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Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023

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Eurovision Song Contest 2023
Country Sweden
National selection
Selection processMelodifestivalen 2023
Selection date(s)Heats:
4 February 2023
11 February 2023
18 February 2023
25 February 2023
Semi-final:
4 March 2023
Final:
11 March 2023
Selected artist(s)Loreen
Selected song"Tattoo"
Selected songwriter(s)Jimmy "Joker" Thörnfeldt
Jimmy Jansson
Lorine Talhaoui
Moa Carlebecker
Peter Boström
Thomas G:son
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (2nd, 135 points)
Final result1st, 583 points
Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Sweden participated in and won the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, with "Tattoo" performed by Loreen.[1] The Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) organised Melodifestivalen 2023 in order to select its entry for the contest.

Sweden was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 9 May 2023. Performing during the show in position 11, "Tattoo" was announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 14 May. It was later revealed that Sweden placed second out of the 15 participating countries in the semi-final with 135 points. In the final, Sweden performed in position 9 and placed first out of the 26 participating countries, winning the contest with 583 points.[2]

This was Sweden's seventh win in the Eurovision Song Contest, having last won in 2015, therefore tying Ireland's record for the most victories in the contest. Loreen also became the second performer, after Ireland's Johnny Logan, and the first female artist to win the contest on more than one occasion.[3]

Background

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Prior to the 2023 contest, Sweden has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest sixty-one times since its first entry in 1958. Sweden had won the contest on six occasions: in 1974 with the song "Waterloo" performed by ABBA, in 1984 with the song "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley" performed by Herreys, in 1991 with the song "Fångad av en stormvind" performed by Carola, in 1999 with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven" performed by Charlotte Nilsson, in 2012 with the song "Euphoria" performed by Loreen, and in 2015 with the song "Heroes" performed by Måns Zelmerlöw. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004 contest, Sweden's entries, to this point, have featured in every final, except for 2010.[4] This includes its 2022 entry, "Hold Me Closer" performed by Cornelia Jakobs, which finished in fourth place with 438 points.

The Swedish national broadcaster, Sveriges Television (SVT), broadcasts the event within Sweden and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. Since 1959, SVT has organised the annual competition Melodifestivalen in order to select the Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Before Eurovision

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Melodifestivalen 2023

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The 2023 edition of Melodifestivalen featured four heats, a semi-final (replacing the previously held Second Chance round) and a final, and saw 28 acts compete. It was held between 4 February and 11 March 2023, concluding with a final held at the Friends Arena in Stockholm.[5] After the cancellation of the traditional tour around six cities of the country (namely Malmö, Gothenburg, Linköping, Lidköping, Örnsköldsvik and Stockholm) for the previous edition due to the COVID-19 Omicron variant, SVT subsequently announced that the six cities would host the tour in 2023 instead, with new dates.[5]

Heats and semi-final

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Final

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The final took place on 11 March 2023 at the Friends Arena in Stockholm.

Draw Artist Song Juries Televote Total Place
1 Jon Henrik Fjällgren, Arc North feat. Adam Woods "Where You Are (Sávežan)" 23 58 81 4
2 Tone Sekelius "Rhythm of My Show" 15 5 20 12
3 Mariette "One Day" 35 16 51 8
4 Marcus & Martinus "Air" 71 67 138 2
5 Panetoz "On My Way" 22 25 47 10
6 Maria Sur "Never Give Up" 10 37 47 9
7 Smash Into Pieces "Six Feet Under" 53 59 112 3
8 Kiana "Where Did You Go" 37 39 76 6
9 Nordman "Släpp alla sorger" 8 36 44 11
10 Loreen "Tattoo" 92 85 177 1
11 Theoz "Mer av dig" 42 36 78 5
12 Paul Rey "Royals" 56 1 57 7

At Eurovision

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According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 31 January 2023, an allocation draw was held, which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, and determined which half of the show they would perform in. Sweden has been placed into the first semi-final, to be held on 9 May 2023, and has been scheduled to perform in the second half of the show.[6]

Once all the competing songs for the 2023 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Sweden was set to perform in position 11, following the entry from Moldova and before the entry from Azerbaijan.[7]

At the end of the show, Sweden was announced as a qualifier for the final.

Voting

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Points awarded to Sweden

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Points awarded by Sweden

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Detailed voting results

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The following members comprised the Swedish jury:

Detailed voting results from Sweden (Semi-final 1)[8]
Draw Country Televote
Rank Points
01  Norway 2 10
02  Malta 13
03  Serbia 10 1
04  Latvia 12
05  Portugal 7 4
06  Ireland 11
07  Croatia 6 5
08   Switzerland 3 8
09  Israel 8 3
10  Moldova 5 6
11  Sweden
12  Azerbaijan 14
13  Czech Republic 4 7
14  Netherlands 9 2
15  Finland 1 12
Detailed voting results from Sweden (Final)[9]
Draw Country Jury Televote
Juror 1 Juror 2 Juror 3 Juror 4 Juror 5 Rank Points Rank Points
01  Austria 9 23 21 19 14 20 21
02  Portugal 13 20 18 21 16 22 23
03   Switzerland 5 8 2 8 9 5 6 3 8
04  Poland 21 25 9 22 12 19 11
05  Serbia 23 9 22 24 23 21 14
06  France 1 13 10 1 2 2 10 9 2
07  Cyprus 15 10 4 9 11 10 1 12
08  Spain 14 17 17 11 10 16 25
09  Sweden
10  Albania 25 14 24 23 25 25 16
11  Italy 3 16 1 6 4 4 7 5 6
12  Estonia 16 12 5 4 24 9 2 15
13  Finland 2 1 3 3 1 1 12 1 12
14  Czech Republic 10 11 12 2 21 8 3 8 3
15  Australia 11 15 8 14 17 14 10 1
16  Belgium 18 2 23 13 13 12 4 7
17  Armenia 12 24 7 7 19 13 22
18  Moldova 6 5 14 10 22 11 13
19  Ukraine 17 19 13 18 7 15 7 4
20  Norway 4 3 6 5 3 3 8 2 10
21  Germany 20 22 20 17 15 23 20
22  Lithuania 22 21 19 15 18 24 18
23  Israel 7 4 11 20 8 6 5 17
24  Slovenia 19 7 16 16 20 17 19
25  Croatia 24 18 25 25 6 18 6 5
26  United Kingdom 8 6 15 12 5 7 4 24

References

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  1. ^ "Sweden: It's Loreen to Eurovision with 'Tattoo'". eurovision.tv. 11 March 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  2. ^ a b c "Results of the Grand Final of Liverpool 2023". Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union.
  3. ^ "Eurovision: Sweden's Loreen wins again, but UK's Mae Muller is second from last". BBC News. 13 May 2023. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  4. ^ "Sweden". EBU. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  5. ^ a b Ek, Tobbe (5 February 2022). "Redan klart: Datum och städer för Melodifestivalen 2023". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 11 June 2022. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  6. ^ Groot, Evert (31 January 2023). "Eurovision 2023: Allocation Draw results". European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Eurovision Song Contest 2023 Semi-Final running orders revealed!". Eurovision.tv. EBU. 22 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  8. ^ a b c "Results of the First Semi-Final of Liverpool 2023". Eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union.
  9. ^ "Results of the Grand Final of Turin 2022". Eurovision.tv. Retrieved 15 May 2022.