page_title: Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
section_title: At Eurovision
hierarchical_section_title: Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 / At Eurovision
caption_attribution_description: English: Eurovision Song Contest Vienna 2015: Elhaida Dani Deutsch: Eurovision Song Contest Vienna 2015: Elhaida Dani
context_page_description: Albania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "I'm Alive", written by Zzap'n'Chris and Sokol Marsi. The song was performed by Elhaida Dani. In December 2014, Albanian broadcaster Radio Televizioni Shqiptar organised the national final Festivali i Këngës 53 in order to select the Albanian entry for the 2015 contest in Vienna, Austria. After two semi-final rounds and a final, Elhaida Dani and the song "Diell", written by Aldo Shllaku, Viola Trebicka and Sokol Marsi, was selected as the winner by a seven-member jury panel. In February 2015, "Diell" was withdrawn as the Albanian entry at the request of one of the songwriters and it was revealed that Elhaida Dani would perform the English language song "I'm Alive" at Eurovision. The entry was presented to the public in March 2015.
  In the first of the Eurovision semi-finals "I'm Alive" placed tenth out of the 16 participating countries, securing its place among the 27 other songs in the final. In Albania's 12th Eurovision appearance on 23 May, "I'm Alive" finished in seventeenth place, receiving 34 points.
context_section_description: According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big 5" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. In the 2015 contest, Australia also competed directly in the final as an invited guest nation. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into five different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 26 January 2015, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Albania was placed into the first semi-final, to be held on 19 May 2015, and was scheduled to perform in the second half of the show.
  Once all the competing songs for the 2015 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Albania was set to perform in position 14, following the entry from Denmark and before the entry from Romania.
  All three shows were broadcast in Albania on TVSH, RTSH HD, RTSH Muzikë and Radio Tirana with commentary by Andri Xhahu. The Albanian spokesperson, who announced the Albanian votes during the final, was Andri Xhahu.
caption: Elhaida Dani during a press meet and greet
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