Lithuania has revealed the name of 51 artist bidding to become nation’s hero and represent them at Eurovision Song Contest, that will take place in Kiev, Ukraine.

Eurovizija 2017 will kick off 7th January and over the next 10 weeks, only one out of fifty-one will left and get honoured to fly Lithuanian flag at Eurovision 2017!

Eurovizija 2017 participants

1. Aistė Pilvelytė

2. Alanas Chošnau

3. Audrius Janonis

4. Audrius Petrauskas

5. Augustė Vedrickaitė

6. Benas Malakauskas

7. Dagna Kondratavičiūtė

8. Deividas Žygas

9. Dovydas Petrošius

10. E.G.O.

11. Edgaras Lubys

12. Elvina Milkauskaitė

13. Erika Astrauskaitė

14. Evaldas Vaikasas

15. Fusedmarc

16. Gabrielius Vagelis

17. Golden monkeys

18. Gražvydas

19. Greta Zazza

20. Hit

21. Ieva Zasimauskaitė

22. Julija Jegorova

23. Justin 3

24. Kotryna Juodzevičiūtė

25. Lawreigna

26. Liepa Maknavičiūtė

27. Lolita

28. Marius Petrauskas

29. Mia

30. Milda Martinkėnaitė & Saulenė Chlevickaitė

31. Monika Mėčiūtė

32. Neringa Šiaudikytė

33. Otreya

34. Paula Valentaitė

35. Queens Of Roses

36. Rasa Kaušiūtė

37. Shiny Raia

38. Rugilė Daujotaitė

39. Ruslanas Kirilkinas

40. Rūta Andruškevičiūtė

41. Sasha Song

42. Soliaris

43. Strėlės

44. Tadas Rimgaila & Tina

45. Valdas Lacko

46. Valerija Iljinaitė

47. Varjetė

48. Vidas Bareikis

49. Vilija Matačiūnaitė

50. Virgis Valuntonis

51. Vlad Max

Comebacks!

We have noticed two very well-known names in Lithuanian pre-selection show, who will try to fly it’s nation flag at Eurovision for second time!

• First of them is Sasha Song who represented Lithuania at Eurovision 2009 in Moscow with song Love,Love – finishing 23rd in Grand Final, with 23 points collected
• Also, Vilija Matačiūnaitė did a comeback! This 30 years old girl represented Lithuania at Eurovision 2014 in Copenhagen with song Attention and unfortunately failed to qualify for Grand Final. She won Barbara Dex award that year, you do remamber her?

Some changes to selection

Unlike with previous years which saw each bidding artist perform at the majority of the shows throughout the selection, LRT has decided to make a slight change to the first few weeks of the competition.

Throughout the first 4 weeks of Eurovizija 2017, a total of 12-13 artists from the 51 participants will perform to the public for the very first time, with only around half of the acts qualifying to the next stage of the competition in the fifth show.

Explaining the decision behind the small changes to the selection process, Eurovizija organiser and producer Lauro Lučiūno revealed:

Last year, some participants complained that the selection phase was long and had to appear quite often, so this year the singer will appear in the first show, and if qualify to the next round – then they  will next appear in the fifth show.

In total, at least 6 acts will compete in the Grand Final of the selection on the 11 March 2017, in which the winner will be determined via a 50/50 jury/public vote, once again including the vote of an international jury.

 Dates:

• 07/01: Show 1
• 14/01: Show 2
• 21/01: Show 3
• 28/01: Show 4
• 04/02: Show 5
• 11/02: Show 6
• 18/02: Show 7
• 25/02: Show 8
• 04/03: Show 9
• 11/03: Show 10 (Grand Final)