Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
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| Selection process | National Final | |||
| Selection date(s) | 25 January 2017 | |||
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Belarus will participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song to be selected at the national final on January 25.
Belarus will be in one of the two semi-finals on 9 or 11 May in Kiev.
Background
Prior to the 2016 Contest, Belarus had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twelve times since its first entry in 2004.[1] The nation's best placing in the contest was sixth, which it achieved in 2007 with the song "Work Your Magic" performed by Dmitry Koldun. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004 contest, Belarus had managed to qualify to the final four times. In 2015, Belarus failed to qualify to the final with the song "Time" performed by Uzari and Maimuna.
The Belarusian national broadcaster, National State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus (BTRC), broadcasts the event within Belarus and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. The broadcaster has used both internal selections and national finals to select the Belarusian entry for Eurovision in the past. Since 2012, BTRC has organised a national final in order to choose Belarus' entry, a selection procedure that continued for their 2016 entry.[2]
Before Eurovision
National Final
The Belarusian national final will place on 25 January 2017. 13th songs will part in the competition and the winner will be selected between jury and public televote. The show will broadcast on Belarus 1, Belarus 24 and Radius FM as well as online via the broadcaster's official website tvr.by and the Eurovision Song Contest's official website eurovision.tv.
Competing entries
Artists and composers were able to submit their applications and entries to the broadcaster between 4 and 24 November 2015. At the closing of the deadline, 67 entries were received by the broadcaster. Auditions were held on 30 November 2016 at the BTRC "600 Metrov" studio where a jury panel was tasked with selecting up to fifteen entries to proceed to the televised national final. The auditions were webcast online at the official BTRC website.
Final
The televised final took place on 25 January 2017.[3]
In addition to the performances from the competitors, the show featured guest performances by the hosts Olga Ryzhikova and Teo.
| Draw | Artist | Song (English translation) | Composer(s) | Televote | Jury | Total | Place | |
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| Anastasiya Sheverenko | "We'll Be Together" | Maxim Aleynikov | ||||||
| Angelica Pushnova | "We Should Be Together" | Kirill Good, Natalya Tambovtseva | ||||||
| Isaac Nightingale | "On the Red Line" | |||||||
| July | "Children of the World" | |||||||
| Kattie | "Wild Wind" | Anders Hansson, Sharon Vaughn | ||||||
| Lermont x Julic | "Heartbeat" | |||||||
| Lexy Weaver | "Be Stronger" | |||||||
| NAPOLI | "Let's Come Together" | Michael James Down, Primoz Poglajen, Niklas Hast | ||||||
| NAVI | "Historyja majho žyccia" (Story of my life) | Artyom Lukyanenko | ||||||
| Nikita Hodas | "Voice in my Head" | |||||||
| Nuteki | "Take My Heart" | Mikhail Nokarashvili, Nick Baumheart, Don Michel | ||||||
| PROvokatsiya | "#mylove" | |||||||
| Vladislav Kurasov | "Follow the Play" | Vladislav Kurasov, Natalya Rostova | ||||||
At Eurovision
The Eurovision Song Contest 2017 will take place at the International Exhibition Centre in Kiev, Ukraine and will consist of two semi-finals on 9 and 11 May and the final on 13 May 2017.[4] 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.
References
- ↑ "Belarus Country Profile". EBU. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
- ↑ Granger, Anthony (21 October 2015). "Belarus: 2016 singer to be selected by televote only". Eurovoix.com. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
- ↑ http://www.tvr.by/news/kultura/stali_izvestny_imena_finalistov_natsionalnogo_otbora_na_evrovidenie_2017/
- ↑ Jordan, Paul (9 September 2016). "Kyiv to host Eurovision 2017!". eurovision.tv. European Broadcasting Union. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016. |
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