Country Georgia Selected song "Shine" | Selected entrant Sopho Nizharadze | |
Selection process Artist: Internal Selection
Song: National Final Selection date(s) Artist: 16 January 2010
Song: 27 February 2010 Semi-final result Qualified (3rd, 106 points) | ||
Georgia competed in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, returning after a year's absence. Georgian broadcaster GPB internally selected Sopho Nizharadze to sing for Georgia at the Contest in May 2010. Nizharadze performed six songs on 27 February. "Shine" was chosen to be sung at the contest in Oslo, Norway, after the votes of a public televote and a professional jury.
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Selection
On 16 January 2010 GPB announced that they had internally selected 23-year-old singer Sopho Nizharadze to sing for Georgia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. A call for song submissions had been made by the broadcaster, and 5 songs will be selected from the submitted entries to take part in a televised contest, to be held in late February 2010 to select the competing song for Oslo. On 5 February GPB announced that over 100 entries from both Georgian and foreign composers have been submitted to GPB.
On 9 February GPB revealed the 6 six selected songs and their songwriters that will compete in a national final to be held on 27 February. The songwriters include: Tinatin Japaridze, co-writer of the Eurovision 2009 runner-up for Iceland "Is It True?"; Svika Pick, co-writer of the Israeli Eurovision 1998 winning song "Diva"; Carlos Coelho and Andrej Babić, who together wrote the Portuguese entry for the 2008 Contest "Senhora do mar (Negras águas)", as well as Babić separately writing another four Eurovision entries for three other countries; and Hanne Sørvaag, writer of the German entry in 2008, "Disappear", as well as the 2010 Norwegian entry "My Heart is Yours".
"Shine", written by Hanne Sørvaag, Harry Sommerdahl and Chistian Leuzzi, was selected from the six songs on 27 February at the Tbilisi Event Hall in Tbilisi. This is Sørvaag's third Eurovision composition.
Before Eurovision
Nizharadze was a guest at the Azeri national final on 2 March, performing her winning entry "Shine".
At Eurovision
Georgia competed in the second semi-final of the contest on 27 May, performing in the 16th slot, and qualified for the final. Georgia came 9th in the final, with 136 points.