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| Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 1981 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Sveriges Television (SVT) | |||
| Country |  Sweden | |||
| Selection process | Melodifestivalen 1981 | |||
| Selection date | 21 February 1981 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Fångad i en dröm" | |||
| Artist | Björn Skifs | |||
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| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 10th, 50 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Sweden was represented at theEurovision Song Contest 1981 with the songFångad i en dröm, written byBjörn Skifs and Bengt Palmers, and performed by Skifs himself. The Swedish participating broadcaster,Sveriges Television (SVT), selected its entry throughMelodifestivalen 1981. Skifs had previously representedSweden in 1978.
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Melodifestivalen 1981 was the selection for the 21st song to representSweden at theEurovision Song Contest. It was the 20th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 90 songs were submitted toSveriges Television (SVT) for the competition. The final was held in theCirkus inStockholm on 21 February 1981, presented byJanne Loffe Carlsson and was broadcast onTV1 but was not broadcast on radio. It was the second time thatLasse Holm andKikki Danielsson had been beaten into second place by Björn Skifs, after1978.
| Draw | Artist | Song | Songwriters | Points | Place |
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| 1 | Janne Lucas Persson | "Rocky Mountain" | Janne Lucas Persson, Göran Ledstedt | 50 | 3 |
| 2 | Anders Glenmark | "Det är mitt liv - det är jag" | Anders Glenmark | 41 | 4 |
| 3 | Kicki Moberg | "Men natten är vår" | Agnetha Fältskog,Ingela "Pling" Forsman | 28 | 5 |
| 4 | Björn Skifs | "Fångad i en dröm" | Björn Skifs, Bengt Palmers | 59 | 1 |
| 5 | Sweets 'n' Chips | "God morgon" | Lasse Holm,Torgny Söderberg | 53 | 2 |
| Song | Falun | Gothenburg | Karlstad | Luleå | Malmö | Norrköping | Sundsvall | Umeå | Växjö | Örebro | Stockholm | Total |
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| "Rocky Mountain" | 8 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 50 |
| "Det är mitt liv - det är jag" | 4 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 41 |
| "Men natten är vår" | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 28 |
| "Fångad i en dröm" | 6 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 59 |
| "God morgon" | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 53 |
At the contest, this year held inDublin, Ireland, Sweden was drawn #20, at the very end of the start field. The song earned maximum points fromFrance and 10 points fromGermany, and finally ended up 10th with 50 points.[1]
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