🇧🇬Eurovision 2027 — Bulgaria Hosts

RTSH confirmed its intention to compete at the start of August 2026 and will use Festivali i Këngës for a 65th edition. Song submissions OPENED on 22 September 2026 and close on 27 September; a selection committee then shortlists the field for a final in December 2026. The exact final dates and format have not been published.

CONFIRMED by the EBU on 28 October 2026, in the official 36-country participant list for Burgas — not by an AMPTV announcement. This site had Armenia on the pending table as late as 27 October, and had called it "the weakest row on this table" because AMPTV had said nothing about 2027 at all; the only signal on the record was Patrick Fiori (France 1993) saying in October 2025 that he would like to represent Armenia, which is an artist's intention and not broadcaster intent. The EBU list settles participation and nothing else: no selection format, date or venue has been published, and AMPTV has still issued no statement of its own. Armenia has competed every year since 2022 and reached the 2026 final.

SBS confirmed on 1 September 2026 that Australia will compete in Burgas, its 12th participation. The broadcaster framed the decision around audience reach rather than result, citing 3.27 million Australian viewers in 2026 and Delta Goodrem's fourth place in Vienna. THE FORMAT IS NOW ON THE RECORD, by action rather than announcement: SBS opened an online song submission portal on 17 October 2026 and closed it at 23:59 AEDT on 7 November, and has stated that an INTERNAL selection process then chooses the representative. So there is no Australia Decides in 2027 — this is an internal pick fed by an open call, continuing the method SBS has used since 2022. Submission rules: maximum three minutes, at least one Australian citizen in the songwriting team, original and neither commercially released nor publicly performed in whole or in part before 1 September 2026 per the EBU rules, and human-created with no AI involved in the writing. SBS asked for “distinctive and contemporary songs”. No date has been given for naming the act. Australia remains the only broadcaster ever admitted to the contest by Reference Group invitation (2015) rather than through full EBU membership.

ORF, fresh from hosting the 2026 contest in Vienna, has opted for an internal selection. Peter Schreiber and Cesár Sampson (Austria 2018) are heading the search. The artist is expected to be announced in late 2026 or early 2027, with the song revealed later.

CONFIRMED by the EBU on 28 October 2026, in the official 36-country participant list for Burgas. THIS ENTRY CORRECTS AN OMISSION: Azerbaijan was missing from every array on this page until the official list was published, so the site under-counted the confirmed field. İctimai has picked its entry internally since 2018 and has published no format or date for 2027. Azerbaijan debuted in 2008, won in 2011 and has not missed a contest since.

VRT confirmed on 23 September 2026 that Belgium will compete in Burgas, after asking the EBU for an extension past the 15 September deadline. It had previously indicated participation was unlikely, having pressed for a direct vote of member broadcasters on Israel's participation and for a published framework setting out when a country can and cannot compete; it got neither, and entered anyway. The entry will be chosen INTERNALLY — VRT says there is no longer time to stage a national final. Belgium alternates between VRT and RTBF, and 2027 is VRT's turn. The decision is contested inside the building: trade unions ACV VRT and ACOD-VRT filed strike notices covering 11, 13 and 15 May 2027 — the two semi-finals and the grand final — to, in their joint statement, "protect all employees who have moral objections to contribute from far or near to the programs and broadcasts of and about the Eurovision Song Contest". No Eurovision broadcast has previously been struck by its own host-country staff. ESCXTRA reported on 7 October 2026 that broadcasters have "until mid-October to withdraw their participation without facing a financial penalty". That window is single-sourced: neither the EBU nor VRT has published one, and Eurovoix's confirmation report does not mention it. It is nonetheless the only documented reason on the record why a broadcaster that has already confirmed might still be priced below the rest of the confirmed field. THAT WINDOW HAS NOW PASSED WITH NOTHING WITHDRAWING, and the market has agreed: Belgium's Polymarket contract went from 64.5% on 16 October to 89.5% on 19 October, and the order book went from a 51c bid against a 78c ask — a 27-point spread — to 89c/90c, one of the tightest on the board, on about $8,112 of lifetime volume. The discount was real risk pricing after all, and it resolved the way the confirmation said it would. Belgium now prices with the confirmed field rather than below it.

BNT hosts the 71st edition in Burgas after DARA's win with “Bangaranga”. As of 1 September 2026 it had not stated how it will choose its own entry — unusual for a host this late, and the only confirmed participant besides the UK with no format on the record.

Debut confirmed 1 July 2026 in a joint EBU/CBC announcement — the first country from the Americas and the second from outside the European Broadcasting Area after Australia. CBC/Radio-Canada confirmed on 31 August 2026 that the entry will be sung in both French and English: “the song will include both of Canada's official languages and may also include other languages”, with the chosen artist consulted on their comfort in each. Applications ran 31 Aug – 9 Sep 2026 (11:59pm PT), open to citizens and permanent residents aged 18+ on 1 May 2027. Canada picks the ARTIST first and commissions the song afterwards; a shortlist is named in the autumn and decided by a digital public vote on the Eurovision Song Contest Canada website alongside a jury of music experts. UPDATE, 27 October 2026 — THE FIELD IS NAMED AND THE PUBLIC VOTE IS OPEN. CBC/Radio-Canada revealed the five artists competing in Canada’s Choice / Le choix du Canada: WILLIAM CLOUTIER, JOSIANE, RÊVE, TALK and TYLER SHAW. They were picked by a jury of music-industry professionals and public-broadcasting executives: Maurin Auxéméry (programming director, Montreal International Jazz Festival), choreographer Samuel Chouinard, television composer Orin Isaacs, social-media strategist and Eurovision specialist Shawn Myers, soprano Élisabeth St-Gelais, CBC executive vice-president Douglas Smith and Radio-Canada executive vice-president Dany Meloul. PUBLIC VOTING CLOSED at 11:59 p.m. PACIFIC TIME on 5 NOVEMBER 2026, with up to TEN VOTES PER PERSON, and no result was published at the close. It counts for 50% of the result; a professional jury decides the other 50%. NOTE THE DEADLINE DISCREPANCY: Eurovoix reported the close as 16:59 CET on 5 November, which is about sixteen hours earlier than the broadcaster’s own figure — 11:59 p.m. PT on 5 November falls on the morning of 6 November in continental Europe. CBC/Radio-Canada and ESCToday agree on the later time, so this site uses it. THE FIELD CAME FROM 325 APPLICATIONS submitted between 31 August and 9 September 2026; CBC/Radio-Canada music teams cut those to a longlist of 15, and the jury chose the five at a meeting in Toronto on 8 October, judging vocal quality, stage presence, artistic experience, musical vision, availability and potential to perform internationally. The finalists, with the names reported for those who record under one: William Cloutier (pop vocalist, Quebec), Josiane / Josiane Comeau (singer-songwriter, New Brunswick), Rêve / Briannah Donolo (dance-pop, Montreal-born), Talk / Nicholas Durocher (pop-rock, Ottawa) and Tyler Shaw (pop, British Columbia). UPDATE, 9 NOVEMBER 2026 — THE REVEAL HAS A DATE: CBC/Radio-Canada will name the winner on 5 DECEMBER 2026, a month after voting closed, per Eurovoix. The winner will then COMPOSE their Eurovision entry — the artist-first order confirmed in August, so there is no song to judge and no song to bet on until after the artist is chosen. ONE STRUCTURAL POINT THAT IS OFTEN GOT WRONG: Canada is the first country to debut since Australia in 2015, but unlike Australia’s invitational debut it must compete in a semi-final and is not pre-qualified. Source: CBC/Radio-Canada via Eurovoix, 27 October 2026.

HRT confirmed participation on 28 September 2026 and will use Dora again. Song submissions are open until 29 November 2026; an expert jury then picks 24 competing songs plus four reserves, and the final is scheduled for February 2027 with the exact date unannounced. Croatia has competed as an independent nation since 1993 and has missed only 2014 and 2015, when it withdrew over results and cost.

CyBC confirmed participation on 24 September 2026, making Burgas Cyprus's 43rd consecutive appearance since its 1981 debut — it has never skipped an edition it was eligible for since returning in 1982. Promoted here from the pending table, where it had sat on a standing channel policy of entering all three EBU music contests rather than on a 2027 statement. UPDATE, 4 NOVEMBER 2026 — CYPRUS IS THE FIRST OF THE 36 CONFIRMED BROADCASTERS TO NAME AN ARTIST. CyBC revealed GEORGE PERRIS on the morning of 4 November on RIK 1's programme 'Omorfi mera', saying he will "fly the flag for the Mediterranean island at Eurovision 2027 in Burgas". Perris is a Greek-French singer born in Athens to a Greek father and a French mother, 43, who began touring at 18 with composer Mimis Plessas and released his debut album 'Kainouria mou mera' in 2005; he sings in Greek, French, English and Spanish, has played the Lincoln Center and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, has collaborated with Michel Legrand, Placido Domingo and Lara Fabian, holds the French Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in June 2022. He was reportedly among the names proposed to CyBC for 2026 before it chose Antigoni. THE SELECTION METHOD IS NOW CONFIRMED AND IT ANSWERS THE AUGUST QUESTION IN THIS ROW. The song is not pre-selected: CyBC is taking open submissions from Cyprus and abroad, looking for a 'strong artistic identity, contemporary aesthetics and international perspective', with the window closing on 13 DECEMBER 2026, several songs then advancing to a LIVE NATIONAL FINAL scored 50% jury and 50% public televote. That would be Cyprus's first televised national selection since 2015, which is what the production-company offer reported by Cypriot media in August 2026 had proposed — this is the first indication it was taken up, though CyBC has not said whether that company is involved. AI-generated entries are prohibited in the submission rules. No date has been announced for the national final or the song reveal. Sourced to Eurovoix and ESCXTRA, both 4 November 2026, reporting the same CyBC announcement; the broadcaster's own English-language release was not published at the time of checking.

Confirmed by DR before the 2026 final. Song submissions opened in late June 2026 and close on 25 October 2026 at midnight, from which eight songs are picked for the final. The children's MGP runs in the same arena on 20 February 2027.

ERR confirmed Estonia's participation on 4 September 2026 by opening the Eesti Laul 2027 submission window, which closes on 8 October. Twelve finalists compete in a single show: a jury-and-televote round picks three songs, and a superfinal decided purely by televote picks the winner. Entrants must be at least 18. This entry was added on 4 September 2026 — Estonia was absent from the confirmed list until ERR went on the record.

Submissions opened 17 August 2026 via yle.fi/umk and closed in the last week of August — Yle's own page gave 23 August, Eurovoix reported 24 August. A jury shortlists the field for the final, which will be the fourth consecutive UMK at Nokia Arena.

CONFIRMED by the EBU on 28 October 2026, in the official 36-country participant list for Burgas. THIS ENTRY CORRECTS AN OMISSION: France was missing from every array on this page until the official list was published, so the site under-counted the confirmed field — a Big Five member that has never been in any real doubt was simply absent. France Télévisions has not published a 2027 format or date. France last used a televised national final, C'est vous qui décidez, in 2022 and has selected internally since. As one of the Big Five it is pre-qualified for the Grand Final and does not compete in a semi-final.

GPB confirmed its intention to compete in Burgas to ESCToday on 24 September 2026, which will be Georgia's 19th consecutive participation since its 2007 debut. The selection method has not been announced; GPB has used internal selection for its recent entries, having last run a televised national final in 2022.

SWR (responsible for German participation since taking over from NDR in 2026) is reusing the Das Deutsche Finale format, on a Saturday night in February 2027 — the exact date is not published. Song submissions CLOSED at 12:00 CEST on 21 September 2026. Entry rules: acts 18 or over by 1 January 2027 with a strong German connection, songs unreleased before 1 September 2026, under three minutes, any language, and AI-generated songs barred. An SWR “music team” — Jules Kalmbacher, Pele Loriano, Florian Müller, Celina Spanier and Lilly Behling — sifts round one; an international jury of music and Eurovision figures then gives feedback before SWR picks the finalists. SWR ran its first 2027 songwriting camp on 31 August 2026. UPDATE, 12 October 2026: SWR confirmed to ESC Kompakt that around 400 songs were submitted, about 25 of them out of the broadcaster's own songwriting camps. SWR calls the count "in line with 2026" and the quality "stronger than last year". Round one is complete and the first rejection emails have gone out; roughly 40 songs remain in contention going into the international jury round.

ERT confirmed participation in June 2026 and will keep Sing for Greece, the public selection first held in 2025 that has produced two consecutive top-ten finishes. Dates not yet announced.

KAN has confirmed participation and will again co-produce HaKokhav HaBa with Keshet 12. An open call for songs feeds a first round assessed by a KAN/Keshet committee, which shortlists 40 songs. Israel's participation is the subject of the EBU dispute that produced five boycotts in 2026 and RTVE's proposed rule change.

RAI published the full Sanremo 2027 regulations on 21 September 2026, which fix the date: night four, Friday 19 February 2027, is the Eurovision night. All 24 competing artists perform again with different staging, interpretation or arrangement from the other nights, and that performance is voted by an international jury plus televote — this is the vote that picks Italy's Eurovision entry. It is a real break with 2015–2026, when the Sanremo winner simply held right of first refusal, so Italy's Eurovision act and its Sanremo champion can now be two different artists. (The festival's own winner is decided separately: night four's result is aggregated with nights one and two, then the top three to five go to a televote-only round.) Artistic director Stefano De Martino said the artists “will have the opportunity to stage their performances according to their creative vision”.

Song submissions opened 1 August 2026 and CLOSED on 1 October with 125 entries received, a count LTV announced on 13 October 2026. The broadcaster's cultural editor Agnese Strause-Kublina said the pile holds both names familiar to Eurovision audiences and artists entirely new to the selection; the competing artists are to be announced later in 2026. A jury assesses all 125 on relevance to current music-industry trends, vocal ability, originality of composition and the lyrical message. Foreign songwriters may compete provided non-Latvian rights holdings do not exceed 49%. The final runs in two parts: all finalists face public and international jury voting, the top three progress to a superfinal decided by public vote alone.

LRT confirmed its intention to compete to ESC Today in mid-August 2026 — Lithuania's 27th appearance since debuting in Dublin in 1994 — and formally launched Eurovizija.LT 2027 on 19 September 2026, which settles the format that had been listed here as merely expected. Song submissions opened the same day and close on 11 November 2026; a jury then picks at least 30 songs, participants are announced by 25 November, and artists have until 23 December to deliver final versions. Four semi-finals are scheduled to be filmed on 18, 19, 25 and 26 January 2027, with the live final on 20 February 2027. The substantive change is the voting: public votes move online to balsuok.lrt.lt, ending SMS and telephone voting.

The Luxembourgish government approved a further three years of participation in summer 2026. Artist and song applications, open since early July 2026, CLOSED on 20 September 2026. The first in-person auditions ran from 16 to 18 October 2026 at RTL's headquarters in Luxembourg City, where 80 artists performed to a jury and were assessed on singing, artistic identity and stage presence. TWELVE artists went through, named on 19 October 2026: Debbie M, Layso Roy, Maya Maunet, Hugo One, Gaia, Clement Lerat, Patricia Venancio, Perrine Thomas, Marco Misolic, Jaya, Carmen Luisa and KIM. Hugo One is the one past Luxembourg Song Contest participant to advance; Rafa Ela, Angy, Luzac, ShiroKuro, Andrew The Martian and Daryss all auditioned and did not. Of the 80 who auditioned, RTL says 70% held Luxembourgish or dual nationality, 20% were residents and 10% had a strong cultural connection; the audition languages included French, Portuguese, Luxembourgish, Italian and English. The twelve were called back to RTL City on Sunday 18 October for a first workshop. The next phase is 'pairing workshops' matching each shortlisted singer to a song, overseen by Eurovision experts RTL says it will name as the process unfolds, and the final competing line-up is due in MID-NOVEMBER 2026. The format has changed in one substantive way this cycle: candidates no longer need a finished song to enter and may present themselves purely as singers, with RTL matching an artist to a suitable song later in the process if necessary. Song submissions, open to Luxembourgish and international writers alike, continue separately. Entrants must be at least 18 by 15 January 2027 and must either hold Luxembourgish citizenship, have lived in Luxembourg for three consecutive years or have a strong connection to the Luxembourgish music industry; a maximum of six people may be on stage. This is still the earliest confirmed national final of the 2027 season.

PBS confirmed it will compete in Burgas and is expected to use the Malta Eurovision Song Contest again. The format and rules are due later in 2026.

CONFIRMED on 15 October 2026, the 32nd country to confirm for Burgas, and promoted here from the pending table where this site had it on a 1 October note. Head of delegation Veronica Cojocaru communicated the decision to ESCSpot, and TRM confirmed it to ESCToday; the broadcaster has published no press release of its own, so this rests on a head-of-delegation statement relayed by fan media rather than a first-party announcement. Details of the representative and song selection process are promised "at a later date". Vitalie Cojocaru has been appointed as the new head of the Moldovan delegation, a role he previously held in 2008-2011, 2013, 2015 and continuously from 2018 to 2022. Moldova skipped 2025 over the quality of its selection field and its budget, returned in 2026 and finished 8th in Vienna with Satoshi's "Viva Moldova". The previous chief executive resigned after the 2026 Grand Final amid an argument over the points Moldova's national jury gave Romania. Two cautions carried over from the pending row. Moldova has withdrawn after confirming before — it confirmed for 2025, organised a selection and then pulled out — so a confirmation is not the same as an entry on the stage. And note what the market did with this: Polymarket's Moldova participation contract sat at 90.5% from at least 28 September through 16 October on $41 of lifetime volume without a single trade, before and after the confirmation alike, which makes it a resting quote rather than an opinion.

RTCG confirmed participation on 14 September 2026 without saying whether it would hold a third Montesong or pick internally. THAT IS NOW SETTLED: on 6 November 2026 RTCG published the Montesong 2027 rules, so there is a national final and its winner takes the ticket to Burgas. The format: an open public call with no citizenship requirement, so any author or performer worldwide may enter; a Selection Committee of musicians and performers appointed by the Director General judges the entries ANONYMOUSLY within 10 days of the call closing, scoring each song out of 100 (composition 50, lyrics 30, production potential 20); a song needs at least 75 points to qualify, and the committee builds a ranking list including reserves for up to 16 finalists. On the night the result is 50% a professional jury of five and 50% an online public vote. Non-original or previously published or performed songs are disqualified at any stage, RTCG may substitute another song by the same criteria if a legal dispute arises, and it reserves the right to fall back on an internal selection if no song meets expectations. The submission date is not yet set — the window is described as opening soon. Montenegro returned in 2025 after a two-year absence; Tamara Živković failed to qualify from the first semi-final in 2026 with “Nova zora”.

MRT director Zoran Ristoski confirmed the return in a public session on 21 May 2026, ending a four-year absence since 2022. MRT expects a more favourable EBU participation package. No selection format or date announced yet.

NRK confirmed participation in mid-June 2026 and opened MGP 2027 song submissions, which closed on 31 August 2026. Rules bar AI-generated songs, cap entries at 3 minutes, require at least one Norwegian songwriter, and require the song to be unreleased before 1 September 2026. UPDATE, 12 October 2026: NRK says around 1,500 songs were submitted, in line with recent editions, which have drawn between 1,000 and 1,500. The format has still not been revealed. On the same day Mads Tørklep, Norway's Head of Delegation, told NRK he believes 30 to 50 of those submissions were created entirely by AI in spite of the ban, and that "it is difficult for us to stop the use of technology".

TVP confirmed participation on 27 August 2026 — Poland's 29th appearance. Jacek Dybowski again runs the selection, as in 2025 and 2026. Polish outlet Eska reports a national final will be used again, but TVP has not itself published the format or a date.

CONFIRMED by the EBU on 28 October 2026, in the official 36-country participant list for Burgas; Portugal was missing from every array on this page until then. RTP announced the format the same day and it is a double break with recent practice. Festival da Canção 2027 is a ONE-NIGHT contest on 6 March 2027 with 16 songs and NO semi-finals — the first time since 2012 the festival has run without them. And for the first time since 2011 RTP will invite no composers at all: all 16 entries come from the open submission window, which opens on 1 November 2026 and closes on 30 November 2026. Removing the invited-composer route takes away the mechanism that produced Salvador Sobral's 2017 winner, so the 2027 field will be whatever the open call delivers. Remaining details are due later. Bandidos do Cante failed to qualify in 2026, finishing 12th in Semi-Final One with 74 points (39 jury, 35 public) — Portugal's first non-qualification since 2019.

TVR confirmed in late July 2026, after Romania finished third in Vienna. The broadcaster said the early confirmation is meant to give the project a predictable calendar and attract more composers, lyricists, producers and performers to Selecția Națională.

Two phases. The Dreaming San Marino Song Contest casting round puts 240 or more acts through to a Stage & Live Academy of eight shows across four sessions, five acts advancing from each. Semi-finals on 3 and 4 March 2027 cut 40 acts to ten by jury. The final on 6 March fields up to 20 — the ten qualifiers plus up to ten SMRTV wildcards — with a five-member jury choosing the winner.

RTS confirmed participation on 20 October 2026, promoted here from the pending table where this site had left it on a September 2025 note about the PzE ’26 rules referencing a PzE ’27 trophy hand-over. The confirmation reached the record through ESC Kompakt, to which RTS confirmed directly, and was reported by Eurovoix the same day; it takes the provisional 2027 field to 33. THE SELECTION METHOD IS GENUINELY OPEN. RTS would normally have launched Pesma za Evroviziju by September and did not, which is most of why a withdrawal was speculated at all — that plus a change of general director. If RTS opts for an internal selection it would be the first time Serbia has picked that way since 2017. Lavina represented Serbia at Eurovision 2026 with “Kraj mene”, finishing 17th in the final on 90 points, including 12 from both the juries and the public in Croatia and Montenegro.

SVT confirmed participation on 21 August 2026 — Sweden's 66th appearance. Dates and host cities were announced on 17 September 2026, earlier than the November–December press conference this entry previously expected: five heats on 6 February (Karlstad, Löfbergs Arena), 13 February (Göteborg, Scandinavium), 20 February (Malmö Arena), 27 February (Halmstad Arena) and 6 March (Norrköping, Himmelstalundshallen), with the final on 13 March 2027 at the Strawberry Arena in Stockholm. Halmstad and Norrköping host a heat for the first time since 2016; Karlstad returns after 2024. Submissions closed on 11 September 2026 with a record 4,077 songs, from which 30 are picked to compete, about 30% to be performed mainly in Swedish. Hosts Oscar Zia (his third) and Björn Kjellman (his first) were revealed on 28 August 2026. Competing artists are still to be named. UPDATE, 12 October 2026: Melodifestivalen project manager Anders Wistbacka told Aftonbladet he is "convinced that we will receive quite a few AI songs" among those 4,077 submissions, that SVT has no technology to screen songs for AI use and has not banned it, and that SVT does not want to be the first broadcaster to write AI rules because "this is an issue that the music industry will solve".

Submissions opened 20 August 2026 at srf.ch/eurovision and close 7 September 2026 at 23:00 CEST — the first 2027 window to shut. Switzerland has selected internally since 2019, combining a national and international expert jury with an international fan jury; SRG SSR says both panels have deliberately been made younger to meet the EBU's current jury requirements.

Suspilne confirmed participation on 14 September 2026 — Ukraine's 25th appearance — and opened the Vidbir 2027 submission window the next day. IT CLOSED ON 2 NOVEMBER 2026 and Suspilne announced the count on 6 November: 217 songs from 201 artists, of whom 153 are solo acts and 48 are bands, including eight musicians who have competed at a previous Vidbir and applicants based in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Norway and Czechia. That is 234 fewer applications than last year. The published route from here: a longlist of up to 12 artists, an in-person audition, then at least 6 shortlisted for the final, with the shortlist out no later than 4 December 2026; the public then awards a wildcard to an act not originally shortlisted, and the full shortlist publishes no later than 22 January 2027. Shortlisted entries may be reworked by Vidbir 2027 musical director Dmytro Shurov (Pianoboy), in that role for the 2023 and 2024 editions too, with industry specialists recommended by Suspilne. The final is in February 2027. Promoted here from the pending table, where this site had left it on a February 2026 note about RTVE's proposed EBU rule change on countries in active military conflict. That proposal has produced no rule barring Ukraine, and Suspilne has entered.

Participation confirmed on 18 June 2026 by Niall Hay, head of press for the UK delegation, and reconfirmed in the EBU’s official participant list on 28 October 2026. BBC Studios holds the UK production tender through 2028. THE SEARCH LAUNCHED ON 27 OCTOBER 2026, and it is an internal selection again rather than a national final. Andrew Cartmell continues as Head of Delegation — his ninth contest in the role since 2012 — working with David May, formerly Sam Ryder’s manager and the BBC’s Eurovision Project Director in 2025 and 2026. The method is the one used in 2026: working through British record labels, publishers, songwriters, BBC Music and BBC Introducing rather than taking open submissions. May said the BBC intends “to be represented by an outstanding current British act, backed up by the very best songwriting and production talent the UK music industry has to offer”, is looking for “an act with tried and tested live performance experience and a song crafted in the UK”, and that “it’s time the United Kingdom reached the top of the Eurovision scoreboard once again”. NO DATE FOR THE REVEAL: the act and song will be announced ahead of the EBU’s submission deadline in March 2027, which is the only timing published. The UK has selected internally since 2020, after a four-contest run of national finals. Its internal-selection record is one second place and little else: 2021 James Newman 26th with 0 points, 2022 Sam Ryder 2nd with 466, 2023 Mae Muller 25th with 24, 2024 Olly Alexander 18th with 46, 2025 Remember Monday 19th with 88, and 2026 Look Mum No Computer 25th with 1 point. Source: BBC via Eurovoix, 27 October 2026.