Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Portugal will be present at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia. Portugal's entrant was chosen through the Festival da Canção 2009, held on 28 February 2009 by the Portuguese broadcaster Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP). The winner of the contest was Flor-de-Lis with "Todas as ruas do amor", gaining maximum marks from the jury, as well as coming second in the televote.[1][2]

Eurovision Song Contest 2009
Country Portugal
National selection
Selection processFestival da Canção 2009
Selection date(s)Online vote
19–30 January 2009
Final
28 February 2009
Selected entrantFlor-de-Lis
Selected song"Todas as ruas do amor"
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (8th, 70 points)
Final result15th, 57 points
Portugal in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2008 • 2009 • 2010►

Before Eurovision

Festival da Canção 2009

Festival da Canção 2009 was the 45th edition of Festival da Canção, the music competition that selects Portugal's entries for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Format

The format of the competition consisted of the final on 28 February 2009, which took place at the Teatro Camões in Lisbon. The competition featured twelve competing songs selected from an online vote between 19 and 30 January 2009.[3] Results were determined by the votes from regional jury panels and a public voting.[4] In a change from previous Festival de Canção contests, RTP held an open competition for anyone wishing to participate instead of directly inviting producers to submit entries.[5]

Competing entries

RTP opened a submission period for artists and composers to submit their entries between 2 December 2008 and 12 January 2009. Composers were required to have Portuguese citizenship, and songs were required to be performed in Portuguese. 393 entries were received at the conclusion of the submission period, and a selection committee shortlisted 24 entries for the online vote. The selection committee consisted of the Head of Delegation José Poiares, Tozé Brito, Fernando Martins and Ramón Galarza. The shortlisted entries were announced during a press conference on 19 January 2009, hosted by José Fragoso and Sílvia Alberto.[6][7] Among the competing artists were former Eurovision Song Contest entrants Nucha who represented Portugal in the 1990 Contest, and Luciana Abreu who represented Portugal in the 2005 Contest as part of 2B.

Among the artists who have submitted entries but wasn't shortlisted for the online vote were: Bruno Henriques, Catarina Ferreira, Cláudia Madeira (former Operação Triunfo contestant), Eva Danin (former Operação Triunfo contestant and backing singer for Vânia Fernandes at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008), Evelyne, Filipa Ruas (former Operação Triunfo contestant), Filipa Sousa (former Operação Triunfo contestant), Hugo Biqueira, Kássio, Leonardo, Nuno Paiva, Nuno Durão & Ariana, Romana, Sofia & Fred, Sónia Santos, Tânia Gonçalves & Cheng and Wanda Stuart.[8]

Online vote

The twenty-four shortlisted entries were made available via RTP's official website on 19 January 2009, and local and international users were able to vote for their favorite entries each day until 30 January 2009.[9] On 24 January 2009, RTP deleted more than 20,000 fraudulent votes after José Poiares confirmed that "the broadcaster reserves the right to remove votes when deemed fraudulent", and that such a process "will be continued until the final voting day".[10] It was also rumoured that "Sem ti não quero acordar" performed by Pedro Daniel would be disqualified as the song was performed at the Lagoa Song Festival in 2006, as well as having been used in a television commercial in September 2006. "Sinto sentido" performed by Pedro Duvalle was also rumoured to be disqualified, as the song was possibly performed during a concert held on 17 June 2008 in Viseu.[11] RTP later announced that they will study the originality of the two songs, but will only disclose their findings if either of the two songs advanced in the competition.[12] On 28 January 2009, Miguel Cervini withdrew from the competition after he disagreed with over 4,000 deemed to be fraudulent votes being removed from his song "Não está".[13]

117,639 valid votes were received at the conclusion of the voting period and the twelve entries with the most votes advanced to the final, with "Juntos vamos conseguir (Yes We Can)" performed by Luciana Abreu winning the voting with 11,193 votes.[14] Pedro Duvalle, who came eleventh, was disqualified from the competition due to the song having been performed prior to 1 October 2008.[15] He was replaced by "Lua sem luar" performed by Nuno Norte, who came thirteenth in the voting.[7][16]

Online vote – 19 January 2009 – 30 January 2009
Artist Song Composer(s) Votes Place
Luciana Abreu "Juntos vamos conseguir (Yes We Can)" Carlos Coincas, Luciana Abreu 11,193 1
Nuno & Fábia "Não demores (quero-te aquecer)" Pedro Vaz 10,420 2
Eva Danin "Amor mais forte que o vento" Rui Videira 10,015 3
André Rodrigues "Não vou voltar a mim" André Rodrigues 8,869 4
Filipa Batista "O teu lugar" Augusto Madureira 7,911 5
Romana "Acordem olhos doirados" Romana, Rodrigo Serrão 7,087 6
Flor-de-Lis "Todas as ruas do amor" Pedro Marques, Paulo Pereira 7,024 7
Nucha "Tudo está na tua mão" Ivan Prim, Nucha 7,000 8
Francisco Andrade "Voar é ver" Carlos Massa, Fernando Abrantes 6,782 9
Fernando Pereira "É o amor" Lucas Jr., Fernando Pereira 6,321 10
Pedro Duvalle "Sinto sentido" Pedro Duvalle 5,873 11
Tayti "Amore mio, amore mio" José Félix 5,705 12
Nuno Norte "Lua sem luar" Paulo Abreu de Lima 5,527 13
Angie "Sonhar sem limites" Guido Craveiro, Sérgio Oliveira 3,073 14
Pedro Daniel "Sem ti não quero acordar" Jorge do Carmo, Nikita 2,774 15
Infantes de Sagres "O beijo de quando te vais embora" Miguel Castro 2,634 16
Sérgio Lucas "Procuro-me em mim" António Loureiro, Sérgio Lucas 2,108 17
Jackpot "Há sempre um mas" Jackpot 1,926 18
Flávio "Jura que ainda me amas" Jorge do Carmo, Tó Andrade 1,856 19
Daniel Costa "Mais uma vez (este mar salgado)" Daniel Costa 1,335 20
Lyana "Vivo para a paz (Peace)" Lyana 1,061 21
Ana Sofia "O meu planeta especial" Tó Sanches 809 22
Armando Gama "Amor mais-que-perfeito" Armando Gama 336 23
Miguel Cervini "Não está" Miguel Cervini — —

Final

The final took place at the Teatro Camões in Lisbon on 28 February 2009, hosted by Sílvia Alberto. In the final twelve entries participated, and the winner was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from regional juries and a public telephone vote.[1][2]

Final – 28 February 2009
Draw Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place
Votes Points Percentage Points
1 Nucha "Tudo está na tua mão" 78 3 2% 1 4 9
2 Romana "Acordem olhos doirados" 124 6 3% 2 8 7
3 Filipa Batista "O teu lugar" 130 7 6% 5 12 4
4 André Rodrigues "Não vou voltar a mim" 31 1 2% 0 1 11
5 Luciana Abreu "Juntos vamos conseguir (Yes We Can)" 107 4 28% 12 16 3
6 Nuno Norte "Lua sem luar" 143 8 5% 4 12 4
7 Tayti "Amore mio, amore mio" 21 0 4% 3 3 10
8 Fernando Pereira "É o amor" 15 0 2% 0 0 12
9 Eva Danin "Amar mais forte que o vento" 109 5 7% 7 12 4
10 Francisco Andrade "Voar é ver" 145 10 9% 8 18 2
11 Flor-de-Lis "Todas as ruas do amor" 217 12 25% 10 22 1
12 Nuno & Fábia "Não demores (quero-te aquecer)" 40 2 7% 6 8 8

At Eurovision
Flor-de-Lis in the greenroom

Despite qualifying from the semi-finals for the first time in the 2008 contest, Portugal had to qualify from the semi-finals again in 2009 as it was not one of the "Big Four" or the host of the 2009 contest. Portugal competed in the first semi-final on 12 May 2009, performing 16th in the running order, following Finland and preceding Malta and won a place in the final where it finished 15th.

It has been announced by RTP that the commentator for the semi-finals and final will be singer and TV host Hélder Reis, while the announcer of the Portuguese votes during the final was supposed to be Sérgio Mateus (actor), who also acted as green room commentator during Festival da Canção.[17] In the end, Helena Coelho announced the Portugueses votes.

Split results
  • In the Final Portugal came 15th with 57 points: the public awarded Portugal 18th place with 45 points and the jury awarded also 18th place with 64 points.

Points awarded by Portugal[18]
Split voting results from Portugal (final)
Draw Country Jury points Televoting points Scoreboard (Points)
01  Lithuania
02  Israel 3
03  France
04  Sweden 3
05  Croatia
06  Portugal
07  Iceland 7 6 8
08  Greece
09  Armenia 8 4
10  Russia 2
11  Azerbaijan 1
12  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2
13  Moldova 10 10 12
14  Malta
15  Estonia
16  Denmark 4
17  Germany 5 1
18  Turkey 6 3
19  Albania
20  Norway 1 7 5
21  Ukraine 8 6
22  Romania 5 2
23  United Kingdom 12 4 10
24  Finland
25  Spain 12 7
Points awarded to Portugal (Semi-final 1)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Points awarded to Portugal (Final)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

See also

References
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  18. Eurovision Song Contest 2008
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