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The EuroSong 18th edition will be the 18th edition of the EuroSong festival. Previously introduced as Europe's SongFestival. The last edition took place in Italy, Rome where Barbara Pravi and Golshifteh Farahani representing France with the song "Marianne" took the trophy, leaving Slovakia behind in 2nd place. The city of France, Toulouse has been chosen as the host city in honor of executive supervisor. The slogan for this edition was presented as #!

As usual, 45 countries like in the previous editions will be participating in this edition.

This edition marks the second victory for France, making it the third country to have won the contest two times along with Sweden and Norway. This edition also marks Romania's qualification to the Final after 5 unsuccessful attempts previously and Slovakia's second-best result.

List
As of, 45 countries have confirmed their participation in the contest.

Bidding phase
TFC Stadium in Toulouse was chosen for this edition with the capacity of holding 40,000 of live audience. The stage should remind the one in the Alternative Song Contest, across the whole arena.

Format
The format remains the same as in the previous 17th edition, where Jury votes for the Final are cast out before the actual show when revealing the Running Order. Only at the end of the Final, Televote points and Jury's will be presented. However, the executive supervisor has mentioned about some probable changes for this edition; they are yet to be revealed.

Semi-final allocation draw

 * The allocation draw took place on the 24th of June 2024.

Semi-Final 1
Fifteen countries have participated in the first semi-final. The 8 highlighted countries have qualified to the Grand Final. This event took place on.

Semi-Final 2
Fifteen countries participated in the second semi-final. The 8 highlighted counties have qualified to the Grand Final. This event took place on.

Semi-Final 3
Fifteen countries participated in the third semi-final. The 8 highlighted countries qualified for the Grand Final. This event took place on.

Final
The Grand-Final took place in 2024 after all three semi-finals had taken place. Twenty-five countries participated in the final, 8 qualifying countries from each semi-final and this edition's host country Italy performing in 17th position. Juries have cast their set of 12 points before the Grand Final and Televotes as well respectively to choose a winner.

{{legend|gold|1st place}} {{legend|silver|2nd place}} {{legend|#cc9966|3rd place}}
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