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ERR, the Estonian national broadcaster, has confirmed that Estonia will compete at the forthoming 2027 Eurovision edition in Bulgaria.

Thus Estonia joins the list of countries who have so far confirmed their participation at the upcoming 2027 Eurovision Song Contest.

Estonia will be selecting its Eurovision 2027 act and entry via its traditional national selection Eesti Laul. The Grand final of Eesti Laul 2027 is scheduled to be held Saturday on January 30th.

The song submssion window for Eesti Laul 2027 will be open from 04 September-08 October 2026. Hereafter a special jury will whittle down the submitted entries to twelve. Hence 12 acts will compete at the 2027 Estonian national final.

Estonia in Eurovision

The Baltic nation attempted to join the Eurovision family in 1993 when it competed in the preliminary semifinal in Slovenia, unfortunately Estonia didn’t qualify and had to wait for one more year to enter the competition.

Estonia debuted at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 with Silvi Vrait and went on to win the competition in 2001 with Tanel Padar and Dave Benton‘s Everybody. The following year the Baltic country successfully hosted the 2002 Eurovision Song Contest in Tallinn.

In 2026 Vanilla Ninja represented Estonia at the Eurovision Song Contest with their entry ‘Too Epic To Be True‘.

 


Sanjay (Sergio) joined esctoday.com in December 2006 as an editor. He was appointed as the Head of Press of ESCToday.com in 2011. Hereafter in 2016 he was promoted as the Head of International Relations & Communications at ESCToday. Sergio has covered the Eurovision Song Contest live 23 times since 2000, having worked for several international magazines and media outlets.