2001 Entry
Friends — Listen to Your Heartbeat
Representing Sweden at the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest .
Friends was a Swedish dansband or pop group formed in 1999 and made up of Stefan Brunzell, Tony Haglund, Kristian Hermanson, Nina Inhammar, Kim Kärnfalk and Peter Strandberg. They were put together from auditions on the reality television show Friends på turne, made by Bert Karlsson for TV4. The show was a success and Friends competed on Melodifestivalen 2000, reaching second place. They won Melodifestivalen 2001 with "Lyssna till ditt hjärta" and represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 with the English version of the song, "Listen to Your Heartbeat.” Following their Eurovision participation, the Swedish delegation was forced to pay royalties to the team behind "Liefde is een kaartspel", the 1996 Belgian entry, making the song the first admitted case of plagiarism in Eurovision history.
Kim Charlott Kärnfalk Löwstedt is a Swedish singer. As part of the group Friends she won Melodifestivalen 2001 and represented Sweden at the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest, where the group placed 5th. Later she paired up with her bandmate Nina Inhammar to form the duo Nina & Kim; they competed in Melodifestivalen 2004 with the song "En gång för alla", and the same year they released an album, Bortom tid och rum.
Song details
- Duration
- 3:06
Denmark 
Ireland 
Israel 
Malta 
Turkey 
United Kingdom 
Estonia 
Iceland 
Latvia 
Poland 
Portugal 
Spain 
Croatia 
Bosnia and Herzegovina 
France 
Lithuania 
Norway 
Russia