The First Semi-Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 will be held today live from Portugal. Nineteen countries will compete for one of the ten spots available in the Grand Final, that will take place on Saturday.
Three female hosts Filomena Cautela, Sílvia Alberto, Daniela Ruah and Catarina Furtado will present the First Semi-Final live from Lisbon’s Altice Arena.
The running order for tonight is as it follows:
- Albania: Eugent Bushpepa – Mall
- Armenia: Sevak Khanagyan – Qami
- Austria: Cesár Sampson – Nobody But You
- Azerbaijan: Aisel X – My Heart
- Belarus: ALEKSEEV – FOREVER
- Belgium: Sennek – A Matter Of Time
- Bulgaria: EQUINOX – Bones
- Croatia: Franka – Crazy
- Cyprus: Eleni Foureira – Fuego
- Czech Republic: Mikolas Josef – Lie To Me
- Estonia: Elina Nechayeva – La Forza
- F.Y.R. Macedonia: Eye Cue – Lost And Found
- Finland: Saara Aalto – Monsters
- Greece: Yianna Terzi – Oniro Mou
- Iceland: Ari Ólafsson – Our Choice
- Ireland: Ryan O’Shaughnessy – Together
- Israel: Netta – TOY
- Lithuania: Ieva Zasimauskaitė – When We’re Old
- Switzerland: ZiBBZ – Stones
Viewers from all the countries taking part in the First Semi-Final are invited to vote via the official app, telephone and/or SMS. The voting window will be open after the last song has been performed, and will end 15 minutes later. Televoters determine 50% of the outcome while professional juries do so with the other half of the voting combination according to the performances of yesterday’s Jury Semi-Final show.
Apart from the participating countries, these are the direct qualifying countries which will vote in the First Semi-Final:
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- Portugal
Remember, in case of a tie between two or more songs in the combined ranking between public televote and jury, the song that obtains a better ranking from the viewers will prevail. Full split results will be revealed after the Grand Final to keep the excitement until the end of the contest.
Follow the First Semi-Final of Eurovision 2018 live from Lisbon at 21.00 CET below:
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