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Eurovision Song Contest 2011
Eurovision Song Contest 2011
Country	Spain
National selection
Selection process	Destino Eurovisión
Selection date(s)	Heats:; 28 January 2011; 4 February 2011; Semi-final:; 11 February 2011; Final:; 18 February 2011
Selected entrant	Lucía Pérez
Selected song	"Que me quiten lo bailao"
Selected songwriter(s)	Rafael Artesero
Finals performance
Final result	23rd, 50 points
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Spain participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 with the song "Que me quiten lo bailao" written by Rafael Artesero. The song was performed by Lucía Pérez. The Spanish broadcaster Televisión Española (TVE) organised the national final Destino Eurovisión in order to select the Spanish entry for the 2011 contest in Düsseldorf, Germany. The national final consisted of two heats, a semi-final and a final and involved 24 competing acts. Three acts and nine songs ultimately qualified to compete in the televised final where an in-studio jury first selected one song per act to advance to the second round. In the second round of voting, a public televote exclusively selected "Que me quiten lo bailao" performed by Lucía Pérez as the winner.

As a member of the "Big Five", Spain automatically qualified to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest. Performing in position 22, Spain placed twenty-third out of the 25 participating countries with 50 points.

Background

Prior to the 2011 contest, Spain had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fifty times since its first entry in 1961.^[1] The nation has won the contest on two occasions: in 1968 with the song "La, la, la" performed by Massiel and in 1969 with the song "Vivo cantando" performed by Salomé, the latter having won in a four-way tie with France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Spain has also finished second four times, with Karina in 1971, Mocedades in 1973, Betty Missiego in 1979 and Anabel Conde in 1995. In 2010, Spain placed fifteenth with the song "Algo pequeñito" performed by Daniel Diges.

The Spanish national broadcaster, Televisión Española (TVE), broadcasts the event within Spain and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. TVE confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest on 1 October 2010.^[2] Between 2007 and 2010, TVE organised a national final to select both the artist and song that would represent Spain. The procedure was continued in order to select their 2011 entry.^[3]

Before Eurovision

Destino Eurovisión

Destino Eurovisión was the national final organised by TVE that took place from 28 January 2011 to 18 February 2011 at the TVE studios in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, hosted by Anne Igartiburu with Daniel Diges who represented Spain in the 2010 contest acting as the green room host.^[4]^[5] All shows were broadcast on La 1, TVE Internacional and online via TVE's official website rtve.es.^[6]

Format

Destino Eurovisión consisted of 24 candidates competing over four shows: two heats on 28 January 2011 and 4 February 2011, a semi-final on 11 February 2011 and the final on 18 February 2011. Each heat featured twelve contestants performing cover versions of former Spanish Eurovision songs or winning Eurovision songs of their choice and five qualified for the semi-final. The semi-final featured the ten qualifiers from the heats performing cover versions of former Spanish Eurovision songs or winning Eurovision songs of their choice and three qualified for the final. In the final, each of the remaining three contestants performed three candidate Eurovision songs with the winner being decided upon over two rounds of voting. In the first round, one song per contestant qualified for a second round of voting, during which the winning entry was determined.^[7]

The results during all four shows were decided upon through public televoting and an in-studio expert jury. In the heats, the twelve contestants were divided over four groups of three and the jury first eliminated one contestant from each group. The remaining eight contestants faced a public televote where the top three qualified, while the jury then selected another two contestants to advance to the semi-final.^[8] In the semi-final, the contestants first faced a public televote where the top two qualified. The jury then selected an additional qualifier from the remaining artists to advance.^[9] In the final, the first round results were decided upon by the jury and the second round results were decided upon through public televoting.^[10]

Competing entries

Two separate submission periods were opened from 15 November 2010 until 12 December 2010 for artists and songwriters to submit their applications and songs. Artists were also able to apply by attending auditions that were held in Madrid and Barcelona on 25 and 29 November 2010, respectively.^[11] At the conclusion of the submission period, 1,142 songs and 627 artist applications were received.^[12] Professionals at TVE selected 24 artists for the national final from 30 shortlisted following a second audition in Barcelona on 15 December 2010, while nine songs were selected from 20 shortlisted and allocated to the three finalists of Destino Eurovisión.^[13]^[14] The competing acts were announced on 11 January 2011, while the allocation of the competing songs were announced on 12 February 2011 and previewed by TVE on their official website later on 16 February.^[15]^[16]^[17] Among the competing artists was Dani Fernández (member of Auryn) who represented Spain in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006, while among the shortlisted songwriters was Mikel Herzog who represented Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998.^[18]

Artists selection^[19]
Alazán Alba Lucía Auryn Baltanás Da Igual Dani Alemán David Sancho Divas Don Johnsons Esmeralda Grao Fernando H. Gio Guadiana Las Miranda Lorena Rosales Lucía Pérez Lussi Bom María López Melissa Mónica Guech Pau Quero Paula Marengo Roima Durán Sebas Sergi Albert Sometimes Sonia and Selena Sunami Valeria Antonella We

Songs selection^[18]
Song	Songwriter(s)	Result
"Abrázame"	Tony Sánchez-Ohlsson, Thomas G:son	Selected
"C'est la vie! It's Alright!"	W&M, Nestor Geli, Susie Päivärinta, Per Andersson, Mats Lindberg	Selected
"Diamonds"	Nestor Geli, Susie Päivärinta, Pär Lönn	Selected
"El sol brillará"	Rafael de Alba	Selected
"Eos"	Jesús Cañadilla, Alejandro de Pinedo	Selected
"Eres tan cool"	Jesús Cañadilla, Alejandro de Pinedo	Eliminated
"Eres todo lo que quiero"	Mikel Herzog, Alberto Estébanez	Eliminated
"Evangeline"	Kjell Jennstig, Dejan Belgrenius, Kristin Molin	Selected
"Golden Cadillac"	Kjell Jennstig, Gerard James Borg, Leif Goldkuhl	Eliminated
"Llueve"	Juan Guillénn	Eliminated
"Música"	Vanessa Serrano	Eliminated
"Only Break My Heart?"	Rafael Artesero	Eliminated
"Peligroso"	William Luque, Domingo Sánchez	Eliminated
"Que me quiten lo bailao"	Rafael Artesero	Selected
"Sospechas"	Gustavo Castañeda	Eliminated
"Sueño y sueñas"	Pedro Romeo, Amaya Martínez	Eliminated
"Sueños rotos"	Primož Poglajen, Jonas Gladnikoff, Camilla Gottschalck, Christina Schilling	Selected
"Teasing You"	Rafael Artesero	Eliminated
"Tic, Tac"	Rocío Romero Grau	Eliminated
"Volver"	Primož Poglajen, Jonas Gladnikoff, Camilla Gottschalck, Christina Schilling	Selected

Shows

Heats

The two heats took place on 28 January and 4 February 2011. In each heat the twelve contestants first faced a regional televote where the top three qualified for the semi-final; an additional two qualifiers were selected from the remaining twelve contestants by an in-studio jury. The five members of the in-studio jury that evaluated the entries during the artists were Albert Hammond (singer-songwriter, music producer), Merche (singer-songwriter), Reyes del Amor (expert specializing in the Eurovision Song Contest), David Ascanio (singer-songwriter) and Boris Izaguirre (television presenter, screenwriter, journalist). In addition to the performances of the competing entries, guest performers in the first semi-final included Soraya Arnelas, Pitingo [es] and jury member Albert Hammond, while guest performers in the second semi-final included David Civera, Malú and jury member Merche.^[8]^[20]

Public vote qualifier Jury qualifier

Heat 1 (First Round) – 28 January 2011
Group	Draw	Artist	Song (Original artists)	Result
I	1	David Sancho	"Estando contigo" (Conchita Bautista)	Advanced
	2	Roima Durán	"Wild Dances" (Ruslana)	Eliminated
	3	Da Igual	"Bailar pegados" (Sergio Dalma)	Advanced
II	4	Lucía Pérez	"Non ho l'età" (Gigliola Cinquetti)	Advanced
	5	Auryn	"Fly on the Wings of Love" (Olsen Brothers)	Advanced
	6	Las Miranda	"Ding-a-dong" (Teach-In)	Eliminated
III	7	Sunami	"Gwendolyne" (Julio Iglesias)	Eliminated
	8	Gio	"Satellite" (Lena Meyer-Landrut)	Advanced
	9	Guadiana	"Ne partez pas sans moi" (Céline Dion)	Advanced
IV	10	María López	"Vuelve conmigo" (Anabel Conde)	Advanced
	11	Baltanás	"Fairytale" (Alexander Rybak)	Advanced
	12	Paula Marengo	"Tu te reconnaîtras" (Anne-Marie David)	Eliminated

Heat 1 (Second Round) – 28 January 2011
Artist	Song (Original artists)	Result
Auryn	"Fly on the Wings of Love" (Olsen Brothers)	Advanced
Baltanás	"Fairytale" (Alexander Rybak)	Eliminated
Da Igual	"Bailar pegados" (Sergio Dalma)	Advanced
David Sancho	"Estando contigo" (Conchita Bautista)	Advanced
Gio	"Satellite" (Lena Meyer-Landrut)	Advanced
Guadiana	"Ne partez pas sans moi" (Céline Dion)	Eliminated
Lucía Pérez	"Non ho l'età" (Gigliola Cinquetti)	Advanced
María López	"Vuelve conmigo" (Anabel Conde)	Eliminated

Heat 2 (First Round) – 4 February 2011
Group	Draw	Artist	Song (Original artists)	Result
I	1	Pau Quero	"A-Ba-Ni-Bi" (Izhar Cohen and Alphabeta)	Eliminated
	2	Lorena Rosales	"My Number One" (Helena Paparizou)	Advanced
	3	Don Johnson's	"Yo soy aquél" (Raphael)	Advanced
II	4	Sergi Albert	"Hold Me Now" (Johnny Logan)	Advanced
	5	Mónica Guech	"Believe" (Dima Bilan)	Advanced
	6	Alazán	"Bandido" (Azúcar Moreno)	Eliminated
III	7	Sebas	"Molitva" (Marija Šerifović)	Advanced
	8	Melissa	"Après toi" (Vicky Leandros)	Advanced
	9	Sometimes	"Waterloo" (ABBA)	Eliminated
IV	10	Valeria Antonella	"Save Your Kisses for Me" (Brotherhood of Man)	Eliminated
	11	We	"Enséñame a cantar" (Micky)	Advanced
	12	Esmeralda Grao	"Nacida para amar" (Nina)	Advanced

Heat 2 (Second Round) – 4 February 2011
Artist	Song (Original artists)	Result
Don Johnson's	"Yo soy aquél" (Raphael)	Advanced
Esmeralda Grao	"Nacida para amar" (Nina)	Advanced
Lorena Rosales	"My Number One" (Helena Paparizou)	Eliminated
Melissa	"Après toi" (Vicky Leandros)	Advanced
Mónica Guech	"Believe" (Dima Bilan)	Advanced
Sebas	"Molitva" (Marija Šerifović)	Advanced
Sergi Albert	"Hold Me Now" (Johnny Logan)	Eliminated
We	"Enséñame a cantar" (Micky)	Eliminated

Semi-final

The semi-final took place on 11 February 2011. The five members of the in-studio jury that evaluated the artists during the shows were: Albert Hammond (singer-songwriter, music producer), Merche (singer-songwriter), Reyes del Amor (expert specializing in the Eurovision Song Contest), David Ascanio (singer-songwriter) and Boris Izaguirre (television presenter, screenwriter, journalist). In addition to the performances of the competing entries, guest performers included Sergio Dalma, Pastora Soler and jury member David Ascanio.^[9]^[21]

Public vote qualifier Jury qualifier

Semi-final – 11 February 2011^[22]^[23]
Draw	Artist	Song (Original artists)	Result
1	Da Igual	"Puppet on a String" (Sandie Shaw)	Eliminated
2	Esmeralda Grao	"La fiesta terminó" (Paloma San Basilio)	Eliminated
3	Sebas	"What's Another Year" (Johnny Logan)	Eliminated
4	Lucía Pérez	"Boom Bang-a-Bang" (Lulu)	Advanced
5	Auryn	"Eres tú" (Mocedades)	Advanced
6	Melissa	"Diva" (Dana International)	Advanced
7	Gio	"Dime" (Beth)	Eliminated
8	Mónica Guech	"Love Shine a Light" (Katrina and the Waves)	Eliminated
9	Don Johnson's	"Hard Rock Hallelujah" (Lordi)	Eliminated
10	David Sancho	"Volare" (Domenico Modugno)	Eliminated

Final

The final took place on 18 February 2011. The winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, each finalist performed three candidate songs and one advanced to the second round by the in-studio jury.^[16]^[17] In the vote to select Lucía Pérez's song, "Que me quiten lo bailao" and "Abrázame" were tied at 12 points each but since "Que me quiten lo bailao" received the most top marks from the jury the song advanced to the second round. The five members of the in-studio jury that evaluated the artists during the shows were: Albert Hammond (singer-songwriter, music producer), Sole Giménez (singer), Reyes del Amor (expert specializing in the Eurovision Song Contest), David Ascanio (singer-songwriter) and Boris Izaguirre (television presenter, screenwriter, journalist).^[24] In the second round, the winner, "Que me quiten lo bailao" performed by Lucía Pérez, was selected exclusively through a public televote.^[25]^[26]

In addition to the performances of the competing entries, guest performers included former Eurovision contestant Daniel Diges who represented Spain in 2010, British 2011 Eurovision contestants Blue, and jury members Sole Giménez and Albert Hammond.^[10]

Final – 18 February 2011
Draw	Artist	Song	Points	Result
1	Melissa	"Eos"	14	Advanced
2	Auryn	"Evangeline"	9	Eliminated
3	Lucía Pérez	"Que me quiten lo bailao"	12	Advanced
4	Melissa	"Sueños rotos"	11	Eliminated
5	Auryn	"El sol brillará"	6	Eliminated
6	Lucía Pérez	"Abrázame"	12	Eliminated
7	Melissa	"Diamonds"	5	Eliminated
8	Auryn	"Volver"	15	Advanced
9	Lucía Pérez	"C'est la vie! It's Alright!"	6	Eliminated

Detailed Jury Votes
Draw	Song	A. Hammond	S. Giménez	R. del Amor	D. Ascanio	B. Izaguirre	Total
1	"Eos"	3	2	3	3	3	14
2	"Evangeline"	2	2	2	2	1	9
3	"Que me quiten lo bailao"	2	3	1	3	3	12
4	"Sueños rotos"	2	3	2	2	2	11
5	"El sol brillará"	1	1	1	1	2	6
6	"Abrázame"	3	2	3	2	2	12
7	"Diamonds"	1	1	1	1	1	5
8	"Volver"	3	3	3	3	3	15
9	"C'est la vie! It's Alright!"	1	1	2	1	1	6

Second Round – 18 February 2011
Draw	Artist	Song	Televote	Place
1	Melissa	"Eos"	12%	3
2	Auryn	"Volver"	20%	2
3	Lucía Pérez	"Que me quiten lo bailao"	68%	1

At Eurovision

According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. As a member of the "Big 5", Spain automatically qualified to compete in the final on 14 May 2011. In addition to their participation in the final, Spain is also required to broadcast and vote in one of the two semi-finals. During the semi-final allocation draw on 17 January 2011, Spain was assigned to broadcast and vote in the first semi-final on 10 May 2011.^[27]

In Spain, the semi-finals were broadcast on La 2 and the final was broadcast on La 1, TVE HD and TVE Internacional with commentary by José Luis Uribarri. The Spanish spokesperson, who announced the Spanish votes during the final, was Elena S. Sánchez. The broadcast of the final was watched by 4.724 million viewers in Spain with a market share of 32.3%. This represented a decrease of 9.6% from the previous year with 1.036 million less viewers.^[28]

Final

Lucía Pérez took part in technical rehearsal on 7 and 8 May, followed by dress rehearsals on 13 and 14 May. This included the jury final on 13 May where the professional juries of each country, responsible for 50 percent of each country's vote, watched and voted on the competing entries. The running order for the semi-finals and final was decided by through another draw on 15 March 2011, and as one of the five wildcard countries, Spain chose to perform in position 22, following the entry from Iceland and before the entry from Ukraine.

The Spanish performance featured Lucía Pérez performing a choreographed dance routine on stage wearing a short pink dress with black inlays together with two backing vocalists and three dancers all dressed in white, with the outfits of the dancers equipped with LEDs that light up. The LED screens displayed dark red, yellow and blue flowers and a firework display effect. The performance also featured pyrotechnic effects.^[29]^[30]^[31] The choreographer for the performance was Lola González. The five backing performers that joined Lucía Pérez were Cristina Domínguez, Sandra Borrego, Amaury Reinoso, Juan Francisco Solsona "Nito" and Ginés Cano.^[32] Spain placed twenty-third in the final, scoring 50 points.^[33]^[34]

Voting

Voting during the three shows consisted of 50 percent public televoting and 50 percent from a jury deliberation. The jury consisted of five music industry professionals who were citizens of the country they represent. This jury was asked to judge each contestant based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury could be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently.

Following the release of the full split voting by the EBU after the conclusion of the competition, it was revealed that Spain had placed sixteenth with the public televote and twenty-fourth with the jury vote. In the public vote, Spain scored 73 points and in the jury vote the nation scored 38 points.

Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Spain and awarded by Spain in the first semi-final and grand final of the contest, and the breakdown of the jury voting and televoting conducted during the two shows:

Points awarded to Spain

Points awarded to Spain (Final)^[35]
Score	Country
12 points	France Portugal
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points
5 points	Albania Romania
4 points	Estonia Macedonia
3 points	Switzerland
2 points	Slovakia Slovenia
1 point	United Kingdom

Points awarded by Spain

Points awarded by Spain (Semi-final 1)^[36]
Score	Country
12 points	Iceland
10 points	Hungary
8 points	Portugal
7 points	Greece
6 points	Switzerland
5 points	Lithuania
4 points	Finland
3 points	Armenia
2 points	Serbia
1 point	Azerbaijan

Points awarded by Spain (Final)^[35]
Score	Country
12 points	Italy
10 points	France
8 points	Romania
7 points	Ireland
6 points	Hungary
5 points	Sweden
4 points	Serbia
3 points	Germany
2 points	Iceland
1 point	Lithuania

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External links

(in Spanish) RTVE's official Eurovision website

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v t e Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest
Benidorm Fest Operación Triunfo
Participation	1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024
Artists	Alejandro Abad Alfred Amaia Remedios Amaya Soraya Arnelas Azúcar Moreno Bacchelli Victor Balaguer Barei Conchita Bautista Beth Blanca Paloma Braulio Bravo Cadillac Blas Cantó Antonio Carbonell Chanel Rodolfo Chikilicuatre David Civera Anabel Conde D'Nash Sergio Dalma La Década Daniel Diges Edurne ESDM José Guardiola Mikel Herzog Julio Iglesias Karina Las Ketchup Patricia Kraus Marcos Llunas Ruth Lorenzo Lucía Lydia Massiel Micky Miki Betty Missiego Mocedades Jaime Morey Manel Navarro Nebulossa Nina Peret Lucía Pérez Ramón Raphael Rosa Salomé Paloma San Basilio Eva Santamaría Sergio and Estíbaliz Pastora Soler Son de Sol Tim, Nelly and Tony Trigo Limpio José Vélez Serafín Zubiri
Songs	"Algo pequeñito" "Algo prodigioso" "Amanece" "Amanecer" "¡Ay, qué deseo!" "Baila el Chiki Chiki" "Bailar pegados" "Bailemos un vals" "Bandido" "Bloody Mary" "Brujería" "Canta y sé feliz" "Caracola" "La chica que yo quiero (Made in Spain)" "Colgado de un sueño" "Contigo hasta el final" "Dancing in the Rain" "Dile que la quiero" "Dime" "Do It for Your Lover" "Eaea" "Él" "Ella no es ella" "En un mundo nuevo" "Enséñame a cantar" "Eres tú" "Estando contigo" "Europe's Living a Celebration" "La fiesta terminó" "Gwendolyne" "Hablemos del amor" "Hombres" "I Love You Mi Vida" "La La La" "Lady, Lady" "Llámame" "Nacida para amar" "No estás solo" "No quiero escuchar" "La noche es para mí" "Para llenarme de ti" "¡Qué bueno, qué bueno!" "Que me quiten lo bailao" "¿Qué voy a hacer sin ti?" "Quédate conmigo" "Quédate esta noche" "¿Quién maneja mi barca?" "Say Yay!" "Sin rencor" "SloMo" "Sobran las palabras" "Su canción" "Todo esto es la música" "Tu canción" "Tú volverás" ~~"Universo"~~ "Valentino" "La venda" "Vivo cantando" "Voy a quedarme" "Vuelve conmigo" "Y sólo tú" "Yo soy aquél" "Zorra"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Spain did not compete