last seen in 2019

Belarus at Eurovision

Belarus first sang at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2004 and has entered 16 contests, the last of them in 2019. It has never won; its best result is 6th place, in 2007.

16
contests: 0
wins: 6th
best

first song: 2004
last song: 2019
contests: 16
wins: none
best result: 6th — 2007
in the final: 6 of 16 tries since semi-finals began in 2004
sung in: English (15), Belarusian (1)

Every song

All 17 entries, newest first. The year opens the story of that contest; the name opens the artist.

Year	Artist	Song	Result	Points
2020 Rotterdam	VAL	“Da vidna (Да відна)” Belarusian	Contest cancelled	—
2019 Tel Aviv	Zena	“Like It” English	24th of 26	31
2018 Lisbon	Alekseev	“Forever” English	Out in semi-final 1 (16th of 19)	65
2017 Kyiv	Naviband	“Story of My Life” Belarusian	17th of 26	83
2016 Stockholm	Ivan	“Help You Fly” English	Out in semi-final 2 (12th of 18)	84
2015 Vienna	Uzari and Maimuna	“Time” English	Out in semi-final 1 (12th of 16)	39
2014 Copenhagen	Teo	“Cheesecake” English	16th of 26	43
2013 Malmö	Alyona Lanskaya	“Solayoh” English	16th of 26	48
2012 Baku	Litesound	“We Are the Heroes” English	Out in semi-final 2 (16th of 18)	35
2011 Düsseldorf	Anastasia Vinnikova	“I Love Belarus” English	Out in semi-final 2 (14th of 19)	45
2010 Oslo	3+2 Robert Wells	“Butterflies” English	24th of 25	18
2009 Moscow	Petr Elfimov	“Eyes That Never Lie” English	Out in semi-final 1 (13th of 18)	25
2008 Belgrade	Ruslan Alehno	“Hasta la vista” English	Out in semi-final 2 (17th of 19)	27
2007 Helsinki	Koldun	“Work Your Magic” English	6th of 24	145
2006 Athens	Polina Smolova	“Mum” English	Out in the semi-final (22nd of 23)	10
2005 Kyiv	Angelica Agurbash	“Love Me Tonight” English	Out in the semi-final (13th of 25)	67
2004 Istanbul	Aleksandra and Konstantin	“My Galileo” English	Out in the semi-final (19th of 22)	10

Points for a song that went out in a semi-final are its semi-final points. Before 2004 there were no semi-finals: every song sang on the one night.

On air at home

The channels that carried the contest in Belarus, year by year, and who commentated where our source names them. Newest first.

2019
- Belarus-1, Belarus 24 Evgeny Perlin
2018
- Belarus-1, Belarus 24 Evgeny Perlin
2017
- Belarus-1, Belarus 24 Evgeny Perlin
2016
- Belarus-1, Belarus 24 Evgeny Perlin
2015
- Belarus-1, Belarus 24 Evgeny Perlin
2014
- Belarus-1, Belarus 24 Evgeny Perlin
2013
- Belarus-1, Belarus 24 Evgeny Perlin
2011
- Belarus-1 Denis Kurian
2009
- Belarus-1 Denis Kurian and Alexander Tikhanovich
2008
- Belarus-1, Belarus-TV Denis Kurian
2007
- BTRC Denis Kurian and Alexander Tikhanovich
2006
- BTRC Denis Dudinskiy
2005
- Belarus-1 Ales Kruglyakov
2004
- BTRC Ales Kruglyakov and Denis Dudinsky
2003
- Belarus-1 Ales Kruglyakov and Tatyana Yakusheva
2002
- BTRC

In our contest stories

Lines about Belarus from our story of each contest. Follow a link for the rest of that night.

2004 Two nights
Albania, Andorra, Belarus and Serbia and Montenegro were there for the first time.
2007 The semi-final
The ten that went through were Serbia, Hungary, Turkey, Belarus, Latvia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Georgia, Macedonia and Moldova.
2007 The result
Belarus, sixth, had the best result in its history.
2019 The result, again
Belarus's jury had been dismissed during the week for revealing how it voted in its semi-final.
2019 The result, again
The ten countries at the bottom of that list were given Belarus's points, and the ten at the top got nothing.
2021 Thirty-nine
The replacement was rejected for the same reason, and on 26 March Belarus was disqualified.

Results as published by the European Broadcasting Union. “Not in the line-up” means no song from Belarus was in that year’s contest, whatever the reason. Spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.