Cyprus participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 and selected their entry through a national final, organised by Cypriot broadcaster Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation. After an open call to performers to submit proposals, ten entries were shortlisted for the 7 February national final. Deep Zone and their song "Play" were disqualified after the song was found to have been unofficially released before the final, breaching the contest's rules and leaving nine to compete in the final. Welsh singer Jon Lilygreen & The Islanders were chosen as the Cypriot entry on 7 February with their song "Life Looks Better in Spring" and competed in the second half of the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010.
Before Eurovision
Eurovision 2010: Epilogi tis Kipriakis Simmetohis
CyBC launched its Eurovision selection process on 5 October 2009 when they released details on the televised national final titled Epilogi tis Kipriakis Simmetohis to be held in early 2010.
Competing entries
Until 27 November 2009, Cypriots and European citizens living in Cyprus for more than two years were permitted to submit candidate entries to CyBC for the competition. At the conclusion of the deadline, 70 entries were received by CyBC. A seven-member selection jury then shortlisted twenty songs, with ten progressing to the national final. The selected entries were announced on 12 December 2009. The running order was announced on 24 December 2008. According to the seven-member selection jury, the quality of the submitted music was high for this year's contest. Among the songwriters of the selected entries included Constantinos Christoforou and Mike Connaris. Their compositions will be performed respectively by Christoforou himself and 18-year-old Nicole Paparistodemou. Further confirmed artists were Armenian Cypriot singer Hovig Demirjian, Constantinos Kountouzis and Anthi Pashi. On 29 January 2010, it was announced that Nasos Lambrianides and Melis Konstantinou withdrew one of their two songs "Nothing Is Real" in order to avoid splitting votes between it and their other song, "Life Looks Better in Spring". The withdrawn song was later replaced by "Waiting", written by Christodoulos Charalambides and Andreas Economides. On 3 February 2010, "Play", composed by Milena Staneva and performed by Deep Zone, the Bulgarian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008, was disqualified after the song was found on file sharing websites and video website YouTube, breaching the rules of the national final. The song was not replaced, leaving just nine songs in the contest.
Final
The final took place on 7 February 2010. Nine acts performed and the winner was selected by a combination of televoting and a five-member jury. Jon Lilygreen and The Islanders took first place with their song "Life Looks Better In Spring".
At Eurovision
Jon Lilygreen and The Islanders performed "Life Looks Better in Spring" in the second semi-final on 27 May. Cyprus was amongst the ten qualifiers in the semi-final evening proceeding to the final on 29 May, making it the first appearance of Cyprus in the final since 2005.
Split results
In the Semi-final 2 Cyprus came 10th with 67 points: the public awarded Cyprus 10th place with 53 points and the jury awarded 9th place with 79 points.
In the Final Cyprus came 21st with 27 points: the public awarded Cyprus 23rd place with 16 points and the jury awarded 18th place with 57 points.
