Sweden was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 with the song "", composed by Ted Gärdestad, with lyrics by Kenneth Gärdestad, and performed by Ted Gärdestad himself. The Swedish participating broadcaster, (SR), selected its entry through 1979.
Before Eurovision
1979 1979 was the selection for the 19th song to represent at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 18th time that (SR) used this system of picking a song. 452 songs were submitted to SR for the competition. The final was held in the in Stockholm on 17 February 1979, presented by Ulf Elfving and was broadcast on TV1 but was not broadcast on radio.
Artist Song Songwriter(s) Points Place 1 Ola+3 "Det känns som jag vandrar fram" Ulf Wahlberg 85 3 2 Tomas and Anders "Tillsammans" 58 6 3 Eva Dahlgren "Om jag skriver en sång" Eva Dahlgren 85 3 4 Tomas Ledin "Det ligger i luften" Tomas Ledin 96 2 5 Kjell Hansson "Mer än bara över natten" Kjell Hansson 59 5 6 Timjan "En egen fela" 39 9 7 Pontus Platin "Nattens sång" 44 8 8 Py Bäckman and Py Gang "Var det här bara början?" Py Bäckman 45 7 9 Ted Gärdestad "Satellit" 105 1 10 Magnus Uggla Band "Johnny the Rocker" 22 10
+ Detailed Votes Song scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" scope="col" Total 1 "Det känns som jag vandrar fram" 10 6 6 7 6 4 7 12 7 8 12 85 2 "Tillsammans" 6 3 5 6 10 6 4 8 3 5 2 58 3 "Om jag skriver en sång" 8 12 10 2 4 7 6 10 8 12 6 85 4 "Det ligger i luften" 12 10 12 10 8 10 10 3 6 7 8 96 5 "Mer än bara över natten" 7 5 2 1 3 8 8 7 10 3 5 59 6 "En egen fela" 3 4 3 3 7 2 5 2 1 2 7 39 7 "Nattens sång" 1 8 4 4 5 5 2 4 4 6 1 44 8 "Var det här bara början?" 4 2 8 8 2 3 3 5 2 4 4 45 9 "Satellit" 5 7 7 12 12 12 12 6 12 10 10 105 10 "Johnny the Rocker" 2 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 5 1 3 22
At Eurovision The contest was held in Jerusalem, and Sweden performed 15th. Gärdestad finished only 17th out of 19, with 8 points.
Voting
+ Points awarded to Sweden Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
+ Points awarded by Sweden Score Country 12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
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