The Hep Stars got their breakthrough in March 1965 with their massive hit " Cadillac ", eventually becoming the most celebrated of the Swedish 1960s pop bands.

During his acceptance speech he reflected on the important influence of traditional European music and the melancholy of the Swedish soul on ABBA's brand of pop music.

Category: Swedish pop pianists

* 1986 – Ola Svensson, Swedish pop singer

* In the music video for the song " The Name of the Game " by the Swedish pop group ABBA, the four members of the group are shown playing Fia-spel.

The former Swedish pop group The Motorhomes allude to Laika in the video for their song Into The Night.

* 1977 – Annika Norlin, Swedish pop singer

* 1983 – Loreen, Swedish pop singer

* Page ( band ), a Swedish synth pop group

Robyn was rediscovered by Swedish pop singer Meja in the early nineties.

* December 20 – Sonja Aldén, Swedish pop singer

** Swedish pop group ABBA win the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo.

** Amy Diamond, Swedish pop singer

* April 29 – Fredrik Kempe, Swedish songwriter and opera and pop singer

* September 8 – Carola Häggkvist, Swedish pop singer

* October 1 – Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish pop singer

Category: Swedish pop guitarists

Category: Swedish pop singers

Category: Swedish pop musicians

ABBA is a Swedish pop music group.

* ABBA ( album ), a self-titled album by the Swedish pop music group ABBA

The film achieved a sense of the era through extensive use of period Swedish progg and pop songs, including ABBA's hit " S. O. S.

* Doris ( singer ), a Swedish rock and pop singer

* Hollywood, a 1990s female UK / Swedish electro pop duo, part of the Romo movement

In celebration of the forthcoming wedding of the King and the soon-to-be-Queen, Silvia, the internationally famous pop group ABBA performed the song Dancing Queen on Swedish television the night before the ceremony, although the song was not actually written for Queen Silvia.

* Alien ( band ), a 1980s Swedish rock group

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

In 1990, Andersson scored a Swedish # 1 hit with " Lassie ", sung by female cabaret group Ainbusk, for whom he also wrote the Svensktoppen hits " Älska Mig " and " Drömmarnas Golv ".

In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.

Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the East Norse dialect group, while the old Norwegian dialects before the influence of Danish and Bokmål is classified as a West Norse language together with Faroese and Icelandic.

A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian and Swedish into a Mainland Scandinavian group while Icelandic and Faroese are placed in a separate category labelled Insular Scandinavian.

Daniel Ekeroth argues that the blast beat was first performed by the Swedish D-beat group Asocial on their 1982 demo.

Nasum, who emerged from the Swedish death metal scene, became a popular group, addressing political topics from a personal perspective.

* Son Kite, a Swedish techno music group

Rayleigh and Ramsay received the 1904 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively, for their discovery of the noble gases ; in the words of J. E. Cederblom, then president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, " the discovery of an entirely new group of elements, of which no single representative had been known with any certainty, is something utterly unique in the history of chemistry, being intrinsically an advance in science of peculiar significance ".

Together with Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian it belongs to the West Scandinavian group, separating it from the East Scandinavian group consisting of Swedish, Danish and Gutnish.

The earliest documented origins of actual physical therapy as a professional group date back to Per Henrik Ling, “ Father of Swedish Gymnastics ,” who founded the Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics ( RCIG ) in 1813 for massage, manipulation, and exercise.

On 17 December 2007, Daimler announced that they were selling their entire complex of 19 buildings at Potsdamer Platz to SEB Asset Management, a Frankfurt-based subsidiary of the Swedish banking group SEB.

The name Rus itself comes from Rus people, a group of Varangians ( possibly Swedish Vikings ) who founded the state of Rus ( Русь ).

The title track ( a subsequent single ) was later covered by Swedish girl group Play, and the lead single, " Keep This Fire Burning ," was covered by British soul singer Beverley Knight.

* Sverige ( Kent song ), a song by Swedish rock group Kent

In the following years, 600 Swedes and Finns, the latter group mainly Forest Finns from central Sweden, and also a number of Dutchmen and Germans in Swedish service, settled in the area.

On 8 April 2008, during his visit in Israel and Palestinian Authority, Bildt gave an interview to Swedish state radio, where he responded to a question on whether or not it would be possible to strike a peace deal without the involvement of the Palestinian group Hamas, which remained under international boycott.