Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 information
Eurovision Song Contest 2020
Country
Albania
National selection
Selection process
Festivali i Këngës 58
Selection date(s)
Semi-finals: 19 December 2019 20 December 2019 Final: 22 December 2019
Selected entrant
Arilena Ara
Selected song
"Fall from the Sky"
Selected songwriter(s)
Darko Dimitrov
Lazar Cvetkovski
Arilena Ara
Michael Blue
Robert Stevenson
Sam Schummer
Finals performance
Final result
Contest cancelled
Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2019 •
2020
• 2021►
Albania was scheduled to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with the song "Fall from the Sky" performed by Arilena Ara. Its selected entry was chosen through the national selection competition Festivali i Këngës organised by Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) in December 2019. To this point, the nation had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest sixteen times since its first entry in 2004. In March 2020, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced the contest's cancellation due to the pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its rapid spread across Europe.
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