Melodifestivalen 2001

Melodifestivalen 2001
Dates
Final	23 February 2001
Host
Venue	Malmö Musikteater, Malmö
Presenter(s)	Josefine Sundström and Henrik Olsson
Vote
Voting system	50/50 Jury and telephone voting
Winning song	"Lyssna till ditt hjärta" by Friends

Melodifestivalen 2001 was the selection for the 41st song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 42nd time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1,567 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was broadcast on SVT1 and Sveriges Radio's P4 network. The winners were Friends who later that year ended up in 5th place in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in Copenhagen with the English-language version of the song "Listen To Your Heartbeat". The show was watched by 3,840,000, with a total of 357,408 votes cast.

Results

Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)	Votes			Place
				Jury	Public	Total
1	Teresia	"Kom ner på jorden"	Rune Gardell	25	—	25	8th
2	Jan Johansen	"Ingenmansland"	Ingela "Pling" Forsman, Bobby Ljunggren	63	44	107	4th
3	Date	"Om du förlåter mig"	Sofia Lagerström, Henrik Sethsson	35	22	57	6th
4	Rosanna Jönis	"Om du var här hos mig"	Mattias Reimer, Lars Edvall	2	11	13	10th
5	Barbados	"Allt som jag ser"	Marcos Ubeda, Ulf Georgsson, Lars "Dille" Diedricson	82	110	192	2nd
6	Sanna Nielsen	"I går, i dag"	Bert Månson	84	88	172	3rd
7	Annie Kratz-Gutå	"Vända om"	Tony Malm, Annie Kratz-Gutå, Farhad Zand	29	—	29	7th
8	Friends	"Lyssna till ditt hjärta"	Thomas G:son, Henrik Sethson	105	132	237	1st
9	Popson	"Jag känner dig"	Lars Benckert, Petter Gunnarsson	23	—	23	9th
10	Ellinor Franzén	"Om du stannar här"	Tony Malm, Ellinor Franzén	25	66	91	5th

Voting

Juries

Song
"Kom ner på jorden"	4	—	1	1	2	4	1	4	6	—	2	25
"Ingemansland"	6	8	6	6	6	2	8	12	2	6	1	63
"Om du förlåter mig"	2	—	12	2	1	6	4	—	—	2	6	35
"Om du var här hos mig"	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	—	2
"Allt som jag ser"	10	4	8	10	12	8	6	2	8	4	10	82
"Igår, idag"	8	12	4	4	4	12	12	8	—	12	8	84
"Vända om"	—	2	—	—	8	1	2	—	12	—	4	29
"Lyssna till ditt hjärta"	12	10	10	12	10	10	10	1	10	8	12	105
"Jag känner dig"	1	6	—	—	—	—	—	6	—	10	—	23
"Om du stannar här"	—	1	2	8	—	—	—	10	4	—	—	25

Televotes

Song	Jury	No. of televotes	Points	Total
"Kom ner på jorden	25	14,631	—	25
"Ingemansland	63	20,244	44	107
"Om du förlåter mig	35	17,870	22	57
"Om du var här hos mig	2	17,107	11	13
"Allt som jag ser	82	82,799	110	192
"Igår, idag	84	64,903	88	172
"Vända om	29	11,499	—	29
"Lyssna till ditt hjärta"	105	96,380	132	237
"Jag känner dig"	23	7,559	—	23
"Om du stannar här"	25	24,416	66	91

Returning artists

Artist	Previous year(s)
Jan Johansen	1995
Barbados	2000
Friends
Ellinor Franzén	1996

See also

• Eurovision Song Contest 2001
• Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001

External links

• TV broadcastings at SVT's open archive