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Eurovision Song Contest 1980
Country Sweden
National selection
Selection processMelodifestivalen 1980
Selection date(s)8 March 1980
Selected entrantTomas Ledin
Selected song"Just nu!"
Selected songwriter(s)Tomas Ledin
Finals performance
Final result10th, 47 points
Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
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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.

Draw Artist Song Songwriter(s) Points Place
1 Tomas Ledin "Just nu!" Tomas Ledin 112 1st
2 Paul Paljett "Tusen sekunder" Britta Johansson, Torgny Söderberg 32 9th
3 Kenta "Utan att fråga" Kenta Gustafsson, Bo Rosendahl 56 6th
4 Eva Dahlgren "Jag ger mig inte" Eva Dahlgren 48 7th
5 Ted Gärdestad and Annica Boller "Låt solen värma dig" Ted Gärdestad, Kenneth Gärdestad 57 5th
6 Chips "Mycke' mycke' mer" Torgny Söderberg, Lasse Holm 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 Janne Lucas "Växeln hallå" Lasse Holm, Gert Lengstrand 96 2nd
10 Tania "Å sjuttiotal" Torgny Söderberg 41 8th

Voting

Song
Luleå
Falun
Karlstad
Gothenburg
Umeå
Örebro
Norrköping
Malmö
Sundsvall
Växjö
Stockholm
Total score
"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 2016 when Sweden was the only Nordic nation in the final).

Voting

References

  1. ^ "Final of The Hague 1980". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Results of the Final of The Hague 1980". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.

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Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 1980
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