{"id":482349,"date":"2026-05-13T09:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482349\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T09:39:10","slug":"%f0%9f%87%ac%f0%9f%87%b7-greece-just-under-1-million-viewers-for-eurovision-2026-semi-final-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/482349\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7 Greece: Just Under 1 Million Viewers for Eurovision 2026 Semi-Final One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just under 1 million viewers watched at least one minute of Semi-Final One of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 live from Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>An average audience of 475,000 viewers watched Semi-Final One of the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, with a total audience of 994,000 viewers. The competition had an average share of 37.7%, peaking at 44% share during the qualifiers announcement. ERT 1 was the most watched channel in Greece for the duration of the show.<\/p>\n<p>Viewing figures for Eurovision 2026 Semi-Final One:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Germany \u2013 920,000 viewers \u2013 5.2% share<\/li>\n<li>Greece \u2013 994,000 viewers \u2013 37.7% share<\/li>\n<li>Netherlands \u2013 767,000 viewers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Akylas will represent Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026. He competed in Semi-Final One with \u201cFerto\u201d and has qualified for the Grand Final where he will perform in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/press.ert.gr\/%ce%b1%cf%84%ce%b1%ce%be%ce%b9%ce%bd%cf%8c%ce%bc%ce%b7%cf%84%ce%b1\/a-imitelikos-eurovision-tiletheasi-eos-kai-70-gia-tin-ert1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ERT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest+<\/p>\n<p>Greece debuted in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974, when they were represented by Marinella and the song \u201cKrasi, thalassa kai t\u2019agori mou\u201d, which finished in 11th place with 7 points. Three years later, Greece earned their first top 5 finish with Paschalis, Marianna, Robert, and Bessy, who finished in 5th place with \u201cMathima solfege\u201d. In 2001, Greece achieved their first top 3 placing with Antique and the song \u201cI Would Die For You\u201d. The song became a European hit and charted across the continent. In 2005, Helena Paparizou returned to the Eurovision stage as a solo artist and brought Greece their first, and to date only, victory. Her song \u201cMy Number One\u201d won with 230 points, beating runners-up Malta by 38 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just under 1 million viewers watched at least one minute of Semi-Final One of the Eurovision Song Contest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,20818,19,17,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-482349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-headline","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116566606762449700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}