Loreen - Euphoria (New Song 2012 HQ)
Loreen - Euphoria (New Song 2012 HQ)
"Euphoria" is a song by Swedish singer Loreen. The song represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan and won the competition with a total of 372 points, the second-highest point total in the contest's history.
Eurovision Song Contest
Loreen entered the song at the Melodifestivalen 2012 at the Vida Arena in Växjö where she performed it during the first round of the competition. She automatically advanced to the final after it was among the top 2 song entries that received the highest votes. On 10 March, during the final at the Globen Arena in Stockholm, she performed the song once more while being judged by 11 international juries and voted by the Swedish people's televote. These were then combined for a final result. She eventually finished in 1st place and won the right to represent Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 after receiving the highest points from both the international juries and the televoting, or a grand total of 268 points. It was reported that a record figure of more than 670,000 of the four million viewers called in to vote for her song.
Sweden was drawn to compete 11th at the second semi-finals on 24 May. The song eventually advanced into the finals and was drawn to perform 17th in the line-up. At the grand final, held on May 26, the song eventually placed first with a total of 372 points, just fifteen points shy of the all-time record of 387, which is held by 2009 winner Alexander Rybak with the song "Fairytale".Additionally, it broke the record for having received the most 12 points awarded by 18 other participating countries under the current voting rules of the Eurovision Song Contest. In total, Sweden received points from 40 of the voting 42 countries excluding itself. The only country that did not award any points was Italy.
Critical reception
"Euphoria" ranked highly on many prediction polls most notably by the OGAE members.
On 26 May, just before the finals began, it received two Marcel Bezençon Awards; the Artistic Award presented to the best artist as voted on by the commentators; and Composer Award for the best and most original composition as voted on by the participating composers (Thomas G:son and Peter Boström).
Chart performance
"Euphoria" entered the Swedish national record chart Sverigetopplistan at No. 12 on its first week of release, and No. 1 in its second week. On 4 March 2012, "Euphoria" entered the official Swedish download chart Digilistan at No. 1, and at same time it debuted at No. 5 on the official Swedish airplay chart provided by Nielsen. On 15 March 2012, the song also topped the Finnish singles chart. The song was also an airplay hit in Romania, as it debuted at number sixty-four within the official Romanian Top 100 in the week-ending of 13 May 2012 by registering 80 radio and TV airplays.[citation needed] On 27 May 2012, it reached No. 1 the iTunes UK Chart, less than 24 hours after her Eurovision performance and the first time a song from the competition has done so in the past decade.[6] Aside from the UK's iTunes, after the competition, "Euphoria" reached No. 1 in 14 other countries, including Germany, Belgium, Spain, Greece, Netherlands, Austria, Malta, Ireland, Cyprus and Switzerland.[7] On June 3, 2012, "Euphoria" charted at No. 3 on the UK Official Singles Chart, the highest chart position for a non-UK Eurovision entry since Johnny Logan's "Hold Me Now" in 1987. The single sold 62,148 copies in its first week in the United Kingdom.
Lyrics
Why, why can't this moment last forevermore?
Tonight, tonight eternity's an open door...
No, don't ever stop doing the things you do.
Don't go, in every breath I take I'm breathing you...
Euphoria
Forever, 'till the end of time
From now on, only you and I
We're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up
Euphoria
An everlasting piece of art
A beating love within my heart
We're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up
We are here, we're all alone in our own Universe,
We are free, where everything's allowed and love comes first,
Forever and ever together, we sail into infinity,
We're higher and higher and higher, we're reaching for divinity.
Euphoria
Forever, 'till the end of time
From now on, only you and I
We're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up
Euphoria
An everlasting piece of art
A beating love within my heart
We're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up
Forever we sail into infinity,
We're higher, we're reaching for divinity...
Euphoria, euphoria
We're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up
Euphoria....
An everlasting piece of art
A beating love within my heart
We're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up
Euphoria, euphoria
We're going up-up-up-up-up-up-up
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