Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

Latvia will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, having internally selected Samanta Tīna as their representative. She was due to compete in the 2020 contest with "Still Breathing" before the event's cancellation.

Eurovision Song Contest 2021
Country Latvia
National selection
Selection processInternal selection
Selection date(s)Artist: 16 May 2020
Song: 12 March 2021
Selected entrantSamanta Tīna
Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2020 • 2021

Background
Main article: Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2020 contest, Latvia had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twenty times since its first entry in 2000.[1] Latvia won the contest once in 2002 with the song "I Wanna" performed by Marie N. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004, Latvia was able to qualify to compete in the final between 2005 and 2008. Between 2009 and 2014, the nation had failed to qualify to the final for six consecutive years. In the 2015 contest, Latvia managed to qualify to the final with the song "Love Injected" performed by Aminata, which placed 6th in the final, scoring 186 points, giving them their best placing since 2005. In 2019, Latvia was represented by Carousel and the song "That Night", but the country did not qualify for the final and finished 15th in the second semi-final with 50 points.[2]

Before Eurovision

Internal selection

On 16 May 2020, LTV confirmed that Samanta Tīna was selected internally to represent Latvia in the 2021 contest.[3]

At Eurovision

According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big 5" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. For the 2021 contest, the semi-final allocation draw held for 2020 which was held on 28 January 2020, will be used for 2021 contest. Latvia was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 20 May 2021, and was scheduled to perform in the second half of the show.[4]

References
  1. "Latvia Country Profile". EBU. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  2. Indāns, Alvis (October 10, 2019). "🇱🇻 Latvia to choose its entry on February 8". escxtra.com. Escxtra.
  3. "Still breathing – LTV confirms that Samanta Tina will represent Latvia at Eurovision 2021". Wiwibloggs. 16 May 2020.
  4. Groot, Evert (17 November 2020). "2020 Semi-Final line-up to stay for 2021". eurovision.tv. Eurovision Song Contest. Archived from the original on 18 November 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
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