| Year: | 2001 |
| Country: | Sweden |
| Preselection: | Melodifestivalen 2001 |
| Preselection Date: | 23 February 2001 |
| Entrant: | Friends |
| Song: | Listen to Your Heartbeat |
| Final Result: | 5th, 100 points |
Sweden was represented by the group Friends in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 with schlager song "Lyssna till ditt hjärta". It was written by and Henrik Sethson.
Melodifestivalen 2001 was the selection for the 41st song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 42nd time that this system of picking a song had been used. Around 1,800 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition, of which 10 were chosen to compete in the show. The final was held in the Malmö Musikteater in Malmö on 23 February 2001, presented by Josefine Sundström and Henrik Olsson, and was broadcast on SVT1. The winners were the previous year's runner-up, the group Friends with the schlager song "Lyssna till ditt hjärta". It was written by and Henrik Sethson.[1]
| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annie Kratz-Gutå | "Vända om" | Tony Malm, Annie Kratz-Gutå, Farhad Zand | |
| Barbados | "Allt som jag ser" | Marcos Ubeda, Ulf Georgsson, Lars "Dille" Diedricson | |
| Date | "Om du förlåter mig" | Sofia Lagerström, Henrik Sethsson | |
| Ellinor Franzén | "Om du stannar här" | Tony Malm, Ellinor Franzén | |
| Friends | "Lyssna till ditt hjärta" | , Henrik Sethson | |
| Jan Johansen | "Ingenmansland" | Ingela "Pling" Forsman, Bobby Ljunggren | |
| Popson | "Jag känner dig" | Lars Benckert, Petter Gunnarsson | |
| Rosanna Jönis | "Om du var här hos mig" | Mattias Reimer, Lars Edvall | |
| Sanna Nielsen | "I går, i dag" | Bert Månson | |
| Teresia | "Kom ner på jorden" | Rune Gardell |
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | Points | |||||||
| 1 | Teresia | "Kom ner på jorden" | 25 | 14,631 | 0 | 25 | 8 | |
| 2 | Jan Johansen | "Ingenmansland" | 63 | 20,244 | 44 | 107 | 4 | |
| 3 | Date | "Om du förlåter mig" | 35 | 17,870 | 22 | 57 | 6 | |
| 4 | Rosanna Jönis | "Om du var här hos mig" | 2 | 17,107 | 11 | 13 | 10 | |
| 5 | Barbados | "Allt som jag ser" | 82 | 82,799 | 110 | 192 | 2 | |
| 6 | Sanna Nielsen | "I går, i dag" | 84 | 64,903 | 88 | 172 | 3 | |
| 7 | Annie Kratz-Gutå | "Vända om" | 29 | 11,499 | 0 | 29 | 7 | |
| 8 | Friends | "Lyssna till ditt hjärta" | 105 | 96,380 | 132 | 237 | 1 | |
| 9 | Popson | "Jag känner dig" | 23 | 7,559 | 0 | 23 | 9 | |
| 10 | Ellinor Franzén | "Om du stannar här" | 25 | 24,416 | 66 | 91 | 5 | |
| + Detailed Regional Jury Voting[2] | |||||||||||||
| Song | scope="col" | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Kom ner på jorden" | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 25 | |||
| "Ingemansland" | 6 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 63 | |
| "Om du förlåter mig" | 2 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 35 | ||||
| "Om du var här hos mig" | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| "Allt som jag ser" | 10 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 82 | |
| "I går, i dag" | 8 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 84 | ||
| "Vända om" | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 29 | ||||||
| "Lyssna till ditt hjärta" | 12 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 105 | |
| "Jag känner dig" | 1 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 23 | ||||||||
| "Om du stannar här" | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 25 |
For the ESC, the song was rewritten into English and got the new title "Listen to Your Heartbeat". It was performed in the 7th spot on the night of the contest, following Russia and preceding Lithuania. Despite not receiving any 12s, Sweden scored 100 points at the close of voting, finishing in 5th position.[3]
After the song "Lyssna till ditt hjärta" won Melodifestivalen 2001, it was accused of plagiarism from the 1996 Belgian entry "Liefde is een kaartspel". At first this was denied by the Swedish composers, and Henrik Sethsson, but after the Belgian songwriters and the author's organisation SABAM pressed for legal action, a cash settlement was agreed.[4] [5]