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

In 2012, Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit released the single " Emmylou " from the album The Lion's Roar.

* 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 ".

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.

Wiener Staatsoper added it to its repertoire in January 2012 in a production by Jérome Deschamps conducted by Ingo Metzmacher starring Christopher Ventris as Jimmy and Angelika Kirchschlager as Jenny, notably casting young mezzo-soprano Elisabeth Kulman as Begbick, breaking the tradition of having a veteran soprano ( like Varnay or Jones ) or musical theater singer ( like Patti LuPone ) perform the role.

* 1940 – Janet Carroll, American actress and singer ( d. 2012 )

* 1945 – Davy Jones, English singer, songwriter and actor ( The Monkees )( d. 2012 )

* Euphoria ( Ruslana album ), a 2012 album by Ukrainian singer Ruslana

* 2012 – Davy Jones, English singer, songwriter and actor ( The Monkees ) ( b. 1945 )

* 1938 – Larry Cunningham, Irish singer ( d. 2012 )

* 1940 – Joe South, American singer ( d. 2012 )

* 1938 – Etta James, American singer ( d. 2012 )

* 1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, director, producer, and writer ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Roy Wilson, Jamaican singer ( Higgs and Wilson ) ( b. 1940 )

* 1919 – Ruth Fernández, Puerto Rican singer and politician ( d. 2012 )

* 1929 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer ( d. 2012 )

* 1924 – Bridie Gallagher, Irish singer ( d. 2012 )

On January 10, 2012, The Residents released " Coochie Brake "; it focused on an ambient, slightly ethnic sound, with lyrics in Spanish spoken by, apparently, a new singer.

" Furthermore, a synopsis for their 2012 stage production Sam's Enchanted Evening provides the name Randy Rose as that of " the Residents ' lead singer.

** Donna Summer, African-American singer and actress ( d. 2012 )

* December 30 – Davy Jones, English actor and singer ( The Monkees ) ( d. 2012 )

* August 9 – Whitney Houston, American singer ( d. 2012 )

* December 24 – Janet Carroll, American actress and singer ( d. 2012 )

* December 3 – Andy Williams, American singer ( d. 2012 )

** Eduard Khil, Russian baritone singer (" Trololo ") ( d. 2012 )

* Dmitri Nabokov ( 1934 – 2012 ), singer and author, son of Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

Yes performing at the Lewiston Art Park in New York on July 17, 2012, with current singer Jon Davison ( singer ) | Jon Davison.