Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019

Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Eurovision Song Contest 2019
Country	Finland
National selection
Selection process	Artist: Internal selection; Song: Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2019
Selection date(s)	Artist: 29 January 2019; Song: 2 March 2019
Selected entrant	Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman
Selected song	"Look Away"
Selected songwriter(s)	Ville Virtanen; Sebastian Rejman;
Finals performance
Semi-final result	Failed to qualify (17th)
Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest

Finland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Look Away" written and performed by Ville Virtanen under the stage name Darude and Sebastian Rejman. Darude and Sebastian Rejman were internally selected by the Finnish broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle) in January 2019 to represent the nation at the 2019 contest in Tel Aviv, Israel. The national final Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2019 was organised in order to select the song that Darude and Rejman would perform. Three songs were selected to compete in the national final on 2 March 2019 where the 50/50 combination of votes from eight international jury groups and votes from the public selected "Look Away" as the winning song.

Finland was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 14 May 2019. Performing during the show in position 3, "Look Away" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Finland placed seventeenth (last) out of the 17 participating countries in the semi-final with 23 points.