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.
Gallery[]
Participants[]
Year | Artist | Song | Language | Final | Points | Semi | Points |
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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 Todorova & Stoyan Yankoulov | Kismet | Replaced due to copyright | ||||
Samo shampioni | -- | -- | 12 | 45 | |||
2014–2015 | 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[]
- ↑ Contains phrases in Turkish, Greek, Spanish, Serbian, Romani, Italian, Azerbaijani, Arabic, French and English