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Bulgaria joined the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, and have participated in just twelve contests. Prior to 2016, the country only qualified for the finals in 2007. They withdrew from the 2014 and 2015 contests, citing a lack of recent success as their reason for not taking part.

They returned in 2016, where they came in fourth with returnee Poli Genova, before Kristian Kostov beat her record in 2017 and went on to finish second in the Grand Final with his song Beautiful Mess.

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Participants[]

Year Artist Song Language Final Points Semi Points
2005 Kaffe Lorraine English -- -- 19 49
2006 Mariana Popova Let Me Cry -- -- 17 36
2007 Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankoulov Water Bulgarian 5 157 6 146
2008 Deep Zone & Balthazar DJ, Take Me Away English -- -- 11 56
2009 Krassimir Avramov Illusion -- -- 16 7
2010 Miro Angel si ti Bulgarian, English -- -- 15 19
2011 Poli Genova Na inat Bulgarian -- -- 12 48
2012 Sofi Marinova Love Unlimited[Note 1] -- -- 11 45
2013 Elitsa TodorovaStoyan Yankoulov Kismet Replaced due to copyright
Samo shampioni -- -- 12 45
20142015 Did not participate
2016 Poli Genova If Love Was a Crime Bulgarian, English 4 307 5 220
2017 Kristian Kostov Beautiful Mess English 2 615 1 403
2018 Equinox Bones 14 166 7 177
2019 Did not participate
2020 Victoria Tears Getting Sober English Contest cancelled
2021 Growing Up is Getting Old 11 170 3 250
2022 Intelligent Music Project Intention -- -- 16 29
2023–present Does not participate

Notes[]

  1. Contains phrases in Turkish, Greek, Spanish, Serbian, Romani, Italian, Azerbaijani, Arabic, French and English
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