Lithuania: "This Time" chosen for Vienna
Tonight the Lithuanian song for Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna was decided. The winner of Eurovizijos will sing the song "This Time". Next saturday the artist will be selected
"Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka (English: "Eurovision" Song Contest national selection) had its seventh show tonight from Vilnius, Lithuania. There are three artists left in Eurovizijos, and this evening Lithuanua decided that the winner of Eurovizijoswill sing the song "This Time" at Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna.
Next Saturday the artist for Lithuania will be decided in show #8.
Eurovizijos Atranka 2015 – Song selection
Eurovizijos 2015 schedule
• 3 January: Show 1
• 10 January: Show 2
• 17 January: Show 3
• 24 January: Show 4
• 31 January: Show 5
• 7 February: Show 6
• 14 February: Show 7 – Song selected
• 21 February: Show 8 – Artist selected
• 28 February: Show 9 – (Best of Eurovizijos 2015)
• 7 March: 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