United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

The United Kingdom participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "Embers" written by James Newman, Conor Blake, Danny Shah, Tom Hollings and Samuel Brennan. Performing in position 9, the United Kingdom placed 26th (last) out of the 26 participating countries, failing to score any points. This was the fifth time the nation had placed last in the history of the competition, and the second time the country received nul points. The United Kingdom has won the contest five times: in 1967, 1969, 1976, 1981, 1997 and 2009. The nation is noted for having finished as the runner-up in a record fifteen contests. Since 1999, the rule was abandoned that songs must be performed in one of the official languages of the country participating, the UK has had less success, thus far only finishing within the top ten twice: in 2002 with thesong "Come Back" performed by Jessica Garlick and in 2009 with theSong "It's My Time" performed By Jade Ewen. For the 2019 contest, the nation finished in twenty-sixth place out ofTwenty-six competing entries with the Song "Bigger than Us" performedby Michael Rice.