'Ark At The Swedish Result...

Last night, Sweden held its annual Melodifestivalen and it had a unanimous winner… see the results:

01 “THE WORRYING KIND” – The Ark (248 points)
02 “A LITTLE BIT OF LOVE” – Andreas Johnson (189 points)
03 “CARA MIA” – Mans Zelmerlow (171 points)
04 “I REMEMBER LOVE” – Sarah Dawn Finer (122 points)
05 “TRYING TO RECALL” – Marie Lindberg (70 points)
06 “FOR ATT DU FINS” – Sonja Alden (62 points)
07 “VAGER DU, VAGER JAG” – Sanna Nielsen (44 points)
08 “WHEN THE NIGHT COMES FALLING” – Sebastian (39 points)
09 “SAMBA SAMBERO” – Anna Book (1 point)
10 “JAG TROR PA MANNISKAN” – Tommy Nilsson (0 points)


So, the glam rock wannabes of Sweden will be heading to Helsinki hoping to get the place boogalooing with the excellent “The Worrying Kind”. It’s really rather good and nothing else like it at Eurovision this year – I think it could be a hit!

Other MF results of note… sad to see 9th and 10th place pull in only 1 point between them. Anna Book deserved more! Tommy got what he deserved.

Marie Lindberg scored only 4 points from the juries (meanies) but 66 points from the public vote which brought her well up to a highly deserved 5th place.

Andreas Johnson loses again. He came 2nd in the jury vote and 3rd in the televote. “Cara Mia” came 2nd in the televote, gaining a further 110 points from the 61 he scored from the jury, thus swapping round Mans and Sarah Dawn Finer for the final result.

Well that’s about it for another year. The Ark is a great winner from Sweden and should be on for a good result from Helsinki. I don’t know why but I’ve always had a gut feeling that Scandinavia might win again this year… could Sweden be the ones to do it?