Tonight, was held, in Lisbon, the first semi-final of Eurovision 2018. During this first of two semi-finals, 19 countries competed with the hope of obtaining their ticket for the Final of Eurovision 2018.
The following acts performed during the first semi-final:
- Azerbaijan: Aisel – “X My Heart”
- Iceland: Ari Ólafsson – “Our Choice”
- Albania: Eugent Bushpepa – “Mall”
- Belgium: Sennek – “A Matter of Time”
- Czech Republic: Mikolas Josef – “Lie to Me”
- Lithuania: Ieva Zasimauskaitė – “When We’re Old”
- Israel: Netta – “Toy”
- Belarus: Alekseev – “Forever”
- Estonia: Elina Nechayeva – “La Forza”
- Bulgaria: Equinox – “Bones”
- Macedonia: Eye Cue – “Lost and Found”
- Croatia: Franka – “Crazy”
- Austria: Cesár Sampson – “Nobody but You”
- Greece: Yianna Terzi – “Oniro mou”
- Finland: Saara Aalto – “Monsters”
- Armenia: Sevak Khanagyan – “Qami”
- Switzerland: ZiBBZ – “Stones”
- Ireland: Ryan O’Shaughnessy – “Together”
- Cyprus: Eleni Foureira – “Fuego”
At the end of the show, the first ten qualifiers of Eurovision 2018 were announced in a random order: Austria, Estonia, Cyprus, Lithuania, Israel, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Albania, Finland, Ireland.
Tonight’s qualifiers were chosen by the public (50%) and by a professional jury (50%).
On Thursday, 18 other acts will compete in the second semi-final with the hope of winning their ticket for the Final. This means that 26 countries, including the 10 qualifiers from each semi-final plus the Big Five (France, Italy, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom) and Portugal (the host country) will compete in the Final of Eurovision 2018, on Saturday.
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