Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017

Belgium in the
Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Country Belgium
Selection processInternal selection
Announcement dateArtist: 22 November 2016
Song: 8 March 2017
Competing entry
Song"City Lights"
ArtistBlanche
Songwriters
  • Pierre Dumoulin
  • Emmanuel Delcourt
  • Ellie Delvaux
Placement
Semi-final resultQualified (4th, 165 points)
Final result4th, 363 points
Participation chronology
◄2016 2017 2018►

Belgium was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 with the song "City Lights" written by Pierre Dumoulin, Emmanuel Delcourt and Ellie Delvaux. The song was performed by Blanche, which is the artistic name of singer Ellie Delvaux who was internally selected by the Walloon broadcaster Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française (RTBF) in November 2016 to represent the nation at the 2017 contest in Kyiv, Ukraine. The song, "City Lights", was presented to the public on 8 March 2017.

Belgium was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 9 May 2017. Performing during the show in position 5, "City Lights" was announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 23 May. It was later revealed that Belgium placed fourth out of the 18 participating countries in the semi-final with 165 points. In the final, Belgium performed in position 23 and placed fourth out of the 26 participating countries, scoring 363 points.