- Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984
Sweden held a national preselction named "Melodifestivalen 1984 " to choose the entry for the Eurovision Song Contest the same year. The winner was the three brothers Herrey, consisting of Richard, Louis and Per. Their song was called "Diggi-loo diggi-ley ", and was written by Britt Lindeborg and Torgny Söderberg.Sweden was the first country to perform at ESC that year. In the voting, they received not less than 5 "douze points" from the other 18 countries. Finally the brothers were victorious, with a total of 145 points-8 points ahead of Ireland. Sweden had won exactly 10 years earlier, then represented by
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