Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

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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
Selected song"The Moon Is Rising"
Selected songwriter(s)
Finals performance
Semi-final resultFailed to qualify (17th)
Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2020 • 2021 • 2022►

Latvia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, having internally selected Samanta Tīna as the country's representative with the song "The Moon Is Rising". She was due to compete in the 2020 contest with "Still Breathing" before the event's cancellation.

Background[]

Main article: Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2021 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] The Latvian entry for 2021, titled "The Moon Is Rising", was revealed on 12 March 2021, at the close of a special documentary series on LTV titled Kā uzvarēt Eirovīzijā? Samantas Tīnas ceļš uz Roterdamu ("How to win at Eurovision? Samanta Tīna's Road to Rotterdam") that chronicles the process of choosing the entry.[4]

At Eurovision[]

According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete in 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 took place on 28 January 2020 was used. Latvia was scheduled to perform in the second half of the second semi-final. This semi-final was held on 20 May 2021.[5] The song "The Moon Is Rising" did not progress to the final.[6]

Once all the competing songs for the 2021 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Latvia was set to perform in position 15, following the entry from Finland and preceding the entry from Switzerland.[7]

Voting[]

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who were citizens of the country they represented, with a diversity in gender and age among jury members. The judges assessed each entry based on the performances during the second Dress Rehearsal of each show, which took place the night before each live show, against a set of criteria including: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression of the act.[8] Jury members could only take part in the panel once every three years, and were obliged to confirm that they were not connected to any of the participating acts in a way that would impact their ability to vote impartially. Jury members were required to vote independently, with no discussion of their vote permitted with other jury members.[9] The exact composition of the professional jury, and the results of each country's jury and televoting were released after the grand final; the individual results from each jury member were also released in an anonymised form.[10][11]

Points awarded to Latvia[]

Points awarded to Latvia (Semi-final 2)[12]
Score Televote Jury
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points
5 points  Georgia
4 points  United Kingdom  Moldova
3 points
2 points
1 point  Estonia

Points awarded by Latvia[]

Detailed voting results[]

The following members comprised the Latvian jury:[10][11]

  •  [lv] (Patrisha)
  • Magnuss Eriņš
  •  [lv]
  •  [lv]
  • Guna Zučika
Detailed voting results from Latvia (Semi-final 2)[12]
Draw Country Jury Televote
Juror A Juror B Juror C Juror D Juror E Average Rank Points Rank Points
01  San Marino 4 5 12 11 14 9 2 12
02  Estonia 12 9 6 6 7 8 3 2 10
03  Czech Republic 7 8 15 13 11 13 13
04  Greece 10 11 5 7 10 11 10 1
05  Austria 11 10 11 10 3 10 1 11
06  Poland 14 15 10 16 13 16 16
07  Moldova 13 14 1 9 15 7 4 1 12
08  Iceland 5 2 2 1 1 1 12 4 7
09  Serbia 6 13 13 15 16 14 15
10  Georgia 16 7 16 14 12 15 8 3
11  Albania 2 12 9 12 8 6 5 14
12  Portugal 9 3 8 2 6 3 8 6 5
13  Bulgaria 8 4 7 3 5 5 6 9 2
14  Finland 3 6 4 5 9 4 7 3 8
15  Latvia
16   Switzerland 1 1 3 4 2 2 10 5 6
17  Denmark 15 16 14 8 4 12 7 4
Detailed voting results from Latvia (Final)[13]
Draw Country Jury Televote
Juror A Juror B Juror C Juror D Juror E Average Rank Points Rank Points
01  Cyprus 21 22 24 25 25 25 20
02  Albania 17 23 22 23 17 23 24
03  Israel 19 19 18 20 16 21 19
04  Belgium 9 8 10 6 19 12 13
05  Russia 10 10 6 5 18 10 1 2 10
06  Malta 3 9 7 21 15 9 2 17
07  Portugal 14 11 12 8 7 13 14
08  Serbia 20 26 25 26 26 26 25
09  United Kingdom 26 6 17 22 21 15 23
10  Greece 13 18 16 15 6 14 16
11   Switzerland 4 1 1 9 2 1 12 7 4
12  Iceland 7 3 2 4 1 2 10 6 5
13  Spain 22 21 26 16 20 24 26
14  Moldova 23 25 13 18 24 22 11
15  Germany 24 20 14 10 11 17 18
16  Finland 12 5 5 7 8 7 4 3 8
17  Bulgaria 11 17 3 13 3 6 5 15
18  Lithuania 5 2 19 3 10 5 6 1 12
19  Ukraine 1 13 8 1 14 4 7 5 6
20  France 6 7 9 11 4 8 3 8 3
21  Azerbaijan 15 24 15 12 22 20 12
22  Norway 25 14 4 24 5 11 9 2
23  Netherlands 16 15 20 14 9 16 22
24  Italy 2 4 11 2 12 3 8 4 7
25  Sweden 18 12 21 19 13 19 10 1
26  San Marino 8 16 23 17 23 18 21

References[]

  1. ^ "Latvia Country Profile". EBU. Retrieved 6 November 2014.
  2. ^ Indāns, Alvis (10 October 2019). "