Poland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "In the Name of Love" written by Kuba Raczyński and Monika Kuszyńska. The song was performed by Monika Kuszyńska. In March 2015, the Polish broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) announced that the Polish entry for the 2015 contest in Vienna, Austria would be selected through an internal selection. Kuszyńska and the song "In the Name of Love" were announced as the Polish entry on 9 March 2015 during the TVP1 programme Świat się kręci.
Poland was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 21 May 2015. Performing as the closing entry during the show in position 17, "In the Name of Love" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 23 May. It was later revealed that Poland placed eighth out of the 17 participating countries in the semi-final with 57 points. In the final, Poland performed in position 18 and placed twenty-third out of the 27 participating countries, scoring 10 points.
Background
Prior to the 2015 contest, Poland had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest seventeen times since its first entry in 1994. Poland's highest placement in the contest, to this point, has been second place, which the nation achieved with its debut entry in 1994 with the song "To nie ja!" performed by Edyta Górniak. Poland has only, thus far, reached the top ten on one other occasion, when Ich Troje performing the song "Keine Grenzen – Żadnych granic" finished seventh in 2003. Between 2005 and 2011, Poland failed to qualify from the semi-final round six out of seven years with only their 2008 entry, "For Life" performed by Isis Gee, managing to take the nation to the final during that period. After once again failing to qualify to the final in 2011, the country withdrew from the contest during 2012 and 2013. Poland returned to the contest in 2014 and managed to qualify to the final with their entry "My Słowianie - We Are Slavic" performed by Donatan and Cleo.
The Polish national broadcaster, Telewizja Polska (TVP), broadcasts the event within Poland and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. TVP confirmed Poland's participation in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest on 10 October 2014. Between 2006 and 2011, TVP organised televised national finals that featured a competition among several artists and songs in order to select the Polish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest. After returning to the contest in 2014 following their two-year absence, the broadcaster opted to internally select the 2014 entry, a selection procedure that continued for their 2015 entry.
Before Eurovision
Internal selection
The Polish entry for the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest was selected by TVP via an internal selection in collaboration with OGAE Poland. Among the artists rumoured to have been selected by the broadcaster included Anna Wyszkoni, Agnieszka Chylińska, Doda, Halina Mlynkova, Margaret and Sylwia Grzeszczak, while Edyta Górniak, who represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, was also revealed to have submitted an entry to TVP for consideration. On 8 March 2015, it was announced that the Polish entry would be presented the next day during the TVP1 programme Świat się kręci, hosted by Agata Młynarska and Maciej Kurzajewski.
During the broadcast of Świat się kręci on 9 March, it was announced that Monika Kuszyńska would represent Poland with the song "In the Name of Love", written by Kuszyńska herself together with her husband Kuba Raczyński. The song was also presented to the public the same day via the release of the official music video, directed by Roman Przylipiak. Kuszyńska was previously the lead singer of the group Varius Manx, which previously attempted to represent Poland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2003 with the song "Sonny", until she experienced a car accident in 2006 which left her partially paralysed. A Polish language version of the song, titled "Obudź się i Żyj", was also recorded and released following the announcement.