| Eurovision Song Contest 2021 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country |  Moldova | |||
| National selection | ||||
| Selection process | Internal selection | |||
| Selection date(s) | Artist: 26 January 2021 Song: 4 March 2021 | |||
| Selected artist(s) | Natalia Gordienko | |||
| Selected song | "Sugar" | |||
| Selected songwriter(s) | ||||
| Finals performance | ||||
| Semi-final result | Qualified (7th, 179 points) | |||
| Final result | 13th, 115 points | |||
| Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest | ||||
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Moldova participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Sugar" written by Dimitris Kontopoulos, Philipp Kirkorov, Mikhail Gutseriyev and Sharon Vaughn. The song was performed by Natalia Gordienko, who was internally selected in January 2021 by the Moldovan broadcaster TeleRadio-Moldova (TRM) to represent the nation at the 2021 contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Songwriter Philipp Kirkorov represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the song "Kolybelnaya dlya vulkana" where he placed seventeenth, while Natalia Gordienko had previously represented Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006 together with Arsenium and Connect-R, placing twentieth with the song "Loca", and was due to compete in the 2020 contest with "Prison". The Moldovan song, "Sugar", was presented to the public on 4 March 2021.
Moldova was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 20 May 2021. Performing during the show in position 7, "Sugar" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 22 May. It was later revealed that Moldova placed seventh out of the 17 participating countries in the semi-final with 179 points. In the final, Moldova performed in position 14 and placed thirteenth out of the 26 participating countries, scoring 115 points.