The Song 7

The Song 7 will be the seventh edition of the The Song. The contest will be hosted in the United Kingdom, following the country's victory at the sixth edition in Rotterdam, Netherlands, with the song "Up All Night", performed by The Ramona Flowers and Nile Rodgers.

Pre-Qualification
The European Broadcaster Union (EBU) announced that the limit of entries for each edition would be 46 participants. As the confirmation of participation from eligible countries exceeded this amount, the EBU created a pre-qualification round that would take place each edition before the actual contest. During the fourth edition, the EBU announced that there would be a change of formation to the Pre-Qualification Round. From this edition and onwards, eight countries shall qualify into the semi-finals from the pre-qualification round, whilst the remaining are eliminated.

Semi-final allocation draw
The draw that determined the semi-final allocation was held in May 2023. The forty countries were divided into five pots. Each time a country was drawn from the pot, its semi-final was determined.

The five pots were the following:

Other countries


Countries that are active members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) are also eligible to participate in The Song. As in every edition, an invitation to all the members have been sent in order to confirm whether they will participate or not. The following list of countries declined stating their reasons as shown below