{"id":669381,"date":"2026-05-14T17:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669381\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:37:14","slug":"eurovision-2026-running-order-for-tonights-second-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/669381\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2026: Running order for tonight\u2019s second semi-final"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Eurovision Song Contest is<\/a> underway in Vienna, Austria, this week, with the second semi-final taking place tonight (Thursday 14 May).<\/p>\n

A total of 35 countries are taking part this year, but host country Austria and four of the \u201cBig Five\u201d countries \u2013 United Kingdom<\/a>, Italy, France and Germany \u2013 are guaranteed a spot in the final.<\/p>\n

Spain \u2013 the fifth country typically guaranteed a spot in the final due to its broadcaster making the largest financial contribution to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) \u2013 withdrew from this year\u2019s contest in protest over Israel\u2019s participation<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Four other countries\u2019 broadcasters \u2013 Iceland, the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia \u2013 chose to pull out of Eurovision over the EBU\u2019s decision to allow Israel to compete<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the first semi-final took place on Tuesday (12 May), a further 15 countries, including Norway, Australia, Armenia and Denmark, will compete for the remaining spots in Saturday\u2019s grand final. <\/p>\n

Fans will also get to see performances from the UK\u2019s Look Mum No Computer, along with contestants representing France and host country Austria.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Eurovision stage at the Wiener Stadhalle in Vienna, Austria (Reuters)<\/p>\n

The 70th Eurovision Song Contest is being held at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna\u2019s 15th district (Rudolfsheim-F\u00fcnfhaus).<\/p>\n

Below you\u2019ll find the running order for the second semi-final. The Eurovision 2026 grand final takes place on Saturday 16 May. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe UK’s entry, Look Mum No Computer, during rehearsals in Vienna (BBC)<\/p>\n

Second Semi-Final \u2013 Thursday 14 May<\/p>\n

01. Bulgaria: DARA – \u201cBangaranga\u201d<\/p>\n

02. Azerbaijan: JIVA – \u201cJust Go\u201d<\/p>\n

03. Romania: Alexandra C\u0103pit\u0103nescu – \u201cChoke Me\u201d<\/p>\n

04. Luxembourg: Eva Marija – \u201cMother Nature\u201d<\/p>\n

05. Czechia: Daniel Zizka – \u201cCROSSROADS\u201d<\/p>\n

*** France: Monroe – \u201cRegarde!\u201d<\/p>\n

06. Armenia: SIM\u00d3N – \u201cPaloma Rumba\u201d<\/p>\n

07. Switzerland: Veronica Fusaro – \u201cAlice\u201d<\/p>\n

08. Cyprus: Antigoni – \u201cJALLA\u201d<\/p>\n

*** Austria: COSM\u00d3 – \u201cTanzschein\u201d<\/p>\n

09. Latvia: Atvara – \u201c\u0112n\u0101\u201d<\/p>\n

10. Denmark: S\u00f8ren Torpegaard Lund – \u201cF\u00f8r Vi G\u00e5r Hjem\u201d<\/p>\n

11. Australia: Delta Goodrem – \u201cEclipse\u201d<\/p>\n

12. Ukraine: LEL\u00c9KA – \u201cRidnym\u201d<\/p>\n

*** United Kingdom: LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER – \u201cEins, Zwei, Drei\u201d<\/p>\n

13. Albania: Alis – \u201cN\u00e2n\u201d<\/p>\n

14. Malta: AIDAN – \u201cBella\u201d<\/p>\n

15. Norway: JONAS LOVV – \u201cYA YA YA\u201d<\/p>\n

The Independent will be liveblogging the Eurovision 2026 semi-finals and grand final. You can see which countries are through to the final so far here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-669381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}