Tonight Live from Vienna: The Eurovision 2026 Second Semi-Final Show

• As Eurovision 2026 week is moving forward, following last evening's Jury rehearsal show for the Semi Final 2 competing acts, tonight the Semi-final 2 Live show will take place in Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna.

   

  The story so far

  Following JJ's victory in Basel with Wasted Love, the contest returns to Austria for a third time after hosting the contest back in 2015 after Conchita's win in Copenhagen with 'Rise like a Phoenix' and in 1967 after winning with Udo Jürgens.

  The  rest 15 competing acts will take the stage in addition with the pre-qualified finalists from France and United Kingdom and the host nation Austria. After last night's jury votes counted as the 50% of the score the rest 50% will be deteremined by the televoting this evening. 

   

  The competing entries 

  Here is the running order for tonight's show:

  01. ⯑⯑ Bulgaria: DARA - Bangaranga
  02. ⯑⯑ Azerbaijan: JIVA - Just Go
  03. ⯑⯑ Romania: Alexandra Căpitănescu - Choke Me
  04. ⯑⯑ Luxembourg: Eva Marija - Mother Nature
  05. ⯑⯑ Czechia: Daniel Zizka - CROSSROADS
  *** ⯑⯑ France: Monroe - Regarde !
  06. ⯑⯑ Armenia: SIMÓN - Paloma Rumba
  07. ⯑⯑ Switzerland: Veronica Fusaro - Alice
  08. ⯑⯑ Cyprus: Antigoni - JALLA
  *** ⯑⯑ Austria: COSMÓ - Tanzschein
  09. ⯑⯑ Latvia: Atvara - Ēnā
  10. ⯑⯑ Denmark: Søren Torpegaard Lund - Før Vi Går Hjem
  11. ⯑⯑ Australia: Delta Goodrem - Eclipse
  12. ⯑⯑ Ukraine: LELÉKA - Ridnym
  *** ⯑⯑ United Kingdom: LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei
  13. ⯑⯑ Albania: Alis - Nân
  14. ⯑⯑ Malta: AIDAN - Bella
  15. ⯑⯑ Norway: JONAS LOVV - YA YA YA

  Notably the two of the Big-5 countries France, United Kingdom and host nation Austria will perform live on stage tonight their performances without of course competing in the show but will be able to vote. 

   

  The results

  The 10 qualifiers will be announced this evening after the votes from last night's jury voting and today's televtoing are added along with the Internartional voting that started from last evening . Three countries will be highlighted at a time, with one announced as a qualifier and the other two left waiting. . It's going to be undoubntfully an super exciting night!

   

  How to Watch

  The second semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 will be aired live on several national broadcasters and on the official Youtube Eurovision channel from 21.00 CET.

   

  News Source: Eurovision.tv/EBU

  Image: Eurofans radio/ Press rehearsal

   

   

AUTHORS

Angelos D.
Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 15 consecutive years along with the 2017-2025 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.