Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986

Sweden was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1986, held in Bergen, Norway.

Eurovision Song Contest 1986
Country Sweden
National selection
Selection processMelodifestivalen 1986
Selection date(s)22 March 1986
Selected entrantLasse Holm and Monica Törnell
Selected song"E' de' det här du kallar kärlek?"
Selected songwriter(s)Lasse Holm
Finals performance
Final result5th, 78 points
Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄1985 • 1986 • 1987►

The Swedish national final, Melodifestivalen 1986, was held on 22 March at the Cirkus in Stockholm, and was broadcast across Sweden on SVT1. The winners were Lasse Holm and Monica Törnell with their song "E' de' det här du kallar kärlek?".

Before Eurovision

Melodifestivalen 1986

Melodifestivalen 1986 was the selection for the 26th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 25th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 90 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was held in the Cirkus in Stockholm on 22 March 1986, presented by Lennart Swahn and Tommy Engstrand and was broadcast on TV1 and was not broadcast on radio. No orchestra was used, and instead the ten songs were broadcast as music videos. The five songs that qualified for the second round were performed live to backing track.

Draw Artist Song Songwriter(s) Points Place
1Dan Tillberg"ABCD"Svante Persson, Dan Tillberg, Ingela 'Pling' Forsman226th
2Git Persson"Du förför mig"Anders Berglund, Lotta Winberg197th
3Style"Dover–Calais"Tommy Ekman, Christer Sandelin333rd
4Lasse Holm and Monica Törnell"E' de' det här du kallar kärlek?"Lasse Holm641st
5Anna Book"ABC"Martin Contra, Björn Frisén, Keith Almgren245th
6Sound of Music"Eldorado"Peter Grönvall, Angélique Widengren, Nanne Nordqvist264th
7Baden-Baden"Jag har en dröm"Martin Contra, Björn Frisén, Keith Almgren158th
8Fredrik Willstrand"Fem i tolv"Joakim Bergman, Monica Forsberg119th
9Lena Philipsson"Kärleken är evig"Torgny Söderberg, Per Gessle422nd
10Karin Risberg"Stopp, stopp, stanna"Kjell Lövbom, Peo Thyrén1010th

Voting
Song 56-60 51-55 46-50 41-45 36-40 31-35 26-30 21-25 15-20 Total
"Dover-Calais"62441116833
"E' de' det här du kallar kärlek?"88866688664
"ABC"24622421124
"Eldorado"41214264226
"Kärleken är evig"16188842442

At Eurovision

Voting

References
  1. "Results of the Final of Bergen 1986". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 16 April 2021. Retrieved 16 April 2021.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.