DARA, who won Eurovision 2026 for Bulgaria with “Bangaranga”, will perform at the first Eurovision Song Contest Asia Grand Final in Bangkok on Saturday 14 November. The organisers announced on 5 November that she will sing “an extra-special version” of her winning song at the One Bangkok Forum. Her appearance links the contest’s 70th edition in Vienna with the opening night of its Asian counterpart. Six months on from a 173-point win, the biggest margin on this site’s records, DARA is also the clearest reminder for anyone betting on Saturday of what happened to the last Eurovision favourite.
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DARA performing “Bangaranga” for Bulgaria in Vienna, May 2026. Photo: Quejaytee, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; cropped.
Key takeaways
- DARA is a guest performer at the Eurovision Asia Grand Final, Saturday 14 November, 20:30 ICT / 14:30 CET / 13:30 UTC, announced by the organisers on 5 November.
- Thai singer-songwriter Jeff Satur joined the bill on 8 November as the second guest.
- DARA won Eurovision 2026 with 516 points (312 public, 204 jury), 173 clear of Israel, and topped both halves of the vote.
- She started as fourth favourite at 14/1 at best. Finland, the favourite at evens, finished sixth.
- Bulgaria hosts Eurovision 2027 at Arena Burgas, with the Grand Final on 15 May 2027.
- No prediction market lists a 2027 winner yet. Polymarket’s 2027 participants market has two contracts still open, Slovenia and Spain.
What’s on this page
The guest slot · How DARA won Eurovision 2026 · What Vienna says about favourites · Burgas 2027 · Eurovision 2027 odds · Can Bulgaria win at home? · FAQ · Sources
DARA at Eurovision Asia: the guest slot
The official announcement, posted on 5 November, says DARA “will perform as a special guest at the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest Asia Grand Final at One Bangkok Forum”, with an extra-special version of “Bangaranga”, the song that gave Bulgaria its first Eurovision victory in Vienna in May. The organisers describe her as one of Bulgaria’s biggest pop stars for more than a decade, and say she has been in demand at festivals across Europe since her win.
Three days later the organisers added a second guest: the Thai singer-songwriter Jeff Satur, who “joins Eurovision winner DARA” on the bill. That pairs Europe’s reigning champion with one of the host country’s biggest names. Our guide to Jeff Satur covers who he is. The organisers have not said where in the show either guest appears.
The rest of the night is settled. The Grand Final starts at 20:30 Bangkok time on Saturday 14 November (14:30 CET, 13:30 UTC), hosted by Woody Milintachinda and Cindy Bishop, with eleven acts from Vietnam in slot one to Malaysia closing in slot eleven. A Preview Show for ticket holders runs the night before. Our how to watch guide has the broadcaster and start time for every competing country, and the YouTube stream is open worldwide.
This is the performance that won in Vienna, from the Eurovision Song Contest’s official channel:
How DARA won Eurovision 2026
The Grand Final in Vienna on 16 May was not close. DARA scored 516 points: 204 from the juries and 312 from the public. Israel’s Noam Bettan was second on 343. The 173-point gap is the largest winning margin in points on this site’s records of the contest.
| Place | Country | Act | Jury | Public | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bulgaria | DARA, “Bangaranga” | 204 | 312 | 516 |
| 2 | Israel | Noam Bettan, “Michelle” | 123 | 220 | 343 |
| 3 | Romania | Alexandra Căpitănescu, “Choke Me” | 64 | 232 | 296 |
| 4 | Australia | Delta Goodrem, “Eclipse” | 165 | 122 | 287 |
| 5 | Italy | Sal Da Vinci, “Per sempre sì” | 134 | 147 | 281 |
| 6 | Finland | Linda Lampenius x Pete Parkkonen, “Liekinheitin” | 141 | 138 | 279 |
Bulgaria topped both halves. Its 204 jury points beat Australia’s 165, and its 312 public points beat Romania’s 232. That made DARA the first winner to top both the jury vote and the public vote since Salvador Sobral for Portugal in 2017. In the seven contests in between, the two halves picked different winners every time. It is also the shape Eurovision Asia’s market expects of its own favourite: Malaysia leads both the jury book and the public-vote book on Polymarket. Whether it holds is the question of the week, and our public-vote odds report sets out why the public half is closer than the jury half.
Running order did not decide it either. DARA sang twelfth of twenty-five, in the first half of the show and nowhere near the coveted late slots. The full scoreboard, with every country’s jury and public totals, is on our Eurovision 2026 results page.
What Vienna says about favourites, and about Malaysia
This is the part that matters for Saturday. Going into the Vienna final, DARA was fourth favourite, at 14/1 with the best-priced bookmaker, about a 6% chance on the market average this site recorded on the morning of the final. The favourite was Finland, at evens with the best-priced bookmaker and about 41% on the market average. Finland finished sixth. Australia, second in the betting, finished fourth.
Eurovision Asia’s favourite is priced shorter than Finland was. Read at 08:04 UTC on 10 November, Malaysia’s Aina Abdul was 58% to win on Polymarket (57c bid, 59c offered, last trade 57c), with the Philippines second at 25.5%. That is a big number for a contest no one has seen yet.
Two things make the comparison imperfect, and both cut in Malaysia’s favour. Eurovision Asia has eleven entries, not twenty-five, so a favourite has fewer rivals to beat. And Malaysia’s price comes from a prediction market where money has backed it, not from a bookmaker’s margin. On about $19,000 of volume, the Malaysia winner contract is the most heavily traded line in the whole event. Even so, Vienna is the most recent proof that a short-priced Eurovision favourite is not a formality, and that the eventual winner can be sitting at fourth in the betting the day before.
Bulgaria hosts Eurovision 2027 in Burgas
DARA’s win sends the 71st Eurovision Song Contest to Bulgaria for the first time. The EBU and BNT confirmed Burgas as host city on 13 August 2026, with Arena Burgas, which holds 15,000, as the venue. Sofia reached the final two and lost. The semi-finals are on 11 and 13 May 2027 and the Grand Final on 15 May 2027. The Bulgarian state has committed €20 million: a €15 million guarantee deposit and €5 million for operations, announced on 20 August. The only Eurovision event Bulgaria has hosted before was Junior Eurovision, in Sofia in 2015.
The field is mostly settled. The EBU published its official list of 36 countries on 28 October. Canada debuts, the first country from the Americas, and North Macedonia returns. Iceland, Ireland and the Netherlands are not coming back. Spain and Slovenia were given until December to decide. As of this site’s last check, on 1 September, BNT had not said how it will choose Bulgaria’s own entry. Our Eurovision 2027 page tracks every broadcaster and every selection as it is announced.
Eurovision 2027 odds: what you can bet on now
Six months out, there is less to bet on than you might expect. No prediction market lists a Eurovision 2027 winner yet. Kalshi’s Eurovision series had no open markets when we checked on 10 November, and Polymarket lists none either. What Polymarket does have is a Eurovision 2027 participants market, about $95,000 of lifetime volume across fourteen contracts. Twelve of them settled on 28 October, when the EBU published its list.
| Contract | Status | Price (10 November, 08:04 UTC) |
|---|---|---|
| Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, Moldova, North Macedonia | Settled YES, 28 October | — |
| Iceland, Ireland, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands | Settled NO, 28 October | — |
| Slovenia | Open | 15.8c bid / 18.1c ask, last 15.2c |
| Spain | Open | 10c bid / 14.6c ask, last 12.3c |
Both open contracts are bets on a December decision. The market asks whether a country is in “the earliest official list of participants”. Spain’s broadcaster RTVE boycotted 2026, and its president told the Spanish Senate in September that he would propose staying away again. Slovenia’s RTVSLO has tied its decision to its 2027 programming plan and its finances. Both contracts have swung hard on no news this autumn. Our Eurovision 2027 page records each move and the reason, or the absence of one.
Can Bulgaria win Eurovision at home?
History says it is unlikely. No host country has won Eurovision since Ireland in Dublin in 1994, a run of 31 contests. Before that, a host winning at home was rare but not unheard of: Spain shared the 1969 title in Madrid, Luxembourg won at home in 1973, Israel in Jerusalem in 1979, and Ireland in Millstreet in 1993 and Dublin in 1994.
Back-to-back wins are rarer still. Only four countries have done it: Spain (1968 and 1969), Luxembourg (1972 and 1973), Israel (1978 and 1979) and Ireland, which won three in a row from 1992 to 1994. And the most recent host fell a long way. Austria, which hosted in Vienna after JJ’s 2025 win, finished 24th in its own final with six points. Our Eurovision statistics have the full record of hosts and winners.
So the honest position on Bulgaria in 2027 is that there is no price to judge yet. When one appears, history will be against back-to-back. Until then, DARA’s Bangkok slot is a celebration, not a market.
FAQ
When does DARA perform at Eurovision Asia?
At the Grand Final on Saturday 14 November 2026 at the One Bangkok Forum. The show starts at 20:30 Bangkok time (14:30 CET, 13:30 UTC). The organisers have not said where in the show she appears.
What will DARA sing in Bangkok?
An “extra-special version” of “Bangaranga”, the song that won Eurovision 2026 for Bulgaria, according to the organisers’ announcement of 5 November.
Who won Eurovision 2026?
DARA for Bulgaria with “Bangaranga”, scoring 516 points in Vienna: 204 from the juries and 312 from the public. It was Bulgaria’s first Eurovision win.
Where is Eurovision 2027?
Arena Burgas in Burgas, Bulgaria. The semi-finals are on 11 and 13 May 2027 and the Grand Final on 15 May 2027.
Can you bet on Eurovision 2027 yet?
Not on a winner through Kalshi or Polymarket, neither of which listed one on 10 November. Polymarket’s 2027 participants market is open on Slovenia and Spain only.
Sources
- DARA’s guest slot: Eurovision Song Contest Asia, 5 November 2026; Jeff Satur: Eurovision Song Contest Asia, 8 November 2026.
- Winning performance video: Eurovision Song Contest on YouTube.
- Eurovision 2026 scoreboard and pre-contest prices: this site’s 2026 results data.
- Eurovision Asia and 2027 participant prices: Polymarket Gamma API, read 08:04 UTC on 10 November 2026; Kalshi trade API, same morning.
- Burgas, the venue, dates and the 36-country list: EBU and BNT announcements of 13 August and 28 October 2026, as recorded on our Eurovision 2027 page.
- Hero photo: Quejaytee, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped to 1376×768.
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