Lithuania has chosen the last of its entries for the Pabandom iš naujo! semifinals, which will determine who will represent the Baltic state at Eurovision in Rotterdam later this year.
It’s Heat 3 aired on 25 January 2020, where six entries were chosen to move onto the semifinals. Without further ado, moving on
The full list of entries for Heat 3 is below, with the qualifiers in bold:
- The Backs – “Fully”
- Bernardas – “Dad, Don’t Be Mad at Me”
- Justina Žukauskaitė – “Breathe In”
- Rokas Povilius – “Vilnius Calling”
- KaYra – “Alligator”
- Lukas Bartaška – “Where Is That Change?”
- Evgenya Redko – “Far”
- Ruslanas Kirilkinas – “Soldier’s Heart”
- Nombeko Augustė – “Reikia man”
- Vitalijus Špokaitis – “Nemušk savęs”
- Aistė Pilvelytė – “Unbreakable”
- THE ROOP – “On Fire”
Here is the full breakdown of the vote (we’ll update the table with the full breakdown of the results):
| Place | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total |
| 1 | The ROOP | “On Fire” | 12 (54) | 12 (2175) | 24 |
| 2 | Aistė Pilvelytė | “Unbreakable” | 8 (46) | 10 (1692) | 18 |
| 3 | KaYra | “Alligator” | 7 (33) | 8 (1240) | 15 |
| 4 | Evgenya Redko | “Far” | 10 (50) | 4 (423) | 14 |
| 5 | Rokas Povilius | “Vilnius Calling” | 6 (26) | 5 (526) | 11 |
| 6 | The Backs | “Fully” | 2 (12) | 7 (757) | 9 |
| 7 | Nombeko Augustė | “Reikia man” | 5 (26) | 2 (247) | 7 |
| 8 | Ruslanas Kirilkinas | “Soldier’s Heart” | 4 (17) | 3 (383) | 7 |
| 9 | Bernardas | “Dad, Don’t Be Mad at Me” | 0 (2) | 6 (703) | 6 |
| 10 | Vitalijus Špokaitis | “Nemušk savęs” | 3 (13) | 0 (183) | 3 |
| 11 | Lukas Bartaška | “Where Is That Change” | 0 (1) | 0 (93) | 0 |
| 12 | Justina Žukauskaitė | ”Breathe In” | 1 (10) | 1 (239) | 2 |
The entries were selected by a 50/50 combination of public televoting and professional jury voting.
Semi-finals
With Heat 3 wrapped up, we now know all the entries heading to the semi-finals, the first of which will take place on 1 February. Furthermore, the second one will be on 8 February, paving the way for the final on 15 February, when the representative will be chosen.
All entries that are as follows:
- THE ROOP – “On Fire”
- Aistė Pilvelytė – “Unbreakable”
- KaYra – “Alligator”
- The Backs – “Fully”
- Bernardas – “Dad, Don’t Be Mad at Me”
- Rokas Povilius – “Vilnius Calling”
- Baltos varnos – “Namų dvasia”
- Petunia – “Show Ya”
- Andy Vaic – “Why Why Why”
- Meandi – “DRIP”
- Monika Marija – “If I Leave”
- Gabrielius Vagelis – “Tave čia randu”
- Rūta Loop – “We Came from the Sun”
- Kristina Jure – “My Sound of Silence”
- Alen Chicco – “Somewhere Out There”
- Germanas Skoris – “Chemistry (Breaking Free)”
- Viktorija Miškūnaitė – “The Ocean”
- Moniqué – “Make Me Human”
Alongside that, LRT has undergone a rebrand. The slogan for this year’s competition, Pabandom iš naujo, can be translated as ‘Let’s Try Again’.
Additionally, Eurovizijos Atranka producer has commented on the fact that Lithuania’s best result is in 2006 with ‘We Are The Winners’, mentioning ‘So let’s try again and let our representatives go higher this year’.
Lithuania in Eurovision
Following its debut in 1994, Lithuania has participated in the song contest twenty times. After a less-than-great start, when Ovidijus Vyšniauskas received null points for “Lopšinė mylimai”, Lithuania withdrew from the contest and came back in 1999.
Overall, the country’s best result was in 2006, when LT United finished sixth with the song “We are Winners”. Additionally, nother top ten was in 2016, with Donny Montell reaching ninth place with “I’ve Been Waiting for this Night”.
Last year, Jurij Veklenko failed to qualify with his entry “Run with the Lions”, garnering 93 points and placing 11th in the semi-final.
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