Lithuania: The Roop's "Discoteque" smashes national streaming records while the group launches a TikTok chanllenge

Lithuania: The Roop's
Wednesday, 03 February 2021

  • The Roop seem unstoppable as their potential ESC 2021 entry "Discoteque"  breaks their own streaming records in Lithuania.

    The Roop are doing it again ! Following last year's streaming records of their ESC 2020 song "On Fire" , one week after the release of their new candidate Eurovision 2021 entry "Discoteque" . Their song has topped all digital and airplay charts while last year's Eurovision song makes a comeback in the charts at No16. 

     

    Meanwhile the official music video of "Discoteque"  on Youtube has reached almost 2,5 million views in just ten days since its premiere. 

     

    The TikTok Challenge

    While their potential Eurovision sons is breaking all records The Roop ambition to spead the 'Discoteque' moves around and encourage fans through a TikTok challenge under the hashtag #theroopchallenge to dance or move their fingers as they do in their viral challenge. 

    The Roop are to compete in the national final of Pabandom iš naujo 2021, with their song "Discoteque" the recored breaking video of which you can watch below: 
    Lithuania in Eurovision 

    Lithuania has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest  20 times since its debut in 1994, when Ovidijus Vyšniauskas finished last, receiving zero points. Lithuania withdrew from the contest, without returning until 1999. LT United’s 6th place in 2006 with the song “We Are the Winners” is Lithuania’s best result in the contest. The country reached the top ten for a second time in 2016, when Donny Montell finished 9th with “I’ve Been Waiting for This Night”.

    In 2018 the country was represented by  Ieva Zasimaskaite with her emotional ballad song When We’re Old, which finished 12th in the grand final. In 2019 national final winner,  Jurij Veklenko defended the Lithuanian colors in Tel Aviv with the song Run With The Lions, but failed to qualify to the final left in the 11th place of the second semi final.

    This year The Roop won the national final with their song “On fire” but never made it to the Eurovision stage since the Eurovision 2020 was cancelled  due to the coronavirus pandemic.

     

    News Source: Eurovoix

    Image : LRT