The first semi-final of Sing for Greece 2026 has just finished, with seven participants qualifying for the Grand Final of the selection on February 15.<\/p>\n
Sing for Greece 2026, Greece\u2019s selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026, kicked off tonight with the first semi-final. The show was hosted by Giorgos Kapoutzidis, Betty Maggira, and Katerina Vrana. Eurovision 2025 representative, Klavdia, opened the show and will perform once again during the final.<\/p>\n
14 acts took the stage and performed for the Greek public, who chose seven acts to advance to the final. The results were as follows:<\/p>\n
Running OrderArtist SongResult1 Alexandra Sieti\u201cThe Other Side\u201dFinalist2The Astrolabe\u201cDrop It\u201d3Desi G\u201cAphrodite\u201d4Akylas\u201cFerto\u201d (Brought)Finalist5Evangelia\u201cParea\u201d (Friends)Finalist6Panagiotis Tsakalakos\u201c2nd Chance\u201d7Niya\u201cSlipping Away\u201d8Marseaux\u201cHanomai\u201d (I\u2019m lost)Finalist9Rosanna Mailan\u201cAlma\u201d (Soul)Finalist10Stefi\u201cEuropa\u201dFinalist11Revery \u201cThe Songwriter\u201d12Dinamiss\u201cChaos\u201d13Stylianos\u201cYou & I\u201dFinalist14Spheyiaa\u201cHilia Kommatia\u201d (A thousand pieces)<\/p>\n
Across the two semi-finals, seven entries will qualify for the final. Semi Final Two will take place on Friday 13, with the next fourteen competing entries vying to qualify for the final on February 15. There will also be guest performances from Cyprus\u2019 Eurovision entry, Antigoni, who will perform her entry \u201cJALLA\u201d live for the first time, as well as Tamta, who represented Cyprus in 2019.<\/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
Source: ERT<\/p>\n
Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first semi-final of Sing for Greece 2026 has just finished, with seven participants qualifying for the Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,68096,2043,33958,143144,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-420858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-eurovision-2026","tag-greece","tag-headline","tag-sing-for-greece","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420858","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=420858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}