Tonight in the first show of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, broadcast live from the Wiener Stadthalle, 16 countries took part in the first Semi-final in order to qualify for the 10 places available in Saturday’s final. Below are the ten qualifiers, and these are as follows, in the order they were announced.
- Albania
- Armenia
- Russia
- Romania
- Hungary
- Greece
- Estonia
- Georgia
- Serbia
- Belgium