Lithuania’s behemoth selection show, Eurovizijos dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka, (National Selection for the Eurovision Song Contest) continued tonight with its third heat (out of four), and had 13 artists beat it out for the six places in the next round of the show.
As with recent years the results were decided by a combination of a jury of professionals and a public televote. Each with 50% of the vote.
The running order and breakdown of the results can be found below. The 6 acts in bold are the ones that have made it through to the next round of the show in 3 weeks time.
Gražvydas – Paint the Sky Blue ~ 13 points (6 jury / 7 televote)
Fusedmarc – Rain of Revolution ~ 15 points (10 jury/ 5 televote)
Marius Petrauskas – She’s My Universe ~ 6 points (3 jury / 3 televote)
Dovydas Petrošius – Love is Free ~ 0 points (0 jury / 0 televote)
Strėlės – Bastard ~ 10 points (6 jury / 4 televote)
Virgis Valuntonis – Victorious ~ 0 points (0 jury / 0 televote)
Vilija Matačiūnaitė – I see the lights ~ 5 points (4 jury / 1 televote)
Milda Martinkėnaitė & Saulenė Chlevickaitė – Paperheart ~ 11 points (5 jury / 6 televote)
Lolita Zero – Get Frighten ~ 20 points (8 jury / 12 televote)
HIT – I Wanna Love You Tonight ~ 3 points (3 jury / 0 televote)
Vidas Bareikis & Ieva Zasimauskaitė – I Love My Phone ~ 15 points (7 jury / 8 televote)
Erika Astrauskaitė – No more ~ 5 points (3 jury / 2 televote)
Greta Zazza – Like I Love You ~ 22 points (12 jury / 10 televote)
Next week’s ‘Eurovizijos atranka’ heat will be the last of the four heats, and will again have 13 artists battling it out for 6 places. The show will be broadcast on LRT at 20:00 CET.
You can find out what the jury members thought about tonight’s acts here.
LRT and Lithuania will be hoping that the changes to their national selection format will create a winning formula to help them win for the first time. The Baltic country has never managed to make the top five in the final at Eurovision., though the country did however achieve their second best ever result last year in Stockholm at 9th place (200 points), with Donny Montell.
Source: LRT
Lithuania's history at Eurovision
Lithuania debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994, however on their debut they finished in last place with nul points. Lithuania didn’t return to the contest until 1999 when Aiste finished 20th with the song “Strazdas”. Lithuania’s best result came in 2006 when LT United performed “We Are The Winners”. They finished 6th in the final with a total of 162 points. Lithuania’s only other top 10 finish came in 2016 when Donny Montell performed “I’ve Been Waiting For This Night” in Stockholm, where he received 12 points from the public in Ireland, Norway & United Kingdom.
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