Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
| Eurovision Song Contest 2016 | ||||
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 Lithuania
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| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka | |||
| Selection date(s) |
Shows: 9 January 2016 16 January 2016 23 January 2016 30 January 2016 6 February 2016 13 February 2016 20 February 2016 27 February 2016 Semi-final: 5 March 2016 Final: 12 March 2016 |
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| Selected entrant | Donny Montell | |||
| Selected song | "I've Been Waiting for This Night" | |||
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| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result | Qualified (4th, 222 points) | |||
| Final result | 9th, 200 points | |||
| Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Lithuania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "I've Been Waiting for This Night" written by Jonas Thander and Beatrice Robertsson. The song was performed by Donny Montell, who previously represented Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "Love is Blind", placing fourteenth in the final. The Lithuanian broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) organised the national final "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka (English: "Eurovision" Song Contest national selection) in order to select the Lithuanian entry for the 2016 contest in , Sweden. The national final took place over ten weeks and involved 28 artists initially competing in two different competitive streams: artists that applied with a song and artists that were matched with a song from the song submissions LRT received because they did not have a song. The results of each show were determined by the combination of votes from a jury panel and a public vote. In the final, six artists and songs remained and "I've Been Waiting For This Night" performed by Donny Montell was selected as the winner.
Lithuania was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 12 May 2016. Performing during the show in position 9, "I've Been Waiting for This Night" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 14 May. It was later revealed that Lithuania placed fourth out of the 18 participating countries in the semi-final with 222 points. In the final, Lithuania performed in position 16 and placed ninth out of the 26 participating countries, scoring 200 points.
Prior to the 2016 Contest, Lithuania had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest sixteen times since its first entry in 1994. The nation’s best placing in the contest was sixth, which it achieved in 2006 with the song "We Are the Winners" performed by LT United. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004, Lithuania, to this point, has managed to qualify to the final seven times. In the 2015 contest, "This Time" performed by Monika Linkytė and Vaidas Baumila qualified to the final where the song scored 30 points and placed 18th.
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