Finally — after a seemingly endless period of speculation — LRT have finally revealed the participants who will take part in the longest running Eurovision preselection Eurovizijos Atranka. The competition is going to be both heated and somewhat crowded — a total of 49 acts will take place this year.

The list includes several returning acts and some very well-known names in Lithuania. The stars that shine brightest in the media and among fans are Edgaras Lubys, Jurgis Brūzga, Monika Marija, Tomas Sinickis, and the group Saulės kliošas to name a few.

You may not remember the name Jurgis Didžiulis, but if he slips into a shiny pair of silver shorts you’ll remember the face — and maybe the legs!

He represented Lithuania at Eurovision nine years ago in Oslo with the group InCulto with a song that played on stereotypical fears of immigrants and Eastern Europeans.

This time he’s back as a solo artist and will no doubt want to improve on the group’s 12th place finish in the semis with “Eastern European Funk”.

Eurovizijos atranka 2019 participants

Aldegunda Algirdas Daumantas Ciūnys Allen Cichoo “Antikvariniai Kašpirovskio dantys” Arvydas Kriščikas Audrius Petrauskas Banzzai Dagna Kondrotaitė Donata Virbilaitė Edgaras Lubys Elizabeth Olshey Emilija Gogolytė Emilija Valiukevičiūtė “Filtered Tools” Gabriela Ždanovičiūtė Gabrielė Rybko Giedrius Nakas “Glossarium” Gražvydas Sidiniauskas Indrė Juodeikienė Jurijus Veklenko Jurgis Brūzga Jurgis Didžiulis Justina Budaitė Justina Žukauskaitė “La Forza” “Laimingu būti lengva” Lukas Bartaška “MaNNazz” Matas Ligeika Migloko Monika Marija “Original copy” Paulina Paulauskaitė “Queens of Roses” Rūta Statkevičiūtė Šarūnas Mačiulis “Saulės kliošas” Simona Klušienė Sofi Soliaris “Tiramisu” Tomas Sinickis “Twosome” Valdas Lacko Valdemars Petersons Valerija Iljinaitė Viktorija Vyšniauskaitė Živilė Gedvilaitė

Eurovizijos Atranka 2019 will be start filming on December 20 and will begin airing on January 5. The selection will consist of four heats followed by two semi finals and the grand final on February 23.

What do you think? Who from the 49 acts are you the most excited to see in the preselection? Let us know!