"Crazy" is a song performed by Croatian singer

Franka Batelić Franka Batelić (born 7 June 1992), also known as Franka, is a Croatian singer-songwriter. She rose to fame as the winner of the first season of ''Showtime''. She represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Crazy". Li ...

. It was announced on 13 February 2018 by HRT. The song represented

Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 Croatia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 with the song "Crazy" written by Branimir Mihaljević and Franka Batelić. The song was performed by Franka, which is the artistic name of singer Franka Batelić who was selected internally ...

Background

Prior to writing "Crazy", Batelić stated that she had written three other possible

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entries, but ultimately chose "Crazy" as she felt "it was the only right choice". "Crazy" was written by Branimir Mihaljević and Franka Batelić and produced by Mihaljević and Denis Mevlja. A snippet of the song was released on 26 February 2018. On 6 March 2018 it was revealed that a longer teaser of the song together with its music video would be shown as part of the evening news on HTV 1. The song was released as a digital download on 7 March 2018 through Karpo Media.

Eurovision Song Contest

The Croatian national broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) originally planned to choose its representative through the national selection process '' Dora''. In December 2017 it was revealed that the national selection process had been scrapped and how the representative would be chosen through internal selection instead. On 13 February 2018, the Croatian Broadcaster announced that Batelić would represent the country at the

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. She performed in the second half of the first semi-final. Batelić follows

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as the Croatian representative. Houdek qualified to the grand final of the 2017 contest, where he placed 13th with 128 points.

Commercial performance

"Crazy" debuted at number six on the Croatian HR Top 40, marking her third appearance on the chart, her first two being with the singles " Ljubav je..." and " S tobom" respectively. In its second week on the chart the song rose to number three, making it Croatia's highest charting

entry on the HR Top 40. Afterwards it became Batelić's first song to reach number two on the

HR Top 40 The HR Top 40 are the main Croatian domestic singles airplay chart, issued weekly by the Croatian Music Institute (Institut Hrvatske Glazbe) and the Croatian Phonographic Association (Hrvatska Diskografska Udruga) through Top lista. The charts ar ...

, in the issue dated 2 April 2018; her previous highest peak on the chart was with 2017's " S tobom", which reached number three.

Music video

The video's teaser was released on 26 February 2018. The music video for "Crazy" was directed by Sandra Mihaljević and Igor Ivanović, who had previously collaborated with Batelić on the music video for her single " S tobom". The video was filmed in the "Zorin Dom" theater in

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Track listing

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Release history

References

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