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| Eurovision Song Contest 2012 | ||||
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| Country |  Lithuania | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka | |||
| Selection date(s) | Semi-finals: 4 February 2012 11 February 2012 18 February 2012 25 February 2012 Final: 3 March 2012 | |||
| Selected entrant | Donny Montell | |||
| Selected song | "Love Is Blind" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) |
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| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result | Qualified (3rd, 104 points) | |||
| Final result | 14th, 70 points | |||
| Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Lithuania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "Love Is Blind" written by Brandon Stone and Jodie Rose. The song was performed by Donny Montell. The Lithuanian broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) organised the national final "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka (Eurovision Song Contest national selection) in order to select the Lithuanian entry for the 2012 contest in Baku, Azerbaijan. The national final took place over five weeks and involved 36 competing entries. In the final, fourteen entries remained and the winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, the combination of votes from a jury panel and a public vote selected the top three to qualify to the superfinal. In the superfinal, a jury vote entirely selected "Love Is Blind" performed by Donny Montell as the winner.
Lithuania was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 24 May 2012. Performing as the closing entry during the show in position 18, "Love Is Blind" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 26 May. It was later revealed that Lithuania placed third out of the 18 participating countries in the semi-final with 104 points. In the final, Lithuania performed in position 26 and placed fourteenth out of the 26 participating countries with 70 points.
Background
Prior to the 2012 contest, Lithuania had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twelve times since its first entry in 1994.[1] 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 in 2004, Lithuania, to this point, has managed to qualify to the final four times. In the 2011 contest, "C'est ma vie" performed by Evelina Sašenko qualified to the final where the song scored 63 points and placed 19th.
For the 2012 contest, the Lithuanian national broadcaster, Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT), broadcast the event within Lithuania and organised the selection process for the nation's entry. Other than the internal selection of their debut entry in 1994, Lithuania has selected their entry consistently through a national final procedure. LRT confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest on 11 September 2011 and announced the organization of "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka, which would be the national final to select Lithuania's entry for Baku.[2][3]
Before Eurovision
"Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka
"Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka (Eurovision Song Contest national selection) was the national final format developed by LRT in order to select Lithuania's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The competition involved a five-week-long process that commenced on 4 February 2012 and concluded with a winning song and artist on 3 March 2012. The five shows took place at the LRT studios in Vilnius and were hosted by Liepa Rimkevičienė and Darius Užkuraitis.[4] The shows were broadcast on LTV, LTV World and Lietuvos Radijas as well as online via the broadcaster's website lrt.lt. The final was also streamed online at the official Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.tv.[5]
Format
The 2012 competition involved 36 entries and consisted of five shows. The first four shows were the semi-finals consisting of nine entries each. The top three entries proceeded to the final from each semi-final, while two wildcard acts were also selected for the final out of the remaining non-qualifying acts from the semi-finals. The two wildcards were selected by the public through two separate voting platforms, one on the Balsuok! mobile application and one on the website of the mineral water brand Akvilė.[6][7] Viewers using the Balsuok! app during the four shows were able to select the "for" or "against" option for each entry, and the song that received the most "for" votes received the Balsuok! wildcard.[8] In the final, the winner was selected from the remaining fourteen entries over two rounds of voting. The first round results selected the top three entries, while the second round determined the winner.[9] Monetary prizes were also awarded to the top three artists. The winner received 15,000 LTL, while the second place received 10,000 LTL and the third place received 5,000 LTL.[10] The winning artist(s) were awarded an additional 10,000 LTL sponsored by Akvilė in order to assist in their preparation for the Eurovision Song Contest.[11]
The results of each of the five shows were determined by a five-member jury panel and public televoting. The qualifiers during the semi-finals and the first round of the final were determined by the 50/50 combination of votes from the jury and public. The ranking developed by both streams of voting was converted to points from 1–8, 10 and 12 and assigned based on the number of competing songs in the respective show. The public could vote through telephone and SMS voting. Ties were decided in favour of the entry that received the most points from the jury. In the second round of the final, only the jury voted.[12]
Competing entries
LRT opened a submission period on 14 October 2011 for artists and songwriters to submit their entries with the deadline on 31 December 2011.[13] On 5 January 2012, LRT announced the 47 entries selected for the competition from over 100 submissions received.[14][15] The final changes to the list of 47 competing acts were later made with only 36 entries ultimately participating in the competition.[16]
| Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Alive Way | "Amazed by You" | Justinas Stanislovaitis |
| Beissoul | "Why" | Darius Julka |
| Bekešo Vilkai | "Letter by Letter" | Jievaras Jasinskis, Girmantė Vaitkutė |
| Chill Out, Have No Doubt | "Until the End" | Vytautas Karpauskas, Gražina Guobužaitė |
| DAR | "Home" | Gorgi, Arvydas Martinėnas |
| Diana Jasilionytė | "Dear Someone" | Vytautas Bikus |
| Donata Virbilaitė | "Superman" | Andreas Anastasiou, Gorgi |
| Donatas Šimkus-Dūmas | "Party All Day" | Arvydas Martinėnas, Rūta Lukoševičiūtė |
| Donny Montell | "Love Is Blind" | Brandon Stone, Jodie Rose |
| Gražvydas Sidiniauskas | "When I Say Yes" | Gražvydas Sidiniauskas |
| Greta Jorudaitė | "Show Me What You Got" | Emanuel Gonzalez, Elen Jay |
| Greta Šmidt | "The One" | Greta Šmidt |
| Indigo | "Sugrįžk" | Rūta Lukoševičiūtė, Igoris Barinas |
| Jurijus Veklenko | "Tu ne viena" | Edgaras Lubys |
| Kamilė Kielaitė | "Try" | Kamilė Kielaitė |
| Katažina | "Euforija" | Deivydas Zvonkus |
| LadyBell | "Mano muzika" | Andrius Bernatonis, Aleksandras Latuškinas |
| Laiptai | "Ašarų lietus" | Audronis Grincevičius, Vaidas Dzežulskis |
| Laisva | "Nutolk" | Deivydas Zvonkus |
| Laura J and Stiga | "Fading in the Mist" | Mindaugas Stiga, Jonas Krivickas |
| Liepa | "Viena" | Liepa Mondeikaitė |
| Martynas Beinaris | "Bella Donna" | Martynas Beinaris |
| Merlin | "Wheel of Time" | Rodion Kolomin, Feliks Kutka |
| Monika | "Happy" | Edgaras Lubys, Marius Leskauskas |
| Multiks | "Star" | Paulius Burba |
| Sati | "Light Is the One" | Edgaras Lubys |
| Simona Milinytė | "One of a Kind" | Fredrik Westin, Bobby Ljunggren, Marcos Ubeda |
| Sound's Engineers feat. Natalie | "Blind" | Vitalijus Lipovecas, Natalja Chareckaja |
| Sweetsalt | "My Love" | Rokas Dobunžinskas |
| The Artrace | "Fly LT" | Aurimas Galvelis, Justas Kulikauskas, GEnerG |
| The Independent | "Baby" | Kipras Varaneckas |
| Thundertale | "Heroes, Arise!" | Laurynas Baškys, Jonas Chockevičius |
| Vaida feat. Movetron | "Medieval Love" | Jukka Tanttari, Timo Löyvä |
| Valdas Maksvytis | "Dar laiko yra" | Romas Michailovskis, Valdas Maksvyti |
| VIG Roses | "Come Back Home" | Giedrė Girnytė, Arūnas Rakšnys |
| Vytautas Matuzas | "Take It Back" | Vytautas Matuzas, Linas Adomaitis |
Shows
Semi-finals
The four semi-finals of the competition aired on 4, 11, 18 and 25 February 2012 and featured nine competing entries each. The members of the jury consisted of Raigardas Tautkus (musician, producer; all semi-finals), Vladimiras Prudnikovas (opera singer; first to third semi-finals), Rosita Čivilytė (singer; first and fourth semi-final), Saulius Urbonavičius (musician, singer-songwriter; first to third semi-finals), Merūnas Vitulskis (opera singer; first and second semi-final), Karolis Ramoška (lead singer of the group Proper Heat; second semi-final), Laurynas Šarkinas (member of the group Saulės kliošas; third and fourth semi-final), Arnoldas Lukošius (keyboardist; third semi-final), Vytautas Miškinis (professor; fourth semi-final) and Aras Vėberis (producer; fourth semi-final). The top three entries advanced to the final from each semi-final, while the bottom six were eliminated.[17]
On 26 February 2012, "The One" performed by Greta Šmidt was announced to have received the most positive reactions on the Balsuok! app (164,252 "for" votes) and was awarded a wildcard to also proceed to the final.[18][19] On 28 February 2012, "Light Is the One" performed by Sati was announced to have received the most votes on the Akvilė online voting platform (46,028 votes) and was also awarded a wildcard to proceed to the final.[20]
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | Points | Votes | Points | ||||||
| 1 | The Independent | "Baby" | 39 | 10 | 484 | 8 | 18 | 2 | Advanced |
| 2 | Kamilė Kielaitė | "Try" | 31 | 8 | 151 | 4 | 12 | 5 | Eliminated |
| 3 | Multiks | "Star" | 28 | 7 | 549 | 10 | 17 | 3 | Advanced |
| 4 | Valdas Maksvytis | "Dar laiko yra" | 20 | 3 | 396 | 7 | 10 | 7 | Eliminated |
| 5 | Chill Out, Have No Doubt | "Until the End" | 26 | 4 | 316 | 6 | 10 | 6 | Eliminated |
| 6 | The Artrace | "Fly LT" | 33 | 8 | 199 | 5 | 13 | 4 | Eliminated |
| 7 | Indigo | "Sugrizk" | 43 | 6 | 121 | 2 | 8 | 8 | Eliminated |
| 8 | Laisva | "Nutolk" | 29 | 5 | 131 | 3 | 8 | 9 | Eliminated |
| 9 | Beissoul | "Why" | 43 | 12 | 895 | 12 | 24 | 1 | Advanced |
| Draw | Song | V. Prudnikovas | R. Čivilytė | M. Vitulskis | R. Tautkus | S. Urbonavičius | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Baby" | 9 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 39 |
| 2 | "Try" | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 31 |
| 3 | "Star" | 7 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 28 |
| 4 | "Dar laiko yra" | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 20 |
| 5 | "Until the End" | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 26 |
| 6 | "Fly LT" | 7 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 33 |
| 7 | "Sugrizk" | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 43 |
| 8 | "Nutolk" | 6 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 29 |
| 9 | "Why" | 8 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 43 |
| Draw | Artist | Song | Jury | Televote | Total | Place | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | Points | Votes | Points | ||||||
| 1 | Sweetsalt | "My Love" | 30 | 5 | 218 | 3 | 8 | 8 | Eliminated |
| 2 | Diana Jasilionytė | "Dear Someone" | 36 | 8 | 1,047 | 7 | 15 | 4 | Eliminated |
