The song was also number two in Finland and reached the top 20 in the UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts.
"Goodbye To Yesterday" was both composed and lyrically made by Estonian songwriter and singer Stig Rästa.
The music video, which was described as "Fatal Attraction mixed with Basic Instinct minus the gratuitous sex" by Wiwibloggs' Luis Fuster,[4] premiered on the Eurovision Song Contest's official YouTube channel.
"[14] In another live blog, Charlotte Runcie, writer for The Daily Telegraph, also gave a positive review, stating, "it’s a good song with some dramatic doorway-based staging that looks as if it belongs in a student production of Pinter.
[18] The performance was featured in black-and-white, and displayed a melancholic Rästa playing guitar, appearing shameful for a lack of love shown to Born.
Born, who shows up later in the performance, appears both angry and tearful as the two showcase a yearning for getting back together in a romantic relationship.
[20] The Eurovision Song Contest 2015 took place at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria and consisted of two semi-finals held on 19 and 21 May, respectively, and the final on 23 May 2015.
According to Eurovision rules, all countries, except the host and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom), were required to qualify from one semi-final to compete in the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progressed to the final.
[19] The song was performed in seventh, after Greece's Maria Elena Kyriakou and before Macedonia's Daniel Kajmakoski.
The song was performed in fourth, after Israel's Nadav Guedj and before the United Kingdom's Electro Velvet.