page_title: Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016
section_title: At Eurovision
hierarchical_section_title: Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 / At Eurovision
caption_attribution_description: English: Donny Montell at a Meet &amp; Greet during the Eurovision Song Contest 2016&#160;in Stockholm. (Help translate this text)
context_page_description: Lithuania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "I've Been Waiting for This Night" written by Jonas Thander and Beatrice Robertsson. The song was performed by Donny Montell, who previously represented Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 with the song "Love is Blind", placing fourteenth in the final. The Lithuanian broadcaster Lithuanian National Radio and Television organised the national final "Eurovizijos" dainų konkurso nacionalinė atranka in order to select the Lithuanian entry for the 2016 contest in Stockholm, Sweden. The national final took place over ten weeks and involved 28 artists initially competing in two different competitive streams: artists that applied with a song and artists that were matched with a song from the song submissions LRT received because they did not have a song. The results of each show were determined by the combination of votes from a jury panel and a public vote. In the final, six artists and songs remained and "I've Been Waiting For This Night" performed by Donny Montell was selected as the winner.
context_section_description: 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. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 25 January 2016, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Lithuania was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 12 May 2016, and was scheduled to perform in the first half of the show.
  Once all the competing songs for the 2016 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Lithuania was set to perform in position 9, following the entry from Macedonia and before the entry from Australia.
  The two semi-finals and final were broadcast in Lithuania on LRT, LRT HD and LRT Radijas with commentary by Darius Užkuraitis. LRT Kultūra also broadcast the three shows interpreted in International Sign for the deaf and sign language users. The Lithuanian spokesperson, who announced the top 12-point score awarded by the Lithuanian jury during the final, was Ugnė Galadauskaitė.
caption: Donny Montell during a press meet and greet
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