Melodifestivalen 1979

Melodifestivalen 1979
Dates
Final date 17 February 1979
Host
Venue Cirkus, Stockholm
Presenter(s) Ulf Elfving
Vote
Voting system Regional juries
Winning song "Satellit" by Ted Gärdestad
Melodifestivalen
◄1978 1979 1980►

Melodifestivalen 1979 was the selection for the 19th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 18th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 452 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was broadcast on TV1 but was not broadcast on radio.

Results

Draw Artist Song Songwriters Points Place
1 Ola+3 "Det känns som jag vandrar fram" Ulf Wahlberg 85 3rd
2 Tomas Adolphson & Anders Falk "Tillsammans" Tomas Adolphson, Anders Falk 58 6th
3 Eva Dahlgren "Om jag skriver en sång" Eva Dahlgren 85 3rd
4 Tomas Ledin "Det ligger i luften" Tomas Ledin 96 2nd
5 Kjell Hansson "Mer än bara över natten" Kjell Hansson 59 5th
6 Timjan "En egen fela" Peter Olsson, Anders Olsson 39 9th
7 Pontus Platin "Nattens sång" Pontus Platin, Susanne Wigforss, Patrice Hellberg 44 8th
8 Py Bäckman & Py Gang "Var det här bara början?" Py Bäckman 45 7th
9 Ted Gärdestad "Satellit" Ted Gärdestad, Kenneth Gärdestad 105 1st
10 Magnus Uggla "Johnny the Rocker" Magnus Uggla 22 10th

Voting

Juries

Song
"Det känns som jag vandrar fram" 10 6 6 7 6 4 7 12 7 8 12 85
"Tillsammans" 6 3 5 6 10 6 4 8 3 5 2 58
"Om jag skriver en sång" 8 12 10 2 4 7 6 10 8 12 6 85
"Det ligger i luften" 12 10 12 10 8 10 10 3 6 7 8 96
"Mer än bara över natten" 7 5 2 1 3 8 8 7 10 3 5 59
"En egen fela" 3 4 3 3 7 2 5 2 1 2 7 39
"Nattens sång" 1 8 4 4 5 5 2 4 4 6 1 44
"Var det här bara början?" 4 2 8 8 2 3 3 5 2 4 4 45
"Satellit" 5 7 7 12 12 12 12 6 12 10 10 105
"Johnny the Rocker" 2 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 5 1 3 22

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