"Higher" is a song written by

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, Joakim Udd and

Johan Becker Star Pilots is a Swedish pop group with Johan Becker, a contestant on Swedish television show ''Fame Factory'' and former member of the Swedish duo The Wallstones as lead singer. The group's debut single, "In the Heat of the Night", was released ...

, and performed by

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Melodifestivalen 2009 2009 was the 49th edition of the Swedish music competition , which was organised by (SVT) and took place over a six-week period between 7 February and 14 March 2009. The winner of the competition was Malena Ernman with the song "La Voix (song), ...

. The song was performed in the 4th semifinal inside the

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on 28 February 2009, and went further to

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where it ended up knocked out. The

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peaked at number 6 on the

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. Several newspaper readers in

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blamed the song for being similar to the 1988 Boy Meets Girl song " Waiting For a Star to Fall" and the 2008 Jenny "Velvet" Petterssons song "

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" as well as Survivors' 1982 song "

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