Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico has debuted in the first edition of Own Americavision Song Contest and has participated in every edition since then. The country's won the contest with the song "Fight Like a Man" by Angie Rose in the ninth edition. The country has also been in the top ten five times, all of the being top five finishes. All of their entries were selected through internal selection. However, the broadcaster held a national final for the twelfth edition to select an entry for their representative.

The country's winning entry "Fight Like a Man", which earned 217 points, was the best scored entry in the contest until the thirteenth edition. Puerto Rico has been an automatic qualifier 5 times. The country failed to qualify to the grand final once in the third edition, ending on the 14th place in the semi-final.

History
Since its debut in the first edition, Puerto Rico has competed in every edition, and is one of the few countries to do so, together with Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Canada, Costa Rica, Dominica, Guyana, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and United States. The country achieved its best result with Nuyorican singer Angie Rose, who performed the song "Fight Like a Man" in the ninth edition. Puerto Rico has been an automatic qualifier 5 times and in the tenth edition it became the best scored host entry after ending third in the grand final. The country failed to qualify for the first time in the third edition, where MIX5 didn't manage to enter in the top 10 of the first semi-final. This is country's only non-qualification to date and the worst result in the contest so far. The country has a total of five top 5 finishes, which are also country's only top 10 placements. It has earned 5 automatic qualifications to date, the most remarkable one being the two auto-qualification in a row in the tenth and eleventh editions.

Puerto Rico had a successful debut in the contest. Their first entrant was Blanca feat. Tedashii with the song "Not Backing Down", who finished 5th out of 26. Following the auto-qualification in the second edition, the country was represented by Raquel Sofía with the song "Ron de azúcar", which was the first time they sent a song in Spanish. It scored 21st out of 26 in the grand final. After their non-qualification in the third edition, the country had several top 15 finishes until seventh edition where V V Brown and the song "Shift" brought the first podium finish for the country. In the ninth edition, the country won the contest with the song "Fight Like a Man" performed by Angie Rose with a record-breaking score of 217 points. The country was an automatic qualifier for two editions in a row in the tenth and eleventh editions respectively, where their earned another podium finish with the song "Deja De Hablar (Blah Blah Blah)" by Chesca and Jon Z. The country returned to the podium for the third time in the twelfth edition where Lexxe and the song "Queen" ended second.

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12 Points
Here are the countries Puerto Rico gave their 12 points to in each edition