Give Me Your Love (Fame song)

"Give Me Your Love"
Single by Fame
from the album Give Me Your Love
Released2003
Genre
Length3:03
Songwriter(s)
  • Carl Lösnitz
  • Calle Kindbom
Eurovision Song Contest 2003 entry
Country
Artist(s)
As
Language
English
Composer(s)
  • Carl Lösnitz
  • Calle Kindbom
Lyricist(s)
  • Carl Lösnitz
  • Calle Kindbom
Finals performance
Final result
5th
Final points
107
Entry chronology
◄ "Never Let It Go" (2002)
"It Hurts" (2004) ►

"Give Me Your Love" is a 2003 song written by Carl Lösnitz [sv] and Calle Kindbom [sv] and recorded by Jessica Andersson and Magnus Bäcklund as "Fame". The song won Melodifestivalen 2003 and was the Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, where it placed 5th out of 26 competing entries.[1]

Melodifestivalen and the Eurovision Song Contest

See also: Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003

"Give Me Your Love" participated in the second heat of the 2003 Melodifestivalen which was held on 22 February 2003 at the Scandinavium indoor arena in Gothenburg. The song was performed sixth of the eight competing entries and directly qualified to the contest final as one of the two songs song which received the most telephone votes. On 15 March, during the final held at the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Fame were the first of the ten competing acts to perform, and "Give Me Your Love" won the contest with 240 points, receiving the highest number of votes from the regional juries and the public vote.[2]

"Gimme Your Love" was performed on 24 May 2003 at the Eurovision Song Contest in Riga, Latvia. Sweden was drawn to perform in twenty-fifth position of the 26 competing entries, and subsequently Fame finished in fifth place, receiving 107 points in total, including the maximum 12 points from Romania.[3]

Track listing

CD single (MLCDS 011)

  1. "Give Me Your Love" (Original Radio Version) - 3:03
  2. "Give Me Your Love" (PVC One 5 Radio Mix) - 3:28
  3. "Give Me Your Love" (PVC One 5 Club Mix) - 8:46
  4. "Give Me Your Love" (PVC One 5 Ultra Dub) - 8:47

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2003) Peak position
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[4] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (2003) Position
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[5] 23

Certifications

In 2003, "Give Me Your Love" was certified gold in Sweden.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Eurovision 2003 Results: Voting & Points". Eurovisionworld. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  2. ^ Thorsson, Leif; Verhage, Martin (2006). Melodifestivalen genom tiderna : de svenska uttagningarna och internationella finalerna (New and revised ed.). Stockholm: Premium Publishing. pp. 305–311. ISBN 91-89136-29-2.
  3. ^ "Results of the Final of Riga 2003". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 7 April 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Fame – GIVE ME YOUR LOVE". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Årslista Singlar – År 2003" (in Swedish). Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Guld- och Platinacertifikat − År 2003" (PDF) (in Swedish). IFPI Sweden. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-17.
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