Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

On 20 March 2020, both VRT and RTBF confirmed that the band Hooverphonic will represent Belgium in the 2021 contest.[2] Their entry for 2021, entitled "The Wrong Place", was released on 4 March 2021.[3]

Once all the competing songs for the 2021 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Belgium was set to perform in position 11, following the entry from Croatia and preceding the entry from Israel.[5]

On 18 May, the day the semi-final was held, Belgium qualified for the Grand Final.

Belgium performed 4th in the grand final on 22 May 2021, following Israel and preceding Russia.

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with a diversity in gender and age represented. The judges assess each entry based on the performances during the second Dress Rehearsal of each show, which takes place the night before each live show, against a set of criteria including: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act.[6] Jury members may only take part in panel once every three years, and are obliged to confirm that they are not connected to any of the participating acts in a way that would impact their ability to vote impartially. Jury members should also vote independently, with no discussion of their vote permitted with other jury members.[7] The exact composition of the professional jury, and the results of each country's jury and televoting were released after the grand final; the individual results from each jury member were also released in an anonymised form.[8][9]

The following members comprised the Belgian jury:[8][9]

• Lien De Greef (Lady Linn)
• Stefaan Fernande
• Yves Ruth
• Pommelien Thijs
• Katrien Verbeeck (Kate Ryan)

Detailed voting results from Belgium (Semi-final 1)[10]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Lithuania	9	11	10	6	8	9	2	3	8
02	Slovenia	12	10	13	9	10	12		14
03	Russia	2	2	1	2	1	1	12	9	2
04	Sweden	10	3	6	10	4	5	6	4	7
05	Australia	7	15	7	12	7	11		15
06	North Macedonia	11	14	15	13	15	15		13
07	Ireland	13	8	9	4	11	8	3	12
08	Cyprus	8	12	12	15	13	13		8	3
09	Norway	4	6	5	3	3	4	7	5	6
10	Croatia	6	7	11	14	9	10	1	11
11	Belgium
12	Israel	5	9	4	7	12	7	4	7	4
13	Romania	15	5	8	5	5	6	5	10	1
14	Azerbaijan	14	13	14	11	14	14		6	5
15	Ukraine	1	4	3	1	2	2	10	2	10
16	Malta	3	1	2	8	6	3	8	1	12

Detailed voting results from Belgium (Final)[11]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D	Juror E	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Cyprus	14	19	18	11	12	17		17
02	Albania	18	21	23	20	22	20		15
03	Israel	10	17	10	18	16	16		19
04	Belgium
05	Russia	3	3	2	7	3	4	7	16
06	Malta	5	5	3	12	14	6	5	9	2
07	Portugal	12	12	9	13	8	10	1	11
08	Serbia	24	18	19	22	21	19		22
09	United Kingdom	21	20	21	21	20	21		25
10	Greece	20	16	15	15	17	18		12
11	Switzerland	2	1	1	3	1	1	12	7	4
12	Iceland	4	7	11	5	11	8	3	6	5
13	Spain	13	8	17	16	9	12		21
14	Moldova	25	25	25	24	24	25		24
15	Germany	23	24	24	23	25	24		20
16	Finland	6	4	5	1	2	3	8	5	6
17	Bulgaria	7	11	4	4	4	5	6	14
18	Lithuania	9	14	14	14	10	13		4	7
19	Ukraine	1	2	6	2	6	2	10	2	10
20	France	15	9	12	17	15	15		1	12
21	Azerbaijan	22	23	20	25	19	23		13
22	Norway	16	13	13	9	13	14		10	1
23	Netherlands	11	10	8	10	18	11		18
24	Italy	17	15	16	6	7	9	2	3	8
25	Sweden	8	6	7	8	5	7	4	8	3
26	San Marino	19	22	22	19	23	22		23