{"id":143452,"date":"2025-09-17T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143452\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T14:23:15","slug":"%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%b7-greece-ethnikos-telikos-2026-song-submissions-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143452\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7 Greece: Ethnik\u00f3s Telik\u00f3s 2026 Song Submissions Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

ERT has opened the song submission window for Ethnik\u00f3s Telik\u00f3s 2026, the Greek national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.<\/p>\n

The search is underway for the Greek entry for the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. Song submissions have opened today for Ethnik\u00f3s Telik\u00f3s 2026 and will remain open until November 2.<\/p>\n

With the launch of the Greek selection, ERT has confirmed that Ethnik\u00f3s Telik\u00f3s has been expanded to a three show selection. Up to 28 songs will compete across two semi-ginals, with 14 songs going through to the Grand Final. In the Grand Final, the winner will be chosen by 50% televoting, 25% Greek jury and 25% international jury.<\/p>\n

Klavdia represented Greece at Eurovision 2025 with \u201cAsteromata\u201d. She secured Greece\u2019s best result in the Eurovision Song Contest since 2013, by placing 6th in the final, scoring 231 points. Greece was 8th with the public and juries and received 12 points from the juries of Australia, Cyprus, Israel and Montenegro, and 12 points from the televoters of Albania, Cyprus and San Marino.<\/p>\n

Image source: Alma Bengtsson \/ EBU | Source: ERT<\/a><\/p>\n

Greece debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, when they were represented by Marinella and the song \u201cKrasi, thalassa kai t\u2019agori mou\u201d, which finished in 11th place with 7 points. Three years later, Greece earned their first top 5 finish with Paschalis, Marianna, Robert, and Bessy, who finished in 5th place with \u201cMathima solfege\u201d. In 2001, Greece achieved their first top 3 placing with Antique and the song \u201cI Would Die For You\u201d. The song became a European hit and charted across the continent. In 2005, Helena Paparizou returned to the Eurovision stage as a solo artist and brought Greece their first, and to date only, victory. Her song \u201cMy Number One\u201d won with 230 points, beating runners-up Malta by 38 points. <\/p>\n

Like this:<\/p>\n

Like Loading…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"\t<\/p>\n

Posted by:Anthony Granger<\/p>\n

Since launching Eurovoix in April 2011, it has been a pleasure to find out more about this amazing continent through the Eurovision Family of Events. From starting out as a small site, it’s been brilliant to see the site grow and flourish and continue to bring our readers everything from the world of Eurovision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERT has opened the song submission window for Ethnik\u00f3s Telik\u00f3s 2026, the Greek national selection for the Eurovision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,66321,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-143452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ethnikos-telikos-2026","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}