24th edition

After the second victory of the  Swedish singer Mariette, the twenty-fourth edition of WAO Song Contest took place in the city of Helsingborg,  Sweden's closest point to  Denmark.

The venue selected has been the Helsingborg Arena, Sanna Nielsen the presenter, "Celebrate with the Music" the slogan and "Spectre", by Alan Walker, the theme song.

    The members of the Big three for this edition have been  Sweden,  Germany and  Venezuela, thanks to their placements in the previous edition. Three semi-finals took place and 8 countries qualified from each one of them. In addition to the song which arrived 8th in semi-final 2, this edition three songs placed 8th in semi-final 1 and two songs arrived 8th in semi-final 3, so six countries had to go through the "Second Chance" process. Every country had the possibility to vote for one or two nations maximum but at the end only three from these six qualified for the final. 28 countries competed in the final.

    Won the 24th edition the singer Emilie Esther from  Denmark, bringing the victory to another Nordic country with her song "Inescapable".

## Participating artists

**4th Impact**
Representing  The Philippines**Alexandra Stan**
Representing  Romania**Amaral**
Representing  Spain**Amr Diab**
Representing  Egypt**Angelica Agurbash**
Representing  Belarus**Antique**
Representing  Cyprus**Aurela Gaçe**
Representing  Albania**Avril Lavigne**
Representing  Canada**Bích Ngọc**
Representing  Vietnam**Blush**
Representing  China**Boys and Noise**
Representing  Greece**Brequette Cassie**
Representing  Andorra**Burito**
Representing  Russia**Camila**
Representing  Mexico**Clean Bandit**
Representing the  United Kingdom**David Carreira**
Representing  Portugal**Dillon**
Representing  Brazil**Ellinoora**
Representing  Finland**Emilie Esther**
Representing  Denmark**EMIN**
Representing  Azerbaijan**Emma Bale**
Representing  Belgium**Eugy**
Representing  Nigeria**Evaluna Montaner**
Representing  Venezuela**Falco Luneau**
Representing  Austria**Francesca Michielin**
Representing  Italy**Gabriela Villalba**
Representing  Ecuador**Geri X**
Representing  Bulgaria**Green Day**
Representing the  United States**GSoul**
Representing  South Korea**Gülşen**
Representing  Turkey**Harel Skaat**
Representing  Israel**Havana**
Representing  Romania**Hayley Williams**
Representing  Germany**Henry Land**
Representing  Norway**Hilda Lizarazu**
Representing  Argentina**Irish Stew of Sindidun**
Representing  Serbia**Ivan Dorn**
Representing  Ukraine**Joel Adams**
Representing  Australia**Kalafina**
Representing  Japan**Kat Graham**
Representing  Switzerland**Kendji Girac**
Representing  Monaco**Kelly Schembri**
Representing  Malta**Kimbra**
Representing  New Zealand**Louisa**
Representing the  United Kingdom**Lucy**
Representing  Armenia**Maluma**
Representing  Colombia**Margaret**
Representing  Poland**Masha**
Representing  Latvia**Mr Eazi**
Representing  Nigeria**Murat Boz**
Representing  Turkey**Nina Pušlar**
Representing  Slovenia**Nina Sublatti**
Representing  Georgia**NONONO**
Representing  Sweden**Ott Lepland**
Representing  Estonia**Petra Kovačević**
Representing  Croatia**Piso 21**
Representing  Colombia**Rochelle**
Representing  The Netherlands**Roisin El Cherif**
Representing  Ireland**ROK**
Representing  Iceland**Rosie Yang**
Representing  Taiwan**Shishani**
Representing  Namibia**Shy'm**
Representing  France**Susan Green**
Representing  Peru**Tamara Todevska**
Representing  North Macedonia**Troye Sivan**
Representing  South Africa**Vaidas Baumila**
Representing  Lithuania**Yanou**
Representing  Austria**Yohanna**
Representing  Iceland**Yu Feng**
Representing  Taiwan**Zedd**
Representing  Germany
## Returning artists

**Alexandra Stan**
Previous participations: 5th, 10th, 11th and 13th edition for  Romania**Amr Diab**
Previous participation: 9th edition for  Egypt**Avril Lavigne**
Previous participations: 5th and 18th edition for  Canada**Boys and Noise**
Previous participations: 6th edition for  Greece**Brequette Cassie**
Previous participation: 7th edition for  Spain**Clean Bandit**
Previous participations: 6th edition for the  United Kingdom and 23rd edition for  Jamaica**David Carreira**
Previous participation: 20th edition for  Portugal**Emilie Esther**
Previous participation: 16th edition for  Denmark**EMIN**
Previous participations: 9th and 12th edition for  Azerbaijan**Emma Bale**
Previous participation: 19th edition for  Belgium**Evaluna Montaner**
Previous participation: Special edition 1 for  Venezuela**Francesca Michielin**
Previous participations: 4th edition for  San Marino, 11th edition for  Vatican City, 13th and 16th edition for  Italy**Gülşen**
Previous participations: 8th and 11th edition for  Turkey**Harel Skaat**
Previous participations: 3rd and 20th edition for  Israel**Helena Paparizou (as part of Antique)**
 Previous participations: 3rd, 5th and 14th edition for  Greece, 10th and 11th edition for  Cyprus. All of them as a solo artist**Irish Stew of Sindidun**
Previous participation: 10th edition for  Serbia**Kendji Girac**
Previous participations: 7th and 22nd edition for  France**Kimbra**
Previous participation: 5th edition for  Belgium**Lucy**
Previous participation: 22nd edition for  Armenia**Maluma**
Previous participation: 23rd edition for  Colombia**Margaret**
Previous participations: 13th, 20th edition and Special edition 2 for  Poland**Nina Sublatti**
Previous participation: 11th edition for  Georgia**Shy'm**
Previous participation: 13th edition for  France**Tamara Todevska**
Previous participation: 7th edition for  North Macedonia**Yohanna**
Previous participations: 10th and 19th edition for  Iceland**Zedd**
Previous participation: 22nd edition for  Russia

## Semi-final 3

Also  Venezuela voted in this semi-final.

## Second Chance

In addition to the song which arrived 8th in semi-final 2, this edition three songs placed 8th in semi-final 1 and two songs arrived 8th in semi-final 3, so six countries had to go through the "Second Chance" process. Every country had the possibility to vote for one or two nations maximum and three from these six qualified for the final. Voting was not compulsory.