Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

Prior to the 2021 contest, Georgia have participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 12 times since their first entry in 2007.[1] The nation's highest placing in the contest, to this point, has been ninth place, which was achieved on two occasions: in 2010 with the song "Shine" performed by Sofia Nizharadze and in 2011 with the song "One More Day" performed by Eldrine. The nation briefly withdrew from the contest in 2009 after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) rejected the Georgian entry, "We Don't Wanna Put In", for perceived political references to Vladimir Putin who was the Russian Prime Minister at the time.[2][3] The withdrawal and fallout was tied to tense relations between Georgia and then host country Russia, which stemmed from the 2008 Russo-Georgian War.[4] Following the introduction of semi-finals, Georgia has, to this point, failed to qualify to the final on four occasions.

The Georgian national broadcaster, Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB), broadcasts the event within Georgia and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. GPB confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest on 2 October 2017.[5] Georgia has selected their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest both through national finals and internal selections in the past. In 2013 and 2014, GPB opted to internally select the Georgian entry, in 2015, the Georgian entry was selected via a national final, and in 2016, the artist was internally selected while the song was chosen in a national final. For their 2017 participation, the entry was selected through a national final. In 2018 the artist was internally selected. In 2019, the entry was fully selected through Georgian Idol for the first time ever. Oto Nemsadze failed to qualify to the Saturday final with "Keep On Going", achieving just a fourteenth place in the first semi-final.

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 in 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. For the 2021 contest, the semi-final allocation draw held for 2020 which was held on 28 January 2020, will be used. Georgia was placed into the second semi-final, which was held on 20 May 2021, and was scheduled to perform in the second half of the show.[7]

Once all the competing songs for the 2021 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. Georgia was set to perform in position 10, following the entry from Serbia and preceding the entry from Albania.[8]

Points awarded to Georgia

Points awarded to Georgia (Semi-final 2)[13]

Score	Televote	Jury
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points	Estonia  Latvia  Poland  Portugal
2 points	Bulgaria
1 point	Denmark	Bulgaria

Points awarded by Georgia

Points awarded by Georgia (Semi-final 2)[13] Score Televote Jury 12 points  San Marino   Switzerland 10 points  Greece  Portugal 8 points  Bulgaria  Bulgaria 7 points  Iceland  Iceland 6 points  Finland  Czech Republic 5 points  Latvia  Austria 4 points  Denmark  Finland 3 points   Switzerland  Estonia 2 points  Albania  Serbia 1 point  Serbia  San Marino

Points awarded by Georgia (Final)[14] Score Televote Jury 12 points  Greece  Italy 10 points  Lithuania   Switzerland 8 points  Italy  Portugal 7 points  San Marino  Ukraine 6 points  Ukraine  Iceland 5 points  France  Azerbaijan 4 points  Russia  Bulgaria 3 points  Azerbaijan  Lithuania 2 points  Moldova  Netherlands 1 point  Iceland  Malta

Detailed voting results

The following members comprised the Georgian jury:[11][12]

• David Evgenidze
• Helen Kalandadze
• Zaza Orashvili
• Nodiko Tatishvili
• Sopho Toroshelidze

Detailed voting results from Georgia (Semi-final 2)[13]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	San Marino	9	8	15	12	11	10	1	1	12
02	Estonia	10	9	6	8	8	8	3	12
03	Czech Republic	5	4	7	7	5	5	6	14
04	Greece	15	16	12	14	9	15		2	10
05	Austria	7	6	5	6	10	6	5	13
06	Poland	14	13	9	15	12	14		15
07	Moldova	13	12	16	9	13	13		16
08	Iceland	4	3	4	3	4	4	7	4	7
09	Serbia	11	10	14	10	7	9	2	10	1
10	Georgia
11	Albania	8	11	10	11	16	11		9	2
12	Portugal	2	2	1	1	2	2	10	11
13	Bulgaria	3	5	2	4	3	3	8	3	8
14	Finland	6	7	11	5	6	7	4	5	6
15	Latvia	16	15	13	16	15	16		6	5
16	Switzerland	1	1	3	2	1	1	12	8	3
17	Denmark	12	14	8	13	14	12		7	4

Detailed voting results from Georgia (Final)[14]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Cyprus	15	20	14	18	26	18		16
02	Albania	19	23	19	22	23	23		22
03	Israel	13	16	15	11	15	16		14
04	Belgium	14	13	20	20	18	17		18
05	Russia	25	26	16	26	17	21		7	4
06	Malta	12	10	9	7	16	10	1	12
07	Portugal	5	4	1	6	3	3	8	21
08	Serbia	20	22	21	23	20	24		25
09	United Kingdom	22	17	26	25	19	22		26
10	Greece	21	25	22	15	21	20		1	12
11	Switzerland	2	2	2	1	2	2	10	11
12	Iceland	3	3	7	10	8	5	6	10	1
13	Spain	17	18	17	21	22	19		23
14	Moldova	24	24	23	17	25	26		9	2
15	Germany	23	15	11	13	12	15		17
16	Finland	11	9	25	9	13	12		15
17	Bulgaria	7	7	4	12	4	7	4	13
18	Lithuania	4	6	8	5	10	8	3	2	10
19	Ukraine	6	5	5	4	5	4	7	5	6
20	France	26	12	10	16	11	13		6	5
21	Azerbaijan	8	14	6	2	6	6	5	8	3
22	Norway	16	19	12	19	9	14		19
23	Netherlands	9	8	18	14	7	9	2	24
24	Italy	1	1	3	3	1	1	12	3	8
25	Sweden	10	11	13	8	14	11		20
26	San Marino	18	21	24	24	24	25		4	7