The 58th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest took place in Malmö, Sweden, and consisted of two semi-finals held on 14 and 16 May, and the grand final on 18 May 2013. According to the Eurovision rules, each participating country, except the host country and the "Big 5", consisting of , , , and the , were required to qualify from one of the two semi-finals to compete for the grand final, although, the top ten countries from the respective semi-final progress to the grand final. On 17 January 2013, it was announced that "Identitet" would be performed in the second half of the second semi-final of the contest. During the live show, Albania performed fourteenth, following and preceding , and failed to qualify for the grand final in fifteenth place with 31 points, ranking twelfth by the jury's 11.78 points and fifteenth by the televote of 9.10 points.