Lithuania: LRT opens submission window for Pabandom iš naujo 2022

Lithuania: LRT opens submission window for Pabandom iš naujo 2022
Saturday, 02 October 2021

  • The Lithuanian national broadcaster, LRT, has opened the submission window for the Eurovision 2022 national selection, ‘Pabandom iš naujo’.

    Applicants to represent Lithuania in 2022 At Eurovision, you can already apply for participation in the national selection ‘Pabandom iš naujo’  (Let's Try Again) organized by the LRT. Song authors or performers can submit applications to LRT until November 25. This year, an innovation awaits the participants of the national selection - the public broadcaster will contribute to the fulfillment of the musical work and image.

    LRT has released the rules and regulations of the 2022 national selection, while the broadcaser plans to allocate up to 54,000 euros, excluding taxes, to the participants, aiming to contribute in the the production and staging of the entries in order to present a high level in the quality of performances.

    LRT Deputy General Manager, Gytis Oganauskas says: 

    "' Eurovision' is one of the themes that unites and attracts the most different people of Lithuania to television screens. It is the entertainment that brings us together, which we watch, vote for, support, talk about, which is why the public broadcaster is trying to raise the quality of the Eurovision national selection cartel. We hope that due to the financial contribution of LRT, we will have many equal and high-quality performances in the selection, regardless of whether they are performers attracting full arenas of listeners or talented creators who have not yet had a chance to be heard."

    In 2022 the selection will not last longer than 6 shows: three pre-selection shows, two semi-finals and a final. Depending on the number of participants selected, there may be fewer shows. The first round of the national selection is scheduled for early January next year.

    The results of the audience voting are shown only at the end of each qualifying concert. The money received by LRT during the selection for the audience voting, together with other financial support from the public broadcaster, will be allocated to improve the performance of the winner of the selection.

     

    Lithuania in Eurovision 

    Lithuania has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest  21 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.

    In 2020 The Rood had won the national final with their song “On fire” but never made it to the Eurovision stage after the Eurovision 2020 cancellation due to the coronavirus outbreak. However, the band had the chance to complete their Eurovision journey in 2021, as after winning the national selection Pabandom iš naujo 2021 with their song "Discoteque" went on represeting the Baltic nation in Rotterdam where they finished 8th. 

     

    News Source: LRT

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