"Vårens första dag" (Swedish for "First Day of the Spring") is a song by Swedish singer-songwriter Laleh, taken as the second single from her fourth studio album, Sjung. It was released on 30 April 2012. The indie pop song was written and produced by Laleh, in collaboration with Gustaf Thörn, with whom she had a few production sessions for the album. The single was sent out to radio in mid-March following the success "Some Die Young" had on both Swedish and Norwegian airplay and sales charts, being a number-one hit in Norway for weeks. The single peaked at number nineteen on the Swedish DigiListan.

In a review for the accompanying album, Anders Jaderup of Sydsvenskan mentioned that the song was a "real trump card", praising "Vårens första dag" for its "exuberant energy". "[It's] a great pop song, a life-affirming soundtrack for the next few months while waiting for a brighter season. It is also the song that will force everyone who started to associate Laleh with TV4-covers, to think again". Later in the review he picked out the song as the best track on the album. Marcus Grahn wrote for Värmlands Folkblad that the song "is a wonderful, colorful, explosive, flowering... encouraging [and] provoking prayer for life". The music blog Mu$ic i$ the Door gave the song a good review, writing that "it [has] grown to be my fave after some listens". They mentioned that "it's quite a sunny song, if you get what I mean. Things are certainly looking bright for Laleh...".

Dagens Nyheter's Nanushka Yeaman enjoyed the Swedish sensibility of the song, commenting that it "sounds like a Håkan Hellström-hit by ABBA ambitions". A review from Göteborgs-Posten by Johan Lindqvist noted the song's lyrical content as "about both death and the spark of life [placed] into a pop song with the same intensity as Industriepark club. And, with that typical galloping rhythm Laleh apparently likes... great for upcoming concerts, would indeed be a cruel to open with it".

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