{"id":317929,"date":"2026-03-07T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/317929\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:04:09","slug":"your-preview-of-polands-pre-selection-for-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/317929\/","title":{"rendered":"Your preview of Poland’s pre-selection for Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poland is all set to select for the 70th Eurovision Song Contest<\/p>\n

HOW TO WATCH: Fina\u0142 Polskich Kwalifikacji will start at 17:35 on Saturday 7 March. Broadcaster TVP will be streaming it via their online player<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Many of us are yet to recover from the Justyna Steczkowska-shaped whirlwind that Poland brought to the Grand Final of Basel 2025, with the almighty GAJA! But we’re already looking ahead to what its successor might be for Vienna.<\/p>\n

Broadcaster TVP has put together a selection of eight candidates that will compete for the opportunity to represent Poland at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in May. Hosted by Artur Orzech, Fina\u0142 Polskich Kwalifikacji is happening on Saturday evening and it’s down to the Polish people alone what song will get to represent them on the international stage, with a 100% public vote deciding on the winner.<\/p>\n

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You can listen to all eight entries<\/a>, ahead of the Polish pre-selection, over on the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

This is the lineup of Vienna 2026 candidates:<\/p>\n

Alicja \u2013 PrayAnastazja \u2013 Wild ChildBasia Giewont \u2013 Zimna WodaJeremi Sikorski \u2013 Cienie Przesz\u0142o\u015bciKarolina Szczurowska \u2013 Nie B\u00f3j Si\u0119Ola Antoniak \u2013 Don\u2019t You TryPiotr Pr\u0119gowski \u2013 Parawany TangoStasiek Kukulski \u2013 This Too Shall Pass<\/p>\n

On Saturday night’s show it’ll just be the performance element of the competition that viewers can watch. The winner won’t be announced at the end of the show. Instead, audiences will need to tune in to the Polish morning programme Pytanie na \u015aniadanie on TVP 2 at around 10:00 CET on Sunday 8 March. to find out the winner.<\/p>\n

And of course, we’ll also be bringing you the news right here on eurovision.com!<\/p>\n

Fina\u0142 Polskich Kwalifikacji proved to be a successful format for Poland at the 69th Eurovision Song Contest in Basel.<\/p>\n

Justyna Steczkowska won the 2025 edition of the Polish national final and got to represent her country a second time at the Contest following her performance of Sama at Dublin 1995. In Basel, Justyna took Poland to the Grand Final with her energetic interpretation of the epic GAJA, which finished in 14th place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Poland is all set to select for the 70th Eurovision Song Contest HOW TO WATCH: Fina\u0142 Polskich Kwalifikacji…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-317929","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\/317929","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=317929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}