Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008
[1] The nation’s best placing in the contest was sixth, which it achieved in 2006 with the song "We Are the Winners" performed by LT United.In the 2007 contest, "Love or Leave" performed by 4Fun automatically qualified to the final where the song scored 28 points and placed 21st.LRT confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest on 29 October 2007 and announced the organization of "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka, which would be the national final to select Lithuania's entry for Belgrade.The competition involved a four-week-long process that commenced on 12 January 2008 and concluded with a winning song and artist on 2 February 2008.[7] LRT opened a submission period on 29 October 2007 for artists and songwriters to submit their entries with the deadline on 10 December 2007.[12] The members of the jury in the first semi-final consisted of Darius Užkuraitis (Opus 3 director), Neda Malunavičiūtė (singer) and Robertas Aleksaitis (actor),[13] while the jury in the second semi-final consisted of Vytautas Juozapaitis (opera singer), Aras Vėberis (producer) and Jurijus Smoriginas (choreographer),[14] and the jury in the third semi-final consisted of Alanas Chošnau (singer-songwriter), Rosita Čivilytė (singer) and Zita Kelmickaitė (musicologist).[18] According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Four" (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top nine songs from each semi-final as determined by televoting progress to the final, and a tenth was determined by back-up juries.[23][24] At the end of the show, Lithuania was not announced among the top 10 entries in the second semi-final and therefore failed to qualify to compete in the final.
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