Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 explained

Year:1980
Country:Sweden
Preselection:Melodifestivalen 1980
Preselection Date:8 March 1980
Entrant:Tomas Ledin
Song:Just nu!
Final Result:10th, 47 points

For the 25th Eurovision Song Contest, the Swedish entry was chosen in the national selection Melodifestivalen 1980. Tomas Ledin won with the song "Just nu!", which he had written himself.

Before Eurovision

Melodifestivalen 1980

Melodifestivalen 1980 was the selection for the 20th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 19th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 120 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was held in the SVT Studios in Stockholm on 8 March 1980, presented by Bengt Bedrup and broadcast on TV1 but was not broadcast on radio.

DrawArtistSongSongwriter(s)PointsPlace
1 "Just nu!" 112 1st
2 "Tusen sekunder" 32 9th
3 "Utan att fråga" Kenta Gustafsson, Bo Rosendahl 56 6th
4 "Jag ger mig inte" 48 7th
5 Ted Gärdestad and Annica Boller "Låt solen värma dig" 57 5th
6 "Mycke' mycke' mer" 75 4th
7 Liza Öhman "Hit men inte längre" Bengt Palmers 94 3rd
8 Lasse Lindbom "För dina bruna ögons skull" Per Gessle, Mats Persson 27 10th
9 "Växeln hallå" Lasse Holm, Gert Lengstrand 96 2nd
10 Tania "Å sjuttiotal" 41 8th

Voting

Songscope="col"
"Just nu!" 12 8 10 10 10 12 10 12 12 6 10 112
"Tusen sekunder" 2 4 1 2 3 1 2 6 4 4 3 32
"Utan att fråga" 5 12 6 6 6 8 3 2 3 3 2 56
"Jag ger mig inte" 4 5 3 4 2 6 8 5 2 5 4 48
"Låt solen värma dig" 6 2 12 7 7 3 4 7 6 2 1 57
"Mycke' mycke' mer" 8 6 5 5 4 5 12 8 5 10 7 75
"Hit men inte längre" 7 10 8 8 8 7 6 10 10 8 12 94
"För dina bruna ögons skull" 1 1 4 3 5 4 1 1 1 1 5 27
"Växeln hallå" 10 7 7 12 12 10 7 4 7 12 8 96
"Å sjuttiotal" 3 3 2 1 1 2 5 3 8 7 6 41

At Eurovision

At the final in The Hague, he came 10th (out of 19) with 47 points. He had the draw number #8.[1] As of 2021, this is the most recent occasion on which Sweden has failed to score any points from the other participating Nordic nations (and, in turn, it is the most recent contest final to see the Swedish jury fail to award any points to another Nordic nation, save for when Sweden was the only Nordic nation in the final).

Voting

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Final of The Hague 1980 . European Broadcasting Union . 12 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210412104322/https://eurovision.tv/event/the-hague-1980/final . 12 April 2021 . live.
  2. Web site: Results of the Final of The Hague 1980 . European Broadcasting Union . 12 April 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210412105357/https://eurovision.tv/event/the-hague-1980/final/results/sweden . 12 April 2021 . live.