Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014
| Eurovision Song Contest 2014 | ||||
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 Lithuania
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| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka | |||
| Selection date(s) |
Jubilee Concert: 14 December 2013 Shows: 21 December 2013 28 December 2013 4 January 2014 11 January 2014 18 January 2014 25 January 2014 1 February 2014 8 February 2014 15 February 2014 Semi final: 23 February 2014 Final: 1 March 2014 |
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| Selected entrant | Vilija Matačiūnaitė | |||
| Selected song | "Attention" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) |
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| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result |
Failed to qualify (11th, 36 points) |
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| Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Lithuania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Lithuanian entry was selected through "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka, a twelve-week-long national final format, organised by the Lithuanian broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT). Lithuania was represented by the song "Attention", performed by Vilija Matačiūnaitė and written by Vilija Matačiūnaitė and Viktoras Vaupšas. The song failed to qualify from the second semi-final, placing 11th with a score of 36 points.
"Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka was the national final format developed by LRT in order to select Lithuania's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. The competition involved an initial twenty artists competing in a twelve-week-long process that began on 14 December 2013 and concluded with a winning song, "Attention" selected on 22 February 2014 and a winning artist, Vilija Matačiūnaitė, selected on 1 March 2014. All shows in the competition took place at the LRT studios in Vilnius and were hosted by Simona Nainė and Arūnas Valinskas.
The format of the competition involved artists competing independently from the songs, potentially being paired with any of the songs that were selected for the competition. LRT stated in the rules that composers were required agree to the condition that their song may be offered to an artist they did not originally write the song for. Twenty artists were selected for the competition; the artists ranged from established performers to former talent show contestants. The first show of the competition featured fifteen of the artists participating in a jubilee celebration of the past Lithuanian Eurovision Song Contest entries. During the second, third, fourth and fifth shows, artists competed against each other by performing cover versions that related to the theme of that particular show. The themes included covers of past Eurovision Song Contest songs, Lithuanian hit songs and world hit songs. After the second and third shows, only ten artists remained in the competition. From the third show to the tenth show, one artist was eliminated per show. From the sixth show and onward, each week the remaining artists performed the potential Eurovision entries that were in contention to represent Lithuania. During the tenth show, the final three artists were selected for the final. During the eleventh show, the winning song was selected. In the final on 1 March 2014, the remaining three artists performed their version of the Lithuanian entry and the artist-song combination that scored the highest after the combination of votes from the juries and the public televote was selected to represent Lithuania in Copenhagen.
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