Sweden was present at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998, held in Birmingham, the United Kingdom.

Before Eurovision

Melodifestivalen 1998

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1998 was the selection for the 38th song to represent

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at the

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. It was the 37th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1,141 songs were submitted to SVT for the competition, with ten songs selected to compete. Five of the songs were eliminated and the remaining five were voted on by 11 regional juries. The final was held in the Malmö Musikteater in Malmö on 14 March 1998, presented by

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and Magnus Karlsson, and was broadcast on

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and

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's P4 network. The show was watched by 2,881,000 people and the winner was "Kärleken är", sung by Jill Johnson and composed by Bobby Ljunggren, Håkan Almqvist and Ingela Forsman.

At Eurovision

Ahead of the contest, Sweden were considered one of the favourites among bookmakers to win the contest, featuring alongside the entries from , , and the . Johnson sang in the 19th position on the night of the contest, and at the close of voting she finished 10th out of 25 countries, receiving 53 points. The Swedish televoting awarded its 12 points to Norway.

Voting

References

External links

TV broadcastings at SVT's open archive
{{Melodifestivalen

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Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998

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