"Making Your Mind Up" is a song by the British pop group Bucks Fizz. It was the winner of the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest,representing the United Kingdom,and was composed by Andy Hill and John Danter. Released in March 1981,it was Bucks Fizz's debut single,the group having been formed just two months earlier. Following its win in the contest,the song reached No. 1 in the UK and several other countries,eventually selling in excess of four million copies. It launched the career of the group,who went on to become one of the biggest selling acts of the 1980s and featured on their debut,self-titled album.
"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 into 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.
Andrew Abraham is a British singer. He was the runner-up in the second UK series of TV talent show The X Factor in 2005 to Shayne Ward,and also represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.
"Je t'adore" is a song by Belgian singer Kate Ryan. It was the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006,performed in English. It was the seventh song to be performed in this contest and the 999th by counting all songs which had ever performed on Eurovision Song Contest. "Je t'adore" was released in 2006 as the lead single from Ryan's third studio album Alive (2006).
"Flying the Flag" is a song performed by British pop/bubblegum dance group Scooch. The official single version was available from 30 April 2007 and was released as a physical CD single in the following week,on 7 May 2007.
The United Kingdom participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "Even If" written by Andy Abraham,Paul Wilson and Andy Watkins. The song was performed by Andy Abraham. The British entry for the 2008 contest in Belgrade,Serbia was selected via the national final Eurovision:Your Decision,organised by the British broadcaster BBC. Six acts competed in the national final and the winner was selected through three rounds of voting.
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.
The United Kingdom participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "It's My Time" written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Diane Warren. The song was performed by Jade Ewen. The British entry for the 2009 contest in Moscow,Russia was selected via the national final Eurovision:Your Country Needs You,organised by the British broadcaster BBC. Six acts competed in the national final which consisted of two heats,a semi-final and a final,during which the winner was selected entirely through a public televote.
Jade Louise Ewen is a British singer,actress and a former member of the girl group Sugababes. She began her singing career in a girl group named Trinity Stone,which signed with Sony BMG in 2005 but disbanded in 2007 without releasing an album. In 2009,after winning the right,she represented the United Kingdom in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest by performing the Andrew Lloyd Webber / Diane Warren penned "It's My Time". She finished in fifth place.
"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 came 2nd place with 466 points.
"My Man" is a song by English singer Jade Ewen. It was written by Ina Wroldsen,and produced by Harry Sommerdahl and Kalle Engstrom for Ewen's debut studio album. The song was released as a digital download in the United Kingdom on 17 September 2009. Musically,"My Man" is a pop and contemporary R&B and song backed by electro and R&B beats and a synthesizer. It is notably different from her previous single "It's My Time",which was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.
"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.
"Glorious" is a song performed by German dance recording trio Cascada,written by Yann Peifer,Manuel Reuter,Andres Ballinas,Tony Cornelissen. The song was included on their compilation album The Best of Cascada (2013). It was announced that the song would be one of the candidate songs of the Unser Song für Malmö,the German national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. A preview of the song was published on 9 January 2013. The same day the full version was leaked. The song represented Germany in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013. The song was released in Germany as a digital download on 8 February 2013.
"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.
"Children of the Universe" is a song by British singer Molly Smitten-Downes. It was chosen by the BBC to represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Denmark. The song was co-written by Molly Smitten-Downes. A Indie pop and Alternative rock song,it became one of the favourites to win the contest. "Children Of The Universe" finished in 17th place with 40 points and gave the UK its best placing since Blue came 11th place in the 2011 Contest. The song reached number twenty three on the UK Singles Chart and charted in Austria,Denmark,Germany,Ireland,Sweden,and Switzerland.
The United Kingdom originally planned to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song "My Last Breath" written by James Newman,Ed Drewett,Adam Argyle and Iain James. The song was performed by James Newman,who was internally selected by the British broadcaster BBC to represent the United Kingdom at the 2020 contest in Rotterdam,Netherlands. Newman and "My Last Breath" was announced as the British entry on 27 February 2020.
"Space Man" is a 2022 single released by British singer and songwriter Sam Ryder,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,during 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!,set to be released on 18 November 2022.
