Shum (song)

"Shum"
The official cover for "Shum"
Single by Go_A
Released22 January 2021
Genre
Length3:58 (original version)
3:02 (radio edit)
2:53 (Eurovision version)
LabelRocksoulana
Songwriter(s)
Go_A singles chronology
"Solovey"
(2020)
"Shum"
(2021)
"Kalyna"
(2022)
Alternative cover
Eurovision version cover
Music video
"Shum" on YouTube
Eurovision Song Contest 2021 entry
Country
Artist(s)
Language
Composer(s)
  • Taras Shevchenko
  • Kateryna Pavlenko
  • Ihor Didenchuk
Lyricist(s)
Finals performance
Semi-final result
2nd
Semi-final points
267
Final result
5th
Final points
364
Entry chronology
◄ "Solovey" (2020)
"Stefania" (2022) ►

"Shum" (Ukrainian: Шум, transl. "Noise") is a song by Ukrainian electro-folk band Go_A. It represented Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam.[3][4] It is the second song sung entirely in Ukrainian to represent the country at Eurovision (the first being "Solovey" also by Go_A in 2020), but the first to compete in Eurovision due to the cancellation of the 2020 contest.

"Shum" qualified for the 2021 Eurovision final, where it finished in fifth place with 364 points. They were the runner-ups of the public vote, behind eventual winner Italy, with 267 points, including a maximum of 12 points from five countries.[5] The Eurovision version of the song took the lead in the global Spotify Viral 50 daily list on 24 May 2021, where it stayed until 1 June, and led the weekly list on the week of 27 May.[6] It entered the Billboard Global 200 on the week of 5 June, at position 158, becoming the first ever Ukrainian-language song to chart there.[7] On the same week, it peaked at number 80 on the Billboard Global Excl. U.S.[8]

  1. ^ "Listen: Go_A release snippets of their three potential Eurovision 2021 entries...Selected song to be announced on Thursday". 3 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Ukrainian band Go_A present new song 'Shum' for Eurovision 2021 - KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice". 28 April 2021.
  3. ^ Kelly, Emma (11 February 2021). "Eurovision 2021: Who is competing in the Song Contest this year?". Metro. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Eurovision 2021 – Ukraine 🇺🇦 – Go_A – Shum". Eurovision France (in French). 6 February 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Grand Final of Rotterdam 2021". Eurovision. Retrieved 23 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Spotify Charts". www.spotifycharts.com. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ ""Вперше для україномовної музики": пісня "Шум" потрапила в американський чарт Billboard (фото)". Фокус (in Ukrainian). 2 June 2021.