This Is My Life (Anna Bergendahl song)

{{Short description|2010 song by Anna Bergendahl}}

{{Infobox song

| name = This Is My Life

| cover = This-is-my-life-anna-bergendahl.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Single cover

| type = single

| artist = Anna Bergendahl

| album = Yours Sincerely

| released = February 2010

| recorded = 2010

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Pop

| length = 3:01

| label = Lionheart International

| writer = {{hlist|Kristian Lagerström|Bobby Ljunggren}}

| producer = Dan Sundquist

| prev_title = Over the Rainbow

| prev_year = 2008

| next_title = The Army

| next_year = 2010

| misc = {{Infobox song contest entry | embed=yes

| song = {{flagicon|Sweden}} "This Is My Life"

| image =

| caption =

| year = 2010

| country = Sweden

| artist = Anna Bergendahl

| as =

| with =

| language = English

| languages =

| composer = Bobby Ljunggren

| lyricist = Kristian Lagerström

| place =

| points =

| place_semi = 11th

| points_semi = 62

| lyrics =

| prev = La voix

| prev_link = La voix (song)

| next = Popular

| next_link = Popular (Eric Saade song)

}}

}}

"This Is My Life" is an English language song by Swedish singer Anna Bergendahl, written by Kristian Lagerström and Bobby Ljunggren. The song won the Melodifestivalen 2010 on March 13 and Bergendahl represented Sweden in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest.{{cite news|title=Anna Bergendahl vann med "This is my life" |url=https://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/musik/anna-bergendahl-vann-med-this-is-my-life/ |publisher=Dagens Nyheter |first=Kalle |last=Holmberg |date=13 March 2010 |language=sv |access-date=13 March 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100317184521/http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/musik/anna-bergendahl-vann-med-this-is-my-life-1.1060763 |archive-date=March 17, 2010 }} It is the first single released from her debut studio album Yours Sincerely.

"This Is My Life" was her first number-one single on the Swedish Singles Chart. It debuted at #1 on the Swedish chart for the week ending 5 March 2010 and stayed on top for four consecutive weeks.{{cite web | url=http://www.swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Anna+Bergendahl&titel=This+Is+My+Life&cat=s | title=Anna Bergendahl - This Is My Life | publisher=swedishcharts.com | access-date=13 March 2010}}

This is My Life was the first ballad to win Melodifestivalen since 1998 when Kärleken är won and was Sweden's 50th entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. The song did not make it to the final coming 11th with 62 points missing out by just 5 points. This was the first and only time Sweden has not qualified for the Eurovision finals and the first time it has not appeared in them since 1976.

Melodifestivalen and Eurovision

{{See also|Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010}}

"This Is My Life" participated in the fourth heat of the 2010 Melodifestivalen which was held on 27 February 2010 at the Malmö Arena in Malmö. The song was the fifth of the eight competing entries to perform and directly qualified to the contest final as one of the two songs song which received the most telephone votes.{{cite web |last1=Klier |first1=Marcus |title=Tonight: Fourth semi final in Sweden - ESCToday.com |url=https://esctoday.com/15224/tonight_fourth_semi_final_in_sweden/ |publisher=ESCToday |access-date=21 February 2022 |date=27 February 2010}}{{cite web |title=Results: Two acts qualified in Sweden - ESCToday.com |url=https://esctoday.com/15284/results_two_acts_qualified_in_sweden/ |publisher=ESCToday |access-date=21 February 2022 |date=6 March 2010}}{{cite web |title=Melodifestivalen: final line-up almost complete |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/melodifestivalen-final-line-up-almost-complete |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=21 February 2022 |date=27 February 2010}} On 13 March, during the final held at the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Bergendahl were the ninth of the ten competing acts to perform, and "This Is My Life" won the contest with 214 points, receiving the highest number of votes from the viewing public via telephone voting and placing second with the regional and international juries.{{cite web |title=Sweden: Anna Bergendahl to Oslo |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/sweden-anna-bergendahl-to-oslo |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=21 February 2022 |date=13 March 2010}}

Sweden participated in the first semi-final of the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Norway on 27 May 2010. Bergendahl was the sixth competing artist to perform and at the end of the broadcast Sweden was not among the ten countries to have qualified for the final on 29 May.{{cite web |title=Second Semi-Final: The qualifiers are... |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/second-semi-final-the-qualifiers-are |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=21 February 2022 |language=en-gb |date=27 May 2010}} It was the first time that Sweden had failed to qualify for the final since the introduction of semi-finals in {{escyr|2004}}, and the first time that Sweden did not appear in a contest final since {{escyr|1976}}. It was later revealed that Sweden had placed eleventh in the semi-final, receiving a total of 62 points, including the maximum 12 points from Denmark and Norway, and missing the final by just 5 points.{{cite web|title=Second Semi-Final of Oslo 2010|url=https://eurovision.tv/event/oslo-2010/second-semi-final|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427152138/https://eurovision.tv/event/oslo-2010/second-semi-final|archive-date=27 April 2021|access-date=27 April 2021|publisher=European Broadcasting Union}}{{cite web |title=Results of the Second Semi-Final of Oslo 2010 |url=https://eurovision.tv/event/oslo-2010/second-semi-final/results/sweden |publisher=European Broadcasting Union |access-date=29 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429161925/https://eurovision.tv/event/oslo-2010/second-semi-final/results/sweden |archive-date=29 April 2021 |url-status=live}} Following the announcement of the split jury and televoting results in June 2010, it was revealed that "This Is My Life" had been ranked ninth by the public and eleventh by the juries.{{cite web|last=Bakker|first=Sietse|date=28 June 2010|title=EBU reveals split voting outcome, surprising results|url=http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=18893|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701074004/http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=18893|archive-date=1 July 2010|access-date=28 April 2021|publisher=European Broadcasting Union}}

Track listing

{{track listing

|headline = Digital download

|title1 = This Is My Life

|length1 = 3:00

}}

Charts

class="wikitable"

!Chart (2010)

!Peak
position

{{singlechart|Dutch100|93|artist=Anna Bergendahl|song=This is my Life}}
{{singlechart|Hungary|40|year=2010|week=21|artist=Anna Bergendahl|song=This Is My Life}}
{{singlechart|Norway|6|artist=Anna Bergendahl|song=This is my Life}}
{{singlechart|Sweden|1|artist=Anna Bergendahl|song=This is my Life}}
{{singlechart|Switzerland|62|artist=Anna Bergendahl|song=This is my Life}}

Release history

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
scope="col" | Country

! scope="col" | Date

! scope="col" | Format

! scope="col" | Label

scope="row" | Sweden

| 28 February 2010[https://web.archive.org/web/20100305163548/http://itunes.apple.com/se/album/this-is-my-life-single/id356409498 This Is My Life - Single by Anna Bergendahl itunes.apple.com/se/]

| Digital download

| Lionheart International

References

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