winner, 2005
Helena Paparizou
Helena Paparizou represented Greece at Eurovision 2005 in Kyiv with “My Number One”, and won.
Biography
Helena Paparizou is a Greek singer and television personality, born and raised in Sweden. The career began in 1999 in the duo Antique, with Nikos Panagiotidis. Antique made five albums and sang for Greece at the 2001 contest, finishing third.
Antique split in 2003 and Paparizou went solo. In 2005 “My Number One” won the contest in Kyiv, the first win for Greece. The three albums that followed all reached number one at home.
Written by ESC Predictions, 8 October 2026. Sources: Wikipedia, “Helena Paparizou”.
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At Eurovision
One song, and what became of it.
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2005 Kyiv
“My Number One”
Winner Won the contest with 230 points, ahead of 23 other songs.
- Sung in
- English
- Written by
- Christos Dantis, Natalia Germanou, Manos Psaltakis
- Running order
- 19th of 24 in the final
- Age on the night
- 23
The story of Eurovision 2005: The fiftieth contest, and the Big Four at the bottom
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Away from Eurovision
Awards
- MTV Europe Music Award for Best Greek Act 2009
As recorded on Wikidata, which is rarely the whole list.
In our contest stories
What we wrote about Helena Paparizou, year by year. Follow a link for the rest of that night.
- 2005 The result
Greece had been entering since 1974 and had never won. Helena Paparizou, who had been third four years earlier as half of a duo, sang "My Number One" and finished on 230 points, 38 ahead of Malta.
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