What is Eurovision?
The world’s largest live music event, the Eurovision Song Contest is an over-the-top international songwriting contest featuring artists representing primarily European countries. Each country submits a song to be performed live, with competing countries casting votes to determine a winner. Fifty-two different countries have performed at least once.
Since 2016, professional juries and voters from each country each award a separate set of points from 1 to 8, 10 and 12. The top 10 countries in both the jury and fan vote receive points.
Twenty-five total acts will qualify for the Grand Final. Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom—called “The Big Five”—automatically advance to the Grand Final. They will be joined by the top 10 vote-getters from both semi-finals.
For a more detailed on how the Eurovision voting works, go here.
How can I watch?
For the second straight year, Peacock is the exclusive home of Eurovision in the United States, both live and on-demand.
The first semi-final streams May 10, the second semi-final streams May 12 and the Grand Final streams on May 14. All three begin at 3:00 p.m. ET.