Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973

Sweden was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 with the song "You're Summer", composed by Monica Dominique and Carl-Axel Dominique, with lyrics by Lars Forssell, and performed by Nova and the Dolls. The Swedish participating broadcaster, Sveriges Radio (SR), selected its entry through Melodifestivalen 1973.

Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973
Eurovision Song Contest 1973
Participating broadcaster	Sveriges Radio (SR)
Country	Sweden
Selection process	Melodifestivalen 1973
Selection date	10 February 1973
Competing entry
Song	"You're Summer"
Artist	The Nova
Songwriters	Monica Dominique Carl-Axel Dominique Lars Forssell
Placement
Final result	5th, 94 points
Participation chronology
◄1972 • 1973 • 1974►

The winner of Melodifestivalen was the song "Sommaren som aldrig säger nej" performed by the group Malta. To avoid being confused with the country of Malta, who did not participate in that year's contest, they changed their name to "The Nova" (with their backing group The Dolls) for the contest. The song was translated into English with the title "You're Summer" for Eurovision. Another of the competitors of Melodifestivalen was a group of four who, later in the year, would become ABBA, but they only finished 3rd with "Ring Ring".

Before Eurovision

Melodifestivalen 1973

Melodifestivalen 1973 was the selection for the 14th song to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 13th time that Sveriges Radio (SR) used this system of picking a song. 10 songwriters were selected by SR for the competition. SR held the final in its television studios in Stockholm on 10 February 1973, presented by Alicia Lundberg and was broadcast on TV1 but was not broadcast on radio.

The third place act, Agnetha, Anni-Frid, Björn, and Benny, returned to take part in Melodifestivalen 1974 under their new moniker ABBA.

Draw	Artist	Song	Songwriter(s)	Place	Points
1	Lasse Berghagen	"Ding-Dong"	Lasse Berghagen	7	3
2	Ted Gärdestad	"Oh, vilken härlig dag"	Ted Gärdestad, Kenneth Gärdestad	4	7
3	Inga-Lill Nilsson	"En frusen ros"	Mats Olsson, Karin Stigmark	9	0
4	Björn and Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid	"Ring Ring"	Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, Stig Anderson	3	8
5	Glenmarks	"En liten sång som alla andra"	Östen Warnerbring	4	7
6	Kerstin Aulén and Mona Wessman	"Helledudane en sån karl"	Peter Himmelstrand	9	0
7	Claes-Göran Hederström	"Historien om en vän"	Claes Dieden, Anders Henriksson, Karin Stigmark	8	1
8	Lill-Babs	"Avsked från en vän"	Peter Totth, Britt Lindeborg	4	7
9	Malta	"Sommaren som aldrig säger nej"	Monica Dominique, Carl-Axel Dominique, Lars Forssell	1	37
10	Ann-Kristin Hedmark	"I våran värld"	Bengt-Arne Wallin, Anja Notini-Wallin	2	29

At Eurovision

The contest was held in Luxembourg and Sweden was drawn into spot 12. They finished 5th (out of 17).^[1]

Each participating broadcaster appointed two jury members, one below the age of 25 and the other above, who voted by giving between one and five points to each song, except that representing their own country. All jury members were colocated in a television studio in Luxembourg.^[2] The Swedish jury members were Lena Andersson and Lars Samuelson.^[3]

Voting

Points awarded to Sweden[4] Score Country 10 points 9 points   Switzerland 8 points  Finland  Norway 7 points  Spain  United Kingdom 6 points  Luxembourg  Netherlands  Yugoslavia 5 points  Germany  Ireland  Israel  Italy  Monaco 4 points  Belgium  France  Portugal 3 points 2 points

Points awarded by Sweden[4] Score Country 10 points 9 points  United Kingdom 8 points  Luxembourg 7 points  Finland  Spain 6 points  Germany  Israel 5 points  France  Ireland  Italy 4 points  Monaco 3 points  Netherlands  Norway   Switzerland 2 points  Belgium  Portugal  Yugoslavia