Released 5 March 2016 Genre Dance-pop | Format Digital download Length 3:06 | |
Label State Television Company Writer(s) Philipp Kirkorov
Dimitris Kontopoulos
John Ballard
Ralph Charlie | ||
"You Are the Only One" is a song performed by Russian singer Sergey Lazarev. The song represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, and was written by Philipp Kirkorov, Dimitris Kontopoulos, John Ballard and Ralph Charlie. The song was released as a digital download on 5 March 2016 through State Television Company.
Eurovision Song Contest
Sergey Lazarev was announced as the Russian entrant to the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 by Dutch media on 10 December 2015. The following day, it was announced that Lazarev's internal selection was decided upon by the editorial board of VGTRK with the executive producer of the Russia-1 channel, Gennady Gokhshtein, revealing that a song produced by Philipp Kirkorov had also been selected. The song was later released along with its music video which features Miss Universe Russia 2015 Vladislava Evtushenko on 5 March 2016. He performed in the first half of the first semi-final and qualified to perform in the final on May 14.