Benny Andersson also wrote the film score for the 2012 documentary Palme about Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

* " Euphoria " ( Loreen song ), performed by Swedish singer Loreen, won the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest

* 2012 – Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier ( b. 1929 )

For studies starting in autumn 2012, Lund received 11, 160 foreign master's applications from 152 countries, which was roughly one third of all international applications to Swedish universities.

Twenty-one years after, it will host the contest again, after Swedish singer Loreen's victory in at Eurovision Song Contest 2012, in Baku, Azerbaijan.

* 1950 – Maths O. Sundqvist, Swedish businessman ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Maths O. Sundqvist, Swedish businessman ( b. 1950 )

Madame Chiang appears as a minor character in the 2012 novel The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson.

Swedish heavy metal band Katana has a song entitled " The Wisdom of Emond ´ s Field " on their 2012 album " Storms of War ".

* In 2012, the Swedish singer Thåström released the album " Beväpna dig met vingar " which includes a song called " Samarkanda ".

The Swedish musician Kleerup released an album based on the poem in 2012.

" In April 2012 Kent will release their tenth studio album, Jag är inte rädd för mörkret ( Swedish for " I Am Not Afraid of the Dark ").

In May 2012, the toll for driving the fixed link was as follows ( one way trip without discount, including VAT at 25 %) in Danish kroner ( DKK ), Swedish kronor ( SEK ) and euro ( EUR ):

2012 US National Championship in Eau Claire, WIKubb ( pronounced in Swedish or in Gutnish ) is a lawn game where the object is to knock over wooden blocks by throwing wooden sticks at them.

On their 2012 album Carolus Rex, Swedish power metal band Sabaton has a song named " Poltava ", detailing the battle.

The song was also played live at the Norwegian / Swedish talkshow " Skavlan ", broadcasted on March 30, 2012.

In September 2012, the Swedish band Therion announced it's new album, named Les Fleurs du Mal.

In June 2012, Pärson announced on the Swedish radio program Sommar that she has been in a relationship with a woman for the past five years, and that they are expecting a child together.

On June 19, 2010, she married Daniel Westling who has now become Prince of Sweden. Haga Palace. On 17 August 2011, the Swedish royal court announced that Prince Daniel and Crown Princess Victoria were expecting their first child in March 2012.

It will be a biographical film about the Swedish publicist Torgny Segerstedt and is scheduled to be released in 2012.

Although songwriters living outside Sweden were once not allowed to enter Melodifestivalen, the 2012 contest marked the first time foreign songwriters could submit entries, provided that they collaborated with a Swedish songwriter.

The 16, 300-capacity Ericsson Globe in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, has hosted every final since semifinals were introduced, until 2012.

In July 2012 GKN agreed to acquire the Swedish aerospace components manufacturer Volvo Aero from AB Volvo for £ 633 million ( US $ 986 million ).

In July 2012, Swedish tourist Johan Lundin died in Indonesia after drinking a mojito made of methanol in a bar on Gili Trawangan.

In June of 2012, Alex Schattner founded a blog featuring “ Modern American Folktales .” With this blog, Mr. Schattner is creating a new anthology of stories that use traditional folk and fairy tale devices to convey moral messages for our time.

In 2012, the Mezcal Jazz Unit of Montpellier, France, collaborated by Internet with Grayhawk Perkins, a historian of the Muskogean nation, to make a recording titled Thirteen Moons which features " the soulful chants of ancient folk tales and more modern stories told in Mobilian.

A well known folk rock band called Plumbo has made an impact the last few years with songs like " Mökkamann " and especially " Ola Nordmann ", which was their song of choice when they participated in Melody Grand Prix 2012.

* Manala, eighth full-length by Finnish folk metal band Korpiklaani, released in 2012

The 2012 season of Theatre-in-the-Woods will feature 34 performances from " local, national, international, and Grammy-nominated artists who represent folk, kindie-rock, storytelling, theatre, world-clad puppetry, and dance.

Raymond McGinley joined Dave McGowan's folk group Snowgoose, whose debut album Harmony Springs was released in 2012.

Recently in early 2012 the channel opened two new music channels, " Hayat Folk " to cater for bosnian folk music, and " Hayat Music " to cater for 50 % english music, and 50 % local zabavna music.

Turner also provided flute for Dodson And Fogg, a folk rock project released in 2012,

Neşet Ertaş ( 1938 – 25 September 2012 ) was a Turkish folk music singer, writer of lyrics and a virtuoso of the traditional Turkish instrument bağlama.

Not coincidently, 2012 saw the inaugural edition of a new folk and rock festival, the Intersteller Rodeo, launched by Folk Fest fan Shauna de Cartier of Six Shooter Records.

Obo Addy ( January 15, 1936 – September 13, 2012 ) was a Ghanaian drummer and dancer who was one of the first native African musicians to bring the fusion of traditional folk music and Western pop music known as worldbeat to Europe and then to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1970s.

Following the 2007 – 2012 global financial crisis, and the lasting inflation in the price of food that began in late 2006, there has been a further increase in the number of folk requesting help from US and Canadian food banks.

In 2012, Gleaners Indianna Food bank reported that there were now 50 million Americans struggling with food insecurity ( about 1 in 6 of the population ), with the number of folk seeking help from Food banks having increased by 46 % since 2005.

" Variously described as alt-country, old-time, Americana and " folk / country ", according to Gabrielle Gray, executive director of the International Bluegrass Music Museum which sponsors ROMP: Bluegrass Roots & Branches Festival ( which Old Crow headlined one night in 2012 ), " is in the direction of progressive bluegrass.

* The group performs with such notable acts as John Mellencamp, Jackson Browne, Dropkick Murphys, Tom Morello, and Arlo Guthrie at The Kennedy Center, in collaboration with the Grammy Museum, to celebrate the life and work of folk singer and icon Woody Guthrie on October 14, 2012 at The Kennedy Center Concert Hall.

On 25 February 2012 the house hosted a benefit folk concert by Allan Yn Y Fan and Delyth Jenkins.

Audio problems, lack of commitment to competition folk and restrictions on press by Chilevisión were some of the incidents that occurred in the 2012 version of the Festival of Viña del Mar.

* Broadside ( album ) a studio album by the 11-piece folk band Bellowhead, released 2012.

On the other hand, a New York Times critic in 1932 called the Duo for violin and cello ( 1925 ) " long-winded and even insincere ", while a performance in 2012 noted it was dedicated to Janacek, evokes Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello and " blends folk and contemporary elements " while employing " a range of sonorities and effects like dramatic pizzicatos " while " vivacious Hungarian fiddle playing enlivens the Zingaresca movement ".

Zurabov allowed himself to announce the Ukrainian anthem " Ukraine has not perished " as a Russian folk song that was to be performed by the Cossack choir during the Russian Independence day on June 8, 2012.

Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit performed a version of the theme song for the 72nd episode, released on February 9, 2012.