Sweden chose their song and singer for the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 in the national preselection Melodifestivalen 1989 . With a small margin, the winner was Tommy Nilsson with the power ballad "En dag", written by Tim Norell, Ola Håkansson and Alexander Bard .
Before Eurovision
Melodifestivalen 1989
Melodifestivalen 1989Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest . It was the 28th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1,223 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The hostess, Yvonne Ryding , was the 1984 Miss Universe . The final was held in the Globe Arena in Stockholm on 11 March 1989, was broadcast on SVT1 and was not broadcast on radio. The show was watched by 5,328,000 people.
Draw
Artist
Song
Songwriter(s)
Points
Place
1
Lili & Sussie "Okey okey"
Tim Norell, Ola Håkansson
67
5th
2
Catrin Olsson
"När stormen går"
Andreas Nilsson, Staffan Odenhall
21
9th
3
True Blue
"Jorden är din"
Tomas Ledin , Lars Andersson19
10th
4
Visitors and Sofia Källgren
"Världen är vår"
Göran Danielsson, Svante Persson
50
7th
5
Eriksson -Glenmark "Upp över mina öron "
Thomas 'Orup' Eriksson , Anders Glenmark 108
2nd
6
Tommy Nilsson "En dag"
Tim Norell, Ola Håkansson , Alexander Bard
113
1st
7
Lisa Nilsson "Du (öppnar min värld)"
Ingela 'Pling' Forsman , Bobby Ljunggren , Håkan Almqvist74
4th
8
Fingerprints
"Mitt ibland änglar"
Thomas 'Orup' Eriksson , Anders Glenmark 80
3rd
9
Haakon Pedersen and Elisabeth Berg
"Nattens drottning"
Ingela 'Pling' Forsman , Lasse Holm 67
5th
10
Cajsa Bergström
"Genom eld"
Ulf Söderberg
39
8th
Voting
Song
Luleå
Umeå
Sundsvall
Falun
Örebro
Karlstad
Gothenburg
Malmö
Växjö
Norrköping
Stockholm
Total score
"Okey okey"
5
6
6
7
8
5
8
5
6
5
6
67
"När stormen går"
2
2
2
2
3
2
1
1
2
2
2
21
"Jorden är din"
1
1
4
1
1
1
2
3
1
1
3
19
"Världen är vår"
7
4
5
3
6
4
5
4
4
3
5
50
"Upp över mina öron"
10
10
8
10
10
12 12 10
12 6
8
108
"En dag"
12 8
12 12 7
10
10
12 8
12 10
113
"Du (öppnar min värld)"
8
7
7
4
4
6
3
8
7
8
12 74
"Mitt ibland änglar"
4
5
10
6
12 8
7
7
10
4
7
80
"Nattens drottning"
6
12 3
8
5
7
6
6
3
10
1
67
"Genom eld"
3
3
1
5
2
3
4
2
5
7
4
39
At Eurovision
The song was drawn #10 at the contest in Lausanne , Switzerland . It scored very well, receiving a total of 110 points, making Sweden finish 4th, only 1 point behind their 3rd-placed neighbour Denmark .[1]
Voting
Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
Participation Artists Songs Note: Entries scored out signify where Sweden did not compete
Eurovision Song Contest 1989
Countries Artists Songs
"Apopse as vrethoume "Avrei voluto "Bana Bana "Blijf zoals je bent "Conquistador "Derekh Hamelekh "La dolce vita "Door de wind "En dag "Flieger "J'ai volé la vie "Monsieur "Nacida para amar "Nur ein Lied "The Real Me" "Rock Me " "Það sem enginn sér "To diko sou asteri "Venners nærhet "Vi maler byen rød "Viver senza tei "Why Do I Always Get It Wrong "
Sweden
