United Kingdom - Olly Alexander - Dizzy

18 - 46 pts, not in semi 

On the BBC Strictly final night singer and actor Olly Alexander announced he was chosen to fly the flag for the U.K. in Malmö.
Olly Alexander (Oliver Alexander Thornton) is of course known as the singer of once trio Years & Years.

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The song is titled Dizzy and is written by Olly himself with Danny L. Harle.

The song was released on March 1.

An extended  version was added / released on March 15. (see comments)

The acoustic version was released on April 26.

The Performance version, released on May 7 is the one used in the Eurovision performance (hence...). It was released just after the first semi on May 7.

Remixes and their makers:

A remix by German DJ duo LIZOT (Max Kleinschmidt & Patrick Art) was released on March 29.

A remix by Italian DJ/Producer Giorgio Prezioso was released on April 5.

The MONSS remix was released on April 19. MONNS is Slovakian DJ Simon Svorad.

The remix by Liverpool DJ ESSEL was released on April 26.

Olly keeps on giving: May 10 sees the release of the D.O.D. remix. D.O.D. is U.,K. DJ Daniel O'Donnell, not to be confused with the Irish singer.

Post Eurovision the Ben Nicky remix was released on May 17

A 7" inch single, cdsingle and USB single are released on May 10.

Here is a shop that sells outside U.K. and here's Olly's U.K. store

7": Polydor 60246513175-8

cds: Polydor 60246513173-4

Years & Years & Years

Years & Years released three albums but the last one was really only Olly going further under the Y&Y name. His most recent single A Very Bad Fun Idea was released as by "Olly Alexander (Years & Years)" as is Eurovision entry Dizzy.

The official Malmö album and the physical singles do not mention the (Years & Years) bit.

Years & Years first hit Desire charted in the UK, Ireland, Belgium and the Netherlands but their biggest international hit is King (2015) from the album Communion. That went top 10 in the same countries and also in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark and Australia.

Other known hits are Shine, Eyes Shut and If You're Over Me.

On a personal note: I have been a big fan of Years & Years ever since their first international hit Desire. So I'm exited.

He is one of two artists this year to have sung with Kylie, but so far the only one who did it with Elton and with Pet Shop Boys. So now you know.

Versions

Dizzy - Performance version

- digital 7-5

Dizzy - single version

- digital 1-3, Official Malmö album

Dizzy - extended version (4:41)

- digital 15-3

Dizzy - Acoustic

- digital 26-4

Dizzy - LIZOT remix (2:52)

- digital 29-3

Dizzy - Prezioso remix (2:29)

- digital 5-4

Dizzy - MONSS remix (2:51)

- digital 19-4

Dizzy - ESSEL remix

- digital 26-4

Dizzy - D.O.D. remix

- digital 10-5

Dizzy - Ben Nicky remix

- digital 17-5

Dizzy - karaoke

- Official karaoke album (digital)

DJ services have offered

- Extended instrumental (4:41)

- longer Extended (7:34)

- Prezioso extended (3:00)

- Prezioso longer extended (5:23)

- Prezioso instrumental (2:29)

- LIZOT extended (3:00)

- LIZOT instrumental (2:15)

- LIZOT longer extended (5:08)

- MONNS extended (5:45)

- MONNS instrumental (2:52)

- Instrumental (with less backing vocals than the official karaoke)

- Dirty Disco Pillow Biters remix (6:40)

- Short edit (2:09)

- alt. Extended (3:48)

- DJ Beats (3:13)

Also see comments. thanks Krzysztof

Charts:

Dizzy entered the U.K. charts at 42 after release but fell out of the top 100 the next week.

U.K. top 100 (OCC): 42, - re: 48, -

U.K. Sales top 100: 2, 15, 54, -, -, 66, 82, 76, 30, 12, 3, 19, -

U.K. Physical singles top 100: 1, 1, 14, 57, 22, 90, 76, -, re: 6, -

Lithuania top 100 (AGATA): 83, 12, 32, 61, -

Links and sources:
Olly Alexander: Website, FB, Insta, Shop

Look: Olly signed a card for me!