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

Results

These songs qualified to the final:

• Ericka Jane – Death Of Me (Denmark) | direct qualifier
• Lorenc Hasrama – Lamtumirë (Albania) | direct qualifier
• Adria Twins – Nerġa’ nqum (Malta) | direct qualifier
• Ant & Minimal Wind – Wounds (Don’t Wanna Fall) (Estonia) | truel qualifier

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

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

5. Đurđa – Dominos (Montenegro) | poll: 9.72% | chat: 9.1667% | total: 18.8867% | truel: 2nd place
6. Kautkaili – Te un tagad (Latvia) | poll: 6.94% | chat: 10.833% | total: 17.773% | truel: 3rd place

7. Jerry Heil – Catharticus (Ukraine) | poll: 8.33% | chat: 5% | total: 13.33%
8. Bacho – Tata (Moldova) | poll: 5.56% | chat: 5% | total: 10.56%
9. Mark Anthony Bartolo – Mumenti sbieh (Malta) | poll: 2.78% | chat: 7.5% | total: 10.28%
10. Agnesse – Oh My My (Latvia) | poll: 0% | chat: 6.6667% | total: 6.6667%
11. Sander Sanchez – Two Spirits (Denmark) | poll: 2.78% | chat: 0% | total: 2.78%
12. Sheila – Zemra e tokës (Albania) | poll: 1.39% | chat: 0.8333% | total: 2.2233%

It’s time for the 12th season of 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!

Each of the three semi-finals starts with the launch of the public poll and ends with the corresponding event live in the #esc chat a week later, which includes another voting round. The chat events climax with the results of the respective semi-final – that’s when we find out which songs have made it through to the grand final on 29 March. The #esc chat event for semi-final 1 will be held on Sunday 22 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!