, musical star and singer. He is married to Marie Göranzon and father to Jonas Malmsjö.-Biography:...	Hej clown	Benny Andersson Benny Andersson Göran Bror "Benny" Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA , and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia!... , Lasse Berghagen Lasse Berghagen Lars "Lasse" Nils Berghagen is a Swedish singer, songwriter, composer and actor.Berghagen is a well known singer-songwriter in Sweden. He released his first record in 1965, aged just 19. Four years later, in 1969, he released the single Teddybjörnen Fredriksson , which has become a classic...	31 (45)
3rd	Sten Nilsson	Gång på gång	Staffan Ehrling, Bo-Göran Edling	13
4th	Anni-Frid Lyngstad Anni-Frid Lyngstad Anni-Frid Prinzessin Reuss von Plauen , is a Norwegian-born Swedish pop singer...	Härlig är vår jord	Ivan Renliden	8
4th	Ann-Louise Hanson Ann-Louise Hanson Ann-Louise Hanson is a Swedish singer and has been involved in the music industry for over 40 years.Many of her solo recordings from the 1960s feature Bruno Glenmarks Orkester and, following their marriage, Ann-Louise and Bruno Glenmark formed the group Glenmarks with Bruno's niece Karin and...	Svensk flicka	Staffan Ehrling, Bo-Göran Edling	8
6th	Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson Svante Thuresson is a Swedish jazz music musician and singer. He started his career as a drummer, before joining the band Gals and Pals in 1963...	Sommarflicka	Pugh Rogefeldt	4
7th	Lena Hansson	Du ger mig lust att leva	Johnny Carlsson	3
8th	Inger Öst	Du ser mig inte	Berndt Öst, Peter Himmelstrand	1
9th	Britt Bergström	L, som i älskar dej	Staffan Ehrling, Kerstin Lindén	0
10th	Ola Håkansson Ola Håkansson Ola Håkansson is a Swedish singer, composer and producer.Ola Håkansson was born in Stockholm. He was the singer of the band Ola and the Janglers and later Secret Service. In 1986 he recorded the duet "The Way You Are" with Agnetha Fältskog.He was part of the songwriting trio Norell Oson Bard...	Du skänker mening åt mitt liv	Pierre Isacsson	0

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