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12 acts are all set to compete for the opportunity to represent Romania on its return to the Eurovision Song Contest in May.<\/p>\n
Hosted by two popular actors – Giulia Nahmany and Daniel Nu\u0163\u0103 – Selec\u021bia Na\u021bional\u0103 2026 will have a jury evaluating the performances and deciding on the entry that will get to fly the Romanian flag at Veinna 2026.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the Wednesday evening show, you can watch all 12 performances from the audition stages of the competition, over on the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n These are the Selec\u021bia Na\u021bional\u0103 hopefuls in the order that they’ll be performed on the night:<\/p>\n Emy Alupei \u2013 Till Bom<\/a>Robert Lukian – Fire to the Lies<\/a>Vanu \u2013 Therapy Enemy<\/a>Edward Maya x LavBbe x Costi \u2013 Everybody Needs Somebody<\/a>Yguana \u2013 Happy Birthday<\/a>HVNDS \u2013 Dor<\/a>Antonio Pican \u2013 Humans<\/a>wrs \u2013 All the Way<\/a>Olivia Addams \u2013 Croco<\/a>Monica Odagiu \u2013 Fereastra Pentru Un Orb<\/a>Alexandra C\u0103pit\u0103nescu \u2013 Choke Me<\/a>Alejandro Zandes & Emil Rengle \u2013 Bailando Solo<\/a><\/p>\n The Selec\u021bia Na\u021bional\u0103 winner will have the honour of representing Romania on its return to the Eurovision Song Contest after taking two years away from the competition.<\/p>\n Romania\u2019s 22 participations since its 1994 debut has seen the country land in the Top 10 of the Grand Final six times, with their best result being a third-place finish in both 2005 and 2010, courtesy of Let Me Try by Lumini\u021ba Anghel & Sistem and Playing With Fire by Paula Selling & Ovi respectively.<\/p>\n When it comes to Contest contributions over the years, Romania are just as well known for bringing the fun as they are for the finesse. Whether it’s been a masterclass in showing us how Balkan Girls like to party (2009), demonstrating their skills in yodelling (2017) or leaning in to their popularity with tourists in Transylvania (2013), Romania’s artists have given all of the Eurovision parties watching along at home something to remember.\u00a0<\/p>\n And few club nights worth their entrance fee would go the whole night without at least one crowd-pleasing spin of Tornero (2006), Zaleilah (2012) or Ll\u00e1mame (2022).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romania to select its first Eurovision entry since Liverpool 2023 HOW TO WATCH: Broadcaster TVR will air Selec\u021bia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-312745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"2026_02_16_srtv_eurovision_lista_12_m02_v01-1400x788\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026_02_16_srtv_eurovision_lista_12_m02_v01-1400x788-width=800-width=800.jpg\")
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