Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest

Moldova
Member station	TRM
Appearances
Appearances	7
First appearance	2005
Best result	6th:2005
Worst result	12th SF: 2008
External links
Moldova's page at Eurovision.tv

Moldova has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest six times, debuting in 2005. Following the poor result in the 2006 contest, the Moldovan broadcaster, Teleradio-Moldova (TRM) announced that it would withdraw from participation and did not allocate a budget for the 2007 Contest. However, in response to public pressure TRM filed the preliminary documents to compete and sent Natalia Barbu with song "Fight".^[1]

In 2008 Moldova, for the first time in 4 years of trying, failed to make the Final, their jazz number, "A Century of Love", finishing 12th place in a field of 19. In 2010 a saxophonist Sergey Stepanov from group SunStroke Project and Olia Tira has become internet phenomenon because of his 30 second saxophone solo.

In 2011 Zdob şi Zdub represented Moldova for a second time in the contest, with the song So Lucky placing 12th in the final.

Natalia Barbu performing "Fight" at Helsinki (2007)

Geta Burlacu performing "A Century of Love" at Belgrade (2008)

SunStroke Project and Olia Tira performing "Run Away" at Oslo (2010)

Zdob şi Zdub performing "So Lucky" at Düsseldorf (2011)

Contestants

Year	Artist	Title	Final	Points	Semi	Points
2005	Zdob şi Zdub	"Bunika Bate Toba"	6	148	2	207
2006	Arsenium feat. Natalia Gordienko and Connect-R	"Loca"	20	22	X	X
2007	Natalia Barbu	"Fight"	10	109	10	91
2008	Geta Burlacu	"A Century of Love"	X	X	12	36
2009	Nelly Ciobanu	"Hora din Moldova"	14	69	5	106
2010	SunStroke Project and Olia Tira	"Run Away"	22	27	10	52
2011	Zdob şi Zdub	"So Lucky"	12	97	10	54
2012

Voting history (2005-2011)

Moldova gave and received most of it's points to Romania. In fact, with only one exception on each side (Moldova in 2005 and Romania in 2010) both countries have given each other their 12 points.

Moldova has given the most points to...

Rank	Country	Points
1	Romania	79
2	Russia	59
3	Ukraine	50
4	Azerbaijan	35
5	Georgia	19
=	Norway	19

Moldova has received the most points from...

Rank	Country	Points
1	Romania	70
2	Portugal	46
3	Ukraine	33
4	Russia	27
5	Belarus	26

NOTE: The totals in the above tables include only points awarded in Eurovision finals, and not the semi-finals.

Commentators

Year(s)	Commentators
2005-2009	TBC
2010-current	Marcel Spătari

References

1. ^ Viniker, Barry (2006-11-26). "Moldova actively seeking performers". ESCToday. http://esctoday.com/news/read/6824. Retrieved 2008-09-29. 

External links

• Points to and from Moldova eurovisioncovers.co.uk