Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

Ukraine participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Ukrainian entry was selected through a national final, organised by the Ukrainian broadcaster NTU. Gaitana represented Ukraine with the song "Be My Guest", which qualified from the second semi-final and went on to place 15th in the final, scoring 65 points.[1][2]

Eurovision Song Contest 2012
Country Ukraine
National selection
Selection processEvrobachennya 2012 - Natsionalyni vidbir
Selection date(s)18 February 2012
Selected entrantGaitana
Selected song"Be My Guest"
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (8th, 64 points)
Final result15th, 65 points
Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Before Eurovision

Evrobachennya 2012 - Natsionalyni vidbir

On 23 August 2011, NTU confirmed its participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.[3] The Ukrainian national final took place at the NTU studios in Kiev and consisted of a final on 18 February 2012. The competition was hosted by Timur Myroshnychenko and Tetyana Terekhova.

Format

The selection of the competing entries for the national final and ultimately the Ukrainian Eurovision entry took place over two stages. In the first stage, artists and songwriters had the opportunity to apply for the competition by attending a scheduled audition. Twenty acts were selected and announced on 25 November 2011. An additional two wildcards were awarded: one to the winner of Inter Channel show Number 1 and one from an online wildcard selection.[4] The second stage was the televised final, which took place on 18 February 2012 and featured the twenty-one acts vying to represent Ukraine in Baku. The winner was selected via the 50/50 combination of votes from a public SMS vote and an expert jury. Each member of the jury assigned scores to each entry ranging from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest) and the ranking was converted to scores from 1 (lowest) to 21 (highest). In the event of a tie, the tie was decided in favour of the entry that received more higher scores from the jury members. Viewers participating in the public SMS vote during the show had the opportunity to submit a single vote per phone number for the participating entries and the ranking was also converted to scores from 1 to 21.[5] The entry that had the highest number of points following the combination of these scores was declared the winner.

Competing entries

Artists and composers had the opportunity to submit their entries by attending an audition on 25 November 2011. A four-member selection panel consisting of Vlad Bahinskyj (musical producer at NTU), Volodymyr Kozlov (RU Music television channel director), Victoria Romanova (international relations department at NTU) and Ivo Bobul (singer) reviewed the received submissions and selected twenty entries to compete in the national final. Nerealnye (The Incredibles), winner of Number 1, was selected as a direct wildcard qualifier for the national final. An additional competing act was selected from an online wildcard selection.[6] Four of the non-qualifying entries from the auditions entered the online vote on the say.tv platform, from which the winner, "Dance" performed by Max Barskih, was selected to compete in the national final.[7] On 11 February 2012, the running order draw took place during the show Shuster Live, broadcast on the Ukraina channel. On 16 February 2012, Matias withdrew his song "I Will Fight to the End" from the national final due to a conflict of interest with his manager, Vlad Bahinskyj, who was a member of the selection panel during the auditions.[8]

Artist Song (English translation) Composer(s)
Andrey Bogomolets "Are You Waiting for Me" Andriy Bogomolets
BONDarchuk "I Don't Know Why" Santa Dimopoulos, Andrey Tymoshchyk
Eduard Romanyuta "I'll Never Let Go" Emanuel Olsson, Christian Leuzzi, Christina Christian
Gaitana "Be My Guest" Gaitana, KIWI Project
Igor Tatarenko "You're My Life" Andrey Tymoshchyk, Ray Horton
Legkiy Flirt "MegaMix" O. Komov
Lena Voloshina "Let It Out" Lena Voloshina
Marietta "Rainbow" Dmitriy Sidorov, Natali Dali
Marta "My Heart Is Sorrowing" Yulia Barabash, Ruslan Kvinta
Masha Sazonova & Tikhon Levchenko "I Close to You" Masha Sazonova, Tikhon Levchenko
Matias "I Will Fight to the End" Mikhail Nekrasov
Max Barskih "Dance" Max Barskih
Mihailo Gritskan "Ya tak iskal tebya" (I've searched so much for you) Mihailo Gritskan, Volodymyr Budeychuk
Nerealnye (The Incredibles) "Just a Dream" Miguel Shesteprov
Oksana Nesterenko "Mondo blu" (Blue world) Ralph Siegel, Mauro Balestri
Olga Shanis "Dream" Nicolai Shandrikov, Ira Kononova
Olya Polyakova "Lepestok" (Petal) V. Tkoch
Rapira "Get Over" A. Mashenko
Renata Shtifel "Love in Sunlight Rays" Olena Kucher, Vadym Lysytsya
Treeorange "New Day" Yuliya Volyum, Evgeniy Sukhoi
Ulyana Rudakova "Ty ne odin" (You're not alone) Nikita Averkiev
Vitaliy Galay "I Want to Love" Vitaliy Galay, V. Fokina

Final

The final took place on 18 February 2012. The winner, "Be My Guest" performed by Gaitana, was selected through the combination of votes from a public SMS vote and an expert jury.[2] 16,825 votes were registered by the SMS vote during the show. The jury panel consisted of Egor Benkendorf, Walid Arfush, Yurij Rybchunskyj, Semyon Horov, Mariya Manyuk, Rudolf Kirnos and Alyona Mozgova.[2]

Final – 18 February 2012
Draw Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place
Votes Points
1 Olga Shanis "Dream" 10 136 6 16 17
2 Vitaliy Galay "I Want to Love" 3 77 4 7 20
3 Max Barskih "Dance" 20 996 18 38 2
4 Olya Polyakova "Lepestok" 15 215 8 23 8
5 Eduard Romanyuta "I'll Never Let Go" 9 2,749 19 28 5
6 Legkiy Flirt "MegaMix" 4 62 1 5 21
7 Igor Tatarenko "You're My Life" 8 337 14 22 10
8 Mihailo Gritskan "Ya tak iskal tebya" 1 493 16 17 16
9 Masha Sazonova & Tikhon Levchenko "I Close to You" 16 271 11 27 6
10 Marta "My Heart Is Sorrowing" 7 278 12 19 11
11 Gaitana "Be My Guest" 21 3,539 20 41 1
12 Oksana Nesterenko "Mondo blu" 18 848 17 35 3
13 Rapira "Get Over" 2 266 10 12 19
14 Andrey Bogomolets "Are You Waiting for Me" 17 71 2 19 11
15 BONDarchuk "I Don't Know Why" 13 112 5 18 14
16 Renata Shtifel "Love in Sunlight Rays" 6 5,114 21 27 6
17 Treeorange "New Day" 5 308 13 18 14
18 Nerealnye (The Incredibles) "Just a Dream" 19 491 15 34 4
19 Ulyana Rudakova "Ty ne odin" 14 235 9 23 8
20 Marietta "Rainbow" 12 155 7 19 11
21 Lena Voloshina "Let It Out" 11 72 3 14 18

At Eurovision

Ukraine competed in the second half of the second semi-final (7th on stage), on 24 May 2012, following Portugal and preceding the Bulgaria. Gaitana received 64 points and placed 8th, thus qualifying for the final on 26 May.[9]

In the final, Ukraine was drawn to perform 25th, after Serbia and preceding Moldova. The Ukrainian entry scored a total of 65 points and placed 15th in the final.[1]

Split results
  • In the Semi-final Ukraine came 8th with 64 points: the public awarded Ukraine 17th place with 24 points and the jury awarded 3rd place with 109 points.[10]
  • In the Final Ukraine came 15th with 65 points: the public awarded Ukraine 20th place with 37 points and the jury awarded 7th place with 125 points.[10]

Points awarded to Ukraine
Points awarded to Ukraine (semi-final 2)[9]
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
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Points awarded to Ukraine (final)[1]
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

Points awarded by Ukraine

See also

References
  1. "Eurovision Song Contest 2012 Grand Final". Eurovision.tv.
  2. Omelyanchuk, Olena (18 February 2012). "Ukraine: Gaitana is the Ukrainian guest in Baku". Eurovision.tv.
  3. Busa, Alexandru (23 August 2011). "Ukraine: Kyiv plans Eurovision 2012 participation". Esctoday.com. Archived from the original on May 12, 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  4. Jiandani, Sanjay (25 November 2011). "Ukraine: National final on February 10th". Esctoday.com. Archived from the original on February 29, 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2011.
  5. "Ukraine 2012". ESCKAZ.
  6. Omelyanchuk, Olena (26 January 2012). "Ukraine: 22 candidates in the national final". Eurovision.tv.
  7. "Ukraine: Max Barskih as the 22nd contestant". Eurovision.tv. 15 February 2012.
  8. Omelyanchuk, Olena (16 February 2012). "Matias withdrawn from the Ukrainian national selection". Eurovision.tv.
  9. "Eurovision Song Contest Semi-Final (2)". Eurovision.tv.
  10. Siim, Jarmo (18 June 2012). "Eurovision 2012 split jury-televote results revealed". Eurovision.tv.
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