Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007

Eurovision Song Contest 2007
Country	Romania
National selection
Selection process	National final
Selection date(s)	Semi-finals; 27 January 2007; 3 February 2007; Final; 10 February 2007
Selected entrant	Todomondo
Selected song	"Liubi, Liubi, I Love You"
Finals performance
Final result	13th, 84 points
Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest

Romania chose their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 during Selecţia Naţională 2007, which consists of two semi-finals on 27 January and 3 February and a final on 10 February 2007. After many scandals and disqualifications, Todomondo will represent Romania with the song "Liubi, Liubi I Love You". The name of the group was originally 'Locomondo', however another band was already using that name which prompted a name change. The song chosen is multi-lingual, having verses in English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French, and Romanian. The group, Todomondo, consists of six members: Andrei, Ciro de Luca, Kamara, Mister M, Valeriu, and Vlad Creţu.

Romania participated in the final of Eurovision on 12 May 2007 in Helsinki, finishing in thirteenth position. Prior to the contest, the group has had promotion in Cyprus.

National Final

Selecţia Naţională 2007 was the national competition organized by Romanian Television (TVR), to select the country's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. The official winner of the selection was the group Locomondo and the multilingual song "Luibi, lubi, I love you".

The national final consisted of two semi-finals on 27 January and 3 February and a final on 10 February 2007. Twelve songs were to participate in each semi-final, with the top 6 qualifying for the final. The final result was decided by a 50/50 split between televoters and jury.

At first there were 24 participants, but Giulia Nahmany is being disqualified because her song 'Make It' has been stolen from the song 'Risin' of Natalia Druyts, a Belgian singer. In addition, the duo Indiggo was also disqualified from the competition along with the song "Lovestruck". The reason for this was because they broke the rules of the competition by not showing up for the rehearsals and not sending the instrumental version of their song. The duo also missed their music video filming for the promotion of their song, declaring that they had some concerts in the United States. Furthermore, their song "Lovestruck" was the subject of plagiarism accusations, but it was proven that these accusations were wrong.^[1]

After a commission was formed by the organizers and 5 songs were analyzed (Nu pot sa uit, Liubi,liubi I love you, Dracula,my love, Well-o-wee and Sinada) the final decision was that three of the songs were to be disqualified because they were performed before 1 October which is not allowed by EBU rules. "Well-o-wee", "Dracula, My Love", and "Sinada" were disqualified from the competition before the final took place.^[1] In addition to the disqualifications, producer/songwriter/performer, Marius Moga withdrew his "Crazy" in protest of the disqualification of his other song "Dracula, My Love".

Semi-Final 1–27 January

№	Singer	Song
1	Morandi and Wassabi	Crazy
2	Jasmine	Music in my soul
3	Spitalul de urgenţă	Stay united
4	Respect	I will love you
5	Giulia Nahmany	Make-it*
6	Daniela Răduică	Nu insista
7	Desperado and Tony Poptămaş	Where were you
8	New Effect feat. Moni-K	Sinada
9	Todomondo	Liubi, Liubi, I love you
10	Rednex featuring Ro-Mania	Well-o-wee
11	Nico	Dulce-amăruie
12	Gabi Huiban	Rubber Girl

Song number 5 was disqualified since it was found guilty of plagiarism.

Semi-Final 2–3 February

№	Singer	Song
1	Moni-K	În lumea mea
2	Simplu & Andra	Dracula, my love
3	Tibi Scobiola	Nu pot să uit
4	Nico	Love is all you need
5	Celia	Şoapte
6	Ada	You and me
7	Wassabi	Do the tango with me
8	Desperado and Tony Poptămaş	European - a beautiful sin
9	Indiggo	Lovestruck
10	Ionut Ungureanu - Provincialii	Time
11	Trupa Veche	Deci 20
12	Marcel Pavel	No poder vivir

Song number 9 was disqualified for breaking the rules of the competition.

Final - February 10

№	Singer	Song	Televote	Jury	Total	Place
1	Nico	Dulce-amăruie	6	4	10	6
2	Trupa Veche	Deci 20	3	3	6	8
3	Morandi and Wassabi	Crazy	-	-	-	-
4	Marcel Pavel	No poder vivir	7	6	13	5
5	Desperado and Tony Poptămaş	Where Were You	5	12	17	2
6	Tibi Scobiola	Nu pot să uit	4	5	9	7
7	Rednex ft. Ro-Mania	Well-o-wee	-	-	-	-
8	Simplu & Andra	Dracula, my love	-	-	-	-
9	Todomondo	Liubi, Liubi I Love You	12	10	22	1
10	Ionut Ungureanu - Provincialii	Time	10	7	17	3
11	New Effect & Moni-k	Sinada	-	-	-	-
12	Desperado and Tony Poptămaş	European - a beautiful sin	8	8	16	4

Song 3 was withdrawn
Songs 7, 8, 11 were disqualified

At Eurovision

Romania automatically qualified to the grand final, because it was on the top 10 last year.In the grand final,they performed 20th following United Kingdom and preceding Bulgaria finished 13th with 84 points.

Points awarded by Romania

Semi-final

12 points	Moldova
10 points	Hungary
8 points	Turkey
7 points	Cyprus
6 points	Serbia
5 points	Latvia
4 points	Slovenia
3 points	Belarus
2 points	Macedonia
1 point	Bulgaria

Final

12 points	Moldova
10 points	Greece
8 points	Hungary
7 points	Turkey
6 points	Serbia
5 points	Bulgaria
4 points	Ukraine
3 points	Russia
2 points	Latvia
1 point	Belarus

Points awarded to Romania (Final)
12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
Moldova Spain	Andorra	Hungary	France Israel Portugal
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Cyprus		Austria Ireland	Bulgaria Greece Turkey Ukraine	Latvia Russia

References

1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-02-10. Retrieved 2007-02-10.

External links

Video of song "Liubi, liubu, I love you"

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[autogenerated1-1] 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-02-10. Retrieved 2007-02-10.