Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1981
The Belgian participating broadcaster, Flemish Belgische Radio- en Televisieomroep (BRT), selected its entry through a national final.Public voting for the semi-finals opened one day after the third heat, after a show was broadcast featuring one minute of all 36 competing songs.Among the chosen songs were future and past Dutch and Belgian representative Stella Maessen (Netherlands 1970 –as part of Hearts of Soul–, Belgium 1977 –as part of Dream Express–, and Belgium 1982) and Future Belgian representative Liliane Saint-Pierre (1987).Only the winner was announced, but it was rumoured and later confirmed in an interview in 2020 with one of the jury members, Claude Blondeel, that Liliane Saint-Pierre came second.At the close of the voting "Samson" had received 40 points (the highest being 8 from Yugoslavia), placing Belgium 13th of the 20 entries.