Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014

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Eurovision Song Contest 2014
Country Ukraine
National selection
Selection processEvrobachennya 2014 - Natsionalyni vidbir
Selection date(s)21 December 2013
Selected entrantMariya Yaremchuk
Selected song"Tick-Tock"
Selected songwriter(s)
  • Mariya Yaremchuk
  • Sandra Bjurman
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (5th, 118 points)
Final result6th, 113 points
Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Ukraine participated in Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song "Tick-Tock" written by Mariya Yaremchuk and Sandra Bjurman. The song was performed by Mariya Yaremchuk. The Ukrainian broadcaster National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU) organised a national final in order to select the Ukrainian entry for the 2014 contest in Copenhagen, Denmark. Twenty entries competed in the final held on 21 December 2013 and "Tick-Tock" performed by Mariya Yaremchuk was selected as the winner following the combination of votes from a five-member jury panel and a public televote. The Ukrainian entry caused controversy due to allegations that the phone lines for other national final participants were blocked while the phone line for Yaremchuk remained open, which led to the illegitimacy of results.

Ukraine was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 6 May 2014. Performing during the show in position 9, "Tick-Tock" was announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 10 May. It was later revealed that Ukraine placed fifth out of the 16 participating countries in the semi-final with 118 points. In the final, Ukraine performed in position 1 and placed sixth out of the 26 participating countries with 113 points.

Background[]

Main article: Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2014 Contest, Ukraine had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest eleven times since its first entry in 2003, winning it in 2004 with the song "Wild Dances" performed by Ruslana. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004, Ukraine had managed to qualify to final in every contest they participated in thus far. Ukraine had been the runner-up in the contest on two occasions: in 2007 with the song "Dancing Lasha Tumbai" performed by Verka Serduchka and in 2008 with the song "Shady Lady" performed by Ani Lorak. Ukraine's least successful result had been 19th place, which they achieved during the 2005, with the song "Razom nas bahato" performed by GreenJolly.

The Ukrainian national broadcaster, National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU), broadcasts the event within Ukraine and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. In the past, NTU had alternated between both internal selections and national finals in order to select the Ukrainian entry. Between 2011 and 2013, NTU had set up national finals with several artists to choose both the song and performer to compete at Eurovision for Ukraine, with both the public and a panel of jury members involved in the selection. NTU confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest on 23 October 2013, announcing that they would organise a national final to select the 2014 Ukrainian entry.[1]

Before Eurovision[]

Evrobachennya 2014 - Natsionalyni vidbir[]

The Ukrainian national final took place on 21 December 2013 at the NTU Studios in Kyiv.[2] The show was hosted by Timur Myroshnychenko and Tetyana Terekhova and broadcast on Pershyi Natsionalnyi as well as online via NTU's official website 1tv.com.ua and the official Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.tv.[3]

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 8 December 2013.[4][5] The second stage was the televised final, which took place on 21 December 2013 and featured the twenty acts vying to represent Ukraine in Copenhagen. The winner was selected via the 50/50 combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury. Both the public televote and the expert jury assigned scores ranging from 1 (lowest) to 12 (highest) and the entry that had the highest number of points following the combination of these scores was declared the winner. Viewers participating in the public televote during the show had the opportunity to submit a single vote per phone number for each of the participating entries via SMS. In the event of a tie, the tie was decided in favour of the entry that received the highest score from the jury.[6]

Competing entries[]

Artists and composers had the opportunity to submit their entries between 23 October 2013 and 6 December 2013. Auditions were held on 7 December 2013 at the Novopecherski Lypky in Kyiv where a four-member selection panel consisting of Vlad Baginsky (NTU music producer), Mikhail Nekrasov (composer and producer), Yevgeniy Feshak (Radio Lux.FM General Producer) and Volodymyr Kozlov (RU Music Director) reviewed the 56 received submissions and shortlisted twenty entries to compete in the national final. On 8 December 2013, the twenty selected competing acts were announced.[4][5]

Artist Song (English translation) Composer(s)
Anatoliy Shparev "Waiting for You" A. Osadchuk
Anna Khodorovska "Если есть любовь" (If there is love) Ruslan Kvinta, Vitaliy Kurovskiy
Anna-Maria "5 Stars Hotel" Eduard Pristupa, Sergey Ozeryanskiy
Denis Lyubimov "Love" Denis Lyubimov
Eugene Litvinkovich "Стреляная птица" (Wounded bird) Eugene Litvinkovich
Illaria "I'm Alive" Katerina Prishchepa
Lissa Wassabi "No Fear" Yelyzaveta Zhykhareva
Marietta "It's My Life" Dmitriy Sidorov, Natali Dali
Mariya Yaremchuk "Tick-Tock" Mariya Yaremchuk
Nataliya Valevska "Love Makes You Beautiful" Ylva Persson, Linda Persson
neAngely "Courageous" Alexander Bard, Andreas Öhrn, Christian Wahlberg, Per Ljungqvist, Henrik Wikström
Roman Polonsky "Wanted Dead or Alive" Roman Polonsky, Sergey Dubenko
Shanis "Моя душа" (My soul) Elaydzha
Stas Shurins "Why" Stas Shurins
Tania BerQ "Believe Me" Borys Tarshys
Tetiana Shyrko "Let Go" Yuliya Slobodyan, Evheniy Matyushenko
Uli Rud "Цветок" (Flower) Misha Klimenko, Kseniya Shevchenko
Viktor Romanchenko "На краю пропасти" (At the edge of the abyss) Volodymyr Dushevnyi, Viktor Romanchenko
Viktoria Petryk "Love Is Lord" Giga Kukhianidze, Ben Kadagidze
Volodymyr Tkachenko "Бути там, де ти" (Be where you are) Volodymyr Tkachenko, Iryna Pyrih

Final[]

The final took place on 21 December 2013. Twenty entries competed and the winner, "Tick-Tock" performed by Mariya Yaremchuk, was selected through the combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury. Ties were decided in favour of the entries that received higher scores from the jury.[7] The jury panel consisted of Oleksandr Panteleymonov (NTU General Director), Vlad Baginsky (NTU music producer), Yuriy Rybchynsky (poet), Yan Tabachnyk (composer) and Mikhail Nekrasov (composer and producer).[8] 10,210 votes were registered by the televote during the show.[9] In addition to the performances of the competing entries, 2011 Ukrainian Eurovision entrant Mika Newton, 2013 Ukrainian Eurovision entrant Zlata Ognevich, 2013 Ukrainian Junior Eurovision entrant Sofia Tarasova, Kamaliya, Masha Sobko, Matias and Natalia Buchynska performed as guests.[6]

Final – 21 December 2013
Draw Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place
Votes Points
1 Anna-Maria "5 Stars Hotel" 3 136 1 4 16
2 Roman Polonsky "Wanted Dead or Alive" 5 73 1 6 12
3 Uli Rud "Цветок" 1 76 1 2 20
4 Marietta "It's My Life" 4 107 1 5 14
5 Stas Shurins "Why" 5 194 4 9 10
6 Anatoliy Shparev "Waiting for You" 7 124 1 8 11
7 Nataliya Valevska "Love Makes You Beautiful" 5 1,050 9 14 7
8 Lissa Wassabi "No Fear" 1 170 2 3 19
9 Volodymyr Tkachenko "Бути там, де ти" 11 368 5 16 4
10 Shanis "Моя душа" 9 47 1 10 9
11 Viktoria Petryk "Love Is Lord" 10 476 7 17 2
12 Eugene Litvinkovich "Стреляная птица" 2 1,090 10 12 8
13 neAngely "Courageous" 6 800 8 14 6
14 Illaria "I'm Alive" 8 420 6 14 5
15 Tetiana Shyrko "Let Go" 3 171 3 6 13
16 Tania BerQ "Believe Me" 3 41 1 4 16
17 Mariya Yaremchuk "Tick-Tock" 12 3,478 12 24 1
18 Viktor Romanchenko "На краю пропасти" 5 1,170 11 16 3
19 Anna Khodorovska "Если есть любовь" 2 99 1 3 18
20 Denis Lyubimov "Love" 4 120 1 5 14

Controversy[]

Following Mariya Yaremchuk's victory at the Ukrainian national final, several participants launched a protest against the final results, alleging that the phone lines for their entries were blocked while the phone line for Yaremchuk remained open.[10] Olena Mozgova, the producer of Volodymyr Tkachenko, challenged the legitimacy of the results and planned to take legal action; similar complaints were also launched by Viktoria Petryk and the duo neAngely regarding the results of the public vote.[11][12]

At Eurovision[]

Mariya Yaremchuk at the first semi-final dress rehearsal

During the semi-final allocation draw on 20 January 2014 at the Copenhagen City Hall, Ukraine was drawn to compete in the second half of the first semi-final on 6 May 2014.[13] In the first semi-final, the producers of the show decided that Ukraine would perform ninth, following Azerbaijan and preceding Belgium.[14] Ukraine qualified from first semi-final and competed in the final on 10 May 2014.[15] During the winner's press conference for the first semi-final qualifiers, Ukraine was allocated to compete in the first half of the final.[16] In the final, the producers of the show decided that Ukraine would open the show and perform first, preceding Belarus.[17] Ukraine placed sixth in the final, scoring 113 points.[18]

On stage, Mariya Yaremchuk was joined by four backing vocalists: Anna Linnea, Graciela Chin A Loi, Anneli Maria Tornkvist and Elin Eva Maria Svensson. The performance featured a male dancer, Igor Kuleshyn, performing acrobatic choreography on a large running wheel. The staging was completed by Ukrainian director, choreographer and head of the ballet "Freedom", Olena Kolyadenko.[19]

In Ukraine, both the semi-finals and the final were broadcast on First National with commentary by Timur Miroshnychenko and Tetiana Terekhova.[20][21][22] All shows were also broadcast via radio on NRCU with commentary by Olena Zilinchenko.[23] The Ukrainian spokesperson revealing the result of the Ukrainian vote in the final was 2013 Ukrainian contest entrant Zlata Ognevich.[24]

Voting[]

Points awarded to Ukraine[]

Points awarded by Ukraine[]

Detailed voting results[]

The following members comprised the Ukrainian jury:[27]

  • Oleksandr Zlotnyk (jury chairperson) – composer
  • Kateryna Komar – producer, vocal teacher
  • Kostiantyn Mishukov – producer, DJ
  • Alla Popova – singer, composer
  • Olena Valovyk – singer
Detailed voting results from Ukraine (Semi-final 1)[28]
Draw Country O. Zlotnyk K. Komar K. Mishukov A. Popova O. Valovyk Average Jury Rank Televote Rank Combined Rank Points
01  Armenia 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 12
02  Latvia 15 10 4 15 15 13 9 13
03  Estonia 13 6 13 13 10 12 13 14
04  Sweden 1 2 2 1 2 2 4 2 10
05  Iceland 4 9 6 4 8 4 14 8 3
06  Albania 8 7 11 7 3 5 15 11
07  Russia 5 12 14 6 6 9 2 5 6
08  Azerbaijan 9 5 12 9 7 7 5 6 5
09  Ukraine
10  Belgium 12 11 15 12 11 14 8 12
11  Moldova 7 14 9 8 5 10 10 9 2
12  San Marino 11 13 7 11 12 11 7 7 4
13  Portugal 14 15 8 14 13 15 11 15
14  Netherlands 3 4 3 3 4 3 6 4 7
15  Montenegro 10 3 10 10 9 8 12 10 1
16  Hungary 6 8 5 5 14 6 3 3 8
Detailed voting results from Ukraine (Final)[29]
Draw Country O. Zlotnyk K. Komar K. Mishukov A. Popova O. Valovyk Average Jury Rank Televote Rank Combined Rank Points
01  Ukraine
02  Belarus 3 8 10 3 3 5 4 5 6
03  Azerbaijan 9 9 17 9 10 9 10 10 1
04  Iceland 25 22 22 24 24 25 16 21
05  Norway 23 15 25 23 23 23 13 19
06  Romania 12 11 21 13 12 13 19 15
07  Armenia 8 2 4 8 8 6 2 2 10
08  Montenegro 22 20 23 20 17 21 23 24
09  Poland 6 21 11 6 7 8 1 4 7
10  Greece 7 13 16 7 6 7 15 11
11  Austria 5 3 3 5 5 3 5 3 8
12  Germany 1 4 2 1 1 2 9 6 5
13  Sweden 2 1 1 2 2 1 6 1 12
14  France 13 24 19 19 16 20 22 22
15  Russia 10 14 9 10 11 10 3 7 4
16  Italy 24 25 13 25 25 24 25 25
17  Slovenia 14 18 14 14 14 14 18 14
18  Finland 20 10 6 11 9 12 20 16
19  Spain 4 5 8 4 4 4 14 9 2
20   Switzerland 16 16 15 16 19 18 8 12
21  Hungary 11 7 7 12 18 11 7 8 3
22  Malta 17 19 18 17 13 19 24 23
23  Denmark 15 12 20 18 15 16 21 20
24  Netherlands 21 17 5 15 21 15 12 13
25  San Marino 19 23 24 21 20 22 11 17
26  United Kingdom 18 6 12 22 22 17 17 18

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