{"id":13309,"date":"2025-08-11T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/?p=13309"},"modified":"2025-08-11T10:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:25:16","slug":"supernova-2026-lettone-demi-finales-eurovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/supernova-2026-lettone-demi-finales-eurovision\/","title":{"rendered":"Supernova 2026: Latvia adds semi-finals to its national selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supernova is the national final that doesn't disappoint. Well, yes, because every year there's just one number 1 spot for dozens of talents, almost all of whom have the potential to represent their country at Eurovision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when we learned that the format of this national final was going to be reshaped, we started to worry. And while some broadcasters are scaling back the format by moving from 5 semi-finals across the country to a single evening (follow my eyes \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4), others like Latvia are opting instead to introduce semi-finals into their selection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"9fa9a9\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #9fa9a9;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Latvia-2025-02-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Latvia \/ Tautumeitas - Bur Man Laimi (Credit EBU \/ Sarah Louise Bennett)\" class=\"wp-image-13312 not-transparent\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Latvia-2025-02-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Latvia-2025-02-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Latvia-2025-02-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Latvia-2025-02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Latvia-2025-02-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Latvia-2025-02-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Latvia-2025-02.jpg 1600w\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Latvia \/ Tautumeitas - Bur Man Laimi (Credit EBU \/ Sarah Louise Bennett)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So for Supernova 2026 we'll be treated to three shows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First semi-final on 31 January 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A second semi-final on 07 February 2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And a grand final on 14 February 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The semi-finals will choose 10 finalists by televote and jury vote, while the production team will select an eleventh candidate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applications are now open until 1 October. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supernova, c&rsquo;est la finale nationale qui ne d\u00e9\u00e7oit pas. Enfin, si, parce que chaque ann\u00e9e, il n&rsquo;y a qu&rsquo;une place num\u00e9ro 1 pour des dizaines de talents qui auraient quasiment tous le potentiel de repr\u00e9senter leur pays \u00e0 l&rsquo;Eurovision. Aussi, lorsqu&rsquo;on a appris que le format de cette finale nationale allait \u00eatre remodel\u00e9, on a &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4000,3610],"tags":[],"represented_country":[],"class_list":["post-13309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurovision-2026","category-supernova"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13314,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309\/revisions\/13314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13309"},{"taxonomy":"represented_country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurovisionandfriends.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/represented_country?post=13309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}