After the United Kingdom 's 5th-place finish in the 2009 Contest , thanks to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jade Ewen , there was wide speculation on how the BBC would select the 2010 entry . The first news on the selection came in November 2009 , when Jayne Collins Casting , the company which was responsible for the auditions for Eurovision : Your Country Needs You in 2009 , again called for singers to contact them for taking part at the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 auditions on Twitter . The casting company also said that a new songwriter , rather than last year 's Andrew Lloyd Webber , would be responsible for writing the UK 's entry for Oslo
2009 Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 2009
United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010