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style="font-size: larger;" | **Melodifestivalen 1997**
Date:	8 March 1997
Presenters:	Jan Jingryd
Venue:	Eriksbergshallen, Gothenburg Gothenburg Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
Viewing figures (approx):	2,965,000
Voting:	Regional juries
Winner:	Bara hon älskar mig performed by Blond
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... :	Fourteenth 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...

1997 was the selection for the 37th 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 36th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1229 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 P3 network.The winners was the boyband Blond

Blond

Blond or blonde or fair-hair is a hair color characterized by low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. The resultant visible hue depends on various factors, but always has some sort of yellowish color...

who later that year represented Sweden

Sweden

in Eurovision Song Contest 1997

Eurovision Song Contest 1997

The Eurovision Song Contest 1997, was the 42nd Eurovision Song Contest and it was held at the Point Theatre Dublin, Ireland, on 3 May 1997. Boyzone member Ronan Keating and Carrie Crowley were the presenters of the show....

Results

#	Artist	Song (Translation)	Songwriters	Points	Place
1	Monia Sjöström	Nu idag (Now Today)	Lasse Sahlin, Peter Karlsson	11	11th
2	Photogenique	Nattens änglar (Angels of the Night)	Jonas Berggren Jonas Berggren Jonas Berggren, a.k.a. Joker , is a Swedish musician. He started writing songs when he was seven, and continues to write for the Swedish band Ace of Base, as well as other bands....	0	12th
3	Robert Randquist	Hand i hand (Hand in Hand)	Martin Klaman, Björn Johansson, Maurizio Sorrone	55	5th
4	N-Mix	Där en ängel hälsat på (Where an Angel has Visited)	Pernilla Emme Alexandersson, Per Andréasson	68	2nd
5	Jim Jidhed Jim Jidhed Jim Jidhed is a Swedish rock singer. Jidhed's first major break was as the lead singer for the rock band Alien in the late 1980s with the ballad "Only One Woman". After that he released his first solo album called "Jim", which included the songs "Wild Young And Free", "Silence is Golden" and "Love...	Charlie	John Ekedahl, Jim Jidhed	12	10th
6	Nick Borgen	World Wide Web	Nick Borgen	26	9th
7	Andreas Lundstedt Andreas Lundstedt Andreas Lundstedt is a Swedish musician, who is best known as a member of the pop-disco group, Alcazar.-Biography:...	Jag saknar dig, jag saknar dig (I Miss You, I Miss You)	Alexander Bard Alexander Bard Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard is a Swedish artist, music producer and writer.-Background and education:Bard was born Alexander Bengt Magnus Bard in Medevi, Motala Municipality, Sweden. After he had completed his upper secondary education, Bard studied in the United States and in Amsterdam, Netherlands... , 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... , Tim Norell	32	7th
8	Garmarna Garmarna Garmarna is a Swedish folk rock band. Their songs are mainly old Scandinavian ballads.- Biography :Garmarna was founded in 1990. Stefan Brisland-Ferner, Gotte Ringqvist and Rickard Westman were inspired by old Swedish music, which they had heard in a theatre. They began searching for old tunes and...	En gång ska han gråta (Once He Will Cry)	Py Bäckman Py Bäckman Py Marie Elisabet Ulrika Bäckman Wennborn is a Swedish musician. She is a singer and songwriter of pop and rock for musicals and films. She also plays piano and harmonica.-Career:... , Mats Wester Mats Wester Mats Wester, born 1964, is a Swedish musician and plays the nyckelharpa. Together with the singer Håkan Hemlin he operates the musical group Nordman. During Nordman's long pause Mats created another group together with Py Bäckman and Elenor Ågeryd .Mats has also written a song for the group...	28	8th
9	B.I.G.	Jag ska aldrig lämna dig (I Will Never Leave You)	Peo Thyrén, Richard Evenlind, Stefan Almqvist	40	6th
10	Wille Crafoord	Missarna (The Bloopers)	Wille Crafoord	65	3rd
11	Cajsalisa Ejemyr Cajsalisa Ejemyr Cajsalisa Ejemyr is a Swedish singer and actress.Cajsalisa performed the song "Du gör mig hel igen" by Robyn in Swedens pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest 1997, Melodifestivalen 1997...	Du gör mig hel igen Du gör mig hel igen Du gör mig hel igen was an entry in Melodifestivalen 1997, which was sung by Cajsalisa Ejemyr. Songwriter and part producer of the song was popstar Robyn Carlsson. The song placed 4th in the contest, and later entered the Swedish charts.... (You Make Me Complete Again)	Robyn Carlsson Robyn Robin Miriam Carlsson , better known by her stage name Robyn, is a Swedish recording artist, singer, and songwriter. Robyn became known in the late nineties for her worldwide dance-pop hit "Do You Know " from her debut album Robyn Is Here . She co-wrote the song "Du gör mig hel igen" for... , Ulf Lindström, Johan Ekhé	56	4th
12	Blond	Bara hon älskar mig Bara hon älskar mig "Bara hon älskar mig" was the Swedish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 held in Dublin, ireland. The song was written by Stephan Berg and was performed by the band Blond.Performed at the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 in the 16th position,following Portugal's Célia Lawson with "Antes do... (If Only She Loves Me)	Stephan Berg Stephan Berg Stephan Berg is a Swedish composer. He was the writer of the Carola song Fångad av en stormvind, which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1991. He has been director of the Kunstmuseum Bonn since April 2008...	80	1st

Juries

Song	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....	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...	Sundsvall Sundsvall -External links:* - Official site from Nordisk Familjebok - Sundsvalls tourist information bureau. - The alternative guide to Sundsvall. - Blog with photos from Sundsvall....	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...	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...	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...	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....	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...	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...
Nu idag
6	1
4
11
Nattens änglar
0
Hand i hand
4	10	2	2	12	2	12	4	6	1	55
Där en ängel hälsat på	8	12	1
10	1	8	12	4	12	68
Charlie
1
10	1
12
World Wide Web	1	1
6	1	6
1	2	8	26
Jag saknar dig, jag saknar dig	4
4	4	2
2	10	6	32
En gång ska han gråta
6	8
12	2	28
Jag ska aldrig lämna dig	2	2	4	8
4	8	2	10
40
Missarna	12	10	6	10	12
6	8	1
65
Du gör mig hel igen	10
2	12	8	8	4
8	4	56
Bara hon älskar mig	6	8	12
10	6	12	10	6
10	80

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