Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest

Lithuania has been represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 25 times since its debut in 1994, where "Lopšinė mylimai" performed by Ovidijus Vyšniauskas finished last, receiving "nul points". Lithuania withdrew from the contest, not returning until 1999. The sixth place of the song "We Are the Winners" performed by LT United in 2006 is Lithuania's best result in the contest. The country reached the top ten for a second time in 2016, when "I've Been Waiting for This Night" by Donny Montell finished ninth, and for the third time in 2021, finishing eighth with "Discoteque" by The Roop. The Lithuanian participating broadcaster in the contest is Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija (LRT).

Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
Participating broadcaster	Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija (LRT)
Participation summary
Appearances	25 (18 finals)
First appearance	1994
Highest placement	6th: 2006
Participation history 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
External links
LRT page
Lithuania's page at Eurovision.tv
For the most recent participation see Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025

As of 2025, Lithuania remains the only Baltic country that is yet to win the contest after wins for Estonia in 2001 and Latvia in 2002. However, since the introduction of the semi-final round in 2004, Lithuania has the second-most final appearances in comparison to other Baltic nations, with eighteen, compared to twenty for Estonia and twelve for Latvia.

Participation

Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija (LRT) is a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1 January 1993, thus eligible to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest since then. It has participated in the contest representing Lithuania since its 39th edition in 1994.

History

2000s

Having been relegated from the 2000 contest, Lithuania returned in 2001 with "You Got Style" by Skamp, the first Lithuanian song to include English. They received 35 points, placing 13th. However, the following year, Aivaras could only manage to come second-to-last with 12 points.

Since the semi-finals were introduced, Lithuania again came last with Laura and the Lovers and "Little by Little". The following year, the Lithuanian broadcaster Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija (LRT) sent LT United to the 2006 contest with the football chant-like song "We Are the Winners". They took Lithuania to the final for the first time since 2002, coming sixth in the final with 162 points, Lithuania's best placing as of 2024.

The following year Lithuania automatically qualified for the final; however, 4Fun could not replicate LT United's success, coming 21st with only 28 points, 12 of which came from Ireland. In 2008, Jeronimas Milius failed to reach the final, coming 16th out of 19 competing nations in the second semi-final.

Lithuania initially threatened to boycott the 2009 contest "if Russia continues to showcase power and ignores international law." The statement was made in reaction to Russia's actions in the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008.^[1] Culture Minister Jonas Jučas stated that it was too early to discuss the boycott since "spontaneous decisions might aggravate the efforts of diplomats" and thus make the situation worse. They did eventually participate in the 2009 contest, where they qualified from the semi-finals and received 23 points in the final, placing them 23rd.^[2]

2010s

LRT announced in December 2009 that, due to a lack of necessary funds, Lithuania would formally withdraw from the 2010 Contest. However, in the event that the necessary funds of 300,000 litas (€90,000) were found, the broadcaster announced that they would attempt to continue the country's participation.^[3] Ultimately, private company TEO LT provided the necessary funding and Lithuania participated in Oslo.

In 2011, Lithuania was represented by Evelina Sašenko with the song "C'est ma vie". The song qualified from the first semi-final, placing 5th with 81 points. In the grand final, Lithuania finished in 19th place with 63 points.^[4]

In 2012, Lithuania qualified for the final with Donny Montell and his song "Love Is Blind", placing 3rd with 104 points. They eventually finished 14th in the Grand Final.^[5]

In 2013, Lithuania qualified to the final with "Something" by Andrius Pojavis, placing 9th in the first semi-final with 53 points. In the final, he ended in 22nd place with 17 points.^[6]

In 2014, Vilija didn't qualify for the final, finishing 11th out of 15 entrants in the second semi-final, scoring 36 points.^[7]

In 2015, Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila represented Lithuania with the song "This Time". The duo qualified from the second semi-final, finishing 7th, and ultimately placed 18th in the grand final with 30 points.^[8]

In 2016, Donny Montell returned to the contest and achieved Lithuania's best result of the decade, finishing ninth with "I've Been Waiting for This Night".^[9]

In 2017, Lithuania was represented by Fusedmarc with the song "Rain of Revolution". The song failed to qualify for the grand final, finishing 17th in the second semi-final with 42 points.^[10]

In 2018, Ieva Zasimauskaitė achieved Lithuania's fifth top 15 result, finishing 12th with "When We're Old".^[11]

In 2019, Jurij Veklenko represented Lithuania with the song "Run with the Lions". He competed in the second semi-final, placing 11th with 93 points, which was not sufficient to advance to the grand final.^[12]

2020s

In 2021, Lithuania qualified for the final with the song "Discoteque" by The Roop, placing 4th in the first semi-final with 203 points. In the final, The Roop reached 8th place with 220 points, thereby achieving Lithuania's second-best result to date.^[13][14][15] The Roop was previously chosen to represent the country in the later-cancelled 2020 edition with "On Fire".^[16]

In 2022, Monika Liu performed her song "Sentimentai" in Lithuanian, which marked the second appearance of the language in the contest, and the first one since 1994. The song qualified from the semi-final and finished 14th in the grand final.^[17]

In 2023, Monika Linkytė represented Lithuania for a second time with the song "Stay". She finished 11th in the grand final with 127 points.^[18]

In 2024, Lithuania was represented by Silvester Belt with the song "Luktelk". Silvester Belt was selected through the new national final, Eurovizija.LT, and finished 14th in the grand final with 90 points.^[19]

In 2025, Lithuania was represented by band Katarsis with the song "Tavo akys". They managed to get Lithuania its fifth consecutive qualification to the final. In the grand final, they finished 16th, scoring 96 points.

Participation overview

Table key

3	Third place
◁	Last place
X	Entry selected but did not compete

Year	Artist	Song	Language	Final	Points	Semi	Points
1994	Ovidijus Vyšniauskas	"Lopšinė mylimai"	Lithuanian	25 ◁	0	No semi-finals
1999	Aistė	"Strazdas"	Samogitian	20	13
2001	Skamp	"You Got Style"	English, Lithuanian	13	35
2002	Aivaras	"Happy You"	English	23	12
2004	Linas and Simona	"What's Happened to Your Love"	English	Failed to qualify		16	26
2005	Laura and the Lovers	"Little by Little"	English			25 ◁	17
2006	LT United	"We Are the Winners"	English, French	6	162	5	163
2007	4Fun	"Love or Leave"	English	21	28	Top 10 in 2006 final[a]
2008	Jeronimas Milius	"Nomads in the Night"	English	Failed to qualify		16	30
2009	Sasha Son	"Love"	English, Russian	23	23	9	66
2010	InCulto	"Eastern European Funk"	English	Failed to qualify		12	44
2011	Evelina Sašenko	"C'est ma vie"	English	19	63	5	81
2012	Donny Montell	"Love Is Blind"	English	14	70	3	104
2013	Andrius Pojavis	"Something"	English	22	17	9	53
2014	Vilija	"Attention"	English	Failed to qualify		11	36
2015	Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila	"This Time"	English	18	30	7	67
2016	Donny Montell	"I've Been Waiting for This Night"	English	9	200	4	222
2017	Fusedmarc	"Rain of Revolution"	English	Failed to qualify		17	42
2018	Ieva Zasimauskaitė	"When We're Old"	English	12	181	9	119
2019	Jurij Veklenko	"Run with the Lions"	English	Failed to qualify		11	93
2020	The Roop	"On Fire"	English	Contest cancelled[b] X
2021	The Roop	"Discoteque"	English	8	220	4	203
2022	Monika Liu	"Sentimentai"	Lithuanian	14	128	7	159
2023	Monika Linkytė	"Stay"	English, Lithuanian	11	127	4	110
2024	Silvester Belt	"Luktelk"	Lithuanian	14	90	4	119
2025	Katarsis	"Tavo akys"	Lithuanian	16	96	6	103

Trivia

Songs by language

1. English (77.88%)
2. Lithuanian (17.31%)
3. Samogitian (3.85%)
4. Russian (0.96%)

Songs	Language	Years
21	English	2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023
5	Lithuanian	1994, 2001, 2022, 2024, 2025
1	Samogitian	1999
1	Russian	2009

Selection process

Year Selection process 1994 Internal selection 1999 National final with 12 participants 2001 National final with 15 participants 2002 2004 National final with 52 participants (18 in the final) 2005 National final with 49 participants (20 in the final) 2006 National final with 47 participants (16 in the final) 2007 National final with 35 participants (11 in the final) 2008 National final with 32 participants (14 in the final) 2009 Lietuvos Dainų Daina with 36 participants (10 in the final) 2010 National final with 34 participants (12 in the final) 2011 National final with 40 participants (13 in the final) 2012 National final with 36 participants (14 in the final) 2013 National final with 39 participants (7 in the final)

Year Selection process 2014 National final with 20 participants (3 in the final) 2015 National final with 12 participants (2 in the final) 2016 National final with 28 participants (6 in the final) 2017 National final with 49 participants (7 in the final) 2018 National final with 50 participants (6 in the final) 2019 National final with 49 participants (8 in the final) 2020 Pabandom iš naujo! with 36 participants (8 in the final) 2021 Pabandom iš naujo! with 21 participants (6 in the final) 2022 Pabandom iš naujo! with 34 participants (8 in the final) 2023 Pabandom iš naujo! with 30 participants (10 in the final) 2024 Eurovizija.LT with 40 participants (10 in the final) 2025 Eurovizija.LT with 45 participants (12 in the final)

Awards

Winner by OGAE members

Further information: OGAE

Year	Song	Performer	Final	Points	Host city	Ref.
2020	"On Fire"	The Roop	Contest cancelled		Rotterdam	[20]

Barbara Dex Award

Further information: Barbara Dex Award

Year	Performer	Host city	Ref.
2014	Vilija Matačiūnaitė	Copenhagen	[21]

Related involvement

Delegation members

Audrius Giržadas [lt] (right) has served as the Head of Delegation for Lithuania since 2010.

Each participating broadcaster in the Eurovision Song Contest assigns a head of delegation as the EBU's contact person and the leader of their delegation at the event. The delegation, whose size can greatly vary, includes a head of press, the contestants, songwriters, composers, and backing vocalists, among others.^[22]

Heads of delegation

Year	Head of delegation	Ref.
1994	Irena Didžiulienė	[23]
1999–2001	Nerijus Maliukevičius [lt]	[24]
2002–2009	Jonas Vilimas	[25][26]
2010–present	Audrius Giržadas [lt]	[27][28]

Heads of press

Year	Head of press	Ref.
2015–2018	Virginija Bunevičiūtė	[29]
2019–2023	Lina Patskočimaitė	[30]
2024–2025	Karolina Drigotaitė	[31]

Jury members

Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals for the semi-finals and Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest, ranking all entries except for their own. The juries' votes constitute 50% of the overall result alongside televoting.^[32] The modern incarnation of jury voting was introduced beginning with the 2009 contest.^[33]

Year	First member	Second member	Third member	Fourth member	Fifth member	Ref.
2009	Linas Rimša	Linas Adomaitis	Egmontas Bžeskas [lt]	Edita Vilčiauskienė	Rūta Lukoševičiūtė [lt]	[34]
2014	Deivydas Zvonkus [lt]	Rūta Lukoševičiūtė [lt]	Povilas Varvuolis	Kristina Zmailaitė	Kristina Žaldokaitė	[35]
2015	Lauras Lučiūnas	Jolita Vaitkevičienė	Jurga Čekatauskaitė	Jurgis Brūzga	Rosita Čivilytė [lt]	[36]
2016	Nomeda Kazlaus	Vidas Bareikis [lt]	Justas Čekuolis	Vytautas Lukočius	Eglė Nepaitė-Abaravičienė	[37]
2017	Vytenis Pauliukaitis	Giedrė Kilčiauskienė [lt]	Viktorija Navickaitė	Rafailas Karpis [lt]	Vaidas Stackevičius	[38]
2018	Lauras Lučiūnas	Jurga Šeduikytė	Dovilė Filmanavičiūtė	Mindaugas Urbaitis	Leon Somov	[39]
2019	Vytautas Bikus [lt]	Andrius Mamontovas	Jurgis Brūzga	Girmantė Vaitkutė [lt]	Gerūta Griniūtė	[40]
2021	Jievaras Jasinskis	Rafailas Karpis [lt]	Giedrė Kilčiauskienė [lt]	Bjelle	Darius Užkuraitis [lt]	[41]
2022	Aistė Lasytė	Darius Užkuraitis [lt]	Ieva Narkutė	Jurga Šeduikytė	Vaidas Baumila	[42]
2023	Jonas Nainys	Julijus Grickevičius	Vaidotas Valiukevičius	Eglė Juozapaitienė	Nombeko Augustė	[43]
2024	Jievaras Jasinskis	Kristupas Naraškevičius	Povilas Meškėla	Agneta Gabalytė	Monika Marija	[44]
2025	Bjelle	Rosita Čivilytė [lt]	Pijus Opera	Vaidas Stackevičius	Eglė Kernagytė	[45]

Commentators and spokespersons

LRT usually broadcasts all shows in Lithuania on LRT televizija and on LRT radijas as well as online via the broadcaster's website lrt.lt. For the show's broadcast on LRT several commentators have provided comment on the contest in the local language. Darius Užkuraitis [lt] was Eurovision commentator in Lithuania as many as 19 times. He was replaced by Ramūnas Zilnys [lt] in 2021. At the Eurovision Song Contest after all points are calculated, the presenters of the show call upon each voting country to invite each respective spokesperson to announce the results of their vote on-screen.

Year	Commentator	Spokesperson	Ref.
1994	Unknown	Gitana Lapinskaitė	[46][47]
1995	No broadcast	Did not participate	[48]
1996	Unknown		[49]
1997	No broadcast		[50]
1998	Unknown		[51]
1999		Andrius Tapinas	[52][47]
2000	Ramūnas Česonis and Vilija Grigonytė	Did not participate	[citation needed]
2001	Darius Užkuraitis [lt]	Loreta Tarozaitė	[53][47]
2002
2003		Did not participate
2004		Rolandas Vilkončius [lt]
2005
2006		Lavija Šurnaitė [lt]
2007
2008		Rolandas Vilkončius [lt]
2009		Ignas Krupavičius
2010		Giedrius Masalskis [lt]
2011
2012		Ignas Krupavičius
2013
2014
2015		Ugnė Galadauskaitė
2016
2017	Darius Užkuraitis [lt] and Gerūta Griniūtė	Eglė Daugėlaitė	[54][47]
2018
2019		Giedrius Masalskis [lt][c]
2021	Ramūnas Zilnys [lt]	Andrius Mamontovas	[56][57]
2022		Vaidotas Valiukevičius	[58]
2023		Monika Liu	[59]
2024		Monika Linkytė	[60][61]
2025		Silvester Belt	[62][63][64]

Other shows

Show	Commentator	Ref.
Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest	Rolandas Vilkončius [lt]	[citation needed]
Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light	Ramūnas Zilnys [lt]	[65]

Stage directors

The appointed stage directors are responsible for directing the country's live performance, for camerawork and for the visuals used.^[66]

Year	Stage directors	Ref.
1999	Irena Morkevičienė	[67]
2006	Donatas Ulvydas [lt]	[68]
2008	Dalius Abaris [lt] and Vytautas Dambrauskas	[69]
2016	Sacha Jean-Baptiste [sv]	[70]
2017	Povilas Varvuolis	[71]
2018	Povilas Varvuolis and Rasa Micachienė	[72]
2019	Povilas Varvuolis	[73]
2021		[74]
2022		[75]
2023		[76]
2024	Povilas Varvuolis and Norvydas Genys	[77]
2025	Povilas Varvuolis, Paulius Varonenka and Ignas Blažys	[78]

Costume designers

Year	Costume designers	Ref.
1999	Juozas Statkevičius [lt]	[79]
2001	Daiva Urbonavičiūtė	[80]
2007	Aleksandras Pogrebnojus [lt] and Vida Simanavičiūtė	[81]
2012	Egidijus Sidaras	[82]
2014	Olga Filatova-Kontrimienė	[83]
2015	Kristina Kalinauskaitė and Andrius Sergejenko	[84]
2016	Marius Stanevičius	[85]
2017	Sandra Yushka	[86]
2018	Vida Strasevičiūtė and Thomas Bara	[87]
2021	Glorija Gžimailaitė	[88]
2022	Monika Kazakevičiūtė-Kriščiūnienė	[89]
2023	Omar Bayoumi	[90]
2024	Vainotas Jakštas	[91]
2025	Karina Panina	[92]

Conductors

Tomas Leiburas was the only Lithuanian conductor in Eurovision as he conducted their 1994 entry.

Photo gallery

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  Linas and Simona in Istanbul (2004)
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  4Fun in Helsinki (2007)
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  Jeronimas Milius in Belgrade (2008)
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  Sasha Son in Moscow (2009)
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  InCulto in Oslo (2010)
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  Andrius Pojavis in Malmö (2013)
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  Vilija in Copenhagen (2014)
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  Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila in Vienna (2015)
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  Donny Montell in Stockholm (2016)
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  Fusedmarc in Kyiv (2017)
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  Ieva Zasimauskaitė in Lisbon (2018)
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  Jurij Veklenko in Tel Aviv (2019)
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  The Roop in Rotterdam (2021)
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  Monika Liu in Turin (2022)
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  Monika Linkytė in Liverpool (2023)
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  Silvester Belt in Malmö (2024)
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  Katarsis in Basel (2025)

See also

• Lithuania in the Eurovision Dance Contest – Dance version of the Eurovision Song Contest.
• Lithuania in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest – Junior version of the Eurovision Song Contest.
• Lithuania in the Eurovision Young Musicians – A competition organised by the EBU for musicians aged 18 years and younger.

Notes

1. According to the then-Eurovision rules, the top ten non-Big Four countries from the previous year along with the Big Four automatically qualified for the Grand Final without having to compete in semi-finals. For example, if Germany and France placed inside the top ten, the 11th and 12th spots were advanced to next year's Grand Final along with all countries ranked in the top ten.
2. The 2020 contest was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
3. Andrius Mamontovas was initially appointed to be the spokesperson of Lithuania in 2019, but was not able to perform the role because he was a member of the jury that year.^[55] Mamontovas later announced Lithuania's points in 2021 contest.