"Tell Me!" was the entry in the

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, performed in English by August & Telma. The song is an up-tempo duet, with the singers confessing their love for one another and planning to leave where they are in order to "be together all the time". "Tell Me!" was performed twelfth in the Eurovision Song Contest, following '

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with " Nomiza" and preceding 's Serafín Zubiri with " Colgado de un sueño". At the close of voting, it had received 45 points, placing 12th in a field of 24. The song was succeeded as Icelandic representative at the 2001 contest by Two Tricky with "

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". In Iceland, record label Skífan released "Tell Me!" as a

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in 2000 backed with the

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s "Segðu mér" and "Simple Man" by Örlygur Smári (credited as Öggi), who co-wrote "Tell Me!". The song received copious airplay in Iceland, topping the country's singles chart for two weeks in May 2000. It ended the year as Iceland's fifth-most-successful single.

Icelandic version

The Icelandic version, titled "Hvert sem er" (translated as "Anywhere"), won Söngvakeppnin 2000 with 4318 teveloting votes, over three times more than the runner-up song "Söknuður" performed by Páll Rósinkranz. The Icelandic version was recorded but not released.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

Lyrics of the Icelandic version with translation

Lyrics of the English version
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