Edward af Sillén
Director
Melodifestivalen (1959)
Season 38
Melodifestivalen (direct translation: The Melody Festival) is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). The competition is a six part tour (5 heats + the final) with stops in cities across Sweden to determine the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest. Melodifestivalen is also known informally as "Mello", or internationally as "Melfest".
Released Feb. 26, 1959
Episode 102 min
2+
Genres: Family, Music, Reality
Keywords: tmdb.competition, tmdb.eurovision, tmdb.music-competition, tmdb.live-show, tmdb.music
Production Companies: SVT
Network: SVT1
5.0
S38E1 - Finale - Stockholm
Melodifestivalen 1999 was the selection for the 39th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 38th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1,315 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was broadcast on SVT2 and Sveriges Radio's P4 network. Charlotte Nilsson went on to win that year's Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem, Sweden's fourth Eurovision win. A total of 630,339 votes were cast.
Feb. 27, 1999, midnight
SVT1
102 min/ep
718 min
Feb. 26, 1959
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Returning Series
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