Melodifestivalen 2000

Melodifestivalen 2000
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Dates
Final	10 March 2000
Host
Venue	Gothenburg Opera, Gothenburg
Presenter(s)	Carola Häggkvist, Lotta Engberg, Lena Philipsson, Loa Falkman, Tommy Körberg, Elisabeth Andreassen, Arja Saijonmaa, Lasse Berghagen, Lasse Holm, Björn Skifs
Vote
Voting system	50/50 Jury and telephone voting
Winning song	"När vindarna viskar mitt namn" by Roger Pontare
Melodifestivalen
◄1999 • 2000 • 2001►

Melodifestivalen 2000 was the selection for the 40th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 39th time that this system of picking a song had been used; 1,394 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was broadcast on SVT2 and Sveriges Radio's P4 network. Roger Pontare (1994 winner with Marie Bergman) won the MF again with the rock-inspired ballad "När vindarna viskar mitt namn", donning a folk-inspired costume and featuring Native American dancers during his performance. The winning song was performed later in English at the Eurovision Song Contest as "The Spirits Are Calling My Name", placing seventh among 24 entrants.

The 2000 Melodifestivalen was presented by no less than 10 past participants and winners, who performed a medley of selected Melodifestivalen entries from the past four decades as an interval act. Two of the presenters, Lena Philipsson and Carola Häggkvist, went on to win the Melodifestivalen in 2004 and 2006, respectively (Carola had also won in 1983 and 1991 before). The show was watched by 4,175,000 people, with a total of 525,567 votes cast.

Results

Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriters	Votes			Place
				Jury	Public	Total
1	Guide	"Vi lever här, vi lever nu"	Mattias Reimer, Lars Edvall	53	44	97	5th
2	Balsam Boys	"Bara du och jag"	Gustaf Eurén, Stefan Deak, Karl Eurén	43	11	54	7th
3	Barbados	"Se mig"	Thomas Thörnholm, Danne Attlerud	58	88	146	2nd
4	Avengers	"När filmen är slut"	Suss von Ahn, Henrik Wikström	0	-	0	10th
5	Tom Nordahl	"Alla änglar sjunger"	Stefan Berg	32	-	32	9th
6	Roger Pontare	"När vindarna viskar mitt namn"	Thomas Holmstrand, Linda Jansson, Peter Dahl	95	132	227	1st
7	Javiera Muñoz	"Varje timma, var minut"	Johnny Thunqvist, Ulf Georgsson	73	66	139	4th
8	Midnight Band	"Tillsammans"	Mikael Wendt, Christer Lundh	58	-	58	6th
9	Hanna Hedlund	"Anropar försvunnen"	Bobby Ljunggren, Robert Uhlmann, Anna-Lena Högdahl	25	22	47	8th
10	Friends	"När jag tänker på i morgon"	Lasse Holm, Ingela 'Pling' Forsman	36	110	146	2nd

Voting

Juries

Song
"Vi lever här, vi lever nu"	-	8	10	2	12	10	2	4	-	4	1	53
"Bara du och jag"	2	-	6	10	8	4	6	1	-	-	6	43
"Se mig"	10	1	4	6	10	8	-	12	2	1	4	58
"När filmen är slut"	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
"Alla änglar sjunger"	6	2	1	1	4	-	12	-	4	2	-	32
"När vindarna viskar mitt namn"	4	12	12	12	2	1	10	10	12	12	8	95
"Varje timma, var minut"	8	4	8	-	6	12	1	6	8	8	12	73
"Tillsammans"	12	10	2	8	-	-	8	8	10	-	-	58
"Anropar försvunnen"	-	6	-	-	-	2	4	-	1	10	2	25
"När jag tänker på i morgon"	1	-	-	4	1	6	-	2	6	6	10	36

Televotes

Song	Jury	No. of televotes	Points	Total
"Vi lever här, vi lever nu"	53	34,239	44	97
"Bara du och jag"	43	26,229	11	54
"Se mig"	58	43,289	88	146
"När filmen är slut"	0	2,934	-	0
"Alla änglar sjunger"	32	24,455	-	32
"När vindarna viskar mitt namn"	95	173,641	132	227
"Varje timma, var minut"	73	35,691	66	139
"Tillsammans"	58	25,727	-	58
"Anropar försvunnen"	25	31,921	22	47
"När jag tänker på i morgon"	36	127,441	110	146

Returning artists

Artist	Previous year(s)
Roger Pontare	1994, with Marie Bergman

See also

• Eurovision Song Contest 2000
• Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000

External links

• TV broadcastings at SVT's open archive
• "När vindarna viskar mitt namn" (the winning song) at the Diggiloo Thrush