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style="font-size: larger;" | **Melodifestivalen 1996**
Final:	24 February 1996
Presenters:	Pontus Gårdinger Pontus Gårdinger Pontus Gårdinger is a Swedish television presenter and show host who has, among other things, hosted Melodifestivalen 1996. He also hosted the short lived reality show Miljonärerna on Kanal5... , Siw Malmkvist Siw Malmkvist Siw "Siwan" Gunnel Margareta Malmkvist is a Swedish singer who is popular in Scandinavia and Germany...
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):	3,775,000
Voting:	Regional juries
Winner:	Den vilda performed by One More Time One More Time (band) One More Time is a Swedish pop group. Members are Peter Grönvall, his wife Nanne Grönvall and Maria Rådsten. A forth member, Thérèse Löf, left the group shortly after the first album was released. In 1992 they began their international career with the release of the single and album Highland...
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... :	Third 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...

1996 was the selection for the 36th 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 35th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1323 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 SVT1

SVT1

SVT1 is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden.-History:The channel began broadcasting in 1956 and was known as Radiotjänst TV, A year later, it was renamed Sveriges Radio TV. In 1969, the second television station TV2 was launched and...

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 and P4 networks.

Results

#	Artist	Song	Songwriters	Points	Place
1	Lasse Kronér, Lennart Grahn, Peter Lundblad, Nick Borgen & Janne Bark	Gör någon glad	Svante Persson , Pontus Platin
2	Andreas Lundstedt Andreas Lundstedt Andreas Lundstedt is a Swedish musician, who is best known as a member of the pop-disco group, Alcazar.-Biography:...	Driver dagg faller regn	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, Tim Norell	48	2nd
3	Lotta Engberg Lotta Engberg -External links:* *...	Juliette & Jonathan Juliette & Jonathan "Juliette & Jonathan" is a 1996 Swedish language pop song that Lotta Engberg sang when she competed in the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1996, and finished 3rd. The song was written by Monica Forsberg and Torgny Söderberg. Even Lena Philipsson has recorded this song, and she released it on her 2006...	Monica Forsberg Monica Forsberg Monica Yvonne Forsberg is a Swedish singer, songwriter and actress. She was a member in the group Ritz, which competed in Melodifestivalen in 1983 and 1985... , Torgny Söderberg Torgny Söderberg Sten Torgny Söderberg is a Swedish songwriter. He has worked a lot together with Lena Philipsson and written schlager songs such as 100%, Kärleken är evig and Diggi-loo diggi-ley. Diggi-loo diggi-ley won the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1984 and even the Eurovision Song Contest 1984.- References :...	45	3rd
4	One More Time One More Time (band) One More Time is a Swedish pop group. Members are Peter Grönvall, his wife Nanne Grönvall and Maria Rådsten. A forth member, Thérèse Löf, left the group shortly after the first album was released. In 1992 they began their international career with the release of the single and album Highland...	Den vilda Den vilda "Den vilda" is a winter-related song by Swedish band One More Time. It won the Melodifestivalen 1996 contest and hence became the Swedish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 in Oslo, Norway.The song was performed as the 23rd and last in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1996...	Nanne Grönvall Nanne Grönvall Marianne Elisabeth Nordqvist more popularly known as Nanne Grönvall is a Swedish singer-songwriter.-Biography:Grönvall's musical career started in the 1980s group Sound of Music... , Peter Grönvall	71	1st
5	Ellinor Franzén	Finns här för dig	Stefan Bagge, Martin Klaman
6	Inger Nordström	Gråt inte	Marie Stråhle
7	Henrik Åberg	Du är alltid en del utav mig	Lasse Berghagen Lasse Berghagen Lars "Lasse" Nils Berghagen is a Swedish singer, songwriter, composer and actor.Berghagen is a well known singer-songwriter in Sweden. He released his first record in 1965, aged just 19. Four years later, in 1969, he released the single Teddybjörnen Fredriksson , which has become a classic... , Lasse Holm Lasse Holm Lars-Eric Gustav "Lasse" Holm, born 9 December 1943 in Stockholm, Sweden, is known as a composer, lyricist and singer.Since childhood, he was interested in music and was a member of a lot of pop music and rock music groups in the 1960s: Doug and the Millsmen, The Spacemen and The Moonlighters...
8	Frank Ådahl	Tårar från himlen	Mikael Littvold, Peter Bertilsson	26	5th
9	Lotten Andersson & Magnus Sjögren	Va' e' du?	Jörgen Nohall, Carl Hammar
10	Mårten Eriksson	Förlorad igen	Mårten Eriksson	41	4th

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...	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....	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...	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...	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...	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...	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...	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
Driver dagg faller regn	6	4	4	6	4	2	4	2	6	2	8	48
Juliette och Jonathan	8	6	2	4	1	4	2	8	2	4	4	45
Den vilda	2	8	8	8	8	8	6	1	8	8	6	71
Tårar från himlen	4	1	1	1	6	1	1	4	4	1	2	26
Förlorad igen	1	2	6	2	2	6	8	6	1	6	1	41

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