The Ukrainian participating broadcaster, the National Television Company of Ukraine (NTU), organised the music competition series Ty – Zirka!

Three acts qualified to compete in the final, where "I Am Your Queen" performed by Tina Karol was selected as the winner following the combination of votes from a three-member jury panel and a public televote.

was the Ukrainian version of the Irish music competition series You're a Star, organised by NTU to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006.

All shows in the competition took place at the NTU Studios in Kyiv, hosted by Maria Orlova and Igor Posypaiko and broadcast on Pershyi Natsionalnyi.

Twelve acts, two from each audition, were selected and worked with a professional team of stylists, choreographers, vocal teachers and psychologists throughout the process.

Each finalist performed their candidate Eurovision songs and the winner was selected via the 50/50 combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury.

Viewers participating in the public televote during the four live shows had the opportunity to submit their votes for the contestants via telephone or SMS.

[8] A five-member selection panel consisting of Olena Mozgova (director of music and entertainment at NTU), Serhiy Kuzin (general director of Hit FM), Eduard Klim (general director of Lavina Music), Olga Strukova (stylist) and an additional member per audition: Natalya Mogilevskaya (Chernihiv), Andriy Kuzmenko (Poltava), Alena Vinnitskaya (Dnipro), Iryna Bilyk (Odesa), Viktor Pavlik (Chernivtsi), and Oleksandr Ponomaryov –who represented Ukraine in 2003– (Kyiv), reviewed the 360 candidates and shortlisted two contestants from each audition site for the competition.

The winner, "I Am Your Queen" performed by Tina Karol, was selected through the combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury.

[14][16] A group of Ukrainian artists led by the Head of the Institute for Musical Art Oleksandr Chunikhin made a formal complaint about the selection process to President Viktor Yushcenko, mentioning the unprofessionalism of its jury and, allegedly, manipulation of the televote.

[19] Following Tina Karol's victory at Ty – Zirka!, it was suspected that "I Am Your Queen" was "too suspiciously similar" to the 2005 Eurovision winning song "My Number One".

[20] "I Am Your Queen" was retitled and revamped as "Show Me Your Love" for the Eurovision Song Contest, featuring new arrangement and lyrics.

[21] The official music video of the song, directed by Herman Hlynsky and filmed in Kyiv at the Kayf restaurant and the Pomada Club, was released on 30 March.

[22] According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country, the "Big Four" (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) and the ten highest placed finishers in the 2005 contest are required to qualify from the semi-final on 18 May 2006 in order to compete for the final on 20 May 2006; the top ten countries from the semi-final progress to the final.