Lithuania: Eight artists continues to next round
Nine entries proceeds in Eurovizijos 2015 after tonights third show. One withdrawal due to illness. The eight entries will compete next saturday to stay in Eurovizijos
"Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka (English: "Eurovision" Song Contest national selection) had its third show tonight from Vilnius, Lithuania. In this show two songs were eiminated, so now nine artists are back in the competition of being the next representative for Lithuania in Eurovision Song Contest. The nine qualified entries were decided by a jury combined with public televising.
The competition is a long process: 8 weeks! It began om 3 January 2015, and will result in a winning song on 14 February 2015 and a winning artist on 22 February 2015. All the shows takes place in Vilnius, hostet by Simona Nainė and Arūnas Valinskas.
UPDATED 19 January: Mia - "Say You Love Me" eliminated by online voting
UPDATED 22 January: Milita Daikerytė - "Dangerous" withdraw due to illness
Listen to all the songs for Eurovizijos 2015
Eurovizija 2015 Entries qualified for show #4
• Vaidas Baumila - "This time"
• Mia - "Say You Love Me"
• Reda Striškaite - "Es Tut Mir Nicht Leid"
• Edgaras Lubys - "Not Perfect"
• Neringa Šiaudikyte - "Skestu"
• Liepa Mondeikaite - "Feel My Love"
• Tadas Juodsnukis - "No More Tears"
• Milita Daikerytė - "Dangerous" (withdraw due to illness)
• Monika Linkyte - "The Right Way"
• Rollikai - "Sound of Colours"
• Jurgis Bruzga - "Take My Love"
• Wilma La - "Factory Hearts"
Eurovizijos 2015 schedule
• 3 Jan: Show 1
• 10 Jan: Show 2
• 17 Jan: Show 3
• 24 Jan 20:00 CET: Show 4
• 31 Jan 20:00 CET: Show 5
• 7 Feb 20:00 CET: Show 6
• 14 Feb 20:00 CET: Show 7 – Song selected
• 21 Feb 20:00 CET: Show 8 – Artist selected
• 28 Feb 20:00 CET: Show 9 – (Best of Eurovizijos 2015)
• 7 Mar 20:00 CET: Show 10 – Final
Lithuania in Eurovision Song Contest
Lithuania has been taking part of Eurovision Song Contest 15 times since its debut in 1994.
The debuting year 1994 Lithuania ended last, and the best result is from 2006 where LT United performed the iconic song "We Are The Winners (of Eurovision)". It didn't win though, but went 6th. Since the introduction of the Semi-finals in 2004, Lithuania has been in Eurovision every year, but only qualified for the Grand Final six times.
With both Estonias victory in 2001 ("Everybody") and Latvias victory in 2002 ("I Wanna"), Lithuania is the only Baltic state that haven't won Eurovision Song Contest
