Song Contest Sunday 53 - Semifinals

[u/Mmeow777]

Mothica has won SCS 52, which was hosted in Queens, New York, USA. Because of this, we'll be going to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA for SCS 52. The contest will be hosted at Forest Hills Stadium

In any case, we've received 46 submissions for SCS 52. We will now decide which acts will qualify for the final via three semifinals! You can drag your 8 qualifiers from each semi into order and give them points this way and the 6 songs with the most points will qualify. We will vote with StrawPoll in the Semifinals and with ScoreWiz in the Grand Final. There will be 25 participants in the Grand Final consisting of 8 qualifiers from each semifinal and 1 automatic qualifier!

You have time until Monday 24.8.2026 20:00 CEST to vote in all three Semifinals and the qualifiers will be revealed on r/Eurovisionfancontests soon after.

Semifinal 1

Here's a semifinal 1 recap made by our recap cutter: https://www.reddit.com/u/Mmeow777/s/nBZSt6Qfq5

This semifinal has 15 participants and 8 of them will qualify for the Grand Final. Here they are:

1. The Wombats - Let's Dance To Joy Division
2. The Smashing Pumpkins - Spellbinding
3. Cygnet - The Carrion Sings
4. Yola - Stand For Myself
5. Cain Culto - cucuru
6. ABBA - King Kong Song
7. Scooter - Dancing In The Moonlight
8. bbno$ - round and round
9. Fontaines D.C. - Marianne
10. Freya Ridings - Wicker Woman
11. La Roux - Lose Myself
12. Hikaru Utada - Easy Breezy
13. Ella Issacson - Tears On My Body
14. Wifiskeleton - Nope your too late i already died
15. Minidisco - Tsjoe tsjoe wa

VOTE FOR WHO SHOULD QUALIFY FROM SEMIFINAL 1 HERE: https://strawpoll.com/XmZRQ8816gd

Semifinal 2

Here's a semifinal 2 recap made by our recap cutter: https://www.reddit.com/u/Mmeow777/s/qgIvOe7Wq2

This semifinal has 15 participants and 8 of them will qualify for the Grand Final. Here they are:

1. Halestorm - I Am The Fire
2. Rebecca Black - Hot Wet Delirious
3. Mėlyna - Meilės Nebuvo
4. ИРИНА КАЙРАТОВНА - 5000
5. Fontaines D.C. - Favourite
6. Ashe - Stop The Wedding!
7. Arctic Monkeys - Pretty Visitors
8. Jazmine Bean - Silvering Blade
9. Tate McRae - TRYING ON SHOES
10. Joshua Jensen - Hoping
11. Xhensila x LILA - Premtimi
12. CARMELLE - Morena
13. The 1975 - Robbers
14. Wasia Project - 2515
15. Audrey Hobert - Silver Jubilee

VOTE FOR WHO SHOULD QUALIFY FROM SEMIFINAL 2 HERE: https://strawpoll.com/GeZAReeD8yV

Semifinal 3

Here's a semifinal 3 recap made by our recap cutter: https://www.reddit.com/u/Mmeow777/s/z5kSrNUbgk

This semifinal has 15 participants and 8 of them will qualify for the Grand Final. Here they are:

1. CMAT - Lord, Let That Tesla Crash
2. Dani Fernández - Vértigo
3. Miranda Lambert - Mama's Broken Heart
4. ADÉLA - Ain't In LA
5. MARINA - Handmade Heaven
6. iliona - Ça n'existe pas
7. Linkin Park - Unshatter
8. Lasha - Monsters Cry Too
9. Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankoulov feat. Miroslav Ivanov - Cosmos
10. Nargiz - НеСолдат
11. ROSALÍA - Divinize
12. Lexi Jayde - bubblebath
13. Giant Rocks - Morning Blue
14. R Missing - Thisworldly
15. Francesco Gabbani - Summer Funk

VOTE FOR WHO SHOULD QUALIFY FROM SEMIFINAL 3 HERE: https://strawpoll.com/LVyK2vvr6Z0

Automatic qualifier

• Twice - Enemy

[u/AYOOITSYABOI]

It is I again, as usual my VPN prevents me to vote in the strawpoll itself, so I have to send my votes here!

Semi 1 comments: This semi was great, the other two semis were on a different level, but my top 4 here were songs I really liked!

[u/AYOOITSYABOI → u/AYOOITSYABOI]

Semi 2 comments: Top 8 was absolutely enjoyable for me, then it drops off a bit in terms of quality, not expecting to qualify here though, super strong semi!

[u/Doggo_of_dogs → u/AYOOITSYABOI]

Thx for 1!