UPDATE: Semi-final 1 is concluded. Thanks for all your votes!

Results

These songs qualified to the final:

• Kristy Spiteri – Heaven Sent (Malta) | direct qualifier
• Bel Tempo x Legzdina – The Water (Latvia) | direct qualifier
• Kuve – Loca xti (Spain) | direct qualifier
• DeTeresa – La pena (Spain) | truel qualifier

(direct qualifiers in order of appearance in the semi-final)

Places 5-12 (did not qualify to the final):

5. Molodi – My Sea (Ukraine) | poll: 7.34% | chat: 11% | total: 18.34% | truel: 2nd place
6. Goldielocks – Made Of (Finland) | poll: 17.43% | chat: 2% | total: 19.43% | truel: 3rd place

7. Lorenc Hasrama – Frymë (Albania) | poll: 7.34% | chat: 10% | total: 17.34%
8. Adgy – Run Into The Night (Ireland) | poll: 4.59% | chat: 12% | total: 16.59%
9. Orgesa Zaimi – I parë (Albania) | poll: 2.75% | chat: 7% | total: 9.75%
10. Mawot – Raggio di sole (Spain) | poll: 5.5% | chat: 4% | total: 9.5%
11. Tamara Živković – Poguban let (Montenegro) | poll: 5.5% | chat: 3% | total: 8.5%
12. Xannova Xan – Play It! (Greece) | poll: 5.5% | chat: 3% | total: 8.5%

It’s time for SongHunt!

Once again, we’re celebrating those national final songs that didn’t win a ticket to Eurovision… but won our hearts instead. SongHunt is our quest to find the very best of these – beginning with semi-final 1!

This 11th season of SongHunt comes with some major changes, including a new structure for the first stage. Each semi-final now begins with the public poll launch, and peaks with the corresponding chat event a week later – meaning the live shows will climax with the results of each semi-final. So if you’re a chat regular, save the date: The first four finalists will be selected announced in the #esc chat event for semi-final 1, on Sunday 23 February. All further dates can be found here.

But first… it’s time for the public poll. 12 songs are in the running, and you have up to three votes to give to your favourites.

The poll closes at 21:00 CET on Saturday, and you can find a video playlist below the poll if you need a reminder of the entries!