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Latvian broadcaster LTV has launched Super nova 2016, the annual Eurovision heat of the country. There are a total of three shows. Two semi finals and a grand final.

Artists, composers and writers get to 1 november the time to register for the national tour of Latvia. A month later we come to know what twenty candidates in the end. The selected artists are divided into two semifinals, which will be broadcast at the beginning of February.

On February 28, there will be a great live show in which we find out who wins Super nova 2016 . The selection procedure takes place as last year. When Aminata won the preliminary round with Love Injected. In Vienna she took sixth place, one of the best results ever for Latvia in the Eurovision song contest.