This Is Our Night
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| Single by Sakis Rouvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| from the album This Is Our Night | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| B-side | "Right on Time" "Out of Control" |
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| Released | 12 February 2009 (see release history) |
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| Format | Radio single, digital download, CD single | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | September 2008–January 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Electropop, dance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 2:59 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Minos EMI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Dimitris Kontopoulos, Craig Porteils, Cameron Giles-Webb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Dimitris Kontopoulos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"This Is Our Night" is a song by Greek singer Sakis Rouvas, from the album Irthes. It was selected as Greece's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. The song was released as a digital download along with the other candidate songs from the national final on February 25 and was soon released as a three track CD single and then included on the re-release of Rouvas' 2008 album Irthes which was renamed This Is Our Night.
The song was produced by Dimitris Kontopoulos as one of the three candidates that Rouvas would sing for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009. The lyrics were written by two Greek Australian songwriters: Craig Porteils, who had previously written and produced hits for Cher, Billy Idol, Tevin Campbell, Richie Sambora, Guns N' Roses and Ozzy Osbourne, and Cameron Giles-Webb, who is the president of Gusto Music. It is described as being a "powerful dance song".
Pertaining the song, Rouvas said:
The song was presented as the last performance of the press conference held on 12 February 2009 where the three songs were revealed. The song was performed by Rouvas at the Greek National Final where it placed first.
At the end of voting, "This Is Our Night" was revealed as the winner receiving over eighty percent of the votes. "Right on Time" and "Out of Control" placed second and third respectively.
The song was performed in Moscow during the second semi-final on 14 May 2009 and was one of the ten performances which qualified for the grand final. In the final on 16 May, "This Is Our Night" finished in seventh place with a total of 120 points, receiving maximum 12 points from Albania, Bulgaria, and Cyprus. The song therefore carried on Greece's Eurovision success by finishing within the top-ten for the sixth consecutive year, thus making the country the second most successful entrant of the past decade, despite not having even participated in 2000. The event was watched by 86% of the Greek television audience.
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