Lithuania was represented by Linas and Simona with the song "What's Happened to Your Love?" at the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest semi-final which took place on 12 May in Istanbul, Turkey. "What's Happened to Your Love?" was chosen as the Lithuanian entry at the national final on 14 February.[1]
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The final was preceded by six of semi-finals, which took place on a weekly basis between 3 January and 7 February 2004. The Lithuanian national final was notable for abandoning any sifting out a process of the received entries, with every entry that got submitted getting to participate in a televised semi-final. The results in the semi-finals were decided by televoting. An additional wildcard was also given to the highest-scoring entry that did not qualify from the semi-finals.[2]
The final was held on 14 February 2004. The winner was selected by a 50/50 combination of jury voting and televoting.
There was a 3-way tie in the final, leading to a tie-break situation where the 8 jury members each had 1 vote. Linas & Simona got 4 votes, Rūta Ščiogolevaitė got 3 and Edmundas Kucinskas got 1, leading to a win for Linas and Simona.
Having been relegated from competing in Riga the year before, Lithuania had to earn a spot in the 2004 final by competing in Eurovision's first-ever semi-final round. Lithuania performed twelfth during the semi-final in Istanbul, following Ukraine and preceding Albania. At the end of the night, they were not among the ten countries announced as having qualified for the final, kicking off two years of non-qualifications that ended in 2006.[3] In both the semi and the final, the Lithuanian televote gave twelve points to the eventual winner Ruslana with "Wild Dances," representing Ukraine.
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