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It’s that time of year again: the continent of Europe is uniting for one week through a shared love of music.
Eurovision 2026 is here, and it’s easier than ever for Americans to tune into the spectacle of song from across the pond.
The finals of the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest kick off in just a few hours, so read on for everything you need to know about streaming Eurovision in the United States and all the info on how it works.
The 2026 Eurovision Song Contest final begins at 3 p.m. ET today, May 16.
The Eurovision final is airing on Peacock in the USA.
Peacock currently offers two subscription types: Premium with ads and Premium Plus ad-free. Peacock Premium costs $10.99/month, while Premium Plus costs $16.99/month.
You can save a bit by subscribing to one of Peacock’s annual plans, which give you 12 months for the price of 10. These cost either $109.99 with ads or $169.99 without ads.
Peacock Premium Plus is also available to subscribe to via Prime Video with a seven-day free trial that you can’t get by subscribing directly on Peacock.
25 countries are performing in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest final: Denmark, Germany, Israel, Belgium, Albania, Greece, Ukraine, Australia, Serbia, Malta, Czechia, Bulgaria, Croatia, United Kingdom, France, Moldova, Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Sweden, Cyprus, Italy, Norway, Romania and host country Austria.
Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain — all past Eurovision participants — have withdrawn from this year’s contest in protest of Israel’s inclusion due to the Gaza war.
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual international song competition organized by the European Broadcasting Union.
Each year, the broadcasting union of each participating country chooses a new song (and artist) as their entry for that year’s contest. After two semi-finals, the field is narrowed down to a grand final of 26 countries. Each entry is performed live on stage, and every participating country also gets an opportunity to showcase local culture and landmarks via previously recorded clips introducing each performance.
Each country’s performance is voted on, and a winner is crowned.
Anything can happen at Eurovision, but we know this: each year, the countries will find a way to one-up themselves with more outrageous performances.
Eurovision always occurs in the country that won the previous year’s contest. Following the Austrian entry JJ’s 2025 victory, Eurovision 2026 will be broadcast live from Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria.
It’s Austria’s third time hosting the song contest, following the 1967 and 2015 contests.
Eurovision 2026 will be hosted by Austrian television presenter Victoria Swarovski and actor Michael Ostrowski.
The winners of the Eurovision Song Contest are chosen using a positional or ranked voting system. Each voting body (of seven professionals) awards 12 points to their favorite act, 10 to their second, and 8-1 to the subsequent vote-getters.
This year, 36 participating countries make up the voting body, and each country awards 12, 10, 8-1 twice; a professional voting jury awards one set, while a country-wide televote awards the second.
Additionally, non-participating countries (aka the rest of the world) can televote — these points are aggregated and awarded as one set of points.
Voting is as dramatic as some of the performances on stage. The jury reveals their votes first, country by country, and then televote totals are revealed in reverse order. This means that a country firmly atop the leaderboard following the jury votes could slip several positions quickly, no leads are safe, and no one has truly won until the last votes are read.
Following these live reveals, the country with the most points is crowned the winner.
Eurovision is not a sport, but it’s treated as such, down to oddsmakers creating betting odds on the winner. The top five odds-on favorites this year, in order, are:
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