Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan has participated in the Eurovision Song Festival 17 times since making its debut in the first edition of the Eurovision Song Festival. While enjoying great success in the first editions of the Eurovision Song Festival, including two consecutive third place finishes in edition one and edition two, the success of the country decayed after edition five. The country managed to win for the first time in edition fourteen, meaning that Azerbaijan is the host of edition fifteen.
==History==
Azerbaijan was one of the original 43 countries to take part in the Eurovision Song Festival. The country organised a national final, the Baku Music Festival, to select its first entrant. It was Latifa Soyuoz who won the first edition of the BMF and she reached a third place in the final of the first ever Eurovision Song Festival. Along with Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Spain and Armenia, Azerbaijan qualified to the final of the second edition of the contest. Again, the country reached the third place with the entry "Saf" sung by Rilaya, also selected by the BMF. 
After reaching a seventh, a sixteenth and a twenty fourth place in the final, Azerbaijan failed to qualify to the final for the first time since the start of the contest in edition six. Elton placed eleventh in his semi-final, just missing out on qualifying to the final. It was the first entry selected through the national final Our Azerbaijan. After two more non-qualifications with acts that were chosen through the national final Our Azerbaijan, İTV decided to ditch the national final and since then, Azerbaijan's entrants were selected internally.
Between edition nine and edition thirteen, Azerbaijan failed to qualify for five editions in a row. Despite the Azerbaijani acts not qualifying, many of them still did relativelly well on the charts across Europe, especially Samra's "Pidzhak", Günay İbrahimli's "Can atma" and NARMEEN's "Sirr". One of Azerbaijan's non-qualifying acts was Emin, who finished in last place in his semi-final in edition eleven. Public support for Azerbaijan's participation decayed and in edition fourteen, İTV announced that no Azerbaijani singer was willing to represent the country. Eventually, just a few days before the submission period for the Eurovision Song Festival 14 closed, AISEL announced that she prepared a 'non-typical' song for the contest and İTV accepted her as Azerbaijan's entrant, calling her song 'magical'. AISEL managed to win the contest and the Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev called her a 'hero of the nation'. 
In edition fifteen, Azerbaijan was the host of the Eurovision Song Festival. Only Armenia was not physically present during the show, as that would have caused too many tensions. Ülviyyə Namazova represented the country and finished last in the final.
==Contestants==
;Table key
Year	Artist 	Language 	Title 	Final 	Points	Semi 	Points
#01 	Latifa Soyuoz 	Azerbaijani	"Falan filan" 	3 	394 	3 	212
#02 	Rilaya 	Azerbaijani	"Saf" 	3 	386 	colspan="2" rowspan="2"	
#03 	Latifa Soyuoz 	Azerbaijani	"Pusula" 	7 	253 	 	
#04 	Sahil Umud & Narmin Karimbeyova	Azerbaijani	"Zirvə" 	16 	122 	7 	145
#05 	Elvina 	Azerbaijani	"Sanki buz" 	24 	63 	8 	107
#06 	Elton 	Russian 	"Tigrica" 	colspan="2" rowspan="2"	11 	65 	
#07 	Hafex, Sahil Umud & Ülkər 	Azerbaijani	"Yenidən başla" 	15 	51 	 	
#08 	Emin ft. Ani Lorak 	Russian 	"Ya ne mogu skazat'" 	12 	144 	7 	127
#09 	Samra 	Azerbaijani	"O sevir" 	colspan="2" rowspan="5"	13 	72 	
#10 	Günay İbrahimli 	Azerbaijani	"Can atma" 	15 	67 	 	
#11 	EMIN 	Russian 	"Sbezheim v Baku" 	20 	21 	 	
#12 	Samra 	Russian 	"Pidzhak" 	13 	89 	 	
#13 	NARMEEN 	Azerbaijani	"Sirr" 	15 	60 	 	
#14 	AISEL 	Azerbaijani	"Sevgi qefesi" 	1 	553 	1 	285
#15 	Ülviyyə Namazova 	Azerbaijani	"Biri var" 	26 	44 	colspan="2" 	
#16 	Dilara Kazimova 	Azerbaijani	"Heç vecimə deyilsən"	colspan="2" 	18 	55 	
#17 	AISEL 	Azerbaijani	"Qaradan qara" 	23 	54 	9 	108
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