44 Lithuanian artists will fight for the honour of representing the sunny Baltic country at this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Three semi finals will be aired by the National Lithuanian Television (LRT) on February 5th, 12th and 19th and will determine the first nine qualified entries for the national final to be held in late February. Other six finalists will be granted wildcards by LRT and website zebra.lt
Although a total number of 70 songs were received by the Lithuanian national broadcaster (LRT), a special jury selected 44 of them to advance to the next phase of the selection. Three pre-recorded semi finals will be aired on February 5th, 12th and 19th. From each of the heats, three songs will qualify for the big final through a combination of jury and televoting. The line-up of the final will be completed by five wild card from LRT and one from the website zebra.lt
This is how the line-up for this year's Lithuanian national selection is looking like :
- Ruta Šciogolevaite – I will break free
- Evelina Sašenko – C‘est ma vie
- Mino – Don‘t go
- Linas Adomaitis – Floating to You
- Donny Montell – Let me
- Sasha Song – The Slogan of Our Nation
- Donny Montell and Sasha Song – Best friends
- Vilija – Dreams
- Nora – What is love?
- Monika – Days go by
- Jurate Miliauskaite – Tiesiog diena
- Egle Petrikaite – Laimingi kaip mes
- Urte Šilagalyte – Candy Baby
- Martynas Beinaris – Tomorrow and after
- Ramunas Difartas& Gyvo Garso klubas – Before you go
- Agnieška – Her name is May
- Eden – Sleep of Mind
- El Fuego – Esu zmogus
- Egle Jakštyte – Meile yra
- Valdas Maksvytis – Leisk mylet
- Deividas Bastys – My Girl
- Violeta Valskyte – You make me…
- AvenueAcoustic – Atgali nuodeme
- Dovydas Mašcinskas – Dirty Avenue
- Aurelija Slavinskaite – The End
- Viktorija Ivaškeviciute – Be my Baby
- Guoda Isado – Ciuto tuto
- Gintare Korsakaite – Atmerk akis
- Grazina Jonušaite – Mylek savo prieša
- Flaer –Kibernetiniam sode
- 24for7 – Puffy lips
- Laura Jaraite – City of Steel
- Egle Petrošiute – Smile
- Vigroses – Freedom of mind
- The Independent – 7th bus
- Dave and Henry – Fresh air dream
- Timohi – Setellite of Setellite
- Mezzo Tronic – I Mean It
- Liepa – Laukiu
- Tofu Bubble – Take
- Greta Smidt – Electronic Love
- Asta Pilypaite – Will You
- Kas jos tokios? – Unbreakable
- EDEN – Sleep of Mind
Lithuania is the only Baltic country without scoring a Eurovision win. Last year, they were represented by Inculto with their comedy act Eastern European funk which didn't score enough points to qualify for the big final.