{"id":876694,"date":"2026-09-01T22:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/876694\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T22:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T22:28:13","slug":"%f0%9f%87%a6%f0%9f%87%ba-australia-sbs-confirms-eurovision-2027-participation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/876694\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa Australia: SBS Confirms Eurovision 2027 Participation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian broadcaster SBS has confirmed its participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2027 in Burgas, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SBS has confirmed that it is set to compete in the 71st edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. In a press release regarding the broadcasters plans for 2027, it has confirmed that they will once again take to the Eurovision stage. The press release reads:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\u00a0Eurovision Song Contest\u00a0returns in 2027 after more than 3.27 million Australians tuned in this year, with Australia\u2019s Delta Goodrem taking an impressive fourth place in Vienna, Austria. As Eurovision heads to Bulgaria, who will represent Australia in 2027?<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The confirmation comes on the back of record interest in the Eurovision Song Contest thanks to Delta Goodrem\u2019s participation. In total, 3.27 million viewers watched SBS\u2019s coverage of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delta Goodrem represented Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with \u201cEclipse\u201d. In the final, she placed 4th with a total of 287 points, which included 12 points from the juries in Armenia, Israel and Armenia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/whats-on\/article\/whats-coming-to-sbs-in-2027\/oncke9fqo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015 as part of celebrations marking 60 years of the Eurovision Song Contest. SBS has broadcast Eurovision in Australia since 1983. Australia\u2019s best result to date came in 2016 when Dami Im, with the song \u201cSound of Silence\u201d, finished in 2nd place in the final scoring 511 points, just 23 points away from victory. Australia has finished in the top 10 five times since their debut, most recently in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian broadcaster SBS has confirmed its participation in the Eurovision Song Contest 2027 in Burgas, Bulgaria. SBS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134,51926],"class_list":["post-876694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}