"Hold Me Closer" is a song by Swedish singer and songwriter

Cornelia Jakobs Anna Cornelia Jakobsdotter Samuelsson (born 9 March 1992), known professionally as Cornelia Jakobs, is a Swedish singer and songwriter. She is best known for representing Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with the song " Hold Me Closer ...

, released as a single on 26 February 2022. It represented

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at the

Eurovision Song Contest 2022 The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 was the 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Turin, Italy, following the country's victory at the with the song "" by Måneskin. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and h ...

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, Italy, after winning the final at

Melodifestivalen 2022 2022 was the 62nd edition of the Swedish music competition Melodifestivalen, which was organised by (SVT) and took place over a six-week period between 5 February and 12 March 2022. The winner of the competition was Cornelia Jakobs with the so ...

, with 146 points. Jakobs performed 17th of the 18 acts in the second semi-final, where she qualified for the grand final. In the grand final, she performed 20th of 25th acts. Jakobs finished in fourth place in the Eurovision grand final with 438 points. The song was Sweden's best performing song at Eurovision in the seven years since their last victory and scored the most points ever received by a Swedish entry in the grand final.

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2022 songs 2022 singles Melodifestivalen songs of 2022 Eurovision songs of 2022 Eurovision songs of Sweden Number-one singles in Sweden {{2020s-single-stub