Take Me to Your Heaven (song)

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"Take Me to Your Heaven"

Eurovision Song Contest 1999 entry
Country	Sweden
Artist(s)	Charlotte
Language	English
Composer(s)	Lars Diedricson
Lyricist(s)	Gert Lengstrand, Marcos Ubeda
Finals performance
Final result	1st
Final points	163
Appearance chronology
◄ "Kärleken är" (1998)
"When Spirits Are Calling My Name" (2000) ►

"Take Me to Your Heaven" was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 performed in English (taking advantage of new rules removing the requirement to perform in a national language) by Charlotte Nilsson representing Sweden. Charlotte Nilsson first won the Swedish Melodifestivalen 1999 when singing the Swedish language version "Tusen och en natt" (Swedish for "One Thousand and One Nights").

The song was internationally released as a single on 21 June 1999, produced by Mikael Wendt. At the singles charts, it peaked at #2 in Sweden, #10 in Norway, #20 in the United Kingdom, #23 in the Netherlands and #5 in Flanders (Belgium).

On 24 April 1999, the Swedish language version of the song entered radio chart Svensktoppen as number-one and spent 8 consecutive weeks on the top spot, and managed to stay on the chart for no less than six months, until 4 September 1999.

The song was succeeded in 2000 as Contest winner by the Olsen Brothers representing Denmark with "Fly on the Wings of Love".

Content

The song is an up-beat song about love, with the singer asking her lover to take her to heaven by loving her. Some fans have argued that it is derivative of previous Swedish 1974 winner ABBA. However in the music video, it is set in the winter time with Perrelli walking in the snow, so listeners today would associate it with Christmas.

Track listings

Take Me to Your Heaven - 3:00
Tusen och en natt - 3:00

Take Me to Your Heaven - 3:00
Tusen och en natt - 3:00
Take Me to Your Heaven (instrumental version) - 3:00

Peak positions

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)^{[ 1]}	5
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)^{[ 1]}	21
Norway (VG-lista)^{[ 1]}	10
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)^{[ 1]}	2
United Kingdom (The Official Charts Company)	20

Preceded by Kärleken är by Jill Johnson	Melodifestivalen winners 1999	Succeeded by När vindarna viskar mitt namn by Roger Pontare
Preceded by Diva by Dana International	Eurovision Song Contest winners 1999	Succeeded by Fly on the Wings of Love by Olsen Brothers

References

External links

v t e Winning songs of the Eurovision Song Contest

1950s	"Refrain" "Net als toen" "Dors, mon amour" "Een beetje"

1960s	"Tom Pillibi" "Nous les amoureux" "Un premier amour" "Dansevise" "Non ho l'età" "Poupée de cire, poupée de son" "Merci, Chérie" "Puppet on a String" "La, la, la" "Boom Bang-a-Bang" "Un jour, un enfant" "De troubadour" "Vivo cantando"

1970s	"All Kinds of Everything" "Un banc, un arbre, une rue" "Après toi" "Tu te reconnaîtras" "Waterloo" "Ding-A-Dong" "Save Your Kisses for Me" "L'oiseau et l'enfant" "A-Ba-Ni-Bi" "Hallelujah"

1980s	"What's Another Year" "Making Your Mind Up" "Ein bißchen Frieden" "Si la vie est cadeau" "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" "La det swinge" "J'aime la vie" "Hold Me Now" "Ne partez pas sans moi" "Rock Me"

1990s	"Insieme: 1992" "Fångad av en stormvind" "Why Me?" "In Your Eyes" "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" "Nocturne" "The Voice" "Love Shine a Light" "Diva" "Take Me to Your Heaven"

2000s	"Fly on the Wings of Love" "Everybody" "I Wanna" "Everyway That I Can" "Wild Dances" "My Number One" "Hard Rock Hallelujah" "Molitva" "Believe" "Fairytale"

2010s	"Satellite" "Running Scared" "Euphoria" "Only Teardrops"

Eurovision Song Contest 1999

Countries

Final	Lithuania Belgium Spain Croatia United Kingdom Slovenia Turkey Norway Denmark France Netherlands Poland Iceland Cyprus Sweden (winner) Portugal Ireland Austria Israel Malta Germany Bosnia and Herzegovina Estonia

Artists

Final	Aistė Vanessa Chinitor Lydia Doris Dragović Precious Darja Švajger Tuğba Önal & Grup Mistik Stig Van Eijk Trine Jepsen & Michael Teschl Nayah Marlayne Mietek Szcześniak Selma Marlain Charlotte Nilsson Rui Bandeira The Mullans Bobbie Singer Eden Times Three Sürpriz Dino & Béatrice Evelin Samuel & Camille

Songs

Final

"Strazdas"
"Like the Wind"
"No quiero escuchar"
"Marija Magdalena"
"Say It Again"
"For a Thousand Years"
"Dön Artık"
"Living My Life Without You"
"This Time I Mean It"
"Je veux donner ma voix"
"One Good Reason"
"Przytul mnie mocno"
"All Out of Luck"
"Tha 'ne erotas"
"Take Me to Your Heaven"
"Como tudo começou"
"When You Need Me"
"Reflection"
"Yom Huledet (Happy Birthday)"
"Believe 'n Peace"
"Reise nach Jerusalem - Kudüs'e seyahat"
"Putnici"
"Diamond of Night"

(Note: All information are in order of appearance

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