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Best female & Best ballad
National Final Awards: The winners are... (4)
The 2009 esctoday.com National Final Award for BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE goes to...
- ...Sarah Dawn Finer for her performance of the song Moving on in the Swedish national final
Sarah Dawn Finer was known as an actress when she was younger but she became famous as a singer when she entered the Swedish selection for the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. With I remember love, she qualified through the second chance round and finished fourth in the final. The song was a number four hit in the single charts and her first album, which would be released the same year, even made it to number two. In 2009, she entered Melodifestivalen again. Again, she qualified through the second chance and she finished sixth this time in the final. The single chartet at number three in Sweden and the album even reached the top.
Live performance:
This is the second time this award goes to Sweden. Previous winners were Sasa Lendero (from Slovenia) in 2006, Mirela (from Spain) in 2007 and Sanna Nielssen (from Sweden) in 2008. This year, the complete results were as follows:
- Sweden - 39.8%
- Mirela (Spain) - 21.0%
- Hera Björk (Denmark) - 18.2%
- Tone Damli Aaberge (Norway) - 11.3%
- Ana Bebic (Croatia) - 9.7%
The 2009 esctoday.com National Final Award for BEST BALLAD goes to...
- ...Nada es comparable a ti from the Spanish national final written by Tony Sanchez Ohlsson, Thomas G:son & Andreas Rickstrand
Nada es comparable a ti was written by the team behind the 2007 Spanish entry I love you mi vida. Performed by Mirela, runner-up in the 2007 Spanish national final, the song finished fourth in the national final- It had previously finished second in the third semi final.
The song (studio version):
This award is given out for the first time. Spain won the award narrowly ahead of the Swedish jazz ballad Snälla, snälla. The complete results were as follows:
- Spain - 31.9%
- Snälla, snälla (Sweden) - 31.6%
- I wish I could pretend (Ireland) - 15.6%
- Will you dance with me (Israel) - 12.2%
- Ajër (Albania) - 8.9%
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Mirela deserved the best ballad. I think that Soraya did a terrible job.
Oh what a shock in the voting lol [insert sarcasm]... meh sweden can go suck on the proverbial, for a country that is the 3rd biggest importer of music in the world, and has one of the most vibrant and amazing music scenes, this schlager garbage is just insulting... untill sweden starts sending something that isnt so flamingly stereotypical, it will never have my respect in esc... send kent and u will be my all time fave LOL... hmm or familjen, det snurrar i min skalle is killer
Snalla snalla... was the best song in melodifestival this year and should have represented Sweden... would have done so much better than that typical schlager la voix.... For all the other awards... I don't know... seems like people only seem to remember melodifestivalen...
0,3 % different, though i just LOVE Nada es comparable a ti and i did not know it was written by swedes at first so its not because of that ....It was not only the best ballad it was THE BEST song in whole esc 2009. And since i almost speak spanish flaurently i never saw that spanish is a beautiful language to sing in. And for sarah i can't be more then happy shes a great singer. 
I hadn't heard that Spanish song before, but I'm imagining it being performed in 25th position in Moscow and I think it would have done very well indeed!
Sweden again? As I said let's cancel those awards and give every prize to Sweden. (Even "Nada es comparable a ti" was composed by swedish people)
Why should the taste of most members here be so predictable and average? -sigh-
Ana should have won best femaaleeee.... xD
Before I read this article I said "Please, no more Swedish awards", but now that Sarah won I'm happy
nada es comparable a ti and snalla snalla were such great songs. i love them both.
Nada es comparable a ti was a great song, I still listen to it from time to time.
"Snälla, snälla" was the best ballad otu of these, but "Lygin Ein" from Iceland was the best song AND ballad not to qualify this year!!
best ballad "Nada es comparable a tí2????? I´m laughing!!!! it´s a joke!!!! MOVING ON is the BEST SO FAR!!!!!! ( Nothing compares to it!!!!)
i thought the performance for Moving On was so OTT...
Mirela was just perfect, a more contemporary song and kinda under-rated.
guess who i voted for 
Why don't we just call it the Melodifestivalen Awards instead?
Yay, Sarah Dawn Finer. The first result I definitely agree with!
Iammmmmmmm so happy for MIRELA 
Plssssssssss Spain send her internal.....put 3-4 songwritters to write for her and choise the best...its so simple.
that song should have been sent!
the spanish song with soryara? thats her name?
i dont even remember it! WAS SUCKS! but this miranda with this song
OMGGGGGGG AMAZING!
Dear W S, if it is not ballad then give us some alternative.
Mirela has a lovely voice...
Lolll W S , where do you see the excellent results of Sweden in recent years?
2009: 21st
2008: 18th (eliminated but saved by ther jury wild card)
2007: 18th
These results are considered as failure for Sweden a nation that sonce 1982 never experienced a two-year-in-raw absence from top10!
And since when is the Israeli song "Will you dance with me" a ballad?
Fair results, but Israel should win the overall award instead of Spain!
At least the Spanish song is written by Swedes. After all all other countries suck. That's why Sweden has such excellent eurovision results in recent years.
What is the matter with you people?? Sweden Sweden Sweden!
Moving On was definitely one of the better songs to come out of the national final's this year, so i'm glad it won something
I said it before the reuslts came in - ppl in here are blinded! 
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