Spain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

On 18 March 2020, the day of the 2020 contest's cancellation, TVE confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. The broadcaster also announced that they would continue cooperation with Blas Cantó, their intended artist for 2020.[2][3] On 29 December 2020, it was revealed that a national final would select the song Cantó would sing in Rotterdam.[4]

Destino Eurovisión 2021 was the national final organised by TVE that took place on 20 February 2021.[5] The show was broadcast on La 1 as well as online via TVE's official website rtve.es. Ten songs provided by composers who usually work with Cantó were shortlisted and a committee consisting of members of TVE, Warner Music Spain along with Cantó and his team selected two songs for the national final.[6] The two competing songs "Memoria" and "Voy a quedarme" premiered on 10 February 2021 via TVE's official website.[7]

The televised final took place on 20 February 2021, produced at Prado del Rey Studio 5 in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) and hosted by Tony Aguilar, Julia Varela and Víctor Escudero.[8] All two participating songs were performed by Blas Cantó and the winning song was selected exclusively through a public vote via telephone, SMS and TVE's official Eurovision app and website. In addition to the performances of the competing songs, guest performers included Vanesa Martín, Nia, Andrés Suárez, Cepeda, Roi, and former Eurovision contestants Pastora Soler and Edurne who represented Spain in 2012 and 2015, respectively.[9]

The staging director for the Spanish performance was Marvin Dietmann, who had previously worked among others with the delegations of Austria, Bulgaria and Germany in a similar role, including the winning performance of Austria in the 2014 Contest.[12] Blas Cantó was joined on stage by backing singers Alba Gil, Héctor Artiles, Daira Monzón, Irene Alman and Dángelo Ortega.[13]

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with a diversity in gender and age represented. The judges assess each entry based on the performances during the second Dress Rehearsal of each show, which takes place the night before each live show, against a set of criteria including: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act.[14] Jury members may only take part in panel once every three years, and are obliged to confirm that they are not connected to any of the participating acts in a way that would impact their ability to vote impartially. Jury members should also vote independently, with no discussion of their vote permitted with other jury members.[15] The exact composition of the professional jury, and the results of each country's jury and televoting were released after the grand final; the individual results from each jury member were also released in an anonymised form.[16][17]

The following members comprised the Spanish jury:[16][17]

• Samantha Gilabert
• Antonio Hueso
• María Pelae
• Nerea Rodríguez
• David Santisteban

Detailed voting results from Spain (Semi-final 2)[19]

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

Detailed voting results from Spain (Final)[18]

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