The very first Semi Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is over and we now have our first set of 10 qualifiers for Saturday night’s Grand Final.
Live from Malmö, Sweden, both EBU and SVT have broadcasted a very good show which lasted almost two and a half hours. Malin Akerman and Petra Mede were the main hosts.
The show started with a special throwback at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974, when Sweden marked its first victory with ABBA’s “Waterloo”. All viewers celebrated the 50th anniversary of this victory while the opening act featured popular eurostars Eric Saade (Sweden 2011), Chanel (Spain 2022) and Eleni Foureira (Cyprus 2018) who performed their respective competing entries.
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Fifteen countries competed in tonight’s semi final with Cyprus performing first and Luxembourg last. In addition to the competing entries, the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden (all three are taking part directly in the Final) performed their entries during the show as well.
In running order, the fifteen countries of the first semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 were:
| Series | Country | Song | Artist |
| 01 | Cyprus | Liar | Silia Kapsis |
| 02 | Serbia | Ramonda | Teya Dora |
| 03 | Lithuania | Luktelk | Silvester Belt |
| 04 | Ireland | Doomsday Blue | Bambie Thug |
| 05 | Ukraine | Teresa & Maria | alyona alyona & Jerry Heil |
| 06 | Poland | Tower | Luna |
| 07 | Croatian | Rim Tim Tagi Dim | Baby Lasagna |
| 08 | Iceland | Scared of Heights | Hera Björk |
| 09 | Slovenia | Veronika | Raven |
| 10 | Finland | No Rules | Windows95man |
| 11 | Moldova | In The Middle | Natalia Barbu |
| 12 | Azerbaijan | Özünlä Apar | FAHREE feat. Ilkin Dovlatov |
| 13 | Australia | One Milkali (One Blood) | Electric Fields |
| 14 | Portugal | Grito | Yolanda |
| 15 | Luxembourg | Fighter | TALI |
As interval acts the show featured 2018 Swedish entrant Benjamin Ingrosso who performed a medley of his songs and three-time winner for Ireland Johnny Logan – known also as Mr. Eurovision – who performed the Swedish winning entry of Eurovision 2012 “Euphoria”.
Results
People from the fifteen competing countries, plus from Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom, as well as from non-participating countries under an aggregated “Rest of the World” voted in this semi-final.
The top ten countries which managed to qualify for the Grand Final were:
(Acts are listed in order of their announcement)
01. Serbia
02. Portugal
03. Slovenia
04. Ukraine
05. Lithuania
06. Finland
07. Cyprus
08. Croatia
09. Ireland
10. Luxembourg
This automatically means that the five countries that did not qualify were Poland, Iceland, Australia, Azerbaijan and Moldova.
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