European Music Festival 2021

The European Music Festival 2021 is planned to be the 2nd edition of the annual European Music Festival, organised by RTSH and the EBU. The contest will be held in Albania, following the country’s victory at the 2020 edition in Warsaw, Poland with the song “Me Tana”, performed by Elvana Gjata. This will be the first time the contest is held in Albania.

Bidding phase and host city selection
After Albania’s victory in 2020 contest in Warsaw, the Albanian Head of Delegation Kleart Duraj stated that Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) is keen to host the 2021 contest. On 20 December 2020, it was confirmed by the EBU that Albania would host the 2021 contest. The contest is set to take place in Albania in 2021.

On 4 February 2021 Tirana was announced as the host city of the contest and that the broadcaster will host the contest at the 2,100 capacity Pallati i Kongreseve venue without live audience. On 22 February 2021 EBU and host broadcaster RTSH announced that the contest will be held on 10 October 2021

Hosts
TBA

Voting
The results will be determined by 50% online voting and 50% jury voting. The online voting is taking place during the live show and starts after the last performance and is open for 15 minutes. International viewers could vote for one country three Times from one phone number. The other half of the points was determined by a national jury from every participating country. These points are then announced live during the programme by a spokesperson representing the participating country. The spokespersons give out the points from each of the participating country.

Running order
TBA

Participating countries
On 22 February 2021, the EBU released the official list of participants with 13 competing countries.

Returning artists
Two previous entrants was set to return in the 2021 contest:

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" !Artist !Country !Previous year
 * Eden Alene
 * Dotter
 * Dotter
 * Dotter
 * Dotter
 * Dotter