🔵 2024 Eurovision Song Contest from Malmö/Sweden 1. SEMIFINAL

The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 is the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It is taking place in Malmö, Sweden, following the country's victory at the 2023 contest with the song "Tattoo" by Loreen. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT), the contest is being held at the Malmö Arena, and consists of two semi-finals on 7 and 9 May, and a final on 11 May 2024. The three live shows are presented by Petra Mede and Malin Åkerman, with Mede having previously taken on the role in 2013 and 2016.

Thirty-seven countries are participating in the contest, with Luxembourg returning 31 years after its last participation in 1993, while Romania opted not to participate after doing so the previous year. The inclusion of Israel among the participants in the context of the ongoing Israel–Hamas war has been met with criticism, with protests and petitions calling for its removal, and has pushed the organisers to strengthen the security measures in place for the event.

Petra Mede had previously hosted both the 2013 and 2016 editions (solo and with Måns Zelmerlöw, respectively), as well as the 2015 special anniversary programme Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits alongside Graham Norton.

The first semi-final took place on 7 May 2024 at 21:00 CEST and featured fifteen competing countries. Those countries, plus Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom, as well as non-participating countries under an aggregated "Rest of the World" vote, voted in this semi-final. The running order (R/O) was determined by the contest producers and was announced publicly on 26 March. In addition to the competing entries, the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden performed their entries during the show, appearing on stage after the entries from Ireland, Iceland and Moldova, respectively.

This semi-final was opened by former participants Eleni Foureira, Eric Saade and Chanel, who performed their respective competing songs – "Fuego" (Cyprus 2018), "Popular" (Sweden 2011) and "SloMo" (Spain 2022). The interval acts included three-time winner for Ireland (1980, 1987 and 1992) Johnny Logan performing the 2012 Swedish winning entry "Euphoria", and 2018 Swedish entrant Benjamin Ingrosso performing a medley of his songs "Look Who's Laughing Now", "Kite" and "Honey Boy". According to a report by Aftonbladet, the original performer of "Euphoria", Loreen, was initially supposed to perform with Logan but ultimately decided against it.

R/O Country Artist Song
1 Cyprus Silia Kapsis "Liar"
2 Serbia Teya Dora "Ramonda"
3 Lithuania Silvester Belt "Luktelk"
4 Ireland Bambie Thug "Doomsday Blue"
5 Ukraine Alyona Alyona and Jerry Heil "Teresa & Maria"
6 Poland Luna "The Tower" NON QUALIFIER FOR THE FINAL
7 Croatia Baby Lasagna "Rim Tim Tagi Dim"
8 Iceland Hera Björk "Scared of Heights" NQ
9 Slovenia Raiven "Veronika"
10 Finland Windows95man "No Rules!"
11 Moldova Natalia Barbu "In the Middle" NQ
12 Azerbaijan Fahree feat. Ilkin Dovlatov "Özünlə apar" NQ
13 Australia Electric Fields "One Milkali (One Blood)" NQ
14 Portugal Iolanda "Grito"
15 Luxembourg Tali "Fighter"