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Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025
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Lithuania was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "Tavo akys", written by Lukas Radzevičius, and performed by Radzevičius himself as part of the band Katarsis. The Lithuanian participating broadcaster, the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT), organised the national final Eurovizija.LT 2025 to select its entry for the contest.
Lithuania was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025 and was later selected to perform in position 8. At the end of the show, "Tavo akys" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final, marking a fifth consecutive qualification for the country. It was later revealed that Lithuania placed sixth out of the sixteen participating countries in the semi-final with 103 points. In the final, Lithuania performed in position 5 and placed sixteenth out of the 26 participating countries, scoring a total of 96 points.
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Background
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Prior to 2025, the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Lithuania twenty-four times since its debut in 1994. Its best placing was achieved in 2006, with the song "We Are the Winners" performed by LT United, which finished in sixth place in the final. Since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004, LRT has managed to qualify for the final thirteen times. It was represented in 2024 by the song "Luktelk", performed by Silvester Belt, who qualified for the final and finished 14th overall with 90 points.[1]
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, LRT organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. LRT has used a national final to select all of its Eurovision entries, with the exception of its debut entry in 1994. Between 2020 and 2023, the national final format Pabandom iš naujo! was used to select its entry. In 2024, LRT introduced a new format, titled Eurovizija.LT. LRT confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest in mid-June 2024;[2] two months later, the broadcaster started accepting applications for Eurovizija.LT 2025.[3]
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Before Eurovision
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Eurovizija.LT 2025
Eurovizija.LT 2025 was the national final format organized by LRT to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. It was held between 11 January and 15 February 2025 and was hosted by Gabrielė Martirosian, Nombeko Augustė Khotseng, and Rimvydas Černiauskas.[4] The shows were broadcast on LRT televizija and LRT Lituanica, as well as online via the broadcaster's website lrt.lt and official LRT YouTube channel.
Format
The competition saw 44 entries compete across five semi-finals, held between 11 January and 8 February 2024, and a final on 15 February 2024.[5] A 50/50 combination of jury and public vote determined the ranking in each phase, with the top two entries from each semi-final (out of the nine total) qualifying for the final; the top three entries from the final moving on to a final televoting round selecting the winner. In case of a tie in any of the previous stages, the jury ranking would take precedence.[6] The score system was the same used at the Eurovision Song Contest: the top ten entries from each of the jury vote and the televote are assigned 1–8, 10 and 12 points.[6]
Performances for the semi-finals were pre-recorded, while they were delivered live in the final.[5]
Competing entries
On 13 August 2024, LRT opened a submission platform for interested artists, lasting until 11 November 2024, later the deadline was extended to 25 November 2024.[7] Each applicant could only submit one entry. Performers were required to be citizens of the European Union who have a permanent residence permit in Lithuania, while songwriters could be of any nationality, though citizens of countries "hostile to Lithuania" were not allowed to submit entries. The selected artists are able to withdraw until 20 December 2024.[6] 81 entries were submitted at the conclusion of the submission period.[8]
On 11 December 2024, the list of the 45 participating artists and songs was released by LRT.[8] On 13 December, Evelina Gancewska was disqualified from the competition as her competing song "Aurora" had already made the line-up of the Croatian national selection, Dora 2025, and was replaced by Austėja Lukaitė, who later withdrew from the competition herself because she was unable to attend the filming of her semi-final due to a flu.[9][10] Among the selected competing artists were Vilija and Ieva Zasimauskaitė, who represented Lithuania in 2014 and 2018, respectively.[8] Gebrasy, Indrė and Laimonas (as part of Il Senso), Justinas Lapatinskas, Liepa, Lion Ceccah (formerly known as Alen Chicco), Mario Junes, Petunija, Queens of Roses and Siga (as part of Žalvarinis) have all competed in previous editions of the Lithuanian national selection and advanced to the final.
Entry withdrawn Replacement entry, later withdrawn
Jury members
Unlike last year, the jury members commented on the contestants' performances in all shows.[5] The jury consisted of five people in the semi-finals, and 11 jury members participated in the final.
Semi-finals
The five semi-finals of the competition were filmed on 8, 14, 15, 20, and 21 January 2025 at the LRT studios in Vilnius and were aired on 11, 18, 25 January, 1, and 8 February 2025. In each semi-final, 9 of the 45 competing acts performed, with the top two entries progressing to the final.
After the results of the 5th semi-final, it was announced that Black Biceps and Liepa also qualified for the final as wildcards. Both artists received the most audience support from the contestants who did not make it to the finals, and they also only missed out on the finals due to jury tie-breakers.[17]
Each semi-final opened with a performance of dancers staged by choreographer Marijanas Staniulėnas.[18] In addition to the performances of the competing entries, interval acts performed:
- Gabrielius Vagelis performed "Pasilik" in the first semi-final;
- Stanislavas Stavickis-Stano and Edilija Nikartaitė-Geltona performed "Saulė" in the second semi-final;
- Rūta Mur with Leonas Somovas performed "Saugok širdį" in the third semi-final;
- Nombeko Augustė performed "Vaikštai per mane" in the fourth semi-final;
- Paulina Paukštaitytė performed "Pasilik Praeity" in the fifth semi-final.
Qualifier Wildcard qualifier Entry withdrawn
Final
The live final of the competition took place on 15 February 2025 at the Žalgiris Arena in Kaunas. The final was opened by a performance of dancers staged by choreographer Marijanas Staniulėnas, followed by a parade of participants presenting all twelve finalists. In addition to the performances of the competing entries Rokas Yan performed medley of his songs (including a joint song with former Lithuanian representatives Monika Liu and Vaidas Baumila), Silvester Belt performed 2024 Lithuanian Eurovision entry "Luktelk" and Monika Marija, Gabrielius Vagelis, Vilius Popendikis and Nombeko Augustė Khotseng together performed medley of famous Eurovision songs as the interval acts.[29] A combination of the votes of a jury (50%) and the public (50%) selected three songs for a superfinal, where a televoting round determined the winner.[16]
Due to a technical error during the superfinal, most votes had not been counted at the time of reveal of the results. During the broadcast, it was stated that "Tavo akys" received 9,374 votes, that "Drobė" received 3,828, and that "Ar mylėtum" received 2,198 votes. Three days later, it was revealed that "Tavo akys" had received 15,889, "Drobė" had received 11,225, and "Ar mylėtum" had received 6,655 votes. Upon counting all the votes, the results of the superfinal remained the same.[30]
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At Eurovision
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Lithuania participated in the Second Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 at St. Jakobshalle in Basel. In January, they were drawn to perform in the first half of the semi-final, and the producer later chose for them to perform eighth. On 15th May 2025, Lithuania qualified for the Grand Final, finishing 6th with 103 points.
In the Grand Final, Lithuania received 34 points from the juries and 62 points in the televote. They finished in 16th place with 96 points.
Voting
Points awarded to Lithunia
Points awarded by Lithuania
Detailed voting results
Each participating broadcaster assembles a five-member jury panel consisting of music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. Each jury, and individual jury member, is required to meet a strict set of criteria regarding professional background, as well as diversity in gender and age. No member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently.[32] The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.
The following members comprised the Lithuanian jury:[33]
- Pijus Vasiliauskas-Brazauskas
- Vaidotas Stackevičius
- Eglė Kernagytė Dambrauskė
- Raminta Naujanytė
- Rosita Čivilytė
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Notes
- Austėja Lukaitė was originally supposed to compete in the second semi-final but she was unable to attend the filming due to a flu.[10]
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