The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1973.
Playing host to the Eurovision Song Contest 1977,the United Kingdom was expected to,and did,send an entry to the Contest,which was held in Wembley,London.
The United Kingdom competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998. In addition,the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was also the host broadcaster and staged the event at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham on 9 May 1998 after the nation won the competition in 1997 with the song "Love Shine a Light" performed by Katrina and the Waves. The BBC organised a public selection to select its entry for the contest,The Great British Song Contest 1998. Eight songs competed over two rounds,with four songs selected through a radio-broadcast semi-final advancing to the televised final round,held on 15 March 1998,where viewers selected the winning entry through televoting. Imaani received the most votes and was selected to represent the UK in the contest with the song "Where Are You?". Imaani performed 16th at the international contest,and at the close of the voting process the UK finished in second place with 166 points,the nation's 15th second-place finish since its debut.
The United Kingdom competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999,held on 29 May 1999 at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem,Israel. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) organised a public selection process to determine its entry for the contest,The Great British Song Contest 1999. Eight songs competed over two rounds,with four songs selected through a radio-broadcast semi-final to advance to the televised final round,held on 7 March 1999,where viewers selected the winning entry through televoting. Girl group Precious received the most votes and were selected to represent the nation in the contest with the song "Say It Again".
"Love Shine a Light" is a song by British rock band Katrina and the Waves. It represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1997. It was released as a single on 28 April 1997 and was later included on the band's ninth studio album,Walk on Water (1997),serving as the album's lead single.
Eurovision:You Decide is the most recent name of a BBC television programme that was broadcast annually to select the United Kingdom's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. The show had previously gone under several other names,including Festival of British Popular Songs (1957),Eurovision Song Contest British Final (1959–1960),The Great British Song Contest (1996–1999),Eurovision:Making Your Mind Up (2004–2007),Eurovision:Your Decision (2008),and Eurovision:Your Country Needs You (2009–2010),but was known,for most of its history,as A Song for Europe.
Scooch is a British pop group,comprising performers Natalie Powers,Caroline Barnes,David Ducasse and Russ Spencer.
The United Kingdom has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 64 times. It first took part in the second contest in 1957 and has entered every year since 1959. Along with Sweden and the Netherlands,the UK is one of only three countries with Eurovision victories in four different decades. It is one of the "Big Five" countries,along with France,Germany,Italy and Spain,that are automatically prequalified for the final each year as they are the biggest financial contributors to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The British national broadcaster,the BBC,broadcasts the event and has,on multiple occasions,organised different national selection processes to choose the British entry. The United Kingdom has won the Eurovision Song Contest five times,and has finished as runner-up on a record sixteen occasions. The UK has hosted the contest a record eight times,four times in London and once each in Edinburgh (1972),Brighton (1974),Harrogate (1982) and Birmingham (1998),and will host the contest for a ninth time in 2023 in Liverpool.
"It's My Time" is a song by Jade Ewen,the British entry for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest,held in Moscow,Russia,in May 2009. The song was composed and written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren and became the UK's most successful Eurovision entry since 2002 by coming fifth,and a significant improvement on the previous and following year's entries,which came last in the contest. Ewen remained the one with the highest score for the UK since their victory in 1997,until 2022 when Sam Ryder finished in 2nd place with the song Space Man.
"That Sounds Good to Me" is a song written and composed by Pete Waterman,Mike Stock and Steve Crosby that finished last when it represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 held in Oslo,Norway. The song and performer was revealed as Josh Dubovie on 12 March 2010 who won Eurovision:Your Country Needs You.
"I Can" is a song released by British boy group Blue,taken from their fourth studio album,Roulette. It was the United Kingdom's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011,in Düsseldorf,Germany. It was written by group members Duncan James and Lee Ryan with Ciaron Bell,Ben Collieer,Ian Hope,Liam Keenan,and NoThwegian production team StarSign.
Molly Alice Smitten-Downes,known by her mononym Molly,is an English singer and songwriter.
Rocks and Honey is the sixteenth studio album by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler,first released by ZYX Music on 8 March 2013. Eight years since Wings was released in 2005,this was the longest gap between album releases in Tyler's career,and is the first of her studio albums to chart in the United Kingdom since Hide Your Heart in 1988. With tracks written by Nashville-based songwriters such as Frank J. Myers,Desmond Child,Brett James and Beth Hart,the album consists of a number of country songs reminiscent to Tyler's country albums from the 1970s with elements of rock.
"Believe in Me" is a song by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler from her sixteenth studio album Rocks and Honey (2013). American songwriter Desmond Child composed the song with British songwriters Lauren Christy and Christopher Braide. It was released as the album's lead single on 13 March 2013. The song was written to "uplift the world",and was completed by Child whilst having dinner with Tyler.
The United Kingdom participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song "Children of the Universe" written by Molly Smitten-Downes and Anders Hansson. The song was performed by Molly,who was internally selected by the British broadcaster BBC to represent the United Kingdom at the 2014 contest in Copenhagen,Denmark. Molly and "Children of the Universe" was announced as the British entry in a special presentation show titled The UK Launch broadcast on the BBC Red Button service in March 2014.
The United Kingdom participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Still in Love with You" written by David Mindel and Adrian Bax White. The song was performed by the duo Electro Velvet,which was internally selected by the British broadcaster BBC to represent the United Kingdom at the 2015 contest in Vienna,Austria. Electro Velvet and "Still in Love with You" was announced as the British entry in a special presentation show titled Our Song for Eurovision 2015 broadcast on the BBC Red Button service in March 2015.
"You're Not Alone" is a song by British duo Joe and Jake. It represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm after being voted first out of six at Eurovision:You Decide on 26 February. This was the first time the public had decided the entrant since 2010. The song was released on 11 March 2016 as a digital download. It reached number 81 in the UK Charts on Friday 20 May,following the Eurovision Final.
The United Kingdom participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin,Italy. British singer-songwriter Sam Ryder represented the country with his song "Space Man",which he co-wrote with Max Wolfgang and Amy Wadge. He was selected as the 2022 UK entrant by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in collaboration with record label TaP Music and their management company.
"Space Man" is a song by the British singer and songwriter Sam Ryder,released as a single on 22 February 2022 through Parlophone Records. It represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin,Italy,after being internally selected through TaP Music and the BBC,the British broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest. It was co-written by Ryder alongside Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Amy Wadge and Max Wolfgang in London,amid the COVID-19 pandemic,a year before it was chosen as the UK entry for Eurovision. The song is featured on Ryder's debut album There's Nothing but Space,Man!,which was released on 9 December 2022.
"I Wrote a Song" is a song by English singer and songwriter Mae Muller,who co-wrote the song with Karen Poole and Lewis Thompson. It was released as a single on 9 March 2023. The song will represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 after being internally selected through TaP Music and the BBC,the British broadcaster for the Eurovision Song Contest.
