LRT have revealed the 51 participating artists and songs for Lithuania’s 2017 Eurovision national selection. Their selection will once again take the form of Eurovizijos and will take place over ten consecutive weeks. Eurovizijos will begin next week on 7th January. The process will then conclude with the grand final on 11th March, the final weekend before the deadline for broadcasters to submit entries to the EBU. Following their second best result in history with Donny Montell’s 9th place in 2016, Lithuania will be hoping to go from strength to strength!
The 51 competing entries
A few days ago, LRT announced the 51 artists that will be competing in Eurovizijos 2017. In the last few hours, LRT revealed all of the competing songs and the names behind the composition of them. In addition, the 51 entries were split into four heats that will take place in the first four weeks of the ten-week selection. Check out the line-ups and all the details below!
Heat one
- Vilius Krivickas & Edvinas Gurevičius (Golden Monkeys) – Septyni dievai
(Music and lyrics: Vilius Krivickas & Edvinas Gurevičius)
- Ugnė Kudlaitė (Otreya) – Last Two Weeks
(Music and lyrics: Ugnė Kudlaitė & Giedrius Balčiūnas) - Augustė Vedrickaitė – It’s Not Over (Not To Me)
(Music and lyrics: Augustė Vedrickaitė, Edgaras Žaltauskas & Kasparas Meginis) - Edgaras Lubys – Could It Be?
(Music and lyrics: Edgaras Lubys) - Tadas Rimgaila & Tina – Tavo oda
(Music and lyrics: Stanislavas Stavickis) - Sasha Song – Never Felt Like This Before
(Music and lyrics: Dmitrij Šavrov, Caleb Sutton & Justin Marcellina) - Rūta Andruškevičiūtė – The Way To Your Heaven
(Music and lyrics: Jose Juan Santana Rodriguez & Samuel Bugia Garrido) - Benas Malakauskas – Rolling
(Music and lyrics: Jonas Talandis & Kristupas Bubnelis) - Audrius Petrauskas – Shine Like Gold
(Music and lyrics: David Sneddon, Simon Gitsels & Richard Ashley Hicklin) - Justinas Stanislovaitis (Justin3) – Streets Of Vilnius
(Music and lyrics: Justinas Stanislovaitis) - Dagna Kondratavičiūtė – Feel It
(Music and lyrics: Kasparas Meginis, Edgaras Žaltauskas, Dagna Kondratavičiūtė & Alina Gadeikytė) - Paula Valentaitė – Never Let You Go
(Music and lyrics: Gytis Valickas)
Heat Two
- Valdas Lacko – It’s So Unfair
(Music and lyrics: Paulius Jasiūnas & Monika Rotomskytė)
2. Monika Mėčiūtė – Runnin
(Music and lyrics: Elena Jurgaitytė & Viktorija Šatkutė)
3. Rugilė Daujotaitė – Perkūne ugniaveidi
(Music and lyrics: Tomas Zdanavičius & Rugilė Daujotaitė)
4. Kotryna Juodzevičiūtė – Love Shadow
(Music and lyrics: Kaspars Ansons, Richard Ashley Hicklin & Nicolas Moulin)
5. Deividas Žygas – Only You
(Music and lyrics: Deividas Žygas) - Mia – Sacrifice
(Music and lyrics: Michael James Down & William Taylor)
7. Rasa Kaušiūtė – Fly
(Music and lyrics: Rasa Kaušiūtė)
8. Laura Steponavičienė (Lawreigna) – Freedom
(Music and lyrics: Philip Bloom)
9. Varjetė – My Story
(Music and lyrics: Ylva Persson & Linda Persson) - Ego – My Story
(Music and lyrics: Karolis Šliažas & Vaida Kalkauskaitė) - Gabrielius Vagelis – Feel Free
(Music and lyrics: Gabrielius Vagelis)
12. Ieva Zasimauskaitė – You Saved Me
(Music and lyrics: Ąžuolas Paulauskas)
13. Gabrielė Vilkickytė – Jūra
(Music and lyrics: Gabrielė Vilkickytė & Kristupas Jasiulionis)
Heat Three
- Vidas Bareikis – I Love My Phone
(Music and lyrics: Vidas Bareikis)
2. Marius Petrauskas – She’s My Universe
(Music and lyrics: Roel Van Velzen, Robin P. Francesco & Richard Ashley Hicklin)
3. Milda Martinkėnaitė & Saulenė Chlevickaitė – Paperheart
(Music and lyrics: Alan Roy Scott, Dillon Dixon & Jonas Brogger Filtenborg)
4. Gytis Ivanauskas (Lolita) – Get Frighten
(Music and lyrics: Marius Narbutis & Andrius Kauklys) - Fusedmarc – Rain Of Revolution
(Music and lyrics: Viktorija Ivanovskaja, Denis Zujev & Michail Levin)
6. Erika Astrauskaitė – No More
(Music and lyrics: Justinas Stanislovaitis) - HIT – I Wanna Love You Tonight
(Music and lyrics: Karolis Šliažas & Vaida Kalkauskaitė) - Virgis Valuntonis – Victorious
(Music and lyrics: Georgios Kalpakidis, Jonas Gladnikoff & Sara Ljunggren) - Gražvydas – Paint The Sky Blue
(Music and lyrics: Peter Karlsson)
10. Greta Sliaužytė – Like I Love You
(Music and lyrics: Jonas Thander)
11. Vilija Matačiūnaitė – I See The Lights
(Music and lyrics: Vilija Matačiūnaitė & V. Vaupšas)
12. Dovydas Petrošius – Love Is Free
(Music and lyrics: Leonid Gutkin & Richard Ashley Hicklin) - Strėlės (Jekaterina Pranevič & Anna Polukord) – Bastard
(Music and lyrics: Anna Polukord & Jekaterina Pranevič)
Heat Four
- Alanas Chošnau – 7 Days
(Music and lyrics: Alanas Chošnau & Marco Russo Lo)
2. Valerija Iljinaitė – You Made Me Glow
(Music and lyrics: Hans Olov Furberg & Karolina Furberg) - Ruslanas Kirilkinas – When The Night Falls In
(Music and lyrics: Niklas Bergqvist & Simon Johansson) - Vlad Max – I’ll Never Let You Down
(Music and lyrics: Alexander Berger) - Queens Of Roses – Fisherman
(Music and lyrics: Christopher Wortley, Mahan Moin & Kaspars Ansons) - Evaldas Vaikasas – Fire Kisses
(Music and lyrics: Richard Ashley Hicklin, Kim Nowak-Zorde & Soren Pagh)
7. Elvina Milkauskaitė – Try
(Music and lyrics: TBA)
8. Aistė Pilvelytė – I’m Like Woolf
(Music and lyrics: Aminata Savadogo & Kaspars Ansons) - Julija Jegorova – Higher
(Music and lyrics: Fabian Ruben & Lars E. Carlsson) - Audrius Janonis – Run
(Music and lyrics: Georgios Kaplakidis, Mickey Huskic & Nikos Sofis) - Soliaris – Undefeatable
(Music and lyrics: TBA)
12. Rasa Vaštakaitė (Shiny Raia) – All You
(Music and lyrics: Rasa Vaštakaitė)
13. Neringa Šiaudikytė – Running Out Of Time
(Music and lyrics: Vytautas Bikus)
Former Eurovision and Eurovizijos contestants
As is often the case with Eurovizijos, there are several returnees involved in the upcoming selection. Amongst those returning after previously losing out in Eurovizijos include 2015 runner-up Mia, and 2016 finalist Aistė Pilvelytė. Also returning are former Lithuanian Eurovision representatives with 2009 Eurovision finalist Sasha Son and 2014 semi-finalist Vilija Matačiūnaitė amongst the final 51.
A couple of notable names amongst the songwriters and composers also leap out. Part of the team behind Aistė Pilvelytė’s entry for 2017 is Aminata Savadogo. Aminata of course finished 6th for Latvia in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest and also was the driving force behind Justs’ Heartbeat which represented Latvia this year in Stockholm. Furthermore, part of the team behind Audrius Petrauskas’ song is David Sneddon. David won the first season of Fame Academy UK back in 2002 and resulted in him securing a UK #1 hit shortly afterwards.
The marathon begins imminently
We are now set for the beginning of Eurovizijos 2017, due to start next weekend! This marathon selection process will last ten weeks and in mid-March we will know who will succeed Donny Montell as Lithuania’s Eurovision representative.
Are you looking forward to Eurovizijos? Which songs are you most excited to hear? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!
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