Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007
Todomondo | ||||
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Selected song | "Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" | |||
Selected songwriter(s) |
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Finals performance | ||||
Final result | 13th, 84 points | |||
Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Before Eurovision
Selecția Națională 2007
Competing entries and shows
"Do the Tango with Me", "
Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
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Ada | "You and Me" |
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Celia | "Șoapte" | |
Desperado and Tony Poptămaș | "European – a Beautiful Sin" |
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"Where Were You" |
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Gabi Huiban | "Rubber Girl" |
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Indiggo | "Love Struck" |
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Jasmine | "Music in My Soul" |
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Moni-K | "În lumea mea" |
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Morandi and Wassabi | "Crazy" |
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Giulia Nahmany | "Make-It" |
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New Effect and Moni-K[a] | "Sinada" |
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Nico | "Dulce-amăruie" |
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"Love Is All You Need" |
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Marcel Pavel | "No poder vivir" |
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Daniela Răduică | "Nu insista" |
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Rednex featuring Ro-Mania | "Well-o-wee" |
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Tibi Scobiola | "Nu pot să uit" |
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Simplu and Andra | "Dracula, My Love" |
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Spitalul de Urgență | "Stay United" |
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Todomondo[b]
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"Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" |
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Trupa Respect | "I Will Love You" |
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Trupa Veche | "Deci 20" |
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Ionuț Ungureanu | "Let the Music Play"[c] |
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Wassabi | "Do the Tango with Me" |
Semi-final 1
Interval acts for the first semi-final on 27 January included covers of the past Eurovision Song Contest entries "
Draw | Artist | Song | Result |
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1 | Morandi and Wassabi | "Crazy" | Advanced |
2 | Jasmine | "Music in My Soul" | Eliminated |
3 | Spitalul de Urgență | "Stay United" | Eliminated |
4 | Trupa Respect | "I Will Love You" | Eliminated |
5 | Giulia Nahmany | "Make-It" | — |
6 | Daniela Răduică | "Nu insista" | Eliminated |
7 | Desperado and Tony Poptămaș | "Where Were You" | Advanced |
8 | New Effect and Moni-K[a] | "Sinada" | Advanced |
9 | Todomondo[b]
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"Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" | Advanced |
10 | Rednex featuring Ro-Mania | "Well-o-wee" | Advanced |
11 | Nico | "Dulce-amăruie" | Advanced |
12 | Gabi Huiban | "Rubber Girl" | Eliminated |
Semi-final 2
The second semi-final on 3 February had a television audience of 5,511,000 viewers and similarly had several covers of past Eurovision entries as interval acts, alongside another boxing match between two native celebrities.[5][15] Although initially assigned to this semi-final, "Love Struck" by Indiggo was disqualified because the duo failed to attend rehearsals.[8] Simplu and Andra were the televote's favorites, gathering more than 10,000 votes and around 8,000 more than the follow-up.[16] The results of the event were:[5][15]
Draw | Artist | Song | Result |
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1 | Moni-K | "În lumea mea" | Eliminated |
2 | Simplu and Andra | "Dracula, My Love" | Advanced |
3 | Tibi Scobiola | "Nu pot să uit" | Advanced |
4 | Nico | "Love Is All You Need" | Eliminated |
5 | Celia | "Șoapte" | Eliminated |
6 | Ada | "You and Me" | Eliminated |
7 | Wassabi | "Do the Tango with Me" | Eliminated |
8 | Desperado and Tony Poptămaș | "European – a Beautiful Sin" | Advanced |
9 | Provincialii | "Time"[c] | Advanced |
10 | Trupa Veche | "Deci 20" | Advanced |
11 | Marcel Pavel | "No poder vivir" | Advanced |
Final
Romanian group Sistem presented their single "Soare" as an interval act during the final of Selecția Națională on 10 February.[17] "Dracula, My Love" by Simplu and Andra had been falsely suspected for plagiarising "When Religion Comes to Town" (1994) by E-Type, but was ultimately disqualified from the competition for having been partially performed by Simplu at the MTV Romania Music Awards 2006 prior to TVR's cutoff date of 1 October 2006. Similarly, New Effect and Moni-K's "Sinada" was disqualified for having received local radio airplay prior to the aforementioned date.[8]
In addition, it was discovered that "Well-o-wee" by Rednex and Ro-Mania was a modified version of "Călușul", a song on the latter's 2001 album Lasă-mă să beau. This led to the entry's exclusion from Selecția Națională, alongside "Crazy" by Morandi and Wassabi, who failed to attend rehearsals.
Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place |
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1 | Nico | "Dulce-amăruie" | 4 | 6 | 10 | 6 |
2 | Trupa Veche | "Deci 20" | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 |
3 | Morandi and Wassabi | "Crazy" | — | — | — | — |
4 | Marcel Pavel | "No poder vivir" | 6 | 7 | 13 | 5 |
5 | Desperado and Tony Poptămaș | "Where Were You" | 12 | 5 | 17 | 2[d] |
6 | Tobi Scobiola | "Nu pot să uit" | 5 | 4 | 9 | 7 |
7 | Rednex featuring Ro-Mania | "Well-o-wee" | — | — | — | — |
8 | Simplu and Andra | "Dracula, My Love" | — | — | — | — |
9 | Todomondo[b]
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"Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" | 10 | 12 | 22 | 1 |
10 | Provincialii | "Time"[c] | 7 | 10 | 17 | 3[d] |
11 | New Effect and Moni-K[a] | "Sinada" | — | — | — | — |
12 | Desperado and Tony Poptămaș | "European – a Beautiful Sin" | 8 | 8 | 16 | 4 |
At Eurovision
To promote "Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" as Romania's Eurovision entry, a
In Romania, the show was broadcast on TVR,[1] with Manoliu as the country's head of delegation.[23] Todomondo were scheduled for technical rehearsals on 7 and 8 May, experiencing considerable malfunctions with the sound and graphics. Manoliu stated: "If the stage and the camera work will not fit our requirements, despite our efforts to help the team implement [them], we do not exclude the possibility of withdrawing from the competition".[23][24] Automatically qualified for the final due to Romania's top ten placement the previous year, the group performed 20th on the occasion, preceded by the United Kingdom and followed by Bulgaria.[25] Their show made use of pyrotechnics worth €5,000.[26][27]
Voting
Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Romania in the Grand Final, as well as by the country in the semi-final and Grand Final of the contest. On the latter occasion, Romania finished in 13th position, being awarded a total of 84 points including 12 awarded by both
Points awarded to Romania
Score | Country |
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12 points | |
10 points | Andorra |
8 points | Hungary |
7 points | |
6 points | |
5 points | Cyprus |
4 points | |
3 points | |
2 points | |
1 point |
Points awarded by Romania
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Notes
- ^ a b c Sources credit "Sinada" differently, including to solely New Effect or to New Effect featuring Moni-K.[2][8]
- ^ a b c "Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" was initially credited to Locomondo before issues with the Greek group of the same name resulted in the change to Todomondo.[9]
- ^ a b c Due to unknown reasons, the initially shortisted "Let the Music Play" by Ionuț Ungureanu was not performed at Selecția Națională. However, Ungureanu presented the entry "Time"—written by Eduard Cîrcotă and Cristian Hrişcu Badea—at the second semi-final and final of the competition as part of Romanian band Provincialii.[5]
- ^ a b Despite "Time" and "Where Were You" having reached the same total scores, the latter is ranked higher due to having been awarded more 12-point scores by the individual jury members.[6]
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