Conception "Invincible"/"Evighet" was composed by
Thomas G:son,
Bobby Ljunggren, and Henrik Wikström with lyrics by G:son and Häggkvist.
National selection "Evighet" performed by Carola competed in the fourth heat of the
46th edition of
Melodifestivalen which was held on 11 March 2006 at the
Scandinavium indoor arena in
Gothenburg. The song was the last of the eight competing entries to perform and directly qualified to the festival final as one of the two songs which received the most
telephone votes. On 18 March, during the final held at the
Globe Arena in
Stockholm, Carola were the seventh of the ten competing acts to perform, and "Evighet" won the festival with 234 points, receiving the second highest number of votes from the regional juries and the highest number of public votes. As this Melodifestivalen was organised by
Sveriges Television (SVT) to select its song and performer for the of the
Eurovision Song Contest, the song became the , and Carola the performer, for Eurovision.
Eurovision On 18 May 2006, the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final was held at the
Nikos Galis Olympic Indoor Hall in
Athens, hosted by the
Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), and broadcast live throughout the continent. Due to Sweden not placing in the top-10 in the –where it placed 19th– the song required to compete in the semi-final. Carola performed the song in English as "Invincible", the twentieth of the evening out of the twenty-three participants, and was subsequently announced at the end of the broadcast as one of the ten songs to have qualified for the final. The full breakdown of results published after the final revealed that in the semi-final it had finished in fourth place with 214 points, including receiving the maximum 12 points from , , and . On 20 May, Carola performed again "Invincible" in the grand final as the twenty-second song on stage, and subsequently finished in fifth place, receiving 170 points in total. ==Track listing and formats==