From 100 songs entered for the national selection of the Eurovision 2026 contest, the jury has already chosen 10 songs since last week. The organizers decided on Sunday to supplement the final stage with two more seats, depending on the public's preferences.
Antonio Pican, with the song “Humans”, and Wrs, with the song “All The Way”, each received a wild card from the public for the Eurovision Romania final, public television reported.
The two songs recorded the most views on TVR's official YouTube channel, by a considerable margin over the other three remaining in the race to qualify for the finals.
The high interest of the fans for the two songs and the desire to offer the chance to represent Romania at Eurovision to those who stood out both in the preferences of the jury and the public are the arguments that convinced the organizers to supplement the places in the final with another wild card, according to TVR, quoted by Agerpres.
The five eligible acts to complete the final lineup were Alexa & Aria Moon – “iELE”, Antonio Pican – “Humans”, Bogdan Medvedi – “Broken Heart”, Impact – “Bengalo” and Wrs – “All The Way”.
Eurovision Romania 2026. The 12 songs from the national final
Alejandro Zandes & Emil Rengle – “Bailando Solo”
Alexandra Căpitănescu – “Choke Me”
Antonio Pican – “Humans”
Edward Maya x LavBbe x Costi – “Everybody Needs Somebody”
Emy Alupei – “Tili Bom”
HVNDS – “HVNDS – MISS”
Monica Odagiu – “Window for a Blind Man”
Olivia Addams – “Crocodile”
Robert Lukian – “Fire to the lies”
Vanu – “Therapy Enemy”
Wrs – “All The Way”
Yguana – “Happy Birthday”
Eurovision Romania 2026. When will the national final take place
The Grand Final will take place in the TVR studios, on March 4, when the jury will choose Romania's representative at Eurovision 2026.
In the final of the National Selection, the public could once again be involved in choosing Romania's representative at the international contest: the number of views accumulated by each finalist song in the playlist published on February 15 will constitute a tie-breaker in case of a runoff.
Eurovision 2026 will take place in May
The 2026 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Vienna – on 12 and 14 May, the semi-finals, and the grand final on 16 May. The representative of our country will perform in the first part of the second semi-final on May 14.
Along with Romania, 34 other countries entered the competition: Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and Great Britain.
