Lithuania was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "", written by Lukas Radzevičius and performed by the band Katarsis. The Lithuanian participating broadcaster, the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT), organised the national final 2025 to select its entry for the contest.
Lithuania was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 15 May 2025 and was later selected to perform in position 8. At the end of the show, "" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and hence qualified to compete in the final, marking a fifth consecutive qualification for the country. It was later revealed that Lithuania placed sixth out of the sixteen participating countries in the semi-final with 103 points. In the final, Lithuania performed in position 5 and placed sixteenth out of the 26 participating countries, scoring a total of 96 points.
Background
Prior to 2025, the Lithuanian National Radio and Television (LRT) had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest representing Lithuania twenty-four times since its debut in . Its best placing was achieved in , with the song "We Are the Winners" performed by LT United, which finished in sixth place in the final. Since the introduction of semi-finals in , LRT has managed to qualify for the final thirteen times. It was by the song "", performed by Silvester Belt, who qualified for the final and finished 14th overall with 90 points.
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, LRT organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. LRT has used a national final to select all of its Eurovision entries, with the exception of its debut entry in . Between and , the national final format was used to select its entry. , LRT introduced a new format, titled . LRT confirmed its intention to participate in the 2025 contest in mid-June 2024; two months later, the broadcaster started accepting applications for .
Before Eurovision Eurovizija.LT 2025
2025 was the national final format organized by LRT to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. It was held between 11 January and 15 February 2025 and was hosted by Gabrielė Martirosian, Nombeko Augustė Khotseng, and Rimvydas Černiauskas. The shows were broadcast on and , as well as online via the broadcaster's website lrt.lt and official LRT YouTube channel.
Format The competition saw 44 entries compete across five semi-finals, held between 11 January and 8 February 2024, and a final on 15 February 2024. A 50/50 combination of jury and public vote determined the ranking in each phase, with the top two entries from each semi-final (out of the nine total) qualifying for the final; the top three entries from the final moving on to a final televoting round selecting the winner. In case of a tie in any of the previous stages, the jury ranking would take precedence. The score system was the same used at the Eurovision Song Contest: the top ten entries from each of the jury vote and the televote are assigned 1–8, 10 and 12 points.
Performances for the semi-finals were pre-recorded, while they were delivered live in the final.
Competing entries On 13 August 2024, LRT opened a submission platform for interested artists, lasting until 11 November 2024, later the deadline was extended to 25 November 2024. Each applicant could only submit one entry. Performers were required to be citizens of the European Union who have a permanent residence permit in Lithuania, while songwriters could be of any nationality, though citizens of countries "hostile to Lithuania" were not allowed to submit entries. The selected artists are able to withdraw until 20 December 2024. 81 entries were submitted at the conclusion of the submission period.
On 11 December 2024, the list of the 45 participating artists and songs was released by LRT. On 13 December, Evelina Gancewska was disqualified from the competition as her competing song "Aurora" had already made the line-up of the Croatian national selection, Dora 2025, and was replaced by Austėja Lukaitė, who later withdrew from the competition herself because she was unable to attend the filming of her semi-final due to a flu. Among the selected competing artists were Vilija and Ieva Zasimauskaitė, who in and , respectively. Gebrasy, and Laimonas (as part of Il Senso), Justinas Lapatinskas, Liepa, Lion Ceccah (formerly known as Alen Chicco), Mario Junes, Petunija, Queens of Roses and Siga (as part of Žalvarinis) have all competed in previous editions of the Lithuanian national selection and advanced to the final.
Entry withdrawn Replacement entry, later withdrawn
Artist Song Songwriter(s) Aistay "" Amari "Sirens Call" Amoralu "Freedom" Anyanya "Running Out of Time" Austėja Lukaitė "" Žilvinas Žusinas "" Vitalij Valentinovič Donata "Empower" Euften "Goodbye Hell" Evelina Gancewska "Aurora" Ewa "Tell Me Lie" Eva Navickaitė Freya Alley "Lalala" Gebrasy "Whole" Gøya "After Storm" Godo Yorke "" Halummi "The Flame" Hansanova "" Giedrius Balčiūnas Ieva Zasimauskaitė "Don't You Ever Leave Me" and Laimonas "" Stanislavas Stavickis Jokūbas Jankauskas "Far Away" Jokūbas Jankauskas Joseph June "" Vytautas Gumbelevičius Justė Baradulinaitė "Tired" Justinas "Alright" Káro "Love Bug" Katarsis "" Lukas Radzevičius Liepa "" Lion Ceccah "" Lit "You're Not Alone" "" Mario Junes "Bury Me" Matas Ligeika "" Matt Len "Not Alone" Meidė "" Noy "Just Take Me on a Date" Ofelija "" Liepa Maknavičiūtė Petunija "" Queens of Roses "" Rūta Budreckaitė "" Siga "Walking with My Shadow" Sigita Jonynaitė-Žostautienė Sophie Ali "The Bluest Bell" Sun Francisco "" The Ditties "Zui Zu Bi" Thomas G "Highest Goals" Tomas Dirgėla "" Ustin "You're the One" Viktorija Faith "Scary Beautiful" Vilija "" Vilija Matačiūnaitė
Jury members Unlike last year, the jury members commented on the contestants' performances in all shows. The jury consisted of five people in the semi-finals, and 11 jury members participated in the final. +Jury members by show Jury member Semi-finals Final Occupation(s) 1 2 3 4 5 Ieva Narkutė singer-songwriter Monika Liu Leonas Somovas producer and composer Unė Liandzbergytė radio host Gerūta Griniūtė radio host, former Eurovision commentator theater director, singer, member of Kristupas Naraškevičius TV and radio host radio host, former Eurovision commentator Vaidas Baumila Inga Jankauskaitė actress, singer-songwriter Giedrė Kilčiauskienė singer-songwriter
Semi-finals The five semi-finals of the competition were filmed on 8, 14, 15, 20, and 21 January 2025 at the LRT studios in Vilnius and were aired on 11, 18, 25 January, 1, and 8 February 2025. In each semi-final, 9 of the 45 competing acts performed, with the top two entries progressing to the final.
After the results of the 5th semi-final, it was announced that Black Biceps and Liepa also qualified for the final as wildcards. Both artists received the most audience support from the contestants who did not make it to the finals, and they also only missed out on the finals due to jury tie-breakers.
Each semi-final opened with a performance of dancers staged by choreographer Marijanas Staniulėnas. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, interval acts performed: Gabrielius Vagelis performed "" in the first semi-final; Stanislavas Stavickis-Stano and performed "" in the second semi-final; Rūta Mur with Leonas Somovas performed "" in the third semi-final; Nombeko Augustė performed "" in the fourth semi-final; Paulina Paukštaitytė performed "" in the fifth semi-final.
Qualifier Wildcard qualifier Entry withdrawn + Semi-final 111 January 2025 Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place Votes Points 1 Lit "You're Not Alone"62974106 2 Mantas Ben ""83846143 3 Rūta Budreckaitė ""47068125 4 Anyanya "Running Out of Time"121,05812241 5 Aistay ""255249 6 Ewa "Tell Me Lie"74427144 7 Viktorija Faith "Scary Beautiful"5159387 8 Justė Baradulinaitė "Tired"1082710202 9 Euften "Goodbye Hell"3299588 + Semi-final 218 January 2025 Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place Votes Points 1 Halummi "The Flame"64275115 2 Noy "Just Take Me on a Date"101,01912222 3 Jokūbas Jankauskas "Far Away"86338163 4 Petunija ""1286310221 5 Freya Alley "Lalala"44766106 6 Káro "Love Bug"5349497 7 Vilija ""76107144 8 Tomas Dirgėla ""3236368 Austėja Lukaitė "" Withdrew + Semi-final 325 January 2025 Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place Votes Points 1 Amari "Sirens Call"3426587 2 Thomas G "Highest Goals"2540688 3 Queens of Roses ""75447144 4 Gøya "After Storm"101,22010202 5 Hansanova ""4304379 6 Meidė ""5424495 7 Gebrasy "Whole"127428201 8 Indrė and Laimonas ""6272286 9 Black Biceps ""82,86812203 + Semi-final 41 February 2025 Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place Votes Points 1 Siga "Walking With My Shadow"2344359 2 Ustin "You're the One"56725106 3 Godo Yorke ""4252268 4 Joseph June ""3711697 5 Amoralu "Freedom"108207172 6 Katarsis ""122,50712241 7 Liepa ""72,21810173 8 Mario Junes "Bury Me"65734105 9 The Ditties ""81,2548164 + Semi-final 58 February 2025 Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place Votes Points 1 Donata "Empower"62835115 2 Matas Ligeika ""104707173 3 Ieva Zasimauskaitė "Don't You Ever Leave Me"76358154 4 Matt Len "Not Alone"52906116 5 Ofelija ""4121377 6 Sun Francisco ""3125478 7 Justinas "Alright"2103249 8 Sophie Ali "The Bluest Bell"81,27110182 9 Lion Ceccah ""121,99312241
Final The live final of the competition took place on 15 February 2025 at the Žalgiris Arena in Kaunas. The final was opened by a performance of dancers staged by choreographer Marijanas Staniulėnas, followed by a parade of participants presenting all twelve finalists. In addition to the performances of the competing entries Rokas Yan performed medley of his songs (including a joint song with former Lithuanian representatives Monika Liu and Vaidas Baumila), Silvester Belt performed 2024 Lithuanian Eurovision entry "" and Monika Marija, Gabrielius Vagelis, Vilius Popendikis and Nombeko Augustė Khotseng together performed medley of famous Eurovision songs as the interval acts. A combination of the votes of a jury (50%) and the public (50%) selected three songs for a superfinal, where a televoting round determined the winner.
Due to a technical error during the superfinal, most votes had not been counted at the time of reveal of the results. During the broadcast, it was stated that "" received 9,374 votes, that "" received 3,828, and that "" received 2,198 votes. Three days later, it was revealed that "" had received 15,889, "" had received 11,225, and "" had received 6,655 votes. Upon counting all the votes, the results of the superfinal remained the same.
+Final15 February 2025 Artist Song Jury Televote Total Place Votes Points Votes Points 1 Noy "Just Take Me on a Date"1505890012 2 Gøya "After Storm"7762,3895116 3 Liepa ""7976,9647143 4 Gebrasy "Whole"3806590011 5 Amoralu "Freedom"10182,2984125 6 Anyanya "Running Out of Time"6823,046687 7 Justė Baradulinaitė "Tired"4019151210 8 Katarsis ""1201210,71412241 9 Petunija ""6941,807378 10 Sophie Ali "The Bluest Bell"6831,726259 11 Lion Ceccah ""113107,96410202 12 Black Biceps ""7056,9938134 + Superfinal – 15 February 2025 Artist Song Televote Place 1 Katarsis "" 15,889 1 2 Liepa "" 6,655 3 3 Lion Ceccah "" 11,255 2
At Eurovision Lithuania participated in the Second Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 at St. Jakobshalle in Basel. In January, they were drawn to perform in the first half of the semi-final, and the producer later chose for them to perform eighth. On 15th May 2025, Lithuania qualified for the Grand Final, finishing 6th with 103 points.
In the Grand Final, Lithuania received 34 points from the juries and 62 points in the televote. They finished in 16th place with 96 points.
Voting
Points awarded to Lithuania