First Semi-Final concludes, we have ten finalists!

Tonight is the first live show of this years Eurovision Song Contest. 18 countries will fight it out for the 10 places available in Saturday's final.

We have our ten qualifiers, and these are as follows, in the order they were announced :
Romania (was drawn to perform 14th in the Final)

Moldova (was drawn to perform 26th in the Final)

Iceland (was drawn to perform 7th in the Final)

Hungary (was drawn to perform 2nd in the Final)

Denmark (was drawn to perform 15th in the Final)

Albania (was drawn to perform 3rd in the Final)

Cyprus (was drawn to perform 8th in the Final)

Greece (was drawn to perform 16th in the Final)

Russia (was drawn to perform 6th in the Final)

Ireland (was drawn to perform 23rd in the Final)

The hosts of the show are Nargiz Birk-Petersen, Eldar Gasimov who won the Eurovision last year as part of Ell/Nikki and Leyla Alieva who are all eager to welcome the millions of viewers to Baku for tonight's show!
Europe start voting!

All of the contestants have now performed. The 18 countries will now televote, as well as viewers in Azerbaijan, Italy and Spain. The votes from the professional jury will then be combined with the televote which will then determine the 10 songs to qualify.

Nargiz then introduces a super postcard which again combines stunning footage shot on location across Azerbaijan. After the second recap of all of the performances, the interval act was provided by Natig Rhythm Group.