Eurovision 2026: We Have Our Line-Up

Before you read this post about Eurovision 2026, I encourage you to have a look at my statement on this year’s contest.

All of a sudden, the line-up for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 is complete! After another crazy couple of weeks of national finals and internal selections, we now have our full cohort for Vienna and can finally start listening to the songs on repeat for the next couple of months. Before things get even busier in the world of Eurovision, let’s remind ourselves of everything that’s happened recently.

Firstly, to Romania, where national final Selecția națională was held to choose the country’s first Eurovision act since 2023. Twelve acts competed, including 2022 Romanian representative Wrs, and the results were determined entirely by a panel of seven jurors. In the end, Alexandra Căpitănescu won her country’s ticket to Austria, where she will perform “Choke Me” in May. She will be hoping to bring Romania to the Eurovision final for the first time since 2022.

Back in January, Israel selected Noam Bettan as its Eurovision artist for 2026, and at the beginning of March, his competing song, selected internally by broadcaster Kan, was released. Titled “Michelle”, the song (much like Israel’s entry last year) features lyrics in both French and Hebrew as well as English, and lists both Noam and last year’s Israeli representative Yuval Raphael among its writers. Noam will perform the song in the first semi-final.

The BBC has also released the song that Look Mum No Computer will perform in Vienna for the United Kingdom, and it is titled “Eins, Zwei, Drei”. The song was revealed on Scott Mills’ Radio 2 Breakfast Show, and was written by Look Mum No Computer himself, together with a team including Julie Aagaard and Thomas Stengaard, both of whom worked with Remember Monday last year. Of course, Look Mum No Computer has a guaranteed place in the final as the UK is a member of the ‘Big Four’.

France announced at the beginning of March that it will be represented at Eurovision this year by Monroe, performing the song “Regarde”. Monroe hails from the USA, and at seventeen years old, is the youngest of this year’s contestants. She won French music programme The Prodigies last year, which is dedicated to young classical musicians. Like the UK, France automatically qualify for the final, so Monroe won’t have to worry about making it to Saturday night.

Monroe will represent France at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

The next country to announce its Eurovision artist for 2026 was Azerbaijan, who selected Jiva to fly its flag in May. Jiva previously participated in Azerbaijan’s Eurovision selection in 2011, and won The Voice of Azerbaijan last year. She will be the first female artist to represent the country since Efendi in 2021. A few days later, her participating song “Just Go” was released, featuring lyrics in both English and Azerbaijani. Jiva will perform the song in the second semi-final.

For the fifth consecutive year, San Marino held a national final to select its Eurovision representative. The final of this year’s San Marino Song Contest featured 21 competing songs, of which ten had been pre-selected as automatic qualifiers. In the end, the winner (chosen solely by a jury) was Eurovision veteran Senhit with the song “Superstar”. This will be Senhit’s third appearance at Eurovision (though her fourth entry) and the song is a collaboration with Boy George, though at the moment whether he will perform in May is unclear.

After four heats and a wildcard ‘final qualification’ round, Sweden’s Melodifestivalen finally concluded last week, with twelve songs qualifying for the final. The line-up featured previous Eurovision artists Sanna Nielsen and Robin Bengtsson, as well as several Melodifestivalen alumni, but the night belonged to Felicia, who won the votes of both the international juries and the Swedish public with her song “My System”. She will hope to extend her country’s very impressive qualification streak in Vienna.

Felicia will sing for Sweden in Vienna. (photo: Stina Stjernkvist/SVT)

On the same evening, Portugal also chose its Eurovision act through the national final Festival da Canção. This year, a change to the rules meant that artists were no longer obliged to participate in Eurovision should they win the competition, and in fact thirteen out of the sixteen contestants stated that they would boycott due to Israel’s participation. Thankfully for Portuguese broadcaster RTP, this headache was avoided as the winners, Bandidos do Cante, said all along that they would participate. They will perform the song “Rosa” in May.

And the last national final of the 2026 season came from Poland, with eight acts performing in Finał Krajowych Kwalifikacji. The results were revealed the morning after the main show, and easily winning the public vote was Alicja with “Pray”. Alicja had previously been selected to represent her country at Eurovision in 2020; however, was not re-selected for 2021 after the contest’s cancellation, so it will be lovely to see her get her chance at last!

This year, Czechia selected both its Eurovision artist and song internally, and kept fans waiting for quite a while, until it was announced that singer-songwriter Daniel Žižka will be representing the country in Vienna. His song, “Crossroads”, was released a few days later with an accompanying music video. Daniel will perform in the first half of the second semi-final, and will hope to bring his country back to the final for the first time since 2023.

Daniel Žižka (photo: Daniel Žižka/Instagram)

We already knew that Veronica Fusaro would be representing Switzerland in Vienna, but until this week we did not know the name of the song she would sing. Out of 493 submissions, a professional jury and international public vote selected a new version of “Alice”, a song from Veronica’s latest album. Switzerland has not missed the Eurovision final since 2018, and Veronica will not want to change that this year.

Armenia was another country to keep fans in the dark this year, before finally announcing its Eurovision act this week. Broadcaster AMPTV revealed that the country will be represented by none other than Simón, who finished second to Parg in last year’s national final. He will perform the song “Paloma Rumba”, which is co-written by 2022 Armenian representative Rosa Linn – I’m sure the Armenian delegation will be thrilled if this song receives even a fraction of the popularity of “Snap”.

Simón is Armenia's artist for Eurovision 2026.

And finally, Georgia has also announced the song that will compete for it at Eurovision this year. As previously noted, it is 2008 Junior Eurovision champions Bzikebi representing the country, and their selected entry is called “On Replay”. It was released last week after several social media teasers from the group. Bzikebi will hope to bring their country back to the final after a disappointing few years at the contest.

And with that, another national final season has come to a close! It’s absolutely flown by, and I can’t quite believe that we now have all of our competing songs for this year. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading these ‘news updates’, and if so, please do stick around for much more coming over the next few weeks!