Georgia at the Eurovision Song Contest

Balance sheet

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Broadcasting company

First participation

2007

Number of participations

12 (as of 2019)

Highest ranking

9 ( 2010 , 2011 )

Highest Score

136 (2010)

Lowest Score

15 ( 2014 SF )

Points average (since first post)

72.25 (as of 2019)

Average points per voting country in the 12-point system

1.50 (as of 2019)

This article looks at the history of Georgia as a participant in the Eurovision Song Contest .

Regularity of participation and successes in competition

Sopho Nischaradze achieved Georgia's best result to date in 2010

Georgia first took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. It was the second country from the Caucasus region to take part in the ESC, after which Armenia made its debut in 2006 . Georgia made its debut in 2007 with Sopo Chalwaschi , who immediately qualified for the final. There she reached 12th place, with which Georgia had a successful debut in the competition. In 2008, the country was able to qualify for the final. Diana Gurzkaja was able to top the result of 2007 by one place with 11th place. In 2009 the country then withdrew his participation, since the selected post by Stephane & 3G , entitled We Do not Wanna Put In violated the rules because of a political provocation against Vladimir Putin. In addition, participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 should initially be canceled due to the Caucasus War in 2008 . In 2010 Georgia returned to the competition.

Georgia was also able to qualify for the final in 2010 after Sopho Nischaradze finished third in the semi-finals. In the final, she achieved Georgia's 9th place, the best place in the competition to date. With 136 points, she also keeps Georgia's point record in the competition. In 2011 Grupe Eldrine was able to achieve 9th place, repeating the success of 2010. This successful period could not be continued in 2012. Anri Dschochadze only reached 14th place in the semifinals and was therefore unable to qualify for the final. He was the first Georgian interpreter who could not reach the final. After this failure, Sopo Gelowani & Nodiko Tatishvili were able to qualify for the final again in 2013. With 15th place they got an average placement for Georgia in the competition. In 2014, Georgia reached its lowest point in the competition. The Shin feat. Mariko Ebralidse could not qualify for the final and only reached the last place in the semifinals. With 14 points, they achieved Georgia's lowest score in the competition to date. In 2015, however, things went better for Georgia. Nina Sublatti was able to qualify for the final and, with 11th place, achieved the best position in four years. Also Nika Koscharow & Young Georgian Lolitaz could qualify for the finals in 2016. But they were less successful there than their predecessors and only got a mediocre placement for Georgia with 20th place. In 2017 Georgia failed to reach the final for the first time since 2014. With 11th place Tako Gatchetschiladze only just failed to qualify for the final. In 2018, the Georgian contribution was already eliminated in the semifinals. However, the band reached Iriao , like The Shin feat. Mariko Ebralidse 2014, only last place in the semifinals. Thus they repeated Georgia's worst place in the competition. In 2019, the final qualification was missed for the third time in a row.

In total, five of the 12 entries ended up in the left half of the table. In addition, the country has already been eliminated five times in the semi-finals and was twice last. Nevertheless, the country has already been placed in the top ten twice. This makes Georgia one of the average competitive countries. With only 12 participations, Georgia has not been participating for that long. In addition, the country has only suspended it once, namely in 2009.

List of posts

Color legend: - 1st place. - 2nd place. - 3rd place. - Equal points with last place. - Eliminated in the semifinals / in the qualification / in the Eastern European preliminary decision. - no participation / not qualified. - Cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest.      

year	Interpreter	Title Music (M) and Text (T)	language	translation	final		Semi-final / qualification		National preliminary decision
					space	Points	space	Points
2007	Sopho Chalwaschi სოფო ხალვაში	Visionary Dream M: Beqa Jafaridze; T: Bibi Kvachadze	English	Visionary dream	12/24	97	8/28	123	National preliminary decision
2008	Diana Gurzkaja დიანა ღურწკაია	Peace Will Come M: Kim Breitburg; T: Karen Kavaleryan	English	Peace will come	11/25	83	5/19	107	National preliminary decision
2009	Stephane & 3G სტეფანე და 3G	We Don't Wanna Put In M: Stephane Mgebrishvili; T: Bibi Kvachadze	English	We don't want to be in it	Participation withdrawn song illegal				National preliminary decision
2010	Sopho Nischaradze სოფო ნიჟარაძე	Shine M / T: Hanne Sørvaag, Harry Sommerdahl, Christian Leuzzi	English	Shine!	9/25	136	3/17	106	National preliminary decision
2011	Eldrine	One More Day M: DJ BE $$; T: DJ Rock, Mikheil Chelidze	English	Only one day	9/25	110	6/19	74	National preliminary decision
2012	Anri Jokhadze ანრი ჯოხაძე	I'm a Joker M: Rusudan Chkhaidze; T: Bibi Kvachadze	English, Georgian	I am a prankster	Eliminated		14/18	36	National preliminary decision
2013	Sopo Gelowani & Nodiko Tatishvili სოფო გელოვანი და ნოდარ "ნოდიკო" ტატიშვილი	Waterfall M: Thomas G: son , Erik Bernholm; T: Thomas G: son	English	waterfall	15/26	50	10/17	63	internal selection
2014	The Shin & Mariko	Three Minutes to Earth M: Zaza Minoschwili ; T: Eugen Eliu	English	Three minutes to earth	Eliminated		15/15	15th	internal selection
2015	Nina Sublatti ნინა სუბლატი	Warrior M / T: Nina Sublatti, Thomas G: son	English	warrior	11/27	51	4/16	98	National preliminary decision
2016	Nika Koscharow & Young Georgian Lolitaz	Midnight Gold M: Kote Kalandadze, Thomas G: son ; T: Kote Kalandadze	English	Midnight gold	20/26	104	9/18	123	National preliminary decision
2017	Tamara Gachechiladze თამარ "თაკო" გაჩეჩილაძე	Keep the Faith M: Anri Jochadze ; T: Tamara Gachechiladze	English	Keep the faith	Eliminated		11/18	99	National preliminary decision
2018	Iriao ირიაო	For You M: Davit Malazonia , Mikheil Mdinaradze; T: Irina Sanikidze	Georgian with English title	To you	Eliminated		18/18	24	internal selection
2019	Oto Nemsadze ოთო ნემსაძე	Keep On Going M: Roman Giorgadze; T: Diana Giorgadze	Georgian with English title	Go on	Eliminated		14/17	62	Georgian Idol 2019
2020	Tornike Kipiani თორნიკე ყიფიანი	Take Me As I Am M / T: Tornike Kipiani	English with lines in German , French , Italian and Spanish	take me as I am	Cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic by the EBU				Georgian Idol 2020
2021	Tornike Kipiani თორნიკე ყიფიანი								internal selection

National preliminary decisions

Most of the Georgian contributions were selected through a national preliminary decision. Only in 2013, 2014 and 2018 was there no preliminary decision and the contribution was nominated internally. However, there was often a mixture of internal selection and preliminary decision. Because the preliminary decisions of Georgia often took place under different systems.

2007, 2010 and 2016

At the debut in 2007, the artist was selected internally and the song was then selected in a preliminary round. This system also took place in 2010 and 2016. Sopo Nischaradze 2010 was selected internally, the song Shine in a public preliminary decision. In 2016, five contributions for Nika Koscharow & Young Georgian Lolitaz were selected from the submissions and presented to the audience in a TV broadcast, which could then vote on the Georgian contribution.

2008 and 2009

For the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade ( Serbia ) the candidate was selected on March 1st at a classic national preliminary decision in Tbilisi . It was won by the visually impaired singer Diana Gurzkaja with the song Peace Will Come . The 2009 interpreter was chosen following the same process.

2011, 2012, 2015 and 2017

In 2011 and 2012, the participant was selected by a preliminary decision with 8-10 participants. The 2015 preliminary decision, however, was held with only five participants. In 2017, 25 performers took part in the preliminary round.

2019 and 2020

In 2019, the Georgian interpreter and the accompanying song were selected for the first time via a casting show. The Georgian branch of Pop Idol Georgian Idol 2019 was responsible for this . This format followed in 2020 as the Georgian preliminary decision. The selection of the song was made internally this time.

languages

For the most part, Georgia sang in English . The first time a song contained Georgian text was in 2012. The 2012 post contained sentences in Georgian . In 2018 it was the first time that Georgia did not sing in English. The song was entirely in Georgian, so in 2018 Georgia sent a song entirely in Georgian for the first time. In 2019, the state again sent a contribution in the national language. In both years, however, the title of the song was introduced in English. In 2020, for the first time in three years, a song in English was selected, but a few lines in the song Take Me As I Am were sung in German , French , Italian and Spanish .

Scoring

The following countries received the most points from or awarded the most points to Georgia (as of 2018):

Most of the points awarded in the final space country Points 1  Armenia 93 2  Azerbaijan 91  Ukraine 91 4th  Russia 51 5  Lithuania 47

Most in the final received points space country Points 1  Armenia 75 2  Lithuania 69 3  Ukraine 51 4th  Russia 45 5  Azerbaijan 43

Most of the points awarded space country Points 1  Ukraine 157 2  Azerbaijan 149 3  Armenia 146 4th  Lithuania 099 5  Belarus 077

Most total obtained points space country Points 1  Lithuania 147 2  Armenia 141 3  Ukraine 115 4th  Azerbaijan 089 5  Belarus 077

Award of the highest rating

Since 2007, Georgia has awarded the highest number of points in the final to ten different countries, five of which to Armenia. In the semifinals, Georgia awarded the maximum number of points to nine different countries, four of which to Azerbaijan.

Highest rating (final) year country Place (final) 2007  Armenia 8th 2008  Armenia 4th 2009 No participation 2010  Belarus 24 2011  Lithuania 19th 2012  Lithuania 14th 2013  Azerbaijan 2 2014  Armenia 4th 2015  Armenia 16 2016  Ukraine (J) 1  Armenia (T) 7th 2017  Portugal (J) 1  Azerbaijan (T) 14th 2018  Sweden (J) 7th  Israel (T) 1 2019  Czech Republic (J) 11  Cyprus (T) 13 2020 Competition canceled

Highest rating (semi-finals) year country Place (semifinals) 2007  Belgium 26th 2008  Ukraine 1 2009 No participation 2010  Azerbaijan 2 2011  Azerbaijan 2 2012  Sweden 1 2013  Azerbaijan 1 2014  Belarus 5 2015  Belarus 12 2016  Ukraine (J&T) 2 2017  Portugal (J) 1  Azerbaijan (T) 8th 2018  Sweden (J) 2  Moldova (T) 3 2019  Czech Republic (J) 2  San Marino (T) 8th 2020 Competition canceled

Others

• In 2014, the European Broadcasting Service disqualified Georgia's awarding of points in the final due to suspected fraud and replaced the combined vote with Georgian televoting.

Impressions

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  Sopho Chalwaschi 2007

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  Diana Gurzkaja 2008

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  Eldrine 2011

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  Sopo Gelowani & Nodiko Tatishvili 2013

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  The Shin & Mariko 2014

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  Nina Sublatti 2015

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  Nika Koscharow & Young Georgian Lolitaz 2016

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  Tako Gatchechiladze 2017

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  Iriao 2018

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  Oto Nemsadze 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Benjamin Hertlein: Georgia: Georgian Idol will again serve as the ESC preliminary decision in 2020. June 11, 2019, accessed on June 11, 2019 (German).