Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
| Eurovision Song Contest 2015 | ||||
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| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Selecția Națională 2015 | |||
| Selection date(s) | 8 March 2015 | |||
| Selected entrant | Voltaj | |||
| Selected song | "De la capăt" | |||
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| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result | Qualified (5th, 89 points) | |||
| Final result | 15th, 35 points | |||
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Romania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "De la capăt" written by Călin Gavril Goia, Gabriel Constantin, Adrian Cristescu, Silviu-Marian Păduraru, Victor-Răzvan Alstani, Monica-Ana Stevens and Andrei-Madalin Leonte, and performed by Romanian band Voltaj. The nation's broadcaster, Televiziunea Română (TVR), organised the Selecția Națională 2015, a preselection show, in order to select the Romanian entry for the 2015 contest held in Vienna, Austria. In a field of twelve songs, "De la capăt" emerged as the winner after scoring top marks from both a jury panel and a public televote. While the track was performed at the Romanian national final in Romanian language, Voltaj finally decided to perform the song in a Romanian-English bilingual version at the Eurovision Song Contest. The recording garnered press attention over Europe for its message, which refers to Romanians who have left their children in Romania in order to support them by working in other countries. In the first of the Eurovision semi-finals, "De la capăt (All Over Again)" placed fifth out of the 16 participating countries, securing its place among the 27 other songs in the final. In Romania's seventeenth Eurovision appearance on 23 May, "De la capăt" finished in fifteenth place, receiving 35 points.
Prior to the 2015 Contest, Romania had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest sixteen times since its first entry in 1994. Its highest placing in the contest, to this point, has been third place, which the nation achieved on two occasions: in 2005 with the song "Let Me Try" performed by Luminiţa Anghel and Sistem and in 2010 with the song "Playing with Fire" performed by Paula Seling and Ovi. To this point, Romania has qualified to the final on every occasion since the introduction of semi-finals to the format of the contest in 2004. In 2014, Paula Seling and Ovi represented the nation once again, this time performing the song "Miracle". The duo managed to place 12th in the final.
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