Eurovision Song Contest 2017 | ||||
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Country | Greece | |||
National selection | ||||
Selection process | Artist: Internal selection Song: Ellinikós Telikós 2017 | |||
Selection date(s) | Artist: 13 January 2017 Song: 6 March 2017 | |||
Selected artist(s) | Demy | |||
Selected song | "This Is Love" | |||
Selected songwriter(s) | ||||
Finals performance | ||||
Semi-final result | Qualified (10th, 115 points) | |||
Final result | 19th, 77 points | |||
Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Greece participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "This Is Love" written by Dimitris Kontopoulos, Romy Papadea and John Ballard. The song was performed by Demy, who was internally selected by the Greek broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) to represent Greece at the 2017 contest in Kyiv, Ukraine. Demy was announced at the Greek representative on 13 January 2017, while a national final was held in order to select the song she would perform. Three songs competed in the national final on 6 March 2017 and a combination of international jury voting and public voting selected "This Is Love" as the winning song.
Greece was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 9 May 2017. Performing 10th during the show, "This Is Love" was announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 13 May. It was later revealed that Greece placed tenth out of the 18 participating countries in the semi-final with 115 points. In the final, Greece performed 15th and placed 19th out of the 26 participating countries, scoring 77 points.