Vietnam has its act for Eurovision Asia 2026: Tóc Tiên. Vietnam Television confirmed on its own English-language service on 4 September 2026 that the singer will represent the country at the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest Asia in Bangkok on 14 November, and Eurovoix reported the internal selection in full on 6 September. She is the fifth of the eleven participating countries to name an artist.
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The selection is unusual in shape, and the distinction matters if you are trying to price Vietnam. Tóc Tiên was chosen internally by VTV3. Her song was not: that is still to be decided at a televised show, The Sound of Vietnam, on 3 October 2026, where five teams of writers and producers each present a candidate entry for her to perform. Vietnam is therefore in the same half-finished state as Malaysia — a known singer with an unknown song — rather than the finished state of Bhutan, the Philippines and South Korea.
What VTV actually confirmed
Two things are worth separating here, because this story was reported before it was confirmed and the site said so at the time. On 2 September the Vietnamese outlet Tuổi Trẻ reported that Tóc Tiên had been picked; Eurovoix ran it with a question mark, and this hub carried it as a media report rather than a selection. That was the right call for two days. On 4 September VTV published the news itself, writing that “singer Tóc Tiên will represent Vietnam at the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest Asia”. That is the broadcaster, not the press, and it is what moves this from rumour to fact.
The reason for the caution is on the record. In August this site published a piece arguing a Polymarket price was wrong on the strength of a single media report of an unannounced broadcaster decision, and the broadcaster announced the opposite the same afternoon. A report of a decision that has not been announced is not a decision. VTV’s own statement is.
VTV3 — the entertainment channel, not the news arm — is the production home, working with DAO Music. No song title, no release date and no press conference date have been published, though Vietnamese coverage points to a launch event in mid-September.
The Sound of Vietnam: five teams, one artist, 3 October
The Sound of Vietnam airs on VTV3 on 3 October at 21:30 ICT (16:30 CEST). It is not a conventional national final, because the performer is already decided. Five teams of musicians and producers each build an entry, and the show picks which of the five Tóc Tiên takes to Bangkok. VTV has described the brief as work that “carries contemporary Vietnamese identity” blended with a global musical language.
The music director is Huy Tuấn, confirmed on 6 September. He is one of the most established producers in Vietnamese television music — his credits include Vietnam Idol, the HOZO International Music Festival, the Hue Wonderverse Music Festival and the Sao Concert Festival — and VTV says he will oversee “the direction, development and refinement of the Vietnamese song”. Appointing a single music director over five competing teams is a strong signal that VTV wants a coherent house sound rather than whichever demo tests best.
One number that is not confirmed: the voting split for 3 October. Eurovoix’s coverage carries the 50% jury / 50% televote line, but that is the rule for the Bangkok grand final, and the fan press routinely appends it to articles about national selections. Bhutan, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Philippines and South Korea all used 40% jury / 40% home public / 20% international for their own shows. Vietnam has published nothing, and with a producer-led format that may not be a public vote at all. Treat any 50/50 figure attached to The Sound of Vietnam as unconfirmed until VTV publishes the mechanics.
Who is Tóc Tiên
Tóc Tiên has been performing since her teens and has built a career across both music and television, with multiple albums behind her and a long run as a coach and judge on Vietnamese music formats. She is a mainstream, nationally known name rather than a breakout or an indie pick — closer in profile to the Philippines’ route through a tier-one broadcaster than to the open-call unknowns some countries have surfaced.
That matters for one specific reason. The pre-selection read on our Vietnam page was that VTV’s risk was defaulting to a “safe” technical ballad in the old Sao Mai mould, instead of repeating the culturally rooted modern formula that won Đức Phúc Intervision 2025. Tóc Tiên is not that safe default. She is a pop artist with a contemporary catalogue, which is the half of that thesis that has now resolved favourably. The other half — the song — is exactly what 3 October decides, and it is the half that has always mattered more.
Where this leaves the Eurovision Asia 2026 field
Five of the eleven countries have now named an artist. Three of those five have a song. With Vietnam’s show dated and Cambodia’s pinned to 17 October on 3 September, every selection in the contest now has a date for the first time since the field was finalised.
| Country | Date | Artist | Song |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇧🇭 Bhutan | 11 Aug | Nyendra | Lhayi Semo (The Angel) |
| 🇲🇾 Malaysia | 15 Aug | Aina Abdul | Not released |
| 🇵🇭 Philippines | 30 Aug | Carmelle | Sobra-Sobra (Too Much) |
| 🇰🇷 South Korea | 4 Sep | JUNHEE | Deep Dive |
| 🇻🇳 Vietnam | Artist internal; song 3 Oct | Tóc Tiên | Chosen 3 Oct |
| 🇳🇵 Nepal | 19 Sep | TBC | TBC |
| 🇱🇦 Laos | 23 Sep | TBC | TBC |
| 🇹🇭 Thailand | 27 Sep | TBC | TBC |
| 🇧🇩 Bangladesh | 30 Sep | TBC | TBC |
| 🇲🇳 Mongolia | 10 Oct | TBC | TBC |
| 🇰🇭 Cambodia | 17 Oct | TBC | TBC |
The next three weeks are the densest stretch of the whole calendar: Nepal on 19 September, Laos on 23 September, host nation Thailand on 27 September and Bangladesh on 30 September, then Vietnam’s song on 3 October. Five decisions in a fortnight, into a contest six weeks later.
The betting angle: there is still nothing to bet on
We check Polymarket’s Gamma API on every run of this hub, and we checked it again on 7 September 2026. No bookmaker and no prediction market has listed a single Eurovision Asia 2026 market of any kind. Not a winner market, not a country market, not a top-three. Ten weeks out, with five artists known and every selection dated, there is nothing to price and no odds to compare — and we would rather write that sentence than imply prices exist. When one opens, it will be covered here first.
The only live Eurovision board on Polymarket remains Eurovision 2027 Participants, with 14 country contracts and about $11.6K of lifetime volume. Read against that market, the notable move of the past three days is the Netherlands, back to 43.5% from the 52% it touched on 4 September — still well above the 21% it traded at on 1 September, but giving back most of the spike that followed Talpa Network’s public offer of production support. Kazakhstan has fallen further, 31% to 22%. Those are prices we read from the API today, on a market whose individual books run from $9 to $3.5K of lifetime volume; at the thin end they are placeholders, not opinions.
For the European contest, where markets do exist and prices do move, see our Eurovision winner odds and our comparison of Eurovision bookmakers. For the last Asia selection to actually resolve, see JUNHEE’s win at Korea’s Next Wave. 18+. Please gamble responsibly.
What to watch next
- The mid-September press conference. Vietnamese coverage points to a launch event; a confirmed date, and any detail on the five teams, is the next thing to land.
- The voting mechanics for 3 October. VTV has published nothing. Whether the public votes at all changes how predictable the song choice is.
- Nepal, 19 September. The next selection to resolve, and the first of five inside a fortnight.
- The first Asia market. Seven consecutive checks of Polymarket since 4 August have found none.
Sources: Eurovoix, 6 September 2026; VTV, 4 September 2026; Eurovoix on Huy Tuấn, 6 September 2026. Polymarket prices read from the Gamma API on 7 September 2026.