To promote the entry, Paparizou made appearances in Andorra, Germany, Malta, Serbia and Montenegro, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and Ukraine, performing the song and meeting with local media.

Greece's least successful result was in 1998 when it placed 20th with the song "Mia krifi evaisthisia" by Thalassa, receiving only twelve points in total, all from Cyprus.

[13][14] On 15 January 2005, Star Channel reported that front runners Franz Ferdinand met with ERT but were soon excluded as they were requesting more money, and had "no idea how Eurovision works and thus they proposed to compose a remake of a past song of theirs".

[16] Following the announcement of Paparizou as its representative, ERT revealed that she would perform four songs during a national final, titled Eurovision Party.

Fifteen songs were shortlisted out of 100 submitted by Greek and foreign composers, and four were selected by a jury panel consisting of Paparizou and representatives from ERT and Sony BMG.

[17] On 19 February 2005, "The Light in Our Soul", composed by Kostas Bigalis, was disqualified as the song had been released and made available on Amazon.de by the band Big Alice before the 1 October cutoff date.

[20] The final took place on 2 March 2005 at the Fever Music Center in Athens, hosted by Greek-Swedish journalist Alexandra Pascalidou.

[22][23] The jury, consisting of Mimis Plessas, Antonis Andrikakis, Kostas Tournas, Željko Joksimović (who represented Serbia and Montenegro in 2004), Betty Golema, Ion Stamboulis, Fotini Giannoulatou, Sietse Bakker and Christos Liritzis, each assigned scores to each song ranging from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest).

[29] While in Greece, she attended the opening ceremony of the European final four for the Volleyball Champions League in Pylaia, where her song was played as she appeared on stage with cheerleaders.

[30] On 29 March 2005, Paparizou arrived in Valletta, Malta where she signed autographs, appeared on television stations, and gave interviews to the local media.

[35][36] Following her stay in Sweden, Paparizou flew to Istanbul, Turkey, where the Greek delegation met with Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who told her that it was good luck that the contest fell on her name-day of 21 May 2005.

Greece was drawn to perform 19th on the night, following Croatia's "Vukovi umiru sami" by Boris Novković and Lado, and preceding Russia's "Nobody Hurt No One" by Natalia Podolskaya.

The performance included Paparizou playing the lyra, a Greek musical instrument and the backing dancers forming the number 1 on stage.

"[44] Upon arrival back in Greece, she was greeted by crowds of fans at Eleftherios Venizelos Airport and the National Fire Brigade created a water-jet archway for her airplane, suggestively bearing the number "001", to pass through after it had landed.

When she reached ERT Studios, she was "met with deafening applause" and after moving from sight for a few minutes, she emerged on stage dressed in the Greek flag and holding the Eurovision trophy.

[52] It was later released in the United States as a CD Single with remixes and reached number eight on the US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play charting for eight weeks.

It was the only Greek entry and one of three winners from the '00s to compete (alongside "Fly on the Wings of Love" by the Olsen Brothers and "Everyway That I Can" by Sertab Erener).