Eurovision Asia 2026: Countries, Acts, Dates & Odds
The inaugural Eurovision Song Contest Asia — Bangkok, Thailand · 2026-11-14. Live market status plus the full odds board for all 11 broadcasters: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. Every selection process, sentiment snapshot and betting angle tracked country-by-country.
Eurovision Asia 2026 Odds — The Board
Market status checked 25 October 2026One prediction market prices Eurovision Asia 2026 — Kalshi — and no fixed-odds bookmaker does. Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated US exchange, opened an eleven-country winner market on 14 September 2026, closing 2 January 2027. Read it carefully: as at 25 October 2026 the last trades summed to 264% of the field, 10 of the 11 contracts had no bid at all, and laos alone accounted for roughly 70% of the 3,538 contracts ever traded. The board traded on 5 October — Vietnam 10c to 84c on about eleven contracts, Thailand 8c to 18c on roughly 200 — and again between 10 and 11 October, when the Philippines went from 53c to 95c on about 29 contracts. A mark with no bid under it is an ask being lifted, not a market view. Neither Nepal completing its entry on 7 October nor Mongolia completing its own on 10 October produced a trade on those countries' contracts, and neither did Cambodia completing the field on 17 October: all eleven countries now have an act and a song. Polymarket still lists nothing for Asia. What follows is the board as we read it, country by country, so that the moment a book prices Bangkok you can see where it is wrong. Each row links to that country's full odds analysis, selection detail and sentiment snapshot.
| Country | Act | Where the price should sit |
|---|---|---|
| Thailand odds | MANG x DAOU — Aroma | Top-three favourite. Host nation: home crowd, home production and no travel — but NOT a home televote, because §3.3 of the Voting Terms bars residents voting for their own entry in the Grand Final. MANG x DAOU won Thailand's Chosen One on 27 September with "Aroma", so the question now is how a T-pop duo travels on the Rest of World vote. Thailand betting angle → |
| South Korea odds | JUNHEE — Deep Dive | Co-favourite, untested. JUNHEE won Korea's Next Wave on 4 September. The K-pop majors sat the inaugural year out and ENA picked a soloist, so the compression toward a favourite line that a marquee name would have triggered has not happened. South Korea betting angle → |
| Philippines odds | Carmelle — Sobra-Sobra (Too Much) | Top-three on structure. The strongest structural case of any debutant — a tier-one music broadcaster, P-Pop at peak momentum, and a diaspora that already mobilises for international song contests. Philippines betting angle → |
| Vietnam odds | Tóc Tiên — Em Tiên | Unpriced dark horse. Tóc Tiên was internally selected by VTV, confirmed 4 September — a mainstream pop name, not the safe balladeer the pre-selection worry was about. The public picked her song on 3 October: "Em Tiên", produced by DUONGK and written by HAROSE for the S•HUBE team, taking the Vietnamese-language option over two English-titled rivals and a Swedish-produced one. Vietnam is the seventh of eleven complete entries. The structural caveat: a song chosen 40% by a Vietnamese public that already knows the singer has to travel to a final where Vietnamese votes are one eleventh of a 50% public half. Vietnam betting angle → |
| Malaysia odds | Aina Abdul — Bluest Sky | Mid-pack. Settled on 7 October: Aina Abdul named her entry "Bluest Sky" on her own Instagram, with a 9 October release. She wrote it and Mac Chew — who produced part of her 2023 debut Imaji — arranged and co-produced it, so this is a settled partnership rather than the rushed commission the "extremely stressful" timetable implied. It is in English, confirmed 6 September, which costs Malaysia the distinctiveness a Malay-language song would have bought. Media Prima has still confirmed nothing. Malaysia betting angle → |
| Bangladesh odds | Beatmosphere — Tumi Ele | Clear outsider. Settled, and not the folk-fusion entry anyone expected: Beatmosphere won Voice of Bangladesh on 30 September with "Tumi Ele" — six voices, no instruments, no backing track. The only a cappella act in the field, which is a real asset on a stage that rewards sounding like nowhere else and a real risk on a single three-minute hearing. No studio version released yet. Bangladesh betting angle → |
| Nepal odds | Pratik Himal Rai — Ananta Maya | Long outsider. Complete since 7 October: Pratik Himal Rai won Nepal Decides in Kathmandu with "Ananta Maya", ahead of Allam Aadesh ("Byakta") and Bullet Flo x Preeti Kaur ("Golden Danphe"), decided 40% jury / 40% Nepali public / 20% rest of world. Eight of the eleven placings were never published, and the result itself appeared nearly a full day after the show ended. Nepal's first entry in any Eurovision contest. Kalshi has Nepal at 5c on 61 contracts of lifetime volume and no bid. Nepal betting angle → |
| Cambodia odds | Monetrey — I Let You Go | Deep outsider. Not one to back outright. The angle is the highest-finishing-debutant special once TV5 confirms its artist on 17 October. Cambodia betting angle → |
| Laos odds | Thinla — Bae | Longest-priced outsider. Settled: Thinla was named on 13 September and the vote picked "Bae" over "Star" and "Water" on 24 September. Still a 50/1+ shape; the smarter Lao bets sit in sub-markets, not the outright. Laos betting angle → |
| Bhutan odds | Nyendra — Lhayi Semo (The Angel) | Longest shot on the board. Nyendra took the first entry of the contest. Expect 1–3% implied probability bands — this is the contest's San Marino slot, where sentiment money keeps the tail honest. Bhutan betting angle → |
| Mongolia odds | Beck — Chamguigeer (Without You) | Priced on assumption. Complete since 10 October: Beck will sing "Light", which won Mongolia's Chosen One ahead of "Chamguigeer (Without You)", "One of a Kind" and "Winner" under the 40/40/20 split. Mongolia published the full finishing order and not a single number — more than Laos or Vietnam gave, less than South Korea. Five weeks and a day from song to Bangkok, the shortest runway in the field, and there is still no studio recording: "Light" exists as one televised performance. Note the one oddity on the Kalshi board: Mongolia last traded at 6c and is the only contract offered under 80c, at 16c. Mongolia betting angle → |
The Bangkok Grand Final — and only the Grand Final — uses a 50% jury / 50% public split, so a country's price is driven as much by diaspora reach as by the song. The national selection shows do not: under §8.1 of the official Voting Terms they run 40% domestic vote, 40% jury and 20% rest of world. For the European contest's live prices see our Eurovision winner odds and Eurovision bookmakers compared. 18+. Please gamble responsibly.
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Updated 25 October 2026- 🇹🇭 Bangkok's budget was cut by a reported $1m — and the organisers say the show is still on. On 22 October the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported that the EBU had approved a reduction of about $1 million from an Eurovision Asia budget of roughly $4.5 million, and that much of the international production team would no longer travel to Thailand because of the cost of moving and housing it. EurovisionWorld added that S2O Productions is bringing new stage and lighting designs and Media Vision is taking lighting, video, rigging, sound and pyrotechnics, with a smaller international team and Head of Contest Christer Björkman still involved. The organisers answered only the strongest claim: the Grand Final “will take place as planned in Bangkok on 14 November” and there are “no plans to cancel or postpone”. Nobody has denied the budget cut or the crew change, and no revised total has been published. Behind it sits an unannounced ownership change: co-founder Peter Settman left Voxovation in July, and RJ Phillips — who also owns Zoop, the contest’s main sponsor — is reported to hold the majority stake. What was reported, and what was actually said →
- 🇦🇲 Armenia won Junior Eurovision — and the market called the podium in order. Naré won in Ta’ Qali, Malta on 24 October with 202 points for “BOO!”, ahead of Spain (184) and France (165). Polymarket’s board, read by this site two days earlier, had Armenia 29.0%, Spain 21.1%, France 16.0% — first, second and third, in that exact order. Below the podium it was poor: a Spearman correlation of 0.615, only four of sixteen countries finishing where they were ranked, host Malta priced last of sixteen at 0.7% and finishing 7th, and North Macedonia priced 7th and finishing last. About $470 traded across the whole board in the six days to the show. The market has now resolved at 99.9c on Armenia. Separately, KAN in Israel confirmed on 23 October that it will broadcast Eurovision Asia, the third pickup outside the eleven competing countries after SBS and TVP. The full result and the scorecard →
- 🇳🇱 The Dutch return to Eurovision 2027 is contested inside NPO. On 22 October a spokesperson for the Council of Broadcasters confirmed that NPO and its member broadcasters are in unconcluded talks over the 2027 participation, and that they have “agreed not to provide further details until they have concluded”. The members want clarity on “the decision-making process, the organisation, and the financing”; around 500 member-broadcaster staff have signed a protest, and a meeting with NPO board chair Jet de Ranitz is set for 2 November. Nobody has proposed reversing the entry, and NPO holds the mandate itself rather than through a member, so an objecting broadcaster has nothing to hand back — but it is the first sign since 23 September that the return is not settled internally. Polymarket read 94.85% at 03:03 UTC and 96.2% at 16:06 UTC the same day, with the last trade unchanged at 94.1c. What was said →
- 🇵🇱🇦🇺 Poland joins Australia in broadcasting Bangkok, and Canada names its field on 27 October. TVP confirmed on 22 October that it will show Eurovision Asia 2026 in Poland, with Artur Orzech commentating — TVP's Eurovision voice from 1992 to 2021 and again since 2024. It is the second broadcaster outside the eleven competing countries to pick the contest up, after SBS in Australia on 14 October. The EBU estimates the first edition could reach up to 600 million viewers. Separately, CBC/Radio-Canada will name the artists for Canada's first Eurovision selection at a press conference on 27 October, 12pm PT / 3pm ET / 8pm CEST, on CBC Gem, ICI TOU.TV and YouTube; no songs will be performed on the day, and the winner is decided by public vote on the broadcaster's site plus a music-industry jury. The 2027 field →
- 🇻🇳🇲🇾 Kalshi marked Vietnam down after its revamp news — and Malaysia got its first bid. Between 17 and 19 October Vietnam's contract went from 84c to 79c on 21 contracts, two days after Tóc Tiên said "Em Tiên" would be reworked "for a more global appeal"; there was still no bid under it. In the same window Malaysia's contract got the first bid it has ever had, at 11c, as the official music video for "Bluest Sky" was released on 17 October. The Philippines did not move. Agoda data also showed searches from Vietnam for Bangkok stays over contest week more than doubling on last year. The board →
- 🇷🇸 Serbia is in for Burgas — and Polymarket cut Israel to 88%. RTS confirmed on 20 October, taking the 2027 field to 33; Serbia has no Polymarket contract. On the participants board, Israel fell from 95.2% to 88.45% on about $1,000 with no public news behind it, Belgium firmed to 87.5% as the withdrawal window closed with VRT still in, and Moldova traded for the first time, at 99c. The 2027 board →
- 🇰🇭 Monetrey won Cambodia’s Finest Voice — the field is complete at eleven. Monetrey won the seven-act final at the AEON Mall Sen Sok Event Hall in Phnom Penh on 17 October with “I Let You Go”, a ballad sung in Khmer, English and French — the only entry in the Bangkok field in three languages. The show was hosted by MC Bonika and MC Davuth and streamed on the official Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel, and was decided under Voting Terms §8.1: 40% Cambodian public, 40% jury, 20% rest of world — not the 50/50 split that applies only to the Grand Final under §8.2. TV5 Cambodia published nothing below third, and the outlets that did order the podium disagree: Aussievision has KESORRR second and Nov Dana third, ESCBeat reverses them, Eurovoix marks both “top three” without ordering. GOOFY, Sam Rocker, Satiya and MC PICH were unplaced. With TV5 the last of the eleven broadcasters to choose, the Bangkok line-up is now settled, 28 days before the final. Full result →
- 🇲🇳 Mongolia’s winning song was disqualified — the runner-up goes to Bangkok. Beck won Mongolia’s Chosen One on 10 October with “Light”. On 18 October the organisers ruled it ineligible: “Light” was first released in 2018, and the contest bars any song released before 1 July 2026. The runner-up on the night, “Chamguigeer (Without You)” — written by Otgonbayar Damba, Gankhurel.B and Munkhbaytar Ganbaatar — becomes the Mongolian entry. The vote was not re-run and no new result was published; the second-placed song was simply promoted, which makes Mongolia the only country in the field whose entry is not the one its public and jury chose. It also answers a question this site had open: “Light” was never going to get a studio release. What happened →
- 🇲🇩 Moldova is in for Burgas — the 32nd country to confirm. TRM confirmed Moldova’s Eurovision 2027 participation on 15 October, communicated by head of delegation Veronica Cojocaru to ESCSpot and to ESCToday; the broadcaster has issued no press release of its own, and the representative and selection process are promised later. Vitalie Cojocaru returns as head of delegation, a role he held in 2008–2011, 2013, 2015 and from 2018 to 2022. One caution worth keeping: Moldova confirmed for 2025, ran a selection and then withdrew, so a confirmation is not an entry on the stage. 2027 field →
- 🇱🇺🇱🇻 Luxembourg auditioned 80 singers over the 16–18 October weekend, and Latvia has 125 songs to sift. The first in-person auditions for the Luxembourg Song Contest 2027 ran from 16 to 18 October at RTL’s headquarters in Luxembourg City, with 80 artists judged on singing, artistic identity and stage presence. Twelve went through, named on 19 October: Debbie M, Layso Roy, Maya Maunet, Hugo One, Gaïa, Clement Lerat, Patricia Venâncio, Perrine Thomas, Marco Misolic, Jaya, Carmen Luisa and KIM. Hugo One is the only past Luxembourg Song Contest act to survive; Rafa Ela, Angy, Luzac, ShiroKuro, Andrew The Martian and Daryss auditioned and did not. Next come ‘pairing workshops’ matching each singer to a song, with the competing line-up due in mid-November. The notable change this cycle: candidates no longer need a finished song and may enter purely as singers, with RTL matching an artist to a song later if needed. In Latvia, LTV announced on 13 October that 125 entries were received for Supernova 2027 before the 1 October deadline — a mix of familiar Eurovision names and newcomers, per cultural editor Agnese Strause-Kublina — with the final set for 6 February at the Xiaomi Arena in Riga. Every 2027 selection →
- 🇻🇳🇱🇦🇧🇹 Three Bangkok songs are being revamped, and both market favourites are changing. On 15 October Tóc Tiên confirmed "Em Tiên" will be reworked "for a more global appeal", with a bigger techno drop; Thinla said the released "Bae" is only a demo; and Nyendra's "Lhayi Semo" is getting more traditional instrumentation, including new flute parts. The Philippines keeps "Sobra-Sobra" but rebuilds the staging, with Carmelle in vocal stamina training and the kulintang back on stage; Aina Abdul is bringing her own staging and lighting crew from Anugerah Juara Lagu. Cambodia released snippets of its seven songs two days before its 17 October final, and SBS will broadcast the Grand Final in Australia — the first broadcaster outside the eleven to do so. Full story →
- 🇪🇸 Spain jumped on Polymarket after a festival, not a vote — and Moldova confirmed. RTVE named the 18 acts for Benidorm Fest 2027 on 14 October and Spain's 2027 participation contract went from 3.6% to 17.55% in four days, on about $900 of trading — although Benidorm Fest 2026 also ran without a Eurovision ticket and RTVE's chair has proposed staying out. Moldova confirmed on 15 October as the 32nd country for Burgas, and its contract has still never traded. The board →
- 🇧🇪 Belgium’s discount has closed — 64.5% to 89.5% in three days. Between 10 and 13 October the markets table below said "VRT has published no 2027 decision either way". VRT confirmed Belgium for Burgas on 23 September 2026, with CEO Frederik Delaplace saying the call was taken jointly by the Executive Board and the Board of Directors, and with the entry to be chosen internally because there is no time left for a national final. The error ran from 10 to 13 October and is corrected. What makes it interesting rather than just embarrassing: Polymarket read 70.5% on 13 October and 64.5% on 16 October, while every other confirmed country on that board sat between 90.5% and 98.8%, and the contract resolves on the EBU's first participant list rather than on whether Belgium actually competes. That gap has now closed: Belgium read 89.5% on 19 October, on an 89c/90c book against the 51c/78c spread of three days earlier. The reported mid-October window for a confirmed broadcaster to withdraw without a financial penalty passed with nothing withdrawing, and the discount went with it — so it was risk pricing after all, and the risk expired. Why the gap →
- 🤖 NRK and SVT say AI-written songs are already in the 2027 piles. On 12 October Norway's Head of Delegation Mads Tørklep said he believes 30 to 50 fully AI-created songs were submitted to Melodi Grand Prix 2027 despite NRK's outright ban — "it is difficult for us to stop the use of technology". The same day Melodifestivalen project manager Anders Wistbacka told Aftonbladet he is "convinced that we will receive quite a few AI songs", that SVT has no technology to screen for them and has not banned them, and that SVT will not write the first rule because "this is an issue that the music industry will solve". The EBU has no rule on AI in competing songs at all. Full story →
- 🎵 The 2027 submission numbers are in: nearly 6,000 songs across three selections. Melodifestivalen 2027 closed with a record 4,077 entries, Melodi Grand Prix 2027 with around 1,500 (in line with recent editions, which draw 1,000–1,500), and Das Deutsche Finale 2027 with around 400, about 25 of them out of SWR's own songwriting camps. Germany is already down to roughly 40 songs still in contention after a first sifting round, with the final in February 2027 on a date still unpublished. All three reported 12 October.
- 🇧🇬 Burgas has a planned Eurovision Village site. Bulgaria's Transport Minister Georgi Peev and Mayor Dimitar Nikolov have agreed on the Port of Burgas, on the former "Warehouse 7" site, close to the city centre and the arena, with access from the railway station and the South Bus Station. Reported by BNR News on 12 October. Treat it as a plan, not a venue: the site still has to be cleared and prepared before EBU representatives approve it. The mayor also said the state will back extra flights into Burgas Airport. 2027 field →
- 🇲🇳 Mongolia has its song: Beck will sing "Light". Mongolia's Chosen One went out from Ulaanbaatar on 10 October at 21:00 local (15:00 CEST), staged by CNBC Mongolia. "Light" won — written by Tseren Ganbaatar and Narangerel.P — ahead of "Chamguigeer (Without You)", "One of a Kind" and "Winner", four songs Beck performed himself. Decided 40% jury, 40% Mongolian public and 20% rest of world under §8.1. The jury was Bayartsetseg Altangerel, Lkhagva-Ochir Erdene-Ochir, Munkh-Erdene Chulunnbat and Ganbold Chuluun. The complete finishing order was published and not one number with it — more than Laos or Vietnam gave, and still the second-worst disclosure of the season. Mongolia is the tenth complete entry of eleven, with five weeks and a day to Bangkok and no studio recording yet. Full result →
- 🇳🇵 Nepal picked Pratik Himal Rai with "Ananta Maya". The result nobody had published on the night of 7 October landed the next day. Pratik Himal Rai won Nepal Decides in Kathmandu ahead of Allam Aadesh ("Byakta") and Bullet Flo x Preeti Kaur ("Golden Danphe"), decided 40% jury / 40% Nepali public / 20% rest of world under §8.1 — not the 50/50 Grand Final rule the fan press keeps pasting into national-final articles. Eight of the eleven placings were never published. It is Nepal's first entry in any Eurovision contest. Full result →
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia's song is "Bluest Sky". Aina Abdul named it on her own Instagram on 7 October, with a release on 9 October — seven weeks and four days after her reveal, the longest artist-to-song gap in the field. She wrote it; Mac Chew, who produced part of her 2023 debut Imaji and was music director for her Istana Budaya concert, arranged and co-produced it. It was unveiled at a listening session at Rex KL in Kuala Lumpur on 8 October and released on 9 October. Update, 10 October: the organisers have now published the song themselves, which they had not done when this item first ran — then it stood on the artist's own Instagram alone. One detail is still contested: the entry was confirmed as English-language on 6 September and Malay Mail, the New Straits Times and ESCToday all call it an English-language ballad, while Eurovoix's release report describes it as English and Malay. No broadcaster statement settles it. Full story →
- 🇳🇵 Nepal Decides ran on 7 October and no result appeared for almost a day. Himalaya TV staged the postponed final live from Kathmandu from 19:30 NPT (15:45 CEST), with eleven acts and all eleven songs already public, resolving the 15:45-vs-15:15 start-time dispute in favour of 15:45. Nothing had been published by the broadcaster, the organisers or Eurovoix at 16:30 UTC, two and three-quarter hours after the show began. The winner is above. Nepal page →
- 🇨🇿 Czechia has withdrawn from Eurovision 2027 — on cost, not politics. Česká televize confirmed on 6 October that it will not enter the Burgas contest, citing "the budget adjustments currently underway" against a plan to save 350 million koruna (about €14.3m) in 2027. It will not buy the broadcast licence either. Czechia is the fifth country ruled out of 2027 and the third on money alone. It matters here only as a warning about reading the two European boards together: Polymarket's 2027 participation market never listed Czechia, so the one market on the subject could not price the only withdrawal of the week. Full story →
- 🇻🇳 Vietnam has its entry: Tóc Tiên with "Em Tiên". The Sound of Vietnam ran on 3 October on VTV3 from Ho Chi Minh City, hosted by Đức Bảo, with Tóc Tiên performing all five candidate songs herself. "Em Tiên" won — produced by DUONGK and written by HAROSE for the S•HUBE team — beating "a to A" (VIZA), "Follow Me" (M1 Music), "Khó Gì?" (HIGHLUA) and "Love Always Wins" (TINLE). The organisers stated the split themselves: 40% jury, 40% Vietnamese public, 20% rest of world, per §8.1. The jury was chaired by Lưu Thiên Hương with Huy Tuấn, Dương Khắc Linh, John Hùng Trần and Gavin Nguyễn. No scoreboard at all was published — not even a top three, the first selection this season to give only a winner, on the one night where the margin would have been the most interesting number since the same singer performed every entry. Vietnam is the seventh complete entry of the eleven. Full result →
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia's song was teased for 9 October — and the title landed first. TV3 and Aina Abdul both posted hints on 3 October pointing at a reveal on 9 October. Treat it as a tease, not an announcement: nothing has been formally confirmed by Media Prima. Aina was picked on 15 August, will sing in English, is working with producer Mac Chew, and described the song on a TV3 programme as being about "a love that is full of hope" and "the most meaningful song I've ever written". Seven weeks of silence on an entry had become a story in itself.
- 🇮🇸 Iceland: the Director General has put the board vote in its place. On 3 October RÚV Director General Stefán Eiríksson said that "agenda-related decisions are made by RÚV's management", while acknowledging that "the political position of the majority of the board is clear on this matter". So the 30 September board resolution — six of nine members asking him to tell the EBU Iceland will not take part in 2027 unless Israel is barred — remains a position rather than a decision, and RÚV has not confirmed sending the EBU anything. Polymarket has nudged the contract back from 10.0% to 12.0%. The board decision →
- 🇲🇳 Mongolia named Beck on 1 October, a week before his song. MNC named Beck (Beck Munkhbayar) internally on 1 October, with no public vote on the artist. Mongolia's Chosen One on 10 October (15:00 CEST / 21:00 ULAT) then picked only the song: Beck performed the four candidates himself and the public voted, Mongolian and international alike, on the official Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel. "Light" won — see the top of this list. He debuted as a singer in 2007, studied economics at the University of Mongolia and hosts on CNBC Mongolia — the channel the organisers name as staging the show. Worth noting plainly rather than burying: the broadcaster picked a presenter from its own network. Mongolia was the tenth of eleven countries to name an act and the third to split the artist decision from the song decision, after Laos and Vietnam. Who Beck is →
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh has its entry: Beatmosphere with "Tumi Ele". Beatmosphere won Voice of Bangladesh on 30 September at the International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka, ahead of Pulak Adhikary ("Anari Majhi") second and Vintage Theory ("Boomerang") third. Ten acts competed; Tahsan Khan hosted; the jury was Bappa Mazumder, Fahmida Nabi, Hamin Ahmed, Akhi Alamgir and Shawkat Ali Emon. Calculated 40% jury / 40% Bangladeshi public / 20% rest of world, with no scoreboard published below third. The act is an a cappella and beatbox collective formed in 2009 that uses no instruments and no backing track at all; normally a nine-piece, it competed as the six-piece the contest's six-performer limit allows, so the Bangkok staging is already settled. Bangladesh's first entry in any Eurovision contest, and the sixth complete entry of the eleven. Full result →
- 🎟️ Tickets are on sale. A free Eurofan presale opened at 09:00 CEST (14:00 Bangkok) on 1 October and general sale followed at 04:00 CEST (09:00 Bangkok) on 2 October, through Megatix. Seats are on sale for the live Grand Final on Saturday 14 November and for a full preview (dress rehearsal) show on Friday 13 November. Grand Final prices run from $50 general admission through $75 seated-back and golden circle and $125 seated-front to $199VIP. Whether the One Bangkok Forum's roughly 6,000 seats clear is the first real demand signal this contest has produced.
- 🇹🇭 Thailand has its entry: MANG x DAOU with "Aroma". The host nation closed the September run of selections on 27 September. Ten acts competed on Channel 3's Thailand's Chosen One, with Sek Loso guesting and a jury of Pu BLACKHEAD, Kru Ouan, Khun Tongneng, Tan LIPTA and Boy PEACEMAKER; MANG x DAOU won, with D Gerrard second and GAM WICHAYANEE third. Calculated 40% jury / 40% Thai public / 20% rest of world, and no points or ranks were published below third. Note the title disagreement: the organisers call the song "Aroma", Eurovoix gives the Thai title as "Glinratree (Aroma)". Thailand is the fifth country with a complete entry, after Bhutan, the Philippines, South Korea and Laos. Full result →
- 🎤 The Grand Final has hosts and a start time. Announced on 26 September: Woody Milintachinda and Cindy Bishop present the Bangkok show, which starts at 19:30 ICT on Saturday 14 November — 14:30 CET, which is an afternoon broadcast for any European audience. The Grand Final rules are the ones already published: three minutes maximum, no more than six performers on stage, and a 50/50 split between the public vote and the juries.
- 🇱🇦 Laos picked "Bae" — Thinla's song is settled. Announced on 24 September at the end of Sieng Lao: The One. Thinla performed "Bae", "Star" and "Water" on 23 September, hosted by Tot Lina and Lanny; voting then ran for about 24 hours on the official Eurovision Asia site and "Bae" won in the results episode a day later. The result was calculated under §8.1 of the Voting Terms — 40% Lao public vote, 40% jury, 20% rest of world. No vote totals or placings were published for the two losing songs, which is consistent with the rest of this season: only South Korea has released anything like a full scoreboard. Laos is the fourth of the eleven countries with a complete entry — artist and song both confirmed — alongside Bhutan, the Philippines and South Korea. Full result →
- 🇳🇵 All eleven Nepal Decides songs are out. Himalaya TV released snippets and then the full competing songs on 23 September, two weeks before the postponed final on 7 October. Nepal joins Laos, Vietnam and Bangladesh as countries whose entire candidate field can be heard before the show rather than on the night — four of the six song-based selections this season have now front-loaded their fields, which is not how a traditional Eurovision national final works.
- 🇧🇩 Voice of Bangladesh has a venue. NTV confirmed on 22 September that the 30 September final would be staged at the International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka — the largest event venue in Bangladesh, five halls seating between 600 and 3,000 each. The show airs on NTV and Bongo, hosted by Tahsan Khan. Note that Eurovoix again gives the split as 50/50; §8.1 of the official Voting Terms puts every national selection at 40/40/20 and reserves 50/50 for the Bangkok final. The ten acts →
- 🏟️ The contest has moved venue — One Bangkok Forum, not IdeaLive. Announced on 21 September and now carried on the official Eurovision Asia site: the Grand Final moves from the 4,234-seat IdeaLive hall at BRAVO BKK to the One Bangkok Forum, reported at around 6,000 seats — roughly 50% more room, eight weeks out. The date does not change: still Saturday 14 November 2026, in partnership with Thailand's Channel 3 and Voxovation. The organisers have published no reason for the move, so treat the capacity increase as the fact and any explanation as inference. This site carried IdeaLive throughout, as did the organisers until this week; pages elsewhere on the web still do.
- 🎟️ Tickets go on sale 1–2 October. General sale opens Friday 2 October at 04:00 CEST (09:00 in Bangkok), with a free Eurofan presale a day earlier on Thursday 1 October at 09:00 CEST (14:00 Bangkok) for anyone registered on the official Eurovision site. Tickets cover both the Grand Final on 14 November and the preview show — a full run-through of the broadcast — on 13 November. Prices have not been published. The presale and the bigger hall landing together is the first hard demand signal the inaugural contest has produced.
- 🇹🇭 The host nation picked MANG x DAOU and "Aroma". Thailand's Chosen One ran on Channel 3 on 27 September with ten acts and Sek Loso as the guest, and the duo MANG x DAOU won with "Aroma" ahead of D Gerrard and GAM WICHAYANEE. Decided 40% jury / 40% Thai public / 20% rest of world under §8.1 — the first national final this season that the fan press reported with the correct split on the night. No points or ranks were released below third. Thailand is the seventh of the eleven to name an act, the fifth with a complete entry, and the only one that will not have to travel. Thailand page →
- 🇱🇦 Thinla's three songs were released a week before the vote. Published on 17 September: "Bae", "Star" and "Water". Because the field was public in advance, Lao voters arrived at the 23 September broadcast with opinions already formed — and with only three songs on the card, the rule requiring every voter to spread eight votes across at least three entries forced everyone to back all three. "Bae" won on 24 September. Laos page →
- 🇳🇵 Nepal Decides has its eleven acts. Named on 18 September: Allam Aadesh, Amit Baral, Amrita Limbu, Beyond, Bullet Flo x Preeti Kaur, Meghna Gewali, Nirmala Ghale, Pratik Himal Rai, Prithvi Khanal, RC Rimal and Suraj Tamang. Their songs followed on 23 September. One correction worth making: Eurovoix's report gives the split as 50/50, but §8.1 of the official Voting Terms puts every national selection at 40/40/20 and reserves 50/50 for the Bangkok final. The same conflation produced wrong splits for the Philippines and Bangladesh earlier this season. Nepal page →
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh's ten songs are now fully released. NTV put out the official Voice of Bangladesh theme on 17 September, preview clips on 19 September and the full competing songs on 21 September, nine days before the 30 September final. All ten are on the selection's YouTube playlist. Bangladesh joins Laos and Vietnam as the countries whose entire candidate field can be heard before the show rather than on the night.
- 🇱🇦 Laos named Thinla — and the public picked her song. The organisers announced Thinla on 13 September as the first artist ever to represent Laos, the sixth of eleven acts named. She performed three candidate songs on Sieng Lao: The One on 23 September at 15:30 CEST (20:30 in Vientiane); a 24-hour online vote picked "Bae", announced on 24 September. Worth recording for the next time this happens: a widely shared 15 September article gave those dates as October, and the official site and calendar were right. How to vote →
- 🇧🇩 Voice of Bangladesh has ten acts, not twelve. Named on 15 September: Beatmosphere, Benazir Zilani, Krishan Barman, Lubaina Afnan, Naim Imran Sharot, Nusrat Jahan Kriti, Pulak Adhikary, SUBCONSCIOUS, The Kushiyara Waves and Vintage Theory, selected by Bongo with NTV. The final ran on 30 September at 17:00 CEST, hosted by Tahsan Khan, and Beatmosphere won it. Who the ten are →
- 🇳🇵 Nepal Decides moved to 7 October. Himalaya TV postponed its national final from 19 September to 7 October after the 26 August flash floods, per Eurovoix on 11 September. The start time had been disputed — the official announcement graphic, Eurovoix and the YouTube stream said 15:45 CEST while the website calendar showed 15:15 — and the show went out at 15:45 CEST (19:30 NPT) as the newer sources had it. Cambodia (17 October) is now the last country still to name an act. Full calendar →
- 🇻🇳 Vietnam revealed its five candidate songs. At a 16 September press conference Tóc Tiên was formally presented alongside the five entries she will perform at The Sound of Vietnam on 3 October (16:30 CEST): "Love Always Wins" (TINLE), "a to A" (VIZA), "Em Tiên" (S•HUBE), "Khó Gì?" (HIGHLUA) and "Follow Me" (M1 Music, produced by Sweden's GUSTAV), each from a separate production team. All five were released in full on 20 September as the EP Thanh Âm Việt Nam, so the Vietnamese field is now public ahead of the show.
- 🗳️ The official voting rules settle the 50/50 question. The Eurovision Asia Voting Terms (updated 28 August) set every national selection at 40% domestic vote, 40% jury and 20% rest of world, and the Bangkok Grand Final at 50/50 public vote and jury. Every voter gets 8 free votes that must be spread across at least three entries, plus up to 10 paid votes per show. Why the spread rule matters →
- 🇻🇳 Vietnam confirmed Tóc Tiên — the report became a selection. VTV published the news on its own English service on 4 September and Eurovoix reported the internal selection in full on 6 September, so the Tuổi Trẻ report this list carried as unconfirmed is now broadcaster-confirmed. Vietnam is the fifth of eleven countries to name an artist. Her song is not chosen: five teams of writers and producers compete at The Sound of Vietnam on VTV3 on 3 October, with Huy Tuấn as music director. The voting mechanics for that show have not been published — the 50/50 figure in circulation is the Bangkok grand-final rule, not Vietnam's. Full story →
- 🇲🇾 Aina Abdul will sing in English. Malaysia's entry will be entirely in English rather than Malay, confirmed on 6 September. This site had flagged song language as the single biggest betting variable on the Malaysia page, and the answer removes the distinctiveness a Malay-language song would have bought in the running order. Aina Abdul also called the production timetable "extremely stressful": the song is still unreleased nine weeks after her reveal.
- 🇰🇷 JUNHEE won Korea's Next Wave. South Korea picked JUNHEE and "Deep Dive" on 4 September, the fourth of the eleven acts to be confirmed. Sojeong Shim, who opened the show, finished second with "EHERADIYA"; Angel Noise was third. Jo Kwon hosted, with a jury of JOO YOUNG HOON, CHAERINA, Yoonhan, Hyungtag Lee and KLOZER, and the result was decided 40% jury / 40% Korean vote / 20% international. Full result →
- 🇰🇭 Cambodia finally has a date — and the calendar is complete. Cambodia's Finest Voice was set for 17 Octoberon 3 September, streamed on the official Eurovision YouTube channel. TV5 Cambodia had been pointing at "early September", so this is a six-week slip, and it makes Cambodia the last country to choose. All eleven selections are now dated for the first time since the field was finalised.
- 🇵🇭 Carmelle won Philippine Selection Night. The Philippines picked Carmelle and "Sobra-Sobra (Too Much)" live from Quezon City on 30 August, hosted by Vice Ganda, Darren Espanto and Alexa Ilacad. Saga finished second with "Broken Beyond Repair", JM dela Cerna & Marielle Montellano third. Decided 40% jury / 40% Philippine vote / 20% rest of the world. Full result →
- 🇧🇹 Nyendra took the first entry of all. Bhutan opened the season on 11 August, Nyendra winning Rhythm of Bhutan at the BBS studios in Thimphu with "Lhayi Semo (The Angel)" — the first song ever selected for a Eurovision Asia contest. The Sangay Lhaden Band placed second, Baeyul 301 third.
- 🇲🇾 Malaysia sent Aina Abdul. Media Prima revealed its internal pick at Anugerah Juara Lagu 40 on 15 August, where Aina Abdul also took Best Performance. Her route to Bangkok is being filmed as a TV series, Malaysia Memburu Impian. The song itself is still unreleased — and, as of 6 September, will be in English.
- 🇧🇩 Bangladesh has finished auditions. The audition round wrapped on 30 August ahead of the Voice of Bangladesh final on 30 September, already moved once from 23 August. Tahsan Khan hosted. Why it matters →
- 🏆 The winner performs at Eurovision 2027. The Eurovision Asia 2026 champion earns a guest performance at the European contest in Bulgaria — and organisers are targeting 12–14 countries for future editions, with Kazakhstan exploring participation.
Polymarket still has no Eurovision Asia 2026 market (checked 25 Oct 2026) — the twentieth consecutive check with nothing listed, and the field is complete at eleven after Monetrey won Cambodia’s Finest Voice on 17 October. Aftonbladet reported on 22 October that the contest budget has been cut by about $1m from roughly $4.5m and that much of the international crew will not travel to Bangkok; the organisers deny any plan to cancel or postpone and say the Grand Final goes ahead on 14 November. One venue does price it: Kalshi opened an eleven-country winner market on 14 September. It is thin enough that the last trades sum to 264% of the field and 10 of 11 contracts show no bid at all.
Live Eurovision Markets On Polymarket · 25 Oct 2026, 16:06 UTC
| Market | Leading outcomes | Volume |
|---|---|---|
| Eurovision 2027 Participants | Canada 97.25% · Italy 96.8% · Germany 96.75% · Austria 96.75% · Moldova 96.15% · Netherlands 95.25% · North Macedonia 92.05% · Israel 84.95% · Belgium 83.5%. North Macedonia has come back exactly as this table said it would. On 22 October its mid read 80.45% and we wrote that it was a withdrawn bid rather than a change of view, because the last trade had not moved. It now reads 92.05% — and the last trade is still 92.9c, unchanged through both reads. Nothing happened; a bid came back. Israel, by contrast, really is trading down. This table tracked it up through 90.5% on 25 September to 95.75% on 19 October, then 88.0% on 22 October and 84.95% on 25 October — and this time the last trade followed, from 92.9c down to 84.4c. That is about eleven points surrendered in six days with nothing published by the EBU either way. We have no explanation and will not invent one. The book is still wide, quoted 79.9c against 90c. Belgium needs the opposite reading to Israel. Its mid fell from 88.0% to 83.5%, but its last trade is 87c and its quote widened to 80c/87c from the tight 86c/90c it carried on 22 October. That is a spread opening, not a repricing, on the market's third-heaviest contract at about $9.2K. The Netherlands has now gone four consecutive reads without a trade. It reads 95.25%, down from 96.2% on 22 October, with the last trade pinned at 94.1c throughout — before and after the Council of Broadcasters confirmed that NPO and its member broadcasters are in unconcluded talks over the 2027 participation, and before and after AD reported on 23 October that Davina Michelle, Marnix Emanuel and Tangarine are the front runners to be chosen and that Claudia van der Pas will lead the delegation. It is still the heaviest contract on the event at about $9.9K. The meeting between NPO board chair Jet de Ranitz and the protesting staff is on 2 November. Canada leads the board at 97.25% with CBC/Radio-Canada due to name its selection field on 27 October. Serbia, which RTS confirmed on 20 October to take the provisional field to 33, still has no contract to price — the same blind spot that left Czechia unpriced when it actually withdrew on 6 October. Note what these contracts settle on: each resolves on whether the country appears in the EBU's first official participant list, expected at the end of 2026, and the rules say withdrawals after that list do not affect resolution. Read from Polymarket's Gamma API at 16:06 UTC on 25 October 2026. | $46.2K |
| …the contested end of that market | Slovenia 29.0% · Iceland 11.5% · Spain 7.1% · Kazakhstan 5.15% · Ireland 4.9%. Spain is the move on the whole board this week, and it is a real one. The contract more than halved, from 16.4% on 22 October to 7.1% on 25 October, on a 5c bid against a 9.2c ask — a four-point spread, tight by the standards of this event — with the last trade at 6.2c and about $9.3K of lifetime volume behind it, the second-heaviest contract on the market. That unwinds the whole Benidorm Fest jump and then some: 3.6% on 12 October, 18.0% on 16 October after RTVE named eighteen Benidorm Fest 2027 acts, 18.45% on 19 October, 16.4% on 22 October, 7.1% now. The point this table made at the time stands — a festival line-up is not a participation decision, and Benidorm Fest 2026 also ran with no Eurovision ticket attached. What has not happened is any news: the Santander board vote on Spain's participation still has no reported result, now close to six weeks after it was trailed, and RTVE president José Pablo López's recommendation to stay out is still just a recommendation. Slovenia round-tripped again — 33.0% on 19 October, 20.5% and 24.5% across 22 October, 29.0% on 25 October — on a 28c/30c book, still the tightest quote down here, with RTVSLO publishing nothing throughout. Its decision remains tied to the 2027 Programming and Production Plan. Its last trade, at 38c, is well above the quote. Kazakhstan's mid is still noise at 5.15%, quoted 2.9c against 7.4c. The underlying story has not moved since Politico reported on 10 September that the EBU told it Khabar Agency “currently does not meet the requirements for full membership”. Treat it as contested rather than settled: Khabar has denied applying at all, the EBU has published no statement of its own, and six weeks on neither Eurovoix nor ESCXTRA has reported the refusal. Iceland 11.5% continues to reflect RÚV's Director General saying on 3 October that management, not the board that voted to stay out, takes the decision. Ireland is unchanged in substance at 4.9%; RTÉ ruled itself out flatly on 17 September. Read from Polymarket's Gamma API at 16:06 UTC on 25 October 2026. | — |
| Eurovision 2027 Host City | Resolved and closed — Burgas confirmed 13 August. Sofia had traded at 72% eight days earlier. | — |
| Eurovision Asia 2026 Winner | Not on Polymarket (twentieth consecutive check). On Kalshi since 14 Sep: Philippines 95c · Vietnam 79c · Republic of Korea 22c · Thailand 18c · Bhutan 15c · Laos 8c · Malaysia 6c · Mongolia 6c · Bangladesh 6c · Nepal 5c · Cambodia 4c. The board traded for the first time in a week on 5 October, two days after Vietnam completed its entry: Vietnam 10c → 84c on about eleven contracts and Thailand 8c → 18c on roughly 200, with nothing else moving. Between 10 and 11 October the Philippines went from 53c to 95c on about 29 contracts. Neither Nepal completing its entry on 7 October nor Mongolia completing its own on 10 October moved its own contract. Lifetime volume 3,538 contracts, laos about 70% of it. Last trades sum to 264% on an almost bidless book: 10 of 11 contracts have no bid at all, so the top mark is an ask being lifted rather than a price you could sell into. Read 25 October 2026 | — |
The 11 Participating Countries
MANG x DAOU will sing Aroma for host nation Thailand at Eurovision Asia 2026. Channel 3's selection, the T-pop scene and where the host price should sit.
South Korea's debut at Eurovision Song Contest Asia 2026 runs through an ENA-produced national final on 4 September, with an open submission window for any Korean national aged 18+ closing 30 June. The K-pop majors — HYBE, SM, JYP, YG — look poised to sit it out, leaving the lane open to mid-tier idol acts, soloists and indie names. Once Polymarket and Smarkets list the contest, expect South Korea to draw the heaviest pre-market action of any participating country.
Carmelle will represent the Philippines at the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest Asia in Bangkok on 14 November, after winning Philippine Selection Night in Quezon City on 30 August with “Sobra-Sobra (Too Much)”. The result, the 40/40/20 vote split, why the Philippines had the strongest structural case of any debutant — and why there is still no market to back it.
Vietnam Television has its complete entry for the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest Asia in Bangkok on 14 November 2026: Tóc Tiên with “Em Tiên”, chosen from five candidates at The Sound of Vietnam on 3 October under the 40/40/20 split. Here is the act, the song, who wrote it, and how to read Vietnam's chances on the one thin market that prices this contest.
Malaysia is in under Media Prima’s TV3, and its entry is “Bluest Sky” — written by Aina Abdul, produced by Mac Chew and released on 9 October 2026. The artist profile, the English-language call and the betting outlook for Bangkok.
Beatmosphere won Voice of Bangladesh on 30 September with “Tumi Ele”, Bangladesh’s first Eurovision entry. The NTV format, the 40/40/20 vote and the outlook.
Nepal Decides has its eleven acts for 7 October 2026. Himalaya TV's national final, the real 40/40/20 voting split and Nepal's Eurovision Asia outlook.
Monetrey will sing “I Let You Go” for Cambodia in Bangkok, in Khmer, English and French, after winning Cambodia’s Finest Voice in Phnom Penh on 17 October 2026.
Thinla represents Laos at Eurovision Asia 2026 with “Bae”, chosen by public and jury vote over “Star” and “Water” on Sieng Lao: The One.
Bhutan is the smallest country at the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest Asia — population around 770,000, broadcaster Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS), selection format Rhythm of Bhutan (successor to the cancelled Druk Dra), final on 11 August. The August 2025 first attempt at Druk Dra was pulled off air during the EBU's pre-launch comms tangle; BBS is now first in line to select in early August 2026, ahead of any other participating nation. The Bhutanese entry will be a long-shot in any betting market, but the underdog story — a Himalayan kingdom of fewer than a million people on the same stage as South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines — is exactly the kind of narrative that makes underdog markets liquid.
Beck will sing “Chamguigeer (Without You)” for Mongolia in Bangkok, after the song that won Mongolia’s Chosen One was ruled ineligible over a 2018 release.
All 11 Countries — Compared
Broadcaster, selection date, music-industry context and pre-market betting outlook for every Eurovision Asia 2026 participant in one table.
| Country | Broadcaster | Selection | Music scene | Betting outlook |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thailand | Channel 3 (BEC World) | Thailand's Chosen One (host nation) 2026-09-27 | T-Pop · BUS · 4EVE · ATLAS · BNK48 | Host favourite |
| South Korea | ENA | Korea's Next Wave national final 2026-09-04 | K-Pop (mid-tier) · ENA televised final | Top-3 favourite |
| Philippines | ABS-CBN | Philippine Selection Night, Quezon City 2026-08-30 | OPM / P-Pop · SB19 · BINI | Top-3 favourite |
| Vietnam | VTV3 | Artist internally selected; song chosen at The Sound of Vietnam 2026-10-03 | V-Pop · Sơn Tùng M-TP · HIEUTHUHAI · Đen Vâu | Dark horse |
| Malaysia | Media Prima (TV3) | Internal selection — revealed at Anugerah Juara Lagu 40 2026-08-15 | Malay pop · AJL national-final crossover | Mid-tier |
| Bangladesh | NTV | Voice of Bangladesh national final 2026-09-30 | Bangla pop + folk · Pritom Hasan, Tahsan | Mid-tier |
| Nepal | Himalaya TV | Nepal Decides national final 2026-10-07 | Indie-pop + Nephop · Sajjan Raj Vaidya · VTEN | Underdog |
| Cambodia | TV5 Cambodia | Cambodia's Finest Voice 2026-10-17 | Khmer pop + hip-hop · Vannda · Laura Mam | Underdog |
| Laos | Vientiane Capital Television (VTE9) | Artist named internally; public picked the song on Sieng Lao: The One 2026-09-23 | Lao pop · Thinla named 13 Sep; public picks the song | Long-shot |
| Bhutan | Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) | Rhythm of Bhutan national final 2026-08-11 | Rigsar / Dzongkha pop · Rhythm of Bhutan national final | Long-shot |
| Mongolia | MNC | Artist internally selected; song chosen at Mongolia's Chosen One 2026-10-10 | MNC national final · Mongolia's Chosen One, 10 Oct | Priced on assumption |
Betting outlook is pre-market positioning by EurovisionOdds.org — Polymarket Eurovision Asia 2026 markets have not yet opened. Will be updated when traditional bookmakers and prediction markets price the contest.
How the Eurovision Asia 2026 Grand Final Will Work
Eurovision Song Contest Asia 2026 is a single Grand Final held on Saturday 14 November 2026 at the One Bangkok Forum, after the organisers moved it on 21 September from the IdeaLive hall at BRAVO BKK in Bangkok's Rama 9 district. There are no semi-finals in the inaugural edition: all 11 confirmed broadcasters send one entry directly to the live televised final. EBU Director Martin Green confirmed the single-final format publicly during Eurovision week in Vienna, telling fans that the launch contest is "starting small" and would expand in future editions.
Song rules.Eurovision Asia inherits the European contest's core rules. Songs must not exceed 3 minutes in length. No more than 6 performers can appear on stage at any time. Backing vocalists must be live (no full pre-recorded vocals on the lead line). Lyrical content must comply with the contest's non-political principles — Martin Green has been explicit that "in order to be part of Eurovision, you have to share our values", and Voxovation co-producer Peter Settman has said participating countries must sign off on those core principles.
Voting structure.Under the official Voting Terms (updated 28 August 2026, §8.2) the Grand Final is decided 50% public vote and 50% professional jury, combined for each participating territory. Viewers in non-participating territories vote public-only, counted as an extra Rest of World vote, and nobody can vote for the entry of the territory they live in. Each voter gets 8 free votes that must be spread across at least three countries' entries. The national finals use a different formula (§8.1): 40% home vote, 40% jury, 20% rest of world. The points scale and the order of the results reveal have not been published.
Language.Entries can be performed in English, any participating country's national language, or a blend. Voxovation organisers have stressed they want country-specific musical identity on stage rather than English-only entries — Khmer pop from Cambodia, V-pop from Vietnam, T-pop from Thailand, Bangla pop from Bangladesh, and so on. Korea's ENA open call explicitly invites any South Korean national to apply with any genre, though K-pop industry sources have signalled the major labels (HYBE, SM, JYP, YG, Kakao M) are unlikely to enter their A-tier acts in the inaugural year.
Bangkok 2026 — Venue, Host Broadcaster & Production
The host venue is the One Bangkok Forum, reported at around 6,000 seats. The organisers moved the contest there on 21 September 2026, eight weeks out, from IdeaLive at BRAVO BKK— a 4,234-seat hall on the 5th floor of the BRAVO BKK complex in Bangkok's Rama 9 district, which had been the announced venue since March. No reason for the move has been published, and the date is unchanged. Even at the larger size this is roughly 38% the capacity of the Wiener Stadthalle (~16,000) that staged Eurovision 2026 in May — Eurovision Asia is still being built around a more intimate, TV-first format rather than the European contest's arena scale, but it now has half again as many seats to sell.
Host broadcaster. The contest is produced for Thai TV by Channel 3 (BEC World), the largest commercial broadcaster in Thailand. Channel 3 is part of the BEC World public listed group and reaches roughly 95% of Thai households. Several mainstream press outlets in the first 48 hours after the EBU announcement misreported the host broadcaster as Thai PBS — the correct host is Channel 3. Voxovation, the production company set up by Eurovision veterans Peter Settman, Christer Björkman and Assaf Blecher, produces the show alongside Channel 3 and the EBU.
Production approach.Voxovation CEO of Asia Marcus Tang has emphasised that production is being built in close collaboration with each participating broadcaster rather than transplanted wholesale from Europe. Asian broadcasters from Thailand, Laos and Nepal travelled to Vienna for Eurovision 2026 to study the European contest's production. Executive producer Assaf Blecher described the goal as "learning their culture, their music, what kind of flavour we can bring" — explicitly NOT replicating Europe.
Broadcast.The Grand Final airs live on the official Eurovision YouTube channel globally, plus terrestrial TV on each participating country's broadcaster (Channel 3 in Thailand, ENA in South Korea, ABS-CBN in the Philippines, VTV3 in Vietnam, TV3 Media Prima in Malaysia, NTV in Bangladesh, Himalaya TV in Nepal, TV5 in Cambodia, VTE9 in Laos, BBS in Bhutan). International broadcasters outside the participant pool may acquire rights for tape-delayed or live broadcast.
Hosting in 2027.Unlike the European contest, where the previous year's winner automatically hosts the following edition, Eurovision Asia uses a Junior Eurovision-style bidding process. A separate host selection will take place after the November 2026 contest. Several broadcasters in the region have already signalled interest in hosting future editions.
Why Eurovision Asia Exists — The Strategy Behind The Launch
Eurovision Asia is the first sustained territorial expansion of the Eurovision brand beyond Europe. Previous attempts to franchise the format internationally have a chequered history: Eurovision Asia-Pacific with SBS Australia was floated in 2017 and shelved by 2019; the American Song Contest (NBC) ran for a single 2022 season before being cancelled. Voxovation co-producer Peter Settman has been candid that Eurovision Asia is engineered specifically to avoid those failure modes.
The American Song Contest lessons.Settman has publicly identified two structural mistakes in the US edition. First, the show abandoned country-vs-country competition in favour of US-state-vs-state, which removed the diaspora-voting cultural energy that drives the European contest. Second, NBC chose not to use the Eurovision brand name, which removed the franchise's most valuable asset. Eurovision Asia keeps both: countries compete against each other, and the "Eurovision" name is front-and-centre (the choice was Eurovision Song Contest Asia rather than "Asiavision").
The cultural-diversity bet.Asia is roughly 4.7 billion people across thousands of language groups, six dominant religions, and music industries with wildly different commercial structures. Settman has argued that the diversity itself is the contest's competitive advantage: "Having countries with so much diversity when it comes to traditions, religions, language will automatically create a much broader palette of songs." Where Eurovision Europe has consolidated around English-language dance-pop in recent years, Eurovision Asia is being positioned to lean into K-pop, V-pop, T-pop, Bangla pop, Khmer pop, and the regional fusion sounds that don't fit neatly into European charts.
Digital-first design.Settman has described Asia as "larger, younger, faster, more digital, more mobile than anywhere else on this beautiful planet" — and the show is being designed accordingly. Expect heavier emphasis on real-time digital engagement (in-show polls, social-feed integration, official YouTube live) than the European contest currently offers. The venue scale is part of that calculus: even after September's move up to the ~6,000-seat One Bangkok Forum, the production is engineered for camera and stream rather than arena spectacle.
Long-term strategy.Martin Green has been explicit that the goal in year one is sustainability rather than scale: "Let's start small and grow." A single Grand Final, 11 countries, one venue. If the show works commercially and editorially in November 2026, the format can expand to semi-finals, more participating countries, and a 2027 host bid from a different territory.
Eurovision Asia 2026 — Frequently Asked Questions
When and where is Eurovision Asia 2026?
The inaugural Eurovision Song Contest Asia is held on Saturday 14 November 2026 at the One Bangkok Forum in Bangkok, Thailand. The organisers moved the contest there on 21 September 2026 from the 4,234-seat IdeaLive hall at BRAVO BKK; the new venue is reported at around 6,000 seats and no reason for the move was published. The Grand Final airs live on the official Eurovision YouTube channel and on each participating country's broadcaster.
Which countries are participating in Eurovision Asia 2026?
Eleven broadcasters are confirmed for the inaugural contest: Bangladesh (NTV), Bhutan (BBS), Cambodia (TV5), Laos (VTE9), Malaysia (Media Prima TV3), Mongolia (MNC), Nepal (Himalaya TV), Philippines (ABS-CBN), South Korea (ENA), Thailand (Channel 3, also the host), and Vietnam (VTV3). Mongolia was confirmed as the eleventh country on 14 August 2026 and the field has been closed since. Voxovation has said additional broadcasters are expected to be announced for future editions.
Who hosts Eurovision Asia 2026?
The host broadcaster is Channel 3 (part of the BEC World group), Thailand's largest commercial broadcaster. Several first-week press reports incorrectly named Thai PBS as the host — the correct host is Channel 3. Production is by Voxovation, the company founded by Eurovision veterans Peter Settman, Christer Björkman and Assaf Blecher.
Will there be semi-finals at Eurovision Asia 2026?
No. The inaugural year is a single Grand Final with all 11 countries competing in one live show. EBU Director Martin Green has confirmed the single-final format publicly, framing it as a deliberate "start small and grow" strategy. Semi-finals could be added in future editions if the field expands.
How does voting work at Eurovision Asia 2026?
The official Eurovision Asia Voting Terms (last updated 28 August 2026) set two different formulas. The Grand Final in Bangkok is 50/50: public vote and professional jury, weighted equally for each participating territory, with viewers in non-participating territories voting public-only as an extra Rest of World vote, and residents may not vote for their own territory's entry. Every national selection show is 40/40/20: 40% domestic vote, 40% jury and 20% rest of world, each pool ranked separately. In both, every user gets 8 free votes that must be spread across at least three different entries (votes that are not spread are not counted), and up to 10 paid votes can be added per show.
What are the song and stage rules?
Entries must be original, no more than 3 minutes long, and no more than 6 performers can be on stage at any time. Lead vocals must be performed live (no fully pre-recorded vocals on the main line). Songs can be in English, any participating country's national language, or a mix. Lyrical content must comply with the contest's non-political values.
How is each country selecting its entry?
Selection processes vary per broadcaster, and ALL ELEVEN have now named an artist and a song: the Bangkok field was completed on 17 October 2026, 28 days before the final. Bhutan (BBS) opened the calendar on 11 August, when Nyendra won the Rhythm of Bhutan national final with "Lhayi Semo (The Angel)" ahead of The Sangay Lhaden Band and Baeyul 301. Malaysia (Media Prima TV3) revealed Aina Abdul as its internal pick at Anugerah Juara Lagu 40 on 15 August, and on 7 October she named the song herself on Instagram: "Bluest Sky", written by her, arranged and co-produced by Mac Chew — seven weeks and four days after the artist reveal, the longest such gap in the field. It was unveiled at a listening session at Rex KL in Kuala Lumpur on 8 October, released on 9 October, and the organisers have since published it themselves, which they had not done when this page first carried the title. The Philippines (ABS-CBN/Star Magic) picked Carmelle and "Sobra-Sobra (Too Much)" at the New Frontier Theater in Quezon City on 30 August. South Korea (ENA) followed on 4 September, when JUNHEE won Korea's Next Wave with "Deep Dive" ahead of Sojeong Shim and Angel Noise. Vietnam (VTV3) internally selected Tóc Tiên, confirmed by the broadcaster on 4 September, and the public picked her song at The Sound of Vietnam on 3 October: "Em Tiên", produced by DUONGK and written by HAROSE for the S•HUBE team, under the 40/40/20 split and with no scoreboard published at all — not even a top three. Laos (VTE9) named Thinla on 13 September, and the public picked her song on Sieng Lao: The One across 23–24 September: "Bae", ahead of "Star" and "Water", under the 40/40/20 split, with no vote totals published. Thailand, the host nation, closed the September run on 27 September when MANG x DAOU won Thailand's Chosen One on Channel 3 with "Aroma", ahead of D Gerrard and GAM WICHAYANEE, again under 40/40/20 and again with no scoreboard published below third. Bangladesh (NTV) followed on 30 September, when Beatmosphere won Voice of Bangladesh at the International Convention City Bashundhara in Dhaka with "Tumi Ele", ahead of Pulak Adhikary and Vintage Theory, again under 40/40/20 and again with no scoreboard below third; the act is an a cappella and beatbox collective formed in 2009 and competed as the six-piece the contest's six-performer limit allows. Nepal Decides (Himalaya TV) was held on 7 October from Kathmandu, postponed from 19 September after the August floods, with eleven acts whose songs were all released in advance: Pratik Himal Rai won with "Ananta Maya" ahead of Allam Aadesh and Bullet Flo x Preeti Kaur, again under 40/40/20, with eight of the eleven placings never published and the result itself appearing nearly a full day after the show ended. Mongolia (MNC) named Beck internally on 1 October without a public vote on the artist, and Mongolia's Chosen One on 10 October picked only his song: "Light", written by Tseren Ganbaatar and Narangerel.P, ahead of "Chamguigeer (Without You)", "One of a Kind" and "Winner" — four songs Beck performed himself, under 40/40/20, with the complete finishing order published and no points attached to any of it. Eight days later that result was overturned on a technicality: the organisers ruled “Light” ineligible because it was first released in 2018, against a rule barring any song released before 1 July 2026, and on 18 October the runner-up “Chamguigeer (Without You)” — written by Otgonbayar Damba, Gankhurel.B and Munkhbaytar Ganbaatar — became the Mongolian entry instead. The vote was not re-run; the second-placed song was simply promoted, so Mongolia is the only country in the field whose entry is not the one its public and jury chose. Cambodia (TV5) closed the calendar on 17 October, the last show to be dated and the last to be held: Monetrey won Cambodia's Finest Voice at the AEON Mall Sen Sok Event Hall in Phnom Penh with “I Let You Go”, a ballad sung in Khmer, English and French — the only entry in the field in three languages. Seven acts competed, hosted by MC Bonika and MC Davuth and streamed on the official Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel, under the same 40/40/20 split. TV5 published no placings below third, and the two outlets that did order the podium disagree: Aussievision has KESORRR second and Nov Dana third, ESCBeat has them the other way round, and Eurovoix marks both “top three” without ordering. GOOFY (“Fly”), Sam Rocker (“Angels”), Satiya (“Motherland”) and MC PICH (“Nor Na Ke Nor (Who's That)”) were unplaced. All eleven countries now have a complete entry — artist and song both settled.
Why is Eurovision Asia happening now?
The EBU has explored Asian Eurovision formats for nearly a decade, including a shelved Eurovision Asia-Pacific concept with SBS Australia (2017–2019). Voxovation organisers say the 2026 launch is engineered specifically to avoid the structural mistakes of the American Song Contest (NBC, 2022), which abandoned country-vs-country competition and the Eurovision brand name. Eurovision Asia keeps both: countries compete against each other under the Eurovision Song Contest name.
Where can you bet on Eurovision Asia 2026?
On one venue, and it is an exchange rather than a bookmaker. Kalshi, regulated by the US CFTC, opened an eleven-country Eurovision Asia 2026 winner market on 14 September 2026; it closes on 2 January 2027. After a week of nothing the board traded on 5 October, two days after Vietnam completed its entry: Vietnam 10c to 84c on about eleven contracts, Thailand 8c to 18c on roughly 200, and no other contract moved at all. Read on 25 October 2026, the last-traded marks sum to 264% of a field in which exactly one country wins, and 10 of the 11 contracts have no bid at all. Vietnam is marked at 79c on a contract with no bid, so that is an ask being lifted rather than a price you could sell into. Lifetime volume across the board is 3,538 contracts, of which laos alone is about 70%. Read those as marks, not as odds. The board was unmoved by Nepal completing its entry on 7 October and by Mongolia completing its own on 10 October. It traded again between 10 and 11 October, when the Philippines went from 53c to 95c on about 29 contracts — another ask lifted on a contract with no bid, which left two countries marked as near-certain winners of a one-winner contest. The one price worth a second look is Mongolia, last traded at 6c and offered at 16c, when every other contract is offered at 80c or more. No fixed-odds bookmaker prices the contest, and Polymarket has still listed nothing for Asia on our twentieth consecutive check (25 October 2026). For comparison, the European Eurovision 2026 winner market closed at nearly $194M of volume. The one Eurovision event open on Polymarket is Eurovision 2027 Participants, about $46.2K of lifetime volume, read at 16:06 UTC on 25 October 2026: Canada 97.25%, Italy 96.8%, Germany 96.75%, Austria 96.75%, Moldova 96.15%, Netherlands 95.25%, North Macedonia 92.05%, Israel 84.95% and Belgium 83.5% at the safe end; Ireland 4.9%, Kazakhstan 5.15%, Spain 7.1% and Iceland 11.5% at the other, with Slovenia 29.0% in between. Three of those need reading rather than quoting. North Macedonia's recovery from 80.45% on 22 October to 92.05% is a bid returning, not news: its last trade has sat at 92.9c through both reads, which is exactly what this page said at the time. Belgium's fall from 88.0% to 83.5% is a spread widening to 80c/87c, with the last trade still at 87c. And the Netherlands has now gone four consecutive reads with its last trade pinned at 94.1c, before and after the Council of Broadcasters confirmed that NPO and its member broadcasters are in unconcluded talks, and before and after AD named Davina Michelle, Marnix Emanuel and Tangarine as the front runners on 23 October. Two moves are genuine. Israel has surrendered about eleven points in six days, from 95.75% on 19 October to 88.0% on 22 October and 84.95% on 25 October, and this time the last trade followed it down to 84.4c, with nothing published by the EBU either way — we have no explanation and will not invent one. And Spain more than halved, from 16.4% on 22 October to 7.1% on 25 October, on a tight 5c/9.2c book and about $9.3K of lifetime volume, unwinding the whole jump it took when RTVE named eighteen Benidorm Fest 2027 acts on 14 October — while the Santander board vote on Spain's participation still has no reported result, close to six weeks after it was trailed. Two confirmed countries have no contract to price at all: Serbia, which RTS confirmed on 20 October to take the provisional field to 33, and Czechia, which actually withdrew on 6 October. Note what those contracts settle on: each resolves on whether the country appears in the EBU's FIRST official participant list, expected at the end of 2026, and the rules say explicitly that later withdrawals do not affect resolution. Kazakhstan's underlying story is unchanged: Politico reported on 10 September that the EBU had told it Khabar Agency “currently does not meet the requirements for full membership”, although Khabar has since denied applying at all, and six weeks on neither Eurovoix nor ESCXTRA has reported the refusal. Iceland remains the season's cleanest news-driven move — 66.0% to 10.0% after six of nine RÚV board members voted on 30 September to stay out of 2027 unless Israel is barred, and back up since the Director General said on 3 October that management, not the board, takes the decision; it read 11.5% on 25 October. The Eurovision 2027 Host City market has resolved and closed: Burgas won on 13 August 2026.
What does the winner of Eurovision Asia 2026 get?
Beyond the trophy, the Eurovision Asia 2026 winner will perform at the Eurovision Song Contest 2027 in Bulgaria — the first formal bridge between the Asian and European contests. Executive producer Assaf Blecher has also said the organisers are targeting 12 to 14 participating countries for future editions, with Kazakhstan publicly exploring participation.
Who hosts Eurovision Asia 2027?
Unlike the European contest, the winning country does NOT automatically host the following edition. Eurovision Asia uses a Junior Eurovision-style bidding process — broadcasters interested in hosting 2027 submit bids after the November 2026 contest. EBU and Voxovation evaluate venue, infrastructure, broadcast capacity, and financial backing before selecting the next host.