[1] Poland's highest placement in the contest, to this point, has been second place, which the nation achieved with its debut entry in 1994 with the song "To nie ja!"

Poland has only, thus far, reached the top ten on one other occasion, when Ich Troje performing the song "Keine Grenzen – Żadnych granic" finished seventh in 2003.

Between 2005 and 2007, Poland failed to qualify from the semi-final round until their 2008 entry, "For Life" performed by Isis Gee, managed to take the nation to the final and place twenty-fourth (second last).

[6] Piosenka dla Europy 2009 was the national final organised by TVP in order to select the Polish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2009.

The show took place on 14 February 2009 at the TVP Headquarters in Warsaw, hosted by Radosław Brzózka and Paulina Chylewska.

[9] TVP opened a submission period for interested artists and songwriters to submit their entries between 28 November 2008 and 16 January 2009.

The jury consisted of Robert Chojnacki (composer), Krzysztof Kasowski (singer), Roman Rogowiecki (deputy entertainment director of TVP1) and Marta Turska (member of OGAE Poland).

[20] Lidia Kopania made several appearances across Europe to specifically promote "I Don't Wanna Leave" as the Polish Eurovision entry.

[23][24] According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Four" (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top nine songs from each semi-final as determined by televoting progress to the final, and a tenth was determined by back-up juries.

The ballet dancers that joined Kopania on stage were Daria Akatowa and Maciej Pruszyński, while the backing vocalists were Krzysztof Pietrzak, Jan Radwan and Patrycja Gola.