Sweden selected an entry for the
Eurovision Song Contest 1987 by holding a preselection show named Melodifestivalen 1987. Out of 1,502 submitted songs and 12 songs in the final, the entry "Fyra Bugg och en Coca-Cola" was chosen. It was performed by
Lotta Engberg, and written/composed by Christer Lundh and Mikael Wendt.
Before Eurovision
Melodifestivalen 1987
Melodifestivalen 1987 was the selection for the 27th song to represent
Sweden at the
Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 26th time that this system of picking a song had been used. 1502 songs were submitted to
SVT for the competition. The final was held in
Lisebergshallen in
Gothenburg on 21 February 1987, was presented by
Fredrik Belfrage and broadcast on
TV1 and was not broadcast on radio. The winning song's title was changed to "Boogaloo" for the Eurovision Song Contest as it contained chewing gum brand
Bugg as well drinks company
Coca-Cola in the title.
As the song's title contained the trademark names
Coca-Cola and the Swedish
chewing gum Bugg, the
European Broadcasting Union demanded that the lyrics be changed before the Eurovision final, so the song was renamed Boogaloo. It was drawn to perform at start position 12. After the voting, Sweden had received 50 points and finished in 12th place (out of 22).[1] This was the worst placement for Sweden in eight years.