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Romania
Romania
Participating broadcaster	TVR
Participation summary
Appearances	20 (18 finals)
First appearance	1994
Highest placement	3rd: 2005, 2010
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Romania has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 19 times since its debut in 1994, and has placed in the top ten six times. Its best results were achieved by Luminița Anghel and Sistem in 2005, and by Paula Seling and Ovi in 2010, who both finished in third place. The National Selection (Romanian: Selecția Națională), a song contest that takes place every year in Romania, is used to select the country's entrant for that year's Eurovision Song Contest. Its voting system and format have changed over the years.

In 1993, the year before its first appearance, Romania attempted to debut in the contest, but came last in the pre-qualifying round. After successfully joining the following year, poor placements followed until 2002, resulting in relegation several times. This changed with the introduction of semi-finals to the contest in 2004, after which Romania qualified for the Grand Final every year except 2018. In 2016, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) suspended broadcaster Televiziunea Română (TVR) from all EBU member services due to repeated non-payment of debts, which in turn disqualified its entry from participating in the contest. Romania's most recent Grand Final appearance in 2017 saw Ilinca and Alex Florea reach seventh place.

Contest history

Romania unsuccessfully attempted to debut in the 1993 contest, selecting "Nu pleca" by Dida Drăgan for the pre-qualifying round Preselection for Millstreet (Slovenian: Kvalifikacija za Millstreet); Drăgan came in last place.^[2] The same result was achieved in 1996 when there was an audio-only pre-qualifier for all countries excluding hosts Norway.^[3]^[4] The Eurovision site does not count either year in Romania's list of appearances.^[1] The country's first official participation occurred one year later when Dan Bittman's "Dincolo de nori" placed 21st in the contest's Grand Final, resulting in Romania's relegation for the next edition.^[1] The following years saw similar low placements and further relegations.^[1]^[3] Romania consequently did not take part in the contest in 1995, 1997, 1999 and 2001.^[1]

Romania's first top ten result was achieved in 2002, when Monica Anghel and Marcel Pavel finished ninth with their song "Tell Me Why". The country placed within the top 20 every year from 2004 to 2015, claiming third place in 2005 with "Let Me Try" by Luminița Anghel and Sistem. As of 2019^[update], this remains Romania's best result in the contest, alongside Paula Seling and Ovi's 2010 entry "Playing with Fire", which also finished third. The latter's promotion consisted of a music video which marked the first use of the motion capture technique in Romania.^[5] Since 2010, the country's only other top ten placement was in 2017, when Ilinca and Alex Florea reached seventh place with "Yodel It!".^[1] 2019 was TVR's first year to significantly invest in a performance; the costs for the use of graphics and special effects during the show for Ester Peony's "On a Sunday" amounted to 100,000 euro.^[6]^[7] Romania had previously introduced the first ever use of holograms at Eurovision in 2014.^[8]

Romania has participated in the contest 19 times, having qualified for the final every year since the introduction of the semi-finals in 2004 except for 2018.^[1] In 2016 the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) suspended broadcaster Televiziunea Română (TVR) from all EBU member services due to the repeated non-payment of debts and the threat of insolvency. This in turn disqualified their 2016 entry, "Moment of Silence" sung by Ovidiu Anton from participating in the contest.^[9]^[10] This led to strong reactions against the decision.^[11]^[12] In 2008, Nico and Vlad won Romania's first and only Marcel Bezençon Award for "Pe-o margine de lume", in the Composer Award category.^[13] A number of Romania's Eurovision entries have experienced commercial success over the years. While "Let Me Try" reached number nine on the Romanian Top 100,^[14] 2006's "Tornerò" by Mihai Trăistariu peaked within the top ten in Finland and Greece.^[15]^[16] Elena's "The Balkan Girls" topped the Romanian chart in 2009, and similar success was attained by Mandinga's "Zaleilah" in 2012, obtaining number two in the country's Airplay 100 ranking and a Gold certification for digital downloads exceeding 10,000 copies in Romania.^[17]^[18]

Selection process

The National Selection (Romanian: Selecția Națională) is a song contest which takes place every year in Romania, selecting the Romanian entrant for the Eurovision Song Contest. Its first edition was held in 1993, with the winner chosen by 1100 households in Romania and Moldova.^[19]^[20] In 1994 and 1996, regional jury panels were hired.^[21]^[22] Televoting data was added to their scores in 1998.^[23]^[24] In 2000, Romania's entrant was selected solely by televoting.^[25]^[26] From 2001 to 2015, the votes of a jury panel and televoting were used to determine the winner,^[27]^[28]^[29] while from 2016 to 2018, the public could choose from songs selected by the jury.^[30]^[31]^[32] In 2019, for the first time, a seven-person international jury was assembled for the final, with the audience's votes counting as one juror.^[33] The format of Selecția Națională has continuously changed throughout the years, with the winner being selected during one single show,^[19]^[34] or through multiple semi-finals.^[31]^[35]

Contestants

Table key

Winner

Second place

Third place

Last place

Withdrew/Disqualified

Year	Artist^[1]	Language	Title	Final	Points	Semi	Points
1993^[a]	Dida Drăgan	Romanian	"Nu pleca"	Failed to qualify		7	38
1994	Dan Bittman	Romanian	"Dincolo de nori"	21	14	No semi-finals
1995	Did not participate					No semi-finals
1996^[a]	Monica Anghel and Sincron	Romanian	"Rugă pentru pacea lumii"	Failed to qualify		29	11
1997	Did not participate					No semi-finals
1998	Mălina Olinescu	Romanian	"Eu cred"	22	6
1999	Did not participate
2000	Taxi	English	"The Moon"	17	25
2001	Did not participate
2002	Monica Anghel and Marcel Pavel	English	"Tell Me Why"	9	71
2003	Nicola	English	"Don't Break My Heart"	10	73
2004	Sanda	English	"I Admit"	18	18	Top 11 Previous Year^[b]
2005	Luminița Anghel and Sistem	English	"Let Me Try"	3	158	1	235
2006	Mihai Trăistariu	English, Italian	"Tornerò"	4	172	Top 11 Previous Year^[b]
2007	Todomondo	English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French, Romanian	"Liubi, Liubi, I Love You"	13	84	Top 10 Previous Year^[b]
2008	Nico and Vlad	Romanian, Italian	"Pe-o margine de lume"	20	45	7	94
2009	Elena	English	"The Balkan Girls"	19	40	9	67
2010	Paula Seling and Ovi	English	"Playing with Fire"	3	162	4	104
2011	Hotel FM	English	"Change"	17	77	4	111
2012	Mandinga	Spanish, English	"Zaleilah"	12	71	3	120
2013	Cezar	English	"It's My Life"	13	65	5	83
2014	Paula Seling and Ovi	English	"Miracle"	12	72	2	125
2015	Voltaj	Romanian, English	"De la capăt (All Over Again)"	15	35	5	89
2016^[c]	Ovidiu Anton	English	"Moment of Silence"	Disqualified^[c]
2017	Ilinca and Alex Florea	English	"Yodel It!"	7	282	6	174
2018	The Humans	English	"Goodbye"	Failed to qualify		11	107
2019	Ester Peony	English	"On a Sunday"	Failed to qualify

Commentators and spokespersons

For the show's broadcast on TVR,^[1] various commentators and dual commentators have been hired throughout the years, with Leonard Miron notably having done the job on seven occasions.^[38] At Eurovision, after all points are calculated, the presenters of the show call upon each voting country to invite their respective spokesperson to announce the results of their vote on-screen.^[39] From 2013 to 2018, Sonia Argint-Ionescu had been announcing the Romanian votes.^[40]

Year	Commentator	Dual commentator	Spokesperson	Refs.
1994	Gabriela Cristea	None	Cristina Țopescu	^[41]^[42]
1998	Leonard Miron	None	Anca Țurcașiu	^[38]^[43]
1999	Leonard Miron	None	Did not participate	^[38]
2000	Leonard Miron	None	Adreea Marin	^[38]^[44]
2001	Leonard Miron	Unknown	Did not participate	^[38]
2002	Unknown	Unknown	Leonard Miron	^[45]
2003	Unknown	Unknown	Leonard Miron	^[46]
2004	Unknown	Unknown	Andreea Marin	^[47]
2005	Unknown	Unknown	Berti Barbera	^[48]
2006	Unknown	Unknown	Andreea Marin Bănică	^[49]
2007	Unknown	Unknown	Andreea Marin Bănică	^[50]
2008	Leonard Miron	Unknown	Alina Sorescu	^[38]^[51]
2009	Unknown	Unknown	Alina Sorescu	^[52]
2010	Leonard Miron	Gianina Corondan	Malvina Cservenschi	^[38]^[53]^[54]
2011	Liana Stanciu	Bogdan Pavlică	Malvina Cservenschi	^[55]^[56]
2012	Leonard Miron	Gianina Corondan	Paula Seling	^[38]^[57]^[58]
2013	Liana Stanciu	None	Sonia Argint-Ionescu	^[59]^[60]
2014	Unknown	Unknown	Sonia Argint-Ionescu	^[61]
2015	Unknown	Unknown	Sonia Argint-Ionescu	^[39]
2017	Liana Stanciu	Radu Andrei Tudor	Sonia Argint-Ionescu	^[62]^[63]
2018	Liliana Ștefan	Radu Andrei Tudor	Sonia Argint-Ionescu	^[64]^[65]
2019	Liana Stanciu	Bogdan Stănescu	Ilinca	^[66]^[67]

Photo gallery

Todomondo in Helsinki (2007)
Nico and Vlad in Belgrade (2008)
Elena in Moscow (2009)
Paula Seling and Ovi in Oslo (2010)
Mandinga in Baku (2012)
Cezar in Malmö (2013)
Paula Seling and Ovi in Copenhagen (2014)
Voltaj in Vienna (2015)
Ilinca and Alex Florea in Kiev (2017)
The Humans in Lisbon (2018)

Notes

^ ^a ^b Romania unsuccessfully attempted to participate in 1993 when there was a pre-qualifying round for seven countries hoping to make their debut in the contest,^[2] as well as in 1996 when there was an audio-only pre-qualifier for all countries excluding hosts Norway.^[3]^[36] The official Eurovision site does not count either year in Romania's list of appearances.^[1]
^ ^a ^b ^c According to the then-Eurovision rules, the top ten non-Big Four countries from the previous year along with the Big Four automatically qualified for the Grand Final without having to compete in semi-finals. For example, if Germany and France placed inside the top ten, the 11th and 12th spots were advanced to next year's Grand Final along with all countries ranked in the top ten.
^ ^a ^b Romania initially intended to enter the contest in 2016, however due to the non-payment of debts, TVR was disqualified by the EBU from competing at the Eurovision Song Contest.^[37]

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[note1-37] Romania unsuccessfully attempted to participate in 1993 when there was a pre-qualifying round for seven countries hoping to make their debut in the contest,^[2] as well as in 1996 when there was an audio-only pre-qualifier for all countries excluding hosts Norway.^[3]^[36] The official Eurovision site does not count either year in Romania's list of appearances.^[1]

[note2-38] According to the then-Eurovision rules, the top ten non-Big Four countries from the previous year along with the Big Four automatically qualified for the Grand Final without having to compete in semi-finals. For example, if Germany and France placed inside the top ten, the 11th and 12th spots were advanced to next year's Grand Final along with all countries ranked in the top ten.

[note3-39] Romania initially intended to enter the contest in 2016, however due to the non-payment of debts, TVR was disqualified by the EBU from competing at the Eurovision Song Contest.^[37]

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v t e Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest
Participation	~~1993~~ 1994 ~~1996~~ 1998 2000 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 ~~2016~~ 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023
Artists	Theodor Andrei Luminița Anghel Monica Anghel ~~Ovidiu Anton~~ Dan Bittman Cezar ~~Dida Drăgan~~ Elena Alex Florea Hotel FM The Humans Ilinca Mandinga Nico Nicola Mălina Olinescu Ovi Marcel Pavel Ester Peony Roxen Sanda Paula Seling ~~Sincron~~ Sistem Taxi Todomondo Mihai Trăistariu Vlad Voltaj Wrs
Songs	~~"Alcohol You"~~ "Amnesia" "The Balkan Girls" "Change" "D.G.T. (Off and On)" "De la capăt (All Over Again)" "Dincolo de nori" "Don't Break My Heart" "Eu cred" "Goodbye" "I Admit" "It's My Life" "Let Me Try" "Liubi, Liubi, I Love You" "Llámame" "Miracle" ~~"Moment of Silence"~~ "The Moon" ~~"Nu pleca"~~ "On a Sunday" "Pe-o margine de lume" "Playing with Fire" ~~"Rugă pentru pacea lumii"~~ "Tell Me Why" "Tornerò" "Yodel It!" "Zaleilah"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Romania did not compete