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SongHunt 2026, our search to find the best non-winning song of the national final season, has concluded – and the winner is “Lululai” by Komiat from Finland!

In an exciting interactive event in our chatroom tonight, we watched all 12 finalists before casting the votes that would combine with the public poll to determine the overall winner.

Our public poll attracted votes from 23 different countries – a huge thank you to everyone who took part! Those numbers allowed us to divide the public vote into five regional juries in order to ramp up the drama even more. This is how the public voted:

Then it was time for our chatters to have their say. Like in ESC, we converted their points into the “televoting” 50% of the final result, which we presented in order as follows:

As you can see, Ericka Jane’s lead from the public poll wasn’t enough to see her over the finish line. In fact, our chatters turned the top four on its head altogether – with “Lululai” jumping from fourth place after the public vote to take the overall victory.

The final standings looked like this:

Komiat duly succeed Sweden’s Arwin as the reigning champion and join the illustrious ranks of the SongHunt winners over the years – becoming Finland’s first SongHunt winner after several near misses. If you want to read more about the event’s history, you can do so right here!

Congratulations once again to Komiat and – of course – this post has to conclude with the winning song one more time. So here it is!