| Year: | 1989 |
| Country: | Luxembourg |
| Preselection: | Artist: Internal selection Song: National final |
| Preselection Date: | Artist: 10 February 1989 Song: 5–6 March 1989 |
| Entrant: | Park Café |
| Song: | Monsieur |
| Final Result: | 20th, 8 points |
Luxembourg participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 with the song "Monsieur" written by Maggie Parke, Gast Waltzing, Yves Lacomblez and Bernard Loncheval. The song was performed by the band Park Café, which was internally selected by the Luxembourgish broadcaster Radio Télévision Luxembourg (RTL) in February 1989 to represent Luxembourg in Lausanne, Switzerland. RTL organised a three-song national final in order to select Park Café's song and "Monsieur" emerged as the winning song following a public televote held via television and radio on 5 and 6 March 1989.
Luxembourg competed in the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 6 May 1989. Performing during the show in position 11, Luxembourg placed twentieth out of the 22 participating countries, scoring 8 points.
See main article: Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest. Prior to the 1989 contest, Luxembourg had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest thirty-three times since debuting in its first edition of .[1] The country had won the contest on five occasions: in with "French: [[Nous les amoureux]]|i=no" performed by Jean-Claude Pascal, in with "French: [[Poupée de cire, poupée de son]]|i=no" performed by France Gall, in with "French: [[Après toi]]|i=no" performed by Vicky Leandros, in with "French: [[Tu te reconnaîtras]]|i=no" performed by Anne-Marie David, and finally in with "French: [[Si la vie est cadeau]]|i=no" performed by Corinne Hermès.
The Luxembourgish national broadcaster, Radio Télévision Luxembourg (RTL), broadcasts the event within Luxembourg and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. The Luxembourgish entries since have been selected internally by RTL. For the 1989 contest, the broadcaster opted to internally select the artist and organise a national final to select the song.[2]
On 10 February 1989, RTL announced that the band Park Café had been internally selected to represent Luxembourg in Lausanne.[3] It was later announced that a national final would be held to select the song Park Café would perform.[4]
12 songs were submitted by Park Café to RTL which selected three of them for the national final. Video recordings of Park Café performing the three competing songs were presented during the 5 March 1989 edition of the television programme Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch: {{ill|Hei elei, kuck elei|simple||lb, broadcast on French: [[RTL9|RTL Canal 21]]|i=unset at 13:00 (CET) and hosted by Jean Octave and Manette Dupong, with the public was able to vote for their favourite song through televoting during the show.[5] The three songs were also presented via radio on on 6 March 1989 where an additional round of televoting was held. The combination of votes received during both voting rounds resulted in the selection of "Monsieur" as the winning song.[6] [7]
| Draw | Song | Songwriter(s) | Televote | Place | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TV | Radio | Total | |||||
| 1 | "Chaque fois" | Maggie Parke, Gast Waltzing, Yves Lacomblez, Bernard Loncheval | 405 | 320 | 725 | 3 | |
| 2 | "Je l'aime" | Maggie Parke, Gast Waltzing, Scholtes | 295 | 573 | 868 | 2 | |
| 3 | "Monsieur" | Maggie Parke, Gast Waltzing, Yves Lacomblez, Bernard Loncheval | 1,381 | 1,042 | 2,423 | 1 | |
The Eurovision Song Contest 1989 took place on 6 May 1989 at Hall 7 of the Palais de Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland. On 23 November 1988, an allocation draw was held which determined the running order and Luxembourg was set to perform in position 11, following the entry from Sweden and before the entry from Denmark.[8] The Luxembourgian conductor at the contest was Benoît Kaufman and Luxembourg finished in 20th place, scoring 8 points.[9]
In Luxembourg, the contest was broadcast on French: [[RTL9|RTL Télévision]]|i=unset.[10] The Luxembourgian jury awarded its 12 points to the United Kingdom.[11]