THIS YEAR'S ENTRY

Germany is the only country to have entered every Eurovision Song Contest since the competition began back in 1956. Unfortunatly, the German entry failed to get through the pre-selection process introduced for one year in 1996, but otherwise they have competed at all the Eurovision finals. Interest in Eurovision remains high and almost all the recent winner and German entries have been hits in the German charts.

This year German television decided to once again try a national final in an attempt to reverse their Eurovision fortunes. Hamburg staged the selection on March 6th, with five acts offering a wide variety of musical styles to the televoters. The entry was chosen over two rounds of voting, with the second two song "Super Final" eventually choosing the winner. After one of the closest votes of the year, the well known girl group No Angels go to Belgrade with the song "Disappear".

No Angels first found fame in 2001 when the band won the first German "Popstars" contest. Their debut single "Daylight In Your Eyes" and their album "Elle'ments" went straight to #1 and they then kicked off sold-out tours, winning countless music and media awards and earning and gold and platinum awards. The albums "Now... Us" and "Pure" both topped the German charts as well as the swing album "When The Angels Swing" silenced critics as No Angels shook off the clichés and prejudices associated with being a manufactured band. They had become the biggest-selling German girlband of all time, gaining total record sales in excess of five million in just two years.

By the autumn of 2003, the five members announced their official disbandment due to "exhaustion," focusing on their individual solo careers in music, theatre, television and film. However, on January 31st 2007, it was confirmed that four members of the original line-up (Nadja Benaissa, Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling and Jessica Wahls) had re-formed and were recording their first studio album in over four years, and in April 2007 the band's fourth studio album, Destiny was released, raching #4 in the German charts.

When the line-up of this year's German national final was announced, most attention focussed on No Angels and their song "Disappear" and the band recorded a promotional video and made several television appearances to promote their entry. Since narrowly winning the German ticket to Eurovision, the song has gone on to be a Top 10 hit in the German charts and is the first single from No Angels new ablum, which is in the shops before the Eurovision Song Contest.

The songwriting team behind this year's German Eurovision entry are from Scandinavia. 27 year old Thomas Troelsen is a composer and music producer from Denmark.  Troelsen is responsible for chart-topping hits like Monrose's "Hot Summer", Junior Senior's "Move Your Feet" and Melody Club's "Baby." He was also the lead singer of the band Superheroes and he is currently fronting the band PRIVATE.

Fellow Dane, Remee (born Mikkel Johan Imer Sigvardt in 1974) is a composer and song writer. He has written and composed songs for Jamelia, Shayne Ward, Blue, Shaznay Lewis, Monrose, Robyn, Beverley Knight, O-Town, Lee Ryan, S.O.A.P. and many more. Remee won a British Ivor Novello Award for "Superstar" with Cutfather and Joe, a Swedish Grammy for "Song of the Year" for Darins "Money for nothing", Danish Music Awards for best Jazz, best hip hop, best pop album etc. British award nominations for Jamelia. Remee has written more than 60 hits around the world and sold over 20 million records. Remee has also had songs in various Hollywood movies including "Ice Age 2", "Bridget Jones Diary 2", "Dr Dolittle" and "Ratatouille". Remee also hosted the Danish Junior Eurovision final 2003 in Copenhagen and he has been a judge on the Danish version of "X Factor".

The third songwriter of the German entry hails from norway Hanne Margrethe Fredriksen Sørvaag is a Norwegian singer/songwriter born in Stavanger in 1979. She is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden and she has released two albums as a singer as well as being a successful songwriter.

Despite being an automatic finalist, the German entry is one of the outsiders for victory in Belgrade and although it is doing marginally better in internet fan polls, it is not generating as much attention as the last two German Eurovision entries, both of which surprisingly failed to make the Top 10 in the contest.

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