Lithuania: 28 artists for Eurovizijos announced

The artists for the Lithuanian "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka (English: "Eurovision" Song Contest national selection) have been announced by the Lithuanian broadcaster LRT. A total of 28 artists will perform in Eurovizijos' nine shows, and the winner will represent Lithuania in Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm.

Eurovizijos 2016 participants

• 4 Roses
• Aistė Pilvelytė
• Alice Way
• Baiba Skurstenė-Serdiukė
• Behind The Moon
• Berta Timinskaitė
• Catrinah
• Deividas Žygas
• Donatas Montvydas
• E.G.O.
• Eglė Jakštytė
• Elena Jurgaitytė
• Erica Jennings
• Gabrielė Grigolaitytė-Vasha
• HIT
• Ieva Zasimauskaitė
• Ištvan Kvik
• Jurgis Brūzga
• Lawreigna
• Milda Martinkėnaitė
• Neringa Šiaudikytė
• Petunija
• Ruslanas Kirilkinas
• Rūta Ščiogolevaitė
• Saulenė Chlevickaitė
• Ugnė Smile
• Valdas Lacko
• Vlad Kalugin

Eurovizijos 2016

All the artists will be divided into two groups:

• Group A: Artists without own songs
• Group B: Artists with own songs

A total of nine shows will be held:

• Show 1 (9 January): 8 from Group A – 3 eliminated.
• Show 2 (16 January): 8 from Group A – 3 eliminated
• Show 3 (23 January): 12 from Group B – 2 eliminated
• Show 4 (30 January): 10 from from show 1 & 2 (Group A) – 2 eliminated
• Show 5 (6 February): 10 from show 3 (Group B) – 2 eliminated
• Show 6 (13 February): 8 from show 4 (Group A) – 3 eliminated
• Show 7 (20 February): 8 from show 5 (Group B) – 3 eliminated
• 27 February: 5 from Show 6 (Group A) & 5 from show 7 (Group B)
• 5 March: Semi-final
• 12 March: Final
• 19 March: Winning Performer's Support Concert

All the shows will be hosted by Andrius Rožickas and Gerūta Griniūte.

Lithuania in Eurovision Song Contest

Lithuania has been taking part of Eurovision Song Contest 16 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 seven times.

With both Estonias victory in 2001 ("Everybody") and Latvias victory in 2002 ("I Wanna"), Lithuania is the only Baltic country that haven't won Eurovision Song Contest.