Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007

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Estonia chose its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 during Eurolaul 2007 on the 3 February 2007. The winner was Gerli Padar with "Partners in Crime", composed by Henrik Sal-Saller and written by Berit Veiber.

Gerli Padar participated in the semi-final of Eurovision on 10 May, but did not qualify for the final.

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[edit] Event History

As Estonia finished 18th in the 2006 semi final, the winner took part once again in the semi-final on May 10. ETV invited 10 Estonian songwriters to submit entries for the 2007 Eurolaul, including the songwriters behind the Estonian entries in 2000, 2002 and 2006, the lead singer of the 2005 Swiss entrants Vanilla Ninja, 2000 Estonian performer and 2nd placer in the 2005 Eurolaul, Ines, composers of the 1996, 1999 and 2005 Estonian entries, and Soul Militia, who won the contest in 2001 under the name of 2XL, along with Dave Benton & Tanel Padar.[1] Unlike in the 2006 Eurolaul, the results were determined by the televotes of the Estonian audience.

The show was presented by Marko Reikop and former Estonian Eurovision entrant, Maarja-Liis Ilus. Unlike before, the televotes took place in two rounds: The first round selected the three favourites with 56,172 televotes, while the second televoting round chose the winner with 118,949 overall votes for the round.[2]

The Estonian entry, entitled "Partners in Crime" finished 23rd in the semi-finals, thus failing to make it to the final competition.

[edit] National Final

Final — 3 February 2007
№ Singer Song Round 1 Round 2 Place
1 Kristjan Kasearu & Paradise Crew "So Much to Say" 1771 212 7.
2 Deva Deva Dance "Supreme Nature" 1543 45 9.
3 Koit Toome "Veidi veel" 1371 90 10.
4 Laura Põldvere "Sunflowers" 8170 25896 3.
5 Gerli Padar "Partners in Crime" 16759 55416 1.
6 Vanilla Ninja "Birds of Peace" 7552 262 4.
7 Linda "One Year From Now" 1701 47 8.
8 Soul Militia "My Place" 4524 40 5.
9 Ines "In Good and Bad" 2583 60 6.
10 Hele Kõre & Kristjan Kasearu "Romeo ja Julia" 9350 36881 2.
  • Votes in the second round only counted towards "Partners in Crime", "Sunflowers" and "Romeo ja Julia".

[edit] References

  1. ^ Eesti Television
  2. ^ (Estonian) Eurovisioonile läheb Gerli Padar. www.delfi.ee (2007-02-03). Retrieved on 2007-02-04.

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Individual entries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007
Italics indicates semi-finalists who did not advance to the final. Winner shown in bold.