page_title: San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
section_title: At Eurovision
hierarchical_section_title: San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 / At Eurovision
caption_attribution_description: English: Eurovision Song Contest Vienna 2015: Michele Perniola &amp; Anita Simoncini Deutsch: Eurovision Song Contest Vienna 2015: Michele Perniola &amp; Anita Simoncini
context_page_description: San Marino participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Chain of Lights", written by Ralph Siegel and John O'Flynn. The song was performed by Anita Simoncini and Michele Perniola. The Sammarinese broadcaster SMtv San Marino announced in November 2014 that it had internally selected their former Junior Eurovision Song Contest entrants Anita Simoncini and Michele Perniola to represent the nation at the 2015 contest in Vienna, Austria. Their song "Chain of Lights" was presented to the public later in March 2015. In the second of the Eurovision semi-finals, San Marino failed to qualify to the final, placing sixteenth out of the 17 participating countries with 11 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. San Marino was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 21 May 2015, and was scheduled to perform in the first 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. San Marino was set to perform in position 3, following the entry from Ireland and before the entry from Montenegro.
  All three shows were broadcast in San Marino on SMtv San Marino and Radio San Marino with commentary by Lia Fiorio and Gigi Restivo. The Sammarinese spokesperson, who announced the Sammarinese votes during the final, was 2012, 2013 and 2014 Eurovision entrant Valentina Monetta.
caption: Michele Perniola and Anita Simoncini at a press meet and greet
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