The participant from Portugal won last year, choosing his native country the venue. The contest consists of two semi-finals and a grand final.
On Tuesday, May 8, the first semi-final of Eurovision-2018 starts the contest and determined the first participants of the final. Participants from 19 countries presented their compositions:
Azerbaijan, Iceland, Albania, Belgium, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Israel, Belarus, Estonia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Croatia, Austria, Greece, Finland, Armenia, Switzerland, Ireland, Cyprus.
Only 10 of them were eligible for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest-2018: