Just like that… we have our 26 finalists! On a quick sad note, it’s also a sign of it’s soon all over, but let’s stay positive and keep the excitement going, soon we’ll crown a new European champion when it comes to music, but the question is, who will it be?

5 spots left in both halves

Let’s once again congratulate the 10 new finalists from the second semi-final, beingย ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฒ Armenia, ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช Estonia, ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium, ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡พ Cyprus,ย ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ Poland, ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Slovenia, ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น Austria, ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Albania, ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น Lithuania and ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australia.

These 10 qualifiers were all picked by the televote only, since for 2023, the juries have been removed from the semi-finals, and by the time of writing, there has been no indication from the EBU, that there was any need to intervene in the voting.

As we learned from after the first semi-final, the qualified acts would pick their halves first, before getting to the winner’s press conference. This is where the acts who qualified, will draw out of a bowl whether they get to perform in the first half or in the second half.

We also know, that after the finalists from the first semi-final qualified, there would only be 5 spots left in both the first and second half, so let’s see how it went for our 10 new finalists as follow:

  • Entering in the first half of the grand final:
    • Albania ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
    • Cyprus ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡พ
    • Estonia ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช
    • Austria ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น
    • Poland ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ
  • Entering in the second half of the grand final:
    • Belgium ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช
    • Lithuania ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น
    • Australia ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ
    • Armenia ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฒ
    • Slovenia ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ

With that, we now know all the 26 countries that will take part in the final and we now which half all country will participate in and more specifically, we know where Ukraine and the United Kingdom will be as well.

Just to put everything into proper perspective, below you’ll see how it all looked prior to the second semi-final took place:

First half countries:

  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Finland
  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท France
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Italy
  • ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น Portugal
  • ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ Serbia
  • ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ Spain
  • ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช Sweden
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ Switzerland

Second half countries:

  • ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ท Croatia
  • ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ Czech Republic
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Germany
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Israel
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Moldova
  • ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Norway
  • ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Ukraine – performing 19th
  • ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom – performing 26th

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