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"Everything"
Single by Anna Vissi
Released as a CD single.
Single Released	April 2006
Recorded at	Bi Kay Studios
Song Length	3:00 (Original Version)
Record label	Sony BMG.
Chart Positions	1 (Greek IFPI Top 50 Singles) 1 (Cypriot Charts) 26 (Sweden Top 60 Singles Charts) 1 (Van Top 10 Armenian Radio Chart)
Songs on CD Single	Everything (Original Version), Everything (Valentino Remix)

Everything was the song chosen by Greece as its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens.

It finished in 9th position with 128 points. The song is an anthemic ballad sung in English by Anna Vissi, who is an established performer in Greece and her home country, Cyprus, and who has represented both countries previously in the Contest. The song was performed sixteenth on the night (following the United Kingdom's Daz Sampson with Teenage Life and preceding Finland's Lordi with Hard Rock Hallelujah). Unusually, particularly in comparison to other Contest entries, it was performed solo by Vissi, without the presence of backing singers or dancers. Lyrically, the song deals with Vissi's conflicted emotions on ending a relationship. She sings that she is "still in love with everything I hate".

The song has had a successful commercial release in Greece and in Cyprus, becoming a number 1 hit in both countries. It has also achieved success in Sweden, reaching number 26 at top 60 during the week of August 10th, 2006. The video for Everything has a 'heartbreak' theme in keeping with the tone of the song and features the artist discovering her partner's infidelity and suffering a series of misfortunes before being reconciled with him.

22 countries voted for Greece:

• • Bulgaria 12
  • Cyprus 12
  • Belgium 10
  • Romania 10
  • Albania 8
  • Armenia 8
  • Germany 8
  • Malta 8
  • FYROM 7
  • United Kingdom 7
  • Serbia & Montenegro 6
  • France 5
  • Netherlands 5
  • Switzerland 5
  • Sweden 4
  • Turkey 4
  • Lithuania 3
  • Belarus 2
  • Andorra 1
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina 1
  • Finland 1
  • Moldova 1

Greek politician Georgios Karatzaferis criticised the video clip as "defamatory to Greece" in a speech in the European Parliament. The theme of the video clip is that the protagonist has a night full of troubles while wandering in Athens.

The video clip's protagonist, played by the singer, discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her. She leaves the hotel, kicks parked cars and leaves. Her purse is stolen out of her convertible by a thief on a motorbike, and she leaves a gas station without paying to chase after him. She is then pursued by the police and arrested, but escapes and hitchhikes a lorry the driver of which feels her leg. Resembling a road movie, the clip was criticized for displaying negativity with regards to Greece.

According to Karatzaferis, the video harmed the country's reputation in the eyes of future tourists, and that was reason enough for the European Parliament to hold an inquiry on the matter. No such inquiry has been planned or undertaken at the time of writing.

• Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest
• Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006

• "Everything" Lyrics
• Anna Vissi Official Website