Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018

Cyprus in the
Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Eurovision Song Contest 2018
Participating broadcasterCyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC)
Country Cyprus
Selection processInternal selection
Announcement date1 February 2018
Competing entry
Song"Fuego"
ArtistEleni Foureira
Songwriters
Placement
Semi-final resultQualified (2nd, 262 points)
Final result2nd, 436 points
Participation chronology
◄2017 2018 2019►

Cyprus was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Fuego", written by Alex Papaconstantinou, Gerlado Sandell, Viktor Svensson, Anderz Wrethov and Didrick, and performed by Greek singer Eleni Foureira. The Cypriot participating broadcaster, Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC), originally planned to select its entry through a televised national final with half the points being given by a televote and the other half a jury vote, but this aspect was discarded in January 2018 and it opted to choose its entry via an internal selection. Foureira was announced as the singer on 1 February, and her song "Fuego" and the accompanying music video premiered on the CyBC evening news bulletin on 2 March. Foureira travelled to Stockholm in mid-April to prepare for the competition by meeting and working with her dancers.

Cyprus was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 8 May 2018. Performing as the closing entry of the show in position 19, "Fuego" was announced among the top 10 entries and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 12 May. It was later revealed that Cyprus placed second out of eighteen participating countries in the first semi-final with 262 points. In the final, Cyprus performed second-to-last in position twenty-five and received 436 points, finishing as runners-up to Israel in the island nation's best ever result of its Eurovision Song Contest history.