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Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015

Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Country  Georgia
National selection
Selection process National Final
Selection date(s) 14 January 2015
Selected entrant Nina Sublatti
Selected song "Warrior"
Selected songwriter(s)
Finals performance
Semi-final result Qualified (4th, 98 points)
Final result 11th, 51 points
Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Georgia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Warrior", written by Nina Sublatti and Thomas G:son. The song was performed by Nina Sublatti. The Georgian broadcaster Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) organised a national final in order to select the Georgian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna, Austria. In January 2015, "Warrior" performed by Nina Sublatti emerged as the winner after scoring first place with both an international jury panel and public televoting. In the first of the Eurovision semi-finals "Warrior" placed fourth out of the 16 participating countries, securing its place among the 27 other songs in the final. In Georgia's eighth Eurovision appearance on 23 May, "Warrior" finished in eleventh place, receiving 51 points.

Prior to the 2015 Contest, Georgia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest seven times since its first entry in 2007. Its highest placing in the contest, to this point, has been ninth place, which the nation achieved on two occasions: in 2010 with the song "Shine" performed by Sofia Nizharadze and in 2011 with the song "One More Day" performed by Eldrine. The nation briefly withdrew from the contest in 2009 after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) rejected the Georgian entry, "We Don't Wanna Put In", for perceived political references to Vladimir Putin who was the Russian Prime Minister at the time. The withdrawal and fallout was tied to tense relations between Georgia and then host country Russia, which stemmed from the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. Georgia has, to thipoint, failed to qualify to the final on only two occasions, which includes their 2014 entry "Three Minutes to Earth" performed by The Shin and Mariko.


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