Latvia had failed to qualify to the final for three consecutive years since 2017 including with their 2019 entry "That Night" performed by Carousel.

After failing to produce successful entries those two years, LTV developed and had organised the Supernova national final since 2015.

Along with their participation confirmation, the broadcaster announced that they would organise Supernova 2020 in order to select the Latvian entry for the 2020 contest.

The competition took place at the LTV studios in Riga on 8 February 2020, hosted by Toms Grēviņš, Ketija Šēnberga and Beta Beidz and broadcast on LTV1 as well as online via the streaming platform Replay.lv.

Among the artists was Katrīna Dimanta who represented Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 as part of Aarzemnieki.

Nine acts competed and the song with the highest number of votes from the public, "Still Breathing" performed by Samanta Tīna, was declared the winner.

[8][13] According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final.

On 28 January 2020, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in.