Tonight, the Grand Final of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest will take place live from Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria.
25 nations will compete on stage tonight in Vienna, all hoping to take home the iconic Eurovision trophy designed by Kjell Engman of Kosta Boda.
35 countries competed in this year’s contest, with the winner of the 70th edition set to be chosen tonight.
Victoria Swarovski and Michael Ostrowski are your hosts for tonight’s show, while Emily Busvine will be welcoming the artists and their delegations from the green room.
Running Order
- 🇩🇰 Denmark – Søren Torpegaard Lund – “Før vi går hjem”
- 🇩🇪 Germany – Sarah Engels – “Fire”
- 🇮🇱 Israel – Noam Bettan – “Michelle”
- 🇧🇪 Belgium – Essyla – “Dancing on the Ice”
- 🇦🇱 Albania – Alis – “Nân”
- 🇬🇷 Greece – Akylas – “Ferto”
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine – LELÉKA – “Ridnym”
- 🇦🇺 Australia – Delta Goodrem – “Eclipse”
- 🇷🇸 Serbia – Lavina – “Kraj mene”
- 🇲🇹 Malta – Aidan – “Bella”
- 🇨🇿 Czechia – Daniel Zizka – “Crossroads”
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria – Dara – “Bangaranga”
- 🇭🇷 Croatia – Lelek – “Andromeda”
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Look Mum No Computer – “Eins, Zwei, Drei”
- 🇫🇷 France – Monroe – “Regarde !”
- 🇲🇩 Moldova – Satoshi – “Viva, Moldova!”
- 🇫🇮 Finland – Linda Lampenius & Pete Parkkonen – “Liekinheitin”
- 🇵🇱 Poland – Alicja – “Pray”
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania – Lion Ceccah – “Sólo quiero más”
- 🇸🇪 Sweden – Felicia – “My System”
- 🇨🇾 Cyprus – Antigoni – “Jalla”
- 🇮🇹 Italy – Sal da Vinci – “Per sempre si”
- 🇳🇴 Norway – Jonas Lovv – “Ya Ya Ya”
- 🇷🇴 Romania – Alexandra Căpitănescu – “Choke Me”
- 🇦🇹 Austria – Cosmó – “Tanzschein”
Interval Acts
The Grand Final will be opened by JJ, who took victory in Basel, Switzerland, with “Wasted Love”. The performance will see viewers finding out that the paper boat from JJ’s performance was accidentally left in Basel and must travel down rivers and across mountains to make it to Vienna for the show. ‘The Queen of the Night’ performance will see JJ performing songs blending Mozart-inspired elements with his own songs, accompanied by 40 dancers, including acrobats. This performance will take place as the 25 finalists are announced.
As viewers across Europe and Australia are voting for their favourites, a number of former participants and winners will return to the Eurovision stage once more as the contest continues to celebrate its 70th anniversary. ‘Celebration!- The Ultimate Eurovision All-Stars Reunion‘ sees a star-studded lineup with:
- Alexander Rybak – (Eurovision Champion, 2009, Norway)
- Erika Vikman – (Finland, 2025)
- Kristian Kostov (Bulgaria, 2017)
- Lordi (Eurovision Champions, 2006, Finland)
- Max Mutzke (Germany, 2004)
- Miriana Conte (Malta, 2024)
- Ruslana (Eurovision Champion, 2004, Ukraine)
- Verka Seduchka (Ukraine, 2007)
This will be followed by Parov Stelar taking to the stage with his electro-swing sound. While Eurovision 2018 representative, César Sampson, will perform a cover of Billy Joel’s “Vienna” before the results are announced.
Voting
50% of the vote has already been determined heading into the show tonight. Last night saw the juries from each of the competing nations vote. The rest of the world vote opened last night and lasts until the beginning of the Grand Final and will pause during the live performances; it will re-open during the voting window in the Final.
There are three methods in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 for the public to vote: phone, SMS, and online. Online voting will be available in all participating countries, excluding Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Georgia, and Malta.
This year sees the maximum number of votes a single person can make reduced to 10 per credit or debit card. This is to encourage viewers to spread their support across multiple entries rather than concentrating a large volume of votes on a single favourite, to promote a broader and more balanced competition.
Facts & Stats
Austria has won the Eurovision Song Contest on three occasions: 1966 (Udo Jürgens, “Merci, Chérie”), 2014 (Conchita Wurst, “Rise Like A Phoenix”), 2025 (JJ, “Wasted Love”).
Wiener Stadthalle was the host venue for the 60th Eurovision Song Contest in 2015, with Måns Zelmerlöw claiming victory for Sweden with his song, “Heroes”.
In a first at the time, 2015 saw the top four of the contest all scoring over 200 points; Sweden (365), Russia (303), Italy (292), and Belgium (217).
Russia’s entry for 2015, “A Million Voices” by Polina Gagarina was the first non-winning Eurovision entry to score over 300 points.
Australia made its official debut in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015 as a guest participant. Guy Sebastian finished in 5th place with his song “Tonight Again”, scoring 196 points.
2026 not only marks the 70th anniversary of the world’s biggest live music event, but there are a number of milestones that you may or may not be aware of:
- 60th anniversary of Austria’s first win (Udo Jürgens, “Merci, Chérie”)
- 50th anniversary of Brotherhood of Man’s win for the United Kingdom with their song, “Save All Your Kisses for Me”
- 40th anniversary of Belgium’s only win (Sandra Kim, “J’aime la vie”). Coincidentally, Sandra Kim will be the Belgian spokesperson tonight.
- 30th anniversary of Ireland’s last win (Eimear Quinn, “The Voice”)
- 20th anniversary of Finland’s only win (Lordi, “Hard Rock Hallelujah”)
- 10th anniversary of “Love, Love, Peace, Peace”, an interval performance from the 2016 contest in Stockholm, Sweden by hosts Petra Mede and Måns Zelmerlöw.
Ukrainian representative, LELÉKA, who is also known as Donbasgrl, is celebrating the tenth anniversary of her musical project, LELÉKA.
Italy’s “Per sempre si” is performed in part Neapolitan dialect and part Italian. The only entry entirely in Neapolitan previously was back in 1991 and finished 7th when Italy hosted the Contest in Rome.
Lithuania is sending its first-ever Eurovision song title in Spanish, entitled “Sólo quiero más”.
“Bella” is the first entry for Malta to contain the Maltese language at all since a few lines were used in 2000. The song is also co-written by Sarah Bonnici who represented Malta at Eurovision 2024 in Malmö with “Loop”.
Moldova’s backing vocalist, Aliona Moon, represented Moldova herself at the 2013 contest in Malmö with her song, “O mie”. She finished in 11th place with 71 points.
Alicja was to represent Poland at the 2020 contest in Rotterdam with her song, “Empires”, before the contest was cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
The centrepiece of the stage is a curved leaf, which has been developed to draw upon the creative spirit of the Vienna Secession, an artists’ association in Vienna centred around Gustav Klimt.
The green room has been designed to reflect that of a traditional Viennese coffeehouse.
Languages
The languages you will hear tonight are:
- Croatian
- Danish
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Italian
- Lithuanian
- Maltese
- Romanian
- Serbian
- Ukrainian
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