Fly on the Wings of Love
"Fly on the Wings of Love" is a song by Danish pop-rock duo Olsen Brothers, which was the winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2000, performing for Denmark in English. The song was performed fourteenth on the night, following Spain's Serafín Zubiri with "Colgado de un sueño" and preceding Germany's Stefan Raab with "Wadde hadde dudde da?". At the close of voting, it had received 195 points, placing first in a field of 24. The Olsen Brothers were afforded an international hit with "Fly on the Wings of Love", most notably in Sweden, the Eurovision 2000 host nation, where "Fly on the Wings of Love" reached number one. In the performers' native Denmark, their native language rendering, "Smuk som et stjerneskud" ("Beautiful as a shooting star"), earned them a number-one hit.
"Fly on the Wings of Love" | |
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Single by Olsen Brothers | |
from the album Wings of Love | |
Released | 2000 |
Length | 3:05 |
Label | EMI |
Songwriter(s) | Jørgen Olsen |
Producer(s) | Stig Kreutzfeldt |
Eurovision Song Contest 2000 entry | |
Country | |
Artist(s) | Jørgen Olsen, Niels Olsen |
As | Olsen Brothers |
Language | English |
Composer(s) | Jørgen Olsen |
Lyricist(s) | Jørgen Olsen |
Finals performance | |
Final result | 1st |
Final points | 195 |
Entry chronology | |
◄ "This Time I Mean It" (1999) | |
"Never Ever Let You Go" (2001) ► |