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.
Before Eurovision
Melodifestivalen 1984
Melodifestivalen 1984 was the selection for the 24th song to represent
Sweden at the
Eurovision Song Contest. It was the 23rd time that this system of picking a song had been used. 90 songs were submitted to
SVT for the competition. The final was held in the
Lisebergshallen in
Gothenburg on 25 February 1984, presented by
Fredrik Belfrage and was broadcast on
TV1 but was not broadcast on radio. Herreys went on to win that year's Eurovision Song Contest in
Luxembourg; Sweden's second Eurovision win.
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.[1] Sweden had won exactly 10 years earlier, then represented by
ABBA.