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style="font-size: larger;" | **Melodifestivalen 1999**
Final:	27 February 1999
Presenters:	Anders Lundin Anders Lundin Anders Urban Lundin is a Swedish television host. Lundin was one of the first hosts in the world to host the show Expedition Robinson, also known as Survivor. Lundin co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 along with Kattis Ahlström and, 2003–10, was every summer host for the successful... and Vendela Kirsebom Thommesen Vendela Kirsebom Vendela Maria Kirsebom is a Norwegian-Swedish model and actress living in Nesodden, Norway.-Early life and career:Vendela Kirsebom was born in Stockholm, Sweden to a Norwegian mother; her Swedish father was of Turkish descent. At age 13, Kirsebom was discovered in a Stockholm restaurant by Eileen...
Venue:	Victoriahallen Stockholmsmässan Stockholmsmässan, in English Stockholm International Fairs, colloquially called Älvsjömässan, is a company that arranges trade fairs in Stockholm. The main building is in Älvsjö – a southern suburb of Stockholm Municipality for which the building got its nickname – and was constructed in 1971... , 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...
Viewing figures (approx):	3,326,000
Voting:	50/50 Jury and telephone voting
Total number of televotes cast (approx):	663,000
Winner:	Tusen och en natt Take Me to Your Heaven (song) "Take Me to Your Heaven" was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 performed in English by Charlotte Nilsson representing Sweden... performed by Charlotte Nilsson
Winner's result at Eurovision Eurovision Song Contest 1999 The Eurovision Song Contest 1999 was the 44th Eurovision Song Contest, held on 29 May 1999 in Jerusalem, Israel after Dana International won the contest the previous year in the United Kingdom. The venue for the contest was the International Convention Center... :	First 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...

1999 was the selection for the 39th 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 38th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1315 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 SVT2

SVT2

SVT2, until 1996 TV2, is one of two television channels broadcast by Sveriges Television in Sweden. It was started by Sveriges Radio in 1969. SVT2 is generally more specialist, compared to SVT1.-History:...

and Sveriges Radio

Sveriges Radio

Sveriges Radio AB – Swedish Radio Ltd – is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. The Swedish public-broadcasting system is in many respects modelled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Radio - like Sveriges Television - shares many characteristics with...

's P4 network. Charlotte Nilsson went on to win that year's Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem, Sweden's fourth Eurovision win.

Results

#	Artist	Song	Songwriters	Votes			Place
#	Artist	Song	Songwriters	Jury	Viewers	Total	Place
1	Charlotte Nilsson Charlotte Perrelli Charlotte Perrelli is a Swedish singer and occasional television host, perhaps most famous for winning the 1999 Melodifestivalen and subsequently that year's Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven."Since then she has released six singles and five albums...	Tusen och en natt Take Me to Your Heaven (song) "Take Me to Your Heaven" was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 performed in English by Charlotte Nilsson representing Sweden...	Gert Lengstrand, Lars "Dille" Diedricsson	85	132	217	1st
2	Crosstalk	Det gäller dig och mig	Lars Edvall, Mattias Reimer	65	22	87	6th
3	Janica	Jag kan se dig	Anders Dannvik, Pär Olsson	66	-	66	7th
4	Drömhus	Stjärna på himmelen	Per Andréassen, Anders Dannvik	38	110	148	2nd
5	Roger Pontare Roger Pontare Fred Roger Pontare is a Swedish musician. He currently lives in Vingåker, Södermanland County....	Som av is	Lasse Johansson, Staffan Stavert	54	44	98	5th
6	Martin Martin Svensson Martin Svensson also known as Martin is a Swedish singer, author and musician. He moved to Varberg in 1981. He started as a solo artist. His debut single "Rymdraket" from his 1997 debut album Pojkdrömmar...	(Du är så) Yeah Yeah Wow Wow	Martin Svensson	43	66	109	4th
7	Christer Björkman Christer Björkman Christer Samuel Björkman is a Swedish singer. He was a hairdresser, and had a hair-salon in Borås. He started his career by recording a song called "Våga och vinn" which was produced by Bruno Glenmark in the mid-1980s....	Välkommen hem	Lasse Sahlin, Jan Lundkvist	6	-	6	10th
8	Ai	Bilder av dig	Stefan Berg	31	11	42	9th
9	Arvingarna Arvingarna Arvingarna is a Swedish dansband, which was formed in 1989 and which competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen in 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2002. In 1993 they won with the song '"Eloise" and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1993, where the song finished 7th.The band's name refers to...	Det svär jag på	Torgny Söderberg, Lena Philipsson Lena Philipsson Maria Magdalena "Lena" Philipsson is a Swedish singer and media personality.-Career:...	26	88	114	3rd
10	Cleo	Natten är min vän	Thomas G:son Thomas G:son Thomas Gustafsson is a Swedish composer and musician from Skövde, Västergötland, Sweden, north-east of Göteborg. However, he is much more known nationally and internationally simply as Thomas G:son, his artistic name. Since 1998, Thomas has worked full time as a songwriter for the company G:songs...	59
59	8th

Juries

Song	Örebro Örebro -Sites of interest:Örebro's old town Wadköping is located on the banks of Svartån . It contains many 18th and 19th century wooden houses, along with museums and exhibitions....	Luleå Luleå - Transportation :Local buses are run by .A passenger train service is available from Luleå Centralstation on Sweden's national SJ railway service northbound to Narvik on the Norwegian coast, or southbound to Stockholm. See Rail transport in Sweden....	Falun Falun Falun is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 36,447 inhabitants in 2005. It is also the capital of Dalarna County...	Karlstad Karlstad Karlstad is a city, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city had 61,685 inhabitants in 2010 out of a municipal total that during the first quarter 2010 was 84,885 inhabitants...	Umeå Umeå - Transport :The road infrastructure in Umeå is well-developed, with two European highways passing through the city. About 4 km from the city centre is the Umeå City Airport...	Norrköping Norrköping Norrköping is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County. The city has a population of 87,247 inhabitants in 2010, out of a municipal total of 130,050, making it Sweden's tenth largest city and eighth largest...	Göteborg	Sundsvall Sundsvall -External links:* - Official site from Nordisk Familjebok - Sundsvalls tourist information bureau. - The alternative guide to Sundsvall. - Blog with photos from Sundsvall....	Växjö Växjö Växjö is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden with 64 200 inhabitants in 2010. It is the administrative, cultural and industrial centre of Kronoberg County. Furthermore it is the episcopal see of the Diocese of Växjö. It has a population of about 64 200, out of a...	Malmö Malmö Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...	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...	Total
Tusen och en natt	10	12	8	8	4	8	10	1	10	10	4	85
Det gäller dig och mig	12	4	1	12	6	6	2	10	2
10	65
Jag kan se dig
8	10	6	8	4	12	2	6	4	6	66
Stjärna på himmelen	8	2
10	1
12	1	2	2	38
Som av is	2	6	6
12
4
12	12
54
(Du är så) Yeah Yeah Wow Wow	6
2
2	2	1	8	4	6	12	43
Välkommen hem
1
4
1
6
Bilder av dig	4
1
12
6
8	31
Det svär jag på	1
4	2
1	6	4
8
26
Natten är min vän
10	12
10	10	8
8
1	59

The full televoting results were never released.

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Results

Juries

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