In this series we look at countries which aren’t participating in the Eurovision Song Contest anymore.
Bulgaria was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song “Beautiful Mess”, written by Borislav Milanov, Sebastian Arman, Joacim Bo Persson, Alex Omar, and Alexander V. Blay and performed by Kristian Kostov. The Bulgarian participating broadcaster announced in March 2017 that Kristian Kostov had been selected to compete at the contest with the song “Beautiful Mess”.
Bulgaria was drawn to compete in position 15 of the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest and was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Bulgaria placed first out of the 18 participating countries in the semi-final with 403 points. In the final, Bulgaria performed in position 25 and placed second out of the 26 participating countries, scoring 615 points. This marked Bulgaria’s best placing in the history of the contest.
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