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Part twenty-two
Introducing 2010: The United Kingdom
Basic information
| Performer: | Josh |
| Song: | That sounds good to me |
| Language: | English |
| Music: | Pete Waterman, Mike Stock, Steve Crosby |
| Lyrics: | Pete Waterman, Mike Stock, Steve Crosby |
| Draw: | 12th in the final |
The song
That sounds good to me is a mid-tempo/up-tempo pop song, whose arrangement is still kept a secret as the final studio version has not been released yet. Through the lyrics, the singer paints a picture showing the one he's in love with how good it would be if they were together:
And loving hands to guide me
Anything is possible to do
So if you bring the sunshine
I'll bring the good times
Just add your laughter
It's happy ever after
I don't know about you
But that sounds good to me
The performer
Josh Dubovie is from Laindon in the county of Essex. He is a newcomer in the music business, but he has starred in various musical prodcutions at his school, where he appeared in My fair lady, The King and I and West Side Story, among others. He auditioned for a role in the popular TV series Skins and he also took part in the castings of the talent searches The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent.
He was one of the six contestants in the UK national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. Josh was chosen as the country's representative with his version of the song That sounds good to me. After his victory, various different versions of the song were recorded and the final studio version is yet to be published.
The songwriters
The UK entry was written by Pete Waterman, Mike Stock and Steve Crosby. Pete Waterman and Mike Stock are known as two thirds of the highly successful prodcution trio Stock Aitken Waterman. They have written and/or produced many hit songs for acts like Bananarama (Venus), Dead or Alive (You spin me round (like a record)), Jason Donovan (Sealed with a kiss), Kylie Minogue (I should be so lucky, Better the devil you know) and Rick Astley (Never gonna give you up). One of the first songs they produced was the Cypriot entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1984, Anna Mari-Elena, which was written and performed by Andy Paul. Steve Cross has worked with Pete Waterman before as he co-wrote songs for Steps. He also wrote songs for the Icelandic children's television series LazyTown.
The national selection
After a good result in Moscow, the UK broadcaster revived last year's national selection with a slightly different format. Pete Waterman was invited to compose the song. Six acts took part in the national final and each of them performed a Stock Aitken Waterman song in the first round. The composer narrowed down the number of contestants to three, who would all perform the song That sounds good to me. Josh Dubovie was then chosen by televoting to represent the United Kingdom in Oslo.
The United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest
The United Kingdom debuted in the second edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. After a break in 1958, the country returend in 1959 and has not missed an edition since making it the country with the most consecutive participations and, along with France, the country with the second most participations in total. In total, the United Kingdom won the contest five times, finished second 15 times and came third three times and is therefore proabably the most succesful country ever. However, over the last ten participations, the UK finished in the top ten only twice and achieved its first two last places in 2003 and 2008.
We wish the United Kingdom and Josh Dubovie the best of luck and a good result in Oslo!
Videos
Performance in the national final/Preview video:
Performing Too many broken hearts by Jason Donovan in the first round of Your Country Needs You:
Performing Me and my shadow with Mike Shearer:
Tomorrow, we will take a look at the Latvian entry.
Previous parts of this series:
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What an idiot Montenegro is with his political talk...THIS IS A SONG CONTEST!!! Maybe you do not understand this?
I don't like it when British people here claim that we are against their entry no matter how good it is or not. I can't speak for others, but it certainly isn't true in my case.
It just is a terrible song and it is outdated. I know a lot of people, including me, has said that about several songs every year, but this really fits with UK's entry this year. Last year I didn't like their entry either, but at least it was "average" and a slight improvement, but this year they took a step backwards again. It's just so bad, so cheap, so awful that I'm embarrassed on poor Josh's behalf. Better luck next year!
Yes, thanks Garry Chelsea!
WOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH H!!!!
@dimitris The fact that people had proclaimed that we were the worst before we actually even picked out singer and song shows the biased against the UK.
Thanks garry Chelsea for the tip...am liking a lot the alexis pictures!
a certain proportion of people will refuse to support the UK regardless of how good our song is solely because of political motivations.
Christofer Kirkland
But please,do send a winner first and then start complaining about the blocking vote etc...Last year you were 5th with a below average song for God's shake!!! 
alexi from your country need you stars in new west end play "dirty white boy-tales of soho "see his topless production pics here http://www.digitalsp(...)/gayspy/blog/gayspy/
Montenegro - either you are wanting to wind everyone up or you are quite ill. Either way - ESCTODAY editors please remove his comments. A eurovision forum has no place for pathological hate such as yours.
And Gibraltar.....excuse me? British since 1703 and in the last referendum 99.4% of people voted to keep the status quo.
ESCTODAY moderators - pLEASE PLEASE remove Montenegro's comments
Please keep politics out of Eurovision!!!
UK does not respect territorial integrity of even four European states:
1.Spain - Gibraltar
2.Cyprus - Akrotiri and Dhekelia
3.Serbia - Kosovo
4.Ireland - Northern Ireland
So, the UK has no right to win the ESC. Such a country (UK) is a shame for Europe!
UK will never win again as God will not permit it due to the UK's crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, ex-YU, Falkland Islands etc...
@Sara Yes I would say that we are at a disadvantage here in the UK. There is a biased against the UK for several reasons including the fact that we don't get bloc voting. Secondly political reasons I think comments such as the one from Montenegro Mediterraneo highlight that a certain proportion of people will refuse to support the UK regardless of how good our song is solely because of political motivations.
Rob Dell
would the UK have really won if we had entered Fairytale? I doubt it.
So what you say is that Norway have an advantage that UK haven't and that we have an easier chance to win? Fairytale would have won regardless of which country it represented. We didn't get votes from all countries only because the song was from Norway....
agneta, why do you post this prechart thingy in every article?
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What I've experienced during watching their national final didn't seem NOR sounded good to me 
Sorry 2.5/ 10 , #37 on my list...
And don't start moaning about diaspora or neighbour voting because last year with a good song and great perfomance UK DESERVED top 10 
GOOD LUCK!!!
I don't like this year UK entry. Jade and her song was much better last year. I hope that the new version is better.
I wish the worst result to the UK, to come last with zero points just like in Riga 2003, two months after the bloody aggression on Iraq!
Anyone else agree?
...rob peters you seriously need to chill out! You seem very uptight and serious all the time. Also please refrain from calling me names. Maybe get a life?!?
Pre-chart of 2010
Winner estimate 2010
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Pre-chart of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010,
National jury score
updated 19th April 2010
thanks to total of 2861 voters, from 68 different countries:
includes votes (received/updated): 20th March - 11th April 2010
1885 active votes (updated after 20th March)
Points of national juries:
Country codes
COUNTRY VOTERS* 12 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ROMANIA 13 ARM NOR GRC DNK ISR TUR FRA ALB MDA ISL
IRELAND 20 HRV ISR DNK SVK SWE BEL DEU NOR AZE GEO
GERMANY 112 ARM HRV ISR TUR AZE IRL ESP DNK SVK GRC
SERBIA 47 ARM HRV ISR SVK DEU DNK TUR AZE ESP ROU
ALBANIA 2 ARM DNK ESP GRC EST TUR LVA CHE SVK BLR
TURKEY 94 AZE DEU ARM BIH DNK ROU ALB SWE MKD BEL
CROATIA 42 ARM AZE SVK BIH DEU ISR IRL DNK NOR SRB
POLAND 45 SVK ISR ARM HRV AZE DNK ALB DEU TUR ROU
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 14 HRV SRB TUR SVK SWE DNK ALB CYP AZE ROU
FINLAND 85 ARM ISR ISL ESP HRV NOR SVK SWE SRB AZE
COUNTRY VOTERS 12 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
SLOVENIA 14 HRV DNK SRB ARM AZE SWE NOR TUR ISL BIH
ESTONIA 7 AZE LVA DNK SWE FIN HRV ARM ROU ALB MLT
RUSSIA 59 ARM AZE TUR MDA ISR GRC HRV ISL BLR ROU
PORTUGAL 83 ESP ARM DNK ISR NOR SVK AZE DEU SWE FRA
AZERBAIJAN 13 TUR GEO NOR ISR UKR SWE RUS BLR BIH NLD
GREECE 133 CYP ARM ISR ESP AZE DNK DEU SWE ALB SVK
ICELAND 1 IRL DEU HRV NLD SVK PRT NOR FRA ALB BEL
DENMARK 35 SWE DEU NOR ISL AZE ARM SVK TUR HRV CHE
FRANCE 65 ISR ARM ESP DNK GRC SVK IRL NOR HRV ALB
SPAIN 219 DNK ISR DEU ISL NOR ARM SWE SVK AZE PRT
COUNTRY VOTERS 12 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
SLOVAKIA 11 HRV DNK SRB POL CYP DEU BIH EST FRA BGR
BULGARIA 13 HRV DNK GRC ARM MKD NOR SVK IRL ISL SRB
UKRAINE 33 AZE BLR ARM DEU ISR RUS HRV TUR GRC ISL
LATVIA 11 AZE HRV EST PRT DNK NOR BEL GEO CYP UKR
MALTA 11 ISR DNK HRV GRC ISL NOR ARM FRA ESP DEU
NORWAY 57 ARM AZE SWE SVK DNK ROU CYP ISR CHE DEU
CYPRUS 22 GRC ISR ARM TUR DNK MDA NOR SWE ESP DEU
LITHUANIA 18 LVA DNK ARM ESP BEL NOR SWE DEU ROU AZE
BELARUS 12 ARM ISR AZE NOR DNK FIN TUR CHE SVK LVA
SWITZERLAND 12 DEU ARM ISR ALB ESP TUR DNK HRV SWE AZE
COUNTRY VOTERS 12 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
BELGIUM 35 DNK ISR GRC NOR HRV SWE ARM ESP SVK IRL
UNITED KINGDOM 117 DNK IRL DEU HRV ISL SWE NOR ISR AZE ARM
NETHERLANDS 49 BEL DEU NOR IRL SKV ARM DNK ISR ISL HRV
ISRAEL 146 DNK AZE HRV ROU SVK DEU PRT ARM IRL ESP
FYR MACEDONIA 12 ALB HRV BIH SRB EST FIN BGR SVK TUR BLR
MOLDOVA 1 DNK SRB ARM DEU ESP AZE RUS NOR ISL TUR
GEORGIA 6 ARM GRC CYP DEU RUS LVA PRT NOR SWE ROU
SWEDEN 51 ISR HRV NOR DNK ARM ESP DEU SVK ALB TUR
ARMENIA 52 RUS GRC GEO DEU FRA BLR ESP MKD UKR BEL
COUNTRY VOTERS 12 10 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
* = active voters
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The results, all 39/39 countries voted
POS SEMI 1 SEMI 2 COUNTRY PERFORMER 
TITLE POINTS 12 points
1 1 Armenia Armenia Eva Rivas Apricot stone 259 10
2 2 Denmark Denmark Chanée & N'evergreen In a moment like this 229 5
3 3 Israel Israel Harel Skaat Milim 184 3
4 4 Croatia Croatia Feminnem Lako je sve 181 5
5 5 Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Safura Drip drop 149 4
6 Germany Germany Lena Meyer-Landrut Satellite 142 1
7 Norway Norway Didrik Solli-Tangen My heart is yours 123 0
8 1 Slovakia Slovakia Kristina Horehronie 106 1
9 6 Sweden Sweden Anna Bergendahl This is my life 85 1
10 Spain Spain Daniel Diges Algo pequeñito 84 1
10 2 Greece Greece Giorgos Alkaios & Friends OPA 84 1
12 7 Turkey Turkey maNga We could be the same 80 1
13 8 Ireland Ireland Niamh Kavanagh It's for you 48 1
14 3 Iceland Iceland Hera Björk Je ne sais quoi 47 0
14 3 Serbia Serbia Milan Stankovic Ovo je Balkan 47 0
16 5 Albania Albania Juliana Pasha It's all about you 43 1
17 9 Cyprus Cyprus Jon Lilygreen & The Islanders Life looks better in spring 35 1
18 6 Latvia Latvia Aisha What for? 32 1
19 7 Russia Russia Peter Nalitch & Friends Lost & forgotten 31 1
20 8 Belgium Belgium Tom Dice Me and my guitar 30 1
21 9 Bosnia & Herzegovina Bosnia & Herzegovina Vukašin Brajic Thunder and lightning 29 0
22 10 Romania Romania Paula Seling & Ovi Playing with fire 27 0
23 10 Estonia Estonia Malcolm Lincoln Siren 23 0
24 11 Georgia Georgia Sofia Nizharadze Shine 22 0
24 11 Belarus Belarus 3 + 2 Butterflies 22 0
26 12 Portugal Portugal Filipa Azevedo Há dias assim 21 0
27 France France Jessy Matador Allez Ola 19 0
28 13 Finland Finland Kuunkuiskaajat Työlki ellää 16 0
29 14 Moldova Moldova Sunstroke Project & Olia Tira Run away 14 0
30 15 FYR Macedonia FYR Macedonia Gjoko Taneski Jas ja imam silata 11 0
31 12 Switzerland Switzerland Michael von der Heide Il pleut de l'or 9 0
31 12 Ukraine Ukraine Alyosha Sweet people 9 0
33 14 Netherlands Netherlands Sieneke Ik ben verliefd (Sha-la-lie) 8 0
34 16 Poland Poland Marcin Mrozinski Legenda 7 0
35 15 Bulgaria Bulgaria Miro Angel si ti 5 0
36 17 Malta Malta Thea Garrett My dream 1 0
37 16 Lithuania Lithuania InCulto East European funk 0 0
37 16 Slovenia Slovenia Ansambel Žlindra & Kalamari Narodnozabavni rock 0 0
37 United Kingdom United Kingdom Josh That sounds good to me 0 0
Rob Peters - are you serious?? Well, if UK do come top four, i'll take my hat off to you!
Rob Dell - i feel really mean now. Sorry to chase you away. But i love the idea of being a rose tinted little petal in my Garden of Eden, that's made me smile big time! I hope everyone, but most of all you, has a happy Eurovision season.
bg- Do NOT ever mock psychic powers please
I am a genuine psychic and know the results- unfortunately idiots like you give genuine people like me a bad name
Uk will come last, also predict flops for all the Scandinavian entries...biggest surprise will be Romania. Azerbaijan and Armenia the controversial top 2. Also the other volcano in Iceland will erupt next month after a hotter than usual may...yes I'm psyhic!
this one was funny /the end of th post /
Both Serbia and Croatia will give a big ZERO to the UK.
Uk will come last, also predict flops for all the Scandinavian entries...biggest surprise will be Romania. Azerbaijan and armenia the controversial top 2. Also the other volcano in Iceland will erupt next month after a hotter than usual may...yes I'm psyhic!
If Fairytale had been UK entry - then I reckon Iceland would have won, with UK maybe 3rd or possibly 2nd.
Come on!
you were 5th with "my time" and you wouldn'
t win with "fairytale''???
100% of UK fans on ESC today saying everthing is wonderful with our rose tinted spectacles
You clearly haven't been reading the same comments that I have from UK fans on here! Anyway, even if the UK comes last, I'm not really that bothered, the voting is so skewed now that many of the results aren't even credible. If one country sends an average song it's doomed, if another sends a bad song - top 10 guaranteed. Get your own people to vote in their thousands in several countries and you can't fail, it is just meaningless.
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