It’s here. The final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest will commence in just some minutes! Twenty-six nations will fight to become the winner of this year’s edition of the contest – the host country Azerbaijan, the so-called ‘Big-5′ (Germany, United Kingdom, France, Spain and Italy) and 20 countries to qualify from the semifinals. In three hours’ time we will get to know what country will host the 2013 running of the competition.

 

The show

The broadcast starts at 21:00 CET (0:00 Baku time) and will be hosted by Nargiz Birk-Petersen and Leyla Aliyeva, TV presenters, and Eldar Gasimov, who won the trophy for Azerbaijan last year. In this show, all 42 countries competing in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be voting. The result will be determined by a 50/50 split between national expert juries and televoting. The combined scores will create the final outcome. In yesterday’s Jury Final, the expert juries already determined their votes by watching the live performances.

As esctoday.com revealed earlier this month, the opening and interval acts are the mugham legend Alim Gasimov, Natig rhythm band, Azerbaijan National Dance Ensemble, and singer and composer Emin. Also, local and foreign dance groups and singers will perform.

 

How to watch

• Live on the public broadcasters of all 42 participating countries at 21:00 CET (0:00 Baku time)
• Webcast (eurovision.tv official)
• Other webcasts provided by various European public broadcasters will be available as well

 

Participants

1		United Kingdom Engelbert Humperdinck Love will set you free
2		Hungary Compact Disco Sound of our hearts
3		Albania Rona Nishliu Suus
4		Lithuania Donny Montell Love is blind
5		Bosnia & Herzegovina Maya Sar Korake ti znam
6		Russia Buranovskiye Babushki Party for everybody
7		Iceland Greta Salóme & Jónsi Never forget
8		Cyprus Ivi Adamou La la love
9		France Anggun Echo (You and I)
10		Italy Nina Zilli L’amore è femmina (Out of love)
11		Estonia Ott Lepland Kuula
12		Norway Tooji Stay
13		Azerbaijan Sabina Babayeva When the music dies
14		Romania Mandinga Zaleilah
15		Denmark Soluna Samay Should’ve known better
16		Greece Eleftheria Eleftheriou Aphrodisiac
17		Sweden Loreen Euphoria
18		Turkey Can Bonomo Love me back
19		Spain Pastora Soler Quédate conmigo
20		Germany Roman Lob Standing still
21		Malta Kurt Calleja This is the night
22		FYR Macedonia Kaliopi Crno i Belo
23		Ireland Jedward Waterline
24		Serbia Zeljko Joksimovic Nije ljubav stvar
25		Ukraine Gaitana Be my guest
26		Moldova Pasha Parfeny Lautar