Germany's no. 1 hit Satellite: Video premiered yesterday

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The official video of Satellite, the German entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 premiered yesterday on TV channel Das Erste and was later shown on another four channels. The song to be performed by Lena Meyer-Landrut in Oslo has already become a record-breaking hit, less than one week after the national final.

The video premiered at 19:55 CET on public channel das Erste right before the main news programme. The video was later shown on private channels Pro7, N24, Sat1 and Kabel 1 at 20:13. The minimalistic video had been shot right after the national final and shows Lena performing on the Unser Star für Oslo stage.

  • You can watch the video here.

Meanwhile, it has been confirmed that Satellite is a record-breaking hit in Germany selling faster than. any other song. The single is currently still the most sold one; along with the song Love me it has sold as many in total as the other nine songs in the top ten combined. Satellite also is on top of the download charts in Austria and Switzerland at the moment, where she is the first German singer to have three songs in the download Top 100 at a time.

In 2009, Germany was represented by Alex Swings, Oscar Sings! with the song Miss kiss kiss bang. The duo finished 20th in the final with 35 points. As a big four country, Germany is directly qualified for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 on 29th May.