Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
| Eurovision Song Contest 2015 | ||||
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 Lithuania
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| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka | |||
| Selection date(s) |
Shows: 3 January 2015 10 January 2015 17 January 2015 24 January 2015 31 January 2015 7 February 2015 Song Selection: 14 February 2015 Artist Selection: 21 February 2015 |
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| Selected entrant |
Monika Linkytė & Vaidas Baumila |
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| Selected song | "This Time" | |||
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| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result | Qualified (7th, 67 points) | |||
| Final result | 18th, 30 points | |||
| Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Lithuania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "This Time", written by Vytautas Bikus and Monika Liubinaitė. The song was performed by Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila. Lithuanian broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) organised the national final "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka in order to select the Lithuanian entry for the 2015 contest in Vienna, Austria. The national selection involved artists competing independently from their songs with separate selections running concurrently to choose the winning artist and song. "This Time" was selected as the winning song from a field of twelve competing songs. Three artists qualified to perform the winning song in the final round of the selection: Mia, Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila. While Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila entered the competition performing as solo acts, they joined forces as a duet for the final artist selection and were subsequently selected as the performers for "This Time".
In the second of the Eurovision semi-finals "This Time" placed seventh out of the 17 participating countries, securing its place among the 27 other songs in the final. In Lithuania's sixteenth Eurovision appearance on 23 May, "This Time" finished in eighteenth place, receiving 30 points.
Prior to the 2015 Contest, Lithuania had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fifteen times since its first entry in 1994. Its best placing in the contest was sixth, which it achieved in 2006 with the song "We Are the Winners" performed by LT United. Since the introduction of a semi-final to the competition in 2004, Lithuania, to this point, has managed to qualify to the final six times. In the 2014 contest, "Attention" performed by Vilija Matačiūnaitė failed to qualify Lithuania to compete in the final.
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