Per Gessle voted Sweden’s 10th biggest star

Written by per_mson on November 6, 2005 to Per Gessle.

STOCKHOLM - Per Gessle was voted Sweden’s 10th biggest star ever in the Swedish TV (SVT) program “Folktoppen” Saturday Nov. 5. Over 59,000 viewers phoned and gave their vote for their favorite and Gessle received 2,177 of those votes.

This is the top-ten list:

1. Ingemar Stenmark (former olympic skier) 18,357 votes

2. Carolina Klüft (athlete) 6,700

3. Carola Häggkvist (singer) 5,512

4. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (soccer player) 5,264

5. Victoria Bernadotte (crown princess) 5.152

6. Mikael Persbrandt (actor) 4,261

7. Peter Forsberg (hockey player) 3,946

8. Agnetha Fältskog (former ABBA member) 3,888

9. Robert Gustafsson (comedian) 3,832

10. Per Gessle 2,177

SVT (In Swedish)

24 comments

Dressed_for_success said on November 6, 2005 11:29:

What kind of people are the swedes? :s
Since when is Mikael Persbrandt a bigger
star than Per?

daniel_alv said on November 6, 2005 11:38:

maybe “Medicinmannen” made people vote for him...

Zelda said on November 6, 2005 11:56:

Only #10?

tevensso (moderator) said on November 6, 2005 12:09:

This is an utterly dumb and pathetic program, that has none, or little, input on the world as we know it. And 59,000 votes?! More people than that vote everyday on Idol and such.

Zargo said on November 6, 2005 12:34:

i haven’t heard of any of them, except Agnetha and that roxette back-up singer...

Santi said on November 6, 2005 13:27:

I guess most of you missed it, but in that very same program Sommartider by Gyllene Tider was awarded the honour of being number 1 the “Bästa svenska popklassiker” as you can see on the following link:

http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=39217

By the way, what a shame of a picture... :O
http://svt.se/content/1/c6/43/43/10/gyllene_gammal.jpg

JayBee said on November 6, 2005 13:43:

Ingemar Stenmark as number one - respect ! I think his career ended before Roxette’s career started. Anyway I also still remember this star even as a German and can understand why he was voted “biggest star”.

He was the alpine ski superstar in the end of the seventies and the the eighties and several times won the world cup (total, slalom and giant slalom). He not only was very successful but he also was appreciated in other countries - a real gain for the whole alpine ski sport.

Congratulations to Ingemar Stenmark (and also to Per for place 10).

Judith (moderator) said on November 6, 2005 13:57:

fine about Ingemar, but that Carola ended up higher than Per ... *sigh*

I guess all his fans were busy trying to download the single instead of voting ;) :P

@santi: I doubt most of us missed it ;)
http://www.dailyroxette.com/article.php/1870

plectrum said on November 6, 2005 14:12:

i thought the rest of the abba members would’ve been up there along with the swedish chef from the muppets

Santi said on November 6, 2005 14:23:

Then it was me the one who missed it!!! :DDDDDD

Santi said on November 6, 2005 14:28:

So how come the program it’s cool when GT wins and it sucks when Per is 10th...???
I think most of the placings are quite fair. I’d vote Peter Forsberg over Per anytime... he’s much more of a superstar!

And remember that we’re not in Roxette’s best times, that is over.

tevensso (moderator) said on November 6, 2005 15:37:

I never said it was cool. Read that article again.

Room_service said on November 6, 2005 20:00:

Plectrum, I don’t understand your point. The fact we like Roxette/Per doesn’t mean they have to be exactly the best. It’s totally subjective...

ally77 said on November 6, 2005 22:33:

Only 10th wow I am surprised, I would have thought Per would have made the top 5!

Rox-Van said on November 7, 2005 02:00:

´´´´´´it seems that gessle did not receive many votes´´´´´´

AURYTE said on November 7, 2005 05:35:

Per definetely deserves a place at least in the top 3...

ally77 said on November 7, 2005 10:42: