Belgium: Hooverphonic's song for Eurovision 2021 to go public on March 4

Belgium: Hooverphonic's song for Eurovision 2021 to go public on March 4
Tuesday, 02 March 2021

  • Belgium will be revealing its Eurovision 2021 song that Hooverphonic will perform on Rotterdam Ahoy's stage , on March 4 . 

    Save the date: March 4 is turning out to be a day when we'll have a significant number of countries revealing the songs that their Eurovision 2021 hopeful will be performing in Rotterdam. 

    Through the official Eurovision song contest accounts it has been announced that Hooverphonic's song will come out on March 4. Thus, Belgium will be joining Moldova, Romania and the host country which will be unveiling their 2021 entries the same day. 

     

    Belgium in Eurovision 

    Belgium is one of the countries to have participated in the Eurovision SOng Contest since its first edition back in 1956. After 30 years the country achieves to win the contest in 1986 with the 13 yo Sandra Kim and her entry “J’aime la vie“.

    The country has finished last in the contest 8 times while in two of these occasions didn’t receive any point at all. In 2003 with the group Urban Trad and their song “Sanomi” it almost reached its second victory finishing in the 2nd place, only two points behind Turkey and Sertab Erener with her entry “Every way that I can“.

    Although the country has managed to qualify to the final 5 times the last decade, with Loïc Nottet in 2015 and Blanche in 2017 achieving the best results coming 4th in the final, the last two years it hasn’t been that story.  In 2018 with  Sennek and “A matter of time” , failed to reach the final although the juries ranked her 9th in her semi final. In 2019 internally selected  Eliot represented the country in Tel Aviv with his song “Wake up” which failed to reach the grand final.

    Last year Hooverphonic were internally selected to perform "Release Me" in Rotterdam. Following the cancellation of the contest by EBU due to the coronavirus pandemic, a consultation between the VRT, the French-speaking public broadcaster RTBF and Hooverphonic leaded to VRT announcing that the band will represent Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. RTBF considered it a logical decision to offer Hooverphonic and the VRT this opportunity and postponed their turn for participation for a year until 2022.