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Latvia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 20 times, and haven't missed one contest yet, debuting at the 2000 contest, where Brainstorm came 3rd with the song My Star. The country's first, and so far, only win came in 2002 when Marie N and her song I Wanna beat the favourites Malta by 12 points, receiving 176 points.

Latvia is the second former USSR country to win the Contest and the third country of eastern Europe after Yugoslavia and Estonia. Because of her win, the 2003 contest was held in the Latvian capital Riga. Latvia initially planned to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 2009. LTV, the Latvian broadcaster, originally announced its withdrawal from the contest after the Latvian government-imposed budget cuts on the broadcaster that stopped it from paying the participation fee. At the time LTV said, however, that they hoped to compete in the 2010 contest. In the event, Latvia decided to compete, and the EBU confirmed that Latvia would indeed participate in 2009.

After that, they suffered a six-year non-qualifying streak, which ended in 2015 when Aminata represented them with Love Injected, placing sixth in the final while coming in second with the jury. She was also a songwriter for Heartbeat the following year.

Dons broke another non-qualification streak, when he represented Latvia in 2024. The country had not qualified to the final for 7 years (counting the cancelled 2020 contest) before his participation.

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Participants[]

Year Artist Song Language Place Points Semi Points
2000 Brainstorm My Star English 3 136 No Semi Finals
2001 Arnis Mednis Too Much 18 16
2002 Marie N I Wanna 1 176
2003 F.L.Y. Hello from Mars 24 5
2004 Fomins & Kleins Dziesma par laimi Latvian -- -- 17 23
2005 Walters and Kazha The War is Not Over English 5 153 10 85
2006 Vocal Group Cosmos I Hear Your Heart 16 30 Top 11 in 2005
2007 Bonaparti.lv Questa notte Italian 16 54 5 168
2008 Pirates of the Sea Wolves of the Sea English 12 83 6 86
2009 Intars Busulis Probka Russian -- -- 19 7
2010 Aisha What For? English -- -- 17 11
2011 Musiqq Angel in Disguise -- -- 17 25
2012 Anmary Beautiful Song -- -- 16 17
2013 PeR Here We Go! -- -- 17 13
2014 Aarzemnieki Cake to Bake -- -- 13 33
2015 Aminata Love Injected 6 186 2 155
2016 Justs Heartbeat 15 132 8 132
2017 Triana Park Line -- -- 18 21
2018 Laura Rizzotto Funny Girl -- -- 12 106
2019 Carousel That Night -- -- 15 50
2020 Samanta Tīna Still Breathing Contest cancelled
2021 The Moon Is Rising -- -- 17 14
2022 Citi Zēni Eat Your Salad -- -- 14 55
2023 Sudden Lights Aijā English, Latvian -- -- 11 34
2024 Dons Hollow English 16 64 7 72

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