Friday, January 10, 2014

Belarus - Teo - Cheesecake

Digital release image
16 - 43 pts / 5 - 87 pts in semi 2
Teo (Yuri  /Yura Vashchuk, Юрий Ващук) has won the Belarus national final with the song Cheesecake.
The song is written by Vashchuk himself with lyrics by Dmitry Novik.
Watch and listen here
A new version was recorded for Eurovision and several remixes will be released.

A promo cd /dvd set has five versions of Cheesecake.
1. Cheesecake
2. Cheesecake - Karaoke
3. Cheesecake - Acapella ft Five Men
4. Cheesecake - DJ Nejtrino & DJ Baur remix
5. Cheesecake - DJ Famous remix
and on the dvd
1. Cheesecake - Karaoke video
2. Cheesecake - Video

Belarus TV has hardly ever stuck to the original winner chosen, so chances are, this is probably not the entry for Copenhagen yet.
Teo is an expert on being replaced in Belarus. He co-wrote the winning songs of the 2010, 2012 and 2013 Belarus National Finals, but they all got replaced.

Versions
Cheesecake - Eurovision version
- on official Copenhagen CD
Cheesecake - Karaoke
- on the official karaoke album, digital release
Cheesecake - ft. Five Men (Acapella version)
Cheesecake - DJ Nejtrino & DJ Baur remix - free Download at Luxury Music Soundcloud
Cheesecake - DJ Famous remix
- all above on promo set.
Cheesecake - Original version
- first digital release*
* iTunes original digital release has been replaced with the new version, even though the old januari release date is still mentioned.

Charts
Ireland top 100: 68, -
Austria top 75: 75, -
Sweden Digilistan top 60 (Digital sales charts): 49, -
U.K. top 200: 140,-

More Belarus
Alyona Lanskaya finished 16th in Malmö with the country's 10th entry Solayoh, but Litesound (2012) and Belarus Loving Anastasia Vinnikova (2011) didn't make it to the final.
3 + 2 and their Butterfly wings made it to #24 in the final in 2010. Eyes That Never Lie by Peter Elfimov stranded in the semi.
Belarus made it to the final three times out of ten.

Links and sources
Yuri / Teo's FB
BT (TVR) Eurovision pages
Thanks to Jean-François

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