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I don't care about chances, I'm just genuinely interested how 2020 music industry looked all over the world, because frankly, I only know how it looked in the US, UK and LTU.

This is kind of a fake reason to be honest, the only country from the countries that regularly participate at TISC that could be affected by this is perhaps only Malta. If some of the larger countries take a hit, then welcome to our world, we regularly have less songs to choose from. And in case you think you're representing our interests, then many of those smaller countries already voted for no extension and some of the bigger countries already voted for A. Every artist, all over the world has lost so many finances by not being able to get any work. Sure, every country has a handful of artists that haven't struggled too much since they're always first in line to get copious amount of gigs whenever quarantines are stopped and such. And what you're telling me right now is that all of these people that couldn't go out there and perform, chose to spend the entire year doing absolutely nothing? No, they for sure kept releasing songs so that they would have something to do on social media in order to stay relevant to have an audience pull after quarantine is over. The least we can do is honour the struggle and look back at what artists were able to create during this tough year for entertainment. This annual contest could be one of the most interesting ones that we've had and I'm speaking from a country that's probably bottom 5 based on population from all the participants. Honestly curious how the music industry was holding up in Malta during the pandemic @Glen ?

I believe Canada confirmed to host. No news from Serbia on the other hand.

It's a tie right now. I'm happy at least with that, I thought it would be a one-sided vote towards A. Edit: nevermind 7:8 rn

Yeah, my entire reasoning against A is pretty much that I don't know how the competition will look if a bunch of countries just send their second choice of 2019, rather than putting in the research for 2020/21. Nobody can actually convince me that artists haven't released songs for a year and a half. Having all concerts cancelled due to various quarantines, releasing a song is literally the only thing that you can do as an artist in this pandemic.

Question 1: B It honestly would be interesting to see how Covid shaped up the music industry globally. Perhaps there would be more creative song choices rather than countries going for their number 2 song that didn't get selected for the 2020 contest. Question 2: if necessary, then A Can't wait for the Christmas songs

First time in history, Lithuanian men will have 4 starting spots in World Cup races. I'm really hoping we don't blow this and actually qualify to the Olympics as a relay.

Well, her prized achievement is a silver medal in the Youth Olympic Festival Individual race, after that she bombed in most of her junior races due to not managing stress, but she also landed 39th in her first ever World Championships, individual race, when she was 18 or 19? Haven't landed near top 40 ever again.

Well, they've been rivals from when they were children, every race you wouldn't know which one would come out on top. Yeah, nowadays Tomingas ski speed is miles ahead, whilst Gabrielė still has the better shooting, but can't move if her life depended on it.

You know who also had a promising junior form? Gabrielė Leščinskaitė who was just as impressive as Tuuli Tomingas, but our juniors almost never translate youth performances into success.

Hilarious that we're both 6th on each other's all time ranking

@hckosice is actually already on the plane home to start early preparations for 2021 so that Czech Republic would never best him ever again.

Sir, I believe this is a forum thread.

That's like a very nice party of nations to be in. We should play flex queue sometime.

Should've named the 5 nations for our board of shame. Then quickly remembers that Lithuania is one of those 5 nations

Nahhhh, nearly all of their songs were blatant rip-offs of other pop music, so it always really triggered me You and I perhaps the only one I liked. But for example: Night Changes is a note by note absolute rip off of The Script's "I'm Yours". Give those two a listen, you'll see what I mean. Harry Styles music though is next level, Niall Horan's first studio album was really good as well, second one is okay, but he released a lot of very good duets on the side, one example would be recent collab with Ashe on "Moral Of The Story".

You can keep One Direction to yourself, thank you. I only listen to Harry Styles and Niall Horan.

I can't believe I saw this here. This was single-handedly my favourite moment from Kaguya-Sama, because it parodied another one of my faves Haikyuu there

We musn't forget that there are still 5-6 months of music to be released for the Annual period. Anything can happen.

Updated Lithuanian ALL TIME top 20 We haven't had Morocco and Azerbaijan in ages, but they're still in it. Czech Republic, Moldova and China are the countries currently outside of this top 20 that got points in this edition.

It's actually strange. The Lithuanian music scene was somewhat booming during covid. Many many artists came out with their best ever hits. I could send 15 songs that I wouldn't be ashamed of. Too bad one is just that good and overshadows the others, or perhaps it's good, because less thinking for me

Not gonna lie, this inspired me. Now every time that @heywoodu succeeds at something, we'll have to tag him and say corngratulations

Lastly, props to @heywoodu for hosting this thing, you can finally relax for today, you did a great job.

It was a good feeling to come back into the top 10 after a long streak of mediocre performances. It was also really fun to break the 100 point mark. If this song didn't succeed, I would probably question every single song choice into oblivion, because I was really starting to get lost whilst guessing what you would enjoy This makes it easier to send a song in Lithuanian for 2021, because I won't feel as bad if I can't repeat a top 10 and I have a really nice one ready for you, I just know that it's really a gamble not going for English every single time. Congratulations to the podium, @NikolaB probably won't understand what happened, nice streak for @intoronto and a memorable experience for @Glen Best wishes to everyone sharing the top 10 with me, a lot of the songs I really liked sneaked into it, so I'm pretty happy with the results overall. Expected a bit more love for Moldova, China, Great Britain, Brazil and Czech Republic, but I can't expect all of my favourites to make it to the top. Thank you to everyone that voted for Lithuania, huge shout out to @titicow for that gold from Brazil, it means a lot. Honorary shout out for @Bohemia since it was top in her list as well. I think there was also a medal from team Denmark and I appreaciate that one a lot as well and if I remember correctly, that was the only medals and a perfect 1-1-1 set. Another great contest and can't wait to hang out with you all in Canada.

In all honesty, I don't know if I'm forgetting anyone special, but @Glen and @Wanderer seemed like the next two people that really deserved to get that sweet sweet first podium. They've been sending high quality music for years and I'm glad at least one of them made it in this contest. Hoping @Wanderer gets to experience the feeling too soon If I ran through all of my excels, I don't know if I'd find their songs out of my top 20s.