No no never

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No no never
Texas Lightning
publication March 26, 2006
length 3:00
Genre (s) Country
Author (s) Jane Comerford
album Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch ...
Jane Comerford and Jon Flemming Olsen appearing on Texas Lightning in September 2007

No No Never is a country song by the German group Texas Lightning from 2006. The band competed for Germany with the title as part of the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens . The song received 36 points and took 15th place. With a chart listing of 38 weeks, No No Never is the second most successful Eurovision song in Germany since 1959.

Background information

The piece was written by the band's singer, Jane Comerford . In the German preliminary round , Texas Lightning competed against Thomas Anders and Vicky Leandros and won the majority of the audience. The song sings of unshakable love for a person.

Eurovision Song Contest 2006

The rather unusual choice of a country songs for the contest and, referring to the venue of Athens ( English Athens ) was the BBC commentator Terry Wogan asked the question: "Are we in Athens, Georgia ?" ( "Are we in the city of Athens landed in the US state of Georgia? ").

Scoring for Germany:

Points number countries
12 points 0 ×
10 points 0 ×
8 points 0 ×
7 points 1 × Switzerland
6 points 0 ×
5 points 3 × Great Britain , Spain , Albania
4 points 0 ×
3 points 4 × Denmark , Latvia , Ireland , the Netherlands
2 points 0 ×
1 point 2 × Belgium , Norway
0 points 27 × Slovenia , Romania , Andorra , Portugal , Sweden , Finland , Hungary , Serbia and Montenegro , Estonia , Malta , Lithuania , Cyprus , Ukraine , Russia , Poland , Armenia , France , Belarus , Moldova , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Iceland , Monaco , Israel , Greece , Bulgaria , Macedonia , Turkey

Chart successes

No No Never was able to achieve great sales success in the German-speaking charts. The single went platinum.

Chart placements
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 1 (38 weeks) 38
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 4th (34 weeks) 34
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 6th (34 weeks) 34

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hitparade.ch
  2. ↑ songcontest.ch
  3. ↑ songcontest.ch
  4. ↑ Most successful Eurovision title ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. chartsurfer.de, accessed on November 24, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chartsurfer.de
  5. ↑ hitparade.ch
  6. ^ ARD: The German preliminary decision 2006 - 50 years of the Grand Prix
  7. ↑ BBC - Eurovision Song Contest 2006
  8. ↑ Eurovision Song Contest 2006 Final - Scoreboard. eurovision.tv, May 20, 2006; Retrieved November 12, 2012.
  9. ↑ musikindustrie.de
  10. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH
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