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My Number One
"My Number One" is a song recorded by Greek-Swedish singer Helena Paparizou with music composed by Manolis Psaltakis and Christos Dantis, lyrics written by Dantis and Natalia Germanou, and produced by Dantis. It represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, held in Kyiv, resulting in the country's only ever victory in the contest.
"My Number One" was composed by Manolis Psaltakis and Christos Dantis, with lyrics by Dantis and Natalia Germanou, and produced by Dantis. The composition had initially been credited only to Dantis, however, a 2013 lawsuit by musician Manolis Psaltakis resulted in the credit being assigned also to him.
The song is notable for casting elements of traditional Greek music in a contemporary dance music setting: its arrangement includes bouzoukis and a solo featuring a Cretan lyra. The song's lyrics describe the singer's appreciation for her lover who is lauded as her "number one" and "the only treasure [she]'ll ever have".
Paparizou released "My Number One" as a single, with the release of a Swedish album which contained the song following, and a Greek re-released of her first album Protereotita featuring the song and the other songs in the running for the national final. It sold over 90,000 copies in Greece and was certified double platinum.
Shortly after the song was selected for Eurovision, its music video was shot in one day at the Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum in Thessaloniki. Paparizou then went on a European promotional tour visiting over twenty countries on her tour, and singing on various television shows, as well as giving many interviews.
In early 2006, it was announced that "My Number One" and "Mambo!" would be remixed and released in the United States by Moda Records. On 22 August, a maxi CD single was released to record stores, featuring ten remixes, and the original song; the mixes were also released as digital downloads on 4 June. The music video of "My Number One" premiered in the United States in 2006. There were two separate videos. One is the original video, that was also shown in Europe. The second is a re-edited version of the same video, to the beat of the Josh Harris Remix from the CD Single.
The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) internally selected Helena Paparizou as its performer for the 50th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. ERT then selected four songs –"My Number One", "OK", "Let's Get Wild", and "The Light in Our Soul"– to be performed by her in a televised national final aired on 2 March 2005. Shortly before the national final, it was revealed that "The Light in Our Soul" had been already released by Big Alice, thus it was disqualified, leaving out only three songs. "My Number One" gained a combined 66.47% from televoting and jury votes winning the competition and becoming the Greek entry for Eurovision. The chorus of the song had already become a chant for AEK Athens supporters.
On 21 May 2005, the final for the Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Palace of Sports in Kyiv hosted by the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU), and broadcast live throughout the continent. As Greece had finished third at the previous contest, the song had been pre-qualified for the final. Paparizou performed "My Number One" nineteenth on the evening, following Croatia's "Vukovi umiru sami" by Boris Novković and LADO and preceding Russia's "Nobody Hurt No One" by Natalia Podolskaya. During her performance, she did a stage show of the song, choreographed by Fokas Evangelinos. Some of the memorable visuals from the show include her dancing a traditional Greek Pontian dance, the four dancers making the shape on the number 1 of the floor –showed from aerial camera– and her playing an imaginary lyra while her dancers pick her up.
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My Number One
"My Number One" is a song recorded by Greek-Swedish singer Helena Paparizou with music composed by Manolis Psaltakis and Christos Dantis, lyrics written by Dantis and Natalia Germanou, and produced by Dantis. It represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, held in Kyiv, resulting in the country's only ever victory in the contest.
"My Number One" was composed by Manolis Psaltakis and Christos Dantis, with lyrics by Dantis and Natalia Germanou, and produced by Dantis. The composition had initially been credited only to Dantis, however, a 2013 lawsuit by musician Manolis Psaltakis resulted in the credit being assigned also to him.
The song is notable for casting elements of traditional Greek music in a contemporary dance music setting: its arrangement includes bouzoukis and a solo featuring a Cretan lyra. The song's lyrics describe the singer's appreciation for her lover who is lauded as her "number one" and "the only treasure [she]'ll ever have".
Paparizou released "My Number One" as a single, with the release of a Swedish album which contained the song following, and a Greek re-released of her first album Protereotita featuring the song and the other songs in the running for the national final. It sold over 90,000 copies in Greece and was certified double platinum.
Shortly after the song was selected for Eurovision, its music video was shot in one day at the Thessaloniki Science Center and Technology Museum in Thessaloniki. Paparizou then went on a European promotional tour visiting over twenty countries on her tour, and singing on various television shows, as well as giving many interviews.
In early 2006, it was announced that "My Number One" and "Mambo!" would be remixed and released in the United States by Moda Records. On 22 August, a maxi CD single was released to record stores, featuring ten remixes, and the original song; the mixes were also released as digital downloads on 4 June. The music video of "My Number One" premiered in the United States in 2006. There were two separate videos. One is the original video, that was also shown in Europe. The second is a re-edited version of the same video, to the beat of the Josh Harris Remix from the CD Single.
The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) internally selected Helena Paparizou as its performer for the 50th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. ERT then selected four songs –"My Number One", "OK", "Let's Get Wild", and "The Light in Our Soul"– to be performed by her in a televised national final aired on 2 March 2005. Shortly before the national final, it was revealed that "The Light in Our Soul" had been already released by Big Alice, thus it was disqualified, leaving out only three songs. "My Number One" gained a combined 66.47% from televoting and jury votes winning the competition and becoming the Greek entry for Eurovision. The chorus of the song had already become a chant for AEK Athens supporters.
On 21 May 2005, the final for the Eurovision Song Contest was held at the Palace of Sports in Kyiv hosted by the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU), and broadcast live throughout the continent. As Greece had finished third at the previous contest, the song had been pre-qualified for the final. Paparizou performed "My Number One" nineteenth on the evening, following Croatia's "Vukovi umiru sami" by Boris Novković and LADO and preceding Russia's "Nobody Hurt No One" by Natalia Podolskaya. During her performance, she did a stage show of the song, choreographed by Fokas Evangelinos. Some of the memorable visuals from the show include her dancing a traditional Greek Pontian dance, the four dancers making the shape on the number 1 of the floor –showed from aerial camera– and her playing an imaginary lyra while her dancers pick her up.