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Get us in your feed Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter. The Eurovision final is this weekend, following two semi-finals to establish the acts competing on the big night.
When is Eurovision ? What time the Song Contest final is, how to watch on TV, and full list of finalists. Instead, the status is bestowed due to the countries making the biggest financial contributions to the European Broadcasting Union EBU , which organises Eurovision.
Currently the Eurovision final is capped at 26 entries, with the other 20 coming from the two semi-finals. This last happened when Germany hosted in The rest of the acts are decided by the semi-finals, with 10 qualifiying from each. As part of the Big Five, the UK gets certain privileges, one is that the country goes straight through to the final of Eurovision each year. From each Semi-Final, the best 10 will proceed to the Grand Final. This brings the total number of Grand Final participants to This rule was brought in back in to give special privileges to the, then, four countries that financially contributed the most to the EBU.
In , Italy joined the ranks of the Big Four, finally creating what is known as the Big Five today. Back in , there were rumours the Big Four could be scrapped, meaning the UK would have to qualify through the semi-finals like all other countries.
However, this turned out not to be the case, with the UK remaining an automatic qualifier as of the contest, with no signs this will change. The UK also has the least top 10 spots from all of the Big Five nations since the group was founded, but it has managed to achieve more top five spots than Spain.
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