Up to six songs will be in the running for the internal selection to determine Victoria’s song for Eurovision 2021.
Victoria has explained that up to six songs may end up in the running for her to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is already known that ‘Ugly Cry’ is in the running to be performed having originally been written in London in January this year.
The singer is working on at least another two songs that could potentially go to Eurovision. It’s not known whether these are two songs that were written as part of the Black Sea Eurovision Song Writing Camp which took place back in August, or are new songs that the singer is working on.
Who is Victoria Georgieva?
She was announced as the 2020 Bulgarian representative in November 2019 during the official press conference regarding the nation’s return to the Eurovision Song Contest. The 22 year old X Factor alum has big plans with her team regarding her Eurovision journey and the aftermath of it.
She was set to perform “Tears Getting Sober”. The song is written by VICTORIA, Borislav Milanov, Lukas Oscar and Cornelia Wiebols. Borislav has been involved in composing all Bulgarian entries since 2016.
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At the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest, 17-year-old Kristian Kostov finished in second place in the Grand Final, bringing Bulgaria their best ever result. 2017 saw Bulgaria make only their third final in their Eurovision history, the first being in 2007 when Elitsa & Stoyan finished 5th with the song “Water”. Bulgaria debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2005. The country competed annually from 2005 to 2013, before withdrawing for two years due to financial issues.