"The Moon" is a song recorded by Romanian group

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. It was released as a CD single in 2000 by Intercont Music in Romania, containing its

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version "Luna" as a

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. "The Moon" was written and produced solely by Teodorescu. It represented in the

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, Sweden, after "Luna" won the pre-selection show ''

Selecția Națională Romania has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 22 times since its debut in , and has placed in the top ten six times. Its best results were achieved by Luminița Anghel and Sistem in , and by Paula Seling and Ovi in , who both finished ...

''. In Stockholm, Romania automatically qualified to the final due to their relegation in the previous year and finished in 17th place with 25 points.

Background and release

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of "The Moon" was released in 2000 by Intercont Music in Romania, further containing "Luna", the Romanian-language version of the song; both tracks last for two minutes and 58 seconds. "The Moon" was written and produced solely by Teodorescu.

At Eurovision

National selection

On 27 February 2000, the ''Selecția Națională'' song contest was held in order to select the Romanian entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest. Subsequently, "Luna" was chosen to represent Romania in the contest solely by public televoting. Originally, the span of time in which the public could vote for entries was set to one hour, and eventually extended to three hours without prior announcement. Taxi's win was surrounded by controversy after second-placed Romanian group threatened to take legal action against the

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(TVR), claiming that they were in the lead after one hour of televoting.

In Stockholm

The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 took place at the

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, Sweden and consisted of the final on 13 May 2000. According to the then-Eurovision rules, selected countries were picked to participate in the final, including the host country and the " Big Four" (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom). In 2000, Romania automatically qualified to the final due to their relegation in the previous year. Taxi performed "The Moon" in sixth place, preceded by and followed by . During their show, lead singer Teodorescu sang and played the guitar on a chair, while accompanied by an

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and a

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played by fellow members. Romania eventually placed in 17th position with 25 points, including 12 awarded by , seven from and six from . The Romanian jury awarded its 12 points to Russia.

Track listing

*Romanian CD single #"Luna" (The Moon) nglish version– 2:58 #"Luna" (The Moon) omanian version– 2:58

Release history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moon Eurovision songs of Romania Eurovision songs of 2000 English-language Romanian songs 2000 songs