Updates: 63rd annual Eurovision Song Contest 2018 Live- Semi-Final 2 3rd Dress | Lisbon 2018

Eurovision is back! It’s the 63rd annual Eurovision Song Contest, with the Grand Final due to take place this Saturday May 12 in Lisbon, Portugal. You may recall that Portugal was last year’s winner with the song Amar Pelos Doi performed by Salvador Sobral. A bit of a guilty pleasure, between you and us.

How to watch Eurovision 2018: live stream for free from anywhere for free from anywhere?

Enjoy every minute of the semi-finals and final with a live stream

The Eurovision song contest semi-finals are on May 8 and May 10 with the Grand Final on Sunday May 12. This year’s event is being held in Lisbon after Portugal won last year’s show.

How to watch Eurovision 2018: live stream?

The final itself starts on Sunday, May 12 at 8pm BST (3pm ET, 12pm PT, 5am Monday morning AEST) and will be aired live.

Eurovision Song Contest 2018 Live Online

In the UK, the second semi-final will be broadcast on BBC Four at 8pm tonight with on-the-spot reporting from Scott Mills and Rylan Clark-Neal.

This year 43 EU countries, plus Australia, will be singing their hearts out for the pride of place as this year’s winner. While that’s not a victory for money, the winner can often end up launching a career off the back of their glory – just look at Abba who won in 1974 and kept topping the charts until 1982. Celine Dion is another who won in 1988 for Switzerland and had a huge career (just don’t mention Gina G!).

There will be 26 countries competing in the final including the automatic entrants of France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal and the UK. So there’s a lot riding on Thursday’s semi-final, where the least popular acts will be cruelly ditched.

Eurovision Song Contest Live Streaming…

This year the final will be hosted by Portugese actresses Filomena Cautela, Silvia Alberto, Daniela Ruah and Catarina Furtado. Voting is determined by small and demographically balanced juries and televoting. So not only can you watch this event, you can be a part of it, too.

While the event will be broadcast by Portugal’s Rádio e Televisão de Portugal it will be possible to tune in from around the world. The UK has the BBC airing everything, Australia gets SBS as the broadcast free-to-air, and the US can stream online. Read on to find out how everyone can watch, from all over the world – and for FREE – using these simple steps.