Report Card: Latvia at Eurovision in the 2020s

With five Eurovision Song Contests completed this decade, how is each nation faring?

In an ongoing series, the Aussievision team will rate the performance of each Eurovision nation in alphabetical order.

We’ll look back at their results from 2021 to 2025, their qualification record, give our team’s rating, and see how they stack up against other countries.

Latvia's Eurovision results of the 2020s

• 2021: Samanta Tina - The Moon is Rising, 17th in the Grand Final

• 2022: Citi Zeni - Eat Your Salad, 14th in the First Semi-Final

• 2023: Sudden Lights - Aijā, 11th in the First Semi-Final

• 2024: Dons - Hollow, 16th in the Grand Final

• 2025: Tautumeitas - Bur man laimi, 13th in the Grand Final

• Top 10s: 0%

• Qualifications: 40%

Team rating of Latvia: 50%

We asked the Aussievision team to rate Latvia's Eurovision 2020s entries on a scale of 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest).

This gave us an average overall score from the ten contributors who voted. We then converted that into a percentage.

Latvia's score was: 50%.

The scores ranged from 4/10 to 6/10, with 5 team members rating 4/10 and 5 team members rating 6/10.

Team comments

"Latvia is on something of a quiet upswing - while their two consecutive qualifications in 2024 and 2025 seems to have them back in fan good books, it's easy to miss that Citi Zeni and Sudden Lights were already getting them back on the right track with two credible bands sending credible (if quirky in Citi Zeni's case) entries. You can tell that qualifying to the final after so many years has reinvigorated the broadcaster, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more good things out of Latvia in the years to come. Great work!" ~Craig

"I wanted to score Latvia 5.5, so I rounded it up to 6. Sudden Lights would have qualified if the semis used juries. Dons and Tautumeitas exceeded Latvia's expectations. I for one am so happy to see them in the finals again. I think they finally worked it out. Top 10 for this Baltic nation is imminent." ~Fleur

"Latvia qualifying for two years in a row is such a feat, but it must continue its pursuit in order for the country to return its relevance in the Grand Final. Seven straight non-qualifications for Latvia is enough for me to give an average mark." ~John Christian

"This one is a super tough one. Congrats to Latvia qualifying the last two years - that wasn't by chance, these were well deserved - especially 2025 and that stunning staging. 2021 actually was one of my fave songs of the year - and I love me a bit of Samanta Tina. I listened to that song on repeat for a year but not really a Eurovision song and that staging - yikes... disaster... but I digress. I also think 2022 and 2023 were a little unlucky as well. The quality is there I think and Latvia seems to be on a good thing here. Keep it up!" ~Hayley

Updated rankings:

Here’s how the leaderboard looks so far in our 2020s Report Card series:

1st: Italy - 90.7%

2nd: Finland - 88.1%

3rd: France 81.1%

4th: Greece - 80.8%

5th: Estonia - 80%

6th: Austria - 71.4%

7th: Armenia - 70.8%

8th: Albania - 67.5%

9th: Cyprus - 66.4%

10th: Croatia - 64.4%

11th=: Belgium - 53.3%

11th=: Czechia - 53.3%

11th=: Iceland - 53.3%

12th: Latvia - 50%

13th: Australia - 45.4%

14th: Germany - 41%

15th: Azerbaijan - 32.5%

16th: Ireland - 32%

17th: Denmark - 28%

18th: Georgia - 26.1%

We'll see how they rank against other nations in the coming days and weeks.

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