"Believe" is the winning Russia

Russia

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n entry for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 2008

The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the 53rd edition of the Contest. It was hosted in Belgrade, Serbia after Marija Šerifović won the 2007 Contest in Helsinki, Finland. This year was the first contest to have two semi-finals which were held on 20 and 22 May, and the final held on 24 May 2008...

 sung by Dima Bilan

Dima Bilan

' is a Russian actor and pop singer . Bilan represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with "Never Let You Go", finishing second, and he won the contest in 2008 in Belgrade, with the song "Believe". He has had several Russian no. 1 hits....

. The song was composed and written by Jim Beanz (aka. James Washington)

Jim Beanz

James David Washington, better known under his stage name Jim Beanz, is an American vocal producer, songwriter, musician, singer and record producer from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, now working out of Philadelphia, signed to Timbaland Productions and Sunset Entertainment Group...

 & Dima Bilan. On 20 May 2008 Bilan sang in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, and the song was voted into the final by public vote. It was performed 24th out of 25 songs in the final on 24 May 2008.

The Russian figure skater, Olympic gold medalist and three-time world champion Evgeni Plushenko

Evgeni Plushenko

Evgeni Viktorovich Plushenko is a Russian figure skater. He is the 2006 Winter Olympics Gold Medalist, 2002 Winter Olympics Silver Medalist, and 2010 Winter Olympics Silver Medalist, three-time World Champion, six-time European Champion, a four-time Grand Prix Final champion and an eight-time...

, skated on artificial ice on stage as part of the song performance, while the Hungarian composer and violinist Edvin Marton

Edvin Marton

Edvin Marton is a Ukrainian composer and violinist of Hungarian ethnicity. He became known as the violinist of the skaters, mainly because Evgeni Plushenko, Stéphane Lambiel, and other famous skaters often skated to his music.- Biography :He was born in an area of Ukraine largely inhabited by...

 played his Stradivarius

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. This song won the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Eurovision Song Contest 2008

The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the 53rd edition of the Contest. It was hosted in Belgrade, Serbia after Marija Šerifović won the 2007 Contest in Helsinki, Finland. This year was the first contest to have two semi-finals which were held on 20 and 22 May, and the final held on 24 May 2008...

, finishing with a total of 272 points, becoming the fourth ex-Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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 country to win the annual contest. Dmitriy Medvedev, the president of Russia, admitted that he himself watched the contest and called right away to congratulate Dima.

In March 2008 a video was produced for the song Believe. The whole team took part in the production – Dima Bilan, Evgeni Plushenko, Edvin Marton and Yana Rudkovskaya, producer of Dima Bilan. The action of the video starts in a hospital where a mother finds out that her son has leukaemia and needs an expensive surgery. Then the action proceeds to a bar where Dima Bilan is watching TV and finds out that a child needs help. He immediately calls his producer, Yana Rudkovskaya, and tells her that they have to do something to raise money to help a child survive. They decide to give a charity concert with all the three participants performing. At the end of the video you can see the boy after the surgery. He smiles, gets up from the wheelchair and runs to greet the people who saved his life. Dima, Evgeni and Edvin meet the boy with presents happy that the money raised at the concert saved a child’s life. The video is strongly connected to the song delivering the message that everything is possible in this world if you only believe.

Dima Bilan also represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 2006

The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 was the 51st Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Olympic Indoor Hall in Athens, Greece on 18 May and 20 May 2006 . The hosting national broadcaster of the contest was Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi . The Finnish band Lordi won the contest with the song "Hard Rock...

 in 2006, with the dark pop song "Never Let You Go

Never Let You Go (Dima Bilan song)

"Never Let You Go" is a pop/rock song that was performed by Dima Bilan at the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. He was representing Russia and ended up in 2nd place....

", where he took second place.

The song also has its Russian version which was equally popular in many countries.

Track listing

Russian edition

1. Believe (Radio Version)
2. Believe (with violin)
3. Believe (with violin, Karaoke)
4. Believe (Russian Version - Все в твоих руках - All in your hands)
5. Believe (Russian Version, Karaoke)
6. Believe (Video)
7. Как раньше 2.0 (As before)
8. Как раньше 2.0 (Karaoke)
9. Photosession
10. Dima's biography (in English)

German edition

1. Believe (Eurovision Version)
2. Believe (Radio Edit)
3. Believe (Russian Version)
4. Believe (Video)

Belgian edition

1. Believe (Radio Version) - 3:17
2. Believe (Russian Version) - 3:17
3. Believe (Spanish Version) - 3:17
4. Believe (Video) - 4:03

Release history

Region	Date
Russia
Germany
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
Norway
Sweden

Charts

Chart (2008)	Peak Position
Belgian (Flanders) Singles Chart Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts...	66
German Singles Chart	52
Swedish Singles Chart	28