LT United
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LT United were a Lithuanian music group created in 2006 for the sole purpose of representing Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006. The group entered the Lithuanian pre-selection event with the song "We Are the Winners", winning with almost twice as many votes as the runners-up, and finished 6th in the Eurovision Song Contest final with 162 points.
History
LT United were created in early 2006 after the well-known Lithuanian
The group entered the Lithuanian pre-selection contest, dominating the scoring and receiving 32,669 points - almost double that of the second-placed
The music video for the song was released for public viewing on 23 March 2006 and was directed by Donatas Ulvydas. The video consisted of clips from their pre-selection performance, along with archive footage of the six members. The press release that accompanied the video stated that the use of archive material was to "prove the experience of each LT United member". The video received a large amount of airplay in Lithuania from March until the time of the contest in late May.
Prior to the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals, LT United refused to perform the song, deciding to wait until the semi-final itself (although a rehearsal performance was released on their official website just before it). The group also contacted
Despite that, their stage act (including Arnoldas Lukošius' manic dancing and Saulius Urbonavičius singing into a megaphone) helped the song to score 163 points, which proved to be enough to finish 5th in the semi-final. When their qualification was announced, loud boos were heard from the crowd.
Their final performance did not differ much from that in the semi-final, and despite (less prominent) booing from the crowd present in
After the contest, LT United released "We Are The Winners" as a single (on the M.P.3 label), with a World Cup 2006 version of the song also included on the release despite Lithuania having never qualified for the World Cup. In two weeks the single sold around 3,000 copies in Lithuania and thus went gold. Eventually the single became platinum after selling 5,000 copies in Lithuania. It reached No. 14 on the Finland singles chart, where it was released by Magnum Music.
Robbie Williams performed the song at a concert in the Belgian capital Brussels, after he made jokes about the contest and their song in particular.[1]
On 11 March 2022, the group reunited on an annual awards ceremony
References
- ^ Augūnaitė, Diana (15 June 2006). "R.Williamsas dainavo „We are the winners"". www.DELFI.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 19 April 2015.
- ^ LT United – You Are The Winners, Ukraina, retrieved 2022-03-13
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