Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest

Sweden has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 64 times since its debut in . Sveriges Television (SVT) is the Swedish broadcaster, which selects its entry through Melodifestivalen. Sweden had missed only three contests: , , and .

Sweden's seven victories was achieved with the following songs:
- ABBA — Waterloo ()
- Herreys — Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley ()
- Carola — Fångad av en stormvind ()
- Charlotte Nilsson — Take Me to Your Heaven ()
- Loreen — Euphoria ()
- Måns Zelmerlöw — Heroes ()
- Loreen — Tattoo ()

## Participation overview

|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFD700;"|1|First place|
| --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|2|Second place|
|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|Third place|
|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FE8080;"|◁|Last place|
|style="text-align:center; background-color:#A4EAA9;"|**X**|Entry selected but did not compete|
|style="text-align:center; background-color:#DDF;"|**†**|Upcoming event|

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Artist|scope="col"|Song|scope="col"|Language|scope="col" data-sort-type="number"|Final|scope="col" data-sort-type="number"|Points|scope="col" data-sort-type="number"|Semi|scope="col" data-sort-type="number"|Points|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Alice Babs|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|10|colspan="2" rowspan="32"|||||||||
|Brita Borg|"Augustin"|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|9|style="text-align:center;"|4||||||||||
|Siw Malmkvist|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|10|style="text-align:center;"|4||||||||||
|Lill-Babs|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|14|style="text-align:center;"|2||||||||||
|Inger Berggren|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|4||||||||||
|Monica Zetterlund|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FE8080;"|13 ◁|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FE8080;"|0||||||||||
|Ingvar Wixell|"Absent Friend"|English|style="text-align:center;"|10|style="text-align:center;"|6||||||||||
|Lill Lindfors and Svante Thuresson|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|2|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|16||||||||||
|Östen Warnerbring|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|8|style="text-align:center;"|7||||||||||
|Claes-Göran Hederström|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|15||||||||||
|Tommy Körberg|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|9|style="text-align:center;"|8||||||||||
|Family Four|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|6|style="text-align:center;"|85||||||||||
|Family Four|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|13|style="text-align:center;"|75||||||||||
|The Nova|"You're Summer"|English|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|94||||||||||
|ABBA|"Waterloo"|English|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|24||||||||||
|Lars Berghagen|"Jennie, Jennie"|English|style="text-align:center;"|8|style="text-align:center;"|72||||||||||
|Forbes|"Beatles"|Swedish|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FE8080;"|18 ◁|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FE8080;"|2||||||||||
|Björn Skifs|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|14|style="text-align:center;"|26||||||||||
|Ted Gärdestad|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|17|style="text-align:center;"|8||||||||||
|Tomas Ledin|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|10|style="text-align:center;"|47||||||||||
|Björn Skifs|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|10|style="text-align:center;"|50||||||||||
|Chips|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|8|style="text-align:center;"|67||||||||||
|Carola Häggkvist|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|126||||||||||
|Herreys|"Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley"|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|145||||||||||
|Kikki Danielsson|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|103||||||||||
|Lasse Holm and Monica Törnell|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|78||||||||||
|Lotta Engberg|"Boogaloo"|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|12|style="text-align:center;"|50||||||||||
|Tommy Körberg|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|12|style="text-align:center;"|52||||||||||
|Tommy Nilsson|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|110||||||||||
|Edin-Ådahl|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|16|style="text-align:center;"|24||||||||||
|Carola|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|146||||||||||
|Christer Björkman|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|22|style="text-align:center;"|9||||||||||
|Arvingarna|"Eloise"|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|89|colspan="2"|||||||||
|Marie Bergman and Roger Pontare|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|13|style="text-align:center;"|48|colspan="2" rowspan="2"|||||||||
|Jan Johansen|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|100||||||||||
|One More Time|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|100|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFD700;"|1|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFD700;"|227||||||
|Blond|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|14|style="text-align:center;"|36|colspan="2" rowspan="7"|||||||||
|Jill Johnson|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|10|style="text-align:center;"|53||||||||||
|Charlotte Nilsson|"Take Me to Your Heaven"|English|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|163||||||||||
|Roger Pontare|"When Spirits Are Calling My Name"|English|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|88||||||||||
|Friends|"Listen to Your Heartbeat"|English|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|100||||||||||
|Afro-dite|"Never Let It Go"|English|style="text-align:center;"|8|style="text-align:center;"|72||||||||||
|Fame|"Give Me Your Love"|English|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|107||||||||||
|Lena Philipsson|"It Hurts"|English|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|170|colspan="2"|||||||||
|Martin Stenmarck|"Las Vegas"|English|style="text-align:center;"|19|style="text-align:center;"|30|colspan="2"|||||||||
|Carola|"Invincible"|English|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|170|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|214||||||
|The Ark|"The Worrying Kind"|English|style="text-align:center;"|18|style="text-align:center;"|51|colspan="2"|||||||||
|Charlotte Perrelli|"Hero"|English|style="text-align:center;"|18|style="text-align:center;"|47|style="text-align:center;"|12|style="text-align:center;"|54||||||
|Malena Ernman|""|English, French|style="text-align:center;"|21|style="text-align:center;"|33|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|105||||||
|Anna Bergendahl|"This Is My Life"|English|colspan="2"|style="text-align:center;"|11|style="text-align:center;"|62|||||||||
|Eric Saade|"Popular"|English|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|185|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFD700;"|1|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFD700;"|155||||||
|Loreen|"Euphoria"|English|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|372|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|181||||||
|Robin Stjernberg|"You"|English|style="text-align:center;"|14|style="text-align:center;"|62|colspan="2"|||||||||
|Sanna Nielsen|"Undo"|English|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|218|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|2|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|131||||||
|Måns Zelmerlöw|"Heroes"|English|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|365|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|217||||||
|Frans|"If I Were Sorry"|English|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|261|colspan="2"|||||||||
|Robin Bengtsson|"I Can't Go On"|English|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|344|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|227||||||
|Benjamin Ingrosso|"Dance You Off"|English|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|274|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|2|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|254||||||
|John Lundvik|"Too Late for Love"|English|style="text-align:center;"|5|style="text-align:center;"|334|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|3|style="text-align:center; background-color:#C96;"|238||||||
|The Mamas|"Move"|English|colspan="4"  **X**|||||||||||||
|Tusse|"Voices"|English|style="text-align:center;"|14|style="text-align:center;"|109|style="text-align:center;"|7|style="text-align:center;"|142||||||
|Cornelia Jakobs|"Hold Me Closer"|English|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|438|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFD700;"|1|style="text-align:center; background-color:#FFD700;"|396||||||
|Loreen|"Tattoo"|English|style="text-align:center;"|1|style="text-align:center;"|583|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|2|style="text-align:center; background-color:#CCC;"|135||||||
|Marcus & Martinus|"Unforgettable"|English|style="text-align:center;"|9|style="text-align:center;"|174|colspan="2"|||||||||
|KAJ|""|Swedish|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|321|style="text-align:center;"|4|style="text-align:center;"|118||||||
|colspan="7" align="center"|Confirmed intention to participate **†**|||||||||||||||

## Hostings

Sweden has hosted the contest seven times, three times in Stockholm (, , ), three times in Malmö (, , ), and one time in Gothenburg ().

|scope="col"|Year|scope="col"|Location|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"||
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|Stockholm||||||||
|Gothenburg|Scandinavium|||||||
|Malmö||||||||
|Stockholm|Globe Arena|||||||
|Malmö|Malmö Arena|||||||
|Stockholm|Globe Arena|||||||
|Malmö|Malmö Arena|||||||

## See also

- Melodifestivalen

## Infobox (song contest country)

- **name**: Sweden
- **contest**: ESC
- **broadcaster**: (SVT; 1980–present)
- **apps**: 64 (63 finals)
- **highest**: 1st: , , , , , ,
- **host**: , , , , , ,
- **related**: Melodifestivalen
- **website**: [https://www.svtplay.se/kategori/melodifestivalen SVT official homepage]
- **current**: 2025