Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017

Bulgaria in the
Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Participating broadcasterBulgarian National Television (BNT)
Country Bulgaria
Selection processInternal selection
Announcement date13 March 2017
Competing entry
Song"Beautiful Mess"
ArtistKristian Kostov
Songwriters
Placement
Semi-final resultQualified (1st, 403 points)
Final result2nd, 615 points
Participation chronology
◄2016 2017 2018►

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, Bulgarian National Television (BNT), announced on 13 March 2017 that Kristian Kostov had been selected to compete at the contest. The song that Kostov competed with, "Beautiful Mess", was also internally selected and was presented to the public on the same day.

Bulgaria was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 11 May 2017. Performing during the show in position 15, "Beautiful Mess" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 13 May. 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.