Lithuania: 45 artists to compete at Eurovizija.LT 2025
45 artists will compete at the Lithuanian Eurovizija.LT. One of them will represent Lithuania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025
UPDATE 13 December 2024, 13:39 CET
Austėja Lukaitė replaces Evelina Gancewska
The song "Aurora" was submitted to both Eurovizija.LT in Lithuania (artist: Evelina Gancewska) and Dora 2025 in Croatia (artist: Teenah).
Since the same song cannot compete in two countries' selections, Austėja Lukaitė replaces Evelina Gancewska with the song "Kas esu be tavęs?"
Lithuanian broadcaster LRT has revealed the lineup for Eurovizija.LT 2025. Eurovizija.LT will select the Lithuanian artist and song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel.
A total of 81 songs have been submitted and 45 of them have been selected by Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT to compete in Eurovizija.LT.
Some of the songs have already been released:
2 former Eurovision artists
Lots of the artists have been participating in the Lithuanian selection before. Among those, two have even been in Eurovision:
Eurovizija.LT 2025
Eurovizija.LT will include five Heats and a Final:
- Heat 1: 11 January 2025
- Heat 2: 18 January 2025
- Heat 3: 25 January 2025
- Heat 4: 1 February 2025
- Heat 5: 8 February 2025
- Final: 15 February 2025
There will be nine acts in each heat. The two songs with most points (50% jury / 50% public) from each heat will qualify for the Final.
The Final will have 10 acts and have two rounds of voting. In the first round, the three songs with most points (50% jury / 50% public) qualify for the Superfinal. In the Superfinal it's solely the Lithuanian public that decides the winner – and Lithuania's representative at Eurovision 2025.
Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest
Lithuania has taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest 24 times since its debut in 1994.
In their debut year, 1994, Lithuania finished last. Their best result is from 2006, when LT United performed the iconic song "We Are The Winners (of Eurovision)." Although they didn't win, they finished 6th.
Since the introduction of the Semi-finals in 2004, Lithuania has been in Eurovision every year, and qualified for the Grand Final 13 out of 20 times.
With Estonia's victory in 2001 (Everybody) and Latvia's victory in 2002 (I Wanna), Lithuania is the only Baltic country that hasn't won the Eurovision Song Contest.
