Tonight: 🇧🇬 Bulgaria Selects its Artist & Three More Eurovision Selection Shows

Tonight, Bulgaria selects its artist for Eurovision 2026, while Latvia and Sweden kick off their search for Vienna.

The key times for today are:

🇸🇲 San Marino: Dreaming San Marino Song Contest – Casting – Day Eleven – 10:00 CET
🇸🇲 San Marino: Dreaming San Marino Song Contest – Casting Show – 19:15 CET
🇧🇬 Bulgaria: Natsionalnata selektsiya 2026 – Artist Final – 20:00 CET
🇱🇹 Lithuania: Eurovizija.LT 2026 – Heat One – 20:00 CET
🇸🇪 Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2026 – Heat One – 20:00 CET
🇱🇻 Latvia: Supernova 2026 – Semi-Final One – 20:10 CET
🇨🇾 Cyprus – Eurovision Young Musicians 2026 – Applications Close – 22:59 CET

🇸🇲 San Marino: Dreaming San Marino Song Contest – Casting – Day Eleven – 10:00 CET
Gabry Ponte rehearsing Tutta L’Italia for San Marino at St. Jakobshalle | Image Source: Sarah Louise Bennett/ EBU

Casting takes place in person today for the Dreaming San Marino Song Contest. Today is the eleventh day of casting for the Sammarinese selection, and it is the fourth of five days of in-person casting for the competition. Among the artists auditioning today are Maraaya, who represented Slovenia at Eurovision 2015.

🇸🇲 San Marino: Dreaming San Marino Song Contest – Casting Show – 19:15 CET
Image Source: Dreaming San Marino Song Contest

A special programme about the casting stage of the Dreaming San Marino Song Contest will be broadcast at 19:15 CET on SMRTV every Monday to Saturday night until the Live Academy shows are broadcast in February. The show will last for 15 minutes and can be watched here.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria: Natsionalnata selektsiya 2026 – Artist Final – 20:00 CET
Natsionalnata Selektsiya 2026 logo – Image source: BNT

Eight artists are competing tonight in Sofia to represent Bulgaria at the 70th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Tonight Bulgaria will select the artist who will represent them on their return to the Eurovision Song Contest. Eight artists qualified from last weeks Semi-Final, to perform again for the Bulgarian public and the jury. The participants will be performing a song from their existing repertoire with the public and jury voting for their favourite.

The eight finalists are:

DARA
Innerglow
Kerana and Kosmonavtite
Mihela Marinova
Molets
Mona
Preyah
Roksana

A number of artists are due to perform as Guest acts in tonights show. Eurovision 2011 winner for Azerbaijan, Eldar, will be joined by two of the artists competing in Eurovision 2026: AIDAN, who will represent Malta and Alis, who is representing Albania. In addition, local Bulgarian artists Ivo Dimchev and Nevena Tsoneva will also be taking to the stage. Nevea won the first season of Music Idol in 2007, while Ivo is a singer songwriter and visual artist.

You can watch the final on BNT 1 and the BNT website using a VPN, the BNT stream is blocked outside of Bulgaria.

🇱🇹 Lithuania: Eurovizija.LT 2026 – Heat Two – 20:00 CET

Eurovizija.LT 2026, the Lithuanian national selection, continues tonight with the second heat. Eight acts will be taking to the stage competing for two places in the final and a place in the Wildcard round.

The eight artists competing tonight and the running order is:

Theya LeRoy – “Oblivion”
Vilnius Voices – “Grįšim” (We will return)
Mėnulio Fazė – “Dabar ir čia” (Now and here)
Grete – “Parade”
Atikin – “Deganti žemelė” (Burning Earth)
Melanija – “The Offering”
Dagna – “Sau meluojam” (We lie to ourselves)
Agnė Buškevičiūtė – “Unbound”

The results will be determined by 50% jury voting and 50% televoting. The top two artists will qualify for the final, while the third placed act will go into the Wildcard round.

On the jury for Heat Two are:

Kamilė Gudmonaitė
Ieva Narkutė
Vytautas Bikus
Ramūnas Zilnys
Kristupas Naraškevičius

One change to the Eurovizija.LT format is the introduction of a wildcard round. A wildcard round has been introduced for all acts that place third in their heat. The public will be able to vote online once for the act they want to see in the final, and the act with the highest number of votes will secure a spot in the final.

Watch the show live on LRT and on YouTube.

🇸🇪 Sweden: Melodifestivalen 2026 – Heat One – 20:00 CET
Image Source: SVT

Sweden’s search for the 70th Eurovision Song Contest commences this evening as Melodifestivalen kicks off in Linköping.

Heat One of Melodifestivalen 2026 takes place this evening in Linköping at the Saab Arena. Six artists are competing for two places in the final and a place in the ‘Final Qualifier’. Gina Dirawi and Hampus Nessvold are hosting tonights show.

The six acts competing and the running order is as follows:

Greczula – “Half of me”
Jacqline – “Woman”
Noll2 – “Berusade ord” (Drunken words)
Junior Lerin – “Copacabana Boy”
Indra – “Beautiful Lie”
A*Teens – “Iconic”

The results of the show will be determined across two rounds of voting. In the first round, the act that receives the mosts votes will qualify directly for the final. The second finalist will be the act that receives the highest points total, these points are formed of the age groups voting, with voting totals converted into 12, 10, 8, 7, 6 and 5 points. The act with the third highest number of votes cast will go through to the ‘Final Qualifier’ to compete again for a place in the final.

You can watch the show live on SVT1, SVT24, SVT Play and in Finland on Yle Areena and Yle TV1 on delay at 21:45 CET.

🇱🇻 Latvia: Supernova 2026 – Semi-Final One – 20:10 CET
Image Source: LSM

Latvia’s search for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 commences tonight with the first Semi-Final of Supernova 2026.

Supernova 2026 commences tonight with twelve artists competing for five places in the Grand Final. Hosting the show this evening are Ketija Šēnberga and Lauris Reiniks alongside Māra Sleja.

The competing artists and running order is:

Antra Stafecka – “Divejāda” (Dual)
TIKASHA SAKAMA – “#010126 CODA”
ELPO – “Blakus” (Beside)
Agnesse – “Oh My My”
Emilija – “All We Ever Had”
Blurie – “Lovin’ Always Gets Me Down”
Aivo Oskis – “Walking Out”
Daba – “Panic Attack”
Kautkaili – “Te un tagad” (Here and now)
De Mantra – “Let Them”
Honey Blue – “Blue Disco”
Ivo Grīsniņš Grīslis – “Home”

The qualifiers will be determined by 50% jury voting and 50% public voting. In a first for Latvia, those outside of the country can also vote in the show. Through balso.lsm.lv, viewers are able to vote up to 20 time; you can only vote once per credit card.

Five acts will qualify from tonight’s show, with another five qualifying from Semi-Final Two. A wildcard can also be awarded to one of the acts that did not directly qualify for the final from either Semi-Final.

You can watch the show live on LTV1, LTV Replay and listen on LR5.

🇨🇾 Cyprus – Eurovision Young Musicians 2026 – Applications Close – 22:59 CET
Image Source: EBU

Today, Cyprus will close the application window for its national selection for Eurovision Young Musicians 2026. The rules of the selection are:

The 5:00 to 6:30 piece that is performed at the national selection will be performed at Eurovision Young Musicians.

Musicians are aged between 12 and 21 on June 6, 2026.
Only soloists may apply.
Musicians must perform classical works for a solo instrument with orchestra.

A select number of musicians will be invited to a live audition held at the CyBC studios. The winner will be selected by a jury formed of three to five musicians.

Cyprus participated 12 times in Eurovision Young Musicians between 1988 and 2010 and is the only nation to have sent the same representative to the contest for three editions in a row. Cyprus will return to Eurovision Young Musicians for the first time since 2010.