Lithuania at the Eurovision Song Contest

Balance sheet

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Broadcasting company

First participation

1994

Number of participations

20 (as of 2019)

Highest ranking

6 ( 2006 )

Highest Score

200 ( 2016 )

Lowest Score

0 ( 1994 )

Points average (since first post)

54.16 (as of 2018)

Average points per voting country in the 12-point system

1.51 (as of 2018)

This article deals with the history of Lithuania as a participant in the Eurovision Song Contest .

Regularity of participation

Lithuania took part in the competition for the first time in 1994, but had to sit out the following year because of the last place. From 1996 to 1998 they withdrew until the ESC 1999. Since then, the country has been taking part regularly, even though it had to be suspended in 2000 and 2003 due to poor placements in the previous year. Only in 2010 did the country want to withdraw due to financial bottlenecks, but ultimately took part.

Success in competition

In their 1994 debut, Lithuania did not score a point, coming in last. It is the only country besides Portugal that did not receive a single point on its debut. In 1999 there was a 20th place out of 23 participants at the comeback. Because of this, one was not allowed to participate in 2000. In 2001 they reached a 13th place, a year later they only reached a penultimate place. That is why in 2003 one was again not allowed to participate. In 2004 and 2005 you could not qualify for the final and in 2005 came last in the semi-finals. In 2006 they qualified for the final and achieved the best result so far with sixth place. In 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015 there were again lower places in the table in the final. In 2008, 2010, 2014 and 2017 you could not qualify for the final. Donny Montell was able to get 14th place in 2012 and four years later, in 2016, Lithuania's second best result with 9th place. He also achieved Lithuania's highest score in 2016 with 200 points. In 2017 they were the penultimate in the semi-finals and missed the final. In 2018 they reached the final and took 12th place. In 2019 there was not enough for a final - Jurij Veklenko missed the final behind Denmark with one point missing.

A total of 4 of 13 final entries ended up in the front half of the table. Seven times they were eliminated in the semifinals. Lithuania is the only Baltic country so far that has never won the competition, while Estonia and Latvia have each won the ESC once (2001 and 2002).

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
1994	Ovidijus Vyšniauskas	Lopšinė mylimai M: Ovidijus Vyšniauskas ; T: Gintaras Zdebskis	Lithuanian	Baby's lullaby	25/25	0	Qualified directly for the final		internal selection
1995	Not qualified
1996 1997 1998	No participation
1999	Aistė	Strazdas M: Linas Rimša; T: Sigitas Geda	Schemeitic	The song thrush	20/23	13	Qualified directly for the final		Nacionalinė atranka į Euroviziją 1999
2000	Not qualified
2001	Skamp	You Got Style M: Viktoras Diawara , Vilius Alesius ; T: Erica Quinn Jennings , Vilius Alesius , V iktoras Diawara	English, Lithuanian a.	You have style	13/23	35	Qualified directly for the final		Nacionalinė atranka į Euroviziją 2001
2002	Aivaras	Happy You M / T: Aivaras Stepukonis	English	You are happy	23/24	12			Nacionalinė atranka į Euroviziją 2002
2003	Not qualified
2004	Linas & Simona	What's Happened to Your Love? M: Michalis Antonius, Linas Adomatis ; T: Camden MS	English	What happened to your love	Eliminated		16/22	26th	Nacionalinė atranka į Euroviziją 2004
2005	Laura & the Lovers	Little by Little M: Bobby Ljunggren; T: William Butt	English	Step by step	Eliminated		25/25	17th	Nacionalinė atranka į Euroviziją 2005
2006	LT United	We Are the Winners M: Andrius Mamontovas , Saulius Urbonavičius ; Andrius Mamontovas , Viktoras Diawara	English	We are the winners	6/24	162	5/23	163	Nacionalinė atranka į Euroviziją 2006
2007	4 fun	Love or Leave M / T: Julija Ritčik	English	Love or go	21/24	28	Qualified directly for the final		Nacionalinė atranka į Euroviziją 2007
2008	Jeronimas Milius	Nomads In The Night M: Vytautas Diškevičius; T: Jeronimas Milius	English	Nomads in the night	Eliminated		16/19	30th	Nacionalinė atranka į Euroviziją 2008
2009	Sasha Son	Love M / T: Dmitrij Šavrov (Sasha Son)	English, Russian	love	23/25	23	9/19	66	Lietuvos Dainų Daina
2010	InCulto	Eastern European Funk M / T: InCulto	English	Eastern European radio	Eliminated		12/17	44	Eurovizija 2010
2011	Evelina Sašenko	C'est ma vie M: Paulius Zdanavičius; T: Andrius Kairys	English, French	That is my life	19/25	63	5/19	81	Eurovizija 2011
2012	Donny Montell	Love Is Blind M: Brandon Stone; T: Brandon Stone, Jodie Rose	English	Love is blind	14/26	70	3/18	104	Eurovizija 2012
2013	Andrius Pojavis	Something M / T: Andrius Pojavis	English	Something	22/26	17th	9/16	53	Eurovizijos 2013
2014	Vilija Matačiūnaitė	Attention M: Viktoras Vaupšas; T: Vilija Matačiūnaitė	English	Caution	Eliminated		11/15	36	Eurovizijos 2014
2015	Monika Linkytė & Vaidas Baumila	This Time M: Vytautas Bikus; T: Monika Liubinaitė	English	This time	18/27	30th	7/17	67	Eurovizijos 2015
2016	Donny Montell	I've Been Waiting for This Night M / T: Jonas Thander, Beatrice Robertsson	English	I've been waiting for this night	9/26	200	4/18	222	Eurovizijos 2016
2017	Fusedmarc	Rain Of Revolution M: Viktorija Ivanovskaja , Denis Zujev , Michail Levin; T: Denis Zujev , Michail Levin	English	Rain of revolution	Eliminated		17/18	42	Eurovizijos 2017
2018	Ieva Zasimauskaitė	When We're Old M / T: Vytautas Bikus	English, Lithuanian	When we're old	12/26	181	9/19	119	Eurovizijos 2018
2019	Yury Veklenko	Run With The Lions M / T: Ashley Hicklin , Eric Lumiere, Pele Loriano	English	Run with the lions	Eliminated		11/18	93	Eurovizijos 2019
2020	The Roop	On Fire M: Vaidotas Valiukevičius , Robertas Baranauskas , Mantas Banišauskas ; T: Vaidotas Valiukevičius	English	Burning	Cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic by the EBU				Pabandom iš naujo! 2020
2021									Pabandom iš naujo! 2021

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National preliminary decisions

Only in 1994 was the Lithuanian contribution selected internally, in the other years national preliminary decisions took place. In 1999, 2001 and 2002 these took place on an evening with 12 or 15 participants, each of whom presented a title. The winner was determined in 1999 by a jury alone (although a telephone vote took place at the same time, but this had no influence), in 2001 and 2002 by a mixture of jury and telephone votes. In 2002, the winning title We All of the B'Avarija group was disqualified after the preliminary round.

From 2004, the preliminary decisions were made much more complicated by previously held semi-finals with a relatively large number of participants, especially in the years 2006 and 2007, than before the semi-finals in each quarter-final rounds were held in which the singers in the groups known singers , less well-known singers and newcomers were divided . In 2004, the jury and public vote continued to vote, from 2005 only by telephone.

Since 2010, the preliminary round of Eurovizijos (from 2010 to 2012 Eurovizija ) consists of several preliminary rounds and the final, which have lasted for several months since 2013, from October to December in 2013 and from December to March in 2014. A marathon preliminary round was held in 2015 as well, but this time a duet of two of the three finalists won the final. In 2016, 2017 and 2018 the preliminary decision took place from January to March. In 2017, however, unlike in previous years, the final did not take place in the LRT studio, but in the Švyturio Arena in Klaipėda . In 2018 the final took place in an arena, namely the Žalgirio Arena . In 2019, the preliminary decision took place over two months, January and February.

languages

The first Lithuanian contribution was made in 1994 in accordance with the rules in the national language. In 1999 Strazda's contribution was performed in the rather unknown dialect Schemeitic , all later contributions were mostly sung in English, only the rap part of the 2001 song You Got Style contained additional lines in Lithuanian, French and German. In addition, the 2009 contribution from Love was performed in Russian from the last chorus onwards and the 2011 song, C'est ma vie , was partly performed in French. Of Love or Leave from the year 2007 also a Lithuanian version was recorded. Lithuania has been singing in English again since 2012, although the 2018 article also contains a few lines in Lithuanian.

Scoring

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

Most of the points awarded in the final space country Points 1  Russia 112 2  Latvia 091 3  Sweden 087 4th  Ukraine 078 5  Georgia 069

Most in the final received points space country Points 1  Latvia 90 2  Ireland 81 3  United Kingdom 66 4th  Estonia 51 5  Norway 49

Most of the points awarded space country Points 1  Latvia 170 2  Ukraine 150 3  Georgia 147 4th  Russia 139 5  Estonia 137

Most total obtained points space country Points 1  Ireland 182 2  United Kingdom 169 3  Latvia 167 4th  Norway 126 5  Estonia 101  Belarus 101

Award of the highest rating

In the last twelve contests, Lithuania awarded the maximum number of points to eight different countries, two of them each to Azerbaijan, Georgia and Latvia

Sustaining land
year	country	space
1994	Poland	2
1995	Not qualified
1996 to 1998	No participation
1999	Ireland	17th
2000	Not qualified
2001	Estonia	1
2002	Latvia	1
2003	Not qualified
2004	Ukraine	1
2005	Latvia	5
2006	Russia	2
2007	Georgia	12
2008	Russia	1
2009	Norway	1
2010	Georgia	9
2011	Georgia	9
2012	Azerbaijan	4th
2013	Azerbaijan	2
2014	Netherlands	2
2015	Latvia	6th
2016	Australia (J)	2
	Latvia (T)	15th
2017	Portugal (J&T)	1
2018	Austria (J)	3
	Estonia (T)	8th
2019	Netherlands (J)	1
	Russia (T)	3

various

• Lithuania's 17 points in the 2005 semifinals were, up to that point in time, the highest number of points for a last-placed entry at a Eurovision event since the point system was introduced in 1975, which is still in force today. Finland and Switzerland surpassed this in the final in 2009 and 2011, while Poland achieved more points last placed in the first semi-final in 2011, as did Slovakia in the second semi-final in 2012. In 2018 Portugal broke the record with 39 points.
• In 1999 the Lithuanian delegation showed up for rehearsals in Jerusalem one day late , supposedly to save the cost of an overnight stay.
• In 2007 the band 4Fun created the illusion of a shadow theater. Due to the extensive renovation work, the Lithuanian delegation asked to take another break from moderation before the presentation, but this was refused.
• In 2016, the Lithuanian ESC representative Donatas Montvydas was incorrectly presented as a representative of Latvia in the official publication of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Sweden .
• In 2019 Jurij Veklenko missed the final in eleventh place with just one point behind Denmark

Impressions

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  Linas & Simona 2004

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  4Fun 2007

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  Jeronimas Milius 2008

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  Sasha Son 2009

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  InCulto 2010

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  Andrius Pojavis 2013

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  Vilija Matačiūnaitė 2014

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  Monika Linkytė u. Vaidas Baumila 2015

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  Donny Montell 2016

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  Fusedmarc 2017

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  Ieva Zasimauskaitė 2018

literature

• Jan Feddersen : A song can be a bridge. The German and international history of the Grand Prix Eurovision. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-455-09350-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ geocities.ws
2. ↑ [1]
3. ↑ Lithuania: Not enough time to set up screen
4. ↑ Oficialiame "Eurovizijos" leidinyje Donatas Montvydas pristatytas kaip Latvijos atstovas