Moldova has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest six times, debuting in 2005. Following the poor result in the 2006 contest, the Moldovan broadcaster, Teleradio-Moldova (TRM) announced that it would withdraw from participation and did not allocate a budget for the 2007 Contest. However, in response to public pressure TRM filed the preliminary documents to compete and sent Natalia Barbu with song "Fight".[1]
In 2008 Moldova, for the first time in 4 years of trying, failed to make the Final, their jazz number, "A Century of Love", finishing 12th place in a field of 19. In 2010 a saxophonist Sergey Stepanov from group SunStroke Project and Olia Tira has become internet phenomenon because of his 30 second saxophone solo.
In 2011 Zdob şi Zdub represented Moldova for a second time in the contest, with the song So Lucky placing 12th in the final. This was the third time that Moldova ended up 10th in the semifinal, the last qualifier for the final. In 2007 they got 3 more points than Portugal, in 2010 they got 3 more points than Finland and in 2011 they got 1 more point than Belgium.
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Moldova gave and received most of it's points to Romania. In fact, with only one exception on each side (Moldova in 2005 and Romania in 2010) both countries have given each other their 12 points.
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NOTE: The totals in the above tables include only points awarded in Eurovision finals, and not the semi-finals.
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Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Romania
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Ukraine
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Norway
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