Eurovision 2018: the competition of the song will be broadcast live this Saturday

The final of the 63e edition of Eurovision will be disputed Saturday, May 12 in Lisbon, each year, nearly 200 million televiewers have the eyes rivetted with their screen.

26 countries will try to gain the edition 2018 of Eurovision, but to take part in competition Saturday, the artists have to face the semi–finals, whose first place in the evening of May 8th had. The second semi–final will take place, under the same conditions, Thursday, May 10. 18 countries will fight thus for 10 places finally.

The candidates of Israel, Cyprus, Albania, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Austria, Finland and Ireland will be able to thus contribute on May 12th on the scene of Altice Arena of Lisbon. It is finished by it, on the other hand, of dreamed of Azerbaijan, Belgium, Macedonia, Bielorussia, Iceland, Croatia, Armenia, Greece and Switzerland.

On the 43 songs in competition this year, thirteen of them are sung entirely in another language that English, against only four in 2017. It is in particular the choice which made the French duet with Mercy, which tells, in French, the tour of a migrant child.

The favorite one of the bookmakers is the Cypriot Eleni Foureira, of which the piece with the accents latinos “Fuego” has very to pack the spectators. Of nationality Albanian and alive in Greece, it is also actress dancer and creative of mode. Its first album, left in 2010, was disc of platinum in Greece, and it has just published its fourth album.

Eleni Foureira marked the spirits with his choreography and sets fire and imagines very well it in Top 5, but not inevitably winner.

Mercy of the duet Mrs Monsieur is likely good lucks appear in top 5, their clip was viewed 11 million times on YouTube and was listened in streaming more than 3.4 million times.

The song tells the true story of a woman Nigerian saved of the drowning by a humanitarian association and which was confined a few hours later of a baptized little girl Mercy, “English pity”. This song from now on is learned in certain schools.

Netta Barzilai remained during weeks at the head in the bookmakers but after its first repetition in Lisbon, it lost its superb one. For the moment, it is maintained with one bent of Cypriot and preserves all its chances to be essential in top 5.

Alexander Rybak is in known ground, since it already gained Eurovision in 2009. He thus has the opportunity of becoming the second candidate to twice gain competition, after the Irishman Johhny Legend.

Cyprus, France and Israel are the favourites.

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