Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Ukraine competed at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, with the seventh Ukrainian entrant selected by a national final held by Ukrainian broadcaster Natsionalna Telekompaniya Ukrainy (NTU).

Eurovision Song Contest 2009
Country Ukraine
National selection
Selection processNational Final
Selection date(s)8 March 2009
Selected entrantSvetlana Loboda
Selected song"Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)"
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (6th, 80 points)
Final result12th, 76 points
Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest
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After a number of changes to dates for the national final, the contest finally took place on 8 March 2009, where 14 songs competed to represent Ukraine at Eurovision 2009 in Moscow, Russia. The final winner was Svitlana Loboda with "Be My Valentine".[1][2]

Before Eurovision

National final

The original plan for NTU was to assemble a seven-person jury to select 30 songs between 21 and 23 January 2009 to perform in an untelevised semi-final, to be held on 1 February 2009 behind closed doors. From these 30 songs, 15 of them were to qualify for a televised final to be held on 22 February 2009.[3][4]

On 20 January 2009, a total of 63 entries were submitted to NTU. However, changes to the format for the contest were announced at the same time. Two semi-finals were to be held on 7 and 8 February 2009, featuring 20 songs in total, possibly held at the Sports Palace in Kiev, where the 2005 Eurovision was held.[5][6] This was yet again changed on 21 January 2009, where it was revealed that now only one semi-final will be held on 8 February 2009, held at the NTU studio instead of the Sports Palace.[7][8]

Semi-final

The semi-final was held internally by NTU on 8 February 2009 in order to select 15 entries to compete in the final. After the semi-final, it was reported that the performer Anastasiya Prykhodko and her manager claimed that neither the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTCU) nor the National Jury had used trustworthy methods to choose the contestants for the final. Prykhodko's interpretation of the rules was that in the semi-final, she had been entitled to perform something different from their Eurovision entry song. In fact, Paragraph 4.3 of the Rules of Eurovision Song Competition issued by the NCTU on 31 October 2008 stated literally: "On 8 February 2009 on the improvised stage set in the NTVU studios, the 30 semi-finalists perform their competition songs live."[9] On the grounds of the paragraph, the Jury disqualified Pryhodko for performing a song from her repertoire of the times of the Star Factory TV show called "Vsyo dlya tebya".[10] Prykhodko would later enter the Russian national final on 7 March 2009, winning with "Mamo" and represented Russia at the 2009 contest.[11][12]

Despite being one of the finalists, NikitA subsequently withdrew before the final.

Semi-final – 8 February 2009
Draw ArtistSong Songwriter(s) Result
1 Tori Joy "Smile" V. Petryk, A. Timoshyk, N. Doncheva Finalist
2 Goryachiy Shokolad "Every Kiss" Dmitry Klimashenko, Tetyana Reshetnyak Finalist
3 Bagira "Sexy Mama" Bagley Iryna Eliminated
4 Solomia "Not Perfect" Olena Karpenko Eliminated
5 Tatyana Bryantseva "Sweet and Sugar Baby" Yaroslav Schogla, Iryna Mironova Finalist
6 Maya "Ty ne odin" Maya Yanchishin Eliminated
7 Andriy Knyaz "Ne ydy" Andriy Furdyhko Eliminated
8 Zaklyopki "Time Is Up" Katya Komar, Sergiy Kabanets Finalist
9 Nazar Savko "Ty prosto slukhay" Nazar Savko Eliminated
10 Nazad Shlyahu Nemae "V ochah nebo" D. Mitusov, D. Nazarov Eliminated
11 Anastasia Prikhodko "Za tebe znov" Anastasia Prikhodko Eliminated
12 Natalia Volkova "Gush" Taras Panenko Finalist
13 Zoryana "Vklyuchayu play" Zoryana Skirko Eliminated
14 4 Kings "Tearin' Up My Heart" Roman Polonskiy, Anna Rozina Finalist
15 Gala "Sly Lover" Gennadiy Krupnik, Maryna Kursanova Eliminated
16 Svetlana Loboda "Be My Valentine" Yevgeny Matyushenko, Svetlana Loboda Finalist
17 Inna Oliynik "I Don't Wanna Be Your Again" Inna Oliynik Eliminated
18 Kishe "Midnight" T. Reshetko, Yevgeny Matyushenko Finalist
19 Ana "You're Like a Paradise" Anna Zotyeva Finalist
20 Eduard Romanyuta "Silence" Dmitro Tarasov, Oleksandra Malygina Eliminated
21 Vesta Kameneva "My Devotion" E. Kryvoshlyk, Y. Goncharova, V. Kameneva Eliminated
22 Inshiy Den "U loni sniv" V. Omelchenko, A. Stukalo Eliminated
23 NikitA "Beauty Saves the World" R. Babenko, Jay B Withdrawn
24 Aleksandr Panayotov "Superhero" Taras Demchuk, Natalya Safonova Finalist
25 Denis Barkanov "You Are My Love and Pain" V. Batulin, I. Kulik Finalist
26 Ira Poison "You Freed Me" Pavlov Sergey Finalist
27 Manya "Fayna Ukraina" A. Lushnikova Eliminated
28 Tabu "You Are" Tetyana Bubliy, Cyrkel Maksym Eliminated
29 Andriana "Oberezhno" Hristyna Bazar, Andriana Ryabets Eliminated
30 GODO "Zagadaymo bazhannya" Pierpaolo Guerrini, David Mario Reyes, GODO, Tatyana Ostrovskaya Finalist
31 Lenara Osmanova "Flash" Zera Kengigaeva, Elmara Mustafaeva Finalist

Final

The final, to be held on 8 March 2009, was temporarily suspended by a national arbitration committee due to the protest filed by Prykhodko. However, the national final went ahead on 8 March 2009 at the Ukraina Palace in Kiev, where the winner was decided via the 50/50 combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury.[13][14] Svetlana Loboda won the national final with the song "Be My Valentine", receiving maximum points from both the jury and televote.[1][2] The song will be performed at Eurovision as "Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)".

Final – 8 March 2009
Draw Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place
1 Lenara "Flash" 1 11 12 9
2 Goryachiy Shokolad "Kiss" 8 5 13 8
3 Tetyana Bryantseva "Sweet and Sugar Baby" 4 1 5 13
4 Denis Barkanov "You Are My Love and Pain" 7 12 19 5
5 Zaklyopki "Time Is Up" 13 9 22 2
6 Natalia Volkova "Gush" 10 6 16 6
7 4 Kings "Tearin' Up My Heart" 6 4 10 11
8 ANA "You're Like A Paradise" 2 2 4 14
9 Svetlana Loboda "Be My Valentine" 14 14 28 1
10 GODO "Zagadaymo Bazhannya" 3 8 11 10
11 Aleksandr Panayotov "Superhero" 9 13 22 2
12 Ira Poison "You Freed Me" 12 10 22 2
13 Kishe "Midnight" 5 3 8 12
14 Tori Joy "Smile" 11 7 18 6

Promotion

After winning the national final, Svitlana released the promotional video for "Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)", which will be shown around Europe before the contest.[15]

Svitlana performed with a number of other entries in the 2009 contest at two international events: on 17 April the Ukrainian entry performed at the UKEurovision Preview Party at the Scala in London;[16] she also performed on 18 April at the Eurovision Promo Concert in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, along with entries from 22 other countries.[17][18]

At Eurovision

Ukraine competes in the second semi-final of the contest on 14 May 2009. Svetlana performs 17th in the running order of the semi-final, following Albania and preceding Estonia.

Svitlana released news on her performance at Eurovision that she would perform on stage with a large mechanical device known as the "Hell Machine", appearing somewhat like a cog. The device would descend and rotate from the top of the stage, and to be accompanied by embedded lights.[19][20]

The song qualified for the final where it finished 12th with 76 points.

Points awarded by Ukraine
Split voting results from Ukraine (final)
Draw Country Jury points Televoting points Scoreboard (Points)
01  Lithuania 3
02  Israel 6 1
03  France 4 3 3
04  Sweden
05  Croatia 2
06  Portugal
07  Iceland 1 4
08  Greece
09  Armenia 6 2
10  Russia 12 8
11  Azerbaijan 10 8 10
12  Bosnia and Herzegovina
13  Moldova 5 5 7
14  Malta 1
15  Estonia 7 4
16  Denmark 8 5
17  Germany
18  Turkey
19  Albania
20  Norway 12 10 12
21  Ukraine
22  Romania
23  United Kingdom 7 2 6
24  Finland
25  Spain
Points awarded to Ukraine (Semi-final 2)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Points awarded to Ukraine (Final)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

See also

References
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