Participating Countries

Participants selected their entries via several different methods:

• Internal Selection: The broadcaster selected the act and the song.
• National Final: The broadcaster will hold a one-off competition to determine their act and song.
• Festival: The broadcaster holds a slightly longer competition, usually with one or two semi-finals and a grand final. Sometimes the competition will take place over the course of a week (Italy’s Sanremo or Albania’s Festivali i Këngës) or over a couple of weekends (Portugal’s Festival da Cancão or Iceland’s Söngvakeppnin).
• Selection Series: The broadcaster holds a long-form competition to determine their artist and song, usually with multiple rounds of winnowing down options. Hungary (A Dal), Lithuania (Marathon), and Sweden (Melodifestivalen) are prime examples.
• Hybrid: A broadcaster may use one method to determine their artist and another method to select their song.
  • Finland’s broadcaster selected Saara Aalto as their artist, but used the national final UMK to have the public choose her song.
  • Israel’s broadcaster used HaKokhav HaBa (Rising Star) to select Netta, but her song was chosen internally.

Eurovision Song Contest 2018 First Semi-Final Participants

Eurovision Song Contest 2018 Second Semi-Final Participants

Eurovision Song Contest 2018 Grand Final Participants