In March 2020, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) announced the contest's cancellation due to the pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its rapid spread across Europe.

[5] Radio Televizioni Shqiptar (RTSH) organised the 58th edition of Festivali i Këngës in order to select the nation's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020.

[10] The jury panel was composed of Christer Björkman, Dimitris Kontopoulos, Felix Bergsson, Mikaela Minga and Rita Petro.

[13] The interval act in the second semi-final featured Agim Krajka and Lindita Theodhori with the song "Kafe Flora".

Before the end of the show, Arilena Ara emerged as the winner with "Shaj" and was simultaneously announced as Albania's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020.

[18][19][20] An accompanying lyric video for "Fall from the Sky" premiered on the official YouTube channel of the Eurovision Song Contest on 10 March 2019.

Amongst them, Austrian broadcaster, ORF, organised Der kleine Song Contest in April 2020, which saw every entry being assigned to one of three semi-finals.

A jury, consisting of ten members that had represented Austria at the contest before, was hired to rank each song, with the highest-placed in each semi-final advancing to the final round.