{"id":233390,"date":"2025-10-30T05:11:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233390\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:11:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:11:14","slug":"today-%f0%9f%87%aa%f0%9f%87%aa-eesti-laul-%f0%9f%87%b1%f0%9f%87%ba-luxembourg-song-contest-participant-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/233390\/","title":{"rendered":"Today: \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddea Eesti Laul &#038; \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddfa Luxembourg Song Contest Participant Announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Estonia and Luxembourg are revealing national selection participants for their Eurovision 2026 selections.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddfa Luxembourg \u2013 Luxembourg Song Contest 2026 -Participants Reveal \u2013 From 06:50 CET<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-169185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/250509_Alma-Bengtsson_EBU_17005-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Laura Thorn rehearsing La Poup\u00e9e Monte Le Son for Luxembourg at St. Jakobshalle<\/p>\n<p>The acts that will be competing in the Luxembourg Song Contest 2026 will be revealed today.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at 06:50 CET the acts that will compete to represent Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 will be revealed. A total of 58 artists with 83 songs took part in auditions this past weekend in Luxembourg City.<\/p>\n<p>The participants in the Luxembourg Song Contest 2026 have been selected by an international jury formed of:<\/p>\n<p>Karin Gunnarsson: producer of Melodifestivalen (Sweden\u2019s national selection for Eurovision)<br \/>\nG\u00edsli Berg: member of the Icelandic Eurovision delegation since 2019 and producer of S\u00f6ngvakeppnin (Iceland\u2019s national selection for Eurovision)<br \/>\nPaul Jordan, also known as \u201cDr. Eurovision\u201d: British Eurovision Song Contest expert. He worked behind the scenes at the contest between 2014 and 2018, and he was also a member of the international jury for France (2019) and Ireland (2023)<br \/>\nLudovic-Alexandre Vidal: French songwriter and musical theatre writer. Author and ESC fan from the very beginning, he was part of the team that wrote and composed \u201cLa poup\u00e9e monte le son\u201d (Luxembourg\u2019s entry for Eurovision 2025).<br \/>\nElsie Bay: Norwegian singer-songwriter. She has written multiple entries for the Norwegian national selection Melodi Grand Prix, and for other national selections in Germany and Luxembourg, including \u201cDrowning in the Rain\u201d, which was sung by Krick at the Luxembourg Song Contest 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The third edition of the Luxembourg Song Contest will take place on January 24 in Rockhal in Esch-sur-Alzette, according to a press statement released by the broadcaster. The live final will see several acts compete to represent Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddea Estonia \u2013 Eesti Laul 2026 \u2013 First Participants Reveal \u2013 18:00 CET<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-168828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/250507_AlmaBengtsson_0098-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  \/>Tommy Cash rehearsing Espresso Macchiato for Estonia at St. Jakobshalle | Image Source: Alma Bengtsson\/ EBU<\/p>\n<p>The first artists who will be competing to represent Estonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna will be revealed today. The first of the twelve acts competing in Eesti Laul 2026 will be revealed on\u00a0Ringvaade, which will air on ETV this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The 12 competing artists and songs have been selected by a jury of experts, including music professionals and ordinary people of various ages. In total, at least 25 members have evaluated the 171 submitted songs blindly, without knowing the names of the writers or artists. The songs will be released by December 4 at the latest.<\/p>\n<p>The Eesti Laul 2026 final will be held on February 14 in the Unibet Arena in Tallinn. As in previous years, the winner will be determined in two rounds. In the first round, three songs will be selected through a combination of jury voting and televote. In the superfinal, the winner will be chosen solely by televote. The jury for the final will consist of at least seven members, including international music experts actively involved in the making, publishing, or teaching of pop music.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the reveal live on\u00a0Ringvaade, which airs from 18:00 CET\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jupiter.err.ee\/etv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image source: Alma Bengtsson \/ EBU<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Anthony-96x96.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Posted by:Anthony Granger<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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":"Today, Estonia and Luxembourg are revealing national selection participants for their Eurovision 2026 selections. \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddfa Luxembourg \u2013 Luxembourg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-233390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233390","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=233390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}