United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019

Eurovision: You Decide is the national final that was used to select the 2019 entrant, having previously been used in the past three years. On 30 November, the BBC announced that a new format would be used for 2019. Three songs, selected with the help of an international jury, were each performed in two musically different styles by two different artists, with one act from each pair going through to a final public vote. Six acts competed in a televised show in February 2019 on BBC Two, again hosted by Mel Giedroyc and Måns Zelmerlöw. For the first time, the national final took place at Dock10, MediaCityUK in Salford, which has previously hosted All Together Now and The Voice UK. The national final was watched by 1,170,000 viewers in the United Kingdom with a market share of 6.4%.[2]

Edward af Sillén returned as a screenwriter to produce a UK Eurovision medley interval act sung by Zelmerlöw and guest featuring past winners Bucks Fizz and Katrina Leskanich from Katrina and the Waves.[3] The other interval acts were 2018 Eurovision winner Netta, who won the contest for Israel with the song "Toy" and the United Kingdom's 2018 representative SuRie, who performed a piano rendition of her entry "Storm".

On 19 September 2018, the BBC announced an open submission for interested artists to submit their songs. The submission period lasted until 26 October 2018. The BBC invited the UK branch of the international OGAE fan club to assist in shortlisting the open entries and also continued its partnership with the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA) who ran a songwriting competition amongst its members. The BBC also consulted with music industry experts including writers, producers, artist managers and members of the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Greig Watts replaced Hugh Goldsmith as music consultant to the BBC. In the past two years, multiple songwriting camps were also held to promote the submission of entries. Songs from all entry methods were included in a final shortlist which was presented to a professional panel, who ultimately selected the finalists to compete in the national final.[4] As of 2019, the songs were chosen with help from international juries instead of an industry professional panel. The six competing artists and three songs were revealed on 23 January 2019 through social media and the BBC Eurovision website.

The six acts competed in the televised final on 8 February 2019. In the duels round, an expert panel that included Rylan Clark-Neal as head judge, Marvin Humes and Mollie King determined which three acts and version of each song would go forward to face the public vote. Eventually, Kerrie-Anne, Jordan Clarke and Michael Rice advanced for the final round. The three remaining singers performed their songs for the second time, and a public vote consisting of televoting and online voting selected the winner, "Bigger than Us" performed by Michael Rice.

United Kingdom performed sixteenth in the final, following the entry from Norway and preceding the entry from Iceland. At the end of the show, United Kingdom placed last (26th) in the final, receiving a total of 11 points: 3 points from the televoting and 8 points from the juries. With the 2013-15 voting system, United Kingdom would have ranked last (26th) with 0 points.

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency. This jury judged each entry 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 was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member, as well as the nation's televoting results, were released shortly after the grand final.[6]

At the final, the United Kingdom's jury voting results were announced by Rylan Clark-Neal.[7]

The following five members comprised the British jury:[6]

• George Ure - actor[8]
• Pete Watson – musical director
• Jai Ramage – vocal coach
• Adele Roberts – BBC Radio 1 DJ
• AJ Bentley – singer, actor

Sophie Ellis-Bextor was first announced as the chairperson of the jury, but left the jury on 15 May for personal reasons.[9]

Split voting results from United Kingdom (Semi-final 2)
Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		P. Watson	J. Ramage	A. Roberts	AJ Bentley	G. Ure	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Armenia	14	17	15	11	17	17		17
02	Ireland	17	10	11	17	13	15		8	3
03	Moldova	6	14	5	9	3	7	4	16
04	Switzerland	10	12	14	7	14	12		5	6
05	Latvia	15	18	8	18	15	16		14
06	Romania	7	6	4	10	5	6	5	10	1
07	Denmark	16	3	10	1	18	5	6	13
08	Sweden	3	2	1	4	2	2	10	7	4
09	Austria	18	16	18	16	16	18		18
10	Croatia	5	8	3	2	8	3	8	15
11	Malta	4	11	6	8	12	10	1	3	8
12	Lithuania	13	7	17	15	10	14		1	12
13	Russia	8	4	13	6	7	8	3	9	2
14	Albania	11	15	16	14	6	13		11
15	Norway	12	13	7	13	11	11		2	10
16	Netherlands	9	5	12	12	4	9	2	6	5
17	North Macedonia	1	1	2	5	1	1	12	12
18	Azerbaijan	2	9	9	3	9	4	7	4	7

Split voting results from United Kingdom (final)
Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		P. Watson	J. Ramage	A. Roberts	AJ Bentley	G. Ure	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Malta	10	15	14	14	13	14		15
02	Albania	16	9	12	20	8	13		20
03	Czech Republic	23	12	10	3	12	10	1	16
04	Germany	21	16	19	19	18	23		24
05	Russia	8	5	15	6	6	7	4	13
06	Denmark	17	6	5	4	21	8	3	5	6
07	San Marino	20	25	22	25	24	25		21
08	North Macedonia	2	1	2	2	2	1	12	18
09	Sweden	1	2	3	8	1	2	10	6	5
10	Slovenia	24	23	9	24	25	20		23
11	Cyprus	11	17	23	17	19	19		10	1
12	Netherlands	5	7	13	11	3	5	6	7	4
13	Greece	19	22	25	22	22	24		19
14	Israel	18	19	17	18	17	21		17
15	Norway	15	10	4	12	11	11		1	12
16	United Kingdom
17	Iceland	14	21	24	23	16	22		3	8
18	Estonia	9	11	21	16	7	12		12
19	Belarus	12	20	18	13	15	18		22
20	Azerbaijan	3	8	8	5	4	4	7	8	3
21	France	7	3	20	10	9	9	2	14
22	Italy	25	18	11	9	20	15		11
23	Serbia	13	13	16	15	14	16		25
24	Switzerland	6	14	6	7	5	6	5	4	7
25	Australia	4	4	1	1	10	3	8	2	10
26	Spain	22	24	7	21	23	17		9	2