We’re just one step away from finding out Lithuania’s Eurovision 2016 representative as we’ve reached the semi-final of Eurovizijos atranka 2016. Tonight’s 8 semi-finalists sang their entries and as usual, the Lithuanian juries made their decisions alongside the televoters. An international jury panel also had their say but unlike the previous elimination shows, they only gave their opinions on the semi-finalists and weren’t included towards tonight’s results.
Only six acts advanced to next week’s final and sadly, Catrinah and Valdas Lacko have fallen at the final hurdle with the two lowest combined scores. Erica Jennings came out on top of tonight’s semi-final and will be joined by Donny Montell, Ruta Šciogolevaite, Aiste Pilvelyte, Ieva Zasimauskaite and Ruslanas Kirilkinas. Congratulations!
Eurovizijos atranka 2016 Finalists
Aiste Pilvelyte – “You Bet”
Donny Montell – “I’ve Been Waiting For This Night”
Erica Jennings – “Leading Me Home”
Ieva Zasimauskaite – “Life (Not That Beautiful)”
Ruslanas Kirilkinas – “In My World”
Ruta Šciogolevaite – “United”
Semi-Final Running Order
- Ieva Zasimauskaite – “Life (Not That Beautiful)”
- Valdas Lacko – “Stay Tonight”
- Catrinah – “Be Free”
- Erica Jennings – “Leading Me Home”
- Donny Montell – “I’ve Been Waiting For This Night”
- Aiste Pilvelyte – “You Bet”
- Ruslanas Kirilkinas – “In My World”
- Ruta Šciogolevaite – “United”
Semi-Final Jury Panel
Lithuania – Darius Užkuraitis, Dalia Ibelhauptaite, Ramunas Zilnys, Juste Arlauskaite and Tomas Sinickis.
International – Dave Holmes (UK), Karl Frierson and William Wells (both USA).
Semi-Final Results
Jury Results
Televoting Results
Combined Results
Is your favourites in the final? Let us know below and you can watch the show again here.
@EugeneESCUK
Donny Montell is very talented and handsome,
You must be jealous to him
He looks like Justin Bieber,
But much better than Bieber,
If he entry eurovision this year
It sounds good ,He is very nice,
People in Lithuania, please vote as much as possible for Donny in the final next week on Saturday! It’s the only thing that I wish fooor! The majority of people wants him to win and it’s been like that since the beginning. He just has the whole package, throwing him and his entry away… such a chance… it’s just a huge nooo! He’ll do extremely well at ESC if he wins which he hopefullyyy does <3
I like Ruta’s song- hope she gets through; lovely voice, lovely chorus, memorable song. Good luck!
Ok, so Donny at ESC is not such a sure thing… Hmmm….
My fav songs here are “You Bet” and “I’ve been waiting for this night”. I personally prefer Ayste because her song is more dramatic and she has a very powerful voice. The truth is that, if wins, “You Bet” will need a revamp to eliminate those 90’s vibes at the start and the final. But probably she’ll finish 4th, so Donny would be a good choice too.
I like both Erica and Donny for different reasons, so I don’t mind this result. Both good songs, both good singers. Erica is more introspective, while Donny will be more active in the performance. Pure meaning v. pure performance; it’s just a matter of taste really. 🙂
Tbh i agree with Robyn. Atleast lets hope its true. I dont want lithuania to crush their chance like poland did with margaret.
Erica, WE NEED A BALLAD IN ESC, ASAP! and this is the best ballad from any NS or IS.
(although sweden might send Frans, another ballad)
Indre, I’ll do the same and I think (or hope) that most people would vote for Donny at the final, because having 10 shows is annoying and the potential voters don’t even bother to spend their money and vote there, since the leaders are in the finals eventualy.
Ugnius, all 8 elimination shows before tonight’s semi-final were pre-recorded and filmed on Tuesdays, which included the results from the international juries. It wasn’t until Wednesday we then realized tonight’s semi-final was a live broadcast, so we assumed it was business as usual regarding the international juries, hence the “Results coming up soon” bit. They did give their final opinions on the semi-finalists if you look back at tonight’s show.
I’ll vote for Donny next week for sure (I never vote until the grand final) and I hope other people will do the same beause seeing Erica in the first place is a bit… I like her and her music, but this song is not one of the best choices for eurovision
Erica’s song is nice.
@Robyn Gallagher, they got lithuanian jury votes by summing up each lithuanian juror votes (each juror separately give to every contestant 12, 10, 8 points etc. and then which one contestant has the highest amount of points in total gets 12 points by combined lithuanian jury votes, second one gets 10 etc… Pretty complicated) and today they said that difference between 1st and 2nd place when they summed their individual votes was only 1 point. So jury actually liked Erica more than Donny, not just to make drama And today there were no international jury, why are you writing “Results… Read more »
Thanks for pointing that out Ugnius.
Donny needs to win. If he doesnt win im seriously going to boycott this years esc.
Please choose one of the great women Erica, Ieva or Aiste!!!!
DONNY PLEASEEEEEE!!! :'(
International jury results ? Tonight there were only lithuanian jury
Donny!!!!!
Surprising to see Erica come out on top!