A total of 39 countries will take place at the 60th Eurovision Song Contest in May in Vienna. The return of Cyprus, Serbia and Czech Republic brought the number of entries up, compared to last year where only 37 countries took part.
Today’s list of participants featured Cyprus, Serbia and Czech Republic. Three countries that didn’t take part in the 2014 edition. The number of participating countries is however only two higher as Ukraine decided not to take part.
Turkey has been mentioned as a possible participant again, however it has now been established that it won’t be before the 2016 edition.
Eurovision Song Contest 2015 participating countries:
- Albania
- Armenia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Cyprus
- Chech Republic
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- F.Y.R.O.M.
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Israel
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Malta
- Moldova
- Montenegro
- The Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
Because of the odd numbers of participants, EBU decided to locate 16 countries in the first semifinal and 17 countries in the second semifinal. Next month, o the 26th of January in Vienna a draw will be held for the two semifinals, and in which semi-final the big 5 (UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain) and Austria as the hosting country, will vote.
