Empty Room (Sanna Nielsen song)
| "Empty Room" | ||||
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| Single by Sanna Nielsen | ||||
| from the album Stronger | ||||
| A-side | "Empty Room" (radio version) | |||
| B-side | "Empty Room " (singback version) | |||
| Released | 12 March 2008 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Label | Lionheart International | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bobby Ljunggren Aleena Gibson | |||
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Empty Room, written by Bobby Ljunggren and Aleena Gibson, is a ballad song about loss, missing someone and unrequited love, performed by Sanna Nielsen at Melodifestivalen 2008. Performing Empty Room, Sanna Nielsen did her English language-debut at Melodifestivalen.
The song made it directly from the competition in Västerås on 16 February 2008 to the final in the Stockholm Globe Arena on 15 March 2008. In the final, the song finished on second place, with totally 206 points, and won most points among telephone voters, 132 votes. The song was placed number 3 after the jury votes, who gave it 74 points.
The I-person of the song lyrics sings about losing a loved one, and describes the feelings like an empty room, before trying to move on in life.
The song won the 2008 OGAE Second Chance Contest.