{"id":446198,"date":"2026-05-13T05:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446198\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:43:14","slug":"eurovision-semifinal-who-passed-whos-going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446198\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision Semifinal: Who Passed, Who&#8217;s Going Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"248\" data-end=\"568\">The first semi-final of Eurovision 2026 concluded on Tuesday night, with 10 countries securing a place in the final, while five going home early. Those qualified are now preparing for the grand final set to take place on Saturday, May 16.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"248\" data-end=\"568\">For Greece, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tovima.com\/culture\/greece-again-in-eurovision-final-with-ferto-by-akylas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Akylas delivered a performance<\/a> that brought the audience inside Vienna\u2019s Wiener Stadthalle to its feet, impressing both juries and television viewers alike.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 Countries That Qualified for the FinalGreeceFinlandBelgiumSwedenMoldovaIsraelSerbiaCroatiaLithuaniaPoland<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1347\" data-end=\"1433\">Estonia, Georgia, Montenegro, Portugal and San Marino failed to qualify for the final.<\/p>\n<p>Running Order and Performances From the First Semi-Final<\/p>\n<p>Moldova \u2013 Satoshi \u2013 \u201cViva, Moldova!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweden \u2013 Felicia \u2013 \u201cMy System\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Croatia \u2013 Lelek \u2013 \u201cAndromeda\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greece \u2013 Akylas \u2013 \u201cFerto\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Portugal \u2013 Bandidos do Cante \u2013 \u201cRosa\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Georgia \u2013 Bzikebi \u2013 \u201cOn Replay\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finland \u2013 Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen \u2013 \u201cLiekinheitin\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montenegro \u2013 Tamara \u017divkovi\u0107 \u2013 \u201cNova Zora\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Estonia \u2013 Vanilla Ninja \u2013 \u201cToo Epic To Be True\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel \u2013 Noam Bettan \u2013 \u201cMichelle\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Belgium \u2013 Essyla \u2013 \u201cDancing On Ice\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania \u2013 Lion Ceccah \u2013 \u201cS\u00f3lo Quiero M\u00e1s\u201d<\/p>\n<p>San Marino \u2013 Senhit and Boy George \u2013 \u201cSuperstar\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poland \u2013 Alicja \u2013 \u201cPray\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serbia \u2013 Lavina \u2013 \u201cKraj Mene\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first semi-final of Eurovision 2026 concluded on Tuesday night, with 10 countries securing a place in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[194038,93,13973,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-446198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-akylas","tag-entertainment","tag-eurovision-2026","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}