For the 25th Eurovision Song Contest, the

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entry was chosen in the national selection Melodifestivalen 1980.

Tomas Ledin Tomas Folke Jonas Ledin (; born 25 February 1952) is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He grew up in the town of Sandviken, Sweden and has sold 3 million records. Career Tomas Ledin started his career in 1972 when ...

won with the song "

Just nu! "Just nu!" (; "Right now!") was the entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980, performed in Swedish by Tomas Ledin. The song talks about a man tired of the monotonous life in the city, in that moment he wants to live his life, he wants to feel ...

", which he had written himself.

Before Eurovision

Melodifestivalen 1980

Melodifestivalen Melodifestivalen (; literally "the Melody Festival") is an annual song competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Radio (SR). It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song ...

1980 was the selection for the 20th song to represent

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at the

Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...

. It was the 19th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 120 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition. The final was held in the SVT Studios in

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on 8 March 1980, presented by

Bengt Bedrup Bengt Erik Helge Bedrup (né Nilsson) (10 June 1928 – 27 March 2005) was a Swedish journalist and television personality. Career Bedrup was born at Maria Prästgårdsgata in Södermalm, Stockholm, Sweden, the son of managing director Helge Ni ...

and broadcast on TV1 but was not broadcast on radio.

Voting

At Eurovision

At the final in

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, he came 10th (out of 19) with 47 points. He had the draw number #8. As of 2021, this is the most recent occasion on which Sweden has failed to score any points from the other participating Nordic nations (and, in turn, it is the most recent contest final to see the Swedish jury fail to award any points to another Nordic nation, save for when Sweden was the only Nordic nation in the final).

Voting

References

External links

TV broadcastings at SVT's open archive
{{Melodifestivalen 1980 Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 1980

Eurovision The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...